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[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Does LAUREL allow whole novellas to be posted, or must it be chapter by chapter?

 

[elfin_odalisque]

I have seen whole novellas posted as a single post.

The late, great Colleen Thomas posted a 29 lit page novella.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I have seen whole novellas posted as a single post.

The late, great Colleen Thomas posted a 29 lit page novella.

29 Lit pages isn't a novella, that like 300 printed pages. Mine is like 10 LIT pages or 30K words....100 printed

 

[oggbashan]

29 Lit pages isn't a novella, that like 300 printed pages. Mine is like 10 LIT pages or 30K words....100 printed

That's not necessarily a novella. It could go in any category.

Readers of the novellas category expect an extended story. Five or more Lit pages seems to be the cut-off point between posting in any category, or posting as a novella, but some readers object to more than three Lit pages.

You can't please everyone, whatever you do.

 

[NaokoSmith]

This novella has been posted whole under Novels and Novellas, all the chapters in one submission. It has 28 pages and is doing well:
https://www.literotica.com/s/mirror-bound

So I guess you are allowed to post a whole novella, although a whole novel might be a bit much.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

29 Lit pages isn't a novella, that like 300 printed pages. Mine is like 10 LIT pages or 30K words....100 printed

Then you have no problem. Ten to Twelve page stories are fairly common on lit.

 

[lovecraft68]

There is no limit I did a 22 page story here for a contest and the story I cowrote for the tag team was 29

The disadvantage to being that long is less reads but you will usually see a better score.

I don't think 10 pages is too bad to post in one shot.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

This novella has been posted whole under Novels and Novellas, all the chapters in one submission. It has 28 pages and is doing well:
https://www.literotica.com/s/mirror-bound

So I guess you are allowed to post a whole novella, although a whole novel might be a bit much.

Do all pussies have tits?

 

[Swilly]

You can post it in whatever category you want. When Ellie and I wrote The Rhythm Method, it was longer than that and posted with no issues.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The field that holds the text of the story is probably a long raw or clob or blob, which will hold 2 gigbytes of data. So go for it.

 

[sr71plt]

My entry in the last, April Fool's Day, contest was a single-entry 30,000-word novella posted in Novels and Novellas.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

One of the first stories I posted here was a 30K chapter of a longer work. It was Book 1 in the Walker Brigade series. Each book after that was about 30K. There were 5 books all together.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

The advantage of posting a 10K+ story to a category vs Novels/Novellas would be to help people find stories within their preferred subset.

The advantage of breaking a big story into chapters would be better scores for later chapters. However HOF stories are later chapters vs a HOF that's a one-off or an early chapter?

 

[NaokoSmith]

Do all pussies have tits?

Mine just has a clitoris.

 

[slyc_willie]

Check the #1 rated story in Incest.

It's 42 Lit pages long.

Not at all my cup of tea; I only assume it's rated so highly because of it's length, age, and apparent intricacy (which really doesn't seem to be all that intricate to me, but who am I to judge?). In other words, those who stick with the story and finish it feel compelled to vote highly.

 

[slyc_willie]

Mine just has a clitoris.

This just made me sputter herbal tea onto my keyboard.

Thanks a lot.

 

[lovecraft68]

Check the #1 rated story in Incest.

It's 42 Lit pages long.

Not at all my cup of tea; I only assume it's rated so highly because of it's length, age, and apparent intricacy (which really doesn't seem to be all that intricate to me, but who am I to judge?). In other words, those who stick with the story and finish it feel compelled to vote highly.

The interesting thing about that story is that it has an insane amount of votes (15,323) from 2011. Stories that go over twenty pages-which is what I consider very long for this site rarely have anywhere near that total.

Also interesting is your comment that the story did nothing for you because I gave up after page 12 and I have yet to find one person here who has read it and had an opinion other than "Can't see how this is number one, meh."

 

[NaokoSmith]

This just made me sputter herbal tea onto my keyboard.

Thanks a lot.

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