Multi chapter, all categories?

[Halin24]

I got an idea for a story some time ago and started sketching out the plot when it hit me that it was very flexible. Toying with it a bit more and splitting it into chapters I found that it could cover most of the categories for stories on Lit, and I thought: why not try to do just that, include all categories in the same story? Wouldn't that be an achievement?

That aroused some questions though.

Has it been done before?
Will anyone read it, split up like that?
Is it a stupid idea from the start and a waste of time?


Thinking some more about it I found that some categories are out of reach for me:
Chain stories, since I write alone.
Non-English since no one would certainly want to read ten chapters and then find that they have to
learn Swedish to finish the story...
Illustrated since I can't actually draw any kind of pictures.
Text with Audio, it just isn't my thing to record my groans and moans...

So, there I was with a ruined plan. Then again, 28 (or something...) categories is not bad either, so what do you think? Is it worth the effort?

 

[Kantarii]

It has been done before. Nothing new there. I thought about doing it in order to reach a wider range of readers. I decided against it, though. The average person isn't gonna want to go on an Easter egg hunt to follow along with a story they enjoy reading. Most people on this site rarely click on the author's name to view all stories written by a specific author. They are gonna do story searches within the categories. And, if they don't find all your story, I bet they move on to something else. That's my take on it.

When I wrote "The Diablo Masquerade" I could have put each individual chapter into different categories just like you. Ultimately, I looked at the overall theme of the story and decided it best fit into Sci-Fi & Fantasy even though it had a transvestite as a main character that encountered strap on play, forced sex, group sex, anal sex, and just about everything imaginable within my boundaries for storytelling.

Bottom line, it's your story you are telling; as a writer it is your decision to make.
Kant

 

[i_would]

I've done multi-part stories in various categories, but three or four at most. Some parts of the story just better matched certain categories.

Myself when reading a multi-part and liking the part I would indeed go to the Author page to find the other stories, as that's the simplest way to find them all in one place. Good chance that the same author has more to my liking as well, another reason to visit that page.

 

[oggbashan]

The easiest fit for a multi-chapter story covering several categories is Novels and Novellas.

Anything goes in that category, but you risk alienating readers if you use specialist categories such as Anal, Incest and Gay Male in the same story.

 

[sr71plt]

I purposely wrote a five-chapter series at Literotica where four of the chapters of a story include a radically different sexual preference scene, including gay male, lesbian, erotic coupling, and group sex ("Tuscan Twilight"), which did well (the rating is tapering off now on four of the chapters after several years). Four of the five chapters (two gay male, one lesbian, and one erotic coupling) received Green Es (editor choice award). The chapters were categorized separately.