Comments That Make Your Day

[THBGato]

Forget making your day: this comment on my story On a Wing and Prayer from @verseandworse2 made my month! I mean it's not every day I get compared to Orwell!*

verseandworse2about 9 hours ago
How artfully the story is unveiled bit by bit, without explaining anything at first, without providing any initial background! When I read “Ruth Samuelsdaughter” for the first time, I thought, ‘Hey, have Literotica’s editing and proofreading standards really hit rock bottom?’ The first sentence/paragraph itself is so intriguing. I was reminded of “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”.

This story has so much depth, so many nuances, I could write a 1,000 word critical analysis of it. The sheer expanse of the universe created, working out the salient features of a whole new world, an entirely mythical planet – which is so different from our world in some ways and yet so similar in others – is an imaginative feat.

The most fascinating part is the way you spell out – incrementally, subtly, never giving too much away – how technological advance has led to gender-parity retreat, reinforcing patriarchy as never before. It is as if 3024 and 1024 have been juxtaposed and melded. “Gender traitor” – what a fabulous expression!

So much research must have gone into the work – on plastics, biochemistry, biotechnology, renewable energy, aerodynamics – amazing. Polymers from living cells, wow! 

And finally, though your warning that the story has no sex in it is well taken, it does have a thick vein of sensuality running right through from start to finish. That is sometimes more exciting than sexual description! As the great Alfred Hitchcock observed about what works with audiences of suspense and horror movies: “There is no terror in the bang, only in its anticipation.” And anticipating what Ruth and Martha will get up to once they are alone and free is a big turn on. The quality of this story is on a different (higher) planet from that of most of the stories in “Lesbian Romance” – just as the setting is!


*I was going for Atwood/Wyndham, but I'm not complaining!

Thank you so much!!!

 

[summer_reine]

Every positive comment makes my day but I'll never admit I love when people tell me they came from reading something I wrote

 

[Iwatchedher]

On 'Peace on Earth', a really nice comment from @Iwatchedher . Thanks mate! And a definite 'No Comment' on the conclusions drawn Enjoy beautiful Fiji!

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A wonderful and delicious story, as good as your best which is saying a great deal, and made all the more delectable by the fact that I'm reading it in Fiji. Your description of the diplomatic processes and issues is so accurate that i can only conclude that you write from direct experience, both of Fiji [or another Pacific Island Country], and of diplomacy, If so you have put your experience to excellent use here...wonderful characters, especially your narrator, intriguing situation, a dash of magic and arousing sexual chemistry, beautifully and vividly brought to life on the page ... making this reader very happy indeed. Thank you again, so much.

Thank you Actingup - I'm delighted that my little comment 'made your day' - as your story made mine. Meanwhile I will draw my own conclusions from your 'no comment'. And plainly I have a treat in store in 'Remembering the Storm'...

 

[Rob_Royale]

Day made.

Anonymous about 5 hours ago
First my huge respect to the writer. The slow moving deep drama of life unfolding made your life story worth reading word by word. One the best story I have read any where. Regards

 

[StillStunned]

@Voxman314 left this on A Fool Not to Fuck:

Idly playing with story tags, tried buttplug sister, and found this fun little trifle of a series, thanks.
Funny, by the end of it, I was mostly skimming through the last bit to make sure they were ok.

Thanks! It's always wonderful to hear that a reader has come to care about the characters.

 

[Actingup]

Some more heartfelt comments on 'Remembering the Storm'. Really, really appreciated. Also one of the anonymous comments noticed a cameo I'd put in from another story set in the same location - first time I've done that and it was nice that somebody picked it

@sack
From another contest participant, with a much shorter story- Amazingly well written, factually fascinating and fictionally fascinating! Your writing is as beautiful as a sunset, and a delight to digest and read! Good luck in the contest, I gave this a 5!

@Buster2U
10 Big Blazing Stars. It is rough getting old, so many guilts, and so much heartache. Why did we make it this long? Why were others taken from us so early? Life is a mystery and each day a blessing. Thank You for this very interesting story of life. Buster2U

@mildcolonialboy:
Outstanding!
So powerful, so real, so sad, but with hope for the future.
Your descriptions of Darwin made me think I was there, your account of the results of trauma and grief very moving. Yet your characters show a generosity of spirit and are able to move on, even after 50 years. Whatever the circumstances there is always hope. A great message for Christmas.
5 stars is not nearly enough, but this is real literature rather than literotica.

 

[StillStunned]

@Lotus_Kitty posted a question on One Orgasm At A Time 01:

I just need to know where they sell this wonderful device. Asking for a friend...

Sorry Lotus, but I think the Three Aspects have confiscated the entire production run.

 

[Publius68]

Since the rest of the world, along with a hearty dose of Writer's Quicksand, has kept me from posting anything new for a while, the comments, even on my back catalog, have been sparse lately. But I go two today that made me happy, but in content and just in being.

On the finale of The Vehicle (my most commented work):

BryanRichardson
Incredible.

Everyone is respectful and enjoys themselves. Even the teasing afterward is respectful and supportive.

Just wonderful.

And on Seven Days at Sea, one of my longest stories, and a standalone:

Anonymous
Except, perhaps, Alistaire, this is your best work.

 

[Actingup]

Since the rest of the world, along with a hearty dose of Writer's Quicksand, has kept me from posting anything new for a while, the comments, even on my back catalog, have been sparse lately. But I go two today that made me happy, but in content and just in being.

On the finale of The Vehicle (my most commented work):


And on Seven Days at Sea, one of my longest stories, and a standalone:

I think that the 'A Reputation' series (ending with The Vehicle) is my favourite of yours with the Shower Guy and nerdy engineering competition plot lines coming together beautifully, but it's a tough choice between so many fabulous series!

 

[MillieDynamite]

 

[sack]

Some more heartfelt comments on 'Remembering the Storm'. Really, really appreciated. Also one of the anonymous comments noticed a cameo I'd put in from another story set in the same location - first time I've done that and it was nice that somebody picked it

@sack
From another contest participant, with a much shorter story- Amazingly well written, factually fascinating and fictionally fascinating! Your writing is as beautiful as a sunset, and a delight to digest and read! Good luck in the contest, I gave this a 5!

@Buster2U
10 Big Blazing Stars. It is rough getting old, so many guilts, and so much heartache. Why did we make it this long? Why were others taken from us so early? Life is a mystery and each day a blessing. Thank You for this very interesting story of life. Buster2U

@mildcolonialboy:
Outstanding!
So powerful, so real, so sad, but with hope for the future.
Your descriptions of Darwin made me think I was there, your account of the results of trauma and grief very moving. Yet your characters show a generosity of spirit and are able to move on, even after 50 years. Whatever the circumstances there is always hope. A g not nearly enough, but this is real literature rather than literotica.Thank you

 

[sack]

Thanks for highlighting my comment. I adored your story!!

 

[Erozetta]

Ben Long making my day, as always.

 

[djrip]

Anon really came through for me this week, with these comments on several chapters of New RA at the Girls' Dorm...

Anonymous6 days ago
Not only is this an excellent story, it is perhaps the author's finest. It is certainly a great read from start to finish, and the wonderful number of characters in the story gives it an additional depth. Wonderful romantic scenes are icing on the cake. Five stars.

Anonymous6 days ago
Chapter 3 of this outstanding series is brilliant storytelling from start to finish. There are here wonderful characters that come alive to the reader, thanks the the skill of the author. Then, as the plot unfolds in this chapter, Tom finds himself involved in a truly complex situation, and the chapter ends with the story obviously unfinished. However, this chapter, good as it is, cannot be properly appreciated unless the previous two are read first. Five Stars.

Anonymous6 days ago
Chapter 5 cannot come soon enough in this outstanding and compelling drama. With an array of well-defined characters, as well as plenty of passionate romance to go with an excellent plot, this latest chapter in the story is a great read from the first line to the last. Five Stars is too low a rating for this fourth chapter.

Thanks anon! You got me to reread my own story and I'm thinking about that 5th chapter...

 

[StillStunned]

@THBGato left these kind words on The Dome 04: Mothers:

Brilliant, immersive writing. It didn't matter at all that I haven't read the first three parts: everything that was vital to know was covered. The world is very vivid.
One quibble: having sex in Zero G with both hands in orifices is going to be really hard. How would you hang on the other woman to get leverage? Still, that puzzle means I'll be thinking of your story for a while!

I actually describe the shower as "anti-G", which I envision as a more active field than zero-G, and allowing for more controlled movement.

Thanks for the comment, though. Now go and read the first three chapters!

 

[THBGato]

Now go and read the first three chapters!

Maybe. I think I'll wait until you finish the series. I've been finding with stories like this that too long a gap between episodes and I just forget what's happened. Better to wait until the whole thing is done.

 

[StillStunned]

Maybe. I think I'll wait until you finish the series. I've been finding with stories like this that too long a gap between episodes and I just forget what's happened. Better to wait until the whole thing is done.

Fair enough. They'll be there waiting.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Fair enough. They'll be there waiting.

Yeah, I'm there with you...
The second installment of my Sci Fi series was only four years ago... Just getting around to finishing chapter three.

 

[StillStunned]

Yeah, I'm there with you...
The second installment of my Sci Fi series was only four years ago... Just getting around to finishing chapter three.

I wrote the first 3k words of this chapter within days after publishing the previous one. Then came WIWAW, and Pandemonium, and the chain story, and it slipped to the background.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I wrote the first 3k words of this chapter within days after publishing the previous one. Then came WIWAW, and Pandemonium, and the chain story, and it slipped to the background.

Similar. I was I think 5K words in before I realized I was effectively writing chapter 2 all over in a different setting. I went back to it a few times but couldn't find a path through. then like 67 other stories got in the way, and well...

Then our friend anonymous left this comment on chapter 2 and I knew I needed to get something done because I really like the characters:

"And sadly, yet another unfinished story. Continue if you want, but only one more chapter written."

 

[Lifestyle66]

A very encouraging comment on my latest story "His Vixen":

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by Anonymous user 50 minutes ago

THANK YOU for a fun and at the same time thoughtful exploration of several big topics. You did very, very well! This story really belongs in one of the top 10 lists because you have artfully dissected the differences between sex and fidelity, commitment and freedom, lust and love.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU AND YOURS!
Paul
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Thank YOU, Anonymous Paul.
It's comments like this which offset ten of the shitty ones in Loving Wives!

 

[StillStunned]

@BigotedeFoca appears to be catching up on my series The Dome:

Oh my god, please don’t stop! I’m dying for the next chapter.

Thanks for reading and commenting! It's in the works.

 

[AlexFourways]

I wrote the first 3k words of this chapter within days after publishing the previous one. Then came WIWAW, and Pandemonium, and the chain story, and it slipped to the background.

Similar. I was I think 5K words in before I realized I was effectively writing chapter 2 all over in a different setting. I went back to it a few times but couldn't find a path through. then like 67 other stories got in the way, and well...

Then our friend anonymous left this comment on chapter 2 and I knew I needed to get something done because I really like the characters:

"And sadly, yet another unfinished story. Continue if you want, but only one more chapter written."

Off topic but I must be writing my "Do Androids Dream of Electic Love?" series all wrong.
Part 1 and the "Droid (Android and Gynoid) Handbook." are ready to go, with part 2 having been read and citiqued by VallesMarineris (VM), and is now being given stardust by FreyaGersemi. Part 3 is with VM and Part 4 is being drafted, about 1/3rd of the typical 13k words.
I'm glad I did that as even Part 4 has sent ripples back into Part 1. (A total sruprise to me for an idea that sold itself as a 7k One Off!) Only question, I presume it's NonHuman as that mentions Androids and it's only in Part 3 we really meet Natural Persons - so that could be Sci-Fi, but what would others put it as?

 

[dmallord]

I received a quote on my latest work, A Calico Girl's Revenge. It made my day brighter, and I'm still smiling today.

"I always enjoy reading your stories. I enjoy your characters and settings. It takes a good writer to set the scene so vividly and to develop interesting, engaging characters is such a short story.

"The device of the storyteller whittling and entertaining the boys is a very good one. I can feel the atmosphere as he speaks. It is so much better than just telling the story without that layer.

"Of course you always leave me looking forward to the next tale, and I recognize that’s due to your writing talent and effort spent. I’m sorry that your life-pen is running low, but I thank you for writing, and thank you for sharing your work so freely."

 

[Actingup]

I received a quote on my latest work, A Calico Girl's Revenge. It made my day brighter, and I'm still smiling today.

"I always enjoy reading your stories. I enjoy your characters and settings. It takes a good writer to set the scene so vividly and to develop interesting, engaging characters is such a short story.

"The device of the storyteller whittling and entertaining the boys is a very good one. I can feel the atmosphere as he speaks. It is so much better than just telling the story without that layer.

"Of course you always leave me looking forward to the next tale, and I recognize that’s due to your writing talent and effort spent. I’m sorry that your life-pen is running low, but I thank you for writing, and thank you for sharing your work so freely."

Hi Donald, just a note to thank you for your openness in what you're going through (as per your bio) and for choosing to spend some of your time with this community and contributing your words.