Where to publish serials?

[sr71plt]

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[sr71plt]

I've had titles pass through that went to 32 characters (including spaces), and it looks like that might be the limit on the story listing chart. So, that would seem to be the limit on constructing a title formula that indicated special serialization. That, and it looks like you can't use commas and colons and such.

 

[palisa]

Is that where I'm supposed to point out the old 'editor edit thyself' thingie?

It's 'run the gambit' and it's 'category' in case you didn't know.

Why do I have the feeling I'm putting my testicles in a vise here?

It's "run the gamut," not "gambit" (a ploy) or "gammit" (?).

 

[LadyCibelle]

Why do I have the feeling I'm putting my testicles in a vise here?

It's "run the gamut," not "gambit" (a ploy) or "gammit" (?).

You're not putting anything of yours in a vise, sweetie. For once in my life, I answered without making sure my sources were correct. In my part of the world, or at least most people I'm in contact with use 'run the gambit' so that's what I used without verification. Now I know better, I've checked it with moult dictionaries and I'll never make the mistake of saying 'run the gambit' again.

To everyone who corrected me without making an ass of themselves, thank you! That includes you, Palisa.

 

[MarshAlien]

You're not putting anything of yours in a vise, sweetie. For once in my life, I answered without making sure my sources were correct. In my part of the world, or at least most people I'm in contact with use 'run the gambit' so that's what I used without verification. Now I know better, I've checked it with moult dictionaries and I'll never make the mistake of saying 'run the gambit' again.

To everyone who corrected me without making an ass of themselves, thank you! That includes you, Palisa.

Although, in a sense, I suppose that the characters that Paul Newman and Robert Redford played in The Sting could be said to be running the gambit. So where is your part of the world, anyway? Vegas? Atlantic City?

 

[cloudy]

Although, in a sense, I suppose that the characters that Paul Newman and Robert Redford played in The Sting could be said to be running the gambit. So where is your part of the world, anyway? Vegas? Atlantic City?

I think she may be a Newfie.

*ducks and runs*

 

[LadyCibelle]

I think she may be a Newfie.

*ducks and runs*

Not a Newfie, babe; but really not that far. New Brunswick instead of Newfoundland

 

[cloudy]

Not a Newfie, babe; but really not that far. New Brunswick instead of Newfoundland

That's why I ran.

 

[LadyCibelle]

That's why I ran.

No need to run...I love you always.

 

[DrSqueaky]

So..is there an answer?

There are a lot of thoughts, but I'm not yet seeing an answer as to how to publish a serial, so here are a few more concrete one:

1. If I were to submit a story titled "Erotic Serial #01: The beginning", and asked in the submission instructions box that the title be kept #01 instead of Ch. 01, is there any chance it would happen?

2. If I were to submit a story title "The Beginning: Erotic Serial Vol. 1," would the title get changed before publication?

Dr. Squeaky

 

[sr71plt]

There are a lot of thoughts, but I'm not yet seeing an answer as to how to publish a serial, so here are a few more concrete one:

1. If I were to submit a story titled "Erotic Serial #01: The beginning", and asked in the submission instructions box that the title be kept #01 instead of Ch. 01, is there any chance it would happen?

2. If I were to submit a story title "The Beginning: Erotic Serial Vol. 1," would the title get changed before publication?

Dr. Squeaky

It might be worth a try (and then let us know), but the only times I tried to use something other than Ch. 01 format or have tried a colon, they were changed.

(And I count 35 character spaces in the second title. I've never had one go through with more than 32 character spaces--and those go almost to the end of the title line on the page listings.)

 

[palisa]

Squeaky, why not just send a PM to one of the site editors and ask?

I'm not sure if your distinction between a serial and a novel in chapters is really so clear-cut; many (most? all?) of Dickens' novels were published as newspaper serials, but were collected into books set off as chapters. That's the reverse of your concern, but I can't think of any examples offhand of serials as you describe the term.

 

[snooper]

Squeaky, why not just send a PM to one of the site editors and ask?...

The site editors are all at the one PM address, Laurel.

... I'm not sure if your distinction between a serial and a novel in chapters is really so clear-cut; ...

I believe that "serial" is being used here where UK English would use "series".

A serial comes in chapters and reading Chapter 2 makes no sense if you have not read Chapter 1; Chapter 3 makes no sense if you have not read Chapters 1 and 2 in that order, and so forth.

A series comes in lumps but you can read each lump separately without needing to have read the others. Think of the Sherlock Holmes stories; it doesn't matter where you start, you can still enjoy the story because each one is complete in itself.

 

[palisa]

A series comes in lumps but you can read each lump separately without needing to have read the others. Think of the Sherlock Holmes stories; it doesn't matter where you start, you can still enjoy the story because each one is complete in itself.

Comes the dawn.

 

[sr71plt]

A serial comes in chapters and reading Chapter 2 makes no sense if you have not read Chapter 1; Chapter 3 makes no sense if you have not read Chapters 1 and 2 in that order, and so forth.

A series comes in lumps but you can read each lump separately without needing to have read the others. Think of the Sherlock Holmes stories; it doesn't matter where you start, you can still enjoy the story because each one is complete in itself.

Good distinction. And the problem in titling that seems to be the thrust of this thread is in the "series" stories that the author would really like the reader to read in order, if possible. Even the mostly standalone stories like the Sherlock Holmes ones often have a chronology and there are references--from the subtle to the very significant--in later stories to earlier stories that the author would really hope the reader sees in a set order.

 

[Darkniciad]

Update: Finally sent that PM to Laurel.

There's no rule against only using numbers, it's just a standard procedure to change it to ch. unless otherwise requested in a moderator's note at the time of submission/title change.

Putting my title changes in the queue now before the other two parts of the next story come back from editing

 

[sr71plt]

Update: Finally sent that PM to Laurel.

There's no rule against only using numbers, it's just a standard procedure to change it to ch. unless otherwise requested in a moderator's note at the time of submission/title change.

Putting my title changes in the queue now before the other two parts of the next story come back from editing

This seems a ripe topic for a "how to" essay.

 

[LadyCibelle]

This seems a ripe topic for a "how to" essay.

YOU don't get to decide who write what and where. I've had enough of you and your bullying, nastiness, meanness and plain assholiness. Get over yourself or stop posting here. We don't LIKE you, don't WANT you and don't NEED you around here. Go play with your friend Scouries and leave the nice people here the hell alone!

 

[sr71plt]

YOU don't get to decide who write what and where. I've had enough of you and your bullying, nastiness, meanness and plain assholiness. Get over yourself or stop posting here. We don't LIKE you, don't WANT you and don't NEED you around here. Go play with your friend Scouries and leave the nice people here the hell alone!

I didn't "decide" it should be written--there's nothing in what I posted that implies this. I said, looking at all of the interesting questions raised in the portion of this thread that was germane to the topic, that it would be a good subject of a "how to" essay on Lit. Just having a substantive discussion here, which I will continue to do when there's a substantive discussion that interests me.

 

[TruthOrDare]

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FEMINAZI!!!

You wouldn't delete a post by one of your fellow club fuck with people buddies for nothing to bring to the thread, now would you? Lord knows they have enough of them.

SHAME SHAME!!!

I suggest we initiate the impeach the moderator process.

 

[Shitting_Bull]

FEMINAZI!!!

You wouldn't delete a post by one of your fellow club fuck with people buddies for nothing to bring to the thread, now would you? Lord knows they have enough of them.

SHAME SHAME!!!

I suggest we initiate the impeach the moderator process.

Yeah, I second the motion for impeachment. She is probably one of the editors for those books by the club that are supposed to make money for "free speech" organizations.