Info-dump

[gunhilltrain]

Not yet. I have a week of downtime coming up and hope to finish/polish enough that I can start putting up things, somewhere this month (cross my fingers and hope to die - yeah I know, mixed up proverbs).

Rustyoznail advised me to put it into "First time" which would work for the first few chapters or so, but things will go beyond that after.

And don't worry, it's quite wholesome. Any kind of kinks are quite tame. While I like deviant degeneracy as an idea,I often care too much about my characters to let them slide too quickly into degeneracy.

Well, it can't be too wholesome if it's on Lit! So are you were going to put up just one chapter to start? That's a common issue: the first chapter will likely be in First Time" because, well, it's often about a young couple meeting. There is a school of thought here that every chapter in a series should be in the same category, but I've never been able to pull that off.

 

[Rustyoznail]

My reasoning is that each of the early chapters introduces something new for the MC. Obviously, the next time it's not, but if it was a stand alone story it would definitely be FT.

 

[Bubo_bubo]

My reasoning is that each of the early chapters introduces something new for the MC. Obviously, the next time it's not, but if it was a stand alone story it would definitely be FT.

I totally understand your reasoning. I just hope a category switch when the story moves beyond first time events won't be a problem.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I totally understand your reasoning. I just hope a category switch when the story moves beyond first time events won't be a problem.

In my experience, the readers will accept the change in categories without much of a problem. I had a series containing four different categories because it seemed I had to do it that way. Sometimes there will there will be a series an over-arching theme (Gay Male, or BDSM, or whatever) that will work with a single category for everything.

 

[thomas1965]

In my experience, the readers will accept the change in categories without much of a problem.

If they actually notice it. The category is in very small print. The only problem I could imagine is that they might not find it, because they only look in the same category.

 

[Athalia]

Relax. I promise I won't write it.

Thank you. That was one story I might have declined to edit.

On the subject, I am not fan of info-dumps, and consider them one of the first things to get the axe when paring down a story. OTOH, some information is necessary. If I get four paragraphs without knowing the MC's sex or marital status, I begin to wonder if I'm in the wrong room.