Best way to partially publish a story

[Aman Onfy Mous]

Any suggestions? I have about 60 chapters written, but I only want to publish 10, with the rest to be published on a regular schedule. I know you can delete and recover, but I don't know that I can delete 50 chapters before a moderator makes the story visible.

 

[SeriousBrainDamage]

Save them somewhere else, the chapter you what to hold back, that is.
You can even create a dummy story for them if you don't want to save stuff on your drives.
Even with 50 chapters, it wouldn't take more than ten minutes at worst.

 

[JohnTitor45]

What the brain damage guy said (surprisingly sensible for someone who supposedly has brain damage). I've done the same thing.

 

[Gambio]

Definitely save your stuff somewhere else(holy fuck 60 chapters in the editor? Thats some next level anxiety)

I would also advise you to not write in the editor period. That thing can do funky stuff and has eaten my chapters before.

 

[TheLowKing]

I'm confused by the question, because the answer seems so obvious to me: you can simply save chapters as draft (meaning that only you can see them), then make them public at your own schedule.

Am I missing something?

 

[Aman Onfy Mous]

Definitely save your stuff somewhere else(holy fuck 60 chapters in the editor? Thats some next level anxiety)

I would also advise you to not write in the editor period. That thing can do funky stuff and has eaten my chapters before.

Next level anxiety is about right. I write in an RTF, but I keep two 100% identical copies, one in the RTF, and one in a CHYOA draft. I've lost stories before, so now I keep two copies.

Save them somewhere else, the chapter you what to hold back, that is.
You can even create a dummy story for them if you don't want to save stuff on your drives.
Even with 50 chapters, it wouldn't take more than ten minutes at worst.

I wondered if that was the way to go (a second CHYOA draft with just the first release chapters). Sounds like it is. Thanks.

I'm confused by the question, because the answer seems so obvious to me: you can simply save chapters as draft (meaning that only you can see them), then make them public at your own schedule.

Am I missing something?

So far as I can tell, when I publish the story, every chapter within it gets published also (there is a notice at the bottom of each chapter that says this - "This chapter will be published automatically when the story is approved and published."). I see no options to partially publish. If I've missed something obvious...well, that's the question I made this thread to ask.

 

[Dissonant Soundtrack]

Afaik, this is only a problem when you first publish the story. After that, you can keep them in draft as long as you like and release them in chunks.

 

[Aman Onfy Mous]

Afaik, this is only a problem when you first publish the story. After that, you can keep them in draft as long as you like and release them in chunks.

Yeah, that was my understanding also. I realize it's a weird situation, but the first chapter was actually one of the last written, and heavily revised over and over and over. It was not something that could be released, in order, and then added to later. Annoying, but that's the situation.

 

[Aman Onfy Mous]

Definitely save your stuff somewhere else(holy fuck 60 chapters in the editor? Thats some next level anxiety)

I would also advise you to not write in the editor period. That thing can do funky stuff and has eaten my chapters before.

One other thought...is 60 chapters in the editor really that unusual? I've pre-written a ton of chapters so that I can have a regular release schedule without feeling pressure to constantly write something every week if I hit a writer's block or just time issues. I would have thought this was not uncommon, but maybe it's just me being strange.

 

[JohnTitor45]

Definitely save your stuff somewhere else(holy fuck 60 chapters in the editor? Thats some next level anxiety)

I would also advise you to not write in the editor period. That thing can do funky stuff and has eaten my chapters before.

I only keep ten chapters in the draft/editor (what's that thing supposed to be called, Gambio and LowKing seem to be saying different things) to make sure I'm not going too long without sex. Wait, I thought Gambio had 300 chapters in there.

 

[Gambio]

I only keep ten chapters in the draft/editor (what's that thing supposed to be called, Gambio and LowKing seem to be saying different things) to make sure I'm not going too long without sex. Wait, I thought Gambio had 300 chapters in there.

300 pages you lunatic! (actually 318 as of now, still riding that high)

And no I don't keep them in the editor. These stories are safely squared away on my hard drive and two seperate USB sticks

 

[gene.sis]

Am I missing something?

When a story gets published and approved, ALL current chapters become public.

I know you can delete and recover, but I don't know that I can delete 50 chapters before a moderator makes the story visible.

Recovering chapters is possible within 7 days after deletion.
Approving stories usually takes not more than a day. (In some cases it might be 2 days.)

Definitely save your stuff somewhere else

I second that.
There are always good reasons to do that.

I would also advise you to not write in the editor period. That thing can do funky stuff and has eaten my chapters before.

I feel RTE might cause some problems here and there that might not occur when you write in plain Markdown. (That's also easier to back up offline.)
Also, I guess it's easier to write on the site when you do some game mode stuff as you can test stuff directly.

Any suggestions?

It is also possible to ask Friedman to only publish the introduction chapter of the story. (Or a few chapters to meet the 250 words of actual story.)
Though that might take longer than the usual approving process.

 

[TheLowKing]

So far as I can tell, when I publish the story, every chapter within it gets published also (there is a notice at the bottom of each chapter that says this - "This chapter will be published automatically when the story is approved and published."). I see no options to partially publish. If I've missed something obvious...well, that's the question I made this thread to ask.

When a story gets published and approved, ALL current chapters become public.

Ahh, right. I guess I did miss something, then.