Disappointments

[sr71plt]

So am I. But obviously for entirely different reasons.

 

[lovecraft68]

I agree if readers are having such a godawful time, they should avoid reading chaptered stories on Lit. Then they should stop watching television in case the TV networks cancel their favorite show.

This is a great point. It just goes to show how bad off the instant gratification generation is.

Oh, I don;t want to read three chapters cause what if it doesn't go anywhere?

Tough shit, get over it YOU ARE NOT PAYING FOR ANYTHING HERE!

If a reader was paying a fee to read here it could something that could be made a point of.

Let me get this straight, the average reader doesn't take three seconds to vote and far fewer comment, but an author "owes" you a series.

PffffffffT!

 

[nakdsub]

Wrong again...

Posted by the same poster who wants the author to include a proslug on every story specifying every single element of a story that could possibly upset the most needy reader?

You just can't seem to get it right, can you. A simply 3 words would suffice in my case, "willing cuckold story." Social contracting not needed, a small amount of courtesy would do. As it was pointed out in this threat, however, courtesy for the reader is not forefront thinking in the minds of a lot of Literotica authors. As a result, we take what we get.

 

[sr71plt]

Posted by the same poster who wants the author to include a proslug on every story specifying every single element of a story that could possibly upset the most needy reader?

You just can't seem to get it right, can you. A simply 3 words would suffice in my case, "willing cuckold story." Social contracting not needed, a small amount of courtesy would do. As it was pointed out in this threat, however, courtesy for the reader is not forefront thinking in the minds of a lot of Literotica authors. As a result, we take what we get.

So, you're saying that--maybe just for you--every author should only proslug if there is a willing cuckold story. Not if there is a death or several varieties of incest or borderline rape or water sports or S&M . . . or a combination of the above . . . or . . . Because you have decided that "willing cuckold" has just got to be highlighted.

 

[estragon]

Back on topic, I got confused with Nachthexe's latest, "Witch Bone and the Mongol Queen, Ch 2"; maybe just my fault, not being able to follow the political contortions. I liked Ch 1, but I can't get my head around this one.

And I expressed my disappointment when Surely Wilder abandoned "Perils of Plagiarism" after Ch 3; but I didn't excoriate the author on that account.

It took me the best part of a year to write "A New Birth of Freedom" and its prequel, "A Deep and Dark December", and to get it licensed for publication. I candidly did not care about the general readership while I was working at it. I was writing it for me, really because I had to; and to express my gratitude, however haltingly and imperfectly, to Grandmaster dweaver999, who created a world and peopled it. That he licensed my effort is still a source of pride.

And who don't like derivative stories needn't read it.

 

[AdjectiveNounVerb]

And I expressed my disappointment when Surely Wilder abandoned "Perils of Plagiarism" after Ch 3; but I didn't excoriate the author on that account.

Didn't that get up to 5 or 6 chapters before being taken down? Now that was a disappointment.

 

[SydneyBlake]

A contract? Please. That's overstating the case just a tad. As someone else already stated, it's a free site and you get what you paid for. In a perfect world, yes, all authors would finish what they started, but if I've started posting a multi-chapter story here and then something happens in my private life that prevents me from finishing it, well, them's the breaks. Build a bridge and get over it. Sure, I'll lost readers. I can only choose my actions, not the consequences. But to say that I am contractually obligated to finish a story that I started on a free website is simply ludicrous.

Sorry, estragon, I guess that struck a nerve.

 

[estragon]

Serenissima Syd, not to worry. I have no exclusive ownership of this thread. I've said it many times before: say whatever you like, wherever you like; and I will do likewise.

 

[estragon]

The Legion of Youth

Some writers, as well as the public at large, seem to think that all men over 65 years of age need little pills to get to the point. I'm disappointed that that erroneous assumption is so prevalent.

 

[PennLady]

Some writers, as well as the public at large, seem to think that all men over 65 years of age need little pills to get to the point. I'm disappointed that that erroneous assumption is so prevalent.

It's just a marketing conspiracy.

 

[LaRascasse]

Some writers, as well as the public at large, seem to think that all men over 65 years of age need little pills to get to the point. I'm disappointed that that erroneous assumption is so prevalent.

Hehe... I wonder who thought that?

Don't worry though, oh virile senior citizen, you shalt stand as the exception to my view.

And another disappointment, since we are on this thread, my fever and my stomach have decided to start a deadly duel on who can outdo whom. The result? this post coming to you from the ER. Argh.

 

[estragon]

LaRascasse, I hope you get well soon. Sounds really awful.

 

[PayDay]

I might agree if this were a pay-site. But as it is, the readers' only investment is the time it takes to read a story the author wrote for free.

You are still making a contract with readers when you post to a site like this. So, it's still all your "bad" when you don't fulfill that contract--and all your excusing for not doing it.

This----------^ estragon's analogy with the building says it better:

The story is an old one; I seem to remember someone telling people something like "Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’" Some guy named Luke wrote it down.

Very smart thing to remember.

I admit this is something of a sore point for me at the moment, as I just posted the first chapter of what I hope to be a long series this week, and it's been getting a great response, so I'm really hyped for Chapter 2...but life has been getting in the way. My day job has to come first! I love getting positive responses from readers here, but those aren't going to pay my rent.

This is not a valid excuse. I promise you: I have less readers and more real life work to do, but my obligation is to my story and those who started listening to it.

Why not warn your readers in the author's notes? It would take 5 minutes to edit your story and submit it with an - EDITED.

I used the phrase: "time between chapters may vary."

If this is a hobby, make sure a reader knows, otherwise, don't write serials unless there is a reason, write longer single chapter stories instead.

I'm pretty sure that it's only authors who don't want to commit to complete what they start (or not post it at all) who can condone leaving readers in the lurch--even on a free-read site.

Agreed. I hardly condone authors posting the first part if all of the other chapters are not finished or not close to finished.

 

[YDB95]

This is not a valid excuse. I promise you: I have less readers and more real life work to do, but my obligation is to my story and those who started listening to it.

No offense intended; but if you bothered to check my list of stories, you'd see that I have in fact posted Chapter 2 (and it's also getting great ratings - thanks everyone). Besides that, I do mostly stick with self-contained chapters so that it won't be too frustrating if the story ends there - or better yet, I can pick it up again later if the story does come to the end I had planned and I find I still have things to add. The one time I wrote a serial that did not work that way, I did in fact make sure it ended promptly. But those were short chapters, mostly one Lit page each. Those just don't take that long.

If this is a hobby, make sure a reader knows, otherwise, don't write serials unless there is a reason, write longer single chapter stories instead.

My posting a story on this site (as opposed to publishing it in a format where you have to pay to read it) implies that it's a hobby. Live with it.

 

[PayDay]

My posting a story on this site (as opposed to publishing it in a format where you have to pay to read it) implies that it's a hobby. Live with it.

Will do

 

[soflabbwlvr]

This is not a valid excuse. I promise you: I have less readers and more real life work to do, but my obligation is to my story and those who started listening to it.

Seriously? My obligation is to my family and my profession. When the readers on this site start paying me for my work, then my priorities will shift accordingly.

If this is a hobby, make sure a reader knows, otherwise, don't write serials unless there is a reason, write longer single chapter stories instead.

Except for the site owners, no one here gets paid for submitting stories. At most, this is an adjunct to other professional writing for some authors. For the vast majority, it is a hobby.

 

[PayDay]

Seriously? My obligation is to my family and my profession. When the readers on this site start paying me for my work, then my priorities will shift accordingly.

Except for the site owners, no one here gets paid for submitting stories. At most, this is an adjunct to other professional writing for some authors. For the vast majority, it is a hobby.

You're totally misunderstanding what I'm trying to say. This has nothing to do with money.

 

[estragon]

the last three posts are spam and have been reported as such.

 

[SandraMustard]

Hundreds of posts all over the forums

I believe the link leads to malware too

ETA: The spambot has been beheaded. The posts (and user) have been deleted. I noted when I looked that the user was created yesterday, not likely a established user account that was hijacked. He/she/it posted upwards of 160 of the same posts with a link to a malicious site.

 

[4glory6]

I can tell you one thing about an author who doesn't finish a series I've been reading--I don't read any of that author's stories ever again.

 

[CarlusMagnus]

Still more spam!

 

[estragon]

It never ends. Some of it comes from Lit accounts that have been infiltrated by spambots.

 

[AdjectiveNounVerb]

StangStar06's LW entry today, "Missing". It's actually making me reevaluate some of his other stories and whether or not they're actually as positive as I'd initially thought or if I glossed over their flaws when I read them.

 

[estragon]

Adjective, I have found stangstar06's work spotty, but only as regards copy editing. By and large, he writes about as well as anybody in the LW category, given that the genre is a troll magnet.

 

[CarlusMagnus]

More spam!