What impact has lit made on you?

[brightlyiburn]

I think this thread's question will be unnaturally hard to answer for modesty's sake.

Screw modesty. I do what I do well, and I'm proud of it.

 

[English Lady]

On me? Well I have a place to share my work and it's certainly taught me a thing or two about writing and life and porn and stuff. It's given me friends and a place I feel fairly at home in and is one of the only places I feel pretty happy being me.

My influennce on Lit? well maybe i've influenced a little bit here and there. I'd hope so anyways

 

[haldir]

wierdo me

Lit has made a huge impact on me. I've found good folk to talk to (you all know who you are) and folk to kick kme up the arse (you all know who you are too!!).

Dont know that any of my poems have made any impression or given anything to Lit. - but who knows, maybe I'll finally get round to writing my story and seeing what you all think.

This has been an awfull 12 months for me and I dont know what i would have done without this place

 

[sweetnpetite]

I think this thread's question will be unnaturally hard to answer for modesty's sake.

are you calling me immodest?

I suppose I should have tried to phrase it a little differently, but I thought that perhaps people would be able to see some small area were there presence had effected someone or something. seriously, for myself if I didn't feel that I had even made some tiny little waves, I probably would have left a while ago. I'm not saying anyone should leave- I'm saying that if you feel like lit has become a 'family' or a 'comunity' or any of those things to you, then you've probably left an impact as well.

 

[Goldlion1]

Re: Re: What impact has lit made on you?

Actually, it's ridiculous how much of an impact it's had on me. It gave me other writers to talk to, encouraged me to write more and differently, and gave me a place to work through a lot of the basics of writing - learning to control diction, handle POV more effectively, work on longer and more complex plots, etc.

It's meant a great deal to me.

Shanglan

Pretty much thats me in a nutshell. Inspiration, masterbatory material (c'mon people admit it!) and a place to talk to other people with the nerotic afflicton we call wrting.

I can truly say that my confidence has improved since coming out of the lurking closet and finally participating in the community.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Re: Re: Re: What impact has lit made on you?

Pretty much thats me in a nutshell. Inspiration, masterbatory material (c'mon people admit it!) and a place to talk to other people with the nerotic afflicton we call wrting.

I can truly say that my confidence, has improved since coming out of the lurking closet and finally participating in the community.

God! HOw could I have forgotten about the masterbation!

 

[shereads]

Re: Insignificant at best

So the addiction has impacted me, rather than the other way around. Like said earlier, I do not believe I would be missed if I never visited here again. Sad for me, but realistic.

We're all expendable but that doesn't mean you aren't missed when you aren't around, or bring a smile to our faces when we see you've posted again after a log absence.

 

[Goldlion1]

Re: Re: Re: Re: What impact has lit made on you?

God! HOw could I have forgotten about the masterbation!

LOL I NEVER forget about the masterbation, a well written story helps in that department as well

 

[shereads]

"In my VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!!!"

I loved that bit. Did you see the one where they did the same sketch in Spanish?

 

[Goldlion1]

Screw modesty. I do what I do well, and I'm proud of it.

AMEN!!!!!

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

My impact on Lit: I dunno, new ways to cuss someone out? I've probably burnt a few bridges and cracked a few smiles as well.

Lit's impact on me: It's a good community. I don't mind wasting hours here and some of the stuff from here reappears in various conversations in RL. Plus, it's helped me expand on speed writing and moving away from strictly fantasy and sci-fi.

 

[Guest]

I think Lit has had a big impact on me. I think my writing skills are better, I have learned alot about the world around me from the postings here, and it certainly has done wonders for my typing speed. (However, I still can't spell to save my life.)


My impact on Lit? Zero, I have a few stories posted that were trolled into oblivion, if I was gone tommorow, no one would notice.

I'm picking on you, CD. No, you can't spell but then, neither can I and you might notice that I hate using the shift key too. Some things will never change and are just a part of who you are.

I'd miss ya if you left. However, I do understand that feeling. I would like to think that I've made some kind of impression, hopefully more positive than negative. I'm one of those cock-eyed optimists...maybe I've said something to someone that made a difference.

I will miss this place when I move on, but I will carry parts of it with me. I like the camaraderie even when there are 'class' issues or bickering.

Lit, for me, is a huge cess pool of personalities, I choose to cling to the shit that doesn't stink too badly. (horrid analogy, butt, there it is none-the-less)

 

[oggbashan]

Lit has made me consider my audience when I am writing. On other sites the audience didn't respond except in one or two words e.g. 'Great story' or 'Crap'. Neither is particularly helpful for a writer's development.

Now I get more feedback and more detail yet if I précis the feedback what do I get?

'Great story' or 'Crap'. With explanatory notes.

I think I have developed considerably as a writer since joining Lit and the AH. All the stories I have ever posted on Literotica are still there. If I feel that I need proof that I have developed I return to two of my earlier postings 'Stag Party' and 'Hen Party'. I wince, and then go back to trying to write my best story which will always be the next one.

As for the influence I have had on Lit? Not much. On the AH? Introducer of garderobes and developer of the now infamous last place contest in all the themed contests of the year. How else was I going to 'win' anything?

Also I am the current holder of the award for the worst rated stories by an AH member - 'Merlin and Nimue' written by me as jeanne_d_artois and as Og 'White Scut'.

Don't bother to look them up. They are as bad as they are rated.

Og

 

[Goldlion1]

Interesting commentary on audience Og, I tend to err on the side of caution when leaning toward writing for anybody except myself. I have found that if you have any potential to communicate effectively as a writer, your development can and will come even in the absence of feedback.

As you grow as a person, your writing will also grow. Feedback helps but so does the rarified ability to step back and view your work from a detached perspective. For me, as I get older I find this ability strengthening with every passing day.

 

[NoJo]

Lit. was a trigger for both the two-year separation from, and the recent reconciliation with my partner.

 

[oggbashan]

Interesting commentary on audience Og, I tend to err on the side of caution when leaning toward writing for anybody except myself. I have found that if you have any potential to communicate effectively as a writer, your development can and will come even in the absence of feedback.

As you grow as a person, your writing will also grow. Feedback helps but so does the rarified ability to step back and view your work from a detached perspective. For me, as I get older I find this ability strengthening with every passing day.

Feedback from the AH does help me considerably because so much of it is valid and meaningful either on the writerly or editorial minutiae or on the mood I have (or haven't) created. Most feedback and PCs from those I know is intelligent and worth having. Sometimes ChilledVodka is the exception.

Maybe you are growing and developing your ability with age. I am so ancient I have always seemed detached from my writing. Writing exercises my brain and stops me growing senile.

However detachment isn't necessarily a product of maturity. Some time ago I was pleased that my then 13 year old daughter came 3rd in a local poetry competition for adults (neither she nor I had noticed it was supposed to be for over 18s). I was shortlisted but out of the prizes. The judge thought my daughter was an aged lady looking back over a lifetime of sorrow. Thirteen year old girls do have a morbid streak and mine expressed it beautifully.

Og

 

[Goldlion1]

Oh no I'm only linking my ageing and my writing, and the ability to detach myself from it. I do believe that writing in and of itself can hone your skills. But my experience has always been that as I grow my writing grows with me.

I do think that (lets call it time rather than age) enhances the ability to communicate, that along with practice and patience. I do find that I am much less flexible in my willingness to bend in the area of my vision for my writing. Coming into ones own (I’m just shy of 40) has had a sobering effect on me. It has made me realize that sticking to my guns while accepting critical praise and damnation does not mean my vision is invalid.

As far as audience is concerned, I have found that if you communicate clearly, your audience will find you

 

[brightlyiburn]

Interesting commentary on audience Og, I tend to err on the side of caution when leaning toward writing for anybody except myself. I have found that if you have any potential to communicate effectively as a writer, your development can and will come even in the absence of feedback.

As you grow as a person, your writing will also grow. Feedback helps but so does the rarified ability to step back and view your work from a detached perspective. For me, as I get older I find this ability strengthening with every passing day.

I have no ability to view my work from a detached perspective. Perhaps it's too much a part of me. I find, however, that after reading one of my favorite authors, my work seems so inadequete.
Never, ever err on the side of caution. It's a very hard habit to break once you get started.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Lit. was a trigger for both the two-year separation from, and the recent reconciliation with my partner.

Glad I'm not the only fool making major decisions here.

I quit my job.

My department head, as it happens, declined to take my resignation and made my job rather more attractive, but I did go in ready to put my head in the noose.

Shanglan

 

[cantdog]

My wife resents a perceived loss of face-to-face time to the computer. I perceive the same thing with regard to her television watching, but being "even" doesn't stop resentment.

So there I think is one large impact of Lit. A difference it has made in my life. I know there are others who feel some impact of this kind. But it is more pleasant to think of other aspects of the experience.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I'd miss ya if you left. However, I do understand that feeling. I would like to think that I've made some kind of impression, hopefully more positive than negative. I'm one of those cock-eyed optimists...maybe I've said something to someone that made a difference.

Well, I'd miss you and you have made an impression on me.

 

[Bridget69]

Lit has helped me to be less inhibited and more sexually expressive.

I'm not sure if I've made an impact on Lit, other than towards the several readers who've enjoyed my contribution.

 

[~photoguy~]

It's given me a very pale complexion. And a complex. Apart from that, it's enhanced my life no end.



No, seriously, it has, much more than I could ever have imagined.

My impact on Lit? Way too bloody much. What with NaNo's and the Lit Olympics and now this mad-cap Thread Archive project thingy, yep, I reckon I've put a fair amount in. All that and the sheer amount of bollocks I spout in the threads.

Lit has allowed me to chat, post, flirt with gorgeous women from all over the world ... and read new words like "bollocks" ... eventhough I have no fukkin clue what that means ..

It's also allowed me to improve my squinting skills ... staring at little wee tiny Avatars of sexy women

My contribution to Lit ? minimal at best ... my attempts at injecting witty Canadianisms into various threads is generally ignored ... apparently I'm a lot less funny over the internet than in person ....

 

[tolyk]

Lit has helped me to be less inhibited and more sexually expressive.

I'm not sure if I've made an impact on Lit, other than towards the several readers who've enjoyed my contribution.

Every Canadian makes an impact Definately the gorgeous ones.

As for me, Lit has been a very enjoyable experience. It taught me that there actually are other mature people on the internet.

My contribution.. hmm..can't think of one, but I've been told that I'd be missed, etc etc..

 

[Guest]