Author List...most are not

[dmwriter]

I'm sure this has been asked before, but here goes anyway...why is it that when I go review the so-called Authors List about 95% or more have never submitted anything? The list is just one of people who joined the site, so why not call it that and have a seperate list of Authors Only?

My mistake...I went back and saw the list I pulled up is called the "Members" list. Please disregard my dumb post above. I'll look and see if I can delete my post altogether.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

If Steven King or Patricia Cornwell joined LIT plenty of LITs 'authors' would make a fuss that SK and PC arent real authors cuz they dont write smut.

 

[SweetMaj]

Don't worry !

I'm sure this has been asked before, but here goes anyway...why is it that when I go review the so-called Authors List about 95% or more have never submitted anything? The list is just one of people who joined the site, so why not call it that and have a seperate list of Authors Only?

My mistake...I went back and saw the list I pulled up is called the "Members" list. Please disregard my dumb post above. I'll look and see if I can delete my post altogether.

You are forgiven Honey. I keep making mistakes, But I'm learning

 

[oggbashan]

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My mistake...I went back and saw the list I pulled up is called the "Members" list. Please disregard my dumb post above. I'll look and see if I can delete my post altogether.

You can edit a post as long as you leave at least five characters e.g. "Ooops!". You can't delete it. Nor can you delete a thread you have started.

If someone has quoted your words, it's too late. That quote will show what you said in the unedited post.

That is true, not just for Literotica, but also for most boards. Years later, someone can revive the thread and show what you said then.

It is always a good idea to think twice before posting in a hurry.

Og

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I'm sure this has been asked before, but here goes anyway...why is it that when I go review the so-called Authors List about 95% or more have never submitted anything? The list is just one of people who joined the site, so why not call it that and have a seperate list of Authors Only?

My mistake...I went back and saw the list I pulled up is called the "Members" list. Please disregard my dumb post above. I'll look and see if I can delete my post altogether.

"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."
-- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne

 

[Dragonlipz]

No problem - and keep on submitting and writing......

 

[TE999]

I'm sure this has been asked before, but here goes anyway...why is it that when I go review the so-called Authors List about 95% or more have never submitted anything? The list is just one of people who joined the site, so why not call it that and have a seperate list of Authors Only?

My mistake...I went back and saw the list I pulled up is called the "Members" list. Please disregard my dumb post above. I'll look and see if I can delete my post altogether.

No problem, dm. We all make mistakes. That's why they put erasers on pencils.

 

[_Lynn_]

No problem, dm. We all make mistakes. That's why they put erasers on pencils.

Scented erasers. And silly shaped erasers. In assorted colors.

 

[The_Fool]

Scented erasers. And silly shaped erasers. In assorted colors.

It boggles the mind to contemplate the various uses that you must have for those erasers.

 

[_Lynn_]

It boggles the mind to contemplate the various uses that you must have for those erasers.

*snerk*

 

[oggbashan]

It boggles the mind to contemplate the various uses that you must have for those erasers.

But in the UK we sometimes call them "rubbers".

Og

 

[Kiwibeavergrowler]

How is this thread still running? why are people bumping someones mistake back up to the top?

 

[oggbashan]

How is this thread still running? why are people bumping someones mistake back up to the top?

Because its purpose has been served and now we can use the thread for anything else such as asking why this thread is still running.

Some threads take on a life of their own, far removed from the original poster's intentions.

If you want it back on topic, you could raise the perennial question about whether all of us in the Authors' Hangout are actually "Authors". Some of us are not and have no stories posted here or anywhere but are still accepted as part of this community.

If you ask "What is an Author?" and attempt to set some qualitative standard, then many of us could/should/might be disqualified. "Writer" has no connotation of quality.

It was easier when this forum was called Author's Hangout. It was the Hangout of a single (unnamed) Author who could have been any one of us.

Og

 

[Kiwibeavergrowler]

Because its purpose has been served and now we can use the thread for anything else such as asking why this thread is still running.

Some threads take on a life of their own, far removed from the original poster's intentions.

If you want it back on topic, you could raise the perennial question about whether all of us in the Authors' Hangout are actually "Authors". Some of us are not and have no stories posted here or anywhere but are still accepted as part of this community.

If you ask "What is an Author?" and attempt to set some qualitative standard, then many of us could/should/might be disqualified. "Writer" has no connotation of quality.

It was easier when this forum was called Author's Hangout. It was the Hangout of a single (unnamed) Author who could have been any one of us.

Og

Oh, I think I understand. The less I talk about the prescribed topic the more the topic dwindles into obscurity even if the thread is as popular as beer at a German festival.

I love beer.

Own a brewery don't you know? Albeit not a very big one, a brewery nonetheless.

Now if all Authors were given a free beer on completion of their works, I'm sure there'd be a lot more Authors in this thread..........oh shit........sorry.

 

[oggbashan]

Oh, I think I understand. The less I talk about the prescribed topic the more the topic dwindles into obscurity even if the thread is as popular as beer at a German festival.

I love beer.

Own a brewery don't you know? Albeit not a very big one, a brewery nonetheless.

Now if all Authors were given a free beer on completion of their works, I'm sure there'd be a lot more Authors in this thread..........oh shit........sorry.

One of my uncles used to brew his own beer, years before home-brewing kits became available. He also produced wine from various crops and had an illegal still in his garden shed.

One of my colleagues, the Head of an organic laboratory complex, used to produce experimental beers for the works Christmas parties. His friend was the Chief Chemist/Brewer for a London brewery and their hobby was re-creating old beers. One year's success was London Porter, a strong dark ale to an 18th Century recipe. It was smooth, thick and mellow with a deceptive alcohol content. One of the company's directors dropped in on the Christmas party, drank three pints, and had to be carried to his limousine. Next year our Christmas party was his last call, instead of being in the middle of his schedule. He still had to be carried to his limousine that year.

Og

 

[TxRad]

I keep checking this thread because without my glasses i keep reading list as lust.

 

[SuperHeroRalph]

Speaking of the Top 250 Most Favorite Author's List, I wrote an essay, under BOSTONFICTIONWRITER back in 2007 about that. At the time, I didn't understand why some of the writers that appeared on the list were on the list.

Four years later, nothing has changed (lol).

The link if below for those who haven't had the chance to read it.

http://www.literotica.com/s/the-list-of-250-favorite-authors

 

[TxRad]

Sorry for your confusion Freddie but he was referring to the "Members" list.

Maybe you need to get your glasses also.

 

[Kiwibeavergrowler]

Speaking of the Top 250 Most Favorite Author's List, I wrote an essay, under BOSTONFICTIONWRITER back in 2007 about that. At the time, I didn't understand why some of the writers that appeared on the list were on the list.

Four years later, nothing has changed (lol).

The link if below for those who haven't had the chance to read it.

http://www.literotica.com/s/the-list-of-250-favorite-authors

Nothing has changed in four years? are you getting erotica saturated story wise? I find I'm constantly looking for something new instead of a slight variant on the same old story line.

 

[SuperHeroRalph]

Sorry for your confusion Freddie but he was referring to the "Members" list.

Maybe you need to get your glasses also.

Thanks Tex, I wasn't confused. I was just looking for a reason to advertise my story.

I enjoyed your Earth Day story, by the way. You're a fine writer.

 

[SuperHeroRalph]

Nothing has changed in four years? are you getting erotica saturated story wise? I find I'm constantly looking for something new instead of a slight variant on the same old story line.

Hi, I'm not sure if I understand your meaning. I was referring to the top 250 list of authors, not as erotica as a whole and certain stories specifically.

In my opinion, of course, we have some very talented writers on this site and we'd all be able to clearly see who those writers are, if the egos and popularity of other less talented writers didn't get in the way.

The list is more a list of popularity than it is of talent. Yet, understandably, stories are subjective and arbitrary. What I enjoy reading you may hate.

Nonetheless, there's been a rash of favoring activity and of writers climbing up the list who havent' written a story in years. That kind of out of the blue activity makes me suspicious.