Submitting same story to other sites

Do you writers do it?

Now that I've started writing again after quite a few years, I feel that I'm having to rediscover how to write.
I have 3.2 stories published here and even I can see that there's quite a bit of improvement from my first story to the latest.

I'm interested in receiving as much feedback as I can and in order to do that, I need as many eyeballs on my works as I can get.

Would it be ok for me to submit the same stories to other sites.There would be reader overlap, but I'm looking to get more comments so that I can improve my writing.

They're your stories. Do whatever you want to do. The Lit arrangement is not exclusive.

The other benefit is having options. Every site has its own rules and readership preferences. Cultivating options means that you don't have to make your ideas fit into a single box. Run with your idea, and home it where it's the best ( or only ) fit.

I'm on three sites and almost everything is cross-posted to all three, but a few only make it to two, or one.

Yes, as long as the sites you are posting to are publishing on nonexclusive use rights (as most do and as Literotica does), you are free to post and repost your stories wherever you like. I post everything to multiple sites.

Just be aware that if you post to different sites under different account names, you may have readers claiming you're stealing and reposting stories. I have the issue occasionally because, when I first opened a Literotica account, it wouldn't give me the account name I already was using elsewhere.

KeithD said:

Yes, as long as the sites you are posting to are publishing on nonexclusive use rights (as most do and as Literotica does), you are free to post and repost your stories wherever you like. I post everything to multiple sites.

Just be aware that if you post to different sites under different account names, you may have readers claiming you're stealing and reposting stories. I have the issue occasionally because, when I first opened a Literotica account, it wouldn't give me the account name I already was using elsewhere.

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True that. One of the sites where I post only allows one pen name, and they have a large team of moderators — some of whom do plagiarism checks before approving work. I've been asked a couple of times about stories posted there from my other pen names.

It's helpful to have some sort of central location where you announce or catalog all your work. I have my website, but a Twitter account, blog, or anything where you can demonstrate that the pen name you're using on the other site actually belongs to you can all serve that purpose.

If you don't have anything like that, then point whoever is asking to your contact page here on Lit ( or wherever ) so you can validate your ownership of the pen name that way.

It won't stop the accusations from readers, but you can at least respond with the means to prove your identity after the fact, to reassure anyone who sees a public comment afterwards.

Listing alternate pen names in your bio isn't a bad idea either.

RejectReality said:

True that. One of the sites where I post only allows one pen name, and they have a large team of moderators — some of whom do plagiarism checks before approving work. I've been asked a couple of times about stories posted there from my other pen names.

It's helpful to have some sort of central location where you announce or catalog all your work. I have my website, but a Twitter account, blog, or anything where you can demonstrate that the pen name you're using on the other site actually belongs to you can all serve that purpose.

If you don't have anything like that, then point whoever is asking to your contact page here on Lit ( or wherever ) so you can validate your ownership of the pen name that way.

It won't stop the accusations from readers, but you can at least respond with the means to prove your identity after the fact, to reassure anyone who sees a public comment afterwards.

Listing alternate pen names in your bio isn't a bad idea either.

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I'll just use the same pen name.. I guess that would solve the problem, and I don't mind using the same name. Unless there are pitfalls to that I'm unaware of

sporkfina said:

I'll just use the same pen name.. I guess that would solve the problem, and I don't mind using the same name. Unless there are pitfalls to that I'm unaware of

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Probably not much problem for you. Your name is hardly common.

Something like this name is a little more difficult. My other two pen names, not so much. I've never had any trouble getting them through anywhere.

So long as the same pen name is available, you shouldn't get much in the way of accusation. Posting to multiple sites is common enough that most readers don't bat an eyelash when they see an author venture into a new site with the same pen name, posting the same stories.

None of the free text erotica sites that I know of require exclusivity, so there's no barrier there either. Read those terms and conditions, though.

Never hurts to get the lay of the land of a new site. Look into the categories ( or similar keywords if it's keyword based navigation ) where your stories will probably go, look at public comments, and see if there are any pitfalls you should be aware of. If you're going to get backlash, you might want to skip that site with that story. Or at the very least, you'll be expecting it, and it won't be a shock.
That's what I was talking about with options. Site rules and readership preferences are both things I consider when deciding where to home a new story.

Thank RR.. that cleared up everything!

To add to all said above: it's worth posting on other sites to get perspective from different audiences.

I re-post most of my stories on one other popular site that begins with "L". It doesn't have even half the readership of Lit. It's only worth the bother because reader reactions are very different.

Readers there sees to be mostly from the UK and shorter works are preferred. Lit readers seem to be majority US and prefer longer works. Comments on the other site have been very insightful, and overall quite different what the same stories received on Lit.

The exact same story that's a rollicking hit here sometimes gets yawns on the other, and vice versa. When a story is a hit on both I know I've got something with broader appeal.