Hello all,

I've lurked for a long, long time, but finally decided to dip my tip in the water and write my own story within this theme (I've written others related to cuckoldry and chastity elsewhere in the past).

I have two questions related to the submission guidelines and general preferences of the community that I'm hoping you can help me with:

1. My story's very long (Google Drive lists it at 52 pages when I open the Print dialog). I didn't intend it to be when I set out, but as I wrote it, and the ideas flooded in, and the details cleared up, it became deeply complex. I feel confident that all of it's good, and relevant, and entertaining, and sexy, and helps build a rich, believable world with three-dimensional characters the reader can feel themselves in the shoes of or be as attracted to as the character is, so I have no desire to chop it down. But I'm curious what the proper way to handle such a long story is. I've seen some stories submitted in parts, of course. I didn't write mine with that in mind, but could figure out how to break it up if this is the required or expected solution. If so, is the standard also to tag only what's relevant to each part? I feel like that creates awkwardness with the tagging search system (typically the end is the only part that contains the payoff someone may be searching for) which is why I'm nervous about it, but I also want to do this right.

2. I saw a rule against piss/scat play, with allowance for catheters and enemas. My piece, without getting into much detail, includes a scene where a female character, much to the lead's confusion, demands to assist him in using a urinal, which he allows. There's no piss play, no descriptions of urine or even sexuality. It's just there to set some tone to the relationship that develops and set up a later event. Do you think this would get through the guidelines, or do I need to try to remove it?

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

That rule came into being a few years ago when I was being inundated by stories revolving around #2, with castration as a hardly used theme.

Some of them were so vulgar that I threw up before I could hit the DELETE key, hence the rule.

So long as your story isn't something like a scene from "The 120 Days of Sodom", I'd say that Cainanite will accept it.

I suspected as such, and agree strongly. Had to deal with that in my Tumblr feed recently with an unexpected appearance of scat. Not cool for an otherwise unrelated feed, or in this case story, to suddenly go that direction. I can assure that my reference shouldn't turn any stomachs.

Any advice on the issue of story length?

Fifty-two pages in a printout of a Microsoft Word document probably translates to about 250 pages in the Harlequin paperback format. That's a novel, not a story, but I read Harlequin novels from time to time. If the characters are credible and interesting and the reader can relate to the motives and feelings of at least the protagonist, you're halfway there. If, on top of that, the plot is believable, there is action and a little suspense, the protagonist is changed by the events in the story, and the spelling and grammar don't get in the way, some will take the time to wade through it. Otherwise, I suspect that most readers will drop off around page ten or before. It sounds like a real labor of love. Best wishes for its success.

Sandi

I'd suggest you try and break it up into chapters of less than 10k words each, otherwise, you'll probably lose interest in it.