MelissaBaby
Wordy Bitch
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- Jun 8, 2017
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Yeah, this. It's impossible to please everybody, and the sooner we make peace with that the happier we'll be. But in my experience, author enthusiasm goes a long way.
There are authors here who write high-sex stories and are immensely successful. I suspect that's because these authors really love writing those sex scenes and that enthusiasm is infectious.
If I tried to copy that "formula" by adding filler sex to my stories to meet some ratio of sex to plot... I'd expect to fall flat. If it doesn't excite me, if I'm just phoning it in to meet my performance targets, why would I expect readers to enjoy it? Even if they did, how much would that mean to me, getting 5* votes on something that I only wrote out of obligation.
When I started here, I was worried that my stories might not have enough sex in them for the Literotica crowd. But overwhelmingly, I heard from people who appreciated what I was trying to do with them. I know I'm not the only author here who writes relatively low-sex stories and still gets positive feedback for them.
All of this.