Peta/Sam Series - Feedback & Updates Thread

[ElectricBlue]

I am wondering this evening if I have done something wrong. I have put together a thread, created links for the work, have pretty much gone out of my way to make it accessible and readable, and yet…very little feedback?

Is it just boring writing, maybe? Heard all before? Too vanilla?

I’m looking to finish publishing Peta/Sam by the end of May but it feels like it’s not getting much interest, and maybe it’s just not very good…?

I won’t be offended, please fire away!

Lit is very low with feedback. My rules of thumb, after ten years, 120 or so stories/chapters, and 1.3 million words (at last count) is one Vote per hundred Views, one Comment per thousand. Based on my stats, I reckon maybe one in five people who click into a story actually finish that story, not much more than that.

People comment if your story is very good and strikes a chord, or very bad (in which case, pay attention). If you're in the middle of the bell-curve, it can be deafening silence. Some categories are noisier, and some category readers would get off on a shopping list, so there's that.

 

[STrent]

Thanks both for your thoughts, much appreciated.

 

[STrent]

I have a new story out in Peta/Sam this morning, which fills in the gap in the story between act 1 and act 2. Everyone will understand the reference, I hope…! Read it here: Marathon, Bar

 

[STrent]

Morning all! We are into Act 3 of Peta/Sam and today’s new story is called Murrow Turning Over.

Warning: may cause some significant heartbreak.

 

[STrent]

In an effort to tie everything together in a neat bundle, the book now has a prologue and an epilogue, currently being edited.

The intention is to publish these once Act 3’s chapters are all finished.

 

[STrent]

A new story at last! Act 3, Chapter 3, Go Your Own Way has made it through the system.

 

[STrent]

I’ve been really struggling with writers block for some time, so have been going back through some of the older stories, unpublished I have lying around, to see what I can make of them.

So far I’ve got:

1. A story involving messy sex on a the roof top of someone else’s villa
2. The true story of an accidental sex tape
3. Experimenting with tying up and getting stuck
4. Getting caught out by the mother in law
5. Walk in the woods gets harder than you’d think!

Some of these feel exceptionally cliche. Any thoughts?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Some of these feel exceptionally cliche. Any thoughts?

Write them exceptionally well and cliches won't matter. I suspect there are hundreds of stories with storylines like these.

 

[STrent]

Write them exceptionally well and cliches won't matter. I suspect there are hundreds of stories with storylines like these.

Fair comment. I will do my best!

 

[STrent]

A new story for Peta/Sam published this morning, in which Peta is a Sentimental Lady, reminiscing about a time shared with Sam in the bike garage…