Chapters

[s0m30n3]

I’m being dumb, I’m certain of it, but if I wanted to start a multi-chapter story on Literotica do I need to do anything other than simply add ‘Ch. 01’ or whatever to the end of the title each time? Or is there some behind-the-scenes thing to mark them as parts of a single story?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

If it’s all submitted at once, as one piece, that’s it. If on the other hand, you are planning to add one chapter at a time, then you probably want to have a central title with chapter numbers, eg. “A Bride’s Delight, Ch 3.” They will be listed sequentially.

 

[Hypoxia]

Stories are listed alphanumerically by title and are not sorted by submission date. So you could post the following stories in any order, and they'd be grouped together like this:

Ample Sex: Big Balls
Ample Sex: Doggy-Style
Ample Sex: Huge ch.1
Ample Sex: Huge ch.2
Ample Sex: Huge ch.3
Ample Sex: Juicy​

Meanwhile, some hints.

• Multi-chapter series tend to lose readers with each chapter but can retain a hardcore of followers over dozens or hundreds of chapters.
• Each chapter should ideally be a contained unit.
• A short set of chapters might do better as a single longer submission -- that's required of contest entries.
• Keep in mind that a LIT page is ~3750 words, that one-page stories often don't do well, that 3 LIT pages (~11k words) is a common submission length, but you'll likely get good scores with 8-10 page stories because only those who like your work will stick to the end and vote.
• Unless your story is endless, it's best to finish it and post all its chapters sequentially.

Have fun here.

 

[amofiga]

I just posted a nine chapter story and have also done other stories of 6-7 chapters. I generally do the entire story first in MS Word. I can take my time to edit and rewrite. The individual chapters will carry "MAIN TITLE: Chapter 1" or "MAIN TITLE: Chapter 2" and also have a sub-title for that individual chapter just to give some indication of it's content and progression to the total story. Then I submit all chapters in succession to the "Novels and Novellas" section. I have noticed though that even though I may submit multiple chapters on the same day, Lit seems to dole them out one chapter a day.