Seeking advice

[Moxon10]

I've been on Lit for years, mostly as a reader, but recently started posting some. I have a lot of ideas and have recently started a story called "The Encounter". I'm curious as to how to post this story when I'm finished. I'm about halfway done, it's about 3 1/2 pages now. Also once finished and posted I would love some crotiques from experienced writers on here. Thank you in advance and I look forward to completing my story and hearing from some of you.

Moxon

 

[Boxlicker101]

I've been on Lit for years, mostly as a reader, but recently started posting some. I have a lot of ideas and have recently started a story called "The Encounter". I'm curious as to how to post this story when I'm finished. I'm about halfway done, it's about 3 1/2 pages now. Also once finished and posted I would love some crotiques from experienced writers on here. Thank you in advance and I look forward to completing my story and hearing from some of you.

Moxon

Hi, Moxon and welcome to Authors' Hangout. Here are posting guidelines: https://www.literotica.com/subguide.shtml

 

[HandsInTheDark]

I've been on Lit for years, mostly as a reader, but recently started posting some. I have a lot of ideas and have recently started a story called "The Encounter". I'm curious as to how to post this story when I'm finished. I'm about halfway done, it's about 3 1/2 pages now. Also once finished and posted I would love some crotiques from experienced writers on here. Thank you in advance and I look forward to completing my story and hearing from some of you.

Moxon

You might be better off asking for critique BEFORE you post, and there are people who volunteer to edit stories occasionally. Try the editor's forum.

Lit pages don't equal word processor pages. A simple way to gauge the length of a story is to paste it into the submission form here, and preview it. You'll see it as readers would.

After you post, you might get comments on your story; fair warning, they are rarely helpful from a critical point of view. There's another forum here for discussion of posted stories.

Good luck!

 

[Boxlicker101]

3-1/2 pages of Word is less than a full Lit. Page. It's long enough for some people, but others will complain it is to short.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny---<-----that's me! The male half

I'd asked repeatedly how to know how many words are in a short story. No one replied.
By accident I clicked TOOLS while in WORDS. There go down to WORD COUNT and click that.
Somewhere in a far off land a ten year old instantly counts your WORDS document.
It's been a big help for our rather short chapters. If we were making this crap up we could just dream up more. With true stories, we sometimes run out of things to write.

My wife and I are not writers but we stick words together on your monitor and have fun. We've gotten some nasty anonymous comments and some nice ones from people much more important.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'd asked repeatedly how to know how many words are in a short story. No one replied.
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It has to be at least 750 words to post as a single story here.

 

[TxRad]

Using a 12 font with 1.25" margins, approximately 6 Word pages = a Lit page.

 

[Moxon10]

thank you for all the advice. The story was completed this morning, so I guess I need an editor now, can anyone help point me in the right direction? Or should I just take my chance and post it to the story page on my own?

 

[Boxlicker101]

thank you for all the advice. The story was completed this morning, so I guess I need an editor now, can anyone help point me in the right direction? Or should I just take my chance and post it to the story page on my own?

I'm not listed as a volunteer editor but I an take a look at it. Email it to me and I will go over it.

 

[Handley_Page]

Using a 12 font with 1.25" margins, approximately 6 Word pages = a Lit page.

What size paper, my friend. ?

The OP is best thinking in terms of something like 3400 words per Lit page, and 3 Lit pages being a nice length of story.
Rounded up, say, 10,00 words ?

 

[Boxlicker101]

What size paper, my friend. ?

The OP is best thinking in terms of something like 3400 words per Lit page, and 3 Lit pages being a nice length of story.
Rounded up, say, 10,00 words ?

That's not excessively long but it's longer than most stories.

 

[sr71plt]

I'd asked repeatedly how to know how many words are in a short story. No one replied.
.

for Lit., 750 words to infinity. For the marketplace, under 20,000 words in traditional print, under about 12,000 words in the electronic world.

 

[Boxlicker101]

for Lit., 750 words to infinity. For the marketplace, under 20,000 words in traditional print, under about 12,000 words in the electronic world.

On Lit., a short story might be as much as 7,500 words. After that, it starts to be a novella.

 

[sr71plt]

On Lit., a short story might be as much as 7,500 words. After that, it starts to be a novella.

Not really. Who told you that? I think it's been often suggested here that the ideal Lit. story goes to three Lit. pages. That's over 7,500 words right there. A full three Lit. pages is 11,500 words, just about where I suggested a short story runs into a novelette (not a novella) in electronic posting terms.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Hmmm....

Novels and Novellas - Erotic fiction with a broader scope. (12774)

I don't see a category for Novelette.

 

[sr71plt]

Lit.'s categories were set up before electronic publishing had matured to such definitions. It doesn't matter anyway. There are no upper limits on wordage to post to any category at Literotica, so whether it's a short story, novelette, novella, or novel is irrelevant to category choice here. That doesn't change the classification of what each of these means in terms of wordage, though.

 

[TexasFarmBoy]

For what its worth, I basically post in one of three categories. I generally write longer pieces and find the Novels and Novellas category to be a writer-friendly one. You don't get huge numbers of short- term views but the readers here expect some length and depth in the content. They also seem to favor authors that they like so you can build some level of regular audience.