Chapters in stories.

[SexyX]

If my story has a few chapters do I need to post them as seperate stories or is there some way to add a chapter on to the original story part? Thanks in advance for helping me! (I have never posted on here before. Obviously.)

 

[Weird Harold]

If my story has a few chapters do I need to post them as seperate stories or is there some way to add a chapter on to the original story part? Thanks in advance for helping me! (I have never posted on here before. Obviously.)

Lit doesn't provide for a click-through/Next Chapter kind of linkage, each posting is independent of all of your other postings.

The normal method is to identify the chapters in the title.

 

[MrsDeathlynx]

If my story has a few chapters do I need to post them as seperate stories or is there some way to add a chapter on to the original story part? Thanks in advance for helping me! (I have never posted on here before. Obviously.)

I would suggest submitting them as seperate pieces, titling them the same thing only adding Chapter X (with X being the appropriate chapter number). This way anyone looking at your profile for your stories will see it and know. That and it leaves readers wanting more, not to mention at the same time keeps interest because they may be too long as one story.

 

[S-Des]

I would suggest submitting them as seperate pieces, titling them the same thing only adding Chapter X (with X being the appropriate chapter number). This way anyone looking at your profile for your stories will see it and know. That and it leaves readers wanting more, not to mention at the same time keeps interest because they may be too long as one story.

I agree with this. Make sure to make the titles identical and use the same format for the chapters so there's not chance that someone else could submit an identical story name and wind up with theirs in the middle of your chapters. The only thing is, don't forget to put Ch 1 in the first submission. I did that once and got a couple of complaints because people assumed I was just going to leave the story hanging.

 

[oggbashan]

If you expect to write more than ten chapters, start the numbering with Chapter 01, not Chapter 1, unless you intend more than one hundred chapters, in which case Chapter 001 is the appropriate starting point.

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[3113]

If you expect to write more than ten chapters, start the numbering with Chapter 01, not Chapter 1, unless you intend more than one hundred chapters, in which case Chapter 001 is the appropriate starting point.

Um...I think that would warn me off a story. As one lit page is about 10 regular pages, that would be 1000 or more page read! I've read books that long and longer, but rarely at a computer, going through a page a day (or week), with the story going on and on and on....

I think I'd pass on that.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Um...I think that would warn me off a story. As one lit page is about 10 regular pages, that would be 1000 or more page read! I've read books that long and longer, but rarely at a computer, going through a page a day (or week), with the story going on and on and on....

I think I'd pass on that.

Each chapter doesn't have to be much more than 750 words, which means that the 100-chapter epic could have a little over 75000, which is a normal-sized novel. 75000 words would mean a little over 20 Lit pages.

 

[Weird Harold]

I've read books that long and longer, but rarely at a computer, going through a page a day (or week), with the story going on and on and on....

Some of the most profitable -- and enduring -- examples of the storytellers' art are soap operas, comic strips, and "never-ending" book series.

It would be nice to know, by the promise of 998 more chapters implicit in numbering the first "001," that a story is going to involve some long-term investment of time and that it is unlike to come to any sort of resolution.

 

[oggbashan]

Most of the Top voted stories on Literotica are chapters of longer works.

After a short trawl of the Top Lists, I didn't find any with more than 100 chapters. Perhaps I should see that as a challenge?

Og