New Milestones Thread

[luv2custrip]

Two milestones for me in about 24 hours: I got my 300th follower today, and my one-year Lit publishing anniversary is tomorrow.
When I started a year ago, I was only going to keep going until one of my stories got the red H.
Uh huh.
44 stories, one how-to guide and three poems later…
I “only” have 25 of 48 works with the H. Now I think it’s funny: I wouldn’t sit down and spend time writing a story if I didn’t think it was hot.
All of my stories have at least one very lovely, very naked lady, and many have some very hot naked sex.
I try to mix in intelligence and romance into all of the sexiness; I’m admittedly not always successful.

(Link in Signature.)

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Two milestones for me in about 24 hours: I got my 300th follower today, and my one-year Lit publishing anniversary is tomorrow.
When I started a year ago, I was only going to keep going until one of my stories got the red H.
Uh huh.
44 stories, one how-to guide and three poems later…
I “only” have 25 of 48 works with the H. Now I think it’s funny: I wouldn’t sit down and spend time writing a story if I didn’t think it was hot.
All of my stories have at least one very lovely, very naked lady, and many have some very hot naked sex.
I try to mix in intelligence and romance into all of the sexiness; I’m admittedly not always successful.

(Link in Signature.)

"I do not think that means what you think it means." Is the first quote that comes to my mind when thinking about the red H we all seem to covet. My first impression was that there was some super secret group of elite auditors that read every story determining on the quality of the hot steamy sex content. If it was salacious enough, you got the H. Yeah, nope...
All it actually means is you got a 4.5 or better vote score.

 

[StillStunned]

My first impression was that there was some super secret group of elite auditors that read every story determining on the quality of the hot steamy sex content. If it was salacious enough, you got the H. Yeah, nope...

Audit procedure: The audit team ("Audit Team") reads the story ("Story"). If an orgy results, the Audit Team will report this to the site owner ("Site Owner"), describing the findings and expressing an opinion that the Story is "hot" ("H").

 

[NoTalentHack]

I hit 500 comments on No Place to Go! For a while, it was a race between that and At the End of the Tour, even though Tour came out a few months earlier. People haaaaaated the wife in No Place to Go, though, which I get. I wrote her, after all.

 

[onehitwanda]

Audit procedure: The audit team ("Audit Team") reads the story ("Story"). If an orgy results, the Audit Team will report this to the site owner ("Site Owner"), describing the findings and expressing an opinion that the Story is "hot" ("H").

Lies.

The red "H" is @Jackie.Hikaru 's personal stamp of approval. If she likes it, she stamps it. Technically it's the Hikaru seal dating from the early Meji dynasty, but she can't be holding with any of that old claptrap so she's repurposed it for something better.

 

[StillStunned]

Lies.

The red "H" is @Jackie.Hikaru 's personal stamp of approval. If she likes it, she stamps it. Technically it's the Hikaru seal dating from the early Meji dynasty, but she can't be holding with any of that old claptrap so she's repurposed it for something better.

That's entirely apocryphal, and can in fact be traced back to a BBC April Fool's Day hoax from the 1960s. Records show the existence of "Hot" audits, complete with descriptions of the procedure, going back as far as the East India Company.

 

[EmilyMiller]

My calendar year sales, December 2022 - November 2023, hit 600 on Thursday last month. It is not great, but that's only Smashwords; it doesn't count the sources through them nor the ones for Amazon or BookApy. It's my biggest year since my first year there, 2013, when I self-published my work.

Well done Millie

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

That's entirely apocryphal, and can in fact be traced back to a BBC April Fool's Day hoax from the 1960s. Records show the existence of "Hot" audits, complete with descriptions of the procedure, going back as far as the East India Company.

So you're implying that the entire Pirates of the Caribbean franchise had more to do with the free people's ability to produce fetish porn than it did gold and treasure?

 

[onehitwanda]

That's entirely apocryphal, and can in fact be traced back to a BBC April Fool's Day hoax from the 1960s. Records show the existence of "Hot" audits, complete with descriptions of the procedure, going back as far as the East India Company.

Pish. Drivel. You're basing your entire stance on the writings of a Syphillis-mad count and his LARPing with Lord Penistone. I, however, went and actually VISITED Edo Castle, and the wife of the daughter of the mistress of the second waterwoman showed me the edict from 1077 that established the Hikaru measure.

So there! *flounce*

 

[luv2custrip]

"I do not think that means what you think it means." Is the first quote that comes to my mind when thinking about the red H we all seem to covet. My first impression was that there was some super secret group of elite auditors that read every story determining on the quality of the hot steamy sex content. If it was salacious enough, you got the H. Yeah, nope...
All it actually means is you got a 4.5 or better vote score.

I agree. I originally thought only an elite group of seasoned writers got the H. Now I shrug it off. It’s nice to see, but only about 1 of 10 readers actually votes.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I seem to have attracted my first personal troll. Over the past few days, several of my stories have lost their red Hs - more than you'd expect from the occasional reader dropping a 1.

I think that makes me a Level 2 Lit Author.

Your membership card has been dispatched and will be with you in 7-10 working days. In the intervening you can quote membership ID 250124983 in any relevant correspondence.

Welcome to the club.

Em (VP Membership Services)

 

[luv2custrip]

Audit procedure: The audit team ("Audit Team") reads the story ("Story"). If an orgy results, the Audit Team will report this to the site owner ("Site Owner"), describing the findings and expressing an opinion that the Story is "hot" ("H").

Great. Now I have an idea for another story.

 

[alohadave]

So you're implying that the entire Pirates of the Caribbean franchise had more to do with the free people's ability to produce fetish porn than it did gold and treasure?

Sex sells...

 

[StillStunned]

So you're implying that the entire Pirates of the Caribbean franchise had more to do with the free people's ability to produce fetish porn than it did gold and treasure?

Gold and treasure are often a by-product of porn. If you're doing it right, at least.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Gold and treasure are often a by-product of porn. If you're doing it right, at least.

Wait, people get paid to do this?

 

[StillStunned]

Pish. Drivel. You're basing your entire stance on the writings of a Syphillis-mad count and his LARPing with Lord Penistone. I, however, went and actually VISITED Edo Castle, and the wife of the daughter of the mistress of the second waterwoman showed me the edict from 1077 that established the Hikaru measure.

So there! *flounce*

Nonsense. While the modern "red H" symbol does in fact resemble the Hikaru measure, that's purely coincidental. The syphillis-mad count was a foreigner, so his opinion can easily be dismissed. But we do know that Lord Penistone visited Edo Castle in the 18th century, and saw the same edict. Penistone copied the Hikaru design when he became an Auditor in 1786 because of the resemblance to the letter "H", to look more impressive than the handwritten "H" mark that had been used previously.

 

[TxRad]

@Jackie.Hikaru

How do you put someones name in like this? Inquiring minds and all that.

 

[StillStunned]

Wait, people get paid to do this?

Hopefully. Without the gold and treasure that were promised me, I've skived off work all afternoon with nothing to show but slightly dented fingertips.

 

[TxRad]

Dented fingers are nothing compared to dozens on keyboards stripped of their letters.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

How do you put someones name in like this? Inquiring minds and all that.

Add the @ @TxRad

 

[TxRad]

@ShelbyDawn57

Thank you. I knew it had to be something simple. Obviously to simple for me to figure out.

 

[onehitwanda]

Add the @ @TxRad

But be careful who you do it to because sometimes it can summon trouble. And never, ever do it three times while thinking of @EmilyMiller @EmilyMiller @EmilyMiller

... oh shit.

 

[StillStunned]

Dented fingers are nothing compared to dozens on keyboards stripped of their letters.

Keyboards can be thrown out and replaced. I don't recommend trying that with fingers.

 

[TxRad]

I just want to tell @luv2custrip that I love her peeping tom AV.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Keyboards can be thrown out and replaced. I don't recommend trying that with fingers.

Thrown out? I'm not familiar with that concept, says the person with two keyboards on her desk and three on the floor behind her. LOL