I've tried to read a few of the 'New' stories over the last few days.

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I glanced at the new stories posted in IT because I've had a few go up. I picked some of the higher rated ones. I had to quit reading them after a few paragraphs though. Not because of any ick factor, but because I couldn't figure out what was happening and the text was hard to follow. It seems to me that the writers may not be fully fluent in native English and the terms seems like someone from another country is writing them.

Now there's nothing wrong with that at all. Lit is global and inclusive, so it's fine.

It's just difficult for me to read, which may be more my problem than theirs.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

How sure are you that they aren't AI-generated?

-Rocco

 

[AlinaX]

Reading AI-generated text can induce a sort of brain fog, I’ve found.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

It is my impression that in general, the authors who frequent AH are ones whose stories are easily above the Literotica average. Therefore, their expectations might be unrealistic when browsing other stories. I check out new stories relatively often, and I sift through them by category, tags and length most of the time. My impression is, sadly, that the average Lit story is a badly written, short, stroke-story. It does depend on the category somewhat, but in general, the average Lit story is not much of a story.

 

[Agent0069]

I got few complaints that my stories leave impression that I’m not fluent in English. It is because I, surprise-surprise, am not fluent in English

I don’t get a chance to discuss sex novels in professional environment of my daily life (sadly!), and hiring tutors for the sake of becoming a better unpaid porn writer seems like an unwise investment.

I’m very much open to readers pointing out flaws in my texts, and I dream of a great editor, who would descend from the skies one day and offer help. So far it hasn’t happened yet, so all I can do is to proceed as-is to the best of my abilities.

 

[djrip]

I got few complaints that my stories leave impression that I’m not fluent in English. It is because I, surprise-surprise, am not fluent in English

I don’t get a chance to discuss sex novels in professional environment of my daily life (sadly!), and hiring tutors for the sake of becoming a better unpaid porn writer seems like an unwise investment.

I’m very much open to readers pointing out flaws in my texts, and I dream of a great editor, who would descend from the skies one day and offer help. So far it hasn’t happened yet, so all I can do is to proceed as-is to the best of my abilities.

You're far more fluent in English than I am in anything else!

 

[lovecraft68]

Taboo is big in other countries-India especially looking at people who post here-so ESL authors are common. Then you have people like me who just butcher the language.

 

[lovecraft68]

I got few complaints that my stories leave impression that I’m not fluent in English. It is because I, surprise-surprise, am not fluent in English

I don’t get a chance to discuss sex novels in professional environment of my daily life (sadly!), and hiring tutors for the sake of becoming a better unpaid porn writer seems like an unwise investment.

I’m very much open to readers pointing out flaws in my texts, and I dream of a great editor, who would descend from the skies one day and offer help. So far it hasn’t happened yet, so all I can do is to proceed as-is to the best of my abilities.

Took a quick peek, and you're really well and it will get better the more you write.

 

[lovecraft68]

I glanced at the new stories posted in IT because I've had a few go up. I picked some of the higher rated ones. I had to quit reading them after a few paragraphs though. Not because of any ick factor, but because I couldn't figure out what was happening and the text was hard to follow. It seems to me that the writers may not be fully fluent in native English and the terms seems like someone from another country is writing them.

Now there's nothing wrong with that at all. Lit is global and inclusive, so it's fine.

It's just difficult for me to read, which may be more my problem than theirs.

Maybe try the top lists instead?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I wasn't really looking to read stories, just wanted to sample a few that posted at the same time and seem to have higher ratings. It's My Party was one and I think another was My Big Family.

I THINK they're South Asian, but I not sure enough to say that.

 

[alohadave]

I got few complaints that my stories leave impression that I’m not fluent in English. It is because I, surprise-surprise, am not fluent in English

I don’t get a chance to discuss sex novels in professional environment of my daily life (sadly!), and hiring tutors for the sake of becoming a better unpaid porn writer seems like an unwise investment.

I’m very much open to readers pointing out flaws in my texts, and I dream of a great editor, who would descend from the skies one day and offer help. So far it hasn’t happened yet, so all I can do is to proceed as-is to the best of my abilities.

I read some of Sister Got Cold Feet.

You have some minor punctuation mistakes, mostly around dialog, but no more than an inexperienced native speaker would.

If you are looking for an editor, see if kanjisoto is available. There is also the editors forum you can post a request in.

 

[burgwad]

As someone who is spending today attempting to thoughts-and-prayers his latest 4.4 up to a 4.5 atop the New IT page, let me tell you I am only too happy to agree. It is hard to watch my baby failing to compete with stuff that reads like it was written whole cloth by a horny robot. But also I know I write weirdly, and it’s a harsh climate out there for us weird ones.

EDIT: Don’t mean the above complaint to be a jab at today’s New hotties. Some really good, human-written stuff landed today.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Yeah well poor Charli's tying to keep her head above 4.

I'm thinking they may not like the dramatic and tragic retrospective ending.

 

[burgwad]

Yeah well poor Charli's tying to keep her head above 4.

I'm thinking they may not like the dramatic and tragic retrospective ending.

Thoughts and prayers.

 

[AshCardiff]

AI stories should be perfectly comprehensible... and perfectly boring.

 

[lovecraft68]

AI stories should be perfectly comprehensible... and perfectly boring.

And shouldn't be here, but I think AI is going to end up like all lit's rules. Stories without it will keep getting repeatedly booted and ones with it slip through.

 

[AshCardiff]

And shouldn't be here, but I think AI is going to end up like all lit's rules. Stories without it will keep getting repeatedly booted and ones with it slip through.

That seems rather bitter! Have you had some stories booted?

AI is certainly going to be come more difficult to discover automatically as it gets better, but it's never going to truly innovate, so humans will be the ones writing the most interesting stuff.

I expect where this ends up is:

* Good writers write the best stuff;
* AI writes the formulaic, unsurprising, but competent stuff;
* Beginning writers will write the worst stuff.

Humans will occupy the ends of the bell curve. Machines the middle.

 

[lovecraft68]

That seems rather bitter! Have you had some stories booted?

AI is certainly going to be come more difficult to discover automatically as it gets better, but it's never going to truly innovate, so humans will be the ones writing the most interesting stuff.

I expect where this ends up is:

* Good writers write the best stuff;
* AI writes the formulaic, unsurprising, but competent stuff;
* Beginning writers will write the worst stuff.

Humans will occupy the ends of the bell curve. Machines the middle.

I've been here 15 years so of course I've had a couple of kick backs, both for underage and both were incorrect and went through with a note, the last one in the notes field I pasted three different lines referencing the characters are 18.

I haven't run into AI because my grammar-and use of slang, makes it obvious they're not written by a robot. But there have been many threads of people getting kicked back for it who didn't use it.

Just like people are constantly having stories sent back for under age, non consent (Hahahahahah) and other issues that aren't real, meanwhile you can find countless stories that actually break the rules, so it is a source of frustration.

That's compounded by some people here who if the NC is rejected say "Its not allowed" but when someone finds a published NC story and asks how it got there the same people say "Oh, well, lit allows it."

Yeah, its tiring.

 

[DinglyDangly]

That seems rather bitter! Have you had some stories booted?

AI is certainly going to be come more difficult to discover automatically as it gets better, but it's never going to truly innovate, so humans will be the ones writing the most interesting stuff.

I expect where this ends up is:

* Good writers write the best stuff;
* AI writes the formulaic, unsurprising, but competent stuff;
* Beginning writers will write the worst stuff.

Humans will occupy the ends of the bell curve. Machines the middle.

By beginners will write the worst stuff, in what regards do you mean!

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

As someone who is spending today attempting to thoughts-and-prayers his latest 4.4 up to a 4.5 atop the New IT page, let me tell you I am only too happy to agree. It is hard to watch my baby failing to compete with stuff that reads like it was written whole cloth by a horny robot. But also I know I write weirdly, and it’s a harsh climate out there for us weird ones.

Guess what happened over night!!!

 

[Rob_Royale]

But also I know I write weirdly,

What do you mean by "write weirdly"?
Subject matter? Ignoring standard grammar?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

There's a new one up today that's a good example. Great idea, very similar to Charli in some ways, but it's clumsy and hard to follow with odd phrasing. Pretty sure the writer is European and trying to write in English. He even breaks his own hard and fast rule set out and the beginning.

That's one I'd almost like to do a version of.

 

[Bazzle]

There's a new one up today that's a good example. Great idea, very similar to Charli in some ways, but it's clumsy and hard to follow with odd phrasing. Pretty sure the writer is European and trying to write in English. He even breaks his own hard and fast rule set out and the beginning.

That's one I'd almost like to do a version of.

That one is not mine, but thing is...some of us are dyslexic, and unless Word or Goggle docs tell you there is problem, you can read it five times and still miss the clunky sentence structure.

I am not defending the indefensible, clunky prose is still clunky. Also we are all doing this on this site for free?

So unless there is magic fairy that can beta read and solve all our problems on our WIP, it might come out clunky?

 

[WhiteTailDarkTip]

One thing I advise writers to do is to read aloud what you've written. It's an invaluable tool for rooting out clunkiness and other errors

 

[StillStunned]

I am not defending the indefensible, clunky prose is still clunky. Also we are all doing this on this site for free?

But as we saw in the "Rip Me To Shreds" thread, what one person considers clunky is another person's descriptive style, and that person might find the first person's barebones narrative flat and overly simple.