Link in story to another existing story?

[JayZip]

Hi all. This is a double-post of something I asked in the Lit Tech Support forum. So if this post is bad form, please go ahead and delete or ignore or whatever.

Question:

If I'm writing another in the near-infinitely long line of variations on “February Sucks”, or I'm writing a sequel to another author's story; and I want to insert a link to the original story in mine, both for the reader's convenience and as a clear acknowledgement of my debt – then how do I do that?

The formatting for other hypertext stuff in stories, like Italics and Bold, seems easy enough. But I haven't found any help on inserting a link to an existing story.

Any help appreciated!

Thanks,
JZ

 

[thomas1965]

To insert hyperlinks you need HTML . See this article: w3schools

 

[Sunadmire]

Hallo JayZip
I do not have the answer, rather a similar problem from another perspective.
I posted the question a month ago on the 'How To' forum without a response. Hopefully any person who can help you can address my problem as well:

I am working on a series of stories, let's call it 'The sex life of Mary'. I'm thinking of another series, let's call it 'Tom's sexual encounters'.
Is it possible to post the same story in both series, say Ch 5 of 'The sex life of Mary' and Ch3 of 'Tom's sexual encounters', with a title 'Tom meets Mary'?
What will probably happen is that the Mary story line will be published by the time the Tom line gets going.
It seems unneccessary to publish the same story anew, or to rewrite it.
Sun

 

[Rustyoznail]

Actually, I've added a link to other stories in a prologue. I just posted the whole link in brackets, like this - (https://literotica.com/s/cathy-and-karate-championship-fuck). Laurel turned it into a hyperlink. If you plan to place something in the middle of the story, then mention it in the note to Admin box.

- edit, as I didn't read the whole thing. As EB says below. Don't write a sequel of another writers story without their permission. You may think it's fan fiction, but they may not like where you're taking their creation.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Answered, with the necessary code (and a caveat against continuing someone else's story) in response to your other post.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Is it possible to post the same story in both series, say Ch 5 of 'The sex life of Mary' and Ch3 of 'Tom's sexual encounters', with a title 'Tom meets Mary'?

No - the site doesn't allow duplicate stories.

You could link between the various series, but it would become messy for readers to follow what's going on.

Why don't you just write separate stories rather than trying to be too clever? In other words, don't overthink stuff.

 

[Bubo_bubo]

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I am working on a series of stories, let's call it 'The sex life of Mary'. I'm thinking of another series, let's call it 'Tom's sexual encounters'.
Is it possible to post the same story in both series, say Ch 5 of 'The sex life of Mary' and Ch3 of 'Tom's sexual encounters', with a title 'Tom meets Mary'?
What will probably happen is that the Mary story line will be published by the time the Tom line gets going.
It seems unneccessary to publish the same story anew, or to rewrite it.
Sun

Adding to Electricblue66's comment above: Why don't you Rashomon it and show us the different perspectives of Mary and Tom in that encounter?

 

[PennameWombat]

If you look at the end of my recent Summer Lovin’ entry (Charlotte’s Free Weekend) as one example, I put some links to other stories in my afterword (in this case, my Summer Lovin’ entries from past years). Since I submit a Word .doc file, I use the ctr-k command to ‘insert hyperlink’, then put the URL and text in. I submit the .doc to Literotica and those are carried across as links. If I’m writing a direct sequel to one of my stories and IMHO you should read that before this one, I’ll link to the earlier story in my preface.

But I only link to my stories.

Since EB has provided you the HTML in the other forum, I won’t bother here.

 

[Sunadmire]

Thank you Electricblue66 and Bubo_bubo.
I wasn't thinking of having two copies of the same story/republishing the same story. I envisaged it published once, but linked the same story from within both series. i.e. reads, votes, comments, etc will be added irrespective of where (which series) it was read. I guess the answer would still be the same - can't be done.
Rashomoning may be an option, but would require sufficient diverging perspectives from both Tom and Mary - which wasn't envisaged.
Best regards
Sun

 

[HeyAll]

Use this bracket:

<a href="https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=3652043&page=submissions">SueDanym</a>

Replace the link

Replace the name

Test it in the story preview to make sure it works.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Thank you Electricblue66 and Bubo_bubo.
I wasn't thinking of having two copies of the same story/republishing the same story. I envisaged it published once, but linked the same story from within both series. i.e. reads, votes, comments, etc will be added irrespective of where (which series) it was read. I guess the answer would still be the same - can't be done.
Rashomoning may be an option, but would require sufficient diverging perspectives from both Tom and Mary - which wasn't envisaged.
Best regards
Sun

It's a little unclear what you're trying to do or why you're doing it. Why have the same story if it's from the viewpoint of two different people? So where is this story going to be placed? I think it's possible to link to it from within two different series. Just use the same HTML coding in both places.

 

[gunhilltrain]

It's a little unclear what you're trying to do or why you're doing it. Why have the same story if it's from the viewpoint of two different people? So where is this story going to be placed? I think it's possible to link to it from within two different series. Just use the same HTML coding in both places.

Let me amend that. Do you mean that the story will be in one series and you want to link from the other series? That can be done if you wish. Or is the story a sort of stand-alone piece floating there by itself? (Not within a series, in other words.) As I said above, I think you can link to it from both series as separate links.

Does that make sense?

 

[Sunadmire]

Good day gunhilltrain
Thank you for your response. I am often accused of providing too much information, but more informathion may be justified in this case.
My plot behind 'Nude in the Bundu' (https://literotica.com/s/nude-in-the-bundu - submitted for 2022 NND challenge) started off as a work intended for the 2020 'April Fools Challenge'. Frans and Dorothy would meet eachother on 1 April, and their relationship (and intimacy) growing slowly towards a climax in the 'Bundu'. The entire plot got too complex for one story and was never finished. I decided to break it up into chapters, of which 'Nude in the Bundu' would be one of them.
The followup story, 'Alone in the Bundu' (https://literotica.com/s/alone-in-the-bundu) doesn't involve Frans and Dorothy, and has the potential to be built into another series of stories involving Liz's and Marlene's sex lifes - independant of the love story of Frans and Dorothy. 'Nude in the Bundu' would therefore be an intersecting story between the two series of stories.
The two story lines, can surely be integrated into one series. The consequence would be that, initially, two independent story lined would be developed, which may be difficult to follow.
Best regards
Sun
I hope the above clarifies my enquiry.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Good day gunhilltrain
Thank you for your response. I am often accused of providing too much information, but more informathion may be justified in this case.
My plot behind 'Nude in the Bundu' (https://literotica.com/s/nude-in-the-bundu - submitted for 2022 NND challenge) started off as a work intended for the 2020 'April Fools Challenge'. Frans and Dorothy would meet eachother on 1 April, and their relationship (and intimacy) growing slowly towards a climax in the 'Bundu'. The entire plot got too complex for one story and was never finished. I decided to break it up into chapters, of which 'Nude in the Bundu' would be one of them.
The followup story, 'Alone in the Bundu' (https://literotica.com/s/alone-in-the-bundu) doesn't involve Frans and Dorothy, and has the potential to be built into another series of stories involving Liz's and Marlene's sex lifes - independant of the love story of Frans and Dorothy. 'Nude in the Bundu' would therefore be an intersecting story between the two series of stories.
The two story lines, can surely be integrated into one series. The consequence would be that, initially, two independent story lined would be developed, which may be difficult to follow.
Best regards
Sun
I hope the above clarifies my enquiry.

I think I get what you're talking about, but there is a limit to what the software of the site allows. You can't have a true "hypertext," although I've never read one of those. (I assume those have to be entirely digital. Maybe they are available on a platform like Kindle?)

So you pretty much have to go with two separate series. If they overlap in time, you can do the best you can through links to tell the readers what's going on and where it all fits. I believe you could get away with repeating a chapter in the other series and probably no one would notice (unless you try submitting them in the same week, perhaps).

I'll give you an example of how I've handled overlapping timelines (it's not merely self-promotion!). A story in August - <a href="https://classic.literotica.com/s/freshman-hooker">Freshman Hooker</a> - overlaps with a series (<a href="https://classic.literotica.com/s/my-summer-with-nora-ch-01">My Summer With Nora</a>) with a different narrator. I notice that I've mentioned the series at the top of the stand-alone story but I didn't link to it. Ideally, it should have been an active link, but the readers can find it if they are interested. It can still be read by itself, however.

I got into this situation because I had an earlier version of all this on another site before I started bringing it over here. It's a bit messy, perhaps, but I hope it's comprehensible.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Interesting that I had the HTML show up when I intended those to be active links. (The HTML wouldn't appear then.) I think I coded it correctly. Also, I thought you could link to other parts of the site from within the forum.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Freshman Hooker

My Summer with Nora Ch. 01

Okay, my coffee wasn't working. The links within the forum are different than from within a story, It's simplest just to use the link symbol at the top when writing or editing a post.

I really should eat some breakfast too.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I don't believe you can have any links in your stories.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I don't believe you can have any links in your stories.

There are hundreds of stories on here with links to other stories. This is a very common practice when a writer submits an alternative ending to someone else's work or writes a sequel to a published story. The links must be internal to Literotica, so your belief is correct where external links are concerned.

Do a story search for "February Sucks" and you will see more than 50 versions of alternative endings to the original work by George Anderson. Most have a link to the original story in them.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I don't believe you can have any links in your stories.

Yes, you can - but only links to other Lit stories, not links offsite.

I've posted the relevant code several times, recently, for others who have asked.