My 200th submission

[sirhugs]

Number 198 (The Upside of Insomnia) is off being edited.
Number 199 ( the Black Cloud Chapter Two) is waiting in the pipeline.

I've posted before about my drive to finish 200 submissions, because with my health, time aint on my side (mostly whined about over on the AH).

The pressing question is which idea to pursue next. I know that this being number 200 only matters to me, readers won't care, but it does mater to me.

These seems to be the contenders:

• A Nude Beach Bride reunion sequel
• The incest/TM/CD idea
• "The silent auction" a 118 word fragment saved as a file but not yet discussed here, that sort of flows from my desire to revisit the MC and world of Locked in the Closet, even though that Fetish story did not draw great
• "Locked in a Crate" a really bare thought about another potential sequel to Locked in the Closet, where the MC gets locked in a crate (obviously) but I have not been able to figure out why; whether the crate gets shipped anywhere, or why it is erotic. It just occured to me one day that being locked in a crate was the obvious sequel to being locked in a closet. have yet to create a file, or devote any pixels to this one.
• OR, I could pause and wait for an idea that screams to be written.
  • like, maybe, trying to figure out the answer to the question "what would really sum up me as an erotic ficion writer?" , in case it really did turn out to be the last one.

Thoughts? suggestions?

 

[TheOtherTeacher]

Why not do what many TV shows do for big milestones, and revisit your best old stories?

 

[sirhugs]

Why not do what many TV shows do for big milestones, and revisit your best old stories?

"best" is a subjective concept... and I'm not even sure what I consider my best, let alone my readers.

The idea of revisiting nude beach bride is somewhat along that line- that story line was interrupted and never picked up, so I get reader requests for a conclusion. But it is not even in my 50 highest rated stories. Chapter one IS my fifth most viewed story though. By Chapter 9, viewership had dropped out of my top 50.

My current top rated story is relatively new, pubished in October 2025, Violet loves her Tentacle Monster, Ch. 2, which is written as a likely conclusion to visiting that world. If somebody hd a briliant idea for a continuation, I would consider it. By "brilliant" I mean one that excites me.

Runners-up in highest rated include The Upside of Smoking, which IS revisited in the forthcoming number 198, The Upside of Insomnia, and Grandpa, Wake Up, chapter 5, which coincidentally I just referred to over on my Ah thread about POV, because that series is one of my few Taboo/incest experiences with 3P POV. the series did well, but that fact that it was the fifth chapter that rated most highly illustrates how the audience shrinks with each chapter, but gets more appreciative. The ending was an ending, but left the possibility of further adventures. I did think this morning as I referred to it "gee, I wonder what Sally is up to five years later?" but don't know if that would resonate with readers.

I don't pay much attention to bring favorited, but my most favorited story is No More Monkeys, I think because readers want to find the subsequent chapters (there are six in total). It is pretty hardcore dad/daughter incest, a popular niche, but controversial. It is open ended, but I don't get a lot of requests for more. thelast chapter was also published 15 years ago.

Other highly favorited stories include Halloween Dress-Up, a crossdressing story which one an award for "best in category" back when they gave those out. It is also my most viewed, but was writen 21 years ago. not sure i could find the door to that world again. Also Nude Beach Bride,; Beware the Misteltoad, a Christmas entry from 2016 which generated a popular sequel the following Valentine's Day, which did end open ended but again, not sure I know those characters anymore; and A Perfect Thunderstorm, one of my personal faves, which led to three more chapters over nine years, most recemtly 2024, but not sure that it has any sequels left to add.

Other than Halloween Dress-Up, most viewed include really old stories, which i guess still find occassional readers, and include a few of the ones already mentioned plus a few others. but none that stand out as screaming for more fifteen or twenty years later.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I would say that as erotica writers, most of us at some point, find our niche/interest/kink etc.
What is yours?
If it were me and I was planning a 'last hurrah' I would go back to my niche and write a story that is a veritable love letter to the genre. Something that encompasses everything I love about that genre.
If you would like help kicking it around, feel free to reach out with a DM.

 

[sirhugs]

I would say that as erotica writers, most of us at some point, find our niche/interest/kink etc.
What is yours?
If it were me and I was planning a 'last hurrah' I would go back to my niche and write a story that is a veritable love letter to the genre. Something that encompasses everything I love about that genre.
If you would like help kicking it around, feel free to reach out with a DM.

I've long tried to avoid getting locked into a niche- whenever I feel one coming on, I take extra vtamin C(jk)- but I do consciously try to keep things varied and fresh. I started out as a Loving Wives writer, but that lasted only as long as that first series.

From then on, I've mixed it up. As I posted somewhere before, I seem to veer towards incest more than any other single category - up to 40% of my recent stories, 30% overall, but I combat that by trying not to post two incest stories in a row. I even revisited LW, which got me a lot of comments ( some even not nasty) and reads .

My last five stories have each been in different categories, and if you go back a bit still within the last ten, I add a sixth. Only three of 10 have been incest. None of them have been LW.

Would be curious to know if others have a perception of my niche that they care to share. I might disagree, but will keep an open mind and not call you stupid.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Fair enough, but what is over-all your favorite genre to write?

 

[sirhugs]

Fair enough, but what is over-all your favorite genre to write?

My point was that I don't think I have a consisent favourite category to write into.I write what I feel inspired to write.

At the beginning, I had thoughts about my marriage that I dealt with by sharing them with readers. I seem to have an ongoing obsession about younger women, so that generates a lot of the incest stories, but they also pop up in other contexts.

As I have aged,more of my ideas fit Mature, but also can be just young women with older men- I mean really old. Then somehow, writing Mature stories morphed into "in praise of older women", non-incest stories. But my most recent of those. My Father's Secretary, spawned a short series that ended up in incest. And I notice that the first chapter ended up in erotic couplings, not Mature. How odd.

Other ideas start out just as a title or a line of dialogue, with no clear concept of where they will go.

Often, I write the story with little or no idea what category it will go in until it is finished.

I know, I am difficult. Sorry, not sorry.

 

[sirhugs]

Sitting here thinking that I could save The Upside of Insomnia for number 200, because it has multiple themes from fetish to anal to lesbian to e&v to incest, and is novella length.

But then what do I do for number 198? The whole basis of this obsesion is "git'er done" because of my health worries.

Mind you, if I die or a just too ill to write, why care if I have 199 or 200? just because I do. Maybe because I watch too much baseball, with its obsession about milestones.

 

[sirhugs]

Sitting here thinking that I could save The Upside of Insomnia for number 200, because it has multiple themes from fetish to anal to lesbian to e&v to incest, and is novella length.

But then what do I do for number 198? The whole basis of this obsesion is "git'er done" because of my health worries.

Mind you, if I die or a just too ill to write, why care if I have 199 or 200? just because I do. Maybe because I watch too much baseball, with its obsession about milestones.

I suppose that I could add in a LW tale for old times sake. but the reason i haven't is that, being unmarried fr almost 20 years, it seems distant to me. Not sure I have it in me to write a run of the mill LW story.

Look at my most recent experience (now five years ago- where DOES the time go?)

I still like Not Another Loving Wives Tale! but it got slammed by comments that complained that it wasn't "really" a LW story , but should have been in non human. I disagree, and don't really care, because I enjoyed writing the story and it opened up TM stories for me. Despite being my most commented story, the rating was very disappointing. LW readers seem to have no sense of either humour or adventure.

 

[Nightscream89]

Maybe writing a crossover of some of your own favorites would be a good 200th story?

Like some works you really enjoyed writing or look back on where you are still proud of the work you delivered. Surely some stand out more than others?

Now what would happen if the MC's of those stories met in some weird kinda way?

 

[Carnevil9]

I think a milestone story like this should be a bit meta. How about all your favorite characters come to life, visit you, and decide to have a roast. They all tell you what they are thankful you did for them, and what they are angry that you did with them. Maybe some of them even want to have sex with you.

Or maybe it's just one of your characters, who you run into at a bar or someplace. You sit and drink and talk (and probably have sex), each each of you learns a lot about yourselves.

You could leave it as a pure fantasy. Or, if you want to make it more realistic, have yourself wake up from the dream at the end, shaken by the revelations your subconscious has given you.

 

[Husky_Embrace]

Locked in a crate makes me think of magicians. They perform for a burlesque crowd, he goes into the crate, and the crate gets stabbed a few times. Then the crate appears to have been locked upon closure and they try to find the key. Shenanigans ensue. When he's finally rescued his burlesque suit has been cut to ribbons. He rolls out with everything on display. What happens next with this adventurously dressed man that everyone was so concerned about for the last <insert time>? What happens now all those emotions are thrown from negative to positive?

 

[dirk2024]

I'm thinking along the lines of "200".

"My 200th Conquest"

A guy who casually sleeps around a lot. One of those who tracks his body count. He just finished #199 and is looking for someone special for #200. She would be a tough nut to crack.

He goes back to his parents for a visit and is shocked to find his older sister, who just moved in after divorcing her louse of a husband. She's a little bitter...and a little horny. You know that trope.

Anyway, he remembers that he's always had a lust for her. And here she is. Problem is...he genuinely loves her too. Like crushed on her as a young man, then (kinda) got her out of his system when he went on the fuck fest, burying the memory of his crush in all those other, more appropriate memories.

So, will it just lust or lust and something more?

 

[anthrodisiac]

Eh, why complicate it? What do you want to write? What's calling to you? Why try to shoehorn in an idea because it happens to be your 200th?

I guess it depends, are you writing because you want it to be a big sendoff story, or are you writing because you want to tell the story?

You could do something completely different, like *censored because it definitely didn't include me recommending you write an anthro story*.

I will say, you do seem to be coming back to this tentacle monster idea a lot. It does seem to be occupying a chunk of brainspace. Why fight that? Let the beast free!

Unleash the kraken!

 

[sirhugs]

Eh, why complicate it? What do you want to write? What's calling to you? Why try to shoehorn in an idea because it happens to be your 200th?

I guess it depends, are you writing because you want it to be a big sendoff story, or are you writing because you want to tell the story?

You could do something completely different, like *censored because it definitely didn't include me recommending you write an anthro story*.

I will say, you do seem to be coming back to this tentacle monster idea a lot. It does seem to be occupying a chunk of brainspace. Why fight that? Let the beast free!

Unleash the kraken!

I think that , as my first post suggests, and the frequency with which I am starting new threads in this forum confirms, I just have too may ideas buzzing in my brain and my decider is broken by the obsession.

I'd take a break to allow time and space to work their magic, but that engages the twin fears of crippling writer's block (which I suffered from in the fall) and ill health, possibly death (three conditions racing to see which kills me first. one of which could randomly land me in hospital never to exit at any time).

Then add a lifelong obsession with milestones like round numbers. It's not that no. 200 will necessarily be my last one, but I stumble over separating having a legacy represented by 200 (+?) stories versus no. 200 being the 'legacy story". Part of me wants no. 200 to be just another middling effort by a persistent but not spectacular Lit writer. all my life, just showing up has been my strongest skill. now I am confronted by the possibility of never showing up again.

And I'd never rule out the pssibility of an anthro story- I just am not confifdent enough about anthro to believe that I can skirt Lit's "no bestiality" rules as smoothy as you do.

 

[sirhugs]

Locked in a crate makes me think of magicians. They perform for a burlesque crowd, he goes into the crate, and the crate gets stabbed a few times. Then the crate appears to have been locked upon closure and they try to find the key. Shenanigans ensue. When he's finally rescued his burlesque suit has been cut to ribbons. He rolls out with everything on display. What happens next with this adventurously dressed man that everyone was so concerned about for the last <insert time>? What happens now all those emotions are thrown from negative to positive?

That would be an interesting idea, but definitely not the sequel to Locked in the Closet, which is a fetish/bdsm mix, and never found an audience on Lit. Well, it was written for an audience of one, and they liked it, I think.

Maybe the magic box idea should be another thread?

 

[sirhugs]

Sitting here thinking that I could save The Upside of Insomnia for number 200, because it has multiple themes from fetish to anal to lesbian to e&v to incest, and is novella length.

But then what do I do for number 198? The whole basis of this obsesion is "git'er done" because of my health worries.

Mind you, if I die or a just too ill to write, why care if I have 199 or 200? just because I do. Maybe because I watch too much baseball, with its obsession about milestones.

The Upside story is (almost) ready for submission. So now I need to start making decisions. I hate making decisions.
is it number 200? or do I stick wth it as number 198, and hope that decision triggers my muse to wake up and give me a nudge about number 200?

 

[anthrodisiac]

And I'd never rule out the pssibility of an anthro story- I just am not confifdent enough about anthro to believe that I can skirt Lit's "no bestiality" rules as smoothy as you do.

Anthro stories shouldn't ever run afoul of the beastiality rule (unless the anthro is having sex with a feral Earth animal. Which... gross *shudders*). It's not skirting anything; I'm not playing a dangerous game close to the edge. I'm well, well, WELL within guidelines. It's really no different from any other non-human stories.

As far as I'm aware, the rule is basically, "You can't have sex with a non-sentient Earth animal." If it's sentient, can talk, you're good (if it's a feral-bodied sentient talking animal, that's probably dancing a bit on the edge). If it's an alien creature that can't talk and isn't sentient, doesn't matter, it's not an Earth species, you're good. If it's a Pokemon, it's not an Earth animal, you're good. Anthros are (generally) bipedal and can talk, they're sentient, so there's nothing beastiality about it. Just nifty, different bodies. A lot of tentacle monster stories are closer to beastiality than anthro stories, because many of those tentacle monsters aren't sentient and can't talk, which makes them basically animals. But since they aren't real-life Earth animals, there's no issue in Lit's eyes. It's why you can have feral aliens or Pokemon — they aren't real-life Earth animals that would fall under actual beastiality definitions.

So, as long as your anthro is 18+ and isn't having sex with a feral Earth animal, you're golden

 

[sirhugs]

Anthro stories shouldn't ever run afoul of the beastiality rule (unless the anthro is having sex with a feral Earth animal. Which... gross *shudders*). It's not skirting anything; I'm not playing a dangerous game close to the edge. I'm well, well, WELL within guidelines. It's really no different from any other non-human stories.

As far as I'm aware, the rule is basically, "You can't have sex with a non-sentient Earth animal." If it's sentient, can talk, you're good (if it's a feral-bodied sentient talking animal, that's probably dancing a bit on the edge). If it's an alien creature that can't talk and isn't sentient, doesn't matter, it's not an Earth species, you're good. If it's a Pokemon, it's not an Earth animal, you're good. Anthros are (generally) bipedal and can talk, they're sentient, so there's nothing beastiality about it. Just nifty, different bodies. A lot of tentacle monster stories are closer to beastiality than anthro stories, because many of those tentacle monsters aren't sentient and can't talk, which makes them basically animals. But since they aren't real-life Earth animals, there's no issue in Lit's eyes. It's why you can have feral aliens or Pokemon — they aren't real-life Earth animals that would fall under actual beastiality definitions.

So, as long as your anthro is 18+ and isn't having sex with a feral Earth animal, you're golden

So... catgirls?

 

[anthrodisiac]

So... catgirls?

0 problem. Catgirls are quite popular round these parts. My cat story is my highest viewed. Only one I have that's cracked 5-digit views.