Loving Wives? Not worth it in my opinion.

[TubaBreath]

I’ll admit I have a bad attitude about LW, but so be it, I write LW-ish stories, with the understanding this is the way the category works here on Literotica. My inclination is to shut off comments, voting, and the other contact avenues, but publish anyway and let the haters twist in the wind. OTOH, I can just as easily let it all hang out, ignore the scoring - it’s a woefully defective system, anyway - and laugh at the ugly comments.

And @ChloeTzang, for the record, even perfect test scores don’t help. 1600, 3.95, and CalTech still said “no”.

 

[Duleigh]

I've tried LW twice, both were dedicated to shaming trolls, they appeared to be cheating spouses, one was a pastor hooking up with a hot black chick the other was a GI returning home from the war to find his wife sleeping with his friend. The one with the pastor did fairly well, turns out he was married to the black chick and they were having a little afternoon romp. The other got hammered, the GI that returned home was a ghost, and his widow remarried years after he died. For both the comments rant the gamut from nauseating to enthusiastic.

Is Loving Wives worth it?

In my humble opinion, yes! It's a highly valuable resource. It keeps the trolls over in LW land looking for a stroker that they can drool over and abuse the author to pump up their ego. It keeps them out of other categories where the authors work hard to produce an entertaining read and readers won't be distracted by their antics.

 

[Duleigh]

I can just as easily let it all hang out, ignore the scoring - it’s a woefully defective system, anyway - and laugh at the ugly comments.

You can delete any comments you feel need to disappear. It's your page, moderate any way you wish.

 

[Actingup]

I have to say, although I got many more comments on my LW story, they were not particularly useful comments. About half of the comments were praising the story, which felt good, but I didn't learn much from them. Some were just non-useful criticisms. A major chunk were two major plot issues, both of which I had thought about and decided to leave. I probably learned to be a little more careful but on the whole, learned minimally from those comments.

Per view, I get about as many comments on romance and LS as I did from LW. But I get much better and more thoughtful criticism, by far, on either of those. If I was trying to use the comments to get better at writing, I would absolutely go towards either of those categories.I am tending towards there now, button for that reason; I like writing them more.

I will say, I think my experience with LW comments is as bad as many. I get a higher percentage of nasty and mysoginstic comments from E&V than I have from LW. It's just a MUCH smaller denominator there.

Your experience is totally valid, but you may get some data if you post more stories there. If we ignore the comment quality and just go on views and votes, you can do extremely well on LW. You probably saw that I pasted this over in the Halloween thread:



It's not complete because I have some non-event Loving Wives stories, but essentially I could only approach the engagement from my top LW stories with a contest prize winner. Your LW story got lots of engagement, but I would imagine that if you posted a theme-appropriate story of the quality of your wonderful prize-winning 'Important Days' story over on LW, you would blow the lid off

 

[DeMont]

I’m interested in the martial relationships element and the drama associated with that. I don’t have a particular cheating fetish and find cuck kind of strange (just me, not saying others shouldn’t enjoy it). I’m interested in writing fallible people making mistakes - including infidelity - due to misunderstandings or hurt. But I think I’ll fit that into other categories going forward.

And I’m not so interested in the whole hot wife / sharing thing (again it’s fine if people like that).

@FrancesScott,
Good morning my dear colleague.
In response I would have to admit that I have no more interest in the "marital relationships element and the drama associated with that" than I do with the life cycle of the average fantail goldfish (please, I'm not a goldfishist!!!)

Fallible people making mistakes is so common to all walks of life that I can't immediately imagine putting it into a "marriage" context. I would say that if I tried to [sic] pen a cuck story it would come off as trite, unimaginative and unbelievable. Some may think it a great idea for an author to try and broaden their scope by stepping outside of their "comfort zone" but stepping into a "no comfort zone" and stepping into a "sink and die" zone are two different things.

As always I admire and respect any author that can write in whatever genre they feel is their "zone" or "stronghold" and I would always wish them the best of luck with the piece.
Deepest respects,
D.

 

[sirhugs]

"Fallible people making mistakes is so common to all walks of life that I can't immediately imagine putting it into a "marriage" context. "

this is precisely WHY the "marriage context" works- because marriage is very common and fallible people making mistakes is so common, so they fit together like puzzle pieces...
I agree writing in "no go" areas is at best frustrating, at worst devastating, but also that stretching your boundaries is healthy.
My viewpoint is skewed perhaps because I began my Lit life writing Loving wives and it was only later I branched out. When I started, LW was not quite the smelly trash heap it is now.
On the other hand, I am fascinated by the fact that incest, which is much more taboo (not to mention illegal IRL) is the most popular category.