Posting the novel

[Foxed]

I finally finished my NSFW novel.

It’s 100,000 words in its rough draft.

It’s very uneven.

It’s not perfect by any means.

In fact, some bits of it may be a bit crap.

What I would like to do is post it back up on Literotica for feedback - but I’m a bit wary of getting stuck into the “is the AI - no - resubmit” chapter by chapter problems of years past.

Is there a way of posting the whole thing as one piece, or similar? Or should I do it in three acts?

Has anyone else posted novel length stories?

Answers on a postcard please!

Well done! We all have imposter syndrome sometimes; don’t fret

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Name one here on lit. Maybe after 20 years and the author is popular. Emily Miller published an extremely good, 6 chapter novel totaling about 80k. It is about 2 weeks old. Only the first chapter has over 2K views. Most of the rest about 1k.

https://www.literotica.com/s/the-coffee-cantata
https://www.literotica.com/s/kat-full-novel

I'm very weirded out that my own recent novel has more views than Emily's, because she's a much better writer.

The OP can do what he wants with his story. He came here for advice. Mine is to break it into bite-size chunks and if he has it pretty much finished, publish like ElectricBlue described, in short intervals.

I published Pranked: Barbie in 5 parts myself. I'm just not saying everyone will agree with me or that my strategy is the best.

--Annie

 

[StrentWriter]

https://www.literotica.com/s/the-coffee-cantata
https://www.literotica.com/s/kat-full-novel

I'm very weirded out that my own recent novel has more views than Emily's, because she's a much better writer.


I published Pranked: Barbie in 5 parts myself. I'm just not saying everyone will agree with me or that my strategy is the best.

--Annie

If I may ask, how did you format your pieces?

Prior to putting them into Lit or in the submission page?

I remember having some issues with this last time around a few years back!

 

[TheWritingGroup]

If I may ask, how did you format your pieces?

Prior to putting them into Lit or in the submission page?

I remember having some issues with this last time around a few years back!

When I'm writing, I represent italics and boldface with the HTML tags from the beginning. I cut and paste from LIbreOffice into the submission page text box, preview it, and fix any errors.

Pranked: Barbie was written as a single big file, then I copied each section out and pasted it into the submission box.

--Annie

 

[StrentWriter]

When I'm writing, I represent italics and boldface with the HTML tags from the beginning. I cut and paste from LIbreOffice into the submission page text box, preview it, and fix any errors.

Pranked: Barbie was written as a single big file, then I copied each section out and pasted it into the submission box.

--Annie

This has been really helpful, thank you. I converted it into a text file and then uploaded it - and it just needs final formatting before publishing.

It’s going in as the full novel, it turns out - all 110,000 ish words of it.

It’ll probably get stuck in AI rejection state first before it gets published, but hopefully not.

Thanks for all your help.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

This has been really helpful, thank you. I converted it into a text file and then uploaded it - and it just needs final formatting before publishing.

It’s going in as the full novel, it turns out - all 110,000 ish words of it.

It’ll probably get stuck in AI rejection state first before it gets published, but hopefully not.

Thanks for all your help.

Congratulations. I posted my own first novel six weeks or so ago. It's a weird feeling, at least for me.

FWIW, I've never been falsely rejected for AI. For bad dialogue format that didn't exist, yes. For nonexistent plagiarism, yes.

The dialogue thing was because I used Tahitian words that have an apostrophe (') in the middle of them, which must have triggered some "bad dialogue" algorithm. The plagiarism was presumably because I wrote that I was inspired by a @Carl_Bradford story, and (I am guessing) some algorithm incorrectly triggered, on the basis that I was continuing one of Carl's stories. (Ironically, Carl has actually given me permission to use his characters as long as I run it past him first.)

There's presumably some specific thing (or things) that the AI detector triggers on, but we don't know what that is (they are) to fix the problem.

--Annie

 

[StrentWriter]

Congratulations. I posted my own first novel six weeks or so ago. It's a weird feeling, at least for me.

FWIW, I've never been falsely rejected for AI. For bad dialogue format that didn't exist, yes. For nonexistent plagiarism, yes.

The dialogue thing was because I used Tahitian words that have an apostrophe (') in the middle of them, which must have triggered some "bad dialogue" algorithm. The plagiarism was presumably because I wrote that I was inspired by a @Carl_Bradford story, and (I am guessing) some algorithm incorrectly triggered, on the basis that I was continuing one of Carl's stories. (Ironically, Carl has actually given me permission to use his characters as long as I run it past him first.)

There's presumably some specific thing (or things) that the AI detector triggers on, but we don't know what that is (they are) to fix the problem.

--Annie

When I first joined (on my original name) virtually every submission was rejected for ai.

It turned out a combination of using Grammarly and British punctuation was the cause.

I’m hoping, having adopted the American speech punctuation convention and not using grammarly or AI that I can get it published but we will see.

Thanks for the kind words.

 

[StrentWriter]

Calmly awaiting events!

 

[TheWritingGroup]

7 seconds! Better start complaining about the wait!

 

[StrentWriter]

7 seconds! Better start complaining about the wait!

I reckon this is the start of my two week wait to publication. Check in with you all then!

 

[StrentWriter]

7 seconds! Better start complaining about the wait!

Is this a good sign…?

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Is this a good sign…?

It isn't any sign. It just says you submitted a story.

 

[StrentWriter]

It isn't any sign. It just says you submitted a story.

Definitely been a while since I submitted here!

 

[StrentWriter]

*bangs head against wall*

This is a new rejection! I don’t have any colour font in my manuscript. I thought the whole point was that this site does use HTML tags? Have I got this wrong?

Edit; removed the tags, used the basic ones and hopefully - fingers crossed - that publishes.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Did you read @FrancesScott's formatting instructions? Literotica support some tags and forbids others.

https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-format-a-story-with-html

--Annie

 

[StrentWriter]

Did you read @FrancesScott's formatting instructions? Literotica support some tags and forbids others.

https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-format-a-story-with-html

--Annie

I will go read that now - thanks Annie!