What are you proudest of as an author of filth?

[Seadog777]

I'd say a small town is less than 5000. I grew up in a county with a population of around 32,000. There were 3 incorporated towns, one of 2,500, one of 4000 and one of 19,000. I lived aways out of the 19,000 town, so I didn't grow up with the kids who lived in town even though I went to junior/high school with them. When I went from our tiny local (54 kids 1 through 6th grade) grade school to junior high it was a 1 1/2 hour bus ride morning and night. Three hours a day on the bus, until I got old enough to drive and buy a car. So the effects of "small town" living can be different for many. I was part of the 7000 population that lived outside the town populations and we were scattered over the 2671 square miles of the county.


Comshaw

The population of the county I currently live in is 28,732 people.
Our biggest "town" or "small city" has a population of 11,090 people.
The rest are spread out over the farms and 8 "villages".

 

[gunhilltrain]

Do you prefer it that way???
I'm not judge, to each their own. LOL.

It's best for the whole world, for me to never, ever, ever go to New York City.
I know without a shadow of a doubt, I'll be making somebody "pushing up daisies" because my tolerance for dumbasses, just doesn't exist.

I'm sorry that you can't drive.
Medical condition? if I may ask.

It's both medical and economics. I probably could pilot a vehicle if I had to borrow one.

The Italian side of my family has been here for about 120 years (like Vito Corleone!) and the Irish-German side about 170. In all those years most of them crawled about twenty miles inland. Not very mobile. When I was younger, my ex-wife considered that we move elsewhere, but it didn't happen. We did live in New Jersey for awhile, and she's still there.

Growing up here, I learned to be polite to everyone - and most people do respond to politeness. I learned not to go looking for trouble because, among other things, some people are tougher than they first look. And I learned to walk away from certain situations, unless it was a physical threat to me or someone I know. I'm very calm in public, I don't get upset if someone jostles me.

Perhaps it's just like everywhere else, except there is more of it. Around 1940; I can see my junior high school in the lower right, but it would be difficult to point it out.

https://untappedcities.com/wp-conte...rse-Champs-Elysees-of-the-Bronx-Bronx-NYC.jpg

 

[Seadog777]

It's both medical and economics. I probably could pilot a vehicle if I had to borrow one.

The Italian side of my family has been here for about 120 years (like Vito Corleone!) and the Irish-German side about 170. In all those years most of them crawled about twenty miles inland. Not very mobile. When I was younger, my ex-wife considered that we move elsewhere, but it didn't happen. We did live in New Jersey for awhile, and she's still there.

Growing up here, I learned to be polite to everyone - and most people do respond to politeness. I learned not to go looking for trouble because, among other things, some people are tougher than they first look. And I learned to walk away from certain situations, unless it was a physical threat to me or someone I know. I'm very calm in public, I don't get upset if someone jostles me.

Perhaps it's just like everywhere else, except there is more of it. Around 1940; I can see my junior high school in the lower right, but it would be difficult to point it out.

https://untappedcities.com/wp-conte...rse-Champs-Elysees-of-the-Bronx-Bronx-NYC.jpg

I'm sorry to hear that you're dealing with medical woes. I know how much that sucks.

I like that you know about your family history. I think more people need to do that. Society needs to get back in touch with it and maybe it can start to become a better place.

Like my wife and daughters always say "trouble just always seems to find you, even when you're just driving."

That picture is AMAZING!!! It's crazy to think how all of that has changed in the relatively short time period that we live in.

 

[TadOverdon]

I think with what we write we’re always gonna have characters that sit in a moral grey area. The only time that might not be true is if we write a topic under the ROMANCE banner.

If you’re writing in group, I/T, non consent, mind control or Alan (stoopid autocorrect) then we’re going to have characters whose behaviour is questionable, but I say ‘flaws are were the fun is’.

I set out to write a book with characters so determinedly at the extremes of porn tropes that I included author's note that read, in its entirety, as:

Author's disclaimer and warning: There are no nice people in this story.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I'm sorry to hear that you're dealing with medical woes. I know how much that sucks.

I like that you know about your family history. I think more people need to do that. Society needs to get back in touch with it and maybe it can start to become a better place.

Like my wife and daughters always say "trouble just always seems to find you, even when you're just driving."

That picture is AMAZING!!! It's crazy to think how all of that has changed in the relatively short time period that we live in.

I can only trace my family history to the immigrant generations. Back to Europe, it got lost. But yeah, I try to avoid trouble / drama.

There are many cities now that are that big or even bigger - probably Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City. I'd have to check on which ones. Populations conjured out of the earth, as someone said.

Yet everyone I knew - my family, friends, neighbors, teachers, scoutmasters, employers, etc. lived there, and it all seemed normal to me. 500 year time lapse video in about sixty seconds; it turns out to be an elevator in The Freedom Tower:

 

[Emilymcplugger]

I set out to write a book with characters so determinedly at the extremes of porn tropes that I included author's note that read, in its entirety, as:

Author's disclaimer and warning: There are no nice people in this story.

Yeah, I was replying to a different thread laying out my nice guy protagonists from both stories.

From ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE the main character is a guy who, in his pursuit of his sister-in-law, who in personality and looks is not a patch on his wife, ruins his marriage and fails to protect his wife because of his own stupidity against his sister-in-law and brother-in-law and doesn’t blame himself (at first at least)

And from the new story a workaholic who cheats on his wife as he looks for a person to act as a life-raft to get away from his failed marriage to his awesome better half.

Ah, the joy of writing about horny idiots.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

I set out to write a book with characters so determinedly at the extremes of porn tropes that I included author's note that read, in its entirety, as:

Author's disclaimer and warning: There are no nice people in this story.

Is this story on here, btw?

 

[Seadog777]

can only trace my family history to the immigrant generations. Back to Europe, it got lost. But yeah, I try to avoid trouble / drama.

I'm sorry to hear that you've lost the trail. Maybe someone in your family can pick it up for you.
I try to avoid trouble and drama, which is why I don't leave my property very often.

God bless Laurel, because as soon as she found out and saw it, she helped me change my name, lickty split.

There are many cities now that are that big or even bigger - probably Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City. I'd have to check on which ones. Populations conjured out of the earth, as someone said.

Tokyo is MASSIVE!!! I had the incredible pleasure to spend a month there. It was incredible and the people were very friendly to me. Don't get me wrong, it's CONGESTED but I'd go back if I could.
I'm mum on China, because of reasons.
Never been to Mexico nor do I ever want to go to that place.

Yet everyone I knew - my family, friends, neighbors, teachers, scoutmasters, employers, etc. lived there, and it all seemed normal to me. 500 year time lapse video in about sixty seconds; it turns out to be an elevator in The Freedom Tower:

So you're family has pretty much never left for 3 generations???
That's a neat video, thanks for sharing.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I'm sorry to hear that you've lost the trail. Maybe someone in your family can pick it up for you.
I try to avoid trouble and drama, which is why I don't leave my property very often.

God bless Laurel, because as soon as she found out and saw it, she helped me change my name, lickty split.

Tokyo is MASSIVE!!! I had the incredible pleasure to spend a month there. It was incredible and the people were very friendly to me. Don't get me wrong, it's CONGESTED but I'd go back if I could.
I'm mum on China, because of reasons.
Never been to Mexico nor do I ever want to go to that place.

So you're family has pretty much never left for 3 generations???
That's a neat video, thanks for sharing.

1849 or whenever is enough for me. I'm not going to Europe to find old records. My mom had the best clues on that, but she passed away several years ago.

Well, the fourth generation back on the Italian side were the immigrants. I'm guessing that was around 1901. On he other side (my mother's side) I'm starting to lose track, but that must have been my great-great grandparents? The Irish potato famine started in 1848, so that may have been a factor.

My daughter visited Tokyo when she taught English in Korea for two years. I think her impressions of Japan were positive, as they were of Korea. But as friendly as they may be, they don't have that American "melting pot" idea. You can't just come over from Yemen or Bosnia (like I know people here have done) and expect to eventually become a citizen.

Mexico: no, I don't need to go there! That's lots of interesting stuff on YouTube. Researching my Geek Pride story on there

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I'd love to visit Tokyo again with someone who speaks the language. Pre- Google Translate, it was an interesting experience.

One side of my family is traceable back to the early 1600s. English peasants, basically. Didn't move far until the scandal of my grandparents coming from different counties! The village most are from is in the Domesday Book and hasn't changed much. The other lot we can't get beyond 1860, because I'm the first in at least four generations not to be an immigrant. (from USA, Poland, Ukraine, possibly Russia the generation before that. Depends where you put the borders that week. Plus ça change...)

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Do you prefer it that way???
I'm not judge, to each their own. LOL.

It's best for the whole world, for me to never, ever, ever go to New York City.
I know without a shadow of a doubt, I'll be making somebody "pushing up daisies" because my tolerance for dumbasses, just doesn't exist.

I'm sorry that you can't drive.
Medical condition? if I may ask.

I see nyc as a place to visit, not live. I was there a few years ago, to drive my step brother and his husband back here to Louisville in the uhaul.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I see nyc as a place to visit, not live. I was there a few years ago, to drive my step brother and his husband back here to Louisville in the uhaul.

Not sure I'd recommend anybody moving here. For one thing, the housing costs are way out of line, but that is happening elsewhere too. (There used to be affordable housing here!) Yet my daughter, who grew up in New Jersey, just had to move to Manhattan.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I'd love to visit Tokyo again with someone who speaks the language. Pre- Google Translate, it was an interesting experience.

One side of my family is traceable back to the early 1600s. English peasants, basically. Didn't move far until the scandal of my grandparents coming from different counties! The village most are from is in the Domesday Book and hasn't changed much. The other lot we can't get beyond 1860, because I'm the first in at least four generations not to be an immigrant. (from USA, Poland, Ukraine, possibly Russia the generation before that. Depends where you put the borders that week. Plus ça change...)

Yeah, the borders there are constantly changing. Stalin did his best to make it worse. Like the city of Lviv in Ukraine used to be in Austria, then Poland, then Ukraine. Well, include the Soviet Union too. In Eastern Europe, one can go to bed in one country and wake up in another without leaving the mattress.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Not sure I'd recommend anybody moving here. For one thing, the housing costs are way out of line, but that is happening elsewhere too. (There used to be affordable housing here!) Yet my daughter, who grew up in New Jersey, just had to move to Manhattan.

I wish I could've brought my roadbike with me on the coach. I'll stick to living in Ky.

 

[Zootonius]

I set out to write a book with characters so determinedly at the extremes of porn tropes that I included author's note that read, in its entirety, as:

Author's disclaimer and warning: There are no nice people in this story.

So, uh, kinda like the characters in GoT.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I wish I could've brought my roadbike with me on the coach. I'll stick to living in Ky.

My late father-in-law grew up in Louisville, if that matters at all. That was a long time ago, before World War II. Later he lived in Hinton, WV - his whole family worked for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, which goes through both places.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I think what I'm most proud of is that my work has been well received. The fact that people besides myself like my little sexy fantasies. As for the "filth" comment, I totally own that shit. I might write fun, sweet, romantic stuff, but it's written with plenty of good old-fashioned loud, wet, graphic sex.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Back to the topic, I do particularly enjoy comments like "I'm a straight man so nothing in this story should appeal to me, but I loved the characters and cared about them and they've enriched my life." Or more recently, "You're a wicked, wonderful woman. You make pain sound alluring."

Nothing as delightfully dirty as introducing people to new pleasures.

 

[PapaRomantic]

Not sure this is a reason to be proud, but occasionally I'll add up the number of "readers" of my stories, and get overwhelmed by the total. I know they don't all read every word, but at least they clicked on it, and that counts as something to me.

 

[Seadog777]

Yeah, the borders there are constantly changing. Stalin did his best to make it worse. Like the city of Lviv in Ukraine used to be in Austria, then Poland, then Ukraine. Well, include the Soviet Union too. In Eastern Europe, one can go to bed in one country and wake up in another without leaving the mattress.

The history of those countries is rich in events.
My ex was born in Romania and emigrated here to America.
There is also some absolutely incredible architecture and really beautiful countryside as well.
Of course, I was in those countries almost 20 years ago, so who knows how much has changed.

 

[Seadog777]

I see nyc as a place to visit, not live. I was there a few years ago, to drive my step brother and his husband back here to Louisville in the uhaul.

I'd truthfully like to visit NYC.
See the typical things like Freedom Tower, Statue of Liberty, etc.
I'd love to be able to see the GMFB studio!!!
I just know myself and how I absolutely cannot stand nor tolerate dumbassery.

I do have a question about Louisville, if may ask???

 

[Seadog777]

Not sure this is a reason to be proud, but occasionally I'll add up the number of "readers" of my stories, and get overwhelmed by the total. I know they don't all read every word, but at least they clicked on it, and that counts as something to me.

I do that as well.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

I think what I'm most proud of is that my work has been well received. The fact that people besides myself like my little sexy fantasies. As for the "filth" comment, I totally own that shit. I might write fun, sweet, romantic stuff, but it's written with plenty of good old-fashioned loud, wet, graphic sex.

Let’s face it, the sex has got to be girdle-popping, cocks-a-hopping, slits-a-licking, butt-plug- inserting hot or those no reason to write.

But likewise the set-up to how we get there also has to be on point. I love this community and the great writers there are out there. It makes you realise what skills everyday folk possess that most people just don’t know about.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

Not sure this is a reason to be proud, but occasionally I'll add up the number of "readers" of my stories, and get overwhelmed by the total. I know they don't all read every word, but at least they clicked on it, and that counts as something to me.

Those that are reading and coming back are clearly liking what you’re doing.

That’s always something to be proud of.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I'd truthfully like to visit NYC.
See the typical things like Freedom Tower, Statue of Liberty, etc.
I'd love to be able to see the GMFB studio!!!
I just know myself and how I absolutely cannot stand nor tolerate dumbassery.

I do have a question about Louisville, if may ask???

Ah, my coffee is still going into my system. What is the GMFB studio?

Actually, some of the worst dumbassery I've seen is online, although it's pretty good here at AH. But I have seen flair-ups on Lit too, although sometimes the moderators shut it down. Generally people in person behave better, while being anonymous online (plus the quick misunderstandings of messages) can blow up very rapidly. I've seen that many times. Use lots of smiley faces!

I've never been to Louisville myself, but sure, what would you like to ask?