Is Literotica still the place to get maximum views on your erotica?

[ElectricBlue]

I might be new here, but I’m not new to either writing, or to erotica.

I wasn't referring to you specifically, because I have no idea of your history.

It was a general comment, more in response to your comment that many of us might have forgotten how we started. I don't think that's the case, is all I was saying.

 

[SimonDoom]

I’m going to be accused of casting shade of being bitchy, I just know, but:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravid

I concur with 8Letters on this point, as well as on most of the others.

This is the way I look at it: Your story is your art. The rest is marketing. Write the story the way you want, sticking to your artistic guns, but be practical about everything else: category choice, title, tagline, tags, etc.

The issue is not whether "gravid" is in the dictionary. The issue is whether the term "gravid" does the BEST job of conveying what the story is about to attract the readership you want. The obvious answer is "no." Be simple and practical and make it "The Pregnant Games." Not everybody agrees with me about this, but you obviously are interested in view numbers, and if that's what you are interested in keep it relatively simple and clear. You have to make an impression on a potential reader in just an instant.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I wasn't referring to you specifically, because I have no idea of your history.

It was a general comment, more in response to your comment that many of us might have forgotten how we started. I don't think that's the case, is all I was saying.

Too true, Blue. I remember my start as if it was yesterday. LOL.

The issue is not whether "gravid" is in the dictionary. The issue is whether the term "gravid" does the BEST job of conveying what the story is about to attract the readership you want. The obvious answer is "no." Be simple and practical and make it "The Pregnant Games." Not everybody agrees with me about this, but you obviously are interested in view numbers, and if that's what you are interested in keep it relatively simple and clear. You have to make an impression on a potential reader in just an instant.

Yup! The story I'm working on now has a Latin title, but the secondary title make the meaning of the Latin clear - I might jave to swap it because of length, but either way it's clear to the reader - the moment you make them have to think, you throw them out of the story - and if you do that with the title, it's worse imho

Footnotes and explanations are for textbooks, not fiction. If you throw in something like that, you have to work somethimg into the story to allow instant comprehension without conscious thought. The moment someone stops to think, they're out of it and you'bve lost them.

I always use that Heinlein example. "The door dilated." No fancy explanations. No technology. Just a simple three word statement that conveys something very different but without any thiyght on the readers part needed.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

It never occurred to me that people wouldn't know "gravid." I've known of it's technical use since I was a kid, because I'm a long-time aquarium keeper and the term is used in fish breeding. I've known it's non-technical use for about as long.

Ditto, and I also kept fish since I was a preteen. I first heard it applied to guppies.

--Annie

 

[SimonDoom]

Too true, Blue. I remember my start as if it was yesterday. LOL.

Me, too. Now if I could only remember what actually DID happen yesterday . . .

 

[ElectricBlue]

Me, too. Now if I could only remember what actually DID happen yesterday . . .

I'm not in my dotage yet, despite the occasional bemused look from my daughter.

 

[alohadave]

It’s that like Omertà?

I meant like you've figured out how many threads work here.

 

[alohadave]

Be simple and practical and make it "The Pregnant Games." Not everybody agrees with me about this, but you obviously are interested in view numbers, and if that's what you are interested in keep it relatively simple and clear. You have to make an impression on a potential reader in just an instant.

I'm totally on board. There are many stories that you have no idea what they are about going on the title and description. If I can't figure out from a glance what the story is about, I pass on it.

 

[NotWise]

I am the king of uninformative titles and short descriptions. There are worse things to be good at.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm not in my dotage yet, despite the occasional bemused look from my daughter.

Me either, but I run with the joke because of remarks from my kids as well.