What Would Be The Best...

[TheEarl]

I loved this bit. I want to read more.

The Earl

 

[Mari J]

"It changed my life."




I don't ask for much.

 

[Guest]

 

[R. Richard]

thing that anyone could say about your writing? The highest compliment? The thing that would see you through all those times when you fall face first onto the keyboard in despair and think about taking up stamp collecting instead?

"We here at Smut Press read your story "Lust And Filth" and we were impressed. We are sending you our standard contract for 60% of the cover price. Do you have any more stories?"

Go ahead, call my bluff!

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Any time I get feedback from a woman telling me one of my stories got her off. That's all the thanks I need.

 

[rgraham666]

Now CD has reminded me, that feedback I got from one woman claiming she came three times while reading one of my stories was a hell of a nice kick.

 

[CharleyH]

thing that anyone could say about your writing? The highest compliment? The thing that would see you through all those times when you fall face first onto the keyboard in despair and think about taking up stamp collecting instead?

In all honesty, I had an amazing compliment, and humbly, from a gay guy story I wrote. The owner of a bar I referenced wrote to me, thinking I was a gay guy who had been there in that time period. THE BEST kind of compliment. I've had others, but that was a major compliment.

 

[SeaCat]

My best feedback? Damn but the only answer I can give is the feedback I have received from my story Beach Party. I received great feedback from fellow writers here as well as from Cancer Survivors. All of them seemed to enjoy the story and some of the best were from the survivors commenting that they thought the story was not only realistic but erotic as well. (someone even said it was well written, *gasp*.)

Other than that I have received one feedback from someone I wrote a story for. That made the writing of that story worth all of the effort I put into it.

Cat

 

[yui]

I would like to preface this by saying that I know that readers have been much, much too kind to me; but when I get simple feedback like this, it makes me feel like maybe I can string words together in a way that is pleasing on more than just a tingly thighs kind way.

Hi. I just read all of your stories, and each of them amazed me so much
I could hardley breathe. I though it was absolutely amazing that
someone could put so much poetry and beauty into a story like you did. Thank
you.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Someone just sent me this feedback... this was a nice thing to show up in my box!

I just read two of your erotic poems and your first three stories.
Thank you for them. You are a treasure, indeed--and you reward the hunt
for good erotica on literotica. There is so much on here that is simply
boring or mechanical--but you are a breath of fresh air. I have the
sense you are, in fact, a sensualist, an enjoyer of almost everything
sexual, and that you know that the "act" of sex has three parts:
anticipation, action, and afterglow. I hope you write lots more.

 

[togitc]

I like the comments that demand more generally.

Read and enjoy!
09/21/05 By: Anonymous
You have a talent for these very short stories -- keep up the good work.

That made me feel good.

hey! this story is awesome!! it leaves me wanting more... so keep
writing! it's well written, you feel a connection with the chars. especially
at the end... that bliss after having amazing sex for the first time
with a new partner... you capture that very well. keep going!

I smiled for about an hour after that.

Loved it
09/08/05 By: lesliejones in USA
Yes, girls do grunt and growl,real grrrls that is! I loved it even if it is rough around the edges. Your Angela is one of the more realistic women I've encountered at this site in quite a while.

Just about anyone can say about my work on this site makes me happy. Even constructive and not-so constructive critism perks me up. Through my faults I improve and by learning my strength I can grow stronger.

I always wanted to publish a book, of course I would have to write one first, but that isn't the point. If I ever got a book on the shelves I would be incredibly happy if it sold more than 3 copies. Just the fact that someone would choose something of mine to read makes writing it worth while.

And in closing I leave with this:

A Good Stroke -- Story!
09/21/05 By: Anonymous
An underrated writer of short stories. This one is no exception. You will enjoy!

 

[shereads]

The compliment I dream of receiving:

"Because of the brochure you wrote, I bought a $6.5 million faux-Tudor Estate Ranchette with a 6-car garage and views of the 18th fairway, smack-dab in the middle of what the Sierra Club used to call 'the last undeveloped wetlands habitat on the southeast coast of Florida.'

"Yesterday, I carried the marsh with a five-iron!

"Then my feet were eaten by a nesting crocodile."


<sigh>

Someday...

 

[The_old_man]

The ones I realy like are those that ask when the sequel will be posted.

I even had one (I think it was female) sak if I wanted to cyber with (?)her.

 

[neonlyte]

All of the feedback is immensely encouraging - even when I was regularly being trounced by the L&L twins (remember them) who seemed to lie in wait for each story to be published. Receiving positive comments from the writers I hold in awe is doubly encouraging, Rumples support for Joy and Shanglan's perceptive insight to the story behind Justice gave me great confidence. You Doc helped with the editing of my very first story on Lit and gave me encouragement to continue writing. And Lou, ever supportive, persuaded me I should enter NaNo and that I could write longer works. Penelope's and Sack's comments for Burning Bridges live long in my memory.

The novel I wrote in NaNo last year has been in the hands of a few trusted readers (the first few chapters) all of whom, I relieved to say, are clamouring for more. That is probably the best people have had to say about the work I am doing and offers a glimmer of hope that I might one day write something people will be willing to buy.

 

[woodnymph_O]

just taking time to say anything nice is heart warming to me.
but when I was told to write more, that was great.
and when people say I just had to go back and read your other submissions, I feel great.

I'm still trying to get the nerve up to write another novel now, I worked on one for 4 years, on paper, I didn't have a computer. Eveyone who read it was glued to the pages, and awaited each finnished chapter like a soap opera. Then I pissed off a teenage sister, and it was destroyed. familly always knows what will get to you. Since then, short storys seem to be all I come out with (sigh)

 

[McKenna]

thing that anyone could say about your writing? The highest compliment? The thing that would see you through all those times when you fall face first onto the keyboard in despair and think about taking up stamp collecting instead?

I received this as feedback recently: "I do not know you, but I am prepared to hate you if I do not get a second chapter of this story. Hate."

I quote this because I think the best thing anyone could say about my writing is that I engage the reader. At least, that's what I try to do. I don't seek merely to entertain; I want the reader right there in the seat beside me as we take that nose-dive a la Thelma and Louise.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I wasn't really asking about the best feedback you've ever received. I was really more interested in what you dream about someone saying about your writing. What is it you're trying to achieve by publishing here? Just making people hot, or creating memorable characters, or making people cry, or providing deep insight, or being entertaining, or none of the above? Or all of them?

I mean, it's great to pubish a story and have people fall all over themselves praising it, but very often that comes as a pleasant surprise. They liked the plot, or the setting, or some part of it you didn't even give much thought to. What they liked was not necessarily what it is you were trying to do.

So I'm asking, just what is it you are trying to do? What would they say that told you you'd scored a bull's eye and accomplished your goals as a writer?

I guess that's what it comes down to: just what are your goals, or is it all just for grins?

 

[woodnymph_O]

my goal is to be a favorite, cherished, dog eared, book on someones nightstand.
other than that it's for grins

 

[McKenna]

I wasn't really asking about the best feedback you've ever received. I was really more interested in what you dream about someone saying about your writing. What is it you're trying to achieve by publishing here? Just making people hot, or creating memorable characters, or making people cry, or providing deep insight, or being entertaining, or none of the above? Or all of them?

I mean, it's great to pubish a story and have people fall all over themselves praising it, but very often that comes as a pleasant surprise. They liked the plot, or the setting, or some part of it you didn't even give much thought to. What they liked was not necessarily what it is you were trying to do.

So I'm asking, just what is it you are trying to do? What would they say that told you you'd scored a bull's eye and accomplished your goals as a writer?

I guess that's what it comes down to: just what are your goals, or is it all just for grins?

It's just for grins.


Fuck Doc, I dont understand what you're looking for here, but admonishing people for not answering your question the precise way you wanted it answered is ridiculous. Especially when you had to redefine what it was you were looking for in an answer after a good many people were gracious enough to reply to your thread.

 

[Penelope Street]

I was really more interested in what you dream about someone saying about your writing.
...
I guess that's what it comes down to: just what are your goals, or is it all just for grins?

I believe I understood your original question and thus I'll stick with my original answer. My goal is to create meaningful characters with whom the reader can identify. When a reader is willing to share my character's emotional experience, to feel her joy or sorrow, then I must have succeeded at some level.

P.S.
I don't see any hint of admonishment; just a clarification.

 

[Whisky7up]

I believe I understood your original question and thus I'll stick with my original answer. My goal is to create meaningful characters with whom the reader can identify. When a reader is willing to share my character's emotional experience, to feel her joy or sorrow, then I must have succeeded at some level.

P.S.
I don't see any hint of admonishment; just a clarification.

I thought most understood it too and, given the limited means of discussing the topic here, answered by giving examples of comments they liked. It's possible those examples exactly matched their goals, hence the pride in reproducing them.

 

[fifty5]

... just what are your goals, or is it all just for grins?

Since I was at school, I've thought I might be able to write. I was wrong then, but I've read much more since.

What I'm after from Lit is support for that thesis.

But what do I mean by "write"?

The authors I enjoy reading most have a completely transparent style - by which I mean I am totally unaware of it when reading their books: like a good window, I see straight through the words on the page (without being aware of them) to the story they are telling. I see people doing things in places that I can remember as if I was there.

From A Town Like Alice I can remember just how the women's well and wash-house looked when it was built, how Joe Harmon looked nailed to the tree for stealing the chickens and how the ice cream parlour in Willstown was decorated (I can describe the stools, though the book didn't {I think}). From We Never Meant To Go To Sea, I can remember the exact shape of the roller reefing handle, the sound of the tide rushing past the bell buoy, and the milk cart (pulled by a dog) in Holland. I can bring back to my mind's eye so many scenes from The Day of The Triffids.

My dream comment would compare my writing with Shute, Ransome, or Wyndham (or several others) - but I think I'll have a long wait...

The things I quoted before are the comments that came (if only by implication) closest to suggesting I'd achieved for them a little of what those authors achieved for me.

 

[fifty5]

PS I still can't invent interesting plots, which is something of a handicap...

 

[BlackShanglan]

I wasn't really asking about the best feedback you've ever received. I was really more interested in what you dream about someone saying about your writing. What is it you're trying to achieve by publishing here? Just making people hot, or creating memorable characters, or making people cry, or providing deep insight, or being entertaining, or none of the above? Or all of them?

I mean, it's great to pubish a story and have people fall all over themselves praising it, but very often that comes as a pleasant surprise. They liked the plot, or the setting, or some part of it you didn't even give much thought to. What they liked was not necessarily what it is you were trying to do.

So I'm asking, just what is it you are trying to do? What would they say that told you you'd scored a bull's eye and accomplished your goals as a writer?

I guess that's what it comes down to: just what are your goals, or is it all just for grins?

Honestly? This is ... well, embarassingly geeky and grandiose at the same time.

I'd like to hear from the folks at Norton, telling me that they want in their anthology of modern poetry or short stories. That, to me, would be highest laud - knowing that my work might survive me, and enter into the canon.

At the moment, I'd settle for "this has some hope of appealing to an artistic audience."

Shanglan

(And do hush, those chiding the Dr. for re-directing his question. He's quite right; no one answered it. I suppose I chose my first answer because it's the closest thing I've gotten to my dream thus far.)

 

[impressive]

I guess that's what it comes down to: just what are your goals, or is it all just for grins?

From a business perspective: In the short term, my goal is to have fine flickering hungers meet eBook sales numbers so that it goes to print in record time. In the long term, it's to have enough works under contract to bring in a comfortable income.

From a personal perspective: To improve with each word written. To continue to tantalize my target audience of one very special individual.

It's definitely NOT "just for grins."