Never sure how to pick a category

[cw5523729]

Really? I'm curious now what you would have expected?

That the average reader in T/I only cares about Step-son getting mommy in bed and sticking whatever willing hole she has, without any concern for love/feelings/etc.

But that's based on nothing more than my preconceptions about the category with no experience to back that up at all so it could very well be totally off-base.

I'll need to read that guide because it sounds like I'm completely mistaken.

eta: and I want to read that guide just for its awesome title.

2nd eta: and reading just the beginning of it is enough for me to tell I'm guilty of the stereotyping he mentions very early on.

 

[TheExperimentalist]

eta: and I want to read that guide just for it's awesome title.

I know, right?

 

[TheExperimentalist]

2nd eta: and reading just the beginning of it is enough for me to tell I'm guilty of the stereotyping he mentions very early on.

Well shit, did we accidentally just turn you into an incest reader?

 

[cw5523729]

Well shit, did we accidentally just turn you into an incest reader?

If mom gets a little romance before or after the anal, sure!

Hell, maybe even during!

 

[cw5523729]

Come to think of it, why don't more Hallmark movies involve incest? Mom and Son could cuddle naked in front of the fireplace on Christmas morning! Just think of the ratings!!

 

[Z_TheWriter]

@cw5523729
It took me until week 2 on this forum to realize that Loving Wives was a lot more complicated than a story about a wife who loves her partner.

 

[old_prof]

I tried to avoid that myself. I have a story categorized as BDSM and I put all parts of the story in it even though technically certain parts aren't in that category and some parts don't even contain any sexual content period. I tagged the individual parts correctly but it felt misleading at best to put part #14 in "romance" even if that one part falls into that category when the rest of them don't.

I didn't discover the forum (and this advice) until just after I started spreading my first series across categories (E&V, then EC and GS). I think it worked out okay for me, but who knows, maybe it would have been better if I had stuck to one category.

 

[cw5523729]

@cw5523729
It took me until week 2 on this forum to realize that Loving Wives was a lot more complicated than a story about a wife who loves her partner.

That's a minefield that I have thus far managed to avoid and yet have a masochistic urge to jump into

 

[cw5523729]

@cw5523729
It took me until week 2 on this forum to realize that Loving Wives was a lot more complicated than a story about a wife who loves her partner.

Oh, and I've been a member since 2018 and yet I still have no idea wtf people in that category actually want or expect

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Oh, and I've been a member since 2018 and yet I still have no idea wtf people in that category actually want or expect

I saw another thread talking about how it's basically three categories of expectations which are all mutually exclusive and all get mad about stories that conform to one of the other plot beats than the one they want... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[cw5523729]

I saw another thread talking about how it's basically three categories of expectations which are all mutually exclusive and all get mad about stories that conform to one of the other plot beats than the one they want... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well, shit, now that masochistic urge is really gnawing at me!

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Well, shit, now that masochistic urge is really gnawing at me!

So I'm no expert on categories (as evidenced by me starting this thread), but maybe just stick to the BDSM category for masochistic urges?

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Speaking of which, that highlights another trouble I have, since my BDSMey style is rather different than the stereotypical Dom/Domme in leathers expecting a "yes, master/mistress" for every response. Mine is typically more freeform, kinda just playacting at the roles instead of rigidly establishing them, or engaging in pain play in the moment because the pain itself is arousing...

Which now that I think about it might just mean that it's more Fetishey than BDSMey. A shame really, I'd had hopes to write in as many categories as I could, but I just don't jive with more 'traditional' BDSM. (Yes, I did just string those two words together. Bring on the hordes accusing me of ragebait.)

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Speaking of which, that highlights another trouble I have, since my BDSMey style is rather different than the stereotypical Dom/Domme in leathers expecting a "yes, master/mistress" for every response. Mine is typically more freeform, kinda just playacting at the roles instead of rigidly establishing them, or engaging in pain play in the moment because the pain itself is arousing...

Which now that I think about it might just mean that it's more Fetishey than BDSMey. A shame really, I'd had hopes to write in as many categories as I could, but I just don't jive with more 'traditional' BDSM. (Yes, I did just string those two words together. Bring on the hordes accusing me of ragebait.)

Subverting tropes can be so fascinating, though! That doesn't automatically just make it fetish IMHO

 

[YmaOHyd]

I'll also say that outside the various trumps readers will give a decent bit of leeway to series compared to single entries. Filtering effect and all that, but also it's a consequence of developed, established relationships that the audience buys into. And if you want to jump categories, that's fine. People do that and some do it pretty successfully.

 

[Britva415]

Is this true? I know nothing about T/I and that sounds 180 degrees apart from what I would have guessed.

I think they just meant, those readers really want the incest and not other taboos.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

@cw5523729
It took me until week 2 on this forum to realize that Loving Wives was a lot more complicated than a story about a wife who loves her partner.

Slow learner?

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Slow learner?

Somehow I read this as you responding this to yourself (my eyes went crossed for a moment) and got VERY confused.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Somehow I read this as you responding this to yourself (my eyes went crossed for a moment) and got VERY confused.

It's the Z's....

 

[cw5523729]

Somehow I read this as you responding this to yourself (my eyes went crossed for a moment) and got VERY confused.

That's ok, I read it as she was responding to me since my username got quoted at the beginning.

And I was ready to respond "well, duh"

 

[Z_TheWriter]

Slow learner?

Definitely not, I'm totally on track for a completely normal erotica writer, yep!

It's the Z's....

...What Zs?

Somehow I read this as you responding this to yourself (my eyes went crossed for a moment) and got VERY confused.

Well actually I am a small puppet being marionetted by Kelliezgirl to make pithy remarks at herself with.
(*Shhh*, this is why I'm a slow learner, there's not a lot of room up there for an extra tenant if you know what I mean.)

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Somehow I read this as you responding this to yourself (my eyes went crossed for a moment) and got VERY confused.

That's ok, I read it as she was responding to me since my username got quoted at the beginning.

And I was ready to respond "well, duh"

Wait... this wasn't a reply to me?

 

[cw5523729]

Wait... this wasn't a reply to me?

Well now I'm just confused.

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Definitely not, I'm totally on track for a completely normal erotica writer, yep!

Are any erotica writers actually normal, though?

 

[Z_TheWriter]

Well now I'm just confused.

Hello confused, I'm.... That letter I can't remember