Disappointments

[sr71plt]

Good luck with that. To use the word apathy would be a step up to describe the response from the owners these days.

That's pretty much irrelevant to the question. As the mods have nothing to do with the story file, complaining to any of them could legitimately be answered with the flip of the bird.

And the chosen complaining to the forum at large is useless too.

 

[estragon]

I have chosen to PM MarciaRH, and will allow a reasonable time for an answer before going any further with this matter. If anyone cares, they can go to asstr.org, search the name "Ahlberg" (the name of one of the characters), read the 2010 story for him/herself, and compare it to the story posted here on Lit. I note that the story as posted at asstr would not be accepted here on Lit, for a reason obvious in the first paragraph.

Given that posting here on Lit is of no commercial value (as has been said so often), it would seem that we indeed have an alt situation, but I don't want to judge in advance of evidence.

 

[estragon]

A Retraction

MarciaRH has responded to my PM by e-mail. The author states that the story "Snow Angels" is indeed her work, and was previously posted to asstr and to SOL. That is sufficient for me.

Unless doing so would compromise an author's privacy or disclose an alt the author wishes to keep under wraps, I might suggest that authors who post to several sites might wish to state that fact when posting, to prevent similar incorrect charges of plagiarism.

 

[estragon]

Although not strictly speaking a story disappointment, I am sorry that Lovecraft68 has chosen to leave Lit. Whatever our disagreements in the past, I was a fan of his story "Home Is Where the Heart Is", and he was always an interesting commentator on the various Lit BBs.

I wish him success in the future, and I still owe him two beers at Jake's Saloon.

 

[alwayswantedto]

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[fadetoblack2011]

hmm looks like i missed out and joined too late!

 

[estragon]

Fade, have no fear, there are plenty of characters remaining on this and the other Lit BBs. Hang around, you'll soon see what I mean.

 

[sr71plt]

That was just a spam advertisement.

 

[estragon]

That was just a spam advertisement.

Please report as such.

 

[lovecraft68]

Although not strictly speaking a story disappointment, I am sorry that Lovecraft68 has chosen to leave Lit. Whatever our disagreements in the past, I was a fan of his story "Home Is Where the Heart Is", and he was always an interesting commentator on the various Lit BBs.

I wish him success in the future, and I still owe him two beers at Jake's Saloon.

After dozens of e-mails from readers pleading with me not to go and to leave my stories up, I have decided to do just that, and this morning deleted my removal request.

Instead I unpublished two works at Amazon that were similar enough to the lit versions to get me in dutch over there. They were not doing terribly sales wise, but the $100 or so a month I stood to make on them is not worth the problems they could cause for other works when The big A get on their "we'll terminate your account" kick.

I did not make the decision to remove my work lightly, nor did I make the decision to keep them up there lightly either. If nothing else I kept coming back to losing face about not following through on something I publicly stated I would do.

I then received an extremely long e-mail from a reader about my swb series. They were an abused child as well as a former drug addict. They went on to say how my series affected them, as I hit on the those topics perfectly and there were times they cried, but more importantly took hope.

The ironic thing about my series is that as nightmarish as much of the content was, it does end happily. It means a lot to know my work has done more than make people get off, or say 'damn that was hot'

And at the end of the day why would I worry about what a bunch of people that I will never meet think of me? Not to mention that many of them are swiftboating back stabbing pricks who use the forum as an outlet to lash out at the fact their realities are not what they wish they were.

As for new material? I don't know if I will be posting any in the near future but for now I will leave my stories up. The two that were kicked off recently will remain off. I will not rewrite them for the sake of the sites vanilla standards and two faced stances on content.

Thank you Estragon for allowing me to hijack your thread and make that announcement and hopefully you will be buying me those beers, I do believe I will be in the apple sometime in early May.

 

[sr71plt]

After dozens of e-mails from readers pleading with me not to go and to leave my stories up, I have decided to do just that, and this morning deleted my removal request.

My gosh, what a surprise!

(right on schedule)

 

[estragon]

LC68, glad you're back. Let me know when you want to collect those beers.

 

[estragon]

I'm really missing stories from LunaEroticaMystica (I know she has serious health issues), LettersfromTatyana (I hope she's all right, too), and SA Penn Lady.

I would be over the top if Grandmaster dweaver999 had another Valerie story, but that must await, I guess, the rest of his Galatic Whore series (although billed as a three-part with all three parts now posted, the "Comments" section seems to suggest more to come).

 

[estragon]

An author for whom I copy edit was having problems with the ending to a series. The author asked me for help, even though that's outside my area of responsibility (and quite possibly competence as well). I was disappointed I couldn't help. I could see the possibility of a Romeo-and-Juliet ending, but I didn't want that, and I thought for sure that the author's fans wouldn't like it either.

I don't like deus ex machina endings, and the author's ending wasn't exactly that, but I couldn't suggest a better one.

Didn't Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy have a line that went something like "Thou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself"?

 

[PennLady]

I'm really missing stories from LunaEroticaMystica (I know she has serious health issues), LettersfromTatyana (I hope she's all right, too), and SA Penn Lady.

Thanks for the mention. I hope Luna gets well soon, and I know Tatyana's busy with her job. Myself, I'm just having a tough time finding writing time. However, I did finish a short story for a compilation and once that's finalized, it should free me up to finish R&B. Which I really want to finish!

 

[elfin_odalisque]

That was just a spam advertisement.

With 47 posts? Get a life you retard.

 

[sr71plt]

With 47 posts? Get a life you retard.

Yes, with 47 posts. You exhibit your usual woo woo blindness. (A) the original post contained a link to spam (which got deleted) and (B) the poster even uses "loves spam" in it's identifier.

Yet another "duh" Elfin posting posted eons after the original post with the only intent of attacking me.

What a dopey ditz.

 

[estragon]

I've been lucky to avoid disappointments recently. Perhaps the writing has gotten better (well done, authors!), or perhaps I've gotten more selective. But scoring for this E-Day contest so far seems to be low. However, that's been an endemic problem for as long as I've been on this site, so nothing new about that.

 

[estragon]

I liked thomcovenent's "Having the Builders In" story and said so, but he has posted a prequel that doesn't measure up; formulaic, and less good mechanically.

 

[estragon]

This BB seems to have attracted a squad of golfing goods spammers, for what reason I cannot tell. Maybe because the BDSM types like to club someone's balls. I report all of the spamsters, but it's a nuisance.

 

[estragon]

I am disappointed that the spammers on this BB seem to be breeding. Now they're hawking CDs and herbal remedies; can East Asian (Canadian allegedly, but far enough from Canada to cost two loonies to send them a postcard) Viagra and penis enlargements be far behind?

If all this proposed United States Federal legislation regulating the internet is to be enacted (which we must fight tooth and nail), how about ending spam, especially spam from on-line retailers who promise bonuses to people who flog their wares? How about subjecting such retailers to a nice excise tax, like that imposed on the tanning salons?

 

[estragon]

Unhappily, an author whose work I've liked (and praised) has posted one less good. Storm62's "Love in the Air" has a sweet plotline, but it comes across contrived, with a jarring time shift at the conclusion. I'm disappointed that a talented writer didn't put more into this story.

 

[estragon]

Undisappointment

Storm62 came storming back (but gently, as is his wont) with "The Grid Girl". Glad to see him back on form.

 

[SultryBreakfast]

hmm looks like i missed out and joined too late!

Hmm me too.

 

[estragon]

Sultry, never too late.