scouries
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Historically I've always preferred to just have one ScouriesWorld thread going at a time. Quite frankly I've never been impressed by those who open two or three new ones every day - I believe it would reduce the clutter if these multi- threadmasters could keep themselves to one new thread a month. Just having one great thread that covers years also allows new site members to explore the history of the site through that threadmasters eyes. However our good QUEEN, the omnipresent LAUREL continually closes my threads due to a long, ongoing dispute, unfortunately thereby not allowing her customers from benefitting from my accumulated authorly wisdom...
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ScouriesWorld
A Note from LITEROTICAS #1 AUTHOR
James R Scouries esq.
on the subject of Location... Location... Location...
[size=+1]I've been rereading some of my stories over the last three weeks. Whenever I come back to these stories I've written five or ten or fifteen years ago I'm invariably pleased with them. Oh there are parts in just about every story that could be improved upon but overall I'm proud of them. In fact often I'm amazed at how well they came out.
And I must say that the feedback (votes, comments, emails) I receive on them is especially gratifying. It highlights that not only have I pleased myself but also the readers who visit Literotica.
I did receive one interesting comment the other day - a reader who said she'd read right through my list pointed out she loved the way my stories travel around the United States and the World. That I usually identify the places where the story takes place as well as move from place to place.
Looking the last couple of days at the New Story list I surprisingly noticed that a large number of authors don't identify the town or place they take place in. It would be interesting to know what percentage of stories do identify where the action is taking place in. It's something I've never considered before.
And mine do seem to be spread out geographically. Florida of course is featured in many of my stories - Miami and Miami Beach of course but I've also written stories set in Vero Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Daytona Beach, Tampa and of course the Everglages!
Big American cities? YES! New York City, Boston, Dallas, Philidelphia, Pittsburgh, Cinncinnati, Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco, Detroit and Richmond have all hosted Scourian works - many of them more than once. And then of course there's Cleveland which I erroneously placed on the wrong Great Lake ( and which has been brought to my attention many, many times!).
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Upstate New York have all also been the venue for at least one of my stories. As well as a quick trip to Princeton, N.J. And I had one tale set in the snowy Cascade Mountains of Washington State - a story which started in San Francisco before moving to Yakima, Washington and then onto the mountains before veering west and ending up surfing on the north shore of Oahu!
And then there is West Lafayette, Indianna; Kalamazoo, Michigan; Bowling Green, Ohio; Roanoke, Virginia; Tupelo, Mississippi; and Auburn, Alabama. And the Carolinas, both North and South, have been the home to quite a few of my tales.
I put one 2 chapter story in a commune on the West Virginia/Tennessee border. A border which doesn't exist as they don't touch. Mind you I did that one on purpose, trying to camouflage a place that actually exists.
Maui, Hawaii was the most beautiful of my locations although the ones placed on east coast barrier islands were ones that I loved and knew so well from my youthful summers.
But what about the rest of the world you might ask. Well I can tick off London, Paris, Beijing, Montreal, Australia, Vietnam and Germanys Pomeranian Coast on the Baltic Sea. And the island of Martinique. And my Baron Scouries story (which still sits unfinished on my computer) tours the Scottish Highlands and the halls of Oxford, England. And Georgia! Okay I mean the state not the cuntry - although Georgia can seem pretty foreign from time to time. And of course my Georgian tale took place in Athens (not the one in Greece!).
I have one that started in the good old U.S. of A. but which ended up in Saudia Arabia. It was up for about a week on Literotica before Laurel took it down. It has sat unloved as a rejected story on my story page now for over 10 years!
I didn't set out to have my stories travel the world - it just happened. I have traveled quite extensively in my life so many of these places are familiar. And when writing I do like to have a place in mind even if it isn't very important to the story line. It just seems to make the writing easier. And more interesting for yours truly. And I think it makes the story more interesting for the reader. I couldn't count the number of times I've got emails from readers telling me how much they enjoyed reading about a place they live in or did live in.
So if you generally don't name the locations in your stories may I suggest you try it - your readers may like it ... [/size]
A Note from LITEROTICAS #1 AUTHOR
James R Scouries esq.
on the subject of Location... Location... Location...
[size=+1]I've been rereading some of my stories over the last three weeks. Whenever I come back to these stories I've written five or ten or fifteen years ago I'm invariably pleased with them. Oh there are parts in just about every story that could be improved upon but overall I'm proud of them. In fact often I'm amazed at how well they came out.
And I must say that the feedback (votes, comments, emails) I receive on them is especially gratifying. It highlights that not only have I pleased myself but also the readers who visit Literotica.
I did receive one interesting comment the other day - a reader who said she'd read right through my list pointed out she loved the way my stories travel around the United States and the World. That I usually identify the places where the story takes place as well as move from place to place.
Looking the last couple of days at the New Story list I surprisingly noticed that a large number of authors don't identify the town or place they take place in. It would be interesting to know what percentage of stories do identify where the action is taking place in. It's something I've never considered before.
And mine do seem to be spread out geographically. Florida of course is featured in many of my stories - Miami and Miami Beach of course but I've also written stories set in Vero Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Daytona Beach, Tampa and of course the Everglages!
Big American cities? YES! New York City, Boston, Dallas, Philidelphia, Pittsburgh, Cinncinnati, Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco, Detroit and Richmond have all hosted Scourian works - many of them more than once. And then of course there's Cleveland which I erroneously placed on the wrong Great Lake ( and which has been brought to my attention many, many times!).
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Upstate New York have all also been the venue for at least one of my stories. As well as a quick trip to Princeton, N.J. And I had one tale set in the snowy Cascade Mountains of Washington State - a story which started in San Francisco before moving to Yakima, Washington and then onto the mountains before veering west and ending up surfing on the north shore of Oahu!
And then there is West Lafayette, Indianna; Kalamazoo, Michigan; Bowling Green, Ohio; Roanoke, Virginia; Tupelo, Mississippi; and Auburn, Alabama. And the Carolinas, both North and South, have been the home to quite a few of my tales.
I put one 2 chapter story in a commune on the West Virginia/Tennessee border. A border which doesn't exist as they don't touch. Mind you I did that one on purpose, trying to camouflage a place that actually exists.
Maui, Hawaii was the most beautiful of my locations although the ones placed on east coast barrier islands were ones that I loved and knew so well from my youthful summers.
But what about the rest of the world you might ask. Well I can tick off London, Paris, Beijing, Montreal, Australia, Vietnam and Germanys Pomeranian Coast on the Baltic Sea. And the island of Martinique. And my Baron Scouries story (which still sits unfinished on my computer) tours the Scottish Highlands and the halls of Oxford, England. And Georgia! Okay I mean the state not the cuntry - although Georgia can seem pretty foreign from time to time. And of course my Georgian tale took place in Athens (not the one in Greece!).
I have one that started in the good old U.S. of A. but which ended up in Saudia Arabia. It was up for about a week on Literotica before Laurel took it down. It has sat unloved as a rejected story on my story page now for over 10 years!
I didn't set out to have my stories travel the world - it just happened. I have traveled quite extensively in my life so many of these places are familiar. And when writing I do like to have a place in mind even if it isn't very important to the story line. It just seems to make the writing easier. And more interesting for yours truly. And I think it makes the story more interesting for the reader. I couldn't count the number of times I've got emails from readers telling me how much they enjoyed reading about a place they live in or did live in.
So if you generally don't name the locations in your stories may I suggest you try it - your readers may like it ... [/size]
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