New Milestones Thread

[EmilyMiller]

The reaction score is even more impressive!

Thank you

 

[EmilyMiller]

That's a lot of positivity you've spread around.

Aw! Thanks

 

[StillStunned]

Aw! Thanks

No, thank *you*! Spraying us with your positivity, until we're covered with your gooey happiness like - Actually, never mind.

 

[EmilyMiller]

No, thank *you*! Spraying us with your positivity, until we're covered with your gooey happiness like - Actually, never mind.

Aw became eew!

 

[StillStunned]

Aw became eew!

You're not the one covered in gooey happiness.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

My first story published finally got its thirty thousandth view ...

 

[Zootonius]

Okay, some gloating. I had one story, Kate's Dilemma at a 4.49 rating for some time. Sometime, recently, it went to 4.5, bringing all my works to hot!

 

[EmilyMiller]

My first story published finally got its thirty thousandth view ...

That’s amazing

 

[EmilyMiller]

Okay, some gloating. I had one story, Kate's Dilemma at a 4.49 rating for some time. Sometime, recently, it went to 4.5, bringing all my works to hot!

You know what announcing that is gonna do, right?

Emily

 

[Zootonius]

You know what announcing that is gonna do, right?

Emily

So, you're gonna give it a one! Just cause,

 

[EmilyMiller]

So, you're gonna give it a one! Just cause,

I’ve never one bombed anything in my life. Actually that’s not true. I did once, but there were extenuating circumstances.

Emily

 

[Zootonius]

I’ve never one bombed anything in my life. Actually that’s not true. I did once, but there were extenuating circumstances.

Emily

First time for everything. And when my ego peeks out, It deserves a smacking.

 

[EmilyMiller]

First time for everything. And when my ego peeks out, It deserves a smacking.

Won’t be from me.

Emily

 

[Deleted member 6736302]

Good morning everyone! I have a new story in Peta/Sam out today, it’s a story very close to my heart, and is the last piece of the puzzle that is Act 2 in the overall storyline. Read it here: Auld Lang Syne

It marks my second big milestone - the completion of the second act of the novel, and leaving me with exactly one third of the stories to go.

 

[TheRedChamber]

With the publication today of my Non-Erotic Story (Over in a Flash : "Ten very short stories about premature ejaculation") I've now published a story in every Litertorica category that I'm aiming to* with the exception of the big one Novels (I could publish in Novels today as I have a part one that is basically ready, but I waiting to finish the whole thing)

(* I'm not doing illustrated, audio or non-English as these require a very different skill set from just writing. I'm not doing Chain Stories as it's a dead category. I am doing/have done the other 28 categories)

 

[TheLobster]

All you experienced people, talking about breaking 30k views, make me all the more blown away by the attention my first story received. I'm gonna chalk it up to the fact that it's in I/T, and it's a completely ridiculous one at that. This is the only explanation I can find for it already breaking 30k, in the first seven days since its publication.

If there is anyone's ego here that needs smacking, it's definitely mine!

 

[StillStunned]

All you experienced people, talking about breaking 30k views, make me all the more blown away by the attention my first story received. I'm gonna chalk it up to the fact that it's in I/T, and it's a completely ridiculous one at that. This is the only explanation I can find for it already breaking 30k, in the first seven days since its publication.

If there is anyone's ego here that needs smacking, it's definitely mine!

When I published my first stories, I was staggered to get 4k views. That was in SF&F. I wrote a few in EC and they got even more hits: up to 5k!

Then I wrote an I/T story with a catchy title and wow! Even now, the five stories in that series make up three quarters of my total views from 30 stories.

 

[orangecurious]

My latest long one, 20 pages, And what a time it was has managed to get the Red H. Thought i'd celebrate before the Uno Bombers get out and it plunges into obscurity.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I'm gonna chalk it up to the fact that it's in I/T, and it's a completely ridiculous one at that. This is the only explanation I can find for it already breaking 30k, in the first seven days since its publication.

And that is the truth of it. I/T is the most popular category. But your score and positive comments would have me believe that it's also well written. So maybe it's also the quality of your work. I'll check it out tonight.

 

[EmilyMiller]

All you experienced people, talking about breaking 30k views, make me all the more blown away by the attention my first story received. I'm gonna chalk it up to the fact that it's in I/T, and it's a completely ridiculous one at that. This is the only explanation I can find for it already breaking 30k, in the first seven days since its publication.

If there is anyone's ego here that needs smacking, it's definitely mine!

Two categories get many more views than the others. I/T and LW. Your average Lit reader wants to either fuck his mother, or to get revenge on his cheating ex-wife (maybe she left him because he insisted on calling her Mommy during sex). The writers with the largest number of views typically write in one or another of these.

I’ve dabbled with my own versions of both and sometimes get 10 times the views as in other categories.

If building a readership is what you want to do, target these categories. If you want to write stories not conforming to the views of their patrons, then look at other categoires.

It’s a self-serving comment I know, but I think it’s more interesting to try to build a following without being constrained by reader expectations.

Emily

UPDATE: A lot of people here like non-con as well. I’m not one of them.

 

[EmilyMiller]

All you experienced people, talking about breaking 30k views, make me all the more blown away by the attention my first story received. I'm gonna chalk it up to the fact that it's in I/T, and it's a completely ridiculous one at that. This is the only explanation I can find for it already breaking 30k, in the first seven days since its publication.

If there is anyone's ego here that needs smacking, it's definitely mine!

This is a reasonable rule of thumb guide to the non-LW/IT categories (or at least most of them):

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...for-the-popularity-of-lit-categories.1606736/

Emily

 

[orangecurious]

My latest long one, 20 pages, And what a time it was has managed to get the Red H. Thought i'd celebrate before the Uno Bombers get out and it plunges into obscurity.

and right on cue... a couple of ones to drop the red H. thanks people.

 

[oneagainst]

It’s a self-serving comment I know, but I think it’s more interesting to try to build a following without being constrained by reader expectations.

There's the easy way... IT and LW, and there's the hard way, building a reputation across a dozen other categories as someone who can deliver a story.

Yoda was on the money... easier, more seductive, but forever will it dominate. Better, I think, to build a following in other categories, hone your skills.

Hmm, talking like Yoda I am.

 

[StillStunned]

There's the easy way... IT and LW, and there's the hard way, building a reputation across a dozen other categories as someone who can deliver a story.

Yoda was on the money... easier, more seductive, but forever will it dominate. Better, I think, to build a following in other categories, hone your skills.

Why will it dominate? I write what I want, when I want. If I have an idea for I/T, I'll write it and enjoy the views. If my next idea is SF&F, I'll write that and settle for 1k views.

It's not like my readers are breathing down my neck and demanding more I/T. It's not like they bomb anything that doesn't satisfy their kink. I have 6 I/T stories, and 24 in other categories. They're all doing quite alright. A little of the massive readership carries over to other stories. Readers who like my style of writing. And that's nice.

But I still just write whatever I feel like writing, and settle for whatever readership the story gets.

 

[oneagainst]

Why will it dominate? I write what I want, when I want. If I have an idea for I/T, I'll write it and enjoy the views. If my next idea is SF&F, I'll write that and settle for 1k views.

Just speaking from my own data, but posting in IT or LW gets a bunch of new follows, and then posting a femdom tale in non-con or BDSM not only gets a drop in followers but a set of one bombs that evidence suggests would not otherwise have been there.

One conclusion from this is that in IT and LW I'm picking up followers who are very specific about what they like and what turns them off. So, either give them more of what they want or have to deal with dissatisfied readers. Eventually, it can back you into a corner.