I have some questions about a story I wrote

[Route66Girl]

Hi everybody! I thought the Editor's Forum might be a good place to ask about this story I've written. This would be my first submission to Literotica. I checked out the Guidelines for submitting stories and they didn't cover my questions.

Maybe this isn't the right discussion category, since I'm pretty sure I don't need a full edit. I'm confident about my spelling and grammar, although I would really consider running it by somebody who is good with the flow of storytelling. But I digress...

I have a 16-page (according to my Word Program) story that would probably go well under the "Sci-Fi/Fantasy" (or maybe romance?) category but I'm not sure how it's going to work with its length and structure.

Is it up to me to divide and submit it in chapters or does Literotica automatically do that with longer stories? I ask this because all the longer stories I've personally seen here are divided into chapters. If Literotica doesn't automatically do this, is it advisable to divide a story of this length into chapters? I should note that the first 11-12 pages are "clean" reading, I guess you could say. Nothing really erotic gets going until later in the story, but I think the first 11 pages are an entertaining read nonetheless. (of course! I wrote it! ) So if I did submit it in chapters, would the first few chapters have to be in the "non-erotic" section?

Also, when you completely destroy a mythic Celtic figure and tweak it for your own purposes, as well as a modern-day festival commonly held in the UK, do you have to include a disclaimer? (Ridley Scott didn't!)

Thanks for any replies or suggestions!

 

[Weird Harold]

I have a 16-page (according to my Word Program) story that would probably go well under the "Sci-Fi/Fantasy" (or maybe romance?) category but I'm not sure how it's going to work with its length and structure.

Is it up to me to divide and submit it in chapters or does Literotica automatically do that with longer stories?

The scripts that format the stories divide the longer ones into "pages" of about 3500-4000 words each if they are submited as a single story. If you want it broken into chapters, you need to submit each chapter separately. If the first couple of chapters don't contain any sex, but are part of a longer Scifi story, I'd submit everything in the Scifi category.

Sixteen pages is not a very long story, actually -- although it's much longer thanmost stories here at Lit. I'd submit it in one piece and let the scripts break it into pages as required. (I'd guess that 16 pages in Word will be about 3.5 - 4.5 HTML pages on Lit.)

 

[MaxSebastian]

Also, when you completely destroy a mythic Celtic figure and tweak it for your own purposes, as well as a modern-day festival commonly held in the UK, do you have to include a disclaimer? (Ridley Scott didn't!)

You can do whatever you want with a mythic Celtic figure in a story - what you have to be careful about is using copyrighted characters created by other authors, or real-life people who might sue for liable (though if you look in the Celebrities stories here, there is a suitable legal loophole for that eventually). A modern-day festival like Glastonbury, for example, can be taken wherever you want, too. Heck, it's art!


p.s. Ridley Scott destroyed a mythic Celtic figure and a modern-day festival commonly held in the UK? Does the man have any free time?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

"The scripts that format the stories divide the longer ones into "pages" of about 3500-4000 words each if they are submited as a single story."

As is usually the case, the Weird one has the right answer (see above), and in this case it matches up nicely with your question about submissions.

However, let me give you a warning. The preview screen "lies." It will/can display no more than two pages/sections of your story. This can confuse first time posters who sometimes think they must break their story into separate submission.

Maybe some fine day, a notice will be included to inform the new and naive. Until then, consider it the Literotica submissions initiation ceremony.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Route66Girl]

Thanks fellas

Harold- Thanks for the suggestions and info. Most appreciated! When I finish polishing up the final draft, I'll submit it as one story without the chapters, as you suggested.

Rumple- You've spared me some hair-pulling frustration with that tidbit! Thank you SO much. That was definitely good to know.

Max- LOL, no- no theft of some other author's characters going on. Plagarism bites! However, the main character is based the same archetypal figure Ridley Scott used in one of his less-celebrated films. He shredded the mythology of the actual figure as completely as I did!