The Official Authors' Hangout April Fool's Day 2017 Contest Support Thread

[tomlitilia]

Most likely advertising, the site usually leaves it up to the author to remove or leave 'bashing'

I've had abusive anon comments removed without reporting them myself. So it does happen.

 

[weftandwarp]

I have anonymous feedback turned off.

I think, but don't know, that anonymous is retaliating with low scores.

I find the most difficult and least rewarding category to write is humour/ satire. It is normally simply ignored. As the topic of April Fool's Day implies humour the topic will be disappointing I think. I don't know why. One of your stories is h/s. My guess is, of the three you submitted it will get the fewest looks, votes and comments. The comments for it will be the most disparaging, I think- even worse than loving wives. I'm guessing but don't think it's too wide of the mark. Please prove me wrong.

 

[oggbashan]

I find the most difficult and least rewarding category to write is humour/ satire. It is normally simply ignored. As the topic of April Fool's Day implies humour the topic will be disappointing I think. I don't know why. One of your stories is h/s. My guess is, of the three you submitted it will get the fewest looks, votes and comments. The comments for it will be the most disparaging, I think- even worse than loving wives. I'm guessing but don't think it's too wide of the mark. Please prove me wrong.

The humor/satire story is currently the highest rated of the three but none of them have a Red H.

The explanation? The other two have femdom elements. That annoys self-styled 'real men' who can't see the attraction of that even as a fantasy.

 

[sr71plt]

Wry humor works fine with erotica. Slapstick humor makes erotica nervous (it's all silly--the positions and all--if you give it much thought, and making fun of it makes you give it thought and than be nervous about it). Lit. readers don't get satire much at all.

 

[weftandwarp]

The humor/satire story is currently the highest rated of the three but none of them have a Red H.

The explanation? The other two have femdom elements. That annoys self-styled 'real men' who can't see the attraction of that even as a fantasy.

Femdom is everywhere here. Yesterday was International Women's Day. There is nothing for men. It just goes on and on about feminine entitlement. Strange thing, it has nothing to do with equality or earning- it's all about women getting more, and more and ... I think a lot of people are becoming sick of it and the sanctimony of it. Perhaps it helps to explain.

 

[sr71plt]

Well, the issue that there are jobs in which woman don't get equal pay to men certainly seems to have been documented well enough. But isn't this an issue for the Political Board?

 

[weftandwarp]

Wry humor works fine with erotica. Slapstick humor makes erotica nervous (it's all silly--the positions and all--if you give it much thought, and making fun of it makes you give it thought and than be nervous about it). Lit. readers don't get satire much at all.

Thank you. I think I agree. I like it when the story is developed into some thing very funny. I see so little of it here. To sustain it into forty lit pages is very difficult so it would never win a contest. I know I would take the humour out of a story so I wouldn't be submitting it under humour /satire because people simply don't get it.

 

[weftandwarp]

Well, the issue that there are jobs in which woman don't get equal pay to men certainly seems to have been documented well enough. But isn't this an issue for the Political Board?

Yes- you're right but it could explain why femdom stories aren't doing so well too. It is also more involved than equal pay- I support that.

 

[rutger5]

Dagnabit! Story I posted for contest didn't have note mentioning it was for April Fools Day and I'm afraid I've upset the dear LW readers because of that.

Well, live and learn I guess.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

Dagnabit! Story I posted for contest didn't have note mentioning it was for April Fools Day and I'm afraid I've upset the dear LW readers because of that.

Well, live and learn I guess.

You would have upset them regardless of any extra warnings with that story. That ending was hysterical--I laughed--but in the LW category, it is just begging for abuse.

 

[rutger5]

You would have upset them regardless of any extra warnings with that story. That ending was hysterical--I laughed--but in the LW category, it is just begging for abuse.

Oh I know, I'd heard about their views before I posted my first LW story here which they didn't like much.

So I wrote the contest story as my olive branch to them but they threw it in my face lol.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Oh I know, I'd heard about their views before I posted my first LW story here which they didn't like much.

So I wrote the contest story as my olive branch to them but they threw it in my face lol.

Okay, so you're an LW masochist like me. I'll go read yours this evening.

 

[rutger5]

Okay, so you're an LW masochist like me. I'll go read yours this evening.

No, not really a masochist but that was the category the story fit in best. I suppose even if they had an adultery/cheating category those who wish to see the wife drawn and quartered would be loitering there.

And Chloe, methinks instead of reading or hanging in the coffee bar you should be writing contest story. Clock is ticking.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yes- you're right but it could explain why femdom stories aren't doing so well too. It is also more involved than equal pay- I support that.

Femdom stories don't succeed because weak men are afraid of strong women. There's a lot of weak men on literotica(and in washington)

 

[weftandwarp]

Femdom stories don't succeed because weak men are afraid of strong women. There's a lot of weak men on literotica(and in washington)

For some perhaps but in my experience being strong is too often about constriction and abuse and is totally inadequate, whether perpetrated by male or female. I have always refused to depend on strength. I want more than that- a lot more.

 

[49greg]

Hadn't planned on doing one this year, and I probably can't finish one now. But last night as I lay in bed something came to me out of the blue, I did and outline some time ago. It would fit into an april fools day theme even thought it wasn't designed for it. It'll be something to work on, and if I don't, and I probably won't, finish in time there's always next year.

 

[lovecraft68]

For some perhaps but in my experience being strong is too often about constriction and abuse and is totally inadequate, whether perpetrated by male or female. I have always refused to depend on strength. I want more than that- a lot more.

You're putting more thought into it than the moron who bombs those stories. To them a 'strong' woman is one that isn't a simpering submissive who can't get enough of their limp cock and who they can whack around. Any woman that does not act like that is a threat.

Picture Steve Bannon as a lit reader

 

[lovecraft68]

The same incest pattern-for me anyway-same score for 500 votes no upward movement from vote 1200 or so to over 1700 then when it moves it moves down.

 

[ChloeTzang]

And I'm still working on my first. I wanted to get two in but I'll be lucky to get this one done. Maybe this week.

Aaaaaand ..... almost almost done. A little more sex and its finally written. Just a few thousand more words..... more coffeeeeeeee.

 

[lovecraft68]

Aaaaaand ..... almost almost done. A little more sex and its finally written. Just a few thousand more words..... more coffeeeeeeee.

Okay, well have your sex and get back to writing young lady

 

[Kethandra]

[Quote:
Originally Posted by ChloeTzang View Post
Aaaaaand ..... almost almost done. A little more sex and its finally written. Just a few thousand more words..... more coffeeeeeeee.

QUOTE=lovecraft68;84379465]Okay, well have your sex and get back to writing young lady[/QUOTE]

I thought somehow she had found the Horny Grail: the act of sex somehow directly producing written product (hopefully not always describing the act that produced it).
Just...a little more...sex...and it's....finally...written.
Aaaaannnnd Print.

 

[ChloeTzang]

[Quote:
Originally Posted by ChloeTzang View Post
Aaaaaand ..... almost almost done. A little more sex and its finally written. Just a few thousand more words..... more coffeeeeeeee.

Okay, well have your sex and get back to writing young lady

I thought somehow she had found the Horny Grail: the act of sex somehow directly producing written product (hopefully not always describing the act that produced it).
Just...a little more...sex...and it's....finally...written.
Aaaaannnnd Print.

You guys. LOL. The Horny Grail!!!!!! If only..... and now, back to sex, I mean writing sex, I mean ...... oh, you know.....

And thank you. Laughter is always good

 

[TxRad]

For some reason I read that as Horny Gail. Who is Gail? Oh yeah, I remember Gail. The only problem for me is that she is a lesbian. It's no problem for her believe me.

The Holy Grail? Wasn't that a cup? Horny Gail has a beautiful cup.

*Sigh* Ya see what happens when I wake up in the middle of the night.

 

[oggbashan]

Only a few days left for submissions for the contest.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Only a few days left for submissions for the contest.

I know, I know, she says, writing frantically. ....