sweetandeasy
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Couldn't think of a great title for this thread. (Obviously!) But just curious how others here might respond to some feedback like what I received for a story, given the somewhat convoluted context.
Context part 1: It's a story series, three chapters at the moment, about an adventurous and playful couple. I'd probably have picked Romance or Erotic Couplings as an overall category, but because there's some MM action in the first two chapters, I picked (because reasons) Gay Male as the category for those two. But it's mostly just about this slightly deranged couple who keep happily pushing each other's buttons. There's a lot of spanking involved too.
Context part 2: I'm male, and the narrator of the story is male. My Lit profile pic is of me, and it's admittedly kind of ambiguous, but I do say I'm male in the profile. (And again, importantly, the story is told by a male, and there's some MM activity, but also some MF and FF activity.)
Okay, that's the convoluted stuff, which I don't think is really all that convoluted. But I got this feedback from someone who had clearly read at least some of the chapters, and the feedback was (mostly) very positive. Not going to quote the feedback but there were a couple odd things about it, and I'm trying to figure out how or if to respond.
First, it was addressed to "Mz. Sweet." Second, they asked for a larger version of my profile pic, which they said they admired. And third, they asked if I wouldn't want to write another story where "I" get spanked by someone who is more adoring (apparently) than the character in my story, as the reader suggested he would be.
I was struck by how many levels of weirdness there were to all of this. Because I found myself questioning if he thinks I'm female (my first guess), if he thinks I'm male but identify somehow as a female or at least feminized (my second guess), if he's actually male himself (a good assumption probably, but still an assumption). And then wondering... if he thinks I'm female, does he think I'm telling a story from the perspective of a bisexual male, but also that I would enjoy being spanked myself (as a female), which seems like a stretch, but ... eek.
Anyway it was a strange thought process to go through, and though I know this is probably an unusual set of circumstances, I figure there must be some authors who have readers making (wrong) assumptions about them for whatever reason, and if you bother to clear up those wrong assumptions or you just move on. (I was thinking I'd like to at least respond to say thanks, because he seemed to like the writing, but I hate saying "You know I'm a guy" as if I'm making an assumption myself.)
Context part 1: It's a story series, three chapters at the moment, about an adventurous and playful couple. I'd probably have picked Romance or Erotic Couplings as an overall category, but because there's some MM action in the first two chapters, I picked (because reasons) Gay Male as the category for those two. But it's mostly just about this slightly deranged couple who keep happily pushing each other's buttons. There's a lot of spanking involved too.
Context part 2: I'm male, and the narrator of the story is male. My Lit profile pic is of me, and it's admittedly kind of ambiguous, but I do say I'm male in the profile. (And again, importantly, the story is told by a male, and there's some MM activity, but also some MF and FF activity.)
Okay, that's the convoluted stuff, which I don't think is really all that convoluted. But I got this feedback from someone who had clearly read at least some of the chapters, and the feedback was (mostly) very positive. Not going to quote the feedback but there were a couple odd things about it, and I'm trying to figure out how or if to respond.
First, it was addressed to "Mz. Sweet." Second, they asked for a larger version of my profile pic, which they said they admired. And third, they asked if I wouldn't want to write another story where "I" get spanked by someone who is more adoring (apparently) than the character in my story, as the reader suggested he would be.
I was struck by how many levels of weirdness there were to all of this. Because I found myself questioning if he thinks I'm female (my first guess), if he thinks I'm male but identify somehow as a female or at least feminized (my second guess), if he's actually male himself (a good assumption probably, but still an assumption). And then wondering... if he thinks I'm female, does he think I'm telling a story from the perspective of a bisexual male, but also that I would enjoy being spanked myself (as a female), which seems like a stretch, but ... eek.
Anyway it was a strange thought process to go through, and though I know this is probably an unusual set of circumstances, I figure there must be some authors who have readers making (wrong) assumptions about them for whatever reason, and if you bother to clear up those wrong assumptions or you just move on. (I was thinking I'd like to at least respond to say thanks, because he seemed to like the writing, but I hate saying "You know I'm a guy" as if I'm making an assumption myself.)
