Removing Stories

[Bebop3]

Hi!

Does anyone know what the process is to have one of your stories removed from Lit?

Thanks!

 

[Bebop3]

Just re-submit it with ' - REMOVE' added to the title. For example: to remove 'Mother's Milk', give it the title 'Mother's Milk - REMOVE'. (example from Zeb_Carter )

Including the link to the story in the submission note may make things easier for Laurel.

Thank you!

 

[RejectReality]

May as well add the ol' copy pasta, as these topics typically catch others with the same sort of Qs, and it covers most of them.

Here's the editing method for Lit.

• Take note of the url of your story/chapter. That's the address appearing in the address bar of your browser when you view the first page of your story. You really only need the last part after the /s/ that represents your title.
• Start a new submission.
• Use the same title as the original ( or as much as will fit ) plus something such as *EDIT*
• Fill in the same category, then fill description and keywords with placeholders, as they don't matter. ( Unless one of these things are what you're editing )
• If editing the story text, paste/upload the new text in the "story text" section. You need to upload the whole story/chapter, not just the edited sections. If editing anything else, copy the "notes" section detailed below in order to fill this section.
• In the "notes" section, say what you are editing. If story text, then put that. If title, then put the requested NEW title here. You can fill in edited descriptions/keywords/category above, but you'll still want to list any such changes here. It's a good idea to list the url that I mentioned in step 1. This is unique to every story/chapter, and can help eliminate the potential for human error. As mentioned above, if you are editing something other than the story text, copy what you put in the notes section to the "story text" as well. This is simply because there must be something in that section for you to submit.
• Click "Review", then "Submit"

Edits have a lower priority than new stories, and may take longer to process.

Edits will not appear on the public side immediately. Wait at least 24 hours after the "edited" submission vanishes from your private author list or from the "pending" folder before worrying that your changes haven't been applied. Changes may not all appear at the same time, either. Page 1 may change, while page 2 will remain the same until an hour or so later. Be patient as the system catches up.

If you edit the story in this manner ( as opposed to deleting and re-submitting ) you'll retain your votes, views, comments, etc. The only thing that will be changed is what you say that you want changed. It will not appear on the New List again.

If you wish to delete a story, use much the same method, except put something such as *DELETE* in the title, and say that you want to delete the story in question in the "notes" section.

If you wish to delete all of your stories, an entire series, etc., then use the normal delete process, but explain in the "notes" section that you want to do a mass delete, and what type.

Convoluted, but it does work. It gets a little easier as you get used to it.

 

[Bebop3]

Thanks.

 

[Masterful_Husband]

Related question. Is it possible to "suppress" a story for awhile? I'd like to put a couple of my stories up on KU to test those waters but they require three month exclusivity. I'd rather hide my stories here and not lose comments, etc but removing them would be the other option.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Related question. Is it possible to "suppress" a story for awhile? I'd like to put a couple of my stories up on KU to test those waters but they require three month exclusivity. I'd rather hide my stories here and not lose comments, etc but removing them would be the other option.

I don't think so. A story is either alive or dead. There's no provision for Authors to park a story.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I don't think so. A story is either alive or dead. There's no provision for Authors to park a story.

OTOH, Laurel seems to have that power, since stories do get suspended when somebody reports a violation of site rules, and can be reinstated after the author fixes whatever was up with them.

So I guess you could ask Laurel if she'd be willing to do it for other reasons. Whether she'd say yes is another question.

 

[ElectricBlue]

OTOH, Laurel seems to have that power, since stories do get suspended when somebody reports a violation of site rules, and can be reinstated after the author fixes whatever was up with them.

So I guess you could ask Laurel if she'd be willing to do it for other reasons. Whether she'd say yes is another question.

That's a wrinkle, true; but she takes down for content reasons, not because someone wants to spruik a story in another publication. But she does allow writers to promote their wares. So she could do it, yes, but it might send the wrong message to Lit readers, given the usual reason stories are taken down.

 

[SeremaStorm]

Hello! First time writer here and also a dodo. I published the first part of my story series but didn't indicate it was the first in a series. Would the *EDIT* process work to change a title? Or should I just delete & resubmit?

Any guidance is appreciated. Thank you!

 

[RejectReality]

Hello! First time writer here and also a dodo. I published the first part of my story series but didn't indicate it was the first in a series. Would the *EDIT* process work to change a title? Or should I just delete & resubmit?

Any guidance is appreciated. Thank you!

Yep! Just use the "Notes" section to detail the change in title you want to make, then paste a copy of that section in the story text section to fill in that part of the form. I've done it a few times in the past, and it went off without a hitch.

Don't forget to use the original title + *EDIT* in the Title line of the edit submission, and detail the changes in the notes section. As I suggested, including the original URL in the notes section is a good idea to reduce the potential for human error.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Hello! First time writer here and also a dodo. I published the first part of my story series but didn't indicate it was the first in a series. Would the *EDIT* process work to change a title? Or should I just delete & resubmit?

Any guidance is appreciated. Thank you!

Just post the second chapter with the same title plus Chap.02, add a note to the Editor, and Laurel will join them together and fix up the first chapter title. You don’t need to edit or resubmit.

 

[eroticstoryspinner]

Something I am considering is combining several of my stories into a single novel, which will require some rewrites. I am still researching if that will be substantially different enough for KU.

 

[RejectReality]

Actually, I doubt she would change the title of the first chapter. From what I've seen, that only happens by request, when multiple chapters are in the queue at the same time, or when there's a painfully obvious "next chapter coming" author's note or something. For that matter, there's no reason people won't be able to figure out it's the first chapter of a story when the second chapter posts, so it's not really necessary.

The series code is pretty wonky right now, but when it was working properly, it was perfectly capable of creating a series when the first chapter in the story had no chapter designation. It could even manage other designations such as "Prelude" and "Epilogue" along with numbered chapters.

The only real problem with posting the first chapter of a story without a chapter designation is that it can piss off readers who don't read incomplete chapter stories. That can cause them to downvote you on that alone.

Once it's already posted that way, all the damage is done by the time the second chapter comes out with a chapter designation. The entry point typically becomes the new chapters leading people to search out the first.

Just post the second chapter with the same title plus Chap.02, add a note to the Editor, and Laurel will join them together and fix up the first chapter title. You don’t need to edit or resubmit.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Something I am considering is combining several of my stories into a single novel, which will require some rewrites. I am still researching if that will be substantially different enough for KU.

Who's going to check? A single book isn't the same content/product as a bunch of chapters on Literotica. I'd suggest you don't overthink it.

I've got book content on Amazon which is 98% identical to what's posted here, but there it's a book that can be bought, here it's just content. They are different "products" entirely. Amazon/Kindle are only interested in "exclusivity" of the "book." They're not going to compare the content (how would they even know what's here?)

 

[SeremaStorm]

Thank you kindly! I want to change the title since the first title is just the chapter designation, but the whole work would have a different name. I appreciate your help!

 

[SeremaStorm]

Thank you for your response, electricblue66! I'm changing the title of the completed work, so it wouldn't go together naturally. The first story is actually pretty much the first chapter which has a different title. Is this going to anger readers into a downvote frenzy?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Thank you for your response, electricblue66! I'm changing the title of the completed work, so it wouldn't go together naturally. The first story is actually pretty much the first chapter which has a different title. Is this going to anger readers into a downvote frenzy?

If you don't have a common title stub and/or chapter numbers, how will readers know they're connected? You need a way of keeping related stories together on your story page, which is sorted alphabetically.

 

[SeremaStorm]

If you don't have a common title stub and/or chapter numbers, how will readers know they're connected? You need a way of keeping related stories together on your story page, which is sorted alphabetically.

That's what I was hoping to change by changing the title of the first story. I'm literally a dodo. I can't fly.

I truly appreciate your help. thanks!