How to Republish stories

[secondsamuel]

There are a few of my older works riddled with mistakes from Dragonspeak and my opioid dependence. This was before I had surgery. While they were probably the best I could do at the time and kept me sane, I'd love to go back and edit them, but I don't want people who favorited them regardless of error to miss them.

Is this possible?

 

[KeithD]

The stats are retained when you go through the edit process here.

 

[RejectReality]

Here's the editing method for Lit.

• Take note of the url of your story/chapter. That's the address appearing in the address bar of your browser when you view the first page of your story. You really only need the last part after the /s/ that represents your title.
• Start a new submission.
• Use the same title as the original ( or as much as will fit ) plus something such as *EDIT*
• Fill in the same category, then fill description and keywords with placeholders, as they don't matter. ( Unless one of these things are what you're editing )
• If editing the story text, paste/upload the new text in the "story text" section. You need to upload the whole story/chapter, not just the edited sections. If editing anything else, copy the "notes" section detailed below in order to fill this section.
• In the "notes" section, say what you are editing. If story text, then put that. If title, then put the requested NEW title here. You can fill in edited descriptions/keywords/category above, but you'll still want to list any such changes here. It's a good idea to list the url that I mentioned in step 1. This is unique to every story/chapter, and can help eliminate the potential for human error. As mentioned above, if you are editing something other than the story text, copy what you put in the notes section to the "story text" as well. This is simply because there must be something in that section for you to submit.
• Click "Review", then "Submit"

Edits have a lower priority than new stories, and may take longer to process.

Edits will not appear on the public side immediately. Wait at least 24 hours after the "edited" submission vanishes from your private author list or from the "pending" folder before worrying that your changes haven't been applied. Changes may not all appear at the same time, either. Page 1 may change, while page 2 will remain the same until an hour or so later. Be patient as the system catches up.

If you edit the story in this manner ( as opposed to deleting and re-submitting ) you'll retain your votes, views, comments, etc. The only thing that will be changed is what you say that you want changed. It will not appear on the New List again.

If you wish to delete a story, use much the same method, except put something such as *DELETE* in the title, and say that you want to delete the story in question in the "notes" section.

If you wish to delete all of your stories, an entire series, etc., then use the normal delete process, but explain in the "notes" section that you want to do a mass delete, and what type.

Convoluted, but it does work. It gets a little easier as you get used to it.

 

[IsaacTolkien]

Be aware that it takes forever. My last edit took 13 days.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Republishing stories

There is another option: republish them on another site. I've done that myself.

For two stories I did light editing; for two more I did rewrites. (I changed role plays into "real life" encounters. In one case I changed the title too.) All of the originals were from last year. My user name is different.

Ah, what's the protocol on this bulletin board? Am I allowed to mention another site and what it's like there?

 

[ElectricBlue]

There is another option: republish them on another site. I've done that myself.

For two stories I did light editing; for two more I did rewrites. (I changed role plays into "real life" encounters. In one case I changed the title too.) All of the originals were from last year. My user name is different.

Ah, what's the protocol on this bulletin board? Am I allowed to mention another site and what it's like there?

Links to other sites are not allowed.

There's been the occasional mention of Wattpad and its dynamics in the AH, so discussion does take place. I'd be interested to hear about experiences elsewhere, just from a curiosity point of view.

I've got a beta account on the new Pleazeme site, which is trying to get traction as a new safe place for erotica. It's rubbish for stories, as its basic "page" for text has a 10,000 character limit, which means you have to artificially cut a story into roughly 1800 word chunks and load each part separately. A story that took thirty seconds to submit here took thirty minutes there. It's aimed at flash fiction and short attention spans. I've put some of my shorter pieces up, and some extracts from my books, but unless someone "hearts" a story, there's no indication how many have read it. It's 2019 technology, but more backwards than Lit. It's so new, they've not yet thought about moderation of content. I've suggested they need to think about that before the sewer leaks in.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Links to other sites are not allowed.

There's been the occasional mention of Wattpad and its dynamics in the AH, so discussion does take place. I'd be interested to hear about experiences elsewhere, just from a curiosity point of view.

I've got a beta account on the new Pleazeme site, which is trying to get traction as a new safe place for erotica. It's rubbish for stories, as its basic "page" for text has a 10,000 character limit, which means you have to artificially cut a story into roughly 1800 word chunks and load each part separately. A story that took thirty seconds to submit here took thirty minutes there. It's aimed at flash fiction and short attention spans. I've put some of my shorter pieces up, and some extracts from my books, but unless someone "hearts" a story, there's no indication how many have read it. It's 2019 technology, but more backwards than Lit. It's so new, they've not yet thought about moderation of content. I've suggested they need to think about that before the sewer leaks in.

Oh, sure, I wasn't going to link; I was simply going to describe.

Lush Stories is a pretty good site. It's a lot smaller; about 54,000 stories against the hundreds of thousands on Literotica. The number of views and votes is thus a lot smaller too (2,000 views seems to be a lot there). However, there seems to be fewer trolls and one-star voters. The comments I've seen so far are polite.

The voting system is the same one to five type used here. I can't recall off-hand if they allow non-members to vote.

Stories are usually posted within a couple of days. They have staff who proofread for spelling and punctuation and such. You as the writer can view the changes they made, but those are never beyond the purely technical.

They have some content restrictions that are very similar to Literotica's; I'd have to check the details again.

 

[RejectReality]

No, it's been members-only voting for several years now. Even when anonymous was allowed, you could set an option to disallow anonymous votes. I never did, but the option was there.

It actually has tighter restrictions for violent content, and a much stronger line on consent. The one place content-wise where it differs in less restriction is the 16+ age limit, rather than 18+.

The other thing is that short stories do just as well ( really, better ) than long stories there. That's why it's a good place to have in your tool belt for stories that can't be posted here ( the younger characters ) or which may languish here, such as flash.

You'll always get more eyes on Lit than you will anywhere else, but not every story can fit within Lit's guidelines and reader preferences. That's where cultivating alternatives keeps you from subconsciously limiting the scope of your imagination to fit in the Lit box.

There's not so much a lack of trolls as there is a degree of accountability. A string of 1s and 2s has caused many a person to be permabanned. Nasty comments are a one way ticket to bansville as well.

The problem with that is that a 4 becomes the new 1. Nothing less than a perfect 5 ( after the adjustments, removing the top some odd percent of highest and lowest votes ) will land you in a position on any of the toplists to attract new readers that way. A couple of 4s can cut your view potential in half. If you happened to post on a day where a lot of other stories come out, pushing you down on or off of the first page...

Oh, sure, I wasn't going to link; I was simply going to describe.

Lush Stories is a pretty good site. It's a lot smaller; about 54,000 stories against the hundreds of thousands on Literotica. The number of views and votes is thus a lot smaller too (2,000 views seems to be a lot there). However, there seems to be fewer trolls and one-star voters. The comments I've seen so far are polite.

The voting system is the same one to five type used here. I can't recall off-hand if they allow non-members to vote.

Stories are usually posted within a couple of days. They have staff who proofread for spelling and punctuation and such. You as the writer can view the changes they made, but those are never beyond the purely technical.

They have some content restrictions that are very similar to Literotica's; I'd have to check the details again.

 

[gunhilltrain]

No, it's been members-only voting for several years now. Even when anonymous was allowed, you could set an option to disallow anonymous votes. I never did, but the option was there.

It actually has tighter restrictions for violent content, and a much stronger line on consent. The one place content-wise where it differs in less restriction is the 16+ age limit, rather than 18+.

The other thing is that short stories do just as well ( really, better ) than long stories there. That's why it's a good place to have in your tool belt for stories that can't be posted here ( the younger characters ) or which may languish here, such as flash.

You'll always get more eyes on Lit than you will anywhere else, but not every story can fit within Lit's guidelines and reader preferences. That's where cultivating alternatives keeps you from subconsciously limiting the scope of your imagination to fit in the Lit box.

There's not so much a lack of trolls as there is a degree of accountability. A string of 1s and 2s has caused many a person to be permabanned. Nasty comments are a one way ticket to bansville as well.

The problem with that is that a 4 becomes the new 1. Nothing less than a perfect 5 ( after the adjustments, removing the top some odd percent of highest and lowest votes ) will land you in a position on any of the toplists to attract new readers that way. A couple of 4s can cut your view potential in half. If you happened to post on a day where a lot of other stories come out, pushing you down on or off of the first page...

1. They don't have a celebrities/fan fiction category. In fact, they will reject imaginary romps with Jennifer Anniston or Daisy Buchanan. "Real people" have to be dead for over one-hundred years to be accepted. (The sex life of Rutherford B. Hayes?) Fan fiction is banned.

Of course there is a chance that the moderators won't remember who Daisy Buchanan was. The far more common Harley Quinn trope will be be noticed and rejected.

2. The smaller site probably allows for the higher degree of accountability. (I don't know how Laurel can handle the workload here.)

3. I haven't been that concerned with toplists on either site yet, but I understand that some writers do care about that.

 

[RelentlessOnanism]

Here's the editing method for Lit.

• Take note of the url of your story/chapter. That's the address appearing in the address bar of your browser when you view the first page of your story. You really only need the last part after the /s/ that represents your title.
• Start a new submission.
• Use the same title as the original ( or as much as will fit ) plus something such as *EDIT*
• Fill in the same category, then fill description and keywords with placeholders, as they don't matter. ( Unless one of these things are what you're editing )
• If editing the story text, paste/upload the new text in the "story text" section. You need to upload the whole story/chapter, not just the edited sections. If editing anything else, copy the "notes" section detailed below in order to fill this section.
• In the "notes" section, say what you are editing. If story text, then put that. If title, then put the requested NEW title here. You can fill in edited descriptions/keywords/category above, but you'll still want to list any such changes here. It's a good idea to list the url that I mentioned in step 1. This is unique to every story/chapter, and can help eliminate the potential for human error. As mentioned above, if you are editing something other than the story text, copy what you put in the notes section to the "story text" as well. This is simply because there must be something in that section for you to submit.
• Click "Review", then "Submit"

Edits have a lower priority than new stories, and may take longer to process.

Edits will not appear on the public side immediately. Wait at least 24 hours after the "edited" submission vanishes from your private author list or from the "pending" folder before worrying that your changes haven't been applied. Changes may not all appear at the same time, either. Page 1 may change, while page 2 will remain the same until an hour or so later. Be patient as the system catches up.

If you edit the story in this manner ( as opposed to deleting and re-submitting ) you'll retain your votes, views, comments, etc. The only thing that will be changed is what you say that you want changed. It will not appear on the New List again.

If you wish to delete a story, use much the same method, except put something such as *DELETE* in the title, and say that you want to delete the story in question in the "notes" section.

If you wish to delete all of your stories, an entire series, etc., then use the normal delete process, but explain in the "notes" section that you want to do a mass delete, and what type.

Convoluted, but it does work. It gets a little easier as you get used to it.

Well, I'm about to see how efficient this system is. There were a couple of minor corrections I wanted to make to my most recent story, so I've just submitted an edited version.

Thanks for the information.

 

[RejectReality]

It's one of the best inroads for new readers available on any site. One of the first things they check when they've exhausted known authors are the toplists.

Not so much caring about being on it as it is adjusting your expectations depending upon whether you are or not. If you get those "bombs", then you know the story isn't likely to perform to the same level when it misses or falls off of the toplist. The more inroads you have with high-ranking toplist placement, the more readers will filter into the rest of your work.

1. They don't have a celebrities/fan fiction category. In fact, they will reject imaginary romps with Jennifer Anniston or Daisy Buchanan. "Real people" have to be dead for over one-hundred years to be accepted. (The sex life of Rutherford B. Hayes?) Fan fiction is banned.

Of course there is a chance that the moderators won't remember who Daisy Buchanan was. The far more common Harley Quinn trope will be be noticed and rejected.

2. The smaller site probably allows for the higher degree of accountability. (I don't know how Laurel can handle the workload here.)

3. I haven't been that concerned with toplists on either site yet, but I understand that some writers do care about that.

 

[MicheleNylons]

Not So Lush

Oh, sure, I wasn't going to link; I was simply going to describe.

Lush Stories is a pretty good site. It's a lot smaller; about 54,000 stories against the hundreds of thousands on Literotica. The number of views and votes is thus a lot smaller too (2,000 views seems to be a lot there). However, there seems to be fewer trolls and one-star voters. The comments I've seen so far are polite.

The voting system is the same one to five type used here. I can't recall off-hand if they allow non-members to vote.

Stories are usually posted within a couple of days. They have staff who proofread for spelling and punctuation and such. You as the writer can view the changes they made, but those are never beyond the purely technical.

They have some content restrictions that are very similar to Literotica's; I'd have to check the details again.

I gave up posting there even though I am a Gold member. I find the site too restrictive and they also seemed to play favourites. I'd have a story rejected only to find one very similar to mine accepted and getting accolades.

They also don't seem to understand that punctuation is used a little differently in other countries, heaven forbid you use a semicolon rather than a conjuctive!

One too many directives to use Grammarly from the Moderators broke my back.

Thre is no doubt that Lit is best site for posting stories and receiving feedback.

I won't vote whore but if anyone is interested I have 263 works posted here.

Michele

 

[SimpleEnigma]

Thanks to all who commented. I'm going to try RejectReality's steps and see how efficient it really is.

Is there some protocol for posting stories I publish here on another site as well? Like is it frowned upon to post here and same story on another unrelated forum? I wouldn't think so.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Thanks to all who commented. I'm going to try RejectReality's steps and see how efficient it really is.

Is there some protocol for posting stories I publish here on another site as well? Like is it frowned upon to post here and same story on another unrelated forum? I wouldn't think so.

Keep in mind when editing stories that no-one gets a notification but you. The new text goes into the database, replacing the old, and that's it. Nobody will know but you.

You can post wherever you like - you own the copyright.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Thanks to all who commented. I'm going to try RejectReality's steps and see how efficient it really is.

Is there some protocol for posting stories I publish here on another site as well? Like is it frowned upon to post here and same story on another unrelated forum? I wouldn't think so.

This is fine, unless the other site has rules against it. Literotica is A-OK with cross-posting.

If you're posting under a different author name on the other site, it may be an idea to mention that it's cross-posted, so readers don't get the idea that you're a different person who's ripped off the Literotica author's stories.