Feedback responses

[mtnman2003]

As an author, I love to receive feedback on my stories.

Touching a nerve, provoking a response, eliciting comments from the white box readers fuels more writing, warms the soul, feeds my need for gratification for spending the time and effort in doing the story.

But, has the response ever scared the hell out of you. Do they really have thoughts about the mom, or sister, or dad like that?

How in the world did that reader get there? How sick is that puppy? Additions to my story, with a story line about what based on my premise?

I like the ones that know better what my story line should have included. Maybe direct the sequel directly to them.

Your thoughts authors?

Mtn

 

[impressive]

My feedback via e-mail (both anonymous & identified) has been overwhelmingly positive. Only the SDC inflicted any pain.

I've been waiting to get the "You are a sick fuck!" feedback, but I guess I'm not a sick enough fuck.

 

[cantdog]

Sick fuck is mild. Some of the feedback e-mails are really disturbing.

ps what's an SDC?

 

[impressive]

ps what's an SDC?

Story Discussion Circle -- that other forum.

 

[cookiejar]

None that ever scared me but I got an anonymous one that said I couldn't write incest for shit. Since I have never written incest it was strange, to say the least.

 

[neonlyte]

Only the propositions, they mostly arrive by e-mail though CV likes to hang his out on a PC.

The propositions are from women, unfortunately from my point of view, they think I'm a woman.

Though I did have one from a man in a response to my story The Blow Job who thought I was a young girl.

N

 

[mtnman2003]

Same old thread line

Responses have all been positive. What has "scared" me, is the level of what some readers want the characters to do to each other.

Like "gang rape mom and get her pregnant" or have "dad become a sex slave". Or a "scat" fetish. Don't get that one? Don't even want to know!!

Or continue to dominate my "subordinate" at the office. Lots of suggestions here. Positive, but readers want to direct my story line.

So, I find feedback both exceptionally gratifying, and some times confusing.

Mtn

 

[millennium_bard]

Most of the public responses that I get are positive.
So is the majority of the anonymous feedback.

The strangest one I have gotten though was a rambling discourse that had nothing to do with the story it supposedly referred to, and left me with the impression that the sender was stoned out of his/her gourd.

 

[Boxlicker101]

My feedback via e-mail (both anonymous & identified) has been overwhelmingly positive. Only the SDC inflicted any pain.

I've been waiting to get the "You are a sick fuck!" feedback, but I guess I'm not a sick enough fuck.

We all like to get feedback. Most of my emails and PC's are positive although except sometimes I get complaints about lack of plot or story line or other literature type things like that. Since I just write smut for folks to wank or frig themselves, I don't care if people think I'm not literate.

My favorite kinds of story are from women who tell me they got off on one of my stories or from a woman who says she wants me to come over and eat her pussy. Those kinds of things are always email rather than PC.

 

[lilith1979]

Only one of my stories elicited a negative response, Bound. People thought it was true, and some even thought it was about me. I got comments like "You need to get rid of him- chop his dick off, or kill him."-and they weren't meaning it in a written sense. I was surprised. When I read stories on here, I assume that they are fiction unless it says it's true.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Re: Same old thread line

Responses have all been positive. What has "scared" me, is the level of what some readers want the characters to do to each other.

Like "gang rape mom and get her pregnant" or have "dad become a sex slave". Or a "scat" fetish. Don't get that one? Don't even want to know!!

Or continue to dominate my "subordinate" at the office. Lots of suggestions here. Positive, but readers want to direct my story line.

So, I find feedback both exceptionally gratifying, and some times confusing.

Mtn

I think alot of us started writing cause we read and thought we could do better than what was out there. A lot of my feedbacks offer suggestions. I find it gratifying, that someone thinks *I* could do justice to their ideas.

Sometimes they are ideas I think I can work with, My strip billards story is a good example. Sometimes they are things I don' think I could write. Requests to turn one of my submissive characters into a "pain slut" etc. Some are just weird.

Take it as a compliment Mtnman, that someone likes your style so much they think you could write the story that's in their head. It always makes me feel flattered when someone does so to me.

-Colly

 

[Boota]

I only got one negative feedback, but it wasn't scary. The reader just didn't get it. My story ends with a character dealing with a particular possible consequence and he didn't like the story because of it. The only way he would have enjoyed it, I guess, would have been for there to be no consequences. You know, just like real life.

 

[Belegon]

I am a feedback slut and I admit it. I devour everything I am sent. I have received very little negative feedback, although I have recently been uni-bombed from # 1 to right off the first page in Group Sex.

Still, it is the people who take the time to PC or email that I appreciate. I find the unibombers annoying but I will take a 1 vote anyday if I can also get a piece of good constructive feedback.

Surprisingly, the only way things ever get close to "personal"in my feedback is a few people who have recognized the location of my "college" stories. I have had 3 or 4 people do so.

 

[matriarch]

I love getting feedback, all in e-mail until I recently turned on the pc option. Originally I got quite a lot, but its slowed to a trickle now.

Now I get very little in e-mail feedback, except from a handful of regular correspondents, who have become friends.

Mostly the feedback is positive and complimentary, but I've had one or two that I could do without. The first negative I got was so verbally vicious, I was completely taken aback, never having expected anything quite like it. OK, he (it had to have been a 'he', and don't ask me how I know, it was a gut feeling), didn't like the story, didn't think it was erotic........but hey.....let's not get quite that personal, hmmmm?

I've been called boring and inaccurate (it's smut, people, not a history thesis), my work abyssmal crap, and been criticised for misplacement of commas..........but most of the reasers seem to enjoy what I produce, so I just keep on keeping on.

Mat

 

[nushu2]

Never got any real bad feedback but, then again I hardly get any feedback at all. The best feedback I ever got pointed out the hidden little details in the story. Now, that's an erotica writer's wet dream. However, I did get a laugh out of this posted on the same story.


Rubbish
06/10/04 by ChilledVodka
What a turn off.


Brilliant.
06/10/04 by ChilledVodka
I'll probably be coming back to this one.

 

[impressive]

I love getting feedback, all in e-mail until I recently turned on the pc option. Originally I got quite a lot, but its slowed to a trickle now.

I've noticed the same. The PCs tend to dry up the e-mail feedback (and I, too, just turned on the PCs for my stories). PCs are energizing, but they seldom contain true constructive criticism.

*sigh* There's just no happy medium.

 

[TheWriter]

I've only ever recieved rwo negative pieces of feedback, out maybe thirty pieces altogether.

One was a PC, that I deleted, because it came from Anonymous, and was insulting, as well as embarrassing to the person who posted it. When someone says "nobody talks like that no matter how drunk", said someone obviously hasn't met everybody.

The other piece was for Obsession, and it read "get some therapy". Enough said.

I don't think anyone is likely to receive lukewarm feedback unless they're being criticised by the SDC or some such. People generally will only leave feedback if they either loved the story, or hated it.

 

[Guest]

Sometimes, I crack myself up. Oh well. Must stop.
Brilliant I am.