A Question on Posting a Series

[MinusThree]

I have a story in ten parts that I posted on another site that I wish to post on Literotica. In the opinion of the volunteer editors; would it be better to post it here in its ten parts, or to post it as one very long story?

Thanks in advance.

 

[PennLady]

I have a story in ten parts that I posted on another site that I wish to post on Literotica. In the opinion of the volunteer editors; would it be better to post it here in its ten parts, or to post it as one very long story?

Thanks in advance.

Personally, I'd prefer to see it post in parts on a regular basis. I'm not sure how long it is, but I wouldn't have time to sit and read even a 10-lit-page story all at once.

I try to keep my postings to 3-4 screen pages, or about 10k words.

 

[MinusThree]

That's what I suspected, and so it's what I'll do. It's very long all at once, so one post would be tedious regardless of quality.

There is a fair amount of formatting; italics, bold, etc. When it lands as a submission as a Word document, what is preferable? Currently the tags are all there in the right place...it is not simply bolded and such with Word's functionality as the site it was posted to would have lost that formatting.

Is Literotica the same in its needs for formatting?

Thanks again.

 

[sr71plt]

I'd give serious thought to getting rid of the bold and the "etc." coding. There's rarely any need for any coding except for italics in the Literotica file (or anywhere else in the publishing world in the author's input). Since it's nonstandard, it becomes distracting to the reader rather than any sort of help.

And as far as formatting, single spaced with an extra line feed between paragraphs and * * * * between sections, everything flush left is pretty much the edge of standard and system tolerable here.

You are not designing a book here.

 

[MinusThree]

I'd give serious thought to getting rid of the bold and the "etc." coding. There's rarely any need for any coding except for italics in the Literotica file (or anywhere else in the publishing world in the author's input). Since it's nonstandard, it becomes distracting to the reader rather than any sort of help.

And as far as formatting, single spaced with an extra line feed between paragraphs and * * * * between sections, everything flush left is pretty much the edge of standard and system tolerable here.

You are not designing a book here.

Thank you. Luckily that is how it is formatted already. The bold is only for a header at the beginning of each section, and the "etc" is just that header underlined. There is no more than italics in some places in the rest of the body of the text.

 

[PennLady]

I have to agree with SR on the formatting. Simpler is better. I looked for a FAQ on formatting but didn't see one. But as I said, SR's got it: Single spaced paragraphs with an extra feed between them. There's also rarely a need for bolding text, so italics is all you should need. Flush left text, and some kind of separator. I gather "* * * *" is a standard, although I myself use x-x-x-x and as long as there's something to separate scenes, I don't care what it is.

You can copy the text into the submission box, and if you do, use HTML tags <i>word</i> for italics. Otherwise, I believe it will take longer for your submission to appear as a person will need to go through and make sure the text is properly formatted.

 

[MinusThree]

...use HTML tags <i>word</i> for italics. Otherwise, I believe it will take longer for your submission to appear as a person will need to go through and make sure the text is properly formatted.

Well, phew. That's how it's formatted in this regard as well.

Thanks for your help, both of you.

 

[sr71plt]

Thank you. Luckily that is how it is formatted already. The bold is only for a header at the beginning of each section, and the "etc" is just that header underlined. There is no more than italics in some places in the rest of the body of the text.

That's the one instance I can think of for bolding (although FULL CAPS would work just as well for Lit.). I wouldn't bother trying to underline.

The reading look here is set for as litle fussiest as possible. Which means that those who try to be fussy will sacrifice reader attention to the text.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

... I looked for a FAQ on formatting but didn't see one. ...

There are, however, three useful "How to" postings:

Submitting Literotica for Beginners by s53mith;

Bold or Italic? by Alex De Kok;

and finally the invaluable Testing Story Formatting by Weird Harold (who really knows).

As to the question of simplicity, it is your story and you should submit it as you want it to look. These facilities are available and so you use them (or not) according to your own personal tastes. Some people use them a lot, others never, but I would never suggest that one author's predilections are superior to another's.