About the Top of the Top Lists

[LargoKitt]

in all honesty, ive hardly ever checked any of those lists. I see people mention them from time to time, and of course the drama surrounding being in them / being knocked off them.

I dont have a massive following. I don't often write in the Most Popular categories.

My stories do well, I get nice ratings on most, a decent amount of comments and kind feedback.

Id love for one of my stories to become successful enough to be on some All Time List or whatever, sure. I even have several I feel deserve it more than some I see in those lists.

But im not losing sleep over it. It's just the way this place is.

Do people go to the lists to choose their stories? I would think they must. I have a roundabout way of choosing stories to read. Maybe selfish. I go to the favorites of the people who have favorited my story. If their mostly kink is stuff I don't go for, then 'bye'. I look for women authors. Of course, a lot of them aren't, but the scope of their writing or favorites is a clue. People who write about people.

 

[Djmac1031]

Yeah, the way to 'gross readership' and clickitude seems to be to choose one of the few, mostly taboo fetishes: Dad's, moms, sisters, butts aand monsters. Don't worry about making the fucking pretty. Get to it pretty quick with little hesitation. Make it mostly about the guy's yaya's. I challenge myself to write stories with real people and plausible reasons why they might hook up. I'd really like to know that a bunch of women are getting off on reading it. 'Not doing it...yet' can be the sexiest thing to write.

I always try to make it clear I'm not putting down anyone who writes those particular types of stories, and there are plenty of writers who write them well.

But lets be honest: we've all stumbled upon some shitty ass story, badly written , filled with every godawful trope known to porn, that's gotten huge views and surprisingly positive ratings and comments simply because it covers a highly popular category / kink.

and then we wonder why we put all the hard work into writing a well thought out plot with grounded, human, plausible, relatable characters.

 

[iwatchus]

Do people go to the lists to choose their stories? I would think they must. I have a roundabout way of choosing stories to read. Maybe selfish. I go to the favorites of the people who have favorited my story. If their mostly kink is stuff I don't go for, then 'bye'. I look for women authors. Of course, a lot of them aren't, but the scope of their writing or favorites is a clue. People who write about people.

I read exclusively for close to 25 years. I went to the recent lists for a few preferred categories and then onto all time lists for those same categories. I would also check out the winners list of the category page, xref'ing another thread. I suspect that is the biggest single bump for the winners.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Nope. My opening page is white with a (new) picture of a svelte woman in a long gown. "READ NEW SEXY STORIES DAILY PUBLISH YOUR FANTASY above the "Literotica News" and "Explore Literotica" boxes below. "Explore" drop down at very top leads to page you posted, in white. BTW, looks like your avatar posts both on the home page and the forum. Mine's only on the story half of the website. FYI, I'm browsing on an Apple laptop. Curioser and curiouser.

Okay. What you are calling the opening page is what I think of as the Home page. If you look under where it says "Explore Literotica" about half way down the page, you'll see "Erotic Stories and Audio". That links to the page I showed.

There is a dark option you can turn on, but I don't really recall how I did it!