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[sonooneknowswhoiam]

The TLDR is I write maschoistic stories, that are extremely masochoistic to women. I started because a woman wanted me to write stories about her art. She really liked the stories. We moved apart.

I don't feel bad writing the stories. But they make me uncomfortable some times.



I like it when people/women read the stories and say thing like.

"I liked what happened to characters in the stories. They deserved it and it's sexy."

or

"I wish I was the characters."

Is there a safe spade where you can send people those stories.

If they don't like them they'll just. say "I did not like it."

If they like it they'll tell you in detail.

I am worried then I will post the stories I will get no feedback and think everyone hates what I wrote, which might be bad for my mental health.

Tell me you don't like it, is okay, saying nothing is the problem.

 

[EmilyMiller]

The TLDR is I write maschoistic stories, that are extremely masochoistic to women. I started because a woman wanted me to write stories about her art. She really liked the stories. We moved apart.

I don't feel bad writing the stories. But they make me uncomfortable some times.



I like it when people/women read the stories and say thing like.

"I liked what happened to characters in the stories. They deserved it and it's sexy."

or

"I wish I was the characters."

Is there a safe spade where you can send people those stories.

If they don't like them they'll just. say "I did not like it."

If they like it they'll tell you in detail.

I am worried then I will post the stories I will get no feedback and think everyone hates what I wrote, which might be bad for my mental health.

Tell me you don't like it, is okay, saying nothing is the problem.

I think you may be misunderstanding the meaning of masochism in this post.

 

[sonooneknowswhoiam]

I think you may be misunderstanding the meaning of masochism in this post.

I've read you definition twice. I don't think I got it wrong.


But the women derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation

 

[SmilingLez]

I am worried then I will post the stories I will get no feedback and think everyone hates what I wrote, which might be bad for my mental health.

Tell me you don't like it, is okay, saying nothing is the problem.

From a strictly objective standpoint, you can judge whether or not your story resonates with people by the rating it gets.

If you believe your mental health would be in jeopardy should you not get warm fuzzies and positive strokes for your stories, perhaps you need to rethink posting them.

You can also write on your profile in your Author's note feedback is always welcomed but there is no guarantee that you will get any. That is the chance you take. HTH

 

[EmilyMiller]

I've read you definition twice. I don't think I got it wrong.

The masochist is the person deriving satisfaction from being subjected to something. Not the person subjecting someone to it.

So “that are extremely masochoistic to women” is wrong I’m afraid.

 

[dirk2024]

The masochist is the person deriving satisfaction from being subjected to something. Not the person subjecting someone to it.

So “that are extremely masochoistic to women” is wrong I’m afraid.

 

[anthrodisiac]

If you're going to post stories, unfortunately, the vast majority of readers will not give you feedback. You might get some, but I wouldn't post them expecting to get a huge number of comments. You're probably looking at roughly 1 in 1000, sometimes more, sometimes less (1/1000 might be a generous estimate in some cases), depending on the category and engagement factor of readership within that category.

For reference, the story with most engagement has 8 comments over 1100 views, so ~137 views per comment. My lowest is 4 comments over 11.2k views, for ~2800 views per comment. Just to give you an idea what sort of range you're looking at. For just ratings, my best story has about ~35 views per rating, and my lowest has ~260 views per rating. Granted, this is for non-human, which generally doesn't have massive engagement due to how fractured the genre is, but there it is, anyway. Like I said, other categories have different levels of engagement, but it helps to show that if your goal is to get a huge amount of engagement, you ought to understand you might not get what you're looking for out of this.

So, like @SmilingLez said, if you're posting with the goal of hearing back from people, you need to be careful to temper your expectations. If you don't get much engagement, don't take it personally, most people don't bother to rate, and even fewer people bother to comment.

If you want, you can stick an author note at the beginning or end of the story, saying that you appreciate feedback or want to hear from people. It's not a surefire way of getting people to comment, but it at least lets them know you're open to hearing from them.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

What does the subject line have to do with the topic of this thread?

 

[Rob_Royale]

I am worried then I will post the stories I will get no feedback and think everyone hates what I wrote, which might be bad for my mental health.

Tell me you don't like it, is okay, saying nothing is the problem.

Then I'm sad to say, that you might not want to post them. Because 'nothing' is what we live on here. One in 500 readers might rate the story, and one in five thousand might comment, depending on category. It's meager fare, but it's what we got.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I am worried then I will post the stories I will get no feedback and think everyone hates what I wrote, which might be bad for my mental health.

OP, you already established the problem:

The TLDR is I write maschoistic stories, that are extremely masochoistic to women. I started because a woman wanted me to write stories about her art. She really liked the stories. We moved apart.

I don't feel bad writing the stories. But they make me uncomfortable some times.

You started writing for an audience of one, and that audience is gone. Now you're writing stuff that makes you uncomfortable. What you need is to turn inwards instead, and ask yourself: for whom am I writing now? Do I have to write this? Do I even want to write?

Basically, why do you write? What is it that you're looking for? Do you need to write to reach this? If yes, do you need to write the same thing?

Stop writing, go on a journey towards the self, and start asking those questions first. The only thing you have to write now is the answers to those questions, and keep those to yourself. That should be enough to start a spark that would bring some clarity because some of us here don't write for external validation. At least I don't.

 

[Andreas_Kreuz]

If you receive a comment, be happy. It indicates that your story evokes enough energy for someone to stop and write the comment.

If it says you made someone uncomfortable, ok so be it. Because you didn't make the other 4999 uncomfortable or not uncomfortable enough to comment.

 

[Bramblethorn]

What does the subject line have to do with the topic of this thread?

Assuming OP changed the subject line to let people know they're no longer responding to the thread they started. But when I first saw the subject line I assumed it was one of those "I want to write a continuation to somebody else's story" queries that show up every so often.