I've been rejected!

[lovecraft68]

Maybe you're right - no one will read the next chapter. Really, though, there is only one way to find out - to publish it.

But I'm not fearful of pissing someone off. Given the reaction here - which isn't what I thought I'd get - I certainly want to see what happens.

And if no one really reads it - so what? I honestly will be surprised if that happens - but again - so what?

While we're on the subject of jr vs. sr. - there is, in Prague, the Old New Synagogue. And apparently there are a lot of books with oddly numbered chapters. Check out the literature section under this:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnusualChapterNumbers

My idea is both stupid - and done before. Oh well.

You're saying so what, but isn't the point of publishing a story here to get as many people to read it as possible? Especially if its a long series and you've put a lot of work into it, don't you want to max the potential readership?

I'm all for trying some different things to try and get a reaction from the reader, but you need readers to do that.

 

[TQM]

You're saying so what, but isn't the point of publishing a story here to get as many people to read it as possible? Especially if its a long series and you've put a lot of work into it, don't you want to max the potential readership?

I'm all for trying some different things to try and get a reaction from the reader, but you need readers to do that.

No. That's definitely not my goal - thank you for asking that though. I'm not against massive numbers reading me.

I have many, many goals with what I write for here.

If I gave thought to my readership, I'd be more concerned about the calibre, not the quantity. I'd rather have a few readers whom I admire sing my praises than a hundred whom I know nothing about.

I tend to look at my results statistically. I actually write to be polarizing - intentionally - getting great and terrible reviews. I like the terrible reviews because of exactly what it is they find terrible. (It's like being criticized for my views on evolution by a creationist - happy to collect that criticism).

I love Lovecraft, by the way.

 

[SisterJezabel]

I can’t understand why this thread is still continuing as it’s obvious the OP is going to go his own merry way whatever anyone says.

Yep! Never argue with an idiot- they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience...

https://media1.tenor.com/images/d84a4367f4357308642dd360d94a068e/tenor.gif?itemid=15116689

 

[BobbyBrandt]

1. Absolutely Chapter numbering is a convention. Kurosawa challenged a convention by telling a story not in linear time. David Pears wrote the Dream of Scipio with correctly numbered chapters, but not in linear time. Both defied convention. My story - is mostly in linear time, with gap times and therefore chapter number gaps too. You can think it is a stupid idea - I won't that point. But it was an attempt at a literary device - and I really don't care if it gets downrated because of the chapter jump. It would actually make me want to do it more frequently. It doesn't harm comprehension in any way. But if an artist wants to use unconventional technique, they can! It doesn't matter to me who the moderator was - I'm not making a personal attack on him/her. I just think it is a wrong decision. Given the gap in time between these chapters - there is a logic to why I did it. And I'm all too happy for someone to actually question it, critique it, or like it! To insist I publish Chapter 2 first, though, makes no sense. Think of it this way - suppose someone writes a story that seems shocking and absurd. Then writes a previous story that starts to explain why the first story characters did what they did. Imagine writing 5 such stories - all of which go back in time and set the scene for what was the first story published. As an artistic endeavour -what would be wrong with that? I think it would be cool.

Walk a mile in Laurel's shoes...

For all the readers of your story who verbally castrate you for your artistic efforts, there would likely be three-times as many complaining to the system admin of Literotica about the missing parts of a story.

Expectations are what they are. We all have to deal with them or face the rejection that results.

Now, if you want to think outside the box (which you should have done before you posted your first chapter of the story), you should have submitted your story in "parts" rather than chapters. Part one could have included chapters one and three so that the readers would understand the gap as your intention rather than a mistake.

If you have your heart set on posting the story with your artistic license fully reflected in it, you might have to resubmit it in a manner such as I suggested.

 

[NoJo]

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Wow e e cummings posts in the AH!

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Warning: Don't feed the trolls.

or should that be...

Trolls the feed Warning: Don't

or...

What the Fuck! Trolls don't need to be fed: gninraW

or...

Once upon a time there was a Warning about Trolls but nobody listened.

 

[TQM]

Walk a mile in Laurel's shoes...

For all the readers of your story who verbally castrate you for your artistic efforts, there would likely be three-times as many complaining to the system admin of Literotica about the missing parts of a story.

Expectations are what they are. We all have to deal with them or face the rejection that results.

Now, if you want to think outside the box (which you should have done before you posted your first chapter of the story), you should have submitted your story in "parts" rather than chapters. Part one could have included chapters one and three so that the readers would understand the gap as your intention rather than a mistake.

If you have your heart set on posting the story with your artistic license fully reflected in it, you might have to resubmit it in a manner such as I suggested.

Thank you for your suggestion. I can understand the limitations of the work involved. I still like the way I did it. And now, it just got published. So I thank the person who now approved it.