Reader Suggestions

[RejectReality]

I hate to hijack the thread, but since you brought it up, how do you get your cover images, RejectReality? They kind of look like manipulations of actual photos... or something done in a digital modeling program? I’m not gonna lie, my sig and my covers were heavily inspired by your stuff.

The main images are usually drawings done from porn pics, digitally colored/textured in photoshop, and then finished in colored pencils. I didn't like the way either the digital coloring or colored pencil looked alone, so I combined them and found something I'm happy with. I'm shite at drawing straight from imagination. I'm something of a bargain basement flesh-based Xerox who sometimes provides boob jobs and penile extensions to my subjects Sometimes the main images are several different images I've stitched together in Photoshop to use as an original. Layers can do some amazing things.

Some are from erotic images I purchased rights to from an artist years ago. Some are from a now defunct erotic art site which allowed non-commercial use of images. I had downloaded nearly everything that interested me from there years ago, so I still have them in resource folders. Others from a handful of other free for non-commercial use sources I've collected in resource folders over the years.

A lot of these covers sit around on my hard drive for ages before there's a story to go with them. When my muse isn't working, I hunt up resources, draw, and cover design. Then when I get an idea to go with one, I put in appropriate greeblies and backgrounds, slap a title on them, and I'm ready to go.

 

[KeithD]

I don't know of any distributors who would take covers that graphic. I'm sure you'll let us know if any do.

 

[LexxRuthless]

I always consider it a tremendous compliment when readers comment that they want a sequel to one of my stories. I have written and posted three sequels that were inspired by reader requests, and abandoned three other attempts at writing sequels when those were clearly not solid stories--I would never want to follow up a good story with a sequel that sucks.

In all three cases, the sequel I posted here had a higher rating than the original, but with a small fraction of the number of views.

I've only been writing and posting stories for two years here, so I try not to rule out a sequel. If there is a good story to be told, I would hate to avoid writing it just because I am being stubborn about not writing a sequel. Just because I felt like the story was finished when I wrote it doesn't mean there couldn't be a decent story there that I did not imagine at the time.

 

[RejectReality]

I don't know of any distributors who would take covers that graphic. I'm sure you'll let us know if any do.

No chance. Or at least, I seriously doubt it.

They're just bling to attract eyes to my free stuff wherever I can put them, and a way to feel at least somewhat productive when I can't manage to write anything. They fly on Twitter, and provide about a 35% boost to engagement over nearly identical Tweets without the cover images, so I get a little more out of them than busywork.

 

[lovecraft68]

I always consider it a tremendous compliment when readers comment that they want a sequel to one of my stories. I have written and posted three sequels that were inspired by reader requests, and abandoned three other attempts at writing sequels when those were clearly not solid stories--I would never want to follow up a good story with a sequel that sucks.

In all three cases, the sequel I posted here had a higher rating than the original, but with a small fraction of the number of views.

I've only been writing and posting stories for two years here, so I try not to rule out a sequel. If there is a good story to be told, I would hate to avoid writing it just because I am being stubborn about not writing a sequel. Just because I felt like the story was finished when I wrote it doesn't mean there couldn't be a decent story there that I did not imagine at the time.

Unless you do something to piss a readership off sequels and subsequent chapters will score higher, but have progressively less votes views etc...as a series goes on people who lose interest will drop off, and others may not want to invest in something several chapters, so what you end up with is a dedicated readership who odds are will give you high scores.

That's why when you look at top lists they're dominated by chapters, especially those series that go on forever.

 

[storyteller19]

Motivation to write next part

I’ve been bad about not doing second parts or continuations for my stories. When I see someone asking for more it is a nice reminder for me to start working on the next part. If it’s a story that I have no plans to add more to then I try to think about what it was that readers liked about my story and incorporate that into my next story.