Hello fellow Literoticans 
Apologies if this is in the wrong forum -- it seemed the most appropriate place to ask a question of the authors here.
I've been a long time reader of Lit, and last year started to contribute some (badly written) stories of my own.
In the year in between I've written a lot of non-sexual stuff that I've submitted elsewhere, and I'd like to think that my writing style has improved somewhat.
As a result, the stories I am writing for submission here now actually do have a plot, characters with depth and a general story. Before I was essentially submitting sex scenes with some flimsy plot to tie them together, but I realised I wanted someone to actually read the whole thing and not just skip through to the sex.
However, onto the point of the thread (God, I do like to procrastinate), I was wondering if there was a way to delete and then resubmit updated stories? As well as writing new material, I am also in the process of going through my old works and rewriting large chunks of them, to make them flow better and be far more interesting. Even their main purpose, the sex scenes, was pretty short and badly described in some of them (how they managed a 4.8+ average I'll never know). I've added to the stories tremendously (even elements that weren't there before), and changed some dialogue, some descriptions, bulked it up. Basically a huge facelift for them, since, on a re-read now, they're quite embaressing. And whilst I'm not embaressed about the content (so it's pretty one-track sex stuff, meh), I AM embaressed about the writing, and that's not a good feeling as a writer, as I'm sure you all know.
Particularly as they're supposed to be in the science-fiction and fantasy section, where a story is a pretty important part of it. Over the past year or so some wonderful stories have been posted in there, with plots as rich as the characters, and yet they maintain some very intense sex scenes. My stories pale in comparison to theirs, and so I hope with a rewrite they might fair better against them.
Again, I suppose all of that information was totally irrelevant to my question, but I waffle. It's why I'm so good at writing essays I suppose So... is there a way to resubmit work? I couldn't see the option on my Author Panel, and I would like to have my new and improved works displayed instead ^^
Another question I wanted to ask, which ties into the first, is advice on whether to rename a character. I chose the names for all the characters in my story from the top of my head, with no deliberate influences from elsewhere. However, the name of my Elven character is apparently the name of the main heroine from another erotic book that has been published, and is therefore in copyright. Normally this wouldn't matter if it were a common name (how many times has Melissa appeared in books, for example ^^), but it is not a common name. I fear I might have been steered towards choosing this name without knowing, even though I've never read the book.
I suppose the question is thus: does anyone know if I'm legally obliged to change the name? And, even if I'm not, would it be curteous to do so? I do have another name lined up that would serve the purposes of being Elven well enough, and it'd be easy to change the name by submitting my newer stories anyway.
Christ, sorry for the wall of text. If anyone's made it this far then thanks for reading, and thanks for answering
Apologies if this is in the wrong forum -- it seemed the most appropriate place to ask a question of the authors here.I've been a long time reader of Lit, and last year started to contribute some (badly written) stories of my own.
In the year in between I've written a lot of non-sexual stuff that I've submitted elsewhere, and I'd like to think that my writing style has improved somewhat.
As a result, the stories I am writing for submission here now actually do have a plot, characters with depth and a general story. Before I was essentially submitting sex scenes with some flimsy plot to tie them together, but I realised I wanted someone to actually read the whole thing and not just skip through to the sex.
However, onto the point of the thread (God, I do like to procrastinate), I was wondering if there was a way to delete and then resubmit updated stories? As well as writing new material, I am also in the process of going through my old works and rewriting large chunks of them, to make them flow better and be far more interesting. Even their main purpose, the sex scenes, was pretty short and badly described in some of them (how they managed a 4.8+ average I'll never know). I've added to the stories tremendously (even elements that weren't there before), and changed some dialogue, some descriptions, bulked it up. Basically a huge facelift for them, since, on a re-read now, they're quite embaressing. And whilst I'm not embaressed about the content (so it's pretty one-track sex stuff, meh), I AM embaressed about the writing, and that's not a good feeling as a writer, as I'm sure you all know.
Particularly as they're supposed to be in the science-fiction and fantasy section, where a story is a pretty important part of it. Over the past year or so some wonderful stories have been posted in there, with plots as rich as the characters, and yet they maintain some very intense sex scenes. My stories pale in comparison to theirs, and so I hope with a rewrite they might fair better against them.
Again, I suppose all of that information was totally irrelevant to my question, but I waffle. It's why I'm so good at writing essays I suppose
So... is there a way to resubmit work? I couldn't see the option on my Author Panel, and I would like to have my new and improved works displayed instead ^^Another question I wanted to ask, which ties into the first, is advice on whether to rename a character. I chose the names for all the characters in my story from the top of my head, with no deliberate influences from elsewhere. However, the name of my Elven character is apparently the name of the main heroine from another erotic book that has been published, and is therefore in copyright. Normally this wouldn't matter if it were a common name (how many times has Melissa appeared in books, for example ^^), but it is not a common name. I fear I might have been steered towards choosing this name without knowing, even though I've never read the book.
I suppose the question is thus: does anyone know if I'm legally obliged to change the name? And, even if I'm not, would it be curteous to do so? I do have another name lined up that would serve the purposes of being Elven well enough, and it'd be easy to change the name by submitting my newer stories anyway.
Christ, sorry for the wall of text. If anyone's made it this far then thanks for reading, and thanks for answering
