Do Writers Get More Emails?

[Alto River]

Hi. I'm a new member, but I've been reading stories on Literotica for a while. I am an experienced writer, but a virgin erotica author. I was just curious...will posting a successful story help me find that special someone online? Are responses to stories limited or pervasive? Do authors make more erotic friends? Do those friends tend to be sexier, have bigger boobs, flatter stomachs, harder butts, more explosive orgasms? Hmm??? I was just curious.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I couldn't tell you. My profile says that I'm not interested so don't bother trying. My incoming email is all about my writing and stories these days.

I like your nickname, though. That's a nice one.

 

[wildsweetone]

oh please...

'will posting a successful story help me find that special someone online?'
sure it will, everyone who writes here has wads of lovers falling all over them. try it and see what happens.


'Are responses to stories limited or pervasive?'
that depends entirely on how well or how badly the story is written, but i have been known to have been pervased.

'Do authors make more erotic friends?'
more erotic friends than what? and again, it depends on the ability of the writer.

'Do those friends tend to be sexier, have bigger boobs, flatter stomachs, harder butts, more explosive orgasms? Hmm???'
hmm indeed. i'm not sure that my friends have bigger boobs than i have. flatter stomachs, possibly. harder butts? maybe. explosive orgasms, heck, doesn't everyone have explosive orgasms? after all this is 2002... right?


*down wild *


all the above was my own humblest of opinions.

and hey, i like your nickname too

 

[Alto River]

to my erotic responders

Thanks for the feedback....er..."girls?"

KillerMuffin, I'm still tryin' to figure out your sex. But if that's you, holding that pink squirt-gun, you can drop me a line anytime. Thanks for the compliment.

wildsweetone, thank you, too. That's just the sort of thing I was hoping to hear about writing stories. After all, as John Gardner once said, (paraphrased), "The chief goal of all writers is glory" But, in my case, sex is running a close second. Are you familiar with Salteena?

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: to my erotic responders

Thanks for the feedback....er..."girls?"

KillerMuffin, I'm still tryin' to figure out your sex. But if that's you, holding that pink squirt-gun, you can drop me a line anytime. Thanks for the compliment.

wildsweetone, thank you, too. That's just the sort of thing I was hoping to hear about writing stories. After all, as John Gardner once said, (paraphrased), "The chief goal of all writers is glory" But, in my case, sex is running a close second. Are you familiar with Salteena?

KM is a woman, and the gun in the picture is a 10MM tangfolio (?) semi-automatic pistol -- it's very real and very deadly, almost as deadly as her tongue if you piss her off. . The woman in the picture is NOT KM.

Don't slip on Wilsweetone's sarcasm.

You'll get more e-mail from posting something in the personals forum than you will from writing story. Simply jumping in and participating in the BB will gt you more e-mails (and Private Messages) than writing a story.

Most of th e-mail you get from writing a story will be about your story and, since you're apparently male, most of it will be anonymous feedback with no return address.

I've had stories posted here for nearly three years and haven't gotten ONE suggestive e-mail in response. However, suggstive e-mails aren't what I want in feedback anyway.

 

[spankableBelle]

i get email about my writing when i post something new...for about 2 days i get nothing but feedback in my email box, most with email addresses which i respond to...some have even become friends...can't say that anyone that has sent feedback on my stories has become a lover or that they're more erotic or sensual than anyone else...i'm not a popular writer here and i don't get more email by being one or by posting on the BB's...some people have it, some people don't...<giggles> ...but one should only write anything if they truly want to and not because of hopes of more email...and who knows, the special someone may come along, and she may not...and i've probably ceased to make sense...i will add however that those friends that i have made through my being a writer that posts on Lit don't tend to be ones with harder abs, bigger boobs, more explosive orgasms than the average person that doesn't read erotica...but maybe they have a bit more of a sexy mind because they do read it...(shrugs)...

i should probably have waited until i was awake to answer this...lol

belle

 

[Ulyssa]

Anecdotal experiences

Since I too am female, but with no automatic weapons behind my back, I get tons of letters based upon the proverbial pic search in the search members section or my avatar pic.

"Wow, do you really look like that? How close are you to --name location-- would you give me your address?

"ps. I went to the first page of one of your stories. I might read it someday."

I hope they understand why I've gotten to the point of deleting them and not responding.

 

[Couture]

I've actually gotten two offers from girls who wanted to be my lesbian bitch. No shit.

Neither must have been very interested in being a straight bitch. Either that or they lost their ISP. I prefer the think it was the latter.

I've posted a lot of stories too and I've probably spent hundreds of hours writing them. So, I would say that writing erotica is a poor way to meet women. At least for men.

Women would probably find it easier, but I guess it would depend on exactly what she was looking for.

In either case, I would think that personals or an online dating service would be a much better use of your time if dating is your goal. However, if you like to write and you enjoy getting the occasional feedback that says "U R story was hot. I came twice!" then welcome aboard.

 

[Whispersecret]

My profile says, "Married," so I don't get much feedback with invitations in them. Once in a while I get a guy who says, "I'd sure like to spend the night with you," or something like that. Generally, I think they're just communicating a desire that they know won't ever come true. You know, like when you say, "Gee, it sure would be nice to win the lottery."

 

[SexyChele]

I was just curious...will posting a successful story help me find that special someone online?

Hope springs eternal, so there is always the possibility. Just keep in mind that if a reader is writing to you pledging their undying lust, er, devotion, they are probably doing the same to at least 4 or 5 other writers at the same time.

Are responses to stories limited or pervasive?

Not sure what you mean by this question. Limited to what? Just the story? Yes, some do limit their comments only to the story. Others may recall a similar situation and share that. Pervasive? In what way? If some one becomes too pervasive, they are blocked from my email addy.

Do authors make more erotic friends?

I would say there are more people who would like to become erotic friends. But I'm not interested in erotic friends, so I will thank them for their comments and keep it strictly on a non-personal basis. I did have "Single" on my profile, and that has since changed to "Attached". Once I did that, the offers for "erotic friendships" significantly decreased. I write erotic stories because I like to, not because I want to develop online erotic friendships.

Do those friends tend to be sexier, have bigger boobs, flatter stomachs, harder butts, more explosive orgasms?

So they tell me. However, they are probably no better or worse than any other average person walking the face of the earth. It's fantasy and erotica. People are anonymous when writing to an author. They can be whatever and whoever they want to be, with the safety net that they will probably never actually meet the person who wrote the story.

Hmm??? I was just curious.

Why the curiosity? If you are looking to meet some one here, you would probably do better on the "Personals" forum or on one of the other BB. But that is just my opinion.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I think that the best way of meeting new, interesting people is to post a lot on a zillion different threads. That way, you get new friends and pals, and if none of them lead to a more intimate relationship, then maybe they can give you tips on someone who's Looking...

 

[wildsweetone]

Re: Re: to my erotic responders

Don't slip on Wilsweetone's sarcasm.

what gave it away Harold, the one wink and one smiley maybe? rofl. I should programme my pc to shut down when I'm too tempted to jump on a thread in such a manner.

"But it was the way the questions were asked that made me do it," she pleaded in self defence.

Okay I HEREBY APOLOGISE FOR THE ABOVEMENTIONED SARCASM.

I have to admit this time that I should have waited until the storm within abated before I put fingertips to keyboard. There is the occasional thread which really rubs me the wrong way, and I know it's in how I perceive said threads, so I apologise Alto River.

I should have taken it at face value. Trouble is, I've had a fair few of the comments that you were asking about. Having said that, basically the majority of what I said was true enough... although I'm not sure everyone else has been swamped with wads of prospective lovers.

As a writer, I sit and I write. I am often astonished what the story ends up like seemingly without any personal input from me.

When I receive feedback which basically asks me if I'd like to meet the sender, and/or jump into bed with them, or hang from the ceiling for them or whatever... then I tend to understand that the person who wrote the feedback doesn't see ME, they only see the AUTHOR of the story.

Sometimes it can be a bit of a shock that there is a difference. Does that better explain where I'm coming from?

Of course, there is a part of me that is virtually uncontrollable. However, that said, I never was really predictable.

If you write an autobiography, then the people who are likely to want to end up being your 'special someone' will have a better idea of who you are, and of what they're letting themselves in for.

I'd have a guess and say that a lot of erotica on Lit. is actually fantasy. I would even go so far as to say that about 80% of us have never been involved in at least 50% of what we write about. I hope I'm not generalising too much there. But do you see my point?

If you want your significant other to be 'special', you'll perhaps find her faster in a chat room or a personal BB somewhere. And just maybe, she'll be a little more 'special' than the 99% who give you feedback on your story.

once again, simply my humble opinion.

 

[Alto River]

Wow. I was expecting a few hits to my little conversation starter, but this is quite a lot to consider.

I will say, that after having read some of the other threads in this forum (specifically, KM's "Male writers who want feedback specifically from females") I realized I had stepped on a land mine.
Typical male, me: Leap first, then...after a liesurely perusal of my zillions and zillions of porn mags...look. Yes, the old silver-tounged demon has struck again.

But why should I take all the blame? How was I to know that this forum is riddled with hyper-militant femenist hack-writers bent on stultifying any male request to improve his love life, and have a little fun along the way, telling a joke or two? Mayhaps, a story? Oh! I'm hurt.

And such passive-aggressive sarcasm it was, too... you little molting Emu.

Sex is a subtle art. Yes. But so is deceit.
I'd rather be a subtle fuck, than an old conceit.

 

[wildsweetone]

is that for me? a molting emu? rofl actually there are a few not far from where I'm sitting right now. But as it's the middle of winter, they don't appear to be doing a heck of a lot of molting.


maybe we should start the thread again...


Hi Alto River, welcome to Literotica.com.

You'd like some honest answers to some honest questions. Sure, I'll give it my best shot for you. Remember it's just my opinion though.

Q. will posting a successful story help me find that special someone online?

A. I think that whatever category you post your story in, you could expect at the most, likeminded people to contact you. Be aware though, you will also be contacted (PM or email) by people who loathe what you have written. It happens to us all at some point. Now, whether that wonderful special someone will be amongst those who get in touch is a debatable point. It would involve more than one feedback email and one reply, yes?

Q. Are responses to stories limited or pervasive?

A. It seems that various categories receive more feedback than others. You would need to find those figures from people who have posted stories in most categories. I have received copious feedback letters from Group Couplings, Gay Male, BDSM... but those three are not all the categories on Lit. If you are looking for that special someone, through posting a story specifically, then I would have to say the emails/PMs sent between yourself and your reader would have to be fairly 'pervasive'.

Q. Do authors make more erotic friends?

A. Are you asking if authors are more erotic, or if author's friends are more erotic?

Q. Do those friends tend to be sexier, have bigger boobs, flatter stomachs, harder butts, more explosive orgasms?

A. I am trying real hard to find a different perspective to the one which appears most obvious to me with this question. It doesn't matter to me one jot what my friends look like (erotic or otherwise), nor do I feel the need to explain or persuade anyone of that fact.

If you are looking for a 'special someone', what the heck does it matter what they look like? Perhaps you need to sit down and define a little better what your requirements are of a 'special someone'.

Maybe next time it would be worth your while considering that no two of us are the same on Lit. (where have i said that before recently?) and that we all see things from a unique perspective. If you look carefully at the kinds of questions you have asked you might see how they can be taken from a perspective where very little respect is shown for those very significant 'special someones' you mention.

regards and good luck in finding what you're looking for
wildsweetone

 

[peachykeen]

Alto - you and I are in similar circumstance. Only recently became a member, although I have been reading the stories for a while. Have written a lot of 'regular' stuff but only recently decided to try my hand at erotic fiction.

In the past week and a half I have posted my first two stories at literotica and the response has been AMAZING. I haven't been deluged per se, but the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and has made me feel very good about my skill as a writer in general, and in writing erotic material in particular. (I was a bit nervous about it, don't know why, guess I just wasn't sure if I could 'pull it off'.) But it has been such a nice kick to check in and see how many people have read them, have voted, given nice feedback as I mentioned - I definitely intend to keep writing as long as my imagination holds out!

As far as meeting people goes, I am quite happily married, so I am not looking for a partner, but based on some of the email correspondence I've had with some of the lovely folks that have taken the time to write, it's clear that if I was interested in pursuing some of these a bit further, it could well happen. And I certainly feel sexier, having people tell me how hot my stories made them!

So I say, go for it, you never know where one story might lead you...

Good luck!

 

[KillerMuffin]

I can't speak for anyone else, but if you read my stuff you will have perky, firm, 40GGGG boobs (if you're female) or a turgid, erection-at-will 14 inch cock as big around as a fist that women will not, in fact, be terrified of, but will adore and be able to deep throat on their first try. All this in the first paragraph, too.

My stories will make you irresistable to the babe of your dreams. You will have the perfect mother-in-law who will be a babe and make just enough sexual passes at you to be comfortable.

My stories will make your boss promote you into his/her job, and then do that job for you so you can "take meetings" with the sexy bimbo/bimbob you've had your eye on.

Really. *nods emphatically*

Okay, so they're just guaranteed to kill some time for ya. That's something, right?

That wasn't me. I don't have the tanfoglio, the my preference is their .45 ACP model in blue.

 

[peachykeen]

LOL km you are so fab

 

[its Leslie]

All of my closest friends have been people that I would never have expected to meet.

I have met people in places where I expected to find entirely differing sorts.

I write erotica (well I have written erotica, but not a lot recently). But who I am is so much more than erotica or even writing.

One of my current best online friends is a writer here on Lit, I would never have met her if not for a friend from outside of Lit that mentioned Lit to me.

I have met a male online individual that shares my hobby of paper and pencil type RPG's (that's Dungeons and Dragons to use a generic term). I would never have encountered that person if not for an off handed reference to that hobby like I just did here.

I encountered a rare wargaming friend as a result of a casual comment while wandering with the peer to peer file sharing program Kazaa. I did NOT expect to find a wargamer that way at all.

Thus far my experiences here on Lit as an author have been the occasional email saying my story sucked (everyone meets the lunatic fringe eventually). I have written a small batch of stories, that those that know me more directly have said were ok (likely overly kind praise hehe).
I have interacted through the Forum here, but I tend to only use the specific forum (no interest in the others).
My comments are not always equally recieved (but then that is reality eh).

But in the final analysis Alto, your erotic fiction will take you as far as your erotic fiction will take you on the beach or in a park or in a bar. It is all in how you sell yourself and present it. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Alto River]

One, One Glorious Emails!

TWO, Two Fabulous Emails! HAHAHA!

-- Count Sesame Street.

Thank You, everyone, for your responses.
And thank you, Emu, for what I guess was a sort of apology for an offense that I was too slow to pick up on, in the first place. Cheers! At least we can all still laugh at ourselves!

Still, I can't help wondering if some of these story responses to, say, a really HOT story, might , under strenuous conditions, (such as the one I seem to be suffering from ), MIGHT induce some of you lovely, erotically chaged lasses to drop me a line, -- if not, indeed, a marital proposal, sex-slave contract, or just a few sexy photos.

But, hey! I'm so lazy, it'll probably never happen. I'll never get that story written, especially not while working on this reply post.

Could I have the photos, anyway?

P.S. -- Some of you may want to check out my upcoming Muse Search Thread, in a forum near you.

Ciao!

 

[Alto River]

One, One Glorious Emails!

TWO, Two Fabulous Emails! HAHAHA!

-- Count Sesame Street.

Thank You, everyone, for your responses.
And thank you, Emu, for what I guess was a sort of apology for an offense that I was too slow to pick up on, in the first place. Cheers! At least we can all still laugh at ourselves!

Still, I can't help wondering if some of these story responses to, say, a really HOT story, might , under strenuous conditions, (such as the one I seem to be suffering from ), MIGHT induce some of you lovely, erotically chaged lasses to drop me a line, -- if not, indeed, a marital proposal, sex-slave contract, or just a few sexy photos.

But, hey! I'm so lazy, it'll probably never happen. I'll never get that story written, especially not while working on this reply post.

Could I have the photos, anyway?

P.S. -- Some of you may want to check out my upcoming Muse Search Thread, in a forum near you.

Ciao!

 

[wildsweetone]

E M U !

And thank you, Emu, for what I guess was a sort of apology for an offense that I was too slow to pick up on, in the first place. Cheers! At least we can all still laugh at ourselves!

think nothing of it dear.

actually, i'm a kiwi... does that make a difference?

 

[wildsweetone]

Q. Do authors make more erotic friends?

A. Are you asking if authors are more erotic, or if author's friends are more erotic?

by the way, did you ever answer this question of mine? sorry i can't find it if you did...

 

[its Leslie]

I am feeling obnoxious, anyone got a pic of a Pukeko for Wildsweetone heheheh. She knows what I mean heheh.

 

[Alto River]

to Emu

Emu: "actually, i'm a kiwi... does that make a difference?"


That actually does. That makes quite a big difference. You see, I like to EAT kiwis, whereas, I can't imagine eating an Emu. In fact, given the opportunity, I might like to eat a kiwi before breakfast every morning.

Wait a minute! We are talking fruit, here, arem't we??? Not the south Pacific tribe?

No, no. I can't say I like canibalism. Oooooh, YUCK! That's just ... Ehhuhhlll, GROSS! I can't believe you would suggest such a thing, Emu!

 

[its Leslie]

I was under the impression a Kiwi was a bird, but you want to think Pukeko when you think of Wildsweetone for definitive accuracy eh