1 Paragraph of Thoughts From Your Literotica Authors

[LongDraw]

Hello everyone,

I would like to start a thread where the authors here can share a bit of their past, maybe pass on a piece of advice to other authors, share something motivational, whatever you would say if you could only put it in 150 words or less.
I'll start:

You may not know me, you may not like me, you may not even understand me. By reading my published stories, I hope to share my experiences that I have absorbed in life so that you, my readers may benefit from my joys, my sorrows, my gains and my losses, my most proud accomplishments, and also my greatest tragedies. If I could possibly sum up the collection of my wisdom gained thus far in my life, I would say this. The moment that you close your eyes and your mind, will be the moment that you have died. You may technically be living with a beating heart, but your soul will cease to have meaning. Please appreciate all that life has to offer, even if life is sometimes painful.

 

[AlinaX]

True love can move worlds - but not lampposts. Watch where you're going.

 

[SimonDoom]

Good idea for a thread. I'll share.

I was fortunate to grow up in a supportive and loving environment. I thank the heavens for that every single day. But it was somewhat vanilla and inhibited, too, and in ways I will not go into in detail, much of my adult life was inhibited and unsatisfying in certain respects. That has changed somewhat over the last ten years, but even now in middle age, I find myself processing feelings I had from decades ago. Writing stories here is a form of release. My stories are, for the most part, NOT based on things I have lived or experienced, but are fantasies, romps, and larks. I find it enormously liberating to write all this crazy stuff. It's fun, and I like to connect with readers to share the fun. It's enjoyable to know they feel the way about the stories that I do.

If I have a piece of advice to others, it is to truly let your imagination run free. This is the perfect environment to let go of constraints and let your kinky imagination run wild.

 

[Winter_Fare]

Caveat emptor: I definitely don't have my shit together, I have no place giving advice, and you shouldn't take advice from strangers anyway.

Stand outside and look up. The blue sky is an illusion. There is nothing for billions of miles. Celebrate what we have while it lasts.

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

I never had any advice - I just had ideas in my head formulated on long walks.

One day I wrote one of them down. I had it published here and it didn't tank as I fully expected it to.

Five years later I'm still here.

The only piece of advice I would give anyone is that if you have an idea, just do it. You have nothing to lose. It costs nothing, it won't make you money, but if you get it right, it can make you very happy indeed and these days, that is something precious.

 

[Comshaw]

A bit about me? I could fill a book with the things I've done or had done to me in my life. The best way to know a little about me is to understand the code I live by.

I believe a man is best judged by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. Be nice, until it's time not to be nice. When you get knocked down, get back up no matter how hard that is to do. Never admit you can’t do something unless you’ve put every effort into doing it and found you can’t. Do without being asked, or bragging about it after. Everyone deserves a basic amount of respect. Whether they gain more or lose it from that point is all up to them. Always strive to be underestimated, it gives you an edge. In a fight use everything you have in any way you can. You aren’t there to win, you’re there to survive. That means, sometimes, taking damage so that you convince your opponent it will cost them way to much to continue.

As far as my stories go, they are a combination of my experiences and my fantasies. There is no big hidden message in my stories. My aim is to entertain those who read my work and that is all.

182 words, not counting the preface or these last two sentences. I missed the 150 word mark a bit.

Comshaw

 

[PennameWombat]

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Oh... wait.[1]

Rewind. One key thing. I don't write stories to expound upon my experiences. I don't write stories to give guidance. I don't write stories to demonstrate my maturity or my wisdom or my life or anything like that. I write stories in the hope of entertaining people. That's it. Well, I hope to provide the occasional tingle in sensitive areas for my readers. I read stories for the same purpose. Entertainment. And the occasional tingle. But I make no statement that others must also do the same. Anyone who says an author's stories must be cathartic, or must not be cathartic, or must or must not offer advice... can be shunned. Write for your own reasons. But... accept that not everything you write will be for everyone out there. Don't get discouraged. Just accept that as you write for your own reasons, they read for theirs. And keep on.

[1] Wear Sunscreen

 

[XerXesXu]

Be the main character in your own life, not a supporting character in another person’s life. Make your life happen as the main character in your stories makes theirs happen.

‘Life is what happens while you’re making other plans.’ John Lennon. ‘Carpe Diem.' inter alia, Julius Caesar. When St Peter asks if you’ve ever been in love, don’t be telling him ‘It was long ago, in a foreign land, and anyway, the lady was a whore.’

 

[LexxRuthless]

"No good deed goes unpunished." This doesn't mean you can't do nice things for other people; just bear in mind you still need to cover your ass in the process. Whenever someone asks me to do something for them, I always take a moment to repeat the mantra in my head, No good deed goes unpunished, and then I contemplate how things could most likely go awry and what I must do to make sure that doesn't happen. For instance, when someone asks me to help them move something, I always put on my back brace and bring gloves. Never forget there are plenty of polite ways to tell someone to fuck off.

 

[TadOverdon]

Be excellent to each other.

Woah.

 

[LexxRuthless]

Be excellent to each other.

Woah.

...and my favorite, "Sixty-nine, dudes!"

 

[MrPixel]

Respect, trust and love. In that order.

 

[SamScribble]

All we need is love, love. Love is all we need. (The Beatles told me so. )

 

[Blind_Justice]

The best way to deal with writer's block? Write about it!

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I have seen that there are idiots all over the world, but lately there seem to be a lot more idiots in cars on the road in Russia than any other place in the world.

Go watch YouTube is you don't believe me.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I have seen that there are idiots all over the world, but lately there seem to be a lot more idiots in cars on the road in Russia than any other place in the world.

Go watch YouTube is you don't believe me.

For a second I thought you meant the ones in the tanks, but now I got it. I think dash-cams are required in Russia and perhaps elsewhere in Eastern Europe, so there is plenty of footage to put on YouTube. Relatively few Americans have dash-cams, so there is less to show. By the way, it's always the other drivers who are idiots. We, of course, are better than average - that's what the majority of people say when polled.

As for war: there are many YouTube fictional and documentary films about it. Denmark versus Prussia in 1864, Macedonians versus Ottomans in 1903 - what the hell were all those people killing each other about? "There would be no wars if no one showed up." But they always show up and, with few exceptions, fight to the bitter end. Then they bury the dead, clear away the rubble, change alliances, and start planning the next one.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

For a second I thought you meant the ones in the tanks, but now I got it. I think dash-cams are required in Russia and perhaps elsewhere in Eastern Europe, so there is plenty of footage to put on YouTube. Relatively few Americans have dash-cams, so there is less to show. By the way, it's always the other drivers who are idiots. We, of course, are better than average - that's what the majority of people say when polled.

As for war: there are many YouTube fictional and documentary films about it. Denmark versus Prussia in 1864, Macedonians versus Ottomans in 1903 - what the hell were all those people killing each other about? "There would be no wars if no one showed up." But they always show up and, with few exceptions, fight to the bitter end. Then they bury the dead, clear away the rubble, change alliances, and start planning the next one.

Oh there are those over there too. And there are just as many dashcams in America and Australia as in Russia. There are stupid people who don't take the time to learn how to drive or learn the rules of the road in their country.

 

[LexxRuthless]

I have seen that there are idiots all over the world, but lately there seem to be a lot more idiots in cars on the road in Russia than any other place in the world.

Go watch YouTube is you don't believe me.

When I read this, the first thing to pop into my head was, "Dude, that was a trailer for the movie Black Widow! Nobody drives that crazy in real life."

 

[gunhilltrain]

Oh there are those over there too. And there are just as many dashcams in America and Australia as in Russia. There are stupid people who don't take the time to learn how to drive or learn the rules of the road in their country.

I have a driver's license and I've owned a number of cars over the years. I even drove a taxi for a living for a year. And man, no matter how careful you are, it only takes a second or two for a small mistake to turn into a disaster. Try driving on the FDR Drive, the Major Deegan Expressway, the Cross-Bronx Expressway, or Route 22 in New Jersey. Those roads are so overcrowded and badly designed that it's hair-raising to be on them even once.

 

[PennameWombat]

I have a driver's license and I've owned a number of cars over the years. I even drove a taxi for a living for a year. And man, no matter how careful you are, it only takes a second or two for a small mistake to turn into a disaster. Try driving on the FDR Drive, the Major Deegan Expressway, the Cross-Bronx Expressway, or Route 22 in New Jersey. Those roads are so overcrowded and badly designed that it's hair-raising to be on them even once.

Been a few years since I last drove on it, but the Taconic State Parkway was, let’s just say it was not designed for heavy traffic going over 60 miles per hour. I know they were doing a fair amount of work on some of the more, um, interesting blind curves and such, so not sure its current state.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Been a few years since I last drove on it, but the Taconic State Parkway was, let’s just say it was not designed for heavy traffic going over 60 miles per hour. I know they were doing a fair amount of work on some of the more, um, interesting blind curves and such, so not sure its current state.

We're having severe thread drift here by talking about highways instead of stories. (Although some of these roads appear in my work.) I was just about to add to the drift but I stopped myself from commenting further about New York expressways and parkways.

 

[jsmiam]

We're having severe thread drift here by talking about highways instead of stories. (Although some of these roads appear in my work.) I was just about to add to the drift but I stopped myself from commenting further about New York expressways and parkways.

I believe they are recommending the road less travelled? ;-)

Mine is, read “the power of habit,” by Charles duhigg. (Skip the bullshit chapters about Target and Business stuff, Just read the parts about changing your habits.) (If Charles duhigg would only have done the 750 word challenge!)

I like it because it has ideas you can opt to try and put in place immediately, if you wanted to. No wait in until your five year plan pans out to know if you’ve succeeded

If self improvement books were professional wrestlers in a cage match, this book would whack “set goals” self improvement books over the head with a folding chair.

 

[lovecraft68]

Unless you puke, faint or die, don't stop.

 

[davion2308]

I got one that's easy to say but incredibly hard to live:

"If you like it, keep doing it. If you don't, make a change."

I've lived that the past five years of my life and things have gotten remarkably better as I slide past my 40th birthday a few months ago.

Also, credit the original World of Warcraft but another great piece of wisdom: "Never pet a burning dog."

 

[8letters]

Cooking is a very important life skill, so learn how to do it. When you and someone start living together as a couple, you are going to be faced with the "what's for dinner" question every single day that you are together. Being able to answer the question well will greatly improve your relationship. Also, when you start living with someone, one of the big issues is how to split the domestic chores. If you can cook, than that increases the flexibility in how you can split the chores. A recurring theme in my stories is the importance of being a good cook.