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I’ve been thinking about a story I’ve been working on and it wasn’t originally intended to involve a lot of sex. However, I’ve since decided to do a second version of the story which has more sex. But I want to post the first couple chapters together as the first chapter for context. Would you read it if they only had sex in the second chapter? There’s a version of it where the end of the first chapter could have some sex in it. Not sure if I want to do this though.

This is one spot my software shines, the ability to merge/manage chapters… So, for instance, my “clean” chapter 111, covers Easter weekend & a bit more, it’s 5.7k (approx). However, for explicit, I’ve got five chapters #264-#268 with 42.2k (approx).

I figured as much, but almost everything that I read on AFF usually has sex in the first chapter. I know at least a couple I’ve been interested in had no sex in it but the story didn’t make me want to read the rest. So I’m wondering if I’m an outlier or other people do bail on stories. Basically, the first 3 chapters of the “clean” version would end up as the first chapter of the AFF version. The fourth chapter has a sex scene which I could add to the first three.

Well… first, you don’ t have to have sex in the first chapter, especially if it’s got a strong plot. And with how I’m doing this rewrite… frequently scenes that were penned under “clean” tend to not get too smutty even when they go to explicit, might have an odd remark to nipples, pubic hairs, todgers, clits, that sort to remind the audience the characters are starkers. Whereas the differences are more pronounced when I write a scene to be explicit, only to realize I kinda need it in the clean too (thus starts a “clean up” where I mark off the explicit bits). When I view my own stories, the first chapters very rarely have any real sex scenes...nudity or skimpy wear being more common. Actual sex usually comes in later chapters.

I’m not worried. I’ve already finished with one without sex in it. So I don’t have to worry about mixing them up or anything like that. It’s more about how people on the site will likely want to read it. Whether people will read the first chapter expecting a sex scene but don’t get one. If that will stop people from reading chapter 2.

How good are you at compiling & running software from source, and using something similar conceptually to LaTeX in usage? I’m serious here, because I am writing two versions of my potter fanfic story within the same set of text files simultaneously, and I manage this with a custom bit of C++ code that I wrote. (The fanfic is on AO3 under two separate “story” entries, and the word counts are almost a 3:1 ratio between them.) As an example of the markup you’d be writing…. {They|Harry's soft todger dripped as they} continued. A sharp bend to the right, they stopped. In this case, the clean (which is the first “slot”) would read (after processing) While the explicit (second “slot”) would read (after processing) And yes, with the right marking, you can do whole sections as one or the other. I’ll typically write multiple chapters of explicit to a single clean chapter a lot of the time. I put my source code up on github a while ago, so it’s available for playing around with.