What is your highest quality story at a literary level?

[Comshaw]

What I had in mind was that the craft of writing was of a really high caliber, regardless of whether it was plot driven or character driven or description driven or... or...

I'm not good at critically analyzing my own work. I find I'm a bit biased in my favor so I leave it to the readers or others to do for me. And most of mine are just flat porn. Most have a plot of some kind and characters that are somewhat relatable, but first and foremost they are also constructed to titillate the libido of the reader.

Evn though I got slapped around for some inaccurate historical points, if I HAD to pick one, I'd have to go with this one: The Ardennes


Comshaw

 

[Erozetta]

Not necessarily but often yes. Reality is not such a pretty beast as to be tamed by rules and taught to walk on a leash. Quite simply put, they would not be appreciated in this community. They do not predominantly concern themselves with sex but include snippets of it alongside ultra-violence and trauma described in minutiae. Against the back drop of such horror, characters really shine. This has been my experience of human trauma. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the face of terror.

As stated, they simply would not be appreciated here. And to sanitise them would destroy them.

Writing here is like showing up for a popularity contest sometimes. That's not a bad thing. Just an observation. We all tune our story telling to feed the reader's expectation. For example, my story Sing Me To Sleep originally ended as she died in the carpark. I tacked on a happy ever after before publishing it here so as not to be punished thoroughly.

In my experience, this hasn't been the case. I posted a violent and heavily sexual story that involved two people being kidnapped by a serial killer and bonding over that shared trauma to disastrous effect and it did really well in erotic horror. I didn't sanitize that one, I just wrote it to be within the parameters of the site's rules: no sex near death.

The one that would break the rule but would be literary involves a brief mention of CSA (not spelled out, just alluded to, but that's enough in my eyes) and I won't post that on an erotica site for one thing. But what would cause it to fall afoul of the rules is the near death of the main character during a willing but extremely violent scene with sex in it. She ultimately survives but is physically scarred from the experience. She basically walks into a situation she doesn't expect to walk out of and does so fully knowing that is the likely outcome. A roundabout suicide attempt that wouldn't look like suicide. I think it straddles the snuff line a little too closely and I'm not going to even attempt to post it here.

What's funny is I could post it on Amazon under a Thriller/Horror tag, but I couldn't post the story I did about trauma bonding (which did well here) on Amazon as it would be considered noncon in one area and they don't accept that. I do have that one up on Smashwords, though. And I think I've sold more copies of it than any other story. It does not have a HEA and people still liked it. (There was a consensus among the commenters that I should write something with fluffy bunnies in it after, though.)

And I've never tailored my stories to the readership here. They either like it or they don't. I'm fine either way because I wrote the story I wanted to write for whatever reason I had.

 

[Rollinbones]

In my experience, this hasn't been the case. I posted a violent and heavily sexual story that involved two people being kidnapped by a serial killer and bonding over that shared trauma to disastrous effect and it did really well in erotic horror. I didn't sanitize that one, I just wrote it to be within the parameters of the site's rules: no sex near death.

The one that would break the rule but would be literary involves a brief mention of CSA (not spelled out, just alluded to, but that's enough in my eyes) and I won't post that on an erotica site for one thing. But what would cause it to fall afoul of the rules is the near death of the main character during a willing but extremely violent scene with sex in it. She ultimately survives but is physically scarred from the experience. She basically walks into a situation she doesn't expect to walk out of and does so fully knowing that is the likely outcome. A roundabout suicide attempt that wouldn't look like suicide. I think it straddles the snuff line a little too closely and I'm not going to even attempt to post it here.

What's funny is I could post it on Amazon under a Thriller/Horror tag, but I couldn't post the story I did about trauma bonding (which did well here) on Amazon as it would be considered noncon in one area and they don't accept that. I do have that one up on Smashwords, though. And I think I've sold more copies of it than any other story. It does not have a HEA and people still liked it. (There was a consensus among the commenters that I should write something with fluffy bunnies in it after, though.)

And I've never tailored my stories to the readership here. They either like it or they don't. I'm fine either way because I wrote the story I wanted to write for whatever reason I had.

I wrote a piece that was received as highly erotic elsewhere but was rejected here for "Vore". It featured whipping with rose stems. Loving catharsis even. Not abuse. No sex even. CSA... I don't even go there. I have endured that as a child and witnessed it as a adult protector. Perhaps, i'll hint at it as a premise for behavioural traits in a character but I could not even bring myself to open that box in the back of my head to the page. I write what i'm given by the faeries, but i keep some in a vault and i publish some here. Selectively, like an intelligent person.

Perhaps you didn't describe things thoroughly enough to earn the 'reject' hammer. Maybe that's a challenge.

There's a line in an old Sinead song, "the times we did it so hard we got blood on the walls."

 

[Erozetta]

I wrote a piece that was received as highly erotic elsewhere but was rejected here for "Vore". It featured whipping with rose stems. Loving catharsis even. Not abuse. No sex even. CSA... I don't even go there. I have endured that as a child and witnessed it as a adult protector. Perhaps, i'll hint at it as a premise for behavioural traits in a character but I could not even bring myself to open that box in the back of my head to the page. I write what i'm given by the faeries, but i keep some in a vault and i publish some here. Selectively, like an intelligent person.

Perhaps you didn't describe things thoroughly enough to earn the 'reject' hammer. Maybe that's a challenge.

There's a line in an old Sinead song, "the times we did it so hard we got blood on the walls."

The mention in the story was literally a line about killing the perpetrators, lol. No details, just "I know what they did and I'll kill them for you if you do this for me."

The one that was published here went pretty deep into their experience, but faded to black or cut out of the scene and back to the *after they escaped* part of the story before any severe harm was depicted. But the MMC was barely alive upon rescue and that was at the very start of the story.

Vore is a different subject and I think it might be against the rules completely? I'm not sure, I've never written it. Mine read like a weirdly violent dark romance crossed with a psychological horror.