Story Discussion: October 20, 2024 - "Oh Suzie-Q!" by PrimalDual

[PrimalDual]

Thanks! I enjoyed it. I even enjoyed the occasional evidence of an early effort on your part.
Maybe you'll remember where you were going with this, now that you've revisited it.

BTW, depending on which Internet source I use, Geil means either horny in Dutch, or cool in German, or fucked-up in German. Take your pick.

Oh, and in this story, Becky has lied to Mrs Geil, or at least left out some details on what she had permitted Jack to do. "Everybody lies," and I leave it to the reader to pick out the truth among the statements made by characters, while the narration is generally speaking honest. A leopard doesn't change his spots, do I?

 

[PrimalDual]

I just realized, if I do want to publish this story here, I'll have to bump up Jack's age by a year, LOL. It's all totally fictional, author avatars mean nothing.

 

[PrimalDual]

I just realized, if I do want to publish this story here, I'll have to bump up Jack's age by a year, LOL. It's all totally fictional, author avatars mean nothing.

LOL, moderators removed the story snippet.

 

[StillStunned]

LOL, moderators removed the story snippet.

Yes, the same rules that apply to published stories also apply to snippets posted on the forums. Well, except for the minimum word count. If you want to keep posting snippets, make sure that you apply the rules yourself, and err on the side of caution.

The mods have been very tolerant of us posting snippets in the AH, for the writing exercises and "Rip me to shreds" threads and so on. But that's on the implied understanding that we play by the rules, and don't even come close to skirting them.

It makes their jobs easier, it makes our experience here more enjoyable, and if nothing else it's good practice for writing the stories that we submit for publication.

 

[PrimalDual]

Yes, the same rules that apply to published stories also apply to snippets posted on the forums. Well, except for the minimum word count. If you want to keep posting snippets, make sure that you apply the rules yourself, and err on the side of caution.

The mods have been very tolerant of us posting snippets in the AH, for the writing exercises and "Rip me to shreds" threads and so on. But that's on the implied understanding that we play by the rules, and don't even come close to skirting them.

It makes their jobs easier, it makes our experience here more enjoyable, and if nothing else it's good practice for writing the stories that we submit for publication.

Yes, it was apparent. Did not stop me from LOLing

 

[_Lynn_]

Yes, the same rules that apply to published stories also apply to snippets posted on the forums. Well, except for the minimum word count. If you want to keep posting snippets, make sure that you apply the rules yourself, and err on the side of caution.

The mods have been very tolerant of us posting snippets in the AH, for the writing exercises and "Rip me to shreds" threads and so on. But that's on the implied understanding that we play by the rules, and don't even come close to skirting them.

It makes their jobs easier, it makes our experience here more enjoyable, and if nothing else it's good practice for writing the stories that we submit for publication.

I can be tolerant, too.

 

[StillStunned]

I can be tolerant, too.

And it's much appreciated. But as posters we have our responsibility, too.

 

[PrimalDual]

I can be tolerant, too.

I assume there is a reaper-bot that deleted the post in question, but since a moderator apparently has stepped in too, I do offer my personal apologies for the oversight. In case it wasn't obvious, another poster wondered whether I could write something with less plot and more action. I remembered a short beginning to a semi-autobiographical story that went nowhere, and pulled it out of mothballs, posting it verbatim because it was so short and the place where I stopped was so humorously abrupt, with no intention to develop it further and publish it ever. I didn't even notice the age problem until going back to re-read it, and just chuckled that if nothing else, that little detail would need to change if I did want to publish it here. Didn't occur to me, until the deletion, that I really should have performed that one-digit surgery on the offending post. Nah, nah, nah, I was 18 when I met Mrs. Geil. I misspoke. It was a typo.

I've done my share of moderation, at other sites unrelated to the material here, so I fully understand the gray areas and dilemmas that mods have to deal with all the time, and I'm not going to argue further why my wonderful post was in good faith. My LOL was at myself for not fixing the problem while I still could, not at the mod process itself.

That said, I think my time at this site is about coming to a close anyway. It's not what I understood the site to be when I first was introduced to it 20+ years ago, and regardless of whether that's an actual change/evolution or just a misunderstanding on my part, I've put in a lot of effort across two years on around four dozen stories by now, some standalone and some in a pair of series, with very little readership to show for it. Bad writing, or wrong venue, either way it's time to move on. Perhaps it will be appropriate if the final story I posted remains an intentionally shitty piece that I submitted for the Halloween contest, alongside a more sincere effort, an effort that garnered decent votes (consistently higher than the "good" one prior to the contest's sweep process) because I was lampooning the Incest genre and the hordes of readers of that persuasion didn't notice the joke - thank goodness or else every story of mine would have been 1-bombed by now.

 

[AG31]

That said, I think my time at this site is about coming to a close anyway. It's not what I understood the site to be when I first was introduced to it 20+ years ago, and regardless of whether that's an actual change/evolution or just a misunderstanding on my part

What was your understanding originally? How do you feel it has changed?

 

[PrimalDual]

What was your understanding originally? How do you feel it has changed?

Back then it was really really hard to get a story approved, on grounds of acceptable style. The presumption was that once you cleared the hurdle, you'd have a readership. The volume of submissions was much lower.