Naming chapters differently

[NoJo]

I have a story which I'm submitting here in chapters. But I'd like the chapters to be sub-titled, E.G.

"The Zoo - Chapter 1 : Monkey Nuts",
"The Zoo - Chapter 2 : Nelly gets a Trunk Call",

etc.

Will that work? will lit group that as one story? Or Do I have to leave the supplementary bits out for that to happen?

 

[TxRad]

I have a story which I'm submitting here in chapters. But I'd like the chapters to be sub-titled, E.G.

"The Zoo - Chapter 1 : Monkey Nuts",
"The Zoo - Chapter 2 : Nelly gets a Trunk Call",

etc.

Will that work? will lit group that as one story? Or Do I have to leave the supplementary bits out for that to happen?

That you will have to ask Laurel. Remember you have a short window for titles. Even with Chapter, Ch. I'm not sure the second one would fit.

 

[sr71plt]

That's how I do it. There has to be an overall title to hold them together. But I always try to tack on a separate chapter title as well. It isn't easy with the character limitation of that field.

 

[NoJo]

That you will have to ask Laurel. Remember you have a short window for titles. Even with Chapter, Ch. I'm not sure the second one would fit.

Cool, thanks, mate.

While I'm on the subject, I vaguely remember a Howto about special formatting.

I use the Italics and Bold format delimiters a lot in stories I post here. I think thre might be a way of doing a horizontal line break too? Do you recall where that kind of info lives?

 

[NoJo]

That's how I do it. There has to be an overall title to hold them together. But I always try to tack on a separate chapter title as well. It isn't easy with the character limitation of that field.

Ah, so if I'm careful to keep chapters brief, it will work. Cool, thanks

 

[TxRad]

Cool, thanks, mate.

While I'm on the subject, I vaguely remember a Howto about special formatting.

I use the Italics and Bold format delimiters a lot in stories I post here. I think thre might be a way of doing a horizontal line break too? Do you recall where that kind of info lives?

How to section or maybe the Library at the top of the AH.

Someone else will have to get you closer.

 

[sr71plt]

I think thre might be a way of doing a horizontal line break too? Do you recall where that kind of info lives?

There might be a way, but a don't think it's in the Lit. format design package, which is designed to give a uniform format across the reading experience in the Web site story file. So, my question would be what would be the circumstance that would make this formatting necessary? If it's just because you, as an author, think it looks jazzy, your delving into the publisher's job, not yours.

 

[oggbashan]

Cool, thanks, mate.

While I'm on the subject, I vaguely remember a Howto about special formatting.

I use the Italics and Bold format delimiters a lot in stories I post here. I think thre might be a way of doing a horizontal line break too? Do you recall where that kind of info lives?

I don't use horizontal line breaks because they don't translate well from Word to the submissions box.

What I use is:

+++

to divide up a story to indicate a temporal break e.g. continued on the next day, or for a change of Point of View.

 

[Kantarii]

Try titling your story "The Zoo (part 1) and when it asks you for a brief discription, then you can title each chapter. That is probably the best way to do it. That way, Lit will keep your story in sequential orderKant

 

[oggbashan]

Try titling your story "The Zoo (part 1) and when it asks you for a brief discription, then you can title each chapter. That is probably the best way to do it. That way, Lit will keep your story in sequential orderKant

If you are going to have more than 10 chapters you need to number like this:

Ch.01
Ch.02
...
Ch.10
Ch.11

Otherwise chapter 11 and subsequent ones will appear like this:

Ch.1
Ch.11
Ch.12
...
Ch.2
Ch.3
etc.

 

[49greg]

I have a story which I'm submitting here in chapters. But I'd like the chapters to be sub-titled, E.G.

"The Zoo - Chapter 1 : Monkey Nuts",
"The Zoo - Chapter 2 : Nelly gets a Trunk Call",

etc.

Will that work? will lit group that as one story? Or Do I have to leave the supplementary bits out for that to happen?

I did something sort of like that with some of my first stories:
Bad Vibe
Bad Vibe Aftermath
Bad Vibe Continued Ch 01
Bad Vibe Continued Ch 02

The key is to make sure that the title of subsequent chapters are in alphabetical order, because they'll show up in alpha order, so if you were to put a third chapter - say like "the zoo .... Everyone gets bananas". That one might end up at the top of the list. Well maybe the "Chapter" number will keep them right, but I'd check first.

 

[jomar]

The way I have done it to do Zoo chapter 1...10 and put the "subtitles" in the description. Works fine that way.

 

[Haulover]

I don't use horizontal line breaks because they don't translate well from Word to the submissions box.

What I use is:

+++

to divide up a story to indicate a temporal break e.g. continued on the next day, or for a change of Point of View.

ALSO - be aware that NONE of the html formatting (bold, italics, horizontal line, etc.) shows up in the APP ... which is where probably 50% of the readers read the stories..

If you are going to have more than 10 chapters you need to number like this:

Ch.01
Ch.02
...
Ch.10
Ch.11

Otherwise chapter 11 and subsequent ones will appear like this:

Ch.1
Ch.11
Ch.12
...
Ch.2
Ch.3
etc.

Thanks for pointing that out - I wish everyone understood that.

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

Cool, thanks, mate.

While I'm on the subject, I vaguely remember a Howto about special formatting.

I use the Italics and Bold format delimiters a lot in stories I post here. I think thre might be a way of doing a horizontal line break too? Do you recall where that kind of info lives?

Try basic-text-formatting-101

 

[PervOtaku]

I have a story which I'm submitting here in chapters. But I'd like the chapters to be sub-titled, E.G.

"The Zoo - Chapter 1 : Monkey Nuts",
"The Zoo - Chapter 2 : Nelly gets a Trunk Call",

etc.

Will that work? will lit group that as one story? Or Do I have to leave the supplementary bits out for that to happen?

What I've been doing would have the titles as:
The Zoo Ch. 01
The Zoo Ch. 02

and then the first line of the chapter texts as:
Chapter 1: Monkey Nuts
Chapter 2: Nelly gets a Trunk Call

 

[NoJo]

For anyone who's interested, after a little experimentation on my part, I discovered a shit-load of story formatting markup, which is not documented anywhere. Some of my already submitted stories could have benefited from that.

It's possible (but I doubt it) that the scripts that sanitize stories on submission might strip some of the undocumented markup.

I was going to post my findings as yet another howto, but can't really be assed. PM if interested.

Alex De Kok has posted a good howto which shows how you can simulate closely how your story will look to readers (by creating and previewing an HTML document which has the font face and section width similar to what literotica uses).

 

[Zeb_Carter]

For anyone who's interested, after a little experimentation on my part, I discovered a shit-load of story formatting markup, which is not documented anywhere. Some of my already submitted stories could have benefited from that.

It's possible (but I doubt it) that the scripts that sanitize stories on submission might strip some of the undocumented markup.

I was going to post my findings as yet another howto, but can't really be assed. PM if interested.

Alex De Kok has posted a good howto which shows how you can simulate closely how your story will look to readers (by creating and previewing an HTML document which has the font face and section width similar to what literotica uses).

Just an FYI...using any but the following HTML tags will get a story rejected today. Maybe in the new site they might allow more, but not today.

<b>text</b> for bold text

<i>text</i> for italic text

<u>text</u> for underline text

<blockquote>text</blockquote> for indented text (both ends) 5 spaces

&nbsp - non-breaking spaces I have heard this can be used

<center>text</center> for centering text on the page

Any other HTML tags will get the story rejected. And blockquote sometimes gets it rejected too if you embed too many.

 

[NoJo]

Ah, thanks for the info.

 

[NoJo]

Whelp, chapter 1 of 5 has been posted -- decided to break the 50,000 word story into 5 10,000 word chapters (they're more like parts really) , and break up each of those chapters into sections with bold headings, to get the granularity I want.
It's in my sig. Thank u hypoxia for the advice!

 

[sbrooks103x]

Why not put the Chapter title in the Description?

 

[Hypoxia]

Just an FYI...using any but the following HTML tags will get a story rejected today.

Keep in mind that the current Android app, which about half of LIT readers use, ignores those tags. You get flat text and nothing else. Markup goes wasted. I'm weaning myself off those.

Thank u hypoxia for the advice!

You're quite welcome.

 

[Athalia]

Is there a way of just retitling stories, without having to re-submit them?

I'd love to do that with my Hot Tub series, to present them in chronological order.

That way, it would be:

"Hot Tub 1: Service Girl
"Hot Tub 2: .. and Whipped Cream
"Hot Tub 3: ...and Forbidden Fruit

Could I ask Laurel to do that for me? It would be nice if the scores and comments could stay with the stories, as a service to readers, but that's not a deal breaker.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Is there a way of just retitling stories, without having to re-submit them?

I'd love to do that with my Hot Tub series, to present them in chronological order.

That way, it would be:

"Hot Tub 1: Service Girl
"Hot Tub 2: .. and Whipped Cream
"Hot Tub 3: ...and Forbidden Fruit

Could I ask Laurel to do that for me? It would be nice if the scores and comments could stay with the stories, as a service to readers, but that's not a deal breaker.

I've sent her a PM along similar lines, to get a spun-off piece of story back into the main continuity. Asked if I needed to submit an edit or if she could do it on the back end. Haven't heard back from her, so I guess it's the edit.]

 

[Nezhul]

Well when I write series, I do just that. For example I have:
SexTV 01: Eighteen
SexTV 02: Contract

and so on.
All I can recommend is that if you know that your story may go beyond 10 chapters, numerate them like I did - with double digits. If you do not, then evenutally in search engine your chapters 10 through 19 will be sorted after chapter 1, and only then will go chapter 2.

My original series was actually renamed in that format by mods when I submitted it. I don't remember how I called it originally, but they did slightly changed it up into this format. So it should be completely okay.

 

[oggbashan]

A short hint:

If you use an abbreviation for chapter or part such as Ch.01 or Pt.01 or even just 01 - you have more characters for the title and chapter description.

Story 01 They Meet
Story 02 First Kiss
Story 03 Argument...