Editing after Live on Site

[KikiKisses]

Hey all,

I know you can edit once you hit “publish“ and it puts it back at the end of the queue. Is it possible to edit a story that has gone live? I have not figured out a way to do that.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Hey all,

I know you can edit once you hit “publish“ and it puts it back at the end of the queue. Is it possible to edit a story that has gone live? I have not figured out a way to do that.

You can't edit yourself, once a story is published. You have to resubmit the story with the corrected text and the word EDIT in the story title, then wait several weeks. Edits are low priority for the site.

The onus is on authors to submit the best possible copy, first time.

If it's minor typos, don't bother. We all have those.

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

It’s addressed in the FAQ. https://www.literotica.com/faq/publishing/editing-published-work

 

[SkyBubble]

I know you can edit once you hit “publish“ and it puts it back at the end of the queue. Is it possible to edit a story that has gone live? I have not figured out a way to do that.

Yes. Submit New Story. Then copy the text into the submission box, make the edits, make sure you put in the title and the word EDITED or as much of it as you can fit. For example, if your story is titled "An Erotic Story," you would submit with the title "An Erotic Story EDITED" and the edited text in the box.

If you're not editing the story text but want to change the tags or clean up typos, it's probably not absolutely necessary but wise to include a note to Laurel saying "Fixing typos."

 

[SkyBubble]

If it's minor typos, don't bother. We all have those.

I found a spot in one of my stories where I forgot to close quotes. Oops.

 

[KikiKisses]

Yes. Submit New Story. Then copy the text into the submission box, make the edits, make sure you put in the title and the word EDITED or as much of it as you can fit. For example, if your story is titled "An Erotic Story," you would submit with the title "An Erotic Story EDITED" and the edited text in the box.

If you're not editing the story text but want to change the tags or clean up typos, it's probably not absolutely necessary but wise to include a note to Laurel saying "Fixing typos."

I’m not bothering to cleanup typos. I have gone over my manuscript so many times and I still find them! But I see other people have them too.

I would like to change the titles of mine. I have them all titled, (chapter 1, chapter 2) because I was trying to create a manual series and I didn’t know how it worked.

So now every time I submit something it turns it into a series called “chapter.” I delete that but my actual series is sitting there in moderation. It won’t be obvious because that’s not how the format works here.

 

[SkyBubble]

Once it's published, you can write to Laurel and request a title change.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I’m not bothering to cleanup typos. I have gone over my manuscript so many times and I still find them! But I see other people have them too.

I would like to change the titles of mine. I have them all titled, (chapter 1, chapter 2) because I was trying to create a manual series and I didn’t know how it worked.

So now every time I submit something it turns it into a series called “chapter.” I delete that but my actual series is sitting there in moderation. It won’t be obvious because that’s not how the format works here.

The only way you're going to get the titles changed is to submit an Edit for every chapter and explain your problem to Laurel in the Notes to the Editor.

I'd do them all at the same time so she gets them in one lot. I'm afraid you'll probably have to wait a while, but I don't think there's any other way to solve your problem. Edits are the best way to get something in front of Laurel. The alternative is to Delete and start all over again, but that would take even longer, I reckon.

 

[KikiKisses]

Thank you! Sound advice!

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

If you go and edit the story by adding EDIT to the title, do they remove it from the title once the edit is complete? Like, if I want to add a link to another story into an already publishehd one, but nothing else is changing, will the story title always have EDIT in it now?

 

[iwatchus]

If you go and edit the story by adding EDIT to the title, do they remove it from the title once the edit is complete? Like, if I want to add a link to another story into an already publishehd one, but nothing else is changing, will the story title always have EDIT in it now?

Yes, the story keeps its title. The EDIT is just for them to not create a new story (including the word EDIT).