Grouping story chapters?

[Slave_Sara]

Hiya A/all,

Just wondering how do I group chapters of my story together? I've seen others have been able to do it, but I'm still new here so I can't figure it out yet. Please help

hugs

Slave_Sara

 

[sethp]

Use the same title...example "The Mouth Breather Ch. 1" "The Mouth Breather Ch. 2"

Or if your first story was just "The Mouth Breather" Just put "The Mouth Breather Ch. 2" and Lit will "Automatically" group it. Any issues just email them.

that's what I did. Is that what you mean?

 

[Slave_Sara]

Yes that's what I mean. It's called ... Day One, Day Two, etc. but it isn't grouped yet.

 

[Innuendos]

Yes that's what I mean. It's called ... Day One, Day Two, etc. but it isn't grouped yet.

After checking your public stories/submissions page, it looks like they _are_ grouped into a 2-part set... but LE's automated grouper probably doesn't recognize the system you are using. Instead of identifying your chapters as "chapters" or "ch." or something it recognizes, you're using "Day," so it's cutting the title off at what it decides the dividing point is, the numbering system.

So instead, it's adding "Day" to the title and naming your stories as "Mistress and her B/F Day" instead of "Mistress and her B/F."

I don't know whether LE's mechanics allow for alternatives like that, so you might just have to submit an edit, leaving "Day" out of the title.

 

[Slave_Sara]

yes I see it's grouped now and I see what you mean too. if I submit an edit, does that mean it has to be approved again before people can see it?

 

[Innuendos]

yes I see it's grouped now and I see what you mean too. if I submit an edit, does that mean it has to be approved again before people can see it?

The edit has to be approved before any _changes_ are visible, I believe, but it's my understanding from what others have told me that submitting an edit doesn't remove your story from the public bookshelf.

 

[Slave_Sara]

actually, I don't see how I can edit it anyways

 

[Innuendos]

actually, I don't see how I can edit it anyways

There's information on how to submit an edit in the LE F.A.Q. You'll find it on either the home or portal pages, I believe. Haven't done one yet myself, but the process seems pretty basic.

 

[Slave_Sara]

I'll have a look at that, thanks for the help!

 

[Darkniciad]

The code that automatically groups stories isn't bad ( it catches my "Danica" and properly groups both the "Prelude" and "Epilogue" even though they don't have chapter numbers ) but it has its limits.

It will also sometimes group stories with similar titles, even if they don't have anything to do with each other.

Manu has said that eventually we'll have the ability to group our stories from our member page, making it a lot more useful.

For now, your only option to absolutely assure your stories are grouped as a series is to use "Ch." or "Pt." and a number. My LST3K series seems to group just fine with "Ep." and I believe I've seen "Bk." for "book" work as well.

Here's the editing process for Lit:

• Start a new submission.
• Use the same title ( or as much as will fit ) as your original story/chapter plus something such as *EDIT*
• Fill in whatever element you're changing with the appropriate changes. You can fill in any other elements that you aren't changing with placeholders. Every section of the form has to be filled out.
• If editing story text, paste the entire text of the story/chapter in the "story text" section, not just the edited portions.
• If editing any other element of the submission and not the story text, copy the "notes" section into the "story text" section to fill that part of the form.

The "Notes" section is the most important part of an edited submssion.

• To eliminate the potential for human error, copy the URL from your browser bar when viewing the first page of your story/chapter. You only need the end part that represents your title. This is unique to the story/chapter, and will help Laurel determine which submission you're editing. Paste this into the "notes" section.
• Detail exactly what you're changing. In the case of story text only, say that you're editing the story text for xxxx errors in the original. For anything else ( title, description, keywords ) list each element you're editing and the change you want made. I actually list the original and say "change to:"

Preview, then Submit.

Technically, the edit will take just as long to pass through the queue as a normal submission, though I have seen edits go up more quickly, and in bulk. I had six edited chapters of a story all go up at once in two days back when the average wait was five days, for instance.

Your story isn't removed from view when you submit an edit, it remains in the old form until the changes are approved and applied. It won't appear in the "New" list again after the changes are approved, and you'll maintain all votes, comments, etc.

When the "edited" submission ( which will show up in your private submission list right next to the original ) vanishes, the edit should be approved and applied to the original.

Wait at least 24 hours for the changes to appear on the public side. When editing story text, it may be longer if the story/chapter is long, and not all of the edits may show up immediately. I've seen the edits to page 1-2 show up, then a few hours later, page 3, so on and so forth.

 

[sethp]

Darkniciad knows what he's talking about!

 

[Slave_Sara]

Thanks! Very usefull info

 

[Darkniciad]

Thanks! Very usefull info

No problem

Darkniciad knows what he's talking about!

I'm just trying to fill some of the gaps since Weird Harold isn't around as much any more.