Don't read my story if...

[StillStunned]

Alternative title: Screw you, it's a feature, not a bug.

Enough about what we don't like about other people's writing. This is a thread to admit that some readers will hate our stories, but we don't care.

I'll go first.

Don't read Red Hot if you want plot or character development. There's no plot, just two people who meet and end up having sex. There's no character development, or motivation: a hot redhead, and a narrator who's a blank canvas for the reader to project onto. And if you don't like it, well, screw you. It's a feature, not a bug.

 

[Voboy]

Don't read my 750-worders.

Most of them suck, and I'm not proud of them. Actually, I keep meaning to delete them. Only two of them are any good, I think.

 

[madelinemasoch]

Okay, while I can’t participate as I have no new submissions yet, I will say I think it’s okay for writers to experiment like this and just do things for fun that isn’t their deepest or most literary work and publish it online for free. I don’t think there’s any harm in that even if readers might want more of a plotline.

 

[Erozetta]

Everything I've posted since coming back has been me fucking around to see how convoluted or weird I could make things before someone called me out on it. (Exception being the chain story, that wasn't mine to fuck around with.)

I'm currently working on a take of Sleeping Beauty where there's demonic bargaining following a painful death. It's "stages of Grief" taken to an extreme. And has a HEA.

So, don't read my work if you want a linear story that follows the rules of storytelling.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

If you don't want people who talk to each other about sex (and other stuff), avoid most of my stories. A recent comment said 'seven pages of boring conversation' which is just inaccurate, given at least three pages of that is sex and half the rest is discussing it.

Also some of my stories I attempt to make accessible for Americans and others unfamiliar with UK speech patterns. Others, tough shit. Work it out. New words and phrases don't get magically beamed into our heads via the TARDIS, you know.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

No one is reading my stories anyways. They don't need any advice. They've already figured it out. : P

 

[StillStunned]

Okay, while I can’t participate as I have no new submissions yet, I will say I think it’s okay for writers to experiment like this and just do things for fun that isn’t their deepest or most literary work and publish it online for free. I don’t think there’s any harm in that even if readers might want more of a plotline.

If you think that writing plotless, characterless smut is an experiment for me, it's probably safe to say you're not familiar with my oeuvre.

 

[MrStill]

I think I'll put something completely unrelated to the story in the description to see what reactions that gets

 

[Bloodandglitter]

Not many people read my stories anyways. The first one didn't too bad but the second one isn't. Oh well...

 

[Bamagan]

...you value your time.

 

[NuclearFairy]

You want to see two humans going at each other.

I mean, I have a few ideas for strictly human on human sex, but I haven't written them yet and one of them involves a ghostly sex therapist.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Alternative title: Screw you, it's a feature, not a bug.

Enough about what we don't like about other people's writing. This is a thread to admit that some readers will hate our stories, but we don't care.

I'll go first.

Don't read Red Hot if you want plot or character development. There's no plot, just two people who meet and end up having sex. There's no character development, or motivation: a hot redhead, and a narrator who's a blank canvas for the reader to project onto. And if you don't like it, well, screw you. It's a feature, not a bug.

Curious. I felt his encounter with Myrna, waking him from an implied social slumber, and opening the door to a different future was inciting. It may be just a short snippet of the story but it sets the stage for so much possibility. As for the characters, this is a short story so the character development is brief but it is there. Daz starts off closed in his own private world, and with Myrna's help, opens up to her advances, rediscovering parts of himself he'd long put aside. Their relationship grows quickly, but it does grow and change. If it was like to said, just two people having sex, she would have dragged him to the bathroom the first day they met and fucked him silly in there and just left him there. As you wrote it, there is a future, at least an entire afternoon for them to explore.

I'm sorry, it's your story and your thread - sex aside(or included), you wrote an engaging story with two very interesting characters.

 

[StillStunned]

Curious. I felt his encounter with Myrna, waking him from an implied social slumber, and opening the door to a different future was inciting. It may be just a short snippet of the story but it sets the stage for so much possibility. As for the characters, this is a short story so the character development is brief but it is there. Daz starts off closed in his own private world, and with Myrna's help, opens up to her advances, rediscovering parts of himself he'd long put aside. Their relationship grows quickly, but it does grow and change. If it was like to said, just two people having sex, she would have dragged him to the bathroom the first day they met and fucked him silly in there and just left him there. As you wrote it, there is a future, at least an entire afternoon for them to explore.

I'm sorry, it's your story and your thread - sex aside(or included), you wrote an engaging story with two very interesting characters.

I wasn't expecting anyone to actually analyse it...

Honestly, there's a bit of character there. It's so easy not to make personalities flat that I don't see how anyone could actually write a character that is in fact flat. Daz - not his real name, as the story implies - is supposed to be at least realistic, and I have my own head canon about Myrna, and what her motivations are.

In the end, though, what went before and what might come after is all implied. But I'm very happy that you picked up on it. It tells me that the characters are engaging enough for people to think about.

(Also, I'm a bit surprised that I haven't had any angry comments about Myrna paying for lunch.)

 

[alohadave]

Alternative title: Screw you, it's a feature, not a bug.

Enough about what we don't like about other people's writing. This is a thread to admit that some readers will hate our stories, but we don't care.

I'll go first.

Don't read Red Hot if you want plot or character development. There's no plot, just two people who meet and end up having sex. There's no character development, or motivation: a hot redhead, and a narrator who's a blank canvas for the reader to project onto. And if you don't like it, well, screw you. It's a feature, not a bug.

You won't trick me with your fancy reverse psychology, kitty cat.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I wasn't expecting anyone to actually analyse it...

Honestly, there's a bit of character there. It's so easy not to make personalities flat that I don't see how anyone could actually write a character that is in fact flat. Daz - not his real name, as the story implies - is supposed to be at least realistic, and I have my own head canon about Myrna, and what her motivations are.

In the end, though, what went before and what might come after is all implied. But I'm very happy that you picked up on it. It tells me that the characters are engaging enough for people to think about.

(Also, I'm a bit surprised that I haven't had any angry comments about Myrna paying for lunch.)

Like I mentioned, there's more character development in here than you give yourself credit for. Myrna is definitely in control of this relationship. I get the feeling she gets whatever she wants. I mean all it took as a slight nod to get Daz to his knees... (Hope that's more of a teaser than a spoiler.)

 

[THBGato]

...if you aren't interested in women discovering that they aren't as straight as they thought.

 

[Trionyx]

Myrna is definitely in control of this relationship.

What horny middle-aged hetero male wouldn’t go down on a hot younger woman when told to?

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Like I mentioned, there's more character development in here than you give yourself credit for. Myrna is definitely in control of this relationship. I get the feeling she gets whatever she wants. I mean all it took as a slight nod to get Daz to his knees... (Hope that's more of a teaser than a spoiler.)

Read the first page so far and unless something major changes in the last two pages, nope it's not that deep. Like Stunned said, it's pure limp male fantasy. She's a unicorn who does everything for him and he's ... umm ... some dude getting lucky.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Read the first page so far and unless something major changes in the last two pages, nope it's not that deep. Like Stunned said, it's pure limp male fantasy. She's a unicorn who does everything for him and he's ... umm ... some dude getting lucky.

I guess you find what you look for...

 

[gunhilltrain]

Don't read my 750-worders.

Most of them suck, and I'm not proud of them. Actually, I keep meaning to delete them. Only two of them are any good, I think.

I rarely remove a story with a bad score. Yet I went a bridge too far (that phrase is from Operation Market Garden in Word War II) with my final stories about Nora Meara. The latest series, The Unexpected Girlfriend, was going fine until the last chapters. I should have have stopped at chapter 5, but I'm in the process of removing chapter 6 because "It didn't open," as they say in the movie businee. Chapter 7 seems to be doing poorly too. The last chapter, number 8, will be submitted today because I already finished it.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

I guess you find what you look for...

There's no plot, just two people who meet and end up having sex. There's no character development, or motivation: a hot redhead, and a narrator who's a blank canvas for the reader to project onto.

it's pure limp male fantasy. She's a unicorn who does everything for him and he's ... umm ... some dude getting lucky.

I read the first page on my break at work before this thread started up and when Stunned explained it I was like ... yup, pretty much. So whatever it is that I'm picking up is right about just what Stunned was putting down.

Prose is smooth. It's quality. Just no plot. Boring story very well told. So far art least. I'll finish it on my next lunch break.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Don’t read my writing if you don’t trust me. I can get the ship to port and I'll do it my way.

 

[SimonDoom]

Don't read my stories if you don't appreciate nuance, subtlety, and sophistication--the kind that show up routinely in my sensitive and adult way of treating subjects like moms in back seats, women and their amorous teddy bears, hucow mothers, and libidinous tentacle monsters.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Don't read my stories if you're not primarily a hopeless romantic with a bent for hot transgendered red heads.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Please, read my stories if you're easily offended!