Start a thread for a newly completed story?

[AllenWoody]

Hello fellow authors,

I'm getting close to wrapping up a modest (fourteen chapter) Sci-Fi story here. Throughout I've received both supportive and critical feedback via story comments and a few emails. The story is far from perfect -it's my largest multi-chapter story- so I still have a lot to learn. It's called "Lost Colony".

I'm considering starting a thread somewhere (here?) so those that stuck with me can post comments and questions in a single place. Using comments for this is pretty limiting. I'd like to be able to respond to readers who might actually hang around the thread long enough to see the answers to their questions, responses to their feedback, etc.

To do this I'd need to create the thread, then add a link to it at the end of the last chapter.

Has anyone ever done this? Is there a better way?

Thanks... Allen

 

[MillieDynamite]

Hello fellow authors,

I'm getting close to wrapping up a modest (fourteen chapter) Sci-Fi story here. Throughout I've received both supportive and critical feedback via story comments and a few emails. The story is far from perfect -it's my largest multi-chapter story- so I still have a lot to learn. It's called "Lost Colony".

I'm considering starting a thread somewhere (here?) so those that stuck with me can post comments and questions in a single place. Using comments for this is pretty limiting. I'd like to be able to respond to readers who might actually hang around the thread long enough to see the answers to their questions, responses to their feedback, etc.

To do this I'd need to create the thread, then add a link to it at the end of the last chapter.

Has anyone ever done this? Is there a better way?

Thanks... Allen

I don't believe you are allowed to weblinks (even to other chapters) inside stories. I could be wrong, but think links in stories aren't allowed period.

 

[SamScribble]

There is a dedicated forum for story feedback. It's called Story Feedback.

Good luck.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I don't believe you are allowed to weblinks (even to other chapters) inside stories. I could be wrong, but think links in stories aren't allowed period.

AFAIK, links within Literotica are allowed.

 

[AllenWoody]

There is a dedicated forum for story feedback. It's called Story Feedback.

Good luck.

Good point, thanks.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I don't believe you are allowed to weblinks (even to other chapters) inside stories. I could be wrong, but think links in stories aren't allowed period.

Yes, you can put links in stories to other Lit stories. I've done it half a dozen times.

You can't do off-site links, is what you can't do.

 

[gunhilltrain]

If you post in the Feedback section, you'll probably get the responses you are looking for. You can certainly link from the Forum to the story. I don't think you can do it the other way around. But you can add a note to the story telling readers where to look for it.

 

[PennameWombat]

I don't believe you are allowed to weblinks (even to other chapters) inside stories. I could be wrong, but think links in stories aren't allowed period.

AFAIK, links within Literotica are allowed.

I usually append an 'Author's Note' at the end of stories, especially if they intersect with other stories in any of my shared universes. In the last couple I changed from just referencing titles to putting links to those Literotica stories (and to my page). They were posted unchanged. Now, those aren't links IN the story text, but they're there (take a look at my Nude Day 2021 entry, link in sig, at the end.)

 

[8letters]

Hello fellow authors,

I'm getting close to wrapping up a modest (fourteen chapter) Sci-Fi story here. Throughout I've received both supportive and critical feedback via story comments and a few emails. The story is far from perfect -it's my largest multi-chapter story- so I still have a lot to learn. It's called "Lost Colony".

I'm considering starting a thread somewhere (here?) so those that stuck with me can post comments and questions in a single place. Using comments for this is pretty limiting. I'd like to be able to respond to readers who might actually hang around the thread long enough to see the answers to their questions, responses to their feedback, etc.

To do this I'd need to create the thread, then add a link to it at the end of the last chapter.

Has anyone ever done this? Is there a better way?

I create a Extended Author's Notes thread for each of my stories in the Story Feedback forum. The steps I go through:
1. I create the thread. The OP initially is explaining the intention of the thread. If you don't, you'll have busybodies with too much time on their hand complaining about you creating a thread. What I write:

This will be the extended Author’s Notes for a story that hasn’t been published yet. The extended Author’s Notes will be the equivalent of the author notes in the last few pages after a novel is finished. I’ll update this post with the extended Author’s Notes a little before the story is published.

This will be the ninth time I’ve posted extended Author’s Notes for a story in the Story Feedback forum. I typically get some questions about what I’m doing. I’ll try to save time by answering those questions now:
* I’m posting the extended Author’s Notes now because I want to have a link in my story to them. The only links you can have in a LitE story is to something on the LitE site
* Someone suggested I post the extended Author’s Notes after the story is published and then post the link to it as a comment. There are two problems with that: (1) a lot of readers don’t read comments and I want all readers to see the link to the extended Author’s Notes and (2) it’s not unusual for my stories to get over one hundred comments, so my comment with the link will likely get lost among the other comments
* I’m posting the extended Author’s Notes in the Story Feedback forum because I am hoping readers will leave comments about the story after they’ve read them

2. I then add the link to the thread at the end of the story as HTML

<i>Author notes <a href=http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1545052>here</a>.</i>

You need to change the "154052" to the equivalent number of the thread that you've created
3. Submit the story
4. When the story is about to be published, I change the OP to be the content I want people to read when they click on the link

If you want to see how it works, click on the story in my sig and go to the end. If you have any questions, DM me.

 

[MillieDynamite]

WOW, I had no idea. I've learned some useful information in the thread. Thanks to the OP for posing the questions and to the responders.

 

[gordo12]

You can put links into other Lit areas in a story. You can also put outside reference links to back up facts. The outside link will be disabled, but it will still show for a copy and paste.

I did it in a story and mentioned why in the admin notes, but I'm damned if I can remember which story. I do know it was to Wikipedia. Whether or not it's a policy, or I just got lucky, I don't know.