chaptering

[still_goin]

Will the editors who review my story break it into appropriate sections? How can i control where the breaks are?
Should I submit continuous chapters separately or together?

 

[snooper]

Will the editors who review my story break it into appropriate sections? How can i control where the breaks are?
Should I submit continuous chapters separately or together?

If you submit a 60k word story to Lit as one lump it will appear as a 15 (or so) fully linked pages story. The page ends will respect your paragraphing, but will be arbitrary with no widowing or orphan control.

If you want the chapters to be separated you have to submit them separately.

 

[Delicious Blonde]

silly newbie quiestion here!

What is widowing and orphan control?

 

[Singularity]

Widows and Orphans...

are the formatting terms for what happens when a paragraph or list would span multiple pages (aka "break in the middle of it").

It is sometimes desirable to force that one paragraph or list be all on one page or the other when publishing something, for ease of reading.

That's not an option when Lit generates the HTML pages. The page breaks fall where they're gonna fall.

Now as for Chapters, there are two things to think about. If your tome is truly long, (more than 2-3 Lit pages, to most people), you might want to break it up into submission-chapters so that there isn't so much to read in one sitting.

Within a given submission, you can still use "chapters" to delineate major action breaks. When I send in stories, I often have named sections for each part of the story, usually at least 1/2 or longer Lit pages in length.

When I send stuff in, I do it as a MS Word attachment. I use "Heading 2s" in the body of the story for the section/chapter titles, and the good elves at Lit translate that into a bold-font title line for each section.

I use both methods. My Beyond the Horizon story is up to Chapter 7 now (7 posted stories) and each one has about 6 or so "section break" titled sub-chapters in it.



Sin.

 

[Delicious Blonde]

oh....

 

[snooper]

Re: silly newbie quiestion here!

What is widowing and orphan control?

Sorry for the delay replying, I've been away.

You can end up with a 3,500 word story on two pages with only the final blank line, or "The End" on the second page, which looks silly. Because the paging is done mechanically there is no way to prevent this, and it is called orphaning.

If you have bold section headings you can have a 2 or more Lit page satory with a section heading as the last line of a page with its content on the next page. This is widowing.

 

[Delicious Blonde]

oooohh... I hate when that happens!