My First Story - I'm Nervous!

[Blackpearlz]

Last night I was brimming with sexual energy, and there was no one around with whom to spend it. So I wrote my first little story. Well, it's really my second, but I don't count the one I wrote when I was 12 (you shoulda seen the look on my Mom's face when she found it, Lord have mercy...).

Anyway, I sent emails to two volunteer editors, but they didn't get back to me yet. Now I know it's only been 18 hours, but i'm a budding writer - i need immediate attention! I am very nervous and excited at the same time about posting it, but it would be nice to get at least a little bitta feedback beforehand, just to bounce it off someone, see if it peaks interests and creates swells of heat in all the right areas. help meeee! Picture me yelling mindlessly into the empty Grand Canyon for assistance. Should I just do it? just post it and see what happens? does it absolutely HAVE TO be previewed and proofed before it's posted?

Thanks yall.

 

[KillerMuffin]

No, it doesn't HAVE to be preview and proofed before it's submitted to be posted, but it helps, alot. Additionally, it would be a good idea to wait about 2 days (omg, wait?!?!?! did she say wait?!?!?!) then go over it again, you'll see stupid little mistakes you would have missed because it was so fresh in your mind.

Can't wait to read it!

Just remember, should you get impatient and submit it, that Laurel has a backlog because she and Manu (they own the site if you didn't know) are redoing the scripts that run the site. A big backlog. So if you submit it and don't see it right away, DON'T PANIC!!! Shades of the Hitchhiker's Guide. It doesn't mean you suck, it just means she hasn't waded through her box enough to see your story it. Okay?

 

[Whispersecret]

I'm very familiar with that immediate anxiety that comes when you finish a story and can't seem to wait to get it posted. HOWEVER, dear BP, you only wrote the thing last night, for heaven's sake. <tickles you> Good things come to those who wait. It took three months of straight writing to finish my first erotic story and another month to get it posted. Surely you can wait a couple of days for the volunteers to get back to you. (Offline life might be busy right now for those two particular editors.)

It will be worth the wait. Other people will see what you miss. Your story will end up better, I promise.

One thing that helped me was getting started on another story. I focused on the new story and it took my mind off the one that was going to get posted. Just a suggestion.

Best of luck. <waves>

 

[Otzchiim]

Wait a while. Back in the days when I was sending stories off to the men's (and women's) magazines, which most of my stories were intended for, it took at least a month before they came back rejected. Except for one magazine which I sent three manuscripts to before I realized they were not planning to use the SASE to send them back-- didn't send a check either, which I would have accepted as a substitute.
And as far as the volunteer editors go, many people, believe it or not, go for a couple of days at times without looking at our e-mail.