Many Thanks To All

[AsylumSeeker]

I've had my kilts up in a knot on many occasions, and remain frustrated at the ability of a couple of bad votes to pull a rating so pathetically low after it had been so high. But I would like to thank all of you who have taken the time and fairly rate my stories. And the hell with rest of you.

Should I bother continuing writing or is it a lost cause? I find myself peferring the reluctance category, and I have almost finished DD 2 CH 2.

But if the greater crowd is going to piss me off, then I'l leave.... again. Why is it SO HARD to be read a sexy srory? I'm baffled. What am I not leaving you with ??

I'm very frustrated; perhaps the more experienced readers can offer assistance. i'm missing my friends so much.

 

[mjl2010]

THe first thing I learned here besides everyone teasing about the "Virgin" under your name when you start posting, is you need a thick skin when it comes to feedback and votes on your stories.

I had a poem post and it had a perfect 5.0 with four votes. I asked someone to read it and vote. I know they voted a 1 and I was so pissed off. My score still sits at 4.20 after a few weeks. Just from the 1 vote. Just the same I get a fair amount of anonymous feedback saying it's a great poem. So why don't they vote?

Pisses me off too. I think you should have to have an account to vote.

MJL

 

[TxRad]

First off the reluctant category is almost as bad as loving wives,except in loving wives they sometimes actually read the stories before dropping the 1 bomb....

I have a story called "Wet". I posted it in Reluctant because it was a girl caught between being good or being bad.... circumstances put her in a bad position in a rain storm in downtown...

To make a long story short... I get gigged for a rape story in reluctant of all places by a couple (? I don't believe it is but that's what they/he says).... If he/they had read the story they would have found out that she actually rapes him not the other way around...

Keep writing and tell the idiots to go to hell... in the end they make their stupidity known to everyone and it becomes a joke on them.... yeah the low score hurts because you know it's good but don't let that bother you to much.... that's where the thick skin comes in

Read the good e-mails/pm's/feedback and piss off the rest as just part of being in the public eye.... those are the real "score" if there must be one

 

[i812]

THe first thing I learned here besides everyone teasing about the "Virgin" under your name when you start posting, is you need a thick skin when it comes to feedback and votes on your stories.

I had a poem post and it had a perfect 5.0 with four votes. I asked someone to read it and vote. I know they voted a 1 and I was so pissed off. My score still sits at 4.20 after a few weeks. Just from the 1 vote. Just the same I get a fair amount of anonymous feedback saying it's a great poem. So why don't they vote?

Pisses me off too. I think you should have to have an account to vote.

MJL

I have commenting disabled because the comments are generally trite. I'm not pointing fingers, I'm guilty as well.

You are the only author that has ever thanked me. If it is a bother for an author to thank me for a comment, why should I bother to comment?

I have voting disabled because it is only slightly indicative, and not all that useful. Writing at the highest levels is an art, and nobody has successfully quantified an art. I have only been at this for a month and I am obviously no artist. Therefore I choose not to be concerned with votes that I believe are too generous, or too unfair.

I don't allow anonymous comments for the same sorts of reasons.

I only care about what the members of Literotica think and they know how to contact me. They have been terrific, and I value their advice.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

The Writer In Me Has Decided

I have a talent for writing that drives me to do it. I would prefer the talent was more mainstream, but I'm drawn to erotica for some reason. So I will continue writing and live with the frustration. The Dark Desire series will forge on for the forseeable future, for as long as I have an unsecured wireless connection trespassing my property.

I'm not cheap, there has been friction between the spouse and I regarding the internet. I've been much better than she suspects (she is a very suspicious person).

Thanks for the responses! Write on.

 

[Otto26]

Write for your own satisfaction and you'll be fine. I really enjoy the positive feedback my stories receive but I understand that negative feedback is part of the price. On the plus side, I can generally disregard negative feedback because it falls into two categories: personal attacks or subject matter criticism. Neither of those is a criticism of the story, it's just people with issues venting.

I also find that negative votes tend to drop away over time. And, frankly, if you've gotten 10 something votes in a couple of weeks, then your stories are getting a lot of votes. I've got stories that are more than eight months old that have just crossed the 10 vote border.

 

[cloudy]

You are the only author that has ever thanked me. If it is a bother for an author to thank me for a comment, why should I bother to comment?

I thank everyone who leaves me a comment/sends email feedback, as long as I have a name to send it to.

I know I'm far from the only one that does that.

As to the other, if you're satisfied that your work is good, you're working at improving your craft, then you can safely consign the comments left by jerks who remain anonymous to the bullshit pile.

I don't understand why it bothers people so badly.

 

[CeriseNoire]

I thank everyone who leaves me a comment/sends email feedback, as long as I have a name to send it to.

I know I'm far from the only one that does that.

As to the other, if you're satisfied that your work is good, you're working at improving your craft, then you can safely consign the comments left by jerks who remain anonymous to the bullshit pile.

I don't understand why it bothers people so badly.

I do that too. I just feel that if someone not only reads my story and takes the time to comment, it's common courtesy for me to acknowledge them.

As for voting, it kind of lets me know if my work has any appeal for the masses, should I ever feel ready to try my luck with publishers. The few people who have bothered to leave any PCs have made them useful, so they're fine with me. I figure if someone ever leaves a "ur storey is stoopid", they probably aren't anyone whose opinion should matter to me anyway.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

Haven't Left Stones Unturned

I have visited the Harlequin Romance website, which in my mind is about the closest to what we do here. They won't consider a story less than 75,000 words, which sounds intimidating at first. Yet when I add up all the chapters of my stories, that is quite do-able. I don't know why my reluctance continues.

No, it's all a mad dream. It seems like I have been relegated by a higher being to remain here.

 

[cloudy]

I have visited the Harlequin Romance website, which in my mind is about the closest to what we do here. They won't consider a story less than 75,000 words, which sounds intimidating at first. Yet when I add up all the chapters of my stories, that is quite do-able. I don't know why my reluctance continues.

No, it's all a mad dream. It seems like I have been relegated by a higher being to remain here.

Try Phaze.

There are several from the AH that are published there, and they were the first to pick up our anthology series, Coming Together (which have since gone under contract to a REAL paper publisher! Yay!)