Still getting used to this place

[gunhilltrain]

You can write beasties. Just with care.

Em

You changed your avatar! And also the description line, or whatever that's called. Isn't that the white flag of surrender you used once in a post?

 

[EmilyMiller]

As long as they are mythical beasties (at least from my understanding) lol

Nope. Shape-shifting telepathic aliens are also admissible.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

She's become my spirit animal.

Annie is a very good actress IMO.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

You changed your avatar! And also the description line, or whatever that's called. Isn't that the white flag of surrender you used once in a post?

I changed it about four weeks ago. And promptly forgot. It only got posted today. I was as surprised as anyone.

Em

 

[ElectricBlue]

I changed it about four weeks ago. And promptly forgot. It only got posted today. I was as surprised as anyone.

Em

I'm going to miss that cute blonde. How the hell am I going to know when you post? I'll have to read every post now.

You've lost your equivalent of the Red H.

 

[onehitwanda]

You've lost your equivalent of the Red H.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I'm going to miss that cute blonde. How the hell am I going to know when you post? I'll have to read every post now.

You've lost your equivalent of the Red H.

Wiska / Nastya / eighteen other pseudonyms will no doubt be back.

Just for you:



Em

 

[onehitwanda]

Wiska / Nastya / eighteen other pseudonyms will no doubt be back.

Just for you:

...

Em

Personally I prefer your AI-generated avatar.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Personally I prefer your AI-generated avatar.

She might make an earlier appearance.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Personally I prefer your AI-generated avatar.

This one?

https://imgur.com/a/vna6Uhl

I gave Lexica an actual photo. Mistakenly thinking that it might spit out something close. The above is far enough away that I feel that I can post it on a public site with impunity. Or is that impudence?

Em

PS The eyebrows and forehead and lips are all wrong - nose is meh! - eyes are pretty close (color if not quite shape) - the freckles seem an afterthought

 

[MelissaBaby]

Personally its a big turn off to me (I know not everyone shared this feeling) when a submission is over 10-15k words. Just not a good way to save ones place.

Well, the solution to that is to make it SO good that they just can't stop reading.

At least, that's the way it works in my head.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Well, the solution to that is to make it SO good that they just can't stop reading.

At least, that's the way it works in my head.

Most of my highest rated works skew longer FWIW

Em

 

[MelissaBaby]

Most of my highest rated works skew longer FWIW

Em

My highest scoring single piece is 20 pages long, 70k words.

 

[MrPixel]

- nose is meh! -

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Yeah, noses run in my family.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Yeah, noses run in my family.

I wasn’t commenting on the qualities of the nose, but it verisimilitude.

Em

 

[Priscilla_June]

Nope. Shape-shifting telepathic aliens are also admissible.

Em

Are you implying those are not mythical?

 

[Bramblethorn]

Are you implying those are not mythical?

They're fictional but I wouldn't call them mythical. That usually implies that they come from folk tales and/or that a lot of people still believe in them.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Are you implying those are not mythical?

Unless I wrote the Elder Edda, yes

 

[Bramblethorn]

Hi everyone!

I'm still getting used to literotica and I seem to be having troubles navigating the waters.

Does anyone have any solid tips or advice on ways to post your stories without fear of them being rejected?

Reading the content guidelines is a good start, if you haven't already:
https://www.literotica.com/resources/content-guidelines
https://www.literotica.com/resources/submission-guidelines

See also this old forum post - it may not be completely up to date but it's a good start:
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/rejected-story-what-does-it-mean-what-now.175666/

 

[Priscilla_June]

They're fictional but I wouldn't call them mythical. That usually implies that they come from folk tales and/or that a lot of people still believe in them.

You’re implying aliens dont come from folk tales and a lot of people don't believe in them?!

 

[Bramblethorn]

You’re implying aliens dont come from folk tales

...yes? This is not a controversial position as far as I'm aware.

and a lot of people don't believe in them?!

Lots of people believe aliens exist in some form, somewhere in the universe. "Shape-shifting, telepathic aliens" specifically? Not to the level that I'd consider a "myth".

 

[Priscilla_June]

...yes? This is not a controversial position as far as I'm aware.



Lots of people believe aliens exist in some form, somewhere in the universe. "Shape-shifting, telepathic aliens" specifically? Not to the level that I'd consider a "myth".

I’m really just poking for fun, not arguing or anything. But i am curious where you envision aliens come from? I say this because I would encompass folk tails as being an old timey word anything passed between humans without scientific backing. Hence where my head was at least.

Btw I finally feel like one of AH now having hijacked a thread.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I’m really just poking for fun, not arguing or anything. But i am curious where you envision aliens come from? I say this because I would encompass folk tails as being an old timey word anything passed between humans without scientific backing. Hence where my head was at least.

"Folk tale", without a qualification, generally implies something whose original author/s can't be identified that's been passed down by oral tradition for generations - the sort of thing that's covered in the ATU index, for instance. More recent things that fill a similar niche in popular culture but which don't have that length of history behind them usually get qualified e.g. "urban folklore", "urban legend".

The line isn't always very clear. Some urban legends like poisoned Halloween candy are very much in the tradition of ancient myths like the "blood libels" of Jews poisoning Christian children. It's sometimes hard to know whether these are old legends that have mutated, or new inventions that fill the same niche as the old myths did because the human psyche finds certain kinds of fiction useful.

But believing in "aliens" in the modern sense requires believing that it's possible to travel between planets/stars via technology (as opposed to being carried by angels etc.) That's been explored as a fictional premise since at least 1657 (by Cyrano de Bergerac!) but AFAIK it only became something that people started to take seriously around the end of the 19th century.

There are a lot of different claims about aliens out there, but one of the popular versions is Greys. Wiki discusses the origins of that particular version, with various fictional precursors before a famous alleged abduction case in 1961 that popularised it. The fact that we can identify the points where the story got started takes it out of the realm of what would normally be called a "folk tale".

 

[onehitwanda]

This one?

Yeah.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Well, the solution to that is to make it SO good that they just can't stop reading.

At least, that's the way it works in my head.

Placing them in the right category also makes longer stories more palatable for the readers. I have several stories in N/N over 20 pages long and readers have consistently commented on single posting of long stories being their preference.

It is unlikely that posting them in other categories would yield the same feedback.