Multi chapter stories

[CiaoSteve]

Looking for an opinion. I have a few multi chapter stories and wondered, after publishing the final chapter, is there merit in publishing the whole story as a single submission. Has anybody done this and found benefit? I guess it comes down to whether readers like shorter bite size chunks or a longer storyline. Welcome your thoughts.

 

[SimonDoom]

There's an ongoing thread on this very question. You should check it out: https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1548726

 

[Handley_Page]

Looking for an opinion. I have a few multi chapter stories and wondered, after publishing the final chapter, is there merit in publishing the whole story as a single submission. Has anybody done this and found benefit? I guess it comes down to whether readers like shorter bite size chunks or a longer storyline. Welcome your thoughts.

How many words are there likely to be ?

 

[CiaoSteve]

How many words . . . Somewhere from 50-100k depending on the story

 

[CiaoSteve]

There's an ongoing thread on this very question. You should check it out: https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1548726

Thanks, SimonDoom

 

[KeithD]

Looking for an opinion. I have a few multi chapter stories and wondered, after publishing the final chapter, is there merit in publishing the whole story as a single submission. Has anybody done this and found benefit? I guess it comes down to whether readers like shorter bite size chunks or a longer storyline. Welcome your thoughts.

You'd have to delete the serialized version and all of its comments/votes/stats would disappear. Literotica doesn't permit multiple versions of a story in the file.

 

[CiaoSteve]

You'd have to delete the serialized version and all of its comments/votes/stats would disappear. Literotica doesn't permit multiple versions of a story in the file.

Thanks KeithD . . . I guess you've answered my question . . . serialised versions it is, at least on Lit. I'd hate to loose the feedback I've had so far, and it takes me too long to finish a story to post in one go.

 

[XerXesXu]

Thanks KeithD . . . I guess you've answered my question . . . serialised versions it is, at least on Lit. I'd hate to loose the feedback I've had so far, and it takes me too long to finish a story to post in one go.

I've submitted the same story twice, and it's been accepted, but the second time I'd intended to submit a different story, and the title was different, my error, I'd pasted the wrong story file. A reader pointed out it was the same story, so I submitted the new story under the same title as the duplicate story file with a note explaining my error. The duplicate was deleted and the new story published.

The first story I submitted was sent back because the title included Ch 12. I was asked to submit the previous chapters first. I submitted all the chapters, but I still had this story sitting in sent-back after 6 years. To clear it, I changed the title and category, and explained that all chapters, including Ch 12 had now been published, and it was published.

I wonder if the sensitivity is to duplicate titles rather than duplicate story files. Would it be possible to submit the complete novel in NN under a new title?

 

[ElectricBlue]

I wonder if the sensitivity is to duplicate titles rather than duplicate story files. Would it be possible to submit the complete novel in NN under a new title?

I think duplicate titles get themselves a (1) or a (2) etc, like you get when you download the same document more than once. There are plenty of duplicated titles - there was a thread on this a month or so ago, where someone was complaining their ten year title had been duplicated by someone more recently, and story listings interwove the two series.

My guess is the "no duplicated story" rule is there to prevent people recycling their own content and renaming it, to artificially boost their own presence - this is speculation only, mind.

 

[RejectReality]

The prohibition is specifically against posting the same story more than once, and a combination of multiple chapters into a single submission would fall under that rule.

It's not absolute, though. I've seen stories with expansions or significant new edits that have been given approval despite the original remaining on the site. Most likely a case-by-case basis, and some were probably given the go-ahead in advance.

It's quite likely that Laurel may not remember anything about the original version, and might allow a second submission with another title to go up. You would then risk it being pulled down retroactively if someone reports it as a duplicate that is simply packaged differently, so that's not really worth it.

Putting anything into N&N that could potentially fit in any other category is leaving a lot on the table anyway. It's a very sparsely read category that should basically be reserved for stories with such wide-ranging kinks that no one is significant enough to push the buttons of another category's readership.