The OntoMedia project began as a convergence of three interests - the creation of metadata to describe the content of online amateur fiction, the identification of events in multimedia objects to seed external applications such as sound effects or automatic music generation and, finally, as a potential way of generating narrative. From that beginning it has expanded to describe narrative in media. The focus of this paper will be on the first of these since my initial involvement with the OntoMedia project was due to research I am doing into usability and user requirements in the amateur fiction online space.