Erotic Horror vs Sci-Fi/Fantasy vs Non-Human

[Rumple Foreskin]

Greetings,

A vast mulitude have posted their Halloween contest stories in Erotic Horror. That makes sense, but no one (or so few I've missed them) have used the Sci-Fi/Fantasy or Non-Human categories.

Sci-Fi/Fantasy: Erotic tales set in futuristic or fantastic worlds

Non-Human: Aliens, ghosts, androids, and more

Presumably, both are busier than EH since they have more than double its number of stories. Any theories on contestants choice of categories?

Rumple Foreskin

 

[oggbashan]

The forthcoming (or last-coming) epic 'Miranda' is submitted as SF/Fantasy. (Witches and spells that WORK)

Og

 

[oggbashan]

I had to check the categories my Halloween stories were posted under:

2 x Romance
1 x Incest/taboo
1 x Erotic Horror

and pending 1 x SF/Fantasy.

Og

 

[Weird Harold]

Presumably, both are busier than EH since they have more than double its number of stories. Any theories on contestants choice of categories?

Rumple Foreskin

Halloween is about "scary things" and that leads to thinking in terms of "Horror Stories" when writing something with a halloween theme.

For the same sort of reasons, I would expect most Valentine Stories to wind up in the Romance category and most New Years to wind up in Erotic Couplings or Loving Wives

 

[lilith1979]

I think part of the reason that EH isn't used as much is not many people like it. Blood, guts and death aren't exactly sexy to most. My entry is EH, and it is far from the norm of what I usually write. I don't know where it came from, it just did, so I wrote it. I don't find it sexy at all. But, then again, I don't get off on my own work-ever.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I think people went Eh because of the halloweentheme. you could write an Eh work, submit it to Eh and get by with a story that didn't have to directly involve halloween, since halloween is all about the spooky.

If you kick it sci-fi/fantast/nonhuman, you have to work haloween inthere somewhere to really make it fit. Eh is ready made for the contest.

-Colly

 

[millennium_bard]

Most of my work is in the Sci-fi/fantasy catagory.

Both of my halloween stories are in EH simply because I thought that was the appropriate venue for the contest.
Although one of them, "Night Shift" would have been right at home in the Sci-fi/fantasy genre.

It probably would have gotten more vortes and a better response in the Sci-fi/fantasy catagory. Next year I'll know better.

 

[ChilledVodka III]

I don't like spooky stuff that happen to me real life, but I wrote a sci-fi fantasy story in 30 minutes and posted in here:

https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?threadid=285731&pagenumber=1

Now, the insanity of being a sheep and following the thread ends here.

 

[Sabledrake]

One of my Halloween offerings, "In the Pumpkin Patch," is in the EH category _and_ involves Halloween! Nasty piece of work, if I do say so myself Link's in the sig.

Sabledrake

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

This is my first Halloween Contest and I found something rather strange. There may be a perfectly good reason for it, but I can’t think of it now.

Perhaps one reason why everybody tries to post their Halloween story in Erotic Horror is because elsewhere it will get lost.

Follow:

For a week the new story is in the New category, where it gets a lot of action. Then, it disappears into whatever category it was posted to. In the case of EH most of the stories are Halloween stories, from this year, or previous years.

If the story is Sci-Fi & Fantasy, or any other category — in my case, NonConsent/Reluctance but it could just as easily been Humor & Satire, except I didn’t wish to telegraph the ending — the story gets lost among all the other stories.

Once again, using my story, it was filed in the middle of NonConsent/Reluctance, alphabetically under P. My story as listed under Top Stories — while still earning an H — showed up on page four.

What I am asking — going the long way about it — is why could not ALL of the contesting stories show up in a Halloween Contest Category of their own. Whether they also spent the first week in the New Category, or also appeared in their normal categories, they would be in a special Halloween Contest category, for at least the length of the contest.

Had I researched the contest before entering, I would have entered it under Erotic Horror, too. Not that it would qualify, but just because my hair is chemically blonde does not mean that I am stupid.

I do not mean this as a complaint against the contest, just a suggestion for possible improvement next year. In my case, my story was entered so late, that it barely got off the New list long enough to matter. It did manage to accumulate 25 votes, but I doubt that its lack of visiblity assisted in its bid to win the coveted last place award.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

VB,

During some contests, Laurel does set up a thread on the story index page just for contest stories. That's a goodness because it seems to increase readership. I believe she did that for the Valentine writing contest, but for whatever reason, it wasn't done with this contest.

I'm in much the same boat as you when it comes to having a story "lost." Since mine rolled off the New list (about the 16th), there have been very few views, votes, or public comments.

Rumple Foreskin