The Agony and the Ecstasy (of posting a story)

[dmallord]

Oh, I love writing. It is a beautiful mental exercise that forces out old and dormant vocabulary words from the recesses of my mind. It also has me relearning structure, syntax, and a host of other writing constructs. Though sometimes I make errors in a number of those categories. At first, I posted without being aware of them. Critics said to get an editor, and well ... that did help! He is amazing. I count on his pulling me out of the muck before I post. Things are better.

Though, my most recent work lumbered deep into the forest. I broke 'an unwritten rule' in incest/taboo. My sibcest story didn't end with Sissy marrying her brother and living happily ever after. The wagging tongues took me to task, leaving me a 'one finger' star score on several occasions and some choice remarks. A few minutes ago, the results looked like this: 7,431 views, 3.73/44 score/votes, and about 10 tagged it as a favorite. Score wise, that equates to 6 - 1*, 1 - 2*, 6 - 3*, 17 - 4*, and 14 - 5*s. It's better than the first scores of all ones! Still, it seems to be sliding again tonight. Oh, and don't get me started on the comments they left. That group doesn't seem to understand noir stories at all.

Others have admonished us to disregard critics, write for ourselves, and move on. I will. I shall. You know that old saying, 'Once you've wandered halfway into a forest ... there's no way to get any deeper. The next step forward can only lead you out.'

 

[Djmac1031]

broke 'an unwritten rule' in incest/taboo. My sibcest story didn't end with Sissy marrying her brother and living happily ever after.

Who made that rule? Lol.

Fuck'em. Rules were made to be broken.

My father / daughter incest story ended with them moving on afterwards, no one complained.

Is it just the Bro / Sis thing?

 

[TheRedChamber]

"Somehow, Palpatine returned"

In fairness, as a writer of short usually not very serious stories, it's great that this now exists. It's gold for getting straight into the action...

"Somehow Vlad the Impailer returned"
"Somehow Adolf Hitler returned."

Or given this is supposed to be Literotica I might just start a story...

"Somehow, Marilyn Monroe returned."

No need to waste time on any setup or cloning/time travel shenanigans, just straight into original bombshell action.

Actually it's not a half bad idea, off to Wikipedia to see if I can call it 'The Seventy Year Itch' yet.

 

[Djmac1031]

In fairness, as a writer of short usually not very serious stories, it's great that this now exists. It's gold for getting?straight into the action...

"Somehow Vlad the Impaired returned"
"Somehow Adolf Hitler returned."

Or given this is supposed to be Literotica I might just start a story...

"Somehow, Marilyn Monroe returned."

No need to waste time on any setup or cloning/time travel shenanigans, just straight into original bombshell action.

Actually it's not a half bad idea, off to Wikipedia to see if I can call it 'The Seventy Year Itch' yet.

Frankly, I see the same spirit in most porn and, frankly, a lot of stories here:

"I walked in on my sister in the shower the other day. Somehow, my dick wound up in her."

 

[Smuttyandfun]

Frankly, I see the same spirit in most porn and, frankly, a lot of stories here:

"I walked in on my sister in the shower the other day. Somehow, my dick wound up in her."

Frankly, I see the same spirit in most porn and, frankly, a lot of stories here:

"I walked in on my sister in the shower the other day. Somehow, my dick wound up in her."

He probably just tripped. Strange how these things happen.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

Frankly, I see the same spirit in most porn and, frankly, a lot of stories here:

"I walked in on my sister in the shower the other day. Somehow, my dick wound up in her."

Yeah, there has to be some kind of preamble or set-up or something.

Although most of the stuff we write is ridiculous and improbable anyway, so maybe we should just embrace the clown shoes.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

Reading comments are like the old show 'let's make a deal.' Are you gonna find a prize behind the door or a goat. Well, at least for me. And I've read a few of your works, onehit, I can't imagine you getting a bad comment.

To be fair I got a FANTASTIC comment on HOT AND FUZZY part 2.

“Its for the greater good.”

Now I definitely need to nail down the rest of it.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I dunno. My first story dipped in views in the middle but come back solid at the end.

I don’t get millions of views but if those that read are happy then I'm happy, although comments are rarer than unicorn shite in GS.

This is one reason why I stopped posting stories in chapters or parts. Although my multi-part stories have done okay, my readers have expressed in comments, views, favorites, and vote-to-view numbers that they prefer single submissions.

My longest story on Lit has been up for almost a year. At 31 Lit pages, it has 31 comments (interesting coincidence), is maintaining a 3% vote-to-view history, and a solid 4.87 score.

 

[dmallord]

Who made that rule? Lol.

Fuck'em. Rules were made to be broken.

My father / daughter incest story ended with them moving on afterwards, and no one complained.

Is it just the Bro / Sis thing?

It seems to be so. My other incest stories aligned with the expected - not all - but most have. Some didn't rank in the 3.7 - to 4.4 range. However, no comments beat me on the head as much as the last brother/sister sequel story.

I just went through a collection of incest with father/daughter to see how they faired and fell much better than the scores above; most are HOT rated. I tried to launch them - all failed to load, giving me server errors. I sent a help message about three of them two weeks ago. The others I sent a help message for them tonight when I found out they have the same error loading issue. So my WicKed character series is all wrapped around Lit's server axle.

I sure could have a couple of gulps of that wonderful coffee served up here.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

And now we’re back on the trail of posting a new story BUT this time I posted elsewhere first in order to feel confident.

It’s a much smaller story, all already edited and will be all added in just over a week (why did it autocorrect then to “ju-jitsu over a week”? Bizarre).

So we’ll see how this fares.

 

[AchtungNight]

To answer this topic’s original question, I enjoy publishing erotic fiction because it stimulates my imagination and I get good reviews for my stories now and then. But, like most authors, I dislike bad reviews and the angst of waiting for Laurel to deem my work fit for publication. It can also be a struggle to balance my writing with my life outside the net.

By the way, there are original characters named Agony and Ecstasy in my ficverse. A freelance hit team employed by the Illuminati type secret society known as the Friendship. They’re a loving couple and extremely dangerous. I haven’t featured them onscreen in an erotic story yet. But if I get the inspiration, it will be done. I enjoyed writing Ares and Laura a lot back in my Gargoyles fanfic days.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Another bit of agony for me is when my brand new story falls off the first page of the New Story list. One moment you are basking in the favorites, follows, and occasional comments, and then ... crickets. And depending on the popularity of the category, it can happen pretty damn fast too.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

Another bit of agony for me is when my brand new story falls off the first page of the New Story list. One moment you are basking in the favorites, follows, and occasional comments, and then ... crickets. And depending on the popularity of the category, it can happen pretty damn fast too.

Yeah, in GROUP you can tend to hang around for a while.

Currently with 8 Favourites and 57 votes it’s certainly gained a lot of reactions I’ll say that.

 

[SimonDoom]

Frankly, I see the same spirit in most porn and, frankly, a lot of stories here:

"I walked in on my sister in the shower the other day. Somehow, my dick wound up in her."

No kidding. I mean, all it takes to create the right amount of buildup and character development is to replace "somehow" with "After a short conversation," but it's like the author can't even be bothered to do it right.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

No kidding. I mean, all it takes to create the right amount of buildup and character development is to replace "somehow" with "After a short conversation," but it's like the author can't even be bothered to do it right.

I mean, Jeez-Louise, know the rules…right?

 

[Tomh1966]

Escapism. Writing is escaping.
Creating characters. Susan in 'Shotgun' started as an awful person with a few lines. She evolved into someone far more complex who was more good than bad and has her own story and a follow-up story that is stubbornly evading me on some details I need to write. She really grew on me.
Creating! Placing my fictional locations in real places. I placed an entire fictional university off one exit on I40 in Tennessee and made sure it would fit by only removing some houses. (Not published yet and the story is not close to done.)
People thanking me for my stories in comments, telling me they felt something.
My first fan mail (Shotgun again) and the next five (All Shotgun and Susan's Sunrise) Yeah I know it's only like eight to ten emails, but feels good when someone takes the time to do that.
Watching followers slowly tick upward.
Getting firsts like first H and first over 4.6 and 4.7. Had a 4.8 but it fell a bit. Looking forward to first 50K views. Silly, I know.
The AHA! moments when I finally get over that last writer's block to finish a story that has stubbornly refused to let me finish it.