Nuts & Bolts of Collaborative Submission?

[Quinn_McMullen]

I hate starting a new thread, but I haven't been able to find the answer elsewhere in these forums.

SO I have a collaborator for a story, so that isn't an issue. But we have questions on nearly all other aspects. How does the nuts and bolts of submission work when there are two authors? Do we both submit? Does one submit, but the story shows up in both authors' stories/poems? Does just one author get credit for it?

Thanks for tolerating newbie questions.

 

[KeithD]

My collaborator, Sabb, and I post our collaborations under a combined account, Shabbu. Simple. We both have access just by both knowing the account keyword. The profile identifies who the collaborators are.

 

[Rustyoznail]

There were a few answers in the Coffee Shop but they've all gone in the Great Post Wipeout of Last Night.

Keith and Sabb's idea is the cleanest. You can't split a full story between two authors. I did see one post where one author posted one half and linked to the back half in the other author's account. (I think...) That seems messy to me.

I've just linked to the other author in my preface. She's happy with that.

Good luck!

 

[PennameWombat]

I hate starting a new thread, but I haven't been able to find the answer elsewhere in these forums.

SO I have a collaborator for a story, so that isn't an issue. But we have questions on nearly all other aspects. How does the nuts and bolts of submission work when there are two authors? Do we both submit? Does one submit, but the story shows up in both authors' stories/poems? Does just one author get credit for it?

Thanks for tolerating newbie questions.

My collaborator, Sabb, and I post our collaborations under a combined account, Shabbu. Simple. We both have access just by both knowing the account keyword. The profile identifies who the collaborators are.

What Keith said. So far as I've ever found, the site has a 1-to-1 connection between a story and a single author. There is no capability for "co-author" or for "written by Bob and Fergal."

Set up a joint account you can both access and you can reference your individual accounts from the biography page or as author's notes in each story. Post your individual works under your own accounts and joint works under the third account.

I've never done a full collaboration, I've taken idea suggestions and written stories. But in those I simply thanked the source in my author's notes in the story as they weren't full collaborations.

 

[Quinn_McMullen]

Thank you! A third account sounds like a perfect solution.

 

[ElectricBlue]

There were a few answers in the Coffee Shop but they've all gone in the Great Post Wipeout of Last Night.

Keith and Sabb's idea is the cleanest. You can't split a full story between two authors. I did see one post where one author posted one half and linked to the back half in the other author's account. (I think...) That seems messy to me.

Yes you can, and no, it's not messy. It works, and taps in on traffic coming from both accounts - I've done it several times with different authors.

Decide whose account the complete story will run in (depends on category, existing follower counts, story theme, etc.) - but decide, Account A.

Then prepare an intro, say the first thousand words or so, with text at the end that can be linked to the full story. This goes up in Account B.

Coordinate the two submissions with Laurel, ask her to join up the links - this was her advice, by the way.

Doing it this way streams in traffic from both existing accounts, whereas with a new, separate joint account, no-one knows who you are until you've built up a (new) following. It works for KeithD, but he writes far more content than me; so for the occasional collaboration, I think my way works just as well, since you get feeds from both lots of followers.

For an example:

https://www.literotica.com/s/the-floating-world-transgendence

 

[LAHomedog]

I've done it two ways: I wrote a collaborative story and after it was finished, we both made a few key agreed to changes to the ending and posted separately.

I now have a regular writing partner Eva_Adams and we have our own page together and do it like Keith said.

 

[HeyAll]

What I do is, I submit it under my account, but I link to the other person's profile so they get new readers.

 

[Nouh_Bdee]

I've just linked to the other author in my preface. She's happy with that.

Actually, with a link? Like, click to navigate and everything? How do you do that?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Actually, with a link? Like, click to navigate and everything? How do you do that?

See my example in Post #6 - click into the story then scroll to the bottom of the page.

I've got examples of the html code laid out in raw text (i can PM it, if you like), but in this example, I wrote the words and Laurel laid in the hyperlinks (several).

 

[Rustyoznail]

Actually, with a link? Like, click to navigate and everything? How do you do that?

I just copied the link to her page into the preface. No tricks. I assume Laurel converted it to a clickable link.