Re-attaching a Series?

[MimiRay]

My first submission was last spring, when I posted a 5 part series called Gesso. It all went into the Exhibitionist and Voyeur category.

It got some pretty good scores, and I thought it wasn't bad for a first try.

Subsequently, I started (much more gradually) submitting stories for a 6 part series that is intended to follow the adventures of the protagonist and her friends, and add a couple of new characters. I clearly labeled each submission "Part 1", "Part 2", etc., and submitted them into the Exhibitionist and Voyeur category.

Part 1 got posted into Lesbian Sex (There was girl-girl in there, but there was also heterosexual sex), parts 2 and 3 made it into Exhibitionist and Voyeur, and part 4 got put in Group Sex.

I'm not opposed to the Group Sex Category, I thought the story would fit either way, but the main problem is that the stories were never put together into a series. I contacted the site to ask about this, but never got a response.

Is there a way to go back and reconnect these stories into a series, and have them all be put in the same category together?

I'm about to submit part 5, and I don't want it to get orphaned. I noticed a bit difference in viewings and responses between the stories that stayed together in a series and those that ended up haphazardly scattered about the site.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Resubmit the chapters you want recategorised with exactly the same title plus EDIT. Resubmit the whole text, add a Note to the Editor that you want a category change - it will take a week or so. It won't make much difference, since each chapter has got its first set of readers from whatever category it first went up in.

They're already linked as a series, all you would be doing is a category change.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Yep that'll happen, Laurel has the final say mostly. Was there still a lot of Exhibitionist/Voyeur in the story? If not then she was correct to move them. Just because the others are there, doesn't mean that they all should be there. The content of the story should determine what category it goes into.

ETA: Your last series didn't make it as a series it would seem. It would appear there was a hiccup in doing that.

Tethys: Growing The Tribe Pt. 01 (3.67) Tethys continues her adventures with a new friend. Lesbian Sex 06/05/20
Tethys: Growing The Tribe Pt. 02 (4.00) Tethys gets better acquainted with Sonia, Jo and Joe. Exhibitionist & Voyeur 07/19/20
Tethys: Growing The Tribe Pt. 03 (4.50) Tethys and Taylor introduce Megan to a new world. Exhibitionist & Voyeur 09/16/20
Tethys: Growing The Tribe Pt. 04 (4.67) Tethys brings Megan further into her world. Group Sex 11/16/20

That is something you might want to take up with Laurel also. Just ask the question... Why did it happen?

Where your first group did get made a series...

Gesso: 5 Part Series
.....Gesso Pt. 01 (4.37) Tethys takes a break for a hot date. Exhibitionist & Voyeur 03/04/20
.....Gesso Pt. 02 (4.64) Fun at the Lake, and new Friends. Hot Exhibitionist & Voyeur 03/10/20
.....Gesso Pt. 03 (4.56) Tethys survives the family scrutiny. Exhibitionist & Voyeur 03/13/20
.....Gesso Pt. 04 (4.71) Tethys rethinks her commission. Exhibitionist & Voyeur 03/17/20
.....Gesso Pt. 05 (4.80) We all love a happy ending. Exhibitionist & Voyeur 03/20/20

I've had stories made a series that I didn't want in a series just because the first words were A Night Out... The two stories weren't even about the same people.

I have also had stories not grouped as a series like yours, but I just didn't care.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Resubmit the chapters you want recategorised with exactly the same title plus EDIT. Resubmit the whole text, add a Note to the Editor that you want a category change - it will take a week or so. It won't make much difference, since each chapter has got its first set of readers from whatever category it first went up in.

They're already linked as a series, all you would be doing is a category change.

Looking at her story page, one of her series isn't linked properly: https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=5353653&page=submissions

AFAICT they're titled correctly for a series, and posting across category doesn't usually seem to break that, so if it doesn't come good with the category change it might be time to PM Laurel or Manu and ask them to fix the linking.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Looking at her story page, one of her series isn't linked properly: https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=5353653&page=submissions

AFAICT they're titled correctly for a series, and posting across category doesn't usually seem to break that, so if it doesn't come good with the category change it might be time to PM Laurel or Manu and ask them to fix the linking.

You're right - I looked too quickly. The Series header connecting up bit didn't work as it should.

Flagging the category change and adding another note, "Could you fix the Series header too, please," should do it.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

You're right - I looked too quickly. The Series header connecting up bit didn't work as it should.

Flagging the category change and adding another note, "Could you fix the Series header too, please," should do it.

Yeah, as that is an automated process, I don't think they can. I know they can't undo a series, I asked. I also asked to make one a series as the titles were too long to have the Pt. xx inserted or added to no avail.

 

[MimiRay]

Yeah, as that is an automated process, I don't think they can. I know they can't undo a series, I asked. I also asked to make one a series as the titles were too long to have the Pt. xx inserted or added to no avail.

Thanks for all the replies. I've put notes on couple of my submissions asking to group them together, and there's been no response. I suppose I'll do the re-submit when I post my final installment, which I'm writing now.

My next series will be a lot longer, maybe it will be better to put it into "Novels and Novellas."

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Thanks for all the replies. I've put notes on couple of my submissions asking to group them together, and there's been no response. I suppose I'll do the re-submit when I post my final installment, which I'm writing now.

My next series will be a lot longer, maybe it will be better to put it into "Novels and Novellas."

Well, they are grouped together and as long as you don't write a one off that would somehow fit alphabetically between them, no worries.

And that's another thing that irks my ire... if the category is called Novels & Novellas why do authors split their works up into chapters? The category lets readers know that they are going to be long stories, why not drop the whole thing as one entry at once.

 

[MimiRay]

...
And that's another thing that irks my ire... if the category is called Novels & Novellas why do authors split their works up into chapters? The category lets readers know that they are going to be long stories, why not drop the whole thing as one entry at once.

Dead tree books are split up into chapters, why not online ones?

 

[ElectricBlue]

And that's another thing that irks my ire... if the category is called Novels & Novellas why do authors split their works up into chapters? The category lets readers know that they are going to be long stories, why not drop the whole thing as one entry at once.

Managing the draft, mainly. My Arthurian novel is 105k words. When I prepared the print and epub versions, that turned into a 300 page Word document, which became really difficult to manage. I drafted it in seventeen individual chapters, each self contained, between 5k and 10k words. Much easier to manage, especially during edit and read-through.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Dead tree books are split up into chapters, why not online ones?

Put you can hold the entire thing in your hand and read it just by turning the page. With chapters here at Lit, you have to click on another link to get the next chapter. Where if the entire 'book' was there under one link, I would just have to scroll/swipe/click to get to the next page.

And I do break up the 'book' into chapters, just like a real book.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Managing the draft, mainly. My Arthurian novel is 105k words. When I prepared the print and epub versions, that turned into a 300 page Word document, which became really difficult to manage. I drafted it in seventeen individual chapters, each self contained, between 5k and 10k words. Much easier to manage, especially during edit and read-through.

To each their own. Even my longer works which I have broken up into parts are stored in one document. I too have some very long ones and well over 300 pages in Word, depending on the formatting.

I also use yWrite for a lot of my longer works, which lets me break things down to the scene level. But when all is said and done, it goes into a single word doc. Now I do have copies of the published work and if it was broken up into chapters or parts that's what is stored. If I published the entire thing in one shot that's what is stored.

So, working doc, just one. Published doc, one to many.