Question about sexual content in stories with multiple parts

[master_chay]

In a story with multiple parts, must every part contain a complete sex scene to make it stand-alone and wankable?

 

[_Lynn_]

In a story with multiple parts, must every part contain a complete sex scene to make it stand-alone and wankable?

Nope. A chapter might fit into the romance or non-erotic categories, for example. They don't have 'wankable' scenes at all.

 

[oggbashan]

In a story with multiple parts, must every part contain a complete sex scene to make it stand-alone and wankable?

No. Unless that is your intention.

If it is a chaptered story in Novels and Novellas, there is no requirement for sex in every chapter, nor that each should stand alone.

What there should be in each chapter (except the first and last) is a link from the previous chapter, some development and a conclusion, leading to the next chapter.

Each chapter should advance the story in some way, even if that isn't necessarily obvious at the time. For most categories in Literotica, there should be some sex somewhere in the whole, but how much, and how obvious? That's up to you. Sometimes I get criticised for only having implied sex.

 

[PennLady]

As others have said, it depends a lot on category. I've written romances and nonhuman romances and gone several chapter before or between sexual scenes. That wouldn't go over so well in other categories.

 

[master_chay]

Alright, I think I got it.

I've been trying to make each chapter wankable but as the story progressed, there was a chapter where the main female character had to do something or else the whole thing wouldn't work or make any sense at all that did not involve sex.

So do the sexless chapter need its own category?

In fact, do I look at each chapter and decide its category on what is in that chapter rather than putting all the parts in the same category?

Thank you for your help guys.

 

[_Lynn_]

You can choose different categories for each chapter, according to the content. Designate that at submission time.

Depending on word count, you could put what you have into one longer story, too. A Lit page is approximately 3500 words. From other threads and discussions, three pages is a nice size. But I know of several authors who have pieces that cover five or six pages and have excellent scores and comments.

 

[master_chay]

Each chapter should advance the story in some way, even if that isn't necessarily obvious at the time. For most categories in Literotica, there should be some sex somewhere in the whole, but how much, and how obvious? That's up to you. Sometimes I get criticised for only having implied sex.

Hm. Makes sense.

Like in writing a real novel rather than a sequence of wankable chapters.

With hindsight, I might not post the rest of the chapters here, it's probably better as a complete thing on my own site in the end. The story in question has chapters with real sex, fantasy (masturbation), dream scenarios and now a sexless chapter.

It sounds worse than it is ...

Will try for more straightforward something next time.






I didn't realise the burden of responsibility of having to get readers off all the time before I got into this gig.

 

[_Lynn_]

Hm. Makes sense.

Like in writing a real novel rather than a sequence of wankable chapters.

With hindsight, I might not post the rest of the chapters here, it's probably better as a complete thing on my own site in the end. The story in question has chapters with real sex, fantasy (masturbation), dream scenarios and now a sexless chapter.

It sounds worse than it is ...

Will try for more straightforward something next time.






I didn't realise the burden of responsibility of having to get readers off all the time before I got into this gig.

You don't have to write sex in everything. There are readers for all the categories here, including non-erotic. I have several stories without sex. I don't feel I have to include something that will get readers off each time. I just write the story I want to write. Someone out there will enjoy it.

 

[master_chay]

You don't have to write sex in everything. There are readers for all the categories here, including non-erotic. I have several stories without sex. I don't feel I have to include something that will get readers off each time. I just write the story I want to write. Someone out there will enjoy it.

Cheers Mistress Lynn.

That's heartening.

I had a bit of a bad patch there ...

 

[emap]

There isn't even a requirement for how much sex there is. I have completed two western series and working on a third, the sex in each is written out the way they would have been at the time. In other words each time there is sex it's about three paragraphs, nobody complains that it's not 2000 words of a cock shoving in and out of her cunt.

Heck, I did a full story of only a blowjob, no conversation, very little in the way of thoughts. It is really hard to do 750 words of only a sex act. I actually hit 782 I think it was but still. It's really hard to actually write that much in the way of the sex act without repeating yourself.

Course I didn't know there didn't have to be sex in the novels section. Not that I would have done them differently, there's a backstory that you gotta read them to get.

 

[Beth87]

Personally, I believe a story that has sex merely to get the reader to "wank off" is literary porn; not erotica. Erotica is about the whole sexual experience and that does include times/"chapters" where sex does not happen but a character may be wistful in remembrance of an earlier sex act - not to the extent of mental masturbation, of course.

READ a book that has been published (by a publishing house). There are some mainstream steamy books that have as much character development as a non-erotic story. I have also read stories where the character/story development has been way above the mainstream line.

 

[master_chay]

I was thinking in terms of Literotica itself not writing a novel to be published.

Just wanting to do it right, here ...

 

[soflabbwlvr]

In a story with multiple parts, must every part contain a complete sex scene to make it stand-alone and wankable?

To make it wankable, yes. To make it stand alone, no.

The question you really want answered is, should every chapter have a sex scene? The answer is, that depends on your style. In some categories it is quite common for there to be multiple chapters with no sex. In others, sex is expected and the omission of a payoff for the reader will result in a swift and certain rebuke.

Personally, every one of my chapters builds toward at least one sex scene--sometimes several. It's not a site requirement; that's the way I roll.

 

[oggbashan]

I was thinking in terms of Literotica itself not writing a novel to be published.

Just wanting to do it right, here ...

There are many types of readers on Literotica.

Some like wankable sex on every page. Some prefer a plot and a reason for the sex. Some like long stories. Some like short stories. Some even like my 50-word stories.

Whatever you write, as long as you are technically competent i.e. can write without too many spelling mistakes and only a few grammatical ones, someone will read it and perhaps like it, whether it is 750 words or 750,000 words.

 

[master_chay]

To make it wankable, yes. To make it stand alone, no.
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In some categories it is quite common for there to be multiple chapters with no sex. In others, sex is expected and the omission of a payoff for the reader will result in a swift and certain rebuke.

YES! That's what I thought. Hence the pressure for the parts to be wankable.

As in "sex is expected."

The way around it might well be as someone suggested to cushion a non sex chapter between two sex chapters and post three parts as one.

Reason I'm saying this is if I was to read my "characterisation" chapter, standalone, first thing ever from this author, I'd think, WTF x WTF and then flame it!

lol

 

[lazyhobo]

YES! That's what I thought. Hence the pressure for the parts to be wankable.

As in "sex is expected."

The way around it might well be as someone suggested to cushion a non sex chapter between two sex chapters and post three parts as one.

Reason I'm saying this is if I was to read my "characterization" chapter, standalone, first thing ever from this author, I'd think, WTF x WTF and then flame it!

lol

Some others combine their chapters, so rather having for example, four uploaded stories on lit, CH1 CH2 CH3 CH4, Instead you'd have a single upload, where each chapter is clearly defined, like how you read an actual book and it goes "CHAPTER 1". That is how some get past the whole "No Sex In One or Two Chapters"

You dont even need sex, you can just throw something erotic out there.

If this is such a concern for you, I have two suggestions;

1) Don't upload the story to websites like literotica, keep it to your own website.

2) When it's a chapter that doesn't have sex in it, leave a disclaimer at the beginning that says something a long the lines of "Greetings Readers, I must inform you that the following chapter only serves to continue the story of the previous chapters, so those of you reading it for purely erotica ( AKA "Wanking" ), may not wish to read it, though those of you who plan on reading all of the chapters, may want to read this to keep themselves in with the story."

You don't have to copy that little piece of text, but if you're afraid people will complain, put it in the appropriate section ( Non Erotic Perhaps? ) and possibly leave a brief message so those reading purely to wank off don't, and those after the story can enjoy themselves.

 

[_Lynn_]

Some others combine their chapters, so rather having for example, four uploaded stories on lit, CH1 CH2 CH3 CH4, Instead you'd have a single upload, where each chapter is clearly defined, like how you read an actual book and it goes "CHAPTER 1". That is how some get past the whole "No Sex In One or Two Chapters"

You dont even need sex, you can just throw something erotic out there.

If this is such a concern for you, I have two suggestions;

1) Don't upload the story to websites like literotica, keep it to your own website.

2) When it's a chapter that doesn't have sex in it, leave a disclaimer at the beginning that says something a long the lines of "Greetings Readers, I must inform you that the following chapter only serves to continue the story of the previous chapters, so those of you reading it for purely erotica ( AKA "Wanking" ), may not wish to read it, though those of you who plan on reading all of the chapters, may want to read this to keep themselves in with the story."

You don't have to copy that little piece of text, but if you're afraid people will complain, put it in the appropriate section ( Non Erotic Perhaps? ) and possibly leave a brief message so those reading purely to wank off don't, and those after the story can enjoy themselves.

I can't imagine a reader needing a disclaimer telling them a chapter from the non-erotic category didn't have sex for them to wank off to, though. That would just be common sense, wouldn't it?

 

[lazyhobo]

I can't imagine a reader needing a disclaimer telling them a chapter from the non-erotic category didn't have sex for them to wank off to, though. That would just be common sense, wouldn't it?

I didn't say do both? I offered multiple suggestions. I didn't say "If your story had no sexual content, put a disclaimer" I told this one particular author "If this is such a concern to you" then offered a couple of suggestions about it.

 

[_Lynn_]

I didn't say do both? I offered multiple suggestions. I didn't say "If your story had no sexual content, put a disclaimer" I told this one particular author "If this is such a concern to you" then offered a couple of suggestions about it.

And I just added my opinion to part of your comments as part of the discussion.

 

[palisa]

Actually, hobo, you did say to do both, "possibly," in the second of your two suggestions.

For Chay, there are stroke stories here and there are erotic stories. Some people read both; some stop two paragraphs in if there isn't already genitilia in orifices. A sex scene is a "grabber," of course, but if you're writing a longer story, and depending on the lengths of the chapters, there's certainly no need to overdo things. There is a fair number of stories here, with chapters numbering in the double digits, that are just repetitions of the same thing over and over. One I recall, about time travelers working to keep the human race from dying out by using their cyborg equipment on women in the 1950s and 60s, went on far too long. It was well written with a nice premise, but...

 

[lazyhobo]

Actually, hobo, you did say to do both, "possibly," in the second of your two suggestions.

I also used words like "you don't have to" Remember, I offered suggestions, I didn't say that he "HAD" to use them ideas, and I merely said he could use One or Both.

And Lynn adding an idea to part of my comment? That wasn't an Idea, that was you seeing a flaw and pointing it out.

 

[_Lynn_]

I also used words like "you don't have to" Remember, I offered suggestions, I didn't say that he "HAD" to use them ideas, and I merely said he could use One or Both.

And Lynn adding an idea to part of my comment? That wasn't an Idea, that was you seeing a flaw and pointing it out.

Good morning to you, too.

 

[master_chay]

Grateful for all suggestions.

I'm not particularly afraid of bad comments, just tryin' to get it right for the Literotica audience.

For now I'll probably leave the longer stories for my site and write something more concise for Literotica, just some nice, fairly straightforward erotica.

Trouble with my longer pieces is that they always tend to get ... complex. LOL.

 

[PennLady]

Grateful for all suggestions.

I'm not particularly afraid of bad comments, just tryin' to get it right for the Literotica audience.

For now I'll probably leave the longer stories for my site and write something more concise for Literotica, just some nice, fairly straightforward erotica.

Trouble with my longer pieces is that they always tend to get ... complex. LOL.

The Literotica audience is pretty broad, so there's no real way to get it right for everyone. And there are any number of longer, more complex stories on the site that are posted serially, and that have sections with no sex. StoriesOnline.net is another place where longer stories can be successful.

 

[Gunter99]

Not every chapter should have a second scene, but I would say it should have a sexy or provocative scene to keep things interesting?

Some dialogue or nudity or something

Feel free to call on me as an editor of your story!