What I learned this month

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I spent close to three months working on my latest story, Deep Undercover. It's three chapters of Noncon/Reluctance, that touches on some other categories as well. All three chapters have posted in the last two weeks. I've learned a few things that challenge some of the established doctrine frequently mentioned on this board.

1. Unexpected squick will not get necessarily get you flamed. In chapter 2 I introduce two characters who are twin sisters. Shortly after their introduction, they are engaging in some incestuous activity. It's explicit, gratuitous from a plot perspective, but fundamental to establishing their characters. I didn't put up any kind of warning in the foreward section, although I did list incest as a story tag. That chapter has been up for a week, but so far there have been no objections, protests, or comments regarding that point. None at all.

There is also a fair amount of heterosexual anal sex in every chapter. Again, no warning was provided, although it was mentioned in the story tags. No protests, at all.

2. Readers demand an HEA ending. My story featured murders, torture--I mean, "enhanced interrogation methods", beatings, adultery, incest, lesbian sex, and drug use. Nobody complained about any of that. All the complaints are due to the fact that I did not give the heroine a HEA ending. I think I gave her the ending she deserved, but the readers are clamoring for a HEA. Go figure.
 
2. Readers demand an HEA ending. My story featured murders, torture--I mean, "enhanced interrogation methods", beatings, adultery, incest, lesbian sex, and drug use. Nobody complained about any of that. All the complaints are due to the fact that I did not give the heroine a HEA ending. I think I gave her the ending she deserved, but the readers are clamoring for a HEA. Go figure.

What?! You mean life doesn't always end in sunshine and rainbows??!! There goes my whole belief system.
 
Female/female sex, incestuous or not doesn't have the same squig factor as M/M.

An Hetro anal doesn't either.

Yeah, Lit is a HEA type place. :D

I learned that the hard way when I killed everyone off in a story. I mean everyone. The comments were not a pretty sight. :rolleyes:
 
I learned that the hard way when I killed everyone off in a story. I mean everyone. The comments were not a pretty sight. :rolleyes:

Been there... done that. Over and over again.

Although, done right, it can reduce the readers to a pool of tears.
 
Female/female sex, incestuous or not doesn't have the same squig factor as M/M.

An Hetro anal doesn't either.

Yeah, Lit is a HEA type place. :D

I learned that the hard way when I killed everyone off in a story. I mean everyone. The comments were not a pretty sight. :rolleyes:

I didn't go that far. But I do I wonder how all of my HEA petitioners would feel if they knew I did contemplate letting the heroine and her captor stay together, but that meant she would have killed the boyfriend who risked everything to rescue her.
 
Whoa, I gave my story an HEA and got trashed for it! In the epilogue at the end of chapter 4, my main male character proposed marriage to the main female character, who tearfully accepted, and I got flamed big time!

http://www.literotica.com/s/the-exotic-dancer-ch-04

My thought was that so much BS happens in real life, why not put an HEA in fiction. But while most comments were very positive for chapters 1-3, most comments for chapter 4 said it sucked and they hated the ending. So yes, go figure?!

I'm starting to wonder if readers of multi-part stories just don't want them to end, ever?
 
TxRad (or anyone else who knows), what's the title of the story where everyone dies. I'd like to look at that.

But I have to admit, I am a sucker for a HEA, unless the characters really don't need it, want it, or deserve it.
 
TxRad (or anyone else who knows), what's the title of the story where everyone dies. I'd like to look at that.

But I have to admit, I am a sucker for a HEA, unless the characters really don't need it, want it, or deserve it.

Here ya go. Happy reading. :D

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