How does an aspiring writer deal with negative comments for cuckold stories

[gordo12]

Stop writing cuckold stories maybe? Just sayin’

Em

Or maybe write so many of them the readers are scared of your name! I have a couple of avoid-at-all-costs writers like that.

 

[MorraRose]

Negative comments and low ratings are part for the course with cuckold stories, there are idiot readers there that don't even read the story and trash it, rage against it..and what they say makes 0 sense. Had a part 1 get trashed, called husband a cuck, when there was a) a part2 and b) in part 2, he dumps the wife. Some people write deliberately inflammatory stories to piss off the idiots.

The sad truth is that yes, people read the cuckold stories , they read all the stories there and then go off on the ones that they don't like the content. We have the ones who think anything but a husband and wife having sex once a week in the dark (the Catholic Forum I call them) is vile, swinging or open marriages or poly is not allowed, cuckolding even if it is loving and consensual is evil, anything that has loving wives who are same sex, or might involve a trans spouse, get raged at.

I agree with others, I would put it in LW and take your chances. Yes, you will get the raging idiots, you wlll get nasty comments , be told to kill yourself, etc, etc, but in the end it is your story. If you want to get 4.5, it likely won't happen, but the thing is you should be writing for yourself. Yeah, it is great to get high rated story, but again you should write what you want, and my take is if some people enjoy it, then it is worth it.

Negative comments fall into multiple categories. When people talk about the characters and say "they are cardboard", to me that is legitimate criticism, it means you have not described them to that person's satisfaction. Too long sentences, clipped dialog or too long dialog, a point that makes no logical sense, all that can help improve your writing.

On the other hand , Some idiot raging on how marriage is between a man and a woman, yada yada, is only good for comic relief (among other things, like those who really rage, this is fiction/fantasy writing, not the real world). It is amusing because what the hell is a religious right type doing on an erotic fiction site?

Want to know the value of all the comments? They give you insight into the way people are when they are hidden/anonymous, and it can be really useful when writing stories to use the personality of the commenters as the basis for characters. Heck, I have a story on SOL (that I sadly can't publish here) called "February Oh February" , a satire on February Sucks, where the main character is based on someone well known for his comments in the LW area *lol*.

"what the hell is a religious right type doing on an erotic fiction site?" Right? I recently published a story, my first, that I categorized as Mature, although it's Loving Wives, too. Even then, I got a couple of trolls, and since then have been researching this phenomenon.

 

[Differentendeavours]

I find it best to write what I want to write and not worry about the trolls.

 

[John_Oakman]

Go in swinging. The comment section will become the spice rack!

 

[lc69hunter]

I think there is considerable exaggeration of how terrible the comments are on cuckold stories at least based on the one I did for fun, which is here
https://literotica.com/s/dear-steve-i-just-fucked-your-wife?comments_after=11256461

4 comments were very positive, 2 didn't like the story and the rest said what they would do if they were the wronged husband-mostly see a divorce lawyer, which is not an unreasonable reaction. I didn't delete any of them. Nor do I have any evidence that any of the commenters have followed me to my main story in N&N, which has perfectly reasonable scores and a bunch of extremely positive comments.

Now admittedly, I'm an experienced writer with many stories on pay sites, and don't much care if someone on a free site is unhappy. Beggars can't be choosers as they say. But none of those comments would have stopped me if I were new. No comments might have, though...

Just read it. Loved it for the crazy way it was written. You have to admit that @Emirus had a potentially funny response to the letter writer, from the husband.

 

[lc69hunter]

I have yet to publish a "story" yet in the LW cuckolding/cheating/sharing/hotwifing genre, though I have several almost finished. However, I have published two in the Reviews and Essays section that were trashed by the trolls. The scores are not impressive, though one has been saved as a favorite more than I anticipated. What has really surprised me about both is the number of followers I have gained by these. So scores aren't everything.