Improved Writing Seems To Go Unnoticed

[Wifetheif]

Some of my early stories are dreadful. Bad punctuation, typos, etc. I really have improved as a writer of erotica since my first forays into the Lit.com universe. I took a fair bit of time off while I was building a presence on Amazon as an author of "shrink" fiction. I have plenty of fans and buyers over there. I have recently returned to Lit.com as a much-improved writer, but my current scores do not match the ones from my bad old days, even when the comments note how well-written the story is. Have any of you noted a similar trajectory? It is, quite frankly, a bit weird and disconcerting. I know the story is the thing. Nobody reads "Fifty Shades of Gray" for the scintillating prose and Dan Brown is as far from Hemingway as you can get. Still... you would think that better writing would translate to better scores. I know erotica is not judged by the same standards as literary fiction but why would people prefer crap to caviar? Your thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[suestevenson143]

Your stories are very good

 

[SimonDoom]

Suggestion: Insert the link to your submission page in your signature. When you post a post like this, but include no link, you're asking other authors to do some work to look you up and read your stuff to respond meaningfully to your post. Do the initial work yourself so others don't have to do it.

I looked you up and you've written 190 stories, so there's no way to review what you've done and make a meaningful evaluation.

I haven't looked at your stories yet because you haven't cited to any specific ones but I'll make this general observation.

Good prose style, and command of grammar and spelling and punctuation, matter. All things being equal, your story will do better if you know how to write good English.

But all things aren't equal, and storytelling is more important at Literotica than grammar. It's possible that what you are seeing is the impact of improved prose style being outweighed by the quality of story telling. Hard to tell.