changing single story into a series

Hi folks - I put a story called The Book Tour up recently in the "Mature" category:
http://www.literotica.com/s/the-book-tour

In hindsight I guess Mature wasn't the right area, but none of the areas really seemed to work.

I'm planning to write about 4 more parts / chapters to this story, and I might end up making this into a "Series" in the Romance category.

My question is.... because I don't see an easy way to do this in my story "submissions" area... how do I change The Book Tour from a one off story, into the first part of a Series?

Do I have to delete it (and I can't figure out how to do that either)... and then re-upload it into a "Series" category?

Thanks!
SpinningWheels2

All you need to do is submit "The Book Tour Ch. 02" and the website coding will automatically turn it into a series. You can cross categories if you wish. The only important part is using the same title + adding a chapter identifier.

http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=1049328&page=submissions

If you look at my story "Jerk", you can see that I posted a follow-up more than a year after the original, and in a different category.

Thanks

Really? It's that simple?
Wow... okay then. Thanks for the info!

For clarity, you might want to include a note at bottom of submission indicating it is a new chapter. As I understand, there are human eyes on submissions in the review process.

No, the series coding is entirely automated. Laurel has no direct hand in creating them. A note won't help or hinder in this case.

RejectReality said:

No, the series coding is entirely automated. Laurel has no direct hand in creating them. A note won't help or hinder in this case.

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Noted. Thanks.

spinningwheels2 said:

Hi folks - I put a story called The Book Tour up recently in the "Mature" category:
http://www.literotica.com/s/the-book-tour

In hindsight I guess Mature wasn't the right area, but none of the areas really seemed to work.

I'm planning to write about 4 more parts / chapters to this story, and I might end up making this into a "Series" in the Romance category.

My question is.... because I don't see an easy way to do this in my story "submissions" area... how do I change The Book Tour from a one off story, into the first part of a Series?

Do I have to delete it (and I can't figure out how to do that either)... and then re-upload it into a "Series" category?

Thanks!
SpinningWheels2

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I would advise you to hold off doing anything until your series is done, then delete the initial story and post the whole series into Romance with a note in the first chapter saying what you did. If you post Chapter 2 into a new category, my guess is that you are going to get very few readers. IMHO, most people will pass on reading a later chapter if they haven't read the first one. As no one in Romance will have read the initial story, you are going to get very few views.

8letters said:

I would advise you to hold off doing anything until your series is done, then delete the initial story and post the whole series into Romance with a note in the first chapter saying what you did. If you post Chapter 2 into a new category, my guess is that you are going to get very few readers. IMHO, most people will pass on reading a later chapter if they haven't read the first one. As no one in Romance will have read the initial story, you are going to get very few views.

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OP, another possibility: Are you writing chapters, different segments of the same story, or episodes, standalone stories in a common universe? If the former, the Bletters' advice is good. If the latter, you could use alphanumerically differentiated titles. Huh? Like this:

* The Book Tour is the pilot episode.
* The Book Tour: Booked Up is a strandalone episode.
* The Book Tour: Fucked in Syracuse is another episode.
* The Book Tour: Seattle Sucks 01 is the first of an arc.
* The Book Tour: Seattle Sucks 02 is the next in that arc.
* The Book Tour: Totally Gone is yet another episode.

These will all be automatically grouped as The Book Tour series but the titles won't *look* quite like a series. Each unnumbered episode could be in a different category without looking like a series tag-end and being ignored by readers. I'm fairly reluctant to read a numbered series unless it's complete. The episode or miniseries / arc approach is IMHO more comfortable.

Hi Folks - well.. .thanks again for all this information.
I think what I plan to do would be considered chapters. They'll all be set within this one little 2 week tour across Canada.


How do you delete a story by the way? If I decide to go that route?
I didn't see that option in my "submissions" area.
Thanks!

Submit the story again, with just the title and - DELETE at the end. Also put DELETE in the notes field. Leave everything else blank.

Okay - thanks for that... much appreciated.
SpinningWheels2

Simply name the next one "The Book Tour, (chapter or book) 2" That's all i have ever done. Literotica groups them together for you.