Halloween self promotion

[mia_erotica]

I just posted a new story in the BDSM category for the Halloween contest. Just thought I'd market the piece a little being that I am a new writer. I'd love to hear from you.

 

[mia_erotica]

Dr. Cockburn's medicine

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=442947

 

[Jaymal]

Nasty Meds

Reminds me of a cough syrup I took when I was little called Covonia. Stong with a bitter aftertaste, but it did the trick. A satisfyingly evil Halloween tale, Mia. Good luck in the contest!

Jaymal

 

[mia_erotica]

thanks!

Thanks, Jaymal.

Good luck to you as well. I see that your Halloween tale is posted now. I just checked and I have 35 votes already and Dr. Cockburn's Medicine has only been up for a day and a half. It is very exciting to know that so many people in the world are reading something I wrote (while sitting alone in front of my computer). You've got to love Literotica for that.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

You story is quite good, Mia. You don't even need the self promotion. You will do well in the contest with Dr. Cockburn

 

[scouries]

its your call...

QUOTE mia farrotica Halloween self promotion
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I just posted a new story in the BDSM category for the Halloween contest. Just thought I'd market the piece a little being that I am a new writer. I'd love to hear from you.

Dear Mia,

I’d be delighted to read, comment and vote on your Halloween Contest entry.

However, since you’re relatively new here and may not know me, before I do I’d like to explain how I’d go about it and give you the option of asking me not to read it.

First off, I vote on every OFFICIAL CONTEST entry I read. (On non contest stories I generally click out of stories I don’t like and hence give very few low votes. Probably 90%+ of my regular votes are 4 or 5.)

Second, I hold OFFICIAL CONTEST stories up to a much higher standard than I do the normal run of the mill stories that are the daily fare here on LITEROTICA. Contests generally attract a large number of stories (100+) and most of them come from authors who’ve been publishing stories on LITEROTICA for a long time.

They consider themselves as among the elite of our authors corps and when they enter a story in a contest they are implicitly asking our vast reading public to rate their story vis-à-vis the other 100 so stories entered. Which is what I try to do.

As a reader (and hence judge) I believe I have to utilize the full gamut of the scoring range to differentiate between so many stories.

So here’s how I go about it: I read a contest story and then ask myself ‘Is this an exceptional story? Do I believe it’s one of the top maybe fifty stories that will be put up on LITEROTICA this year?’ If so I give it a 5 and wish it good luck in the contest. There probably will be no more than 5-8 stories entered in any contest that will earn this score from me.

Then I move downwards. Very, very good stories will merit a 4. Maybe 15% of contest entries will earn this mark.

3 will be a score I use for about 50-60% of the entries. Stories that would probably be judged quite highly (4 or 5) if compared to the daily fare here but just average in the contest environment.

2, perhaps used on another 15% of the entries, goes to fairly good stories but ones that I believe don’t live up to the spirit of the contest or which don’t live up to the spirit of the site. Generally these stories either have nothing to do with the contest theme or they have little or no erotic content.

Finally I give a few 1’s (to about the same number as I give out 5’s) and they invariably go to those writers who’ve submitted what I call “sneaky” stories.

What’s a “sneaky” story you ask? There are various crimes but it generally involves when in the contest period the author submitted it, or the category he chose to enter it in, or the length of the story (and why he/she has made it that long) or various other techniques the author used to discourage the general reader from finishing it and voting. “Sneaky” story authors try to finish the contest with between 25-40 votes, 99% of which were cast by family members.

Please advise if you’d like me to read yours,

I’m james r scouries and I believe it's time for a little integrity around here…

[size=+2] Dolphins rule…[/size]

 

[mia_erotica]

Bring it on

QUOTE mia farrotica Halloween self promotion
________________________________________
I just posted a new story in the BDSM category for the Halloween contest. Just thought I'd market the piece a little being that I am a new writer. I'd love to hear from you.

Dear Mia,

I’d be delighted to read, comment and vote on your Halloween Contest entry.

However, since you’re relatively new here and may not know me, before I do I’d like to explain how I’d go about it and give you the option of asking me not to read it.

First off, I vote on every OFFICIAL CONTEST entry I read. (On non contest stories I generally click out of stories I don’t like and hence give very few low votes. Probably 90%+ of my regular votes are 4 or 5.)

Second, I hold OFFICIAL CONTEST stories up to a much higher standard than I do the normal run of the mill stories that are the daily fare here on LITEROTICA. Contests generally attract a large number of stories (100+) and most of them come from authors who’ve been publishing stories on LITEROTICA for a long time.

They consider themselves as among the elite of our authors corps and when they enter a story in a contest they are implicitly asking our vast reading public to rate their story vis-à-vis the other 100 so stories entered. Which is what I try to do.

As a reader (and hence judge) I believe I have to utilize the full gamut of the scoring range to differentiate between so many stories.

So here’s how I go about it: I read a contest story and then ask myself ‘Is this an exceptional story? Do I believe it’s one of the top maybe fifty stories that will be put up on LITEROTICA this year?’ If so I give it a 5 and wish it good luck in the contest. There probably will be no more than 5-8 stories entered in any contest that will earn this score from me.

Then I move downwards. Very, very good stories will merit a 4. Maybe 15% of contest entries will earn this mark.

3 will be a score I use for about 50-60% of the entries. Stories that would probably be judged quite highly (4 or 5) if compared to the daily fare here but just average in the contest environment.

2, perhaps used on another 15% of the entries, goes to fairly good stories but ones that I believe don’t live up to the spirit of the contest or which don’t live up to the spirit of the site. Generally these stories either have nothing to do with the contest theme or they have little or no erotic content.

Finally I give a few 1’s (to about the same number as I give out 5’s) and they invariably go to those writers who’ve submitted what I call “sneaky” stories.

What’s a “sneaky” story you ask? There are various crimes but it generally involves when in the contest period the author submitted it, or the category he chose to enter it in, or the length of the story (and why he/she has made it that long) or various other techniques the author used to discourage the general reader from finishing it and voting. “Sneaky” story authors try to finish the contest with between 25-40 votes, 99% of which were cast by family members.

Please advise if you’d like me to read yours,

I’m james r scouries and I believe it's time for a little integrity around here…

[size=+2] Dolphins rule…[/size]

I like that you have a specific rubric, Scouries. Feel free to read and judge. My goal is to gain readers. A high score would be nice too, of course, but realizing that everyone has their own criteria with which to judge stories, I'm not as concerned with the score. Thanks for your time.

 

[mia_erotica]

thanks!

You story is quite good, Mia. You don't even need the self promotion. You will do well in the contest with Dr. Cockburn

Thank you Jenny Jackson. That means a lot to me considering you've read lots of stories here on Lit plus written so many.

 

[mia_erotica]

Favorites

Thank you so much to the people who added Dr. Cockburn's Medicine to their favorites lists.

 

[mia_erotica]

bump

Trying to stay on page one at least until the end of the contest. Thanks to everyone who has read and commented on Dr. Cockburn's Medicine. I especially enjoyed the alternate endings you've suggested.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Trying to stay on page one at least until the end of the contest. Thanks to everyone who has read and commented on Dr. Cockburn's Medicine. I especially enjoyed the alternate endings you've suggested.

I'll give you a hand to keep on page 1.

First, Scouries is an anti-Literotica, self-aggrandising puscule who is best ignored.

I enjoyed your story and RVCed accordingly. Your link with the Halloween meme is a bit stretched, but I forgive you.

 

[mia_erotica]

thank you thank you infinity

I'll give you a hand to keep on page 1.

First, Scouries is an anti-Literotica, self-aggrandising puscule who is best ignored.

I enjoyed your story and RVCed accordingly. Your link with the Halloween meme is a bit stretched, but I forgive you.

Thank you so much. You are such a good writer. Praise from you means a lot.