LITEROTICA PODCAST
LIT CAMS (200 Free Tokens)ADULT TOYSVOD MOVIES

New Milestones Thread

After about a month and a half, my interactive story was awarded the bright red H-label.

1000021897.png

This rarely happens for interactive stories, because 1: they generally seem to get far lower ratings than regular stories. And 2: hardly anybody makes them. I think there's about two new interactive stories a month or something. This does give me the opportunity to brag about having the first 'hot' interactive story in about 1,5 years. So...yay.

Now we'll have to see if it lasts. Either way, I'm happy readers appreciate my contribution. :)
 
Just stopping by to bump this thread back onto the front page, because it's been good to me.

While I'm here,i will report that my 200th now is officially labelled 'hot" . Being in Novels & Novellas, light readership, but that's ok.
 
RoyalAuthor said:
Published my first story here in September 2024, and earlier this week I hit 750 followers! Grateful for each and every one. My goal is to get to 1000 before Christmas, so I'll be busy writing. Wish me luck!
Click to expand...
best of luck!
 
sirhugs said:
very solid while still in your first year. It takes time for your loyal audience to find you. Keep going.
Click to expand...

StillStunned said:
Congratulations! Remember that everyone who has 500 followers, or 1000, or 10,000, had to get to the 150 mark first. And that plenty of writers never make it that far.
Click to expand...
Thank you for the words of encouragements. They help me going.

However, I would not call myself a writer but a smut peddler for a distinct audience!
 
I published a 6-chapter series called Strings Attached over the last 6 weeks and hit so many milestones, so I figured I'd bundle them in one message:
  1. 139,216. This was the longest thing I've ever written for Literotica or anywhere else. 139K words. I kept saying it's "100K+ words" until I actually put all the chapters in one document and hit the word count button. That was much more than 100K than I intended. The closest thing I'd written before that was half, at 70K. I still don't know how I found that many words.
  2. 1500. I hit 1500+ followers total while publishing it. I started around 1480'ish (I think; I didn't write it down) and now up to 1560+, so I also gained around 80 followers in 6 weeks. Nice.
  3. 6. This was the first time I made a plan and stuck to it. 6 chapters, 6 weeks, Friday morning, like clockwork. Those who followed told me it felt like a weekly Netflix episode drop. I had comments coming in less than 2 hours after a chapter published, and those chapters were ~20K words or so! I'm so incredibly proud of my commitment because I had my back against the wall at many points and I found a way through. I'd tried to do that with another series a few years ago and failed when it got tough. Not this time.
  4. 4.97. Chapter 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 reached 100+ votes with a 4.94-4.97 rating and hit the top spots in the all-time best lists before being dragged down to ~4.8. Chapter 4 was the most resistant, it remained on the top lists at around 4.9+ for nearly two weeks. I still don't understand how it escaped the vote bombing, but I'm thankful to it because I think it brought new followers. At one point, there were 3 chapters at the same time in the top lists, I took a screenshot and tried not to die.
    1. Sidenote: this was the first time I've observed the vote-bombing in realtime on Literotica, and it made me sad over how many excellent stories would have higher scores if it weren't for these instant star-bombs once they reach the top spots. I've been here since 2011, and I remember when excellent stories sat at 4.95-4.97 for months without being dragged down.
  5. 2. It took two years and change to write this story. Two is also the number of languages I don't speak that I had to weave into parts of this story.
  6. 1. The number of my Literotica stories that my partner has contributed to now (the lyrics in the final chapter + some random brainstorming).
  7. And this one isn't a tangible milestone, but it's about how many people influenced the story as it progressed. Beta readers / editors, sure, but also friends, readers, and anonymous comments. I read every word and so many of them made me go "oh, I need to clarify this in the next chapter," or "oh, this gives me an idea," or "ffs, Cathy, you should've included more of this character there," or "I seriously dropped the ball here, I need to fix it." The story wouldn't have been the same without all of that input.
And done. Chapter closed. I'll call this the "Strings Detached" analysis.
 
My two test stories verifying the pending purgatory bug (my account) were rejected at exactly the same time with the exact same antiquated, probably the original template, rejection message - not giving any reason or a checklist, but instead telling me I should post my stories directly in this forum (better suited) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

AG31
A theory of sex
2
Replies
47
Views
916
AG31
AG31
FromManyOne
Things you should maybe avoid
3 4 5
Replies
124
Views
3K
Stanfield2025
S
Kalahari__Melon
First stories you wrote
2
Replies
45
Views
1K
Pabiporffor
P
I
Can I "feedback" my followers?
Replies
2
Views
226
TheLobster
TheLobster
IsabellaSantiago
How do people deal with it?
Replies
19
Views
596
Britva415
Britva415
Back
Top