Posting in Illustrated category (thread renamed)

[nice90sguy]

This thread started as a rant about getting my illustrated story submitted.

For anybody who's having problems with submitting Illustrated stories, I've now learned that the simplest thing to do is this:

1. Write your story in MS Word, inserting pictures where they belong.

2. IMPORTANT: Limit your formatting to Lit-supported stuff: I know that the following work fine, but there may be others:
* Bold
* Italic
* Horizontal Line (gets translated to HR markup)

3. Ensure the total file size is less than ~2Mb (compress the images if necessary)
4. JPG images (the safest format) should NOT have metadata or Copyright Info embedded in them.
5. Upload the doc file and be patient -- If it's taken more than 4 weeks for the story to be posted/sent back, it may be the case that the file is not visible to Lit approvers, in which case ping Laurel (but as I said, be patient and allow 4 weeks)

 

[ElectricBlue]

If your most recent submission was 27th Jan, you're in the third day. What went before is irrelevant - your story goes into a queue, and gets processed in the context of that queue only.

 

[nice90sguy]

27th Dec, it was a typo.

 

[nice90sguy]

If anybody here posts illustrated stories here regularly, and get them published quickly, I'd love to know how you do it!

 

[ElectricBlue]

Ahh, Illustrated. They've been taking a very long time for a couple of years now, from my recall of previous threads. Don't know why.

 

[KeithD]

Visuals are a serious copyright problem. I'm surprised Literotica tries to accommodate them at all.

 

[nice90sguy]

Yes, I assume there's a lot of manual intervention required. But Laurel responded to my PM , because she wasn't able to see any of my pending stories, so I've resubmitted them. Hopefully will not take so long to get them posted.

Basically a tech problem, rather than admin.

 

[KeithD]

There's a lot involved in being comfortable you own the images. In addition, there's even more involved if they are compromising images of real people.

 

[nice90sguy]

I use photos which I took myself, but crop out everyone in the images, and superimpose CG's of fictional people. The CG program I use allows the images to be used in any way, but not the 3d models themselves, which are not licensed to be exported directly (e.g. into a game).

 

[Bramblethorn]

I think the multimedia submissions get processed in batches, about once a month. So waiting times for usually those are longer than for text stories, but I see in your case there was a glitch on top of that.

 

[nice90sguy]

I've updated the thread title and my first post in this thread.

 

[HeyAll]

For giant files, upload your story here:

https://litupload.wetransfer.com/

Then leave notes when you submit on Lit, saying the story is on WeTransfer

 

[nice90sguy]

For giant files, upload your story here:

https://litupload.wetransfer.com/

Then leave notes when you submit on Lit, saying the story is on WeTransfer