Story Length

[JRaven]

Okay, I've looked through the FAQs. But I still can't find it.

How long is a 'page' on Literotica? I've posted one story that was longer than a page. I've copied it from here, then pasted it into MS Word.

My current story is seven times bigger. So, I'm assuming that it will be seven pages. I think it's too long for a single story. So, I'm trying to figure out where to break it up into three parts.

But still, it would be nice to know how long a page is here.

Jenny

 

[Weird Harold]

How long is a 'page' on Literotica? I've posted one story that was longer than a page.

Since the script determines the break based ona character count and some rules about not breaking a page in the middle of sentence, there is no set word count for a Lit page.

The average word count for one Lit page is somewhere between 3,500 and 4,500 -- I generally use 3,750 to compute the number of pages.

If your story doesn't have any natural chapter breaks, I wouldn't force them into it just to avoid multiple Lit pages -- do what works best for your story; Lit can handle stories of virtually any length. (although you can only C&P up to limit, submitting a text file is only limited by your word processer's ability to create it.)

 

[fgarvb1]

I have no ideal, however after three thousand words you need to break it up into part or chapter I, II, III.

It makes it easier on everybody.

 

[MagicFingers]

& in Kilobytes

It's easy to count words in Word, but sometimes harder in some text editors.
I had a problem with where my first story was broken and re-submitted it in 3 parts to be sure it read better.
I figured that the size of one Lit page in HTML format is about 20-21kb (kilobytes), as listed by Windows Explorer. Depending on whether the ads and other "stuff" is there or not.
That's my quick way of telling about how many pages it will be.

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: & in Kilobytes

I figured that the size of one Lit page in HTML format is about 20-21kb (kilobytes), as listed by Windows Explorer. Depending on whether the ads and other "stuff" is there or not.
That's my quick way of telling about how many pages it will be.

Don't forget to subtract the "overhead" from that 20-25Kb figure.

The overhead is the HTML code that formats the page and displays the ads (the ads themselves are NOT part of the page, but are randomly selected by a script call in the page) -- i.e. the Overhead is everythign that is NOT story.

The overhead is fairly consistent at about 9.5 Kb (10 KB as reportd by Windows Explorer) which leaves the story part of each page at somewhere between 14KB and 15 KB.

The rules in the script that formats stories make even a byte count uncertain, though. Approximations and averages won't tell you exactly where your story will be paged.

 

[Limbhugger]

I have no ideal, however after three thousand words you need to break it up into part or chapter I, II, III.

It makes it easier on everybody.

Not necessarily. I have single chapters posted that run ~9900 words. I think it is much more along the lines of what WH said, it is the readability and story flow that should determine how and when to break up the story. Not word count alone.

 

[JRaven]

Thanks!

Thanks everybody!

I'm almost done breaking my story up. It will be a two part story. Even if you don't read the second part, the first part is almost a decent story in of itself.

(Part of my problem writing is that I don't end my stories, I just keep writing more.)

But anyway, each part should be about 2-3 pages.

I think (hope ) that it will read better.

Jenny