Inexplicably popular stories (of yours)

[MediocreAuthor]

We all have those little darling stories of ours that no one can ever love as much as we do.
OH HELLO, ELDRITCH PACT! I DIDN'T EVEN SEE YOU THERE!

But if you're like me, you also have stories that you aren't particularly proud of, but your fans seem to love them.

Test Subjects is my oldest, lowest rated, and debatably my worst story... but another person added it to their favorites list today.

Do you have a story that you don't think holds up, but your fans seem to like it, just the same?

In the case of Test Subjects, the story is both pandering to the maledom crowd, and not particularly well written... but it's my second most favorited story.

 

[Djmac1031]

My very first story, The Doctor Is In...Me, is, well... my very first story.

It's got "amateur" all over it.

Not that I think it's terrible or anything. It's just, I dunno... a very basic stroker.

And yet it still finds readers and Favorites two years later.

Meanwhile the stories I think are my best work can't find an audience lol.

 

[djrip]

Camping With the Girls is inexplicably by far my most viewed and favorited story. 200k views, double the closest contender. It's alright, but I don't think it's nearly as good as some of my more recent ones. In fact its rating is middle of the road at 4.5ish.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

You wanna know what's very funny? I was talking with @seraph_nocturne and I mentioned I thought the idea of "clinical" sexual experience very erotic. And I used, as an example, a female doctor tending to a male patient.

She's not acknowledging anything sexual, but he's flustered and incredibly aroused... and embarrassed, and trying to hide it.

I swear, it's like the White Room/Test Subjects all over again

(Maybe, I haven't read, TDIIM yet... maybe that isn't what happens)

 

[Djmac1031]

You wanna know what's very funny? I was talking with @seraph_nocturne and I mentioned I thought the idea of "clinical" sexual experience very erotic. And I used, as an example, a female doctor tending to a male patient.

She's not acknowledging anything sexual, but he's flustered and incredibly aroused... and embarrassed, and trying to hide it.

I swear, it's like the White Room/Test Subjects all over again

(Maybe, I haven't read, TDIIM yet... maybe that isn't what happens)

Actually, you're pretty fucking spot on

 

[Djmac1031]

Actually, you're pretty fucking spot on

I suppose I should amend that.

He's having ED problems.

She wants to do a prostate milking, to free up blockage.

She does actually acknowledge that, while the procedure is "clinical," that he might get some enjoyment from it, and basically instructs him not to feel guilty if he does.

 

[onehitwanda]

my first story, Alexis. When I go back to read it now it's so childish and innocent, and (cringe) present tense.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

I suppose I should amend that.

He's having ED problems.

She wants to do a prostate milking, to free up blockage.

She does actually acknowledge that, while the procedure is "clinical," that he might get some enjoyment from it, and basically instructs him not to feel guilty if he does.

That still works. The point is that she isn't (or at least isn't visibly) aroused in any way.

I have a plan for a period piece but gender swapped.

A young widow returns to live with her father, and she is suffering with severe "hysteria."
An attractive young doctor is hired to tend to her and treat her hysteria with the only known remedy of the time... orgasms (there is some historical debate as to whether or not this was a real practice).

Anyway, he doesn't treat the interaction as sexual, but she does (at least internally), and she starts requesting him more and more often... you get the idea. Lol

 

[MediocreAuthor]

my first story, Alexis. When I go back to read it now it's so childish and innocent, and (cringe) present tense.

Hey, I kinda like present tense stories. They are great for unreliable narrator tales.

 

[Djmac1031]

That still works. The point is that she isn't (or at least isn't visibly) aroused in any way.

I have a plan for a period piece but gender swapped.

A young widow returns to live with her father, and she is suffering with severe "hysteria."
An attractive young doctor is hired to tend to her and treat her hysteria with the only known remedy of the time... orgasms (there is some historical debate as to whether or not this was a real practice).

Anyway, he doesn't treat the interaction as sexual, but she does (at least internally), and she starts requesting him more and more often... you get the idea. Lol

Very different from mine. Definitely won't require another plagiarism denial post.

 

[djrip]

That still works. The point is that she isn't (or at least isn't visibly) aroused in any way.

I have a plan for a period piece but gender swapped.

A young widow returns to live with her father, and she is suffering with severe "hysteria."
An attractive young doctor is hired to tend to her and treat her hysteria with the only known remedy of the time... orgasms (there is some historical debate as to whether or not this was a real practice).

Anyway, he doesn't treat the interaction as sexual, but she does (at least internally), and she starts requesting him more and more often... you get the idea. Lol

I missed the right era to be a doctor.

 

[djrip]

You wanna know what's very funny? I was talking with @seraph_nocturne and I mentioned I thought the idea of "clinical" sexual experience very erotic. And I used, as an example, a female doctor tending to a male patient.

She's not acknowledging anything sexual, but he's flustered and incredibly aroused... and embarrassed, and trying to hide it.

I swear, it's like the White Room/Test Subjects all over again

(Maybe, I haven't read, TDIIM yet... maybe that isn't what happens)

Also there's this incident.

 

[onehitwanda]

Also there's this incident.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

Very different from mine. Definitely won't require another plagiarism denial post.

Not the gender swapped version perhaps... but my original idea was female doctor, male patient... let me see if I can find the quote.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

Very different from mine. Definitely won't require another plagiarism denial post.

Here's the snippet I wrote at the time (I forgot, it was masturbatory, not prostate)

Dr Stevens continued her work, her face a mask of placidity. Her gentle touch danced across the young man's length. She could see his face scrunched up in an adorably timid grimace.

She knew, of course, exactly what she was doing to him, as her tender ministrations teased every inch of his member. She could feel her own pulse accelerating, as she looked into the innocent boy's flustered expression, but she was not a novice herself. She knew that if the boy got even the slightest inkling of how much she was enjoying herself, it could ruin her career. She stared directly into her patient's moist, naive blue eyes.

She spoke calmly, using every bit of her training to maintain her calm, professional demeanor. "Are you playing any sports this year? Softball perhaps?"

"Ye... yes ma'am," the student's swamped mind was struggling to push words from his mouth. "I... I play ... softb... I'm... I play short... shortstop..."
The boy clearly felt as if he would explode any second, but she continued to tease, keeping him teetering on the edge of climax.

(For the record, the "boy" in question is 18. )

 

[Djmac1031]

Here's the snippet I wrote at the time (I forgot, it was masturbatory, not prostate)

Dr Stevens continued her work, her face a mask of placidity. Her gentle touch danced across the young man's length. She could see his face scrunched up in an adorably timid grimace.

She knew, of course, exactly what she was doing to him, as her tender ministrations teased every inch of his member. She could feel her own pulse accelerating, as she looked into the innocent boy's flustered expression, but she was not a novice herself. She knew that if the boy got even the slightest inkling of how much she was enjoying herself, it could ruin her career. She stared directly into her patient's moist, naive blue eyes.

She spoke calmly, using every bit of her training to maintain her calm, professional demeanor. "Are you playing any sports this year? Softball perhaps?"

"Ye... yes ma'am," the student's swamped mind was struggling to push words from his mouth. "I... I play ... softb... I'm... I play short... shortstop..."
The boy clearly felt as if he would explode any second, but she continued to tease, keeping him teetering on the edge of climax.

I of course now need to read the rest of this.

You've left me with a bad case of diegesis interuptus.

 

[MillieDynamite]

As if I had any stories that were popular!

 

[MediocreAuthor]

@MillieDynamite, by my count, you have 13 H's

If you aren't popular, none of us are

 

[CyranoJ]

Do you have a story that you don't think holds up, but your fans seem to like it, just the same?

My stories mostly hold up, I think. But there's one that was meant to be the beginning of a series that continues to attract readers despite the series never having continued.

 

[NotWise]

I usually expect my stories to do well, though how well has been tempered a little by experience. It's hard to find one that did better than I expected. The one that comes to mind is no longer on Lit.

There was a little delay publishing my third story, which was a good thing. I took it down before it was published. In its place I offered the beginning of a novel I started writing a couple years earlier. There were no beta reads and no editing. I didn't even re-read it myself before I posted it. I cringed when I finally reread it.

The first chapter was very short and followed by six more very short installments. I was never overwhelmed by any of the stats, but the comments were positive. What got me was the reaction from loyal readers when I hit the end of the first seven, short chapters. That was as all I intended to post, and it ended with the male protagonist exiting into the night under conditions where it appeared he would never go back.

The wailing and rending of cloth was audible from here. I went on to other projects and didn't post any more of the story for several months, but I eventually put up twenty three chapters, which took the story through its major reveal and probably got me half way to 2/3 of the way through the novel.

At that point I knew I wouldn't complete the story for Lit. I let it rest for a few months and then had Laurel take it down, and the loyalty of its fans surprised me again. Eventually, at the urging of one of the loyal readers, I put a note in my public profile explaining what I did.

 

[MrPixel]

My particular "unexplainable" is Hotwife Does Every Man in the Bar, a stroker I wrote three-plus years ago, loosely based on an IRL experience. It's my most read story by far (32K) and second-highest number of votes and favorites, score in the low 4s.

The "three years ago" is especially significant to me because my writing style has (in my eyes!) vastly improved through experience here, and story style moved away from basing stories on experiences and, instead, complete fiction: fanciful, joyous romances with sex scenes for dessert. Scores also reflect the improvement.

 

[SyleusSnow]

The Waif and the Wall - "She's tiny. He's huge. It would never work."

I knocked it out over a day and a half. The concept came out of nowhere and it's barely 2 pages. Yet it remains one of the most favorited of all my stories. Doesn't seem all that special to me... is big/small a particular kink?

It remained so popular that years later I wrote a sequel. It's not as favorited, but has a higher score than the original.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Like I didn't know I had Red H's. Wait, I have red H's?

@MillieDynamite, by my count, you have 13 H's

If you aren't popular, none of us are

Well then, those are the ones I don't understand why people like them.

 

[MrPixel]

...is big/small a particular kink?

It is.

 

[Abbafan]

Hey, I kinda like present tense stories. They are great for unreliable narrator tales.

Not a huge fan myself, but what really does aggravate me is when a writer can't make up their mind so they keep switching back and forth, sometimes mid sentence.