Posting in Illustrated category (thread renamed)

[nice90sguy]

This thread started as a rant about getting my illustrated story submitted.

For anybody who's having problems with submitting Illustrated stories, I've now learned that the simplest thing to do is this:

1. Write your story in MS Word, inserting pictures where they belong.

2. IMPORTANT: Limit your formatting to Lit-supported stuff: I know that the following work fine, but there may be others:
* Bold
* Italic
* Horizontal Line (gets translated to HR markup)

3. Ensure the total file size is less than ~2Mb (compress the images if necessary)
4. JPG images (the safest format) should NOT have metadata or Copyright Info embedded in them.
5. Upload the doc file and be patient -- If it's taken more than 4 weeks for the story to be posted/sent back, it may be the case that the file is not visible to Lit approvers, in which case ping Laurel (but as I said, be patient and allow 4 weeks)

 

[ElectricBlue]

If your most recent submission was 27th Jan, you're in the third day. What went before is irrelevant - your story goes into a queue, and gets processed in the context of that queue only.

 

[nice90sguy]

27th Dec, it was a typo.

 

[nice90sguy]

If anybody here posts illustrated stories here regularly, and get them published quickly, I'd love to know how you do it!

 

[ElectricBlue]

Ahh, Illustrated. They've been taking a very long time for a couple of years now, from my recall of previous threads. Don't know why.

 

[KeithD]

Visuals are a serious copyright problem. I'm surprised Literotica tries to accommodate them at all.

 

[nice90sguy]

Yes, I assume there's a lot of manual intervention required. But Laurel responded to my PM , because she wasn't able to see any of my pending stories, so I've resubmitted them. Hopefully will not take so long to get them posted.

Basically a tech problem, rather than admin.

 

[KeithD]

There's a lot involved in being comfortable you own the images. In addition, there's even more involved if they are compromising images of real people.

 

[nice90sguy]

I use photos which I took myself, but crop out everyone in the images, and superimpose CG's of fictional people. The CG program I use allows the images to be used in any way, but not the 3d models themselves, which are not licensed to be exported directly (e.g. into a game).

 

[Bramblethorn]

I think the multimedia submissions get processed in batches, about once a month. So waiting times for usually those are longer than for text stories, but I see in your case there was a glitch on top of that.

 

[nice90sguy]

I've updated the thread title and my first post in this thread.

 

[HeyAll]

For giant files, upload your story here:

https://litupload.wetransfer.com/

Then leave notes when you submit on Lit, saying the story is on WeTransfer

 

[nice90sguy]

For giant files, upload your story here:

https://litupload.wetransfer.com/

Then leave notes when you submit on Lit, saying the story is on WeTransfer

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[LeslieRMcPherson]

This thread started as a rant about getting my illustrated story submitted.

For anybody who's having problems with submitting Illustrated stories, I've now learned that the simplest thing to do is this:

1. Write your story in MS Word, inserting pictures where they belong.

2. IMPORTANT: Limit your formatting to Lit-supported stuff: I know that the following work fine, but there may be others:
* Bold
* Italic
* Horizontal Line (gets translated to HR markup)

3. Ensure the total file size is less than ~2Mb (compress the images if necessary)
4. JPG images (the safest format) should NOT have metadata or Copyright Info embedded in them.
5. Upload the doc file and be patient -- If it's taken more than 4 weeks for the story to be posted/sent back, it may be the case that the file is not visible to Lit approvers, in which case ping Laurel (but as I said, be patient and allow 4 weeks)

I've published three Illustrated stories at Literotica (two under a different pen name) that have received nearly a million views in total. In those three stories, I submitted a single Word file with the JPEG picture files embedded in it as you recommended. It was a one-step submission process. Having done that, Literotica now states at its website that it wants a two-step submission process for its Illustrated stories. In step one, you submit a simple Word file with no pictures/images in it, although the location of where each figure should go must be clearly indicated. In the Note to Admin box at the submission site, you state that you will send Literotica the relevant JPEG picture files in a separate Email. Are you recommending using the old one-step submission process for an Illustrated story or are you recommending switching to the two-step submission process that is described at Literotica's website? If you are still using the one-step system, that might be the reason why it's taking you a month to get your Illustrated stories published.

 

[Katie_Mae]

Literotica now states at its website that it wants a two-step submission process for its Illustrated stories. In step one, you submit a simple Word file with no pictures/images in it, although the location of where each figure should go must be clearly indicated. In the Note to Admin box at the submission site, you state that you will send Literotica the relevant JPEG picture files in a separate Email.

Where does it say this please? The FAQs still state you can do a one step (file with jpegs) or two step (no file, just copy paste in text box and email pictures)
I'm working on an illustrated story ATM and don't want to be setting it up wrong because the FAQs are out of date.

https://www.literotica.com/faq/illustration-works/publish-illustrated-story

 

[LeslieRMcPherson]

Where does it say this please? The FAQs still state you can do a one step (file with jpegs) or two step (no file, just copy paste in text box and email pictures)
I'm working on an illustrated story ATM and don't want to be setting it up wrong because the FAQs are out of date.

https://www.literotica.com/faq/illustration-works/publish-illustrated-story

Literotica states at its website, that submissions are normally evaluated after 2-4 days. As of today (6 Feb 2025), you can submit a Literotica Illustrated story two ways (see below text taken from LIterotica's website). I don't know which way is preferred by Literotica. I've used the first way (one-step process) in my previous four illustrated story submissions, The first three illustrated stories were quickly accepted (maybe a two-day wait). The fourth is the problem. It's still in Literotica's Pending Folder 10 days after it was submitted. There doesn't appear to be a huge backlog of stories right now because a Literotica friend recently got two of his non-Illustrated stories accepted after only a couple of days. I, therefore, asked the Literotica author whom I responded to which process normally gives an author a faster evaluation decision. The Literotica author who I responded to stated that an author should be prepared to wait at least a month to get his/her Illustrated story published these days using the one-step process. 30 days is not 2-4 days. I, therefore, asked him and the others who are following this thread whether a faster decision normally occurs if authors submit their Illustrated stories these days using the two-step process. I'm still waiting for an answer to my question. Until someone who is knowledgeable on this subject gives me a definitive answer, I will stick with the one-step process as I've done in the past. The problem with the two-step process is that it is easier to screw up the picture order, size, and their placement within the story's text.

Illustrated Stories can be submitted in one of two ways:

1. Embed the images in a Microsoft Word document and upload it through the Story Submission page in your Literotica Control Panel, like a normal story.
2. Submit the text of the story through the Story Submission form in your Literotica Control Panel, then email the image(s) to submit @literotica.com - making sure that the subject line of the email matches the title of the new text submission you made on Literotica. In the story submission form’s Note to Admin field, let us know that the artwork for the submission is coming via email. Be sure to make notes within the body of the story showing us where you want each picture to be placed before submitting the text story for publication.

 

[RejectReality]

Anyone who has questions about the speed of publishing illustrated stories would probably be well-served to reach out to Silkstockingslover. She publishes more illustrated works than pretty much anyone else, and should have a really good bead on how long it takes. ( Although with her popularity and established track record in the category, I wouldn't be surprised if she skips some of the "not doing illustrated today" when one of hers shows up, so you'll want to fudge-factor that into your calculation. )

 

[nice90sguy]

I'm waiting for the site to support images in Story Games, which are more suitable for the kind of VN-type stuff I write.