Just submitted a new story

[SexyShel]

As the title says, I have just submitted another story and it's a strange mixture of feelings about it.

First, I hope it doesn't get rejected because of spelling or grammar as I put a lot of effort into meeting the Literotica rules.

Secondly, I hope that if it is published that readers will like it and understand that the story is part of me, not just a random storyline plucked from the air.

When I see authors on here who have 100s of published stories to their name I wonder if they get the same feeling with each now story, or is "oh well, that's another one done, press submit."

I'd love to know from other authors if they regard each of their stories as a part of them, or do they do them just because they can?

Shel

 

[sirhugs]

As the title says, I have just submitted another story and it's a strange mixture of feelings about it.

First, I hope it doesn't get rejected because of spelling or grammar as I put a lot of effort into meeting the Literotica rules.

Secondly, I hope that if it is published that readers will like it and understand that the story is part of me, not just a random storyline plucked from the air.

When I see authors on here who have 100s of published stories to their name I wonder if they get the same feeling with each now story, or is "oh well, that's another one done, press submit."

I'd love to know from other authors if they regard each of their stories as a part of them, or do they do them just because they can?

Shel

a bit of both. Just like my children, they are precious but once they have grown, they have their own fate.

Certain stories I feel more emotionally invested in than others. The more that investment, the more anxious I am about them being liked. That part is not like my actual children.

 

[PoisonPen33]

I'd love to know from other authors if they regard each of their stories as a part of them, or do they do them just because they can?

My writing started as a way of dealing with my mid-life crisis (too broke for a sports car, too plain for a cheerleader).

There are definitely portions of me in my stories - yearning for youth, wasted potential, watching good things happening to bad people. And my love of music and movies is plain to see, especially as I've grown and matured as a writer.

But part of it is also because I've been told throughout my life that I'm a talented writer. Friends, fellow gamers, my wife, they all said that I should try my hand at it on a professional level, but due to a major lack of self-confidence I always deferred and pshawed my way out of those conversations.

It turned out that when I actually sat down and wrote something that wasn't fanfic or for a role-playing game...I quite enjoyed it. The red "H" next to my first story unclogged the creative drainpipe. Since then I've had more ideas than I know what to do with and more fun trying to put them all together into a coherent structure.

What it boils down to, however, is best summed up by my friend who kicked this whole journey off for me.

You make people want to take off their pants and have an orgasm. That's the kind of gift you shouldn't hide under a bushel.

 

[SexyShel]

You make people want to take off their pants and have an orgasm. That's the kind of gift you shouldn't hide under a bushel.

I hope you don't mind, but I just have to pinch that quote !! There are so many people I need to say that to !!

 

[PoisonPen33]

You make people want to take off their pants and have an orgasm. That's the kind of gift you shouldn't hide under a bushel.

I hope you don't mind, but I just have to pinch that quote !! There are so many people I need to say that to !!

It was my friend's quote, so pinch away!

 

[AlinaX]

I'm always hopeful that people will love my stories, vote high and comment. I accept that I'm in fact lucky to get any comments, will be happy with any score above 4.5 (and sad over anything below 4.0), and will mourn good stories that go unloved.

 

[Omenainen]

Certain stories I feel more emotionally invested in than others. The more that investment, the more anxious I am about them being liked.

This, exactly.

 

[KeithD]

Most of the stories I post to Literotica were written more than a year previously (exempting most contest stories) and I have varying responses to them myself when they come up to be submitted. Most often I'm pleased with them still and enjoy revisiting them. Most of them do have a piece of me in there somewhere.

 

[SimonDoom]

My primary feeling, when I click on the submit button, is one of relief. Relief to be done. Most of the emotion I expend happens before the story is submitted. I don't worry too much at this point about how the story will be received. I've had stories that were well received and stories that were not well received, and my lowest-rated story is one of the ones I most enjoyed writing.

My attitude toward reader reaction is to embrace the good and be philosophical about the bad. I'm not getting paid for this, and the main point of writing and publishing is to scratch my creative itch. Positive reader response is an extra, but not necessarily expected, benefit. I don't get anxious about it.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'd love to know from other authors if they regard each of their stories as a part of them, or do they do them just because they can?

My stories contain a chunk of my memories and fantasies, so in that sense they're very personal at the time of writing, but once they are written, they become something that must stand on its own. Sure, there's always the curiosity to see how stories are received, of course there is, but as others have said, a story once written is what it is, and there's nothing more I can do about it. I'm usually well into the next one before the last one goes live anyway, so that's where the investment is.

 

[SexyShel]

I am happy to say that my story has just been published today. I did get a thrill when I saw it "in print". Hopefully it will give a little pleasure to anyone who reads it. I must now get back to the second part of a story I published a couple of months ago, somehow I lost the spark on that one.

 

[Mutau]

I am happy to say that my story has just been published today. I did get a thrill when I saw it "in print". Hopefully it will give a little pleasure to anyone who reads it. I must now get back to the second part of a story I published a couple of months ago, somehow I lost the spark on that one.

@ SexyShel: At times it is difficult to be motivated to continue with a particular story. Best of luck! Looking forward to reading part 2.

 

[DoctorSmith8]

I'd love to know from other authors if they regard each of their stories as a part of them, or do they do them just because they can?

Shel[/QUOTE]

I'd love to say all of mine came from experience, but they are just too far out there. Like tales of alien abduction, robotic housekeepers, hermaphrodites, etc.
Here are some examples:

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[mfan2112]

There is a bit of me in each story, either some life experience or something I have spent time researching in order to write the story.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

A bit of both. Just like my children, they are precious but once they have grown, they have their own fate.

Certain stories I feel more emotionally invested in than others. The more that investment, the more anxious I am about them being liked. That part is not like my actual children.

Precisely.