Pink Orchid: Story Event for Women-Centric Erotica - Official Support Thread

[stickygirl]

That's the way it is on the other two sites I know about. You have maybe a week to ten days when it's visible. After that, everything falls off. I have managed to get more than a hundred votes on about four stories here, but that is unusual.

Online erotica stories are, well, like a commodity. It's fungible is another way to describe it.

Yea, it's interesting. There have a been a few threads extolling the benefits of having hundreds of followers. Assuming followers actually check story news, I can see that would get your stories off to a flying start.
I've been picking up a few followers, some reading list notes, but I write for myself ultimately. That particular one felt like it had been flushed down the toilet. *shrugs* ce la vie.

Oh - I see fungible has nothing to do with mushrooms. Another word to my list

 

[Bramblethorn]

Yea, it's interesting. There have a been a few threads extolling the benefits of having hundreds of followers. Assuming followers actually check story news, I can see that would get your stories off to a flying start.
I've been picking up a few followers, some reading list notes, but I write for myself ultimately. That particular one felt like it had been flushed down the toilet. *shrugs* ce la vie.

Oh - I see fungible has nothing to do with mushrooms. Another word to my list

One of the chapters in my series Red Scarf has a bit about how our protag learned that dicks aren't fungible

 

[NotWise]

Yea, it's interesting. There have a been a few threads extolling the benefits of having hundreds of followers. Assuming followers actually check story news, I can see that would get your stories off to a flying start.
I've been picking up a few followers, some reading list notes, but I write for myself ultimately. That particular one felt like it had been flushed down the toilet. *shrugs* ce la vie.

Oh - I see fungible has nothing to do with mushrooms. Another word to my list

I think Lit is a different experience when you get into the thousands of followers. I'm not there yet. They do seem to produce a dependable group of viewers, but they don't all read everything and, especially, they don't all like everything.

It's unfortunate that a story can slide into anonymity with so few views. I'm sure the rather anti-erotic title contributed to the problem. A busy day could contribute to the problem, particularly if it was a busy day in the category you picked.

 

[gunhilltrain]

One of the chapters in my series Red Scarf has a bit about how our protag learned that dicks aren't fungible

I don't think dicks are fungible - but you'll probably get a different answer from long-term prostitutes. As for a more mainstream example, McDonald's cheeseburgers could be called fungible.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I think Lit is a different experience when you get into the thousands of followers. I'm not there yet. They do seem to produce a dependable group of viewers, but they don't all read everything and, especially, they don't all like everything.

It's unfortunate that a story can slide into anonymity with so few views. I'm sure the rather anti-erotic title contributed to the problem. A busy day could contribute to the problem, particularly if it was a busy day in the category you picked.

It's not all bad. About once every one or two months, somebody will like a story and then check some of the older ones I've written. They'll usually add them to their reading list/favorites and I'll note their names. By the way, I may seem dense, but are reading lists and favorites now referring to the same thing?

I suppose there are writers here with thousands of followers. I don't know their formula, because I have about 94 after four years.

 

[Lovecraft_Lore]

Write lots of incest or non-consent stories. Writing a few solid stories that are at least 4 pages long. Luck. Win a contest. These things seems to get people far more followers.

 

[NotWise]

It's not all bad. About once every one or two months, somebody will like a story and then check some of the older ones I've written. They'll usually add them to their reading list/favorites and I'll note their names. By the way, I may seem dense, but are reading lists and favorites now referring to the same thing?

I suppose there are writers here with thousands of followers. I don't know their formula, because I have about 94 after four years.

There are authors with 10's of thousands of followers.

Reading lists and favorites don't refer to the same thing, but I'm not sure what they are referring to. They're listed separately in the story data on the story hubs. The downloadable file with story stats lists two categories of "lists," one of which corresponds to Favorites. The listing on your Works page will give you different texts and different icons for Favorites and reading lists, but I've noticed times when someone "adds my story to a list" and has the bookmark icon, that my favorites count increments. Usually it doesn't.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Write lots of incest or non-consent stories. Writing a few solid stories that are at least 4 pages long. Luck. Win a contest. These things seems to get people far more followers.

I'm not trying to maximize the number of followers. It is nice to have just under a hundred of them so far; I appreciate their attention. It is true that I've written only one non-consent story that I remember (and it was about a completely faked role-play) and no incest stories. (I should write one about a mom sitting on her son's lap in the back seat of a car.) My stories and chapters usually average about two Lit pages at most, and I've been in a few contests but I've never won one.

 

[gunhilltrain]

There are authors with 10's of thousands of followers.

Reading lists and favorites don't refer to the same thing, but I'm not sure what they are referring to. They're listed separately in the story data on the story hubs. The downloadable file with story stats lists two categories of "lists," one of which corresponds to Favorites. The listing on your Works page will give you different texts and different icons for Favorites and reading lists, but I've noticed times when someone "adds my story to a list" and has the bookmark icon, that my favorites count increments. Usually it doesn't.

I'll take your word for it, but I haven't seen the bookmark icon yet. On the "My Stories" list, it still says "Favorites" at the top, and the same heart icon as always is with the story. The story hubs have a red heart symbol. On one story I've checked, the number of reading list entries on the "Works Activity" page is the same as the number of favorites (five in that case).

 

[NotWise]

I'll take your word for it, but I haven't seen the bookmark icon yet. On the "My Stories" list, it still says "Favorites" at the top, and the same heart icon as always is with the story. The story hubs have a red heart symbol. On one story I've checked, the number of reading list entries on the "Works Activity" page is the same as the number of favorites (five in that case).

Ah, you must be using the old user interface.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Ah, you must be using the old user interface.

Yes, I am. I get into a habit of using some version of software and it takes me a while to adjust to a new one.

 

[JadaVersailles]

I'm posting this thread to officially kick of the "Pink Orchid: Story Event for Women-Centric Erotica"

Stories are to be posted in February 2022, and the story list will be published on the International Women's Day, March 8th.

Theme of the event: sex positivity, female empowerment, women as the subjects of their own lives. Women in control of their own pleasure and passion. Erotic tales where women make sense and have agency. The aim is not to turn tables and write femdom, male-bashing or revenge stories, but produce sex positive stories of women existing for their own sake and living, loving and lusting on their own terms.

This event is open for absolutely everyone. Stories are not limited by anything other than Literotica's standard rules - you can write in any category.

Rules:
1. Write a story in which a female character has agency and makes sense on her own terms.
2. Include text "Pink Orchid" in the Note to Admin-field
3. Post your story in February of 2022

That's it! Now go forth and write! If you have any comments, questions or ideas, post on this thread.

Edited to add

Announcement on the story side

Edited to add

2022 yearly contest schedule has been published and Valentine Day's contest schedule is



If your Valentine Day's story fits this event description, or vice versa, you're very welcome to post the story in both. This is a writer's challenge and not a contest so a story can be entered to both lists. If you want to do that, follow the Valentine Day's contest instructions on what to put in note to admin field (in addition to our "Pink Orchid"!) and post after the beginning of February and before the contest deadline ...and also be sure to follow any other contest guidelines, for example the story can't be a part of an ongoing series in a contest, whereas here we don't have such limitations.

Edited to add

750 word challenge is hosted again, and it overlaps this event perfectly. So, if you want to write a 750 entry to this event, you can include it in both! Maybe we ought to have a subchallenge to write a 750 word women-centric Valentine's Day story

Check the 750 word challenge specifics from event announcements for what to include in note to admin.

Edited to add

List of entries
532k words, 44 stories and 1 poem, featuring 18 categories! Thank you so much for everyone who participated!

Any more things planned for our string female character stories?
I just found out you could interact with authors on this site lol

 

[Omenainen]

Any more things planned for our string female character stories?
I just found out you could interact with authors on this site lol

Welcome

I’ll host this event again next year. In the meanwhile, I’ll be passing my time writing stories with female characters that make sense, and I hope others will too!

 

[MelissaBaby]

Any more things planned for our string female character stories?
I just found out you could interact with authors on this site lol

Well, I originally had two stories I planned to submit, but one of them kept getting bigger and bigger, and I am just now getting close to finishing it...so there's at least one more intended Pink Orchid story in the works.

 

[JadaVersailles]

I'm having trouble with my no-women-in-refrigerators style of writing (women in refrigerators is the thing where women are just a thing that happen to the male's plotline, dead and stuffed in a fridge rather than a multidimensional character). In the second book, it's easier to post because she's learned from all the mistakes in her past and is sexually assertive and sets boundaries https://literotica.com/s/cheshire-batman-pt-01-desert-island if you wanna take a look.

However, in the first book, Jada (my main character across 3 books) falls for a guy who turns out to be really bad. The sex scenes are hot, but then they get into nonconsensual territory. But the point isn't to glorify the abuse, it's to explore how an intelligent, capable woman can slowly slide into an abusive situation. Her boyfriend Ayano pushes boundaries one inch at a time and she talks herself into going along with it one inch at a time. It's like a gambling addiction- she keeps going back for the jackpot even when a lot of his behavior is inexcusable... So far, I'm just posting simulated nonconsent sex scenes between Jada and Ayano, but it will take a dark turn. And then there are a lot of pages between sex scenes! I don't want to write for an erotic-only audience, but I don't know where to find the audience of people who want to hear stories of abuse and recovery with their erotica?

 

[Omenainen]

I’ve been told that on Lit there are readers for everything, so just write what you want and your readers will find you. For complicated or niche stories or stories combining multiple kinks it might just take longer than more straightforward stories that fit neatly in one category.

Pay attention to the tags you use and categories you choose and have a go at it The readers who want their women in refrigerators won’t like it, but so what? You’re not writing for them, and you can’t write for every reader no matter what, so best just write for yourself.

 

[8letters]

I think Lit is a different experience when you get into the thousands of followers. I'm not there yet. They do seem to produce a dependable group of viewers, but they don't all read everything and, especially, they don't all like everything.

It's unfortunate that a story can slide into anonymity with so few views. I'm sure the rather anti-erotic title contributed to the problem. A busy day could contribute to the problem, particularly if it was a busy day in the category you picked.

I've got 4800 followers. To me, they matter very little as the number of views I get for a story is far higher than that. As far as I can tell, what matters is posting in a category with a large audience with a title that gets readers to click on it. A high-rating is a big bonus. Now that I've got the reader reading the story, I need deliver a premise that readers in my category like and execute the premise well. Based on the data, it takes at least three pages to do that, preferably six.

 

[8letters]

I'm having trouble with my no-women-in-refrigerators style of writing (women in refrigerators is the thing where women are just a thing that happen to the male's plotline, dead and stuffed in a fridge rather than a multidimensional character). In the second book, it's easier to post because she's learned from all the mistakes in her past and is sexually assertive and sets boundaries https://literotica.com/s/cheshire-batman-pt-01-desert-island if you wanna take a look.

However, in the first book, Jada (my main character across 3 books) falls for a guy who turns out to be really bad. The sex scenes are hot, but then they get into nonconsensual territory. But the point isn't to glorify the abuse, it's to explore how an intelligent, capable woman can slowly slide into an abusive situation. Her boyfriend Ayano pushes boundaries one inch at a time and she talks herself into going along with it one inch at a time. It's like a gambling addiction- she keeps going back for the jackpot even when a lot of his behavior is inexcusable... So far, I'm just posting simulated nonconsent sex scenes between Jada and Ayano, but it will take a dark turn. And then there are a lot of pages between sex scenes! I don't want to write for an erotic-only audience, but I don't know where to find the audience of people who want to hear stories of abuse and recovery with their erotica?

My I/T story Comforting My Little Sister is about domestic abuse. The sister left her boyfriend when he turned abusive but is struggling because he won't go away. The story isn't a hit, but has done pretty well.

 

[Lovecraft_Lore]

Somewhere in the topics, maybe two years back, 8letters did a huge write up of what works and what does not work. With statistical analysis of every story over a few weeks or a month, how many votes, how many views, which category gets the most views. Tips that will being in the most views.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Well, I finally finished and published the story I started writing for this event last November…


Isabel

 

[gunhilltrain]

Somewhere in the topics, maybe two years back, 8letters did a huge write up of what works and what does not work. With statistical analysis of every story over a few weeks or a month, how many votes, how many views, which category gets the most views. Tips that will being in the most views.

I've never been that concerned with maximizing the number of views or even the number or scores of votes. I did indeed write that it is disappointing when the view count is around 600 or 700, which has happened to me twice recently.

 

[Lovecraft_Lore]

I've never been that concerned with maximizing the number of views or even the number or scores of votes. I did indeed write that it is disappointing when the view count is around 600 or 700, which has happened to me twice recently.

In part it is your user name. I think you would get way more views with a name like fuck_train or maybe a user name like Jenni_2003 and some message that you're a sassy bad girl and all your stories are true tales of things you did with guys. That would get large numbers of likes, followers, random dick pics from creeps, but also views and comments.

True, it would not be true but then in real life I am not an eldritch horror from beyond time and space who is just wearing a human skin so I can fool people into thinking I am one of them.

 

[PennameWombat]

In part it is your user name. I think you would get way more views with a name like fuck_train or maybe a user name like Jenni_2003 and some message that you're a sassy bad girl and all your stories are true tales of things you did with guys. That would get large numbers of likes, followers, random dick pics from creeps, but also views and comments.

True, it would not be true but then in real life I am not an eldritch horror from beyond time and space who is just wearing a human skin so I can fool people into thinking I am one of them.

That's exactly what an eldritch horror from beyond time and space wearing a human skin WOULD say to fool us into thinking you were one of us.

Just before you drove us insane and began chowing down.

Hiding in plain sight.

Of course, if you were an eldritch horror from beyond space and time, you'd be so powerful you'd have no need of the disguise before making your intentions known. Then again, being an eldritch horror, you'd know that we'd know...

Obvious conclusion. You are an eldritch horror from beyond space and time.

 

[gunhilltrain]

In part it is your user name. I think you would get way more views with a name like fuck_train or maybe a user name like Jenni_2003 and some message that you're a sassy bad girl and all your stories are true tales of things you did with guys. That would get large numbers of likes, followers, random dick pics from creeps, but also views and comments.

True, it would not be true but then in real life I am not an eldritch horror from beyond time and space who is just wearing a human skin so I can fool people into thinking I am one of them.

How about "pull_a_train?" As in, "one car after another," I assume. One source says it originated with motorcycle gangs, but who can believe anything Urban Dictionary has? I've heard it used as prison slang too (in books!) as male on male, either voluntary or involuntary.

Since the majority of my stories have male narrators (sorry), going the sassy bad girl route probably wouldn't work very well.