Submitting ILLUSTRATED STORIES to Literotica info

[THROBBS]

It has been a while...and indeed the procedure is not obvious.
(this is different than the illustrations section, which includes comics, but is more focused on images. Illustrated stories, are stories enhanced with illustrations.)

ILLUSTRATION SECTION
ILLUSTRATED STORIES

Illustrated Stories:

I believe I had to e-mail the illustrations as attachments and then include a note to that effect.
1) Attach the text of the story to an email directed to submit@literotica.com. Important: make the subject of the email the same as the title of the story so that we can more easily match your submission to your profile.

2) Go to your Member Profile and "Submit a Story". Fill in the title, description, and category of your story. In the box for the story itself, type "Story Submitted Via Email". Following this procedure will help to get your story online as quickly as possible.



Basic story guidelines:

http://www.literotica.com/subguide.shtml

8. If you have specialty formatting requests, such as the need for bolds or italics in certain parts, PLEASE LET US KNOW in a note at the top of the story. Otherwise, all special formatting will be stripped from the stories before posting.

As I recall this includes the placement of illustrations.

eg:

Blah blah blah story paragraph one. Blah Blah blah blah sex blah blah. All this "blah blah blah. represents your well written and highly erotic story.

{INSERT FILE : my-illustration1-name.jpg HERE}

Blah blah blah story paragraph two. Blah Blah blah blah sex blah blah. This text represents the continuation of your gripping tale.

{INSERT FILE : my-illustration2-name.jpg HERE}

Blah blah blah story paragraph three. Blah Blah blah blah This could be your dramtic conclusion, or, of course you might conclude with an illustration.


* FILE SIZE:
When I submitted illustrated stories, I stuck to the bulletin board limitations:
MAX file size 100MB
MAX horizontal dimension: 800 pixels
MAX Vertical dimension: 600 pixels

(saving as "optimized for web" can reduce file size.)

I can check if the file size parameters are different.

 

[THROBBS]

From Laurel:

You can submit Illustrated Stories one of three ways:

1) Submit the text in the form, then the images via email (as you stated in your post).

2) Upload a Word .doc with the images place inside where you'd like them to be.

2) If the Word .doc or the images are too large, you can send us the file via our upload - making sure the upload form title field is is the title of your submission - then hit "Submit" on the submission form in your profile (which should contain the story title, description, tags, everything else except the part you uploaded) so we know it's been sent. The link to our upload server is: https://www.mydocsonline.com/scripts...P0063E46e22d8B

We accept .TXT, .RTF, and Word .DOCs. We do not accept .PDFs, .ZIP files, or any other formats.

If anyone has questions they can PM me (Laurel) here:
http://forum.literotica.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=7

she is checking if the illustration section size is the same or different.

 

[THROBBS]

Bumping this up, just in case there are those who draw, paint, photo, sculpt... AND write.

 

[THROBBS]

bump...cuz of the query.

 

[Betty_Rage]

Thanks - Really Helpful

Thanks for this, I didn't realise this could be done outside of the illustrations/comics section. I might have to consider doing this in future!

 

[THROBBS]

You are welcome.
I was frustrated with the convoluted/buried instructions years ago when I posted a couple illustrated stories (I have since taken them down).

 

[inkyscandal]

Thanks Throbbs

I just posted an Illustrated Story successfully. Compared to my regular Lit submission process this was indeed a somewhat opaque experience until I found this thread. Your effort to spell out the process here was very helpful. So thanks!

BTW: It is interesting that the Illustrated Stories section seems to get tenfold the number of "views" compared to the normal text-only story sections. My illustrated story "Ashley's Car Trouble" has only been up for a couple of days and already has over 72,000 views. In most of the other sections I have posted stories to, that kind of exposure takes months. I say all this with the rather large caveat that I still don't know what constitutes a "view" technically on Lit, but there it is...

Thanks again!

 

[THROBBS]

Glad to hear it, Inkyscandal.

 

[Schaka]

posting Illustrated Stories

I have read this thread many times in my attempts to post an Illustrated Story. For whatever reason it seems to be hit or miss. For me at any rate.

I have submitted the text and emailed the pictures. no joy. Email pictures did not arrive. Rechecked email tried again. No joy

I have submitted the text and the pictures in an email.No joy

I have used the upload server to submit zip files and all possible combinations of the above. Again no joy.

I'm giving up. It takes a lot of time and effort to create pictures (I use daz studio) keyed to the text. I will stick to the text stories and abandon the Illustrated Story category

 

[THROBBS]

I have read this thread many times in my attempts to post an Illustrated Story. For whatever reason it seems to be hit or miss. For me at any rate.

I have submitted the text and emailed the pictures. no joy. Email pictures did not arrive. Rechecked email tried again. No joy

I have submitted the text and the pictures in an email.No joy

I have used the upload server to submit zip files and all possible combinations of the above. Again no joy.

I'm giving up. It takes a lot of time and effort to create pictures (I use daz studio) keyed to the text. I will stick to the text stories and abandon the Illustrated Story category

You might try sending a PM to Laurel. She has been very helpful in the past, for me.

Also... I am pretty sure that RGB files will be more forgiving than CMYK

I have not used daz, but check the export options... .jpg is often the best bet.

* FILE SIZE:
When I submitted illustrated stories, I stuck to the bulletin board limitations:
MAX file size 100MB
MAX horizontal dimension: 800 pixels
MAX Vertical dimension: 600 pixels

(saving as "optimized for web" can reduce file size.)

It is also likely that my information is now obsolete, as I have not personally uploaded an illustrated story in quite a while.

 

[Schaka]

You might try sending a PM to Laurel. She has been very helpful in the past, for me.

Also... I am pretty sure that RGB files will be more forgiving than CMYK

I have not used daz, but check the export options... .jpg is often the best bet.

* FILE SIZE:
When I submitted illustrated stories, I stuck to the bulletin board limitations:
MAX file size 100MB
MAX horizontal dimension: 800 pixels
MAX Vertical dimension: 600 pixels

(saving as "optimized for web" can reduce file size.)

It is also likely that my information is now obsolete, as I have not personally uploaded an illustrated story in quite a while.

Thank you for your reply. I appreciate it.

I routinely post graphics, graphics with text, etc., etc., at other sites. And I have screwed it up! However, there is usually a feedback loop that says these are the things wrong with this submission.

However, a 10 day+ plus feedback loop with only a statement that: It's impossible to post this submission, gives me no clue as to what i did wrong.

Creating graphics is a time consuming process. However, I enjoy doing it. My frustration is I invest in the process and I and, at the end, I have no clue how to have submissions consistently accepted.

LOL I just venting. Thanks for your reply