sequel or new chapter

[sanchopanza]

i've been browsing round some of the longer stories and i've found that quite a few people create new chapters for their stories - maybe to keep the same characters going but not to bore the reader i don't know - but anyway i haven't seen any stories that have but one chapter and ensuing adventures are actually sequels instead

 

[gauchecritic]

The closest I've ever come to a sequel is in transplanting a character from a posted series into the community of 'Snippetsville'.

Gauche

 

[sanchopanza]

i've been wondering what the hell that snippetsville thing is

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I have a couple of multi chapter stories but only one sequel.

The Storm

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=54868

is the sequel too

A Mile in Her Heels

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=49621


Same characters, but a differnet time and place. Different circumstances. Basically I wrote the first one as a stand alone story, but when a fan asked me to write something with a pregnant woman the characters jumped out at me as the kind of loving couple who could do that. So the story is set later in their lives.

For me the difference in a sequel and a second part is continutity. If the separate parts can stand alone without the others and still be a complete story then it's a sequel. If the individual parts are heavily reliant on the other parts then it's a chapter.

-Colly

 

[raphy]

Jenny's wonderful adventures of Capt. Shika is a series of sequels, not a story broken into chapters.

And they're damn good, too.

 

[Quasimodem]

i've been wondering what the hell that snippetsville thing is

At present, there are Four Issues of Snippettsville published under "Chain Stories."

It will take no more than five minutes to read one entry, or twenty minutes for an entire issue --- if you are a slow reader.

Then, if you would like to contribute, check in the Story Discussion Circle for the Snippetteville threads.

It's painless, its fun, and it was the only way I could ever get within spitting distance of an "E."

 

[gauchecritic]

It's painless, its fun, and it was the only way I could ever get within spitting distance of an "E."

I'm with Quasi.

Gauche

(Not with, just concur, we don't... Oh forget it.

 

[oggbashan]

i've been browsing round some of the longer stories and i've found that quite a few people create new chapters for their stories - maybe to keep the same characters going but not to bore the reader i don't know - but anyway i haven't seen any stories that have but one chapter and ensuing adventures are actually sequels instead

I write longer stories as a single submission. One of my Halloween Contest entries "Hannah and Kay" is a sequel to an earlier story "Loving Hannah". The sequel to "Hannah and Kay" is being planned but will have to wait until after November.

Most Lit authors would have broken both stories into chapters because each chapter gets viewed and voted on separately. Long stories in one bite don't get as many votes.

I'm hoping that my NaNoWriMo story will break into convenient chapters that I can post as chapters on Lit. My aim is 28 chapters for the 50,000 words. Either I'll run out of story before 50,000 words or I'll run out of time in November and have to finish the later chapters in December. If that happens the whole "novel" is likely to be longer than 50,000 words.

Breaking up into chapters means that each chapter should be a story in its own right, perhaps ending with a cliffhanger for the next part. For Literotica, each chapter should have at least one sex scene.

Og

 

[Guest]

The closest I've ever come to a sequel is in transplanting a character from a posted series into the community of 'Snippetsville'.

Sanch, Gauche and I collaborated on seven Snipps about his transplanted character and mine. Now I am working with SoupWarsProject and their amazingly colorful characters (if you read any Snipps do read SWP's), and we may likely do something with or to Gauche's boy. I call it "proxy sex". It's fun, really.

Perdita

p.s. My Snipps character, Sian, uses Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra to express her feelings about Robert, Gauche's character. See, you'd have even more fun.

 

[Alex De Kok]

At present, there are Four Issues of Snippettsville published under "Chain Stories."

Issue 5 was submitted last Tuesday and has now been posted. The lovely Laurel gave us an 'E'!

Alex

 

[sanchopanza]

ah i see said the blind man. this snippetsville thing is like a porno version of "winesburg, ohio"