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Three Lit pages (roughly 10k words) seems to be a pretty good norm, either for a stand-alone story or a chapter length, especially starting out.
Three Lit pages (roughly 10k words) seems to be a pretty good norm, either for a stand-alone story or a chapter length, especially starting out.
No, I understand that it's totally on the author's wish and also on the story.
But what if I asked you the ideal length that sells more for you - novella, novel, short story? What would you say? Please also include the price point.
Let's say, would you write 1 novel of 120,000 words or 24 short stories of 5,000 words?
I have heard from many that it should be around 3000 words.
I am just starting out. In need of serious advice.
The answer is 42.
Just write the story; Don't aim at a particular 'length'.
Would that value be for words, pages or chapters, please ?
How does one specify a multipart series? Where does the series title go? What if I've submitted some parts, and want to add more - does Literotica keep track of the number of subsections, or do I have to edit that, and if so, where?
It's all in how you title the story.
Submit each part separately. Title each part My Big Story: Ch xx, where xx is 01, 02, and so on. The site will group them together and order the parts alphabetically, so the leading zero's are significant. You can also use Part rather than Ch.
I've always waited a little between posting chapters, but I've read here that you can send all the pieces to Laurel at the same time and she will publish them (assuming she doesn't send them back) on successive days. I figure that the less work I dump on Laurel the more easily things will go, so I haven't tried that.
I wonder where does expanding the idea become blatant padding or worse, verbal diarrhea?
I have heard from many that it should be around 3000 words.
I am just starting out. In need of serious advice.
That's about how long my stories end up being. I will confess that, when reading other people's stories, I look at the page count, and very often won't reading anything more than five or six pages long. I don't want to invest the time. I'm sure some other readers feel the same way.
I'm working on a multi chapter story now. It's at eight chapters now. My problem is that seven of the eight are in the 7000-9000 word range. One chapter, describing the lead character masturbating, was at about 850 words when I left it a couple of days ago. (Up from about 700, which I know is too short for Lit). I wonder where does expanding the idea become blatant padding or worse, verbal diarrhoea?