William_Wood
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I'm working on a story that is currently 42,000 words and I think it will get to about 50,000 by the time it's done. That's probably 13-15 pages on literotica site.
Most stories I see even ones split into parts are only 2-4 pages, but I've also read that there is no imposed limit.
Personally when I'm looking at new stories to read I feel intimated by "seducing the busboy Part 17". I'm like, holey moley I'm not committing to 17 chapters, even if it has HOT rating! On the other hand if I want a quick read and I click on something that is NOT part of a series, only to find after 10 mins that it's actually 15 pages long, I might be disappointed about that too.
Aside from how many pages is appropriate for a single submission, what other strategies are best for reader's enjoyment?
Do readers like to, oh I dunno, accompany their reading with some other stimulation and try to time that to finish at about the time they can see that the story will end (maybe this is just me)? Meaning the author would be kind to finish their chapter on the completion of a sexy scene? That would be hard for my particular story as there is a long build up and no 'half time show' to look forward to.
Or is it more important to keep the multiple parts roughly the same length?
Or, is the whole point of splitting into installments so that you can get your story out there and get feedback even though you might only be 20% into your grand plan? That's not really me in this case, my story is structured as a singular read and I would post all the parts at once so that people don't need to wait. Does that mean I should just make it one big submission? Even though that might be 15 pages?
Another consideration is tags. For a multi-part story there might be different themes from one chapter to the next, and the author can tag each installment according to it's specific content. For me, the tags would be much the same no matter how I split it (the back end will have more actual sex tags, but the whole thing has certain fetish tags).
Where I'm at is, I think it would be rude to post 15 pages as a single submission, so I want to split it 'half way through', at an interesting point with a bit of a cliffhanger. Maybe 7 pages for part I and 8 pages for part II. But, is that still just way too long for a single installment?
Most stories I see even ones split into parts are only 2-4 pages, but I've also read that there is no imposed limit.
Personally when I'm looking at new stories to read I feel intimated by "seducing the busboy Part 17". I'm like, holey moley I'm not committing to 17 chapters, even if it has HOT rating! On the other hand if I want a quick read and I click on something that is NOT part of a series, only to find after 10 mins that it's actually 15 pages long, I might be disappointed about that too.
Aside from how many pages is appropriate for a single submission, what other strategies are best for reader's enjoyment?
Do readers like to, oh I dunno, accompany their reading with some other stimulation and try to time that to finish at about the time they can see that the story will end (maybe this is just me)? Meaning the author would be kind to finish their chapter on the completion of a sexy scene? That would be hard for my particular story as there is a long build up and no 'half time show' to look forward to.
Or is it more important to keep the multiple parts roughly the same length?
Or, is the whole point of splitting into installments so that you can get your story out there and get feedback even though you might only be 20% into your grand plan? That's not really me in this case, my story is structured as a singular read and I would post all the parts at once so that people don't need to wait. Does that mean I should just make it one big submission? Even though that might be 15 pages?
Another consideration is tags. For a multi-part story there might be different themes from one chapter to the next, and the author can tag each installment according to it's specific content. For me, the tags would be much the same no matter how I split it (the back end will have more actual sex tags, but the whole thing has certain fetish tags).
Where I'm at is, I think it would be rude to post 15 pages as a single submission, so I want to split it 'half way through', at an interesting point with a bit of a cliffhanger. Maybe 7 pages for part I and 8 pages for part II. But, is that still just way too long for a single installment?
