authors

[estragon]

This is an unending debate, as I suggested in my initial response to the OP. Authors are perverse creatures, and don't invariably do what their readers want. Understatement, that.

As for implied contracts, indeed for all contracts in whatever context, one must ask the question "What is the enforcement mechanism?" I see none here; or, as the late Sam Goldwyn remarked, "An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."

 

[oggbashan]

This is an unending debate, as I suggested in my initial response to the OP. Authors are perverse creatures, and don't invariably do what their readers want. Understatement, that.

As for implied contracts, indeed for all contracts in whatever context, one must ask the question "What is the enforcement mechanism?" I see none here; or, as the late Sam Goldwyn remarked, "An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."

The essence of any contract is 'consideration', which means that something of value must pass between the supplier and the customer and vice versa.

If the supplier gives the item away free, there is no contract with the customer unless the 'free gift' is part of a larger transaction e.g. BOGOF

If the customer doesn't give the supplier something in exchange for the item, goods or services supplied, there is still no contract and the supplier can claim back the item.

With Literotica authors and readers, the implied contract is that any reader who reads the whole story, should vote and/or give some response to the author.

But if the reader doesn't like the story, or doesn't want to read beyond the first couple of paragraphs, then the transaction is void.

 

[MSTarot]

most of what I write I mean to stand alone, yet on most of the stories I've gotten comments on I'm asked to write a part two.

I generally don't have a part two even planned out in my head let alone on paper.

When that happens i will shift gears from what I was writing and try to feel out where the story i did would go from where I ended it.

In fact the only one that I know I intended to write out as a multiple story series is the 'Syn' stories. I've not gotten a single comment on the two I have already done, though the voting has show some apparent liking for them maybe.

I tip my hat to those who write the thirty or fifty part stories. Takes a lot of effort to keep sex fresh across that much of a series.

M.S. Tarot

 

[sun_sea_sky]

I must admit that before I started writing here, I hadn't voted or commented on anyone else's story. I thought (but didn't confirm) that I had to join to do that, and at that stage didn't want to go through the rigmarole of setting up an email account just for Lit, so I couldn't be traced back to who I really am.

After I posted my first story, and waited for some sort of score or comment, I thought "fuck it, it isn't fair to expect comments or scores without giving out my own," so now I usually score every story I read, and comment if I can make a positive comment. I'm pretty sure the other writers aren't hanging out for criticism about their grammar, spelling or plotting, so I let those ones go.

Maybe under stories where it says "Please Rate This Submission" there could be a line of smaller print: "You can rate or comment without joining Literotica."

As for the multi-part stories, a couple I have written I thought could be kept going if there was interest. But I don't really want to spend weeks adding to a story which "worked" in the first few pages.

After all, 20 "pages" of story could be 10 x 2-page stories, rather than one 20-page story.

I'm personally trying different genres, just to see how I go. My next story is in a new genre to what I have done before.

I have liked some of the longer stories, a couple of favourites spring to mind. Mind you, some of them were multi-part but each part was quite short. So it could have been one longer chapter, rather than five short chapters.

I'm also finding that doing a longer story takes more discipline than a shorter one. You need more plot points or crises to avoid just getting boring.