Submitting a multiple-page story: how is it done

[NowImWritting]

I have only submitted one 750-word story, and now I have a story with multiple chapters and pages. I get how to make a series, but how do I submit for multiple pages? I was at a maximum of 4k per page, but what if it is 12k? Do I submit three separations so there are pages? So I send it all and have a predefined page break?

If you don't want to write out how to do it, I would be happy if someone could point me to the help link

 

[CalBishForNow]

Same as you did the 750-word story. Lit will add page breaks at their discretion. It's generally around 3500 words per page, but not exactly. Don't count on too much fancy formatting of your own being preserved. Lit supports some stuff, like this, but there have been multiple threads here about problems with it. Use the text, bold, italics, and not much more than that.

If you WANT to publish a longer story in installments, you can, but that's up to you and anyways doesn't seem to be what you're asking about.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

One can also use < center > < /center > (but closing them in).

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I have a story here published in whole with twenty chapters in 81 Lit pages (178,000 words). The system handles it just fine and readers have responded well since it was published.

Anything shorter would likely face no obstacles.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I have only submitted one 750-word story, and now I have a story with multiple chapters and pages. I get how to make a series, but how do I submit for multiple pages? I was at a maximum of 4k per page, but what if it is 12k? Do I submit three separations so there are pages? So I send it all and have a predefined page break?

If you don't want to write out how to do it, I would be happy if someone could point me to the help link

Submit the whole thing as a single submission. The site sorts out the pagination. Rule of thumb, one Lit page is approximately 3750 words.

 

[metropolinational]

Submit the whole thing as a single submission. The site sorts out the pagination. Rule of thumb, one Lit page is approximately 3750 words.

This is true, but personally, if the story is more than five pages, I am strongly dissuaded from reading it. If it has chapters, then I can track where I am and come back to it. But a single story, without chapters, and 20 pages is a huge turnoff because I just know I'm going to get lost.

I've heard this from readers too, that they have a limit around 10K-12K words per chapter. Just my $0.02.

 

[ElectricBlue]

This is true, but personally, if the story is more than five pages, I am strongly dissuaded from reading it. If it has chapters, then I can track where I am and come back to it. But a single story, without chapters, and 20 pages is a huge turnoff because I just know I'm going to get lost.

I've heard this from readers too, that they have a limit around 10K-12K words per chapter. Just my $0.02.

On other hand, the biggest single submission I've seen here was 240,000 words, from a very successful author. So much so, that he published it commercially, and removed it from the site.

I agree, 3 - 4 Lit pages is a bit of a sweet spot if you're going to publish chapters.

 

[SugarStorm]

This is true, but personally, if the story is more than five pages, I am strongly dissuaded from reading it. If it has chapters, then I can track where I am and come back to it. But a single story, without chapters, and 20 pages is a huge turnoff because I just know I'm going to get lost.

I've heard this from readers too, that they have a limit around 10K-12K words per chapter. Just my $0.02.

When you say chapters, do you mean in the sense that the 20-page piece has multiple chapter breaks within it? Or do you mean the 20-page story should be broken up into multiple submissions labeled Ch 01, Ch 02, etc.?

 

[metropolinational]

When you say chapters, do you mean in the sense that the 20-page piece has multiple chapter breaks within it? Or do you mean the 20-page story should be broken up into multiple submissions labeled Ch 01, Ch 02, etc.?

the latter. if you have a 20 page piece, I would submit it as multiple submissions, probably five chapters. you can, I am pretty sure, submit them one right after the other and the site will handle that ok.