Help With Story Category

[carolinahusband]

Hi everyone,

I recently had my first-ever story posted on Literotica and would like your opinion on how to categorize Chapter 2.

Intimate Neighbors Ch. 1 began the intimate relationship of a recently-separated 30-something woman and her college-graduate neighbor. The story can be found by clicking the link below.

http://english.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=282800

My question is: What category should I put Chapter 2 in? I listed Chapter 1 as Mature, due to the age difference. But I'm leaning more toward Erotic Couplings for the next story and would like some opinions from the more-veteran authors.

Thanks for all of your help and I look forward to your comments on Chapter 1 and suggestions for Chapter 2.

Doug (carolinahusband)

 

[JJSMD1]

This won't help, but...

Hi there,

I can't help you since I've only written and submitted one story thus far. However, I'd like to tack my own question onto yours since I have a similar dilemma. Hope you don't mind?

I listed my first story as an "EroticCoupling." Now, I'm thinking about using the same character and writing additional chapters. Is it better to classify each chapter differently based on content, or is the "Novels and Novellas" section better?

Hope we can both get a little advice.

 

[slyc_willie]

Jumping between categories can frustrate some fans of your work, I think. While many authors have done so, based on changes to characters or their relationship, you might lose readers who read Pt. II because it's in Erotic Couplings, but typically do not read Mature-themed tales, so they may not want to go back and look for Pt. I.

if you have a long-running story in mind, I'd suggest picking a 'catch-all' category and posting the whole series together. That's what I'm doing with Pretty Baby, posting all six parts in Novels & Novellas. This way, once a reader finishes with Pt. I, they can conveniently go to Pt. II just by returning to the list on the appropriate N&N page.

Of course, fans of your work can always use the 'Search Stories' function and put in your name, thus getting a convenient list of all your work, but that won't catch initial fans.

I would suggest trying to keep all stories in a series together in the same category, But I haven't been here too long myself. Maybe one of the older members would have more clear advice.

 

[mrbaddaddy]

I often find it difficult to categorize stories, as well. I wish there were a way to put things in multiple cats, but then that would probably confuse things. I also wish LIT would make better use of tags, but who am I to complain?

 

[cawastedyouth]

My two cents...

I've done the multi-category across a multi-post story and I can tell you the readers in certain categories are really often dedicated readers. You will get different feedback for your story than if you stay in one category.