Chain Story - Matchmaking for the Shy

OK, a draft is trundling along. Zach and Emma have made up. Houston has ranted and does his book reading. I wonder if I can produce an appropriate extract...

How old are Cassian and Heather, can anyone remember?
 
OK, a draft is trundling along. Zach and Emma have made up. Houston has ranted and does his book reading. I wonder if I can produce an appropriate extract...

How old are Cassian and Heather, can anyone remember?

Heather is "only just 40", Cassian isn't specifically stated, based on what Devinter had written I was writing him as late 20s. Say 27 or 28.
 
Yes, certainly old enough to have graduated with at least a masters and spent time running the company (with, I think, at least one year in England).
 
Heather is "only just 40", Cassian isn't specifically stated, based on what Devinter had written I was writing him as late 20s. Say 27 or 28.
Yes, that was my general impression but I didn't have details in my notes. Excellent. Which would make Diane early 30s.

4k done, and I may leave it at just one sentence of the book reading, because my attempts at writing worse than John Norman are making my brain hurt.
 
Incidentally, what is going on with the views? I was checking out what was still on the Chain Story main page and at the moment we have

Part 5 - me - 4.86* 1.5k - "Relationships get deeper, more complex and a little kinkier"
Part 4 - Kelliezgirl - 4.76 - 1.4k - "Heather unleashes her inner vixen."
Part 3 - Joy - 4.69 - 7.1k - "A successful date sees cury MILF take NEET firmly in hand."
Part 2 - Devinter - 4.4 - 4.1k - "Dating, drama and naughty anal sex."
Part 1 - Mrs M - 4.51 - 4.6k - "Starting new dating service for introverts & inexperienced."

Now, as we all know, views don't reflect the quality of a piece but I'm currently in 'scratching my head over how Lit works.' I'm not sure what I was exxpecting in this category, but Mrs_M and Devinter seem reasonable - Joy is doing something right though I'm darned if I know what it is and then Kellie fell off a cliff for no apparent reason. (My views are still very much in flux but will probably end up kissing 2k from experience). Any ideas?

*from 7 votes so I'm assuming the five of you being nice, my own five star vote and one other reader who gave it an honest four.

4k done, and I may leave it at just one sentence of the book reading, because my attempts at writing worse than John Norman are making my brain hurt.
We could always workshop it on this thread...
 
Incidentally, what is going on with the views? I was checking out what was still on the Chain Story main page and at the moment we have

Part 5 - me - 4.86* 1.5k - "Relationships get deeper, more complex and a little kinkier"
Part 4 - Kelliezgirl - 4.76 - 1.4k - "Heather unleashes her inner vixen."
Part 3 - Joy - 4.69 - 7.1k - "A successful date sees cury MILF take NEET firmly in hand."
Part 2 - Devinter - 4.4 - 4.1k - "Dating, drama and naughty anal sex."
Part 1 - Mrs M - 4.51 - 4.6k - "Starting new dating service for introverts & inexperienced."

Now, as we all know, views don't reflect the quality of a piece but I'm currently in 'scratching my head over how Lit works.' I'm not sure what I was exxpecting in this category, but Mrs_M and Devinter seem reasonable - Joy is doing something right though I'm darned if I know what it is and then Kellie fell off a cliff for no apparent reason. (My views are still very much in flux but will probably end up kissing 2k from experience). Any ideas?

*from 7 votes so I'm assuming the five of you being nice, my own five star vote and one other reader who gave it an honest four.


We could always workshop it on this thread...


Well, I've got the smallest following of all of you, which probably explains some of it.
Other than that, no idea.
 
Well, I've got the smallest following of all of you, which probably explains some of it.
Other than that, no idea.
Actually, Joy has the fewest followers which makes it even stranger. But even Mrs M, who has the most of anyone, only has a bit over 1000 so I don't think it is a major factor.
 
Well, for what it's worth, Joy's tags were:

age gap femdom facesitting blonde milf intercrural gentle femdom female dominant male submissive msub

I got into trouble here for MILFs recently, but I'm definitely making a note of the rest.

@joy_of_cooking Incidentally, could you add my chapter to your special Matchmaking list?
 
Here are the scores in our chain story.

4.45
4.53
4.83
4.07
4.73
4.85
4.93
4.64
4.92

Guess which one is mine. ; )
 
From a views perspective it may be a good idea for the subtitle of KQ's chapter to include some indicator that it's the end.
There are a surprising number of people who won't read a series til it's over. So making that abundantly clear is likely to our advantage.

"The epic conclusion of the increasingly inaccurately named Matchmaking for the Shy trilogy".
 
Here are the scores in our chain story.

4.45
4.53
4.83
4.07
4.73
4.85
4.93
4.64
4.92

Guess which one is mine. ; )
I always say don't take scores personally, but I think that goes quadruple for these Chain Stories. A lot of the entries only have a coupe of thousand views if that, meaning that they're barely counteracting the effect of most of your 5 team makes giving you a gratis 5. And as always a single one bomber has undue power.

From a views perspective it may be a good idea for the subtitle of KQ's chapter to include some indicator that it's the end.
There are a surprising number of people who won't read a series til it's over. So making that abundantly clear is likely to our advantage.
Yes, good idea. Add the words 'finale' or some such into the description.
 
Finale: MILFs get fucked, asses get spanked, books get read.
That's 60 characters, which I think is the limit. Suggestions for improvement welcome!

Tags: MILF, toyboy, mature, cfnm, cmnf, spanking, BDSM, femdom, submissive female, writer

Draft list, suggestions again welcome. 'Mom' would probably get us many views but be people disappointed by lack of incest. Probably should have submissive male in there, may not need the clothed/naked ones.

6k words done and the structure is there, though several scenes need fleshing out. As the actress said to the bishop.
 
Finale: MILFs get fucked, asses get spanked, books get read.
That's 60 characters, which I think is the limit. Suggestions for improvement welcome!

Tags: MILF, toyboy, mature, cfnm, cmnf, spanking, BDSM, femdom, submissive female, writer

Draft list, suggestions again welcome. 'Mom' would probably get us many views but be people disappointed by lack of incest. Probably should have submissive male in there, may not need the clothed/naked ones.

6k words done and the structure is there, though several scenes need fleshing out. As the actress said to the bishop.
'Writer' might not be necessary?

The subtitle is superb. If only real life would be so kind!
 
Finale: MILFs get fucked, asses get spanked, books get read.
Can drop the second and third "get" and rely on parallelism to get the meaning across. Possibly do without the first "get" as well.
Incidentally, could you add my chapter to your special Matchmaking list?
Did it the night it was published. Maybe the site is being inconsistent again between the public and private views?
Joy is doing something right though I'm darned if I know what it is

More people like MILFs than like vixens or kink?
I honestly think this is it. Stag/vixen is a relatively obscure form of infidelity kink (compared to hotwife/cuckold) and there are so many kinks that "kink" itself is hardly going to catch anyone's eye. MILFs, on the other hand, have pretty broad appeal.
 
(also, hi everyone, long time no see. IRL tedium and political fuckwittery have taken up a lot of my time these last few months.)
 
Did it the night it was published. Maybe the site is being inconsistent again between the public and private views?

Maybe, this is what I'm currently seeing. Honestly though, the number of times I've been notified that someone favourited my story and then I check their list to see what else they liked and my story is not there...this site is held together with string. Oh well, it'll show up eventually I guess.

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OK guys, I've got a first draft done. 8k words, will need a couple more thousand words at least of the actual dirty bits, but the storyline is all there. It also needs the timeline checked to ensure I'm not having one pair of characters living two weeks while others say it's the next day. And American-picking, at some point.

It's supposed to be a nice story with happy ending in keeping with your previous chapters. Would anyone like a read at this point? There's bound to be some continuity errors, confused drugged up sections that are me rather than Rambold, etc.

Also I'd like someone to have the draft in case I get run over by a bus. If I vanish for more than 4 months you have my permission to fill in the blanks and publish.
 
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Happy to read and American-pick.

Oddly, I learned about Brit-picking a couple of days ago when it was mentioned in the author notes of a HP fanfic. That was my first exposure to the X-picking terminology. I guess it must be descended from nit-picking.
 
Finally got around to reading the chapter, @TheRedChamber - Well done!

If you want me to be critical of something, I did find the opening scene a little bit messy. Too many characters at once, perhaps? With rapid dialogue.

However, the following scenes were executed really well, and your mastery of the English language was a pleasure to partake in. Each character shone, with their personalities highlighted clearly. Most importantly, it felt like a lot transpired in the chapter, and that you set things up nicely for Kumquat to bring it home with a bang. Pun intended. Now I wish I would have put a bit more effort - and length - into my own contribution, as it feels like the most forgettable out of the collection by far. Nevertheless, a true pleasure to watch characters that I've helped create bloom into something greater. I thank you for that! đź’™
 
Finally got around to reading the chapter, @TheRedChamber - Well done!
Thanks.
If you want me to be critical of something, I did find the opening scene a little bit messy. Too many characters at once, perhaps? With rapid dialogue.
That's probably fair. One thing I wanted to do was to put all the characters together in one room so that KQ wouldn't be hampered by trying to write a finale and working out who hadn't actually met or who had just bumped into whom coming out of the coffee shop. I didn't want to spend a huge amount of words on it so I was probably burning through Chekovs quite quickly.
However, the following scenes were executed really well, and your mastery of the English language was a pleasure to partake in. Each character shone, with their personalities highlighted clearly. Most importantly, it felt like a lot transpired in the chapter, and that you set things up nicely for Kumquat to bring it home with a bang. Pun intended. Now I wish I would have put a bit more effort - and length - into my own contribution, as it feels like the most forgettable out of the collection by far. Nevertheless, a true pleasure to watch characters that I've helped create bloom into something greater. I thank you for that! đź’™
The one thing I regret is putting the suggested word limits at 3k-9k. I wanted to keep them fairly small so people would be encouraged to sign up without it feeling like too much work. I think because both you and Mrs Mackenzie stuck to the rules and were still very much in the introductory phase and careful with just setting the characters up, the story was slow developing. Then Joy came and smashed the word limit and moved things forward, and so did Kelliezgirl although a bit more concisely, but we ended up with both sets of characters having got together by the end of 4 of 6 chapters whereas to me it felt more like the story was naturally only half done. So, yeah, the reason it took a while and was so long was that I did want to get into a position where KQ could write something that felt like resolving dilemas instead of still introducing them in the final part.

I'm not sure if I'm going to do this again, but I might look at trying to get 8 writers in a group and be more generous with the word count next time.
 
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