Can I retroactively add a chapter in middle and change the titles?

[Tharkibudda]

For eg, you wrote a 5 part story and submitted as each chapter..

Few months/years later,you felt you can add a chapter in middle as the story started in chapter 1 and ended in 5 ..

Let's say the new story is between chap 3 and 4 .

Will literotuca admin put this new chapter as number 4 and move the rest so that it's now a 6 part ..

Or will you submit as chapter 3.5 ??

Please someone enlighten me on this.

 

[YDB95]

The official answer is, you can go in and edit the titles to fit the order.

The real answer is, I tried that once and the changes never took no matter what I did. Sorry.

 

[KeithD]

You might try submitting it as chapter three, explaining in the Notes box that you'd like the following ones bumped up a chapter number. I'd think that Laurel would find that the easiest way to accommodate it.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I think I would go for chapter 3a

I would do this too, on the basis that the chaptering collator code sorts in alphanumeric order.

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

YBD said he tried and it didn't work.

Rueben's idea should work, but I am not a fan of that. I did that once and didn't like how it looked on my page.

Keiths suggestion may or may not work. You night end up with a different chapter 3 and nothing else changed.


The only way to make certain everything goes smoothly is a multi part process, and how I would do it.

1 Request chapter 4 and 5 be deleted. Once deleted
2 Submit the new chapter 4, and make the old chapter 4 and 5 new chapters 5 & 6

The advantage is that you get 3 new chapters on the new story hub and lots of eyeballs, but you lose votes comments and scores.

You can submit the new part and put a detailed note to make this chapter 3 and bump up 4 and 5. That will keep your vots views comments and favs intact, but if Laurel misunderstands your request or makes a mistake who knows what the result will be.

 

[jaF0]

Or will you submit as chapter 3.5 ??

Please someone enlighten me on this.

In this digital age, .x version updates seem to be all the rage.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

You can submit the new part and put a detailed note to make this chapter 3 and bump up 4 and 5. That will keep your vots views comments and favs intact, but if Laurel misunderstands your request or makes a mistake who knows what the result will be.

I would agree.

The surest is of course to cancel the existing 4 and 5, with a note to Laurel in the Admin box explaining why. Then resubmit the new chapter and the two old chapters in order. The new 4 may go up quickly, but be prepared to wait a while for the renumbered 5 and 6.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

You might try submitting it as chapter three, explaining in the Notes box that you'd like the following ones bumped up a chapter number. I'd think that Laurel would find that the easiest way to accommodate it.

This^^^^ but add the links to the chapters you want changed for her.

I have seen a lot of stories with a .5 or an 'a' appended to a chapter or two also.

 

[gunhilltrain]

For eg, you wrote a 5 part story and submitted as each chapter..

Few months/years later,you felt you can add a chapter in middle as the story started in chapter 1 and ended in 5 ..

Let's say the new story is between chap 3 and 4 .

Will literotuca admin put this new chapter as number 4 and move the rest so that it's now a 6 part ..

Or will you submit as chapter 3.5 ??

Please someone enlighten me on this.

I'll probably have something like that happening. I have a group of sequels (I never thought of making it into a series; it just sort of grew) and a series I am working on now. For each one I have chapters that I'm just not ready to do - not sure why. They are not essential for the plot, and I don't want to wait a long time for my muse to catch up with me.

Thus I'm just going to skip them. If and when I ever do them, I guess I'll publish them as stand-alone stories, probably with a different title. Then I'll have a note at the top saying, "This is actually a part of such-and-such a series, and it fits in into such-and-such a place in the timeline." Or say, "This is now chapter 3a of the series."

Not ideal perhaps, but good enough. You've already published it a while ago. You now have the option of revisiting it and adding new material in the middle. Probably don't worry about the numbering of it. If you tell your readers what you're doing, it will probably go fine.

P.S.: Oh yeah, you can have links to the chapter immediately before it, and even the one after it.

 

[LexxRuthless]

Alternatively, you might be able to work the material into a standalone story, with an author's note explaining where it would fit into your series. If you can put enough detail into it that it doesn't require reading the rest of the series in order to make sense of what's going on, the story will do well and will likely get more views than it would as Chapter 3. It could also draw additional views for the rest of the series if readers who "never read chaptered stories" read it and want more afterwards.