Post the first comment you recieved on lit

[lovecraft68]

Last night I left a comment on a story and this morning I received an e-mail from the author thanking me for the comment as it is the first one he has ever received.

He went on a bit and was obviously excited about his story and it made me think to go back to my first story and see what my first one was. I remember being fairly upbeat about it because I think the first 3 I got were pretty decent and not abusive. The third one however, would establish a pattern, "Great story, but you may need to think about a proofreader"

So thought it could be fun for people to look back and find their first one, providing of course the story is still here. If not maybe just the oldest one remaining.

This is mine from Almost Perfect 5/13/10

Was O.K. but by the end....
05/13/10 By: Pistolpackinpete
she was just wasting a chance to get a truly devoted slave by trying to break him.

Cool thing is I still see "pistolpackinpete" comment here and there on my stories including one not too long ago.

 

[Swilly]

My first was from a series I did called The Switching Rings:

Do you know what quotation marks are? And what they're used for? And why the hell you didn't use any? Makes it hard as hell to understand whatever the hell you're trying to say. Why the fuck would you pull some shit like that?

That was my first lesson here. I knew I was being lazy about quotations marks when I wrote it, and on top of it my proofreading sucked. I posted the entire series like that anyway. It was a bit disrespectful to the readers of the site, and I realized that people cared about grammar and such more than I realized. As I've said in other posts, negative comments don't have to be a bad thing if they make sense and challenge us to improve. This one did, along with several others.

 

[lovecraft68]

My first was from a series I did called The Switching Rings:

Do you know what quotation marks are? And what they're used for? And why the hell you didn't use any? Makes it hard as hell to understand whatever the hell you're trying to say. Why the fuck would you pull some shit like that?

That was my first lesson here. I knew I was being lazy about quotations marks when I wrote it, and on top of it my proofreading sucked. I posted the entire series like that anyway. It was a bit disrespectful to the readers of the site, and I realized that people cared about grammar and such more than I realized. As I've said in other posts, negative comments don't have to be a bad thing if they make sense and challenge us to improve. This one did, along with several others.

No quotation marks? I'm surprised it did not get rejected.

Good point that some criticism can be constructive and useful.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

ACCURATE TITLE!

Geez...anti-erotic tales! I think (nah, I'm sure!) I'd rather just whack off, thanks anyway! Steinbeck does LIT! Competently done, if you liked Cannery Row!

3* (most I can give a boner-goner!)
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SWEET THURSDAY is my favorite Steinbeck tale, the CANNERY ROW movie is really SWEET THURSDAY. Where Doc (Nick Nolte) lets the hooker (Deborah Winger) get under his skin.

My first troll is still a loyal follower of mine. Gotta be GERONIMO APPLEBY.

 

[TimothyM]

that's easy

Copenhagen Couple 09/25/12 Group Sex

Very Interesting and Stirring
09/25/12 By: redptc
I really enjoyed reading this and things got very 'hands-on' while reading the first page. It all sounded like good fun and was well and clearly described...I will mark it as a favourite and will enjoy reading it time and time again.

Sadly redptc hasn't commented on any of my other stories, but I did get on his favorite authors list. But I'll always be grateful to him for getting my comment cherry in such a nice way

Hey this was my post no 300, so now I'm Really, Really Experienced (apparently)

 

[PennLady]

This thread made me curious.

So here was the first comment I got on my first posted story, Make a Wish, posted 5/2/09.

Know

Don't know about the rest on here who read this story - but it sure choked me up and I enjoyed the story very much. Thank you for a story that makes you forget about our present problems and times that we are going through. Gave you a 5 and wish it could be more. To bad everybody doe's not read this one. Thank You. JAG/TSO

 

[Swilly]

No quotation marks? I'm surprised it did not get rejected.

Good point that some criticism can be constructive and useful.

I did separate dialigue in such a way that it was readable I think. That may have been why it made it through.

 

[Seanathon]

I only started on Lit a few months ago and my first comment was for my Halloween entry, Don't Answer the Door.

10/8/13

Amazing

Loved this story, it was perfect!

The poster was anonymous and I see similar feedback on many other stories on Literotica. But at that point I'd never written a story in my life and just wrote one on a whim for the contest. If I'd received negative feedback or no feedback at all, it probably would have been the only story I ever wrote.

So I thank that anonymous commenter (and all the other readers and commenters after) for the encouragement. I've written a dozen stories and two poems since that, and whether readers enjoy reading them or not, I've had a lot of fun writing and immersing myself in my new (and addictive) hobby.

 

[_Lynn_]

Considering I didn't know anything about writing, when I read the comment now I'm surprised it wasn't worse. My first story was "The Gardener is the New Neighbor" which posted 2/15/07 in Erotic Couplings. I just checked and the word count is 941. Whenever I see that story (no, it's only a scene), I think about deleting it. But then I realize it shows how much I've learned in the past seven years.

The comment:


Hot but rushed!

Hi Mistress Lynn,
You have such a hot setup here. I LOVED the way your narrator took the gardener from behind and started kissing and groping him before he even saw her. The beginning of this scene was so good, and I wanted more of it. Could you draw this out more, more teasing, more holding him down, more action before fucking commences?

Also the cumming part was a bit messy...I think you show a lot of writing talent here, and you can do a much better job of describing an orgasm than repeated letters.

My only other suggestion would be to "place" the story a bit more. It felt a bit jumpy when she was suddenly behind the gardener and I didn't have a clear picture of where they were having sex.

 

[JagFarlane]

This was from Office Engineers in Erotic Couplings. Sadly Red no longer posts on Lit, she's decided to move on, at least for now.

Very nice...
01/09/13 By: RedHairedandFriendly
I really enjoyed your story, it flowed nicely and the erotica was yummy. ~ Red

 

[oggbashan]

I have a problem with this.

Many of my stories were posted before the Comment facility was operational. I would have to trawl through the comments on over 200 stories to find the 'first', and that would be after I had been posting stories for some years.

Edited: I've found an early comment on http://www.literotica.com/s/the-worst-chain-story-ever-ch-01 which had been posted a year earlier:

fuckall!

I read this long ago and far away, before pubic, erm, public comments, but I remember I felt paralyzed by the verbiage and untold repetitiosness. This bloke needs a life.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have a problem with this.

Many of my stories were posted before the Comment facility was operational. I would have to trawl through the comments on over 200 stories to find the 'first', and that would be after I had been posting stories for some years.

I guess us lit kids these days are spoiled!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Do readers post anything useful? No. Its all gush or trolls, right?

 

[oggbashan]

I guess us lit kids these days are spoiled!

We did have Feedback if we had an operational email account.

Here is one from 2002:

This message contains feedback for: oggbashan
About the submission: His Bad Hair Day
This feedback was sent by: Anonymous

Comments:

very unusual story, but very stimulating and creative.

 

[lovecraft68]

Do readers post anything useful? No. Its all gush or trolls, right?

No, there is some good useful stuff in between.

But you have to sift through the gush and abuse.

Personally I think the gush is worse. If you start buying into "You're the best ever" it will stunt growth as a writer.

 

[MSTarot]

Mine would be from "Tit's for tats"


by snowflake83
04/13/12
Great

Great story hope there's more to come.




And after that follow abut 47 more telling me to get an editor and to not spell through as threw. It has had 74 people favorite it so someone liked it at least.


Thought for a while I should switch to writing all anal stories. That way the comments saying "Good story But" wouldn't be so bad.



MST

 

[PennLady]

Do readers post anything useful? No. Its all gush or trolls, right?

Not for me. Some people tell me why the story affected them so much and share parts of their lives, and others give more constructive feedback. It's just a grab bag.

 

[alwayswantedto]

first comment

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[StrangeLife]

Compared to my later comments, my first was pretty mellow..

Dumbest fucking story about a closet queer that I ever read .

Why not just have suck cock and swallow

-10 star rating

From August 6th 2013. Yeah, I'm a newbie...

 

[Zeb_Carter]

My first store on Lit was in LW (it is nolonger up so I don't have the actual comment) and the first comment went something along the lines of...

"Kill the bitch! I hope she gets pregnant! Kick her to the curb! I hope she catches AIDS."

Only it was in much poorer English with a lot of spelling errors.


I sometimes wonder why anyone who can't write grammatically correct properly spelled comments (after all they are commenting on a story which in most cases is) would bother to comment. Although I guess if your an uneducated redneck, you think you are writing in proper English. Y'all.

 

[nomoretears00]

10/5/10

Lovely.

Excellent job on this version. It has all the extra little bits that make your stories wonderful. I hope you win the contest.^_^


*The comment was on All Souls' Day, my Halloween Contest story. My very first story was pulled for publication and is long gone, so I used the first story still up here.

 

[JackLuis]

I posted about five or six chapters of my 40 chapter story "Spreading Seeds", set in 2353 AD back in 08 and my first comment was

WOW

And I thought the future was gonna suck.

It kept me going for a longtime.

 

[JKendallDane]

Do readers post anything useful? No. Its all gush or trolls, right?

All gush and trolls, eh? I might believe that if I had never received this feedback:

I love this so sooooo much!!!

Ever since I first read the title of this series. I figured it would just be centered around a slutty pizza boy. But now that I have truly read this from the beginning up to this point. I just dont know what to say. Well, first of all. This needs to be published NOW! But secomdly i also want to say how grateful I am that you wrote this wonderful, wonderful story that has already brought me to happy tears multiple times. And ever since my recent breakup with the man who I truly believed would be the one I was going to marry I had given up on love. But your story has cleared the dark clouds of my life and made me believe in love again. So once again THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!! ????? p.s. And please keep writing. This story has made me so happy. And I must know more about the futures of Josh and Kyle!

That single comment will forever be the one I look to when I wonder if my attempts at writing are worth it.

 

[TimothyM]

All gush and trolls, eh? I might believe that if I had never received this feedback:

That single comment will forever be the one I look to when I wonder if my attempts at writing are worth it.

You forgot to put in the name of the story and the date of first release. Those of us who read GM can infer it from the comment, but others won't. Just in case someone wants to find it.

Oh and it would be nice if everyone added the category to the info on the story.

 

[someoneyouknow]

Togetherness
6/14/06 by duddle146

Warm and Intimate!

Enjoyed your story immensely. Particularily intriguing in a sexy sort of way was your main character dressing herself. Like being a fly on the wall and enjoying the show. Congrats on a great read.


I guess that's not too bad for my first story considering the category.