Posting a serial...over a number of weeks or all at once?

Just did that with a story I was working on tonight. Had the wife strip down for a spanking, and then after a couple of paragraphs of her husband lecturing her, he proceeded to flip up the nightgown and pull down the undies she'd already removed. Slight continuity issue to correct...

There's also the ever-popular "let's change somebody's name in the middle of the story." For some reason, in the last part of an 18 part series I changed the heroine's name. You'd think I would have remembered who she was by then, but, nope, I gave her a brand new identity. Luckily the Verifier caught the mistake.

It would appear that my recent submission of the Oxford University Spanking Club may have triggered this thread. Apologies to those who feel that I was trying to 'swamp' the new submissions with the 25-part series - this was certainly not my intention.

I wanted to complete the series before submitting any of the parts, as I didn't want to 'paint myself into a corner', as one of the commenters states. However, once I had finished the series, I really wanted to get it off my hands to stop myself 'fiddling with it' forever more, constantly revising and re-revising it!

However, I can see the logic in not releasing all parts in one go. It must be rather daunting to be presented with all parts at once, as the 'viewing' figures on many longer serials on this site often tend to tail-off quite rapidly after the first few parts. This might reflect that readers may have lost interest in the story - in which case I, as an author, have failed to keep their interest?! It might just be that readers prefer shorter stories? Personally, I prefer longer ones with a slow build-up, in which the characters and environment are more fully developed before the 'action' begins....not a 'wham, bam, thank you maam' approach!

Anyway, apologies again for appearing to 'hijack' the site with my submission.

Redrobin

Not needed. Februs operates a very fair way of avoiding any hijacking by loading a very long serial at the bottom of Latest Page 1 spilling into page 2, and this means others actually get even better exposure - we should all be thanking you!

Thank you! It's a very enjoyable story, too.

Agreed. We're grateful anybody took the time to put together a 25 part story and is willing to share it.


Also agree with you on this. I've got stories that are over a year old that I've never submitted because they're "just not right" and I'd rather write something new than fix them. That's why I never reread my stories in full after posting them, although I'll scan them to respond to reader comments or if I need info for a sequel. Otherwise I get too bogged down in "woulda, coulda, shoulda" on how the story could have been written differently. Better to read someone else's work instead (like a 25 part series on a special club at a well-known university).

As a reader, I definitely prefer to distribute a series over multiple publication cycles. As a result, each part gains more attention and the page of a publication cycle is more diverse and therefore more interesting. For me, LSF is characterized by the fact that many authors with very different styles, themes, preferences, emphases and views are represented here. When many parts of a series are published simultaneously, diversity necessarily decreases.

I distinctively prefer to distribute my stories over a longer period. My experience is that many more people read each episode that way. I however noticed that many people did in fact read Robin's story to the end, which contradicts my experience. It seems as if the story is just interesting enough, people will read it, so I bow to the majority. I have to admit that I haven't read it yet. My main disagreement with releasing such an extensive series in one go is that it disrupts the release schedule and limits the exposure other writers get, but that doesn't seem to be an issue either, as Februs kindly uploads additional stories in such a case. I did however feel that the story could have benefited from having been divided into fewer chapters. If a story is less than 4000 words I rarely divide it, with the exception if it contains several spankings. This far I've never released an episode without a spanking, meaning that some episodes have run up to 7000 words. And I still have to learn to finalize a series before beginning to upload it.

Not at all. A wife with some foresight, in a relation like that, wears two pairs of knickers, it's obvious.

True, although from what I can remember of stories where that was attempted it didn't work out so well for them in the end.

I am of the school that finishes and posts episodes one at a time. I do this because this is how I work (little detailed plot design ahead of time -- my characters often surprise me in mid story). Also, if you load all of the parts at once, many of your readers are likely to comment on only the first or last part. But, either way works, so tickle your own fancy.

I'm relatively new here. This is my approach: I find that the longer stories/series have much more character development. I generally avoid the very short stories. As for series, I don't care about their length as much as I really want the "complete" label. I missed on one recently, read a great story only to be left hanging. It had been months between the last two postings, so I am unsure if it will be ever finished. And that story is his entire posted work here. Very frustrating.