Quick question about I/T Story Category

[BizarroMe]

I have a story series predominantly Incest/Taboo related so I've put it in I/T since I thought it was the main 'trump' category. It's my first story series. Not great, but not horrible (I don't think anyway) and of course I'm still learning.

But there are some parts which don't have specifically Incest in them even though it's the overarching theme of the series. They do have things like spanking and humiliation so a few folks have gone out of their way to point it out, claiming it should be in Fetish or something else or just saying it's crap. I tried to use tags propertly and said so at the onset, so I'm trying to be okay with what I decided.

Anyway, because the story series is very much about I/T, it's where I put it, thinking I was doing the right thing.

Enter my question...
I'm now writing a chapter which is 99% First-Time and no Incest at all, except the mother watches and there might end up being a little bit of familial kissing. Do I dare put this one chapter (chapter 10) in First-Time? Or should I leave it in I/T like the rest of the story?

Any advice for future stories, in case I should think about this differently?

My inclination is to leave it in I/T so people don't feel tricked if they read this one chapter out of order and then feel sucker-punched if they venture to the rest of the story.

I know I can't please everyone, so it's possible I'm overanalyzing this, huh?

Thanks!

 

[TadOverdon]

Yeah, this can be a problem with any multi-part or series that has some scope in terms of number of characters and relationships, etc.

Assuming that your characters are what passes in erotic fantasy for well-rounded adults, even if they're into the family stuff it's not going to be the only sex they have in their lives, right?

Right?

Anyway, I floundered around with this when I started posting here, and other authors advised me that it would be a mistake where visibility is concerned to break up a chapter story into different categories. So after doing that once or twice, I stopped.

And I just accepted that I'm going to get some messages saying "this is in the wrong place." A couple of times I've thanked the poster and assured them that the I/T stuff is coming up ahead.

No one's been real nasty about it.

I guess the site manager might occasionally read a story and assign it to a different category than the author chose, based on content. If that happens, there's not a lot to do about it.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm not quite picturing what is going on in your story. How can chapter 10 of an incest story be a "first-time" story? I don't understand that. It seems like you're saying it's a chapter where Mom is watching Son having sex with someone else, but I can't tell from your post. If you've had 9 chapters of incest up to this point, then how is it possible that there's a "first-time" encounter?

If the story is told from the POV of Mom and Mom is getting off watching her son having sex with someone else, it's incest.

Incest gets far more views than any other category, and it's not even close. Always default to publication in incest, if it's a close call. Always.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm not quite picturing what is going on in your story. How can chapter 10 of an incest story be a "first-time" story? I don't understand that. It seems like you're saying it's a chapter where Mom is watching Son having sex with someone else, but I can't tell from your post. If you've had 9 chapters of incest up to this point, then how is it possible that there's a "first-time" encounter?

Could be a flashback?

 

[SimonDoom]

Could be a flashback?

Maybe. Only the OP knows.

 

[lovecraft68]

Seeing you're working on what seems like it will be a long series can you combine this first time/mom watching part with another installment where there is incest? If you can deliver some of the 'fix' to the I/T crowd then the first part no I/T section will be okay because you'll eventually get to what they want.

If you try for first time, then the only way it works is take mom out of the picture, that crowd is not going to go for mom even watching, they'll be like WTF?

 

[BizarroMe]

Thanks TadOverdon. That's kinda what I was hoping to hear. Not that it will silence some complaints but at least I'll feel like I've done what I could.

And thanks SimonDoom. A couple things you said really resonated (about even watching is incest and if it's a close call). So that makes me feel better about keeping it in I/T.

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If you've had 9 chapters of incest up to this point, then how is it possible that there's a "first-time" encounter?
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Regarding that, I can see why you'd be confused. The short answer is there's multiple characters/families involved. A longer answer is out there but probably not worth trying to write out.

 

[TadOverdon]

You know, I'd think that if you're nine chapters in before you have a non-I/T chapter, your faithful readers might want to be a little bit goddamned patient with where you're going. LOL

 

[BizarroMe]

Seeing you're working on what seems like it will be a long series can you combine this first time/mom watching part with another installment where there is incest? If you can deliver some of the 'fix' to the I/T crowd then the first part no I/T section will be okay because you'll eventually get to what they want.

If you try for first time, then the only way it works is take mom out of the picture, that crowd is not going to go for mom even watching, they'll be like WTF?

Yeah, thanks lovecraft68. I think that's what I'm going to do and SimonDoom (maybe unintentionally) nudged me that direction, too. I think I'm going to make sure I angle in more conspicuously that the Mom is watching it all unfold.

Regarding 9 chapters before a first time chapter, I get it. It sounds impossible. Maybe it's my freshman writing or poor planning. Haha. Who knows. But yes, there's incest before chapter 10. Also, the 'first-time' aspect of it is intercourse in this next chapter (penis in vagina by non-family participants) where the prior parts were not (oral, etc. within family members).

Hope that made some sense and not more confusion.

By the way, side question:
When addressing someone else in these forums, do you always call them by their full username (e.g. lovecraft68, simondoom, tadoverdon) or do you take liberties (like LC, Simon or SD, or Tad)? Is there a rule of thumb there?

 

[LAHomedog]

I have a newly posted brother/sister story in I/T that has an interracial DP without the sister (another girl, a non-relative) in the middle of it. No one seems to care or mind. I'm not sure what that means. Maybe the readers just liked the story...

 

[NotWise]

I'd say to ignore the comments (almost). Readers don't understand that a story with incest content usually belongs in I/T, and the site will put it there if the author doesn't.

One thing you might get from the reader's comments is that maybe you aren't really engaging them in the incest content. You can have all kinds of aspects to an I/T story--pretty much anything under the sun--without complaints, as long as you keep them thinking that it's all taboo.

 

[ElectricBlue]

By the way, side question:
When addressing someone else in these forums, do you always call them by their full username (e.g. lovecraft68, simondoom, tadoverdon) or do you take liberties (like LC, Simon or SD, or Tad)? Is there a rule of thumb there?

Generally speaking, some informality creeps in when addressing fellow forum members, especially those who are frequent posters, usually by shortening, but sometimes because of some badinage that has taken place. For example, I tend to be EB; Lovecraft = LC; for me, Simon becomes Captain Doom or just Simon; ChloeTzang = Chloe; Oggbashan = Ogg. You can pick up the most common nicknames pretty quickly by reading a bunch of threads.

 

[BizarroMe]

Generally speaking, some informality creeps in when addressing fellow forum members, especially those who are frequent posters, usually by shortening, but sometimes because of some badinage that has taken place. For example, I tend to be EB; Lovecraft = LC; for me, Simon becomes Captain Doom or just Simon; ChloeTzang = Chloe; Oggbashan = Ogg. You can pick up the most common nicknames pretty quickly by reading a bunch of threads.

Thanks EB! I figured that might be the case. It felt weird (too formal) to call folks strictly by their userid (for some reason, especially when their username has numbers in it, like yours does). "Thanks, EB" feels a lot more personable than "Thanks, electricblue66."

 

[RejectReality]

The typical shortening of this pen name — RR — is a bit confusing on another site. There, one of the things that can happen when your story gets approved is that the moderator finds it to be particularly good and awards it a Recommended Read badge.

Also commonly referred to as an RR.

Reading aloud a thread/comment where the discussion is about me getting a Recommended Read sounds like a pirate with a verbal tic. Arrr Arrr Arrr Arrr....

 

[lovecraft68]

The typical shortening of this pen name — RR — is a bit confusing on another site. There, one of the things that can happen when your story gets approved is that the moderator finds it to be particularly good and awards it a Recommended Read badge.

Also commonly referred to as an RR.

Reading aloud a thread/comment where the discussion is about me getting a Recommended Read sounds like a pirate with a verbal tic. Arrr Arrr Arrr Arrr....

I just figured you wanted to be lumped in with RR Tolkien, RR Martin.....

 

[Rustyoznail]

I just figured you wanted to be lumped in with RR Tolkien, RR Martin.....

 

[TadOverdon]

I will answer to "Zod" or "Skippy."

 

[SimonDoom]

Thanks EB! I figured that might be the case. It felt weird (too formal) to call folks strictly by their userid (for some reason, especially when their username has numbers in it, like yours does). "Thanks, EB" feels a lot more personable than "Thanks, electricblue66."

People are informal, as EB says. People usually call me Simon.

But you can call me Penguin Master, if you wish.

 

[lovecraft68]

But you can call me Penguin Master, if you wish.

You've been spending too much time listening to a bitter self important Aussie.

Just call yourself a good writer.

 

[BizarroMe]

You are all awesome and thanks for clueing me in a little.

Should it ever come up, feel free to call me “Biz” or “Bizme”. “BM”, I’d prefer not. Haha. Perhaps a slight oversight on my part when picking out my username.