Comments that leave you shaking your head

[BryanRichardson]

Here's one I just got today on Evelyn Ensnared.



I guess no one reads the tags.

Yeah, that is because they show up at the end of the story and I only see them when I get to the end. That is too late to use them to warn me what is in the story.

 

[lovecraft68]

Here's one I just got today on Evelyn Ensnared.



I guess no one reads the tags.

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This proves my opinion that there is no use fretting over tags.

But that aside, its an incest story and you'll learn that for a category focused on an extreme kink, much of the readership is soft, they don't like blackmail, NC or even rough sex. They like it fun and fluffy for the most part

In my long sibcest series, the brother and sister were into BDSM and just flat-out rough demeaning sex.

I took more of a beating from readers than they did in the story.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Yeah, that is because they show up at the end of the story and I only see them when I get to the end. That is too late to use them to warn me what is in the story.

 

[Rob_Royale]

They do not. I made the same discovery.

Author's note is the way to go.

It's one of the reasons I put an Ingredients List at the top of my stories. Give readers a hint as to what kinds of "allergens," they might find in the story, so they can decide if it's going to trigger their personal allergies or not.

Story tags could serve this purpose, but lots of readers don't read them, and lots of writers don't use them in that way.

You're both right of course and on many of my stories I add a line encouraging readers to check the tags, before starting the story. But that's as far as I'm willing to go. I'm not going to spoon feed the readers.

 

[iwatchus]

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But almost no one is going to click over there when they are eager to read the story that is already open.

 

[Rob_Royale]

But that aside, its an incest story and you'll learn that for a category focused on an extreme kink, much of the readership is soft, they don't like blackmail, NC or even rough sex. They like it fun and fluffy for the most part

Yep. I know you're right.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

I'd probably go for (the site) automatically repeating the tags at the top of the first story page before any of the story body.

The tags should be on the story card right under the description and right next to the word count just like we've been asking for for years. It's not like the story cards aren't large enough now. @Manu >:/

 

[designatedvictim]

But that aside, its an incest story and you'll learn that for a category focused on an extreme kink, much of the readership is soft, they don't like blackmail, NC or even rough sex. They like it fun and fluffy for the most part

I'll admit that I fall afoul of that, myself.

A while back I'd commented about a story that I'd read where the longer I thought about it, the more I loathed all of the characters.

It was in T/I but only because T/I trumps all.

A look at the author's story list showed that NC was her(?) mainstay.

I just checked and the last two tags on it were Reluctance and Peer Pressure.

I also had my own T/I story semi-reviewed recently and the reviewer didn't like that there was no real introspection on the MMC's part that the sister was doing things outside the norm.

Readers in T/I don't seem to mind some introspection, but they don't want it getting in the way of a good boning, either.

There was some, but it was merely proforma.

In her defense, she started out saying T/I wasn't in her wheelhouse, so her reaction didn't turn out to be a surprise.

 

[LauraLO]

":but you've never been with anyone like me"...

 

[AlexFourways]

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Rob, I know that now, but I was on this site for years before I learned what those were for and still have to think... Where are the tags? Also, the STORY INFO is only on page 1, so if you have read a page, or even a couple of screens, you have to go back to check on them. In my Anon pre-author days, I only used TAGS to find stories, not to avoid them.

 

[designatedvictim]

It's one of the reasons I put an Ingredients List at the top of my stories. Give readers a hint as to what kinds of "allergens," they might find in the story, so they can decide if it's going to trigger their personal allergies or not.

As an off-subject aside, I'm liking this one, so far (about half-way through). I liked the lampshading of the 'there's only one bed' trope.

I love the name Scout, though.

I can only recall one other use of it. You can probably guess where from.

I had a brief flash of changing the name of my WIP roommate to 'Scout' this afternoon, but it passed quickly - I don't want to be a thief. The rationale being that the roommate character goes by Rie (short for Marie) and even I keep reading it as 'Rey (Ray)', instead of 'Ree'.

 

[PennyThompson]

As an off-subject aside, I'm liking this one, so far (about half-way through). I liked the lampshading of the 'there's only one bed' trope.

I love the name Scout, though.

I can only recall one other use of it. You can probably guess where from.

I had a brief flash of changing the name of my WIP roommate to 'Scout' this afternoon, but it passed quickly - I don't want to be a thief. The rationale being that the roommate character goes by Rie (short for Marie) and even I keep reading it as 'Rey (Ray)', instead of 'Ree'.

Thank you! If you like it, and like Scout, several of my earlier stories also feature them. They're all fairly stand-alone, but they do have continuity between them!

 

[BryanRichardson]

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Look at that, after a year and a half on the site you were able to point out a button that will lead me to another page where tags would be listed.

Thanks for the info.