Category questions

[myrionomos]

I will very soon post my first story. It will be in 20 parts in total about 150,000 words; it is a series of stories with one character always present and the remainder drawn from a particular group at different times. I was unsure whether to post it as a novel or to put each chapter under the most appropriate category.

The most appropriate category would usually be erotic couplings but some chapters could just as well fit others, Fetish, non erotic and even at a stretch in one instance, Loving Wives.

Firstly, is it a good idea to change categories within a series?

Secondly, I assume that different categories attract different audiences. Is that so?

Thirdly, if I made the choice between Novel and EC I guess that might affect scores which I don't much fuss about, but would it affect the level of feed back which I am very interested in?

Thank you.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I will very soon post my first story. It will be in 20 parts in total about 150,000 words; it is a series of stories with one character always present and the remainder drawn from a particular group at different times. I was unsure whether to post it as a novel or to put each chapter under the most appropriate category.

The most appropriate category would usually be erotic couplings but some chapters could just as well fit others, Fetish, non erotic and even at a stretch in one instance, Loving Wives.

Firstly, is it a good idea to change categories within a series?

Secondly, I assume that different categories attract different audiences. Is that so?

Thirdly, if I made the choice between Novel and EC I guess that might affect scores which I don't much fuss about, but would it affect the level of feed back which I am very interested in?

Thank you.

If each segment is a distinct stand-alone story, I would post them as such, and to different categories if they fit those categories. Actually, an author just suggests the cat. and Management usually takes the suggestion, but not always.

Novels tend to get not much feedback and not many views, whereas some categories get them by the hundreds of thousands. They definitely attract different readers, including some psychos in LW.

Your description of your work sounds a lot like the first stories I posted here.

 

[sr71plt]

Does this run in chronological order? If so, you need to get them in chrono order somehow--either alphabetically by title or by chaptering them in one work.

If they are going to be run together in some order and they cover several categories, I'd put them all in the Novel category.

If they are truly standalone and the reader doesn't need background from another story in reading one, I'd just submit them all separately in the appropriate categories. I have characters who run through several unrelated stories other than the presence of these characters.

 

[PennLady]

I think SR71 is right, you need to figure out what kind of order these should be in, if that matters. It sounds to me like you could post these in categories as appropriate.

I have to admit the novel category confuses me a little. I've done multi-part stories, but post in chapters of 3-4 Lit pages, and put them under romance, nonhuman, etc. Perhaps they should have gone under novels but that didn't seem quite right to me.

 

[sr71plt]

I think SR71 is right, you need to figure out what kind of order these should be in, if that matters. It sounds to me like you could post these in categories as appropriate.

I have to admit the novel category confuses me a little. I've done multi-part stories, but post in chapters of 3-4 Lit pages, and put them under romance, nonhuman, etc. Perhaps they should have gone under novels but that didn't seem quite right to me.

I think where the Novels category is appropriate is when the separate chapters do focus on separate categories. I don't think jumbling chapters around in separate categories is too reader friendly.

 

[PennLady]

I think where the Novels category is appropriate is when the separate chapters do focus on separate categories. I don't think jumbling chapters around in separate categories is too reader friendly.

That's a good point. I will say that my stories do have non-erotic chapters, but I still keep them together under one category. I think it gives the reader one more piece of info about a story where Novels would probably make most people think it's just long, without any more information than that.

 

[sr71plt]

That's a good point. I will say that my stories do have non-erotic chapters, but I still keep them together under one category. I think it gives the reader one more piece of info about a story where Novels would probably make most people think it's just long, without any more information than that.

That's rather a case in point, I think. I've encountered readers who seem oblivious that a chapter is only a chapter of a greater whole even when it's clearly marked as such and who slam an isolated chapter for what it doesn't have.

I thus try to have a sex scene in every chapter of a chaptered story I do.

A problem exists in chaptered stories that skip their parts all around in different categories to the extent that readers are going to the category story lists for their reads (I don't know what percentage does, though. I don't). They could see just isolated parts listed on a category list and assume that the work is incomplete and therefore not worth getting into.

 

[myrionomos]

Thank you all for your advice. It has clarified the issue well.