New Category You Want To Write In?

[Lifestyle66]

I have Adobe Illustrated and I recently bought a Waucom tablet. So far the results are pure crap, so it will be a while before I publish anything using that medium. I could probably do some hand illustrations with pencil that would be better, but at the moment they're not as good as I want them to be to publish them.

If, after enough time trying to figure it out myself, I'm not satisfied with my own art work, I'm going to try to enlist someone else to do it.

I'm trying to learn the Daz3D software to produce some illustrations of scenes. The program is free. It's the avatars, clothes, hair, environments, etc that cost money to produce a good scene. Also, the render time on a tablet computer can take an hour or longer. But it can produce some good photo-real scenes with the right amount of effort.

The attached JPG is a small portion of one of my amateurish scenes at 70KB 250x250 pixels which took 10 minutes to reach 10% of its render. It needs far more work to position her fingers and get the shading and gloss corrections right to make the avatars look less plastic.

 

[windar]

Honestly, my smutty stories have covered a good range of areas-crime stories, historical fiction, spy stories. I'm really looking to write something more mainstream-crime or non-fiction-something that I could imagine placing in a local independent bookstore. Maybe some day if I can supress my dirty mind...

 

[JuanaSalsa]

I'd really like to write a story, or set of stories, about long-time married couples who still enjoy exploring new fetishes and sexual experiences, as well as perfecting old techniques, while navigating acceptance of each others flaws and dealing with the normal daily drama of staying sane as their lives become more complex and entangled. I want to deal with themes of (for example) addiction, job loss, depression, changing family responsibilities, and the sex that happens around these challenges. I want to explore how sex can heal, strengthen bonds, provide excitement, show affection, improve confidence, and relieve stress within a monogamous long-term marriage.

However, what category do I put that in? I want a category that is actually for loving spouses, not wives fucking around. And on that point, why isn't there a category for husbands fucking around? Why isn't it just a "cheating" category? I don't understand LW at all.

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As to the categories that do exist, my stories are already pretty spread out among them. Our of 13 stories (two have 5 parts), I have posted in 11 categories: BDSM, Erotic Horror, Exhibition & Voyeur, Humor & Satire, Lesbian, Mature, Non-Con / Reluctance, Non-Human, Sci Fi & Fantasy, Toys & Masturbation, and Romance. I have also posted some erotic poetry.

Of the remaining, the 8 categories I can't imagine posting in are: audio (too revealing), chain stories (looks dead and I don't understand the point anyway), celebrities & fan fiction (not my thing), non-English (I'm pretty monolingual), non-erotic (would post elsewhere), illustrated (not a good artist), loving wives (don't get it), or novels/novellas (also would put elsewhere).

The other 13 categories I will probably write in at some point: anal, erotic couplings, fetish, first time, gay male, group sex, how to, incest/taboo, interracial, letters & transcripts, mind control, reviews & essays, transgender & cross-dressing. Most of these themes have already been in other stories I've written, but weren't the major topic.

 

[Lifestyle66]

I'd really like to write a story, or set of stories, about long-time married couples who still enjoy exploring new fetishes and sexual experiences, as well as perfecting old techniques, while navigating acceptance of each others flaws and dealing with the normal daily drama of staying sane as their lives become more complex and entangled. I want to deal with themes of (for example) addiction, job loss, depression, changing family responsibilities, and the sex that happens around these challenges. I want to explore how sex can heal, strengthen bonds, provide excitement, show affection, improve confidence, and relieve stress within a monogamous long-term marriage.

However, what category do I put that in? I want a category that is actually for loving spouses, not wives fucking around. And on that point, why isn't there a category for husbands fucking around? Why isn't it just a "cheating" category? I don't understand LW at all.

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As to the categories that do exist, my stories are already pretty spread out among them. Our of 13 stories (two have 5 parts), I have posted in 11 categories: BDSM, Erotic Horror, Exhibition & Voyeur, Humor & Satire, Lesbian, Mature, Non-Con / Reluctance, Non-Human, Sci Fi & Fantasy, Toys & Masturbation, and Romance. I have also posted some erotic poetry.

Of the remaining, the 8 categories I can't imagine posting in are: audio (too revealing), chain stories (looks dead and I don't understand the point anyway), celebrities & fan fiction (not my thing), non-English (I'm pretty monolingual), non-erotic (would post elsewhere), illustrated (not a good artist), loving wives (don't get it), or novels/novellas (also would put elsewhere).

The other 13 categories I will probably write in at some point: anal, erotic couplings, fetish, first time, gay male, group sex, how to, incest/taboo, interracial, letters & transcripts, mind control, reviews & essays, transgender & cross-dressing. Most of these themes have already been in other stories I've written, but weren't the major topic.

It sounds like your story would be either Romance (Drama, love, risk, and happily-ever-afters) or Erotic Couplings (consensual sex).

As for LW, look at the description: "Married extra-marital fun: swinging, sharing & more." It's supposed to be about swingers (consensual sharing) and FUN. It's the trolls who rob us of a fair rating in that category by 1-bombing and name-calling anything which isn't a BTB story.

They could have "Swingers" and "Cheaters" as separate categories to distinguish between the two.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I'd really like to write a story, or set of stories, about long-time married couples who still enjoy exploring new fetishes and sexual experiences, as well as perfecting old techniques, while navigating acceptance of each others flaws and dealing with the normal daily drama of staying sane as their lives become more complex and entangled. I want to deal with themes of (for example) addiction, job loss, depression, changing family responsibilities, and the sex that happens around these challenges. I want to explore how sex can heal, strengthen bonds, provide excitement, show affection, improve confidence, and relieve stress within a monogamous long-term marriage.

However, what category do I put that in? I want a category that is actually for loving spouses, not wives fucking around. And on that point, why isn't there a category for husbands fucking around? Why isn't it just a "cheating" category? I don't understand LW at all.

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As to the categories that do exist, my stories are already pretty spread out among them. Our of 13 stories (two have 5 parts), I have posted in 11 categories: BDSM, Erotic Horror, Exhibition & Voyeur, Humor & Satire, Lesbian, Mature, Non-Con / Reluctance, Non-Human, Sci Fi & Fantasy, Toys & Masturbation, and Romance. I have also posted some erotic poetry.

Of the remaining, the 8 categories I can't imagine posting in are: audio (too revealing), chain stories (looks dead and I don't understand the point anyway), celebrities & fan fiction (not my thing), non-English (I'm pretty monolingual), non-erotic (would post elsewhere), illustrated (not a good artist), loving wives (don't get it), or novels/novellas (also would put elsewhere).

The other 13 categories I will probably write in at some point: anal, erotic couplings, fetish, first time, gay male, group sex, how to, incest/taboo, interracial, letters & transcripts, mind control, reviews & essays, transgender & cross-dressing. Most of these themes have already been in other stories I've written, but weren't the major topic.

A long work dealing with complex characterizations, dealing with multiple themes. Sounds like a novel/novella to me. Why the reluctance to put it there?

 

[SimonDoom]

I'd really like to write a story, or set of stories, about long-time married couples who still enjoy exploring new fetishes and sexual experiences, as well as perfecting old techniques, while navigating acceptance of each others flaws and dealing with the normal daily drama of staying sane as their lives become more complex and entangled. .

As for category selection, question number 1 is whether this is one story or different stories. You say it's going to be about "married coupleS." That suggests that the right approach might be to write separately published stories about different married couples, and publish each separate story in whatever category is best suited for that particular story. That's what I would do, because that's the way that would likely get the best response from readers.

 

[JuanaSalsa]

It sounds like your story would be either Romance (Drama, love, risk, and happily-ever-afters) or Erotic Couplings (consensual sex).

As for LW, look at the description: "Married extra-marital fun: swinging, sharing & more." It's supposed to be about swingers (consensual sharing) and FUN. It's the trolls who rob us of a fair rating in that category by 1-bombing and name-calling anything which isn't a BTB story.

They could have "Swingers" and "Cheaters" as separate categories to distinguish between the two.

I think it would be great to have a "cheaters" category. It's a theme a lot of people like, they should have their own area to enjoy. Then, the swingers, sharing, polygamy, etc could probably get along with monogamous marriage or LTR stories just fine. I would hope that all the people who confuse consensual swinging with cheating would stick in the actual cheating category and not go look for swinging stories to bomb. Maybe that's just wishful thinking.

A long work dealing with complex characterizations, dealing with multiple themes. Sounds like a novel/novella to me. Why the reluctance to put it there?

It's just that if I am going to write 100k words on a single topic, I'm going to try to get someone to publish the thing =] Getting someone to publish something I wrote is a bucket list item, so any writing long enough that it could go that route, I will save for that purpose. If I ever get that to happen, who knows, maybe I'll be less anal about it.

On Lit, I am thinking more along the lines of several smaller stories dealing with individual couples who are challenged by different things and that this series or group of stories would go well together in a "long term relationship" category. But the only category specifically for LTR's is rather focused on cheating at the moment.

As for category selection, question number 1 is whether this is one story or different stories. You say it's going to be about "married coupleS." That suggests that the right approach might be to write separately published stories about different married couples, and publish each separate story in whatever category is best suited for that particular story. That's what I would do, because that's the way that would likely get the best response from readers.

Yes, that is currently the best option. However, if I post a story about a recovering addict who is super horny in withdrawal and how that acts to bring the couple back together through mutual enjoyment of shared sexual fetishes and I plunk it into fetish, the readers are focused on the fetish aspect rather than the overarching theme of dealing with long-term relationship issues outside the rosy lens of new romance. But, maybe I'm overthinking it.

 

[AahhWhattheHell]

Also: I've already written my 750 word challenge story and absolutely have no idea what category it should post in.

It COULD go in Loving Wives although I'm not entirely sure it truly meets that criteria either lol.

I suppose I could post it there and watch the hate reviews come in if I can't think of a better category.

Two questions, (for anyone to answer really)

1. What is it about Loving Wives fans that breeds such hate mongering?

2. Why would ANYBODY want to write in that subject knowing such?

 

[water_moutina]

Two questions, (for anyone to answer really)

1. What is it about Loving Wives fans that breeds such hate mongering?

2. Why would ANYBODY want to write in that subject knowing such?

3. Would there be same dislike if there was a category "Loving Husbands"?

 

[Chaste_Down]

I think I could write in any category that enthuses me, which really means: which turns me on. The fact it excites me generally means I've read or watched a fair bit of it and have some feeling for it.

I want to write a lesbian piece after I've finished what I'm working on now.

There are a number of fetishes that leave me cold (and plenty that heat me up). I couldn't write well about that first set because I don't have a good intuition about what it is that presses the devotees' buttons. It's not enough to know 'they like feet' or whatever - you've really got to share that desire to understand it and write it well.

Or at least I do. Better writers might be able to fake it

 

[SimonDoom]

Two questions, (for anyone to answer really)

1. What is it about Loving Wives fans that breeds such hate mongering?

There has been endless discussion on this subject in threads on the Author's Forum. We're all just speculating, however, on what motivates others to be this way, unless they tell us what their motivation is.

There seems to be a misogynistic aspect to it. Perhaps the comments come from men who have themselves been cheated on. Maybe it's just men who cannot tolerate the idea of a woman who controls her own sexuality and is happy about it, or of a husband who is happy for her. Maybe it's a million different things. There's no question the hostility in Loving Wives is unlike anything in any other category.

2. Why would ANYBODY want to write in that subject knowing such?

Because the comments can be deleted. One always has the option of ignoring the bad comments and focusing on the good ones. The upside of Loving Wives is that it has a huge readership. If you write a "hot wife" story, your score probably will be poor. But that doesn't change the fact that there may be many readers who love the story. I write for THOSE readers, and I ignore the ones who say nasty things about what I write.

 

[Lifestyle66]

Two questions, (for anyone to answer really)

1. What is it about Loving Wives fans that breeds such hate mongering?

2. Why would ANYBODY want to write in that subject knowing such?

You should read the comments to get a view into the personalities of the haters in LW.

That category is supposed to be about "Married extra-marital fun: swinging, sharing & more."

If you write a story of a swinger couple where the wife is having fun sex with others, they refer to her as a slut and whore, and the husband is a weak cuckhold or wimp.

IMO they believe she's supposed to be his property to control like a BDSM slave, and he's a weak Dom for letting her enjoy it.

So, the haters in LW should change to focus on the BDSM category. It's similar to posts here in the Author Hangout forum, when someone comes to post politics or poetry or some other item off topic from the craft of writing stories. If the authors here don't jump on them for being in the wrong forum, they will eventually corrupt it and take over as the haters did to LW.

 

[AahhWhattheHell]

Thank you for the insight guys.

 

[RoperTrace]

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[oggbashan]

I think I have a story (at least one) in almost every category except Gay Male. A quick count showed I have stories in 23 categories.

I even have a failed Foreign Langauge one in French.

Illustrated? I can't draw. I can barely type.

Audio? My voice is compromised, and before it was, I was a basso profundo which confuses most recording apps. NaokoSmith did an audio of one of my stories as Kingswoman,

 

[MajorRewrite]

Humor.

I actually have finished a humorous story but haven’t posted it. It’s a parody of the BTB and cuck clichés in the Loving Wives category. I think it’s funny but the lunatic devotees of the clichés would probably take it seriously.