sack_lunches
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- Mar 24, 2003
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I think this site is wonderful; let me start there.
I have been coming here for a good long while, and I have sat back, watching the growth of the site and perusing my favorite authors. This really is a wonderful resource, and I hope that it continues to grow and flourish.
There is one question I would like to see discussed here, and I hope this thread gets replies from some of the more prolific authors and the guru-level posters to the forum in addition to hacks like me. My question concerns 'literature' v. 'wank material.'
I have a great amount of literary and publication background, though this is my first real expedition into writing erotica. I have been pleased by the response I've received and, though I'm not winning any awards, I'm getting what I need out of my postings to Literotica. I hope everyone feels the same way concerning their own work.
To be blunt, though, I'm finding some of the prose on this site a bit off the mark, in my humble opinion. Truly, authors are attempting to polish their craft and expand their repertoires, but isn't the major point of the stories on this site to arouse sexual impulses within certain parameters?
Here's the thing: If a given story is much more focused upon scenery, character development, or witty dialogue than it is on arousing sexual impulses of whatever sort, should it be lumped into the same categories as those stories which are intended solely to arouse? Surely, developed characters and lush environs can arouse, but when a seven-page story (I'm picking an arbitrary number) has 6 pages without any sexual content, is this really the place to post it? There is a 'non-sexual' category, after all...
In a recent thread, someone with a lot of experience on this site pointed out (in a completely different context) that people come here to masturbate to orgasm. Certainly, we all come to our arousal in different ways. I just wonder if some authors, anxious to ply their wares in a comfortable environment, may have lost sight of a central issue: Literotica is about erotic literature.
I hope this post does not offend anyone in particular. It is merely meant to raise discussion and, perhaps, to cause authors to pay a bit more attention to the sexual content of their stories. And, after all, I may be the only one who does not get aroused at long descriptions of trees and rivers. What do I know?
To each his or her own. Thanks.
I have been coming here for a good long while, and I have sat back, watching the growth of the site and perusing my favorite authors. This really is a wonderful resource, and I hope that it continues to grow and flourish.
There is one question I would like to see discussed here, and I hope this thread gets replies from some of the more prolific authors and the guru-level posters to the forum in addition to hacks like me. My question concerns 'literature' v. 'wank material.'
I have a great amount of literary and publication background, though this is my first real expedition into writing erotica. I have been pleased by the response I've received and, though I'm not winning any awards, I'm getting what I need out of my postings to Literotica. I hope everyone feels the same way concerning their own work.
To be blunt, though, I'm finding some of the prose on this site a bit off the mark, in my humble opinion. Truly, authors are attempting to polish their craft and expand their repertoires, but isn't the major point of the stories on this site to arouse sexual impulses within certain parameters?
Here's the thing: If a given story is much more focused upon scenery, character development, or witty dialogue than it is on arousing sexual impulses of whatever sort, should it be lumped into the same categories as those stories which are intended solely to arouse? Surely, developed characters and lush environs can arouse, but when a seven-page story (I'm picking an arbitrary number) has 6 pages without any sexual content, is this really the place to post it? There is a 'non-sexual' category, after all...
In a recent thread, someone with a lot of experience on this site pointed out (in a completely different context) that people come here to masturbate to orgasm. Certainly, we all come to our arousal in different ways. I just wonder if some authors, anxious to ply their wares in a comfortable environment, may have lost sight of a central issue: Literotica is about erotic literature.
I hope this post does not offend anyone in particular. It is merely meant to raise discussion and, perhaps, to cause authors to pay a bit more attention to the sexual content of their stories. And, after all, I may be the only one who does not get aroused at long descriptions of trees and rivers. What do I know?
To each his or her own. Thanks.