Author's notes

[Teankun]

What do you think is the best way displaying author?s notes? In the text? At the end of the chapter? There are pros and cons for each of them.
In text: interrupts the story.
It also interrupts the story to go to the bottom.
I have tried using hyperlinks that open a separate web page for my notes so the reader would not lose their place, but that won?t work for fanfiction.net

Any other ideas?

[Rage]

What kinds of Author's Notes are you wanting to include, here? The best option is to have any notes made by the author to be non-interruptive to the story taking place, if it's at all possible to do so.

For Fanfiction.net, I just put any notes I have at the bottom, but I've never had to include something that might be necessary mid-fiction.

[Teankun]

[quote="Rage"]What kinds of Author's Notes are you wanting to include, here? quote]
Sometimes a comment or explaination , such as for a scientific term. But mainly for a reference to where material is inspired or even quoted from another source to advoid plasgarism.

[Rage]

For terms like that, I'd just go with the old Asterisk-footnote kind of a deal. Avoiding plagerism can be done as part of your disclaimer at the start of the story, saying parts of it were inspired or taken from ____, which should do fine, I'd say.