Is one page on literotica = to one page on word?

[PurrfectMoon]

If you haven't guessed by all my weird questions lately.. I'm writing a story, lol.

I looked all over for this answer but can't find it. Trying to figure out where a good cut off for the first chapter would be, but I am not sure if 1 page on Microsoft Word equals 1 page of Literotica?

Is 2 to 4 pages good per chapter for a reader?

~Purr

 

[voluptuary_manque]

No, one page on Literotica equals about six pages in Word. I think you need at least three Lit pages to make up a chapter.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think it depends on how much dialogue you have as well. Because of the double spacing required for lit if you have a "running conversation" it can burn through more word pages where as Lit seems to stay around 3600 or so words per page regardless of if it is dialogue or blocks of text. My last chapter was 34 word pages but 4 lit pages and there was a lot of dialogue to it.

 

[sr71plt]

If you look into the workings of Word, you'll see that there's no standard page in Word. There are mulitple ways of getting different word counts in setting up a Word page.

So, it's best to be looking at wordage, not pages. A Literotica page equals approximately 3,750 words.

 

[3113]

Depends on, as Lovecraft mentioned, whether you're double/single spacing the story in Word, what font you're using, margins, etc. But as VM pointed out, a page on lit is going to be more than one page in Word for sure. In fact, in my experience, it's much longer than 3Word-to-1Lit ratio.

A 26 page, single-spaced (with double-space breaks between paragraphs and lines of dialogue) story of mine that was in Ariel 12pt. in Word came out to 3 Lit pages. That makes it an 8Word Pages-to-1Lit page ratio.

And yes, 2-4 Lit pages is very good amount for a chapter. Most Lit readers don't want to read more than 2-4 *LITEROTICA* pages at a time, whether those constitute the whole story or a chapter from that story.

One other bit of advice. If you are putting out a novel with many chapters, do not write up Chapter 1, put it up, then start writing Chapter 2--because you've no idea how long it's going to take you to finish Chapter 2 (or Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5....). Try to at least get ahead of yourself if not finish up the whole story before posting those first Chapters. Readers not only get impatient if they have to wait a long time to get to Chapter 2, but they'll forget about the story if they have to wait too long. So you put up Chapter 1 and a week later Chapter 2, and all's well, but then Chapter 3 comes out months later...you've lost your readers. Those that read the first two chapters got tired of waiting--maybe they're not even reading stories on Lit any more; and new readers aren't interested in reading Chapter 3 or the first two Chapters to get to Chapter 3.

If you can give readers a daily or bi-weekly dose of the story--Chapter 1, then two days later Chapter 2, then the next day Chapter 3...etc., they'll be all over the story, eager to get to their computers each day and read the latest.

 

[PurrfectMoon]

Wow, thanks for the advice. I had no idea that literotica pages had that many words in them compared to word.

I almost thought it would be the complete opposite (2 literotica pages equaling 1 word page).

I think I am definitely going to do a word count, and then try to get more than 1 chapter good to go before submitting.

Thanks again!

 

[Weird Harold]

Wow, thanks for the advice. I had no idea that literotica pages had that many words in them compared to word.

I almost thought it would be the complete opposite (2 literotica pages equaling 1 word page).

I think I am definitely going to do a word count, and then try to get more than 1 chapter good to go before submitting.

Thanks again!

To further confuse the issue, Literotica doesn't compute the page break according to the number of words, it computes it on the number of characters -- including hidden characters like pragraph breaks and invisible information like HTML tags.

Lit's goal is to produce a page that comes in at approximatley 25KB including story text, HTML overhead, and javascripts for the advertising -- adjusted to the nearest paragraph break and allowing for "Orphan Control" overages.

Your best bet is to write your story according to the needs of the story and not worry about trying to write to any specific length or format. While writing to a specific number of words -- like a thousand word challenge, or Flash Fiction -- can help an author polish writing skills, it seldom improves the story.