how to publish my story as a 'series'

[posingstrap1]

I have a story ready to go in six parts. Please help me understand how I submit it as a series.
Thank you.

 

[Yesok1]

Hi,

If you go to your person icon on the top right. A menu appears and there will be an option for series. Click it.

On the top there will be a box that says create series.

Click that.

 

[StillStunned]

All you need to know is here: https://www.literotica.com/faq/series

But essentially, if you add "Ch. 1" or "Part 1" or something in your title, the system will automatically create a series. You can do it manually too - see the FAQ for that.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Two options:

If you are OK with the format “My Story Ch. 01” “My Story Ch. 02” and so on, then just submit six stories and Lit will sort it out for you. Probably posting one a day for six days.

Or you can create a manual series and associate each chapter with that as you go. But manual series can take a week or more to get approved (and you’ll need to get the first chapter published before it goes live).

Emily

 

[EmilyMiller]

Two options:

If you are OK with the format “My Story Ch. 01” “My Story Ch. 02” and so on, then just submit six stories and Lit will sort it out for you. Probably posting one a day for six days.

Or you can create a manual series and associate each chapter with that as you go. But manual series can take a week or more to get approved (and you’ll need to get the first chapter published before it goes live).

Emily

This is a manual series:

https://www.literotica.com/series/se/a-good-girl-gone-bad

Emily

 

[Yesok1]

As they said.

 

[StillStunned]

This is a manual series:

https://www.literotica.com/series/se/a-good-girl-gone-bad

Emily

Or this: https://www.literotica.com/series/se/my-little-sister-sal

 

[EmilyMiller]

Or this: https://www.literotica.com/series/se/my-little-sister-sal

@posingstrap1 as you can see, the main advantage is that you can call the chapters what you like.

Also - I think - you can add cover art to a manual series. Not sure whether you can to an automatic one. Maybe someone else knows.

Emily

 

[posingstrap1]

Hi,

If you go to your person icon on the top right. A menu appears and there will be an option for series. Click it.

On the top there will be a box that says create series.

Click that.

You're the best--thank you!

 

[ElectricBlue]

I have a story ready to go in six parts. Please help me understand how I submit it as a series.
Thank you.

The system does it automatically, provided you do your chapter titles like this:

Story Title
Story Title Ch.02
Story Title Ch.03

Ch.01 is optional for the first one. The coding picks up on the identical text in the title, as soon as you publish the second chapter, then sorts alpha-numerically.

This also works:

Story Title - Annie
Story Title - Beth
Story Title - Charlie

To do a Series manually, you must have at least two chapters published. It's easiest to let the site do it automatically.

 

[EmilyMiller]

To do a Series manually, you must have at least two chapters published. It's easiest to let the site do it automatically.

I’m pretty sure that I’ve had a manual series approved with just the first work published.

Emily

 

[Yesok1]

I’m pretty sure that I’ve had a manual series approved with just the first work published.

Emily

Yes, I think you are right @EmilyMiller

 

[StillStunned]

You can create a series before you even add any stories. I just did it for The Dome.

 

[EmilyMiller]

You can create a series before you even add any stories. I just did it for The Dome.

Yeah. But I’ve always written at least chapter one before the series got approved

Emily

 

[StillStunned]

Yeah. But I’ve always written at least chapter one before the series got approved

Emily

That does make sense.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Just checked and you can add cover art to an automatic series. So the benefit of manual is purely having control over the titles without having to include the same text in each. As per:

https://www.literotica.com/series/se/coleoidphilia

Emily

 

[Duleigh]

The system does it automatically, provided you do your chapter titles like this:

Story Title
Story Title Ch.02
Story Title Ch.03

Ch.01 is optional for the first one. The coding picks up on the identical text in the title, as soon as you publish the second chapter, then sorts alpha-numerically.

This also works:

Story Title - Annie
Story Title - Beth
Story Title - Charlie

To do a Series manually, you must have at least two chapters published. It's easiest to let the site do it automatically.

The second option never worked for me, Laurel's machine tried to assign chapter numbers

 

[Duleigh]

I have a story ready to go in six parts. Please help me understand how I submit it as a series.
Thank you.

Check this out, it's a combination of Numbered chapters and side stories that fit in between the numbered chapters, We're a Wonderful Wife. Once you get your auto series up and running it's something you can do manually

Another cool thing is when you get your series created, it re-orders the stories on your Stories/Poems page of your profile to match your series. Because I like to write in 'universes' I have created several series to get that order on my profile page.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I’m pretty sure that I’ve had a manual series approved with just the first work published.

Emily

How can it be a Series with only one chapter, though? There's nothing to join It up to yet.

I guess that's a technicality. You could always set up the overall Series Title before publishing chapter two. I personally wouldn't bother, not when the site does it for you. I've been caught out by compilation mistakes where the coding has fallen over, so I err on the side of simplicity these days. The software ain't always clever.

Having said that, for unalike titled stories, the Series function is really useful for clustering content together. I've got two Series running where I do that, but I always get the separate elements published first.

 

[ElectricBlue]

The second option never worked for me, Laurel's machine tried to assign chapter numbers

That's odd. I've got several Series where I do that - mind you, they've all been manually constructed, but with no chapter numbers.

 

[EmilyMiller]

How can it be a Series with only one chapter, though? There's nothing to join It up to yet.

A series PAGE

I guess that's a technicality.

Ya think ?

You could always set up the overall Series Title before publishing chapter two. I personally wouldn't bother, not when the site does it for you. I've been caught out by compilation mistakes where the coding has fallen over, so I err on the side of simplicity these days. The software ain't always clever.

I use series for things other than what they are intended for (as well as exactly what they are intended for). E.g. all my 750 word stories are in a series.

Having said that, for unalike titled stories, the Series function is really useful for clustering content together. I've got two Series running where I do that, but I always get the separate elements published first.

I do it in parallel, mostly as there is such a lag in getting the series page approved.

Emily

 

[Dark_Logan_]

To confirm Miss Millers post a Series Page can be set up on first chapter. (there can sometimes be a delay with Series verification/being set live - not really sure why this is so)

Message to the OP - don’t forget to tag any future submissions against a series.

Might just be me, but on first submission of a story this is never possible and is a field that only appears by taking a submission back from submitted to pending and then resubmitting having picked the relevant series title.

Guessing this is glitch.

Assuming like all the other known glitches around here this has already been flagged and is being worked on.

 

[Duleigh]

That's odd. I've got several Series where I do that - mind you, they've all been manually constructed, but with no chapter numbers.

I have one automatically built series, the other six I created manually. Enchantress I wanted the stories numbered but also with a title like Enchantress 7 - The Royal Family and every time Laurel's machine would try to change it to a chapter name like Enchantress CH 07. I had to put a message in Notes to Admin to leave the title alone and Laurel did... six out of eight times.

 

[StillStunned]

I use series for things other than what they are intended for (as well as exactly what they are intended for). E.g. all my 750 word stories are in a series.

Or this: One-Off Artsy Stuff

 

[Shiyar]

I'd like to suggest this thread or some blurb about "If you want to post a multi-chapter story, read this" be added to the FAQ on publishing.

When I submitted my 1st story about a month ago I read the FAQ but saw no mention of multiple chapters or series in the FAQ for publishing. So I thought when I was ready to post chapter 2, I would have options to add it to the first chapter. And I found out the hard way I was wrong and now I wait to see if the story can be manually switched to a series.