Has anyone gotten feedback questioning why you wrote in a particular category? I've only posted a handful of stories. All but one were in the transexual/crossdresser category. Then I took on the 750 word challenge and wrote a story in loving wives. It got panned for the plot, but also because I had strayed from my tranny story lane. I have diverse sexual interests and could - and likely will - write in any number of categories. Anybody else been told to "stay in your lane"?
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KeithD
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I occasionally get that. Got it more frequently under my sr71plt account, which was a little amusing. Most of what I post under acknowledged accounts here is GM (most of the accounts I don't acknowledge post stories other than GM. I post in nearly all of the categories). Why it was amusing with the sr71plt account was that I was posting stories across the categories and I often had more stories in non-GM categories that the poster who was attacking me had in that same category.
My lane is where I choose it to be. I may crash and burn in some category lane, but this ain't the New Yorker. This is a place where you can experiment and claim a lane wherever you want.
My lane is where I choose it to be. I may crash and burn in some category lane, but this ain't the New Yorker. This is a place where you can experiment and claim a lane wherever you want.
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Interesting. No, I haven't seen anything like that. Probably because, from the get-go, I published in different categories. I'm probably best known for incest stories, but I published stories in four other categories before I published my first incest story.
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Only once, but it was a Loving wives story so "stick to incest you sick fuck" was more insult than a question.
I'm surprised I don't because a couple of my most commented stories are romances, and when I get comments of "can't wait to read your other stories" I'd except some backlash, but so far not really.
I wouldn't pay attention anyway. Any 'lane' you pick has cars driving in it that will like the story so you might get the comment you did, but you'll get new readers who don't care what else you wrote, just that you wrote that.
I'm surprised I don't because a couple of my most commented stories are romances, and when I get comments of "can't wait to read your other stories" I'd except some backlash, but so far not really.
I wouldn't pay attention anyway. Any 'lane' you pick has cars driving in it that will like the story so you might get the comment you did, but you'll get new readers who don't care what else you wrote, just that you wrote that.
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Not in those words, but I got a similar comment one time when I posted a lesbian romance in Romance.
A certain percentage of LW readers are assholes and will look for an excuse to flame you no matter what you post there, and some readers of conservative dispositions are allergic to any hint of gay/trans content even if it fits the criteria for the category where it's posted. They seem to be in the minority though.
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I often wonder...how conservative can someone be if they're reading here?
Or is it that love/hate thing they have with porn/erotica/various kinks?
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Ignore them, OP. Write what you want, what interests you, and makes you happy. It's true, you'll probably be better at some genres than other, but so what?
Rock out whatever stories please you. To Hell with staying in a lane. These people consume and spout off about free erotica. If they're that interested, they can pay you.
To quote the glorious Jessye Norman, 'pigeonholes are for pigeons'.
Rock out whatever stories please you. To Hell with staying in a lane. These people consume and spout off about free erotica. If they're that interested, they can pay you.
To quote the glorious Jessye Norman, 'pigeonholes are for pigeons'.
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Some of that, yeah. "Morality crusader gets busted for infidelity/kinky sex/etc." happens so often I've lost count.
(I don't mean to suggest that conservatives have the monopoly on being anti-porn, BTW; I'm just talking specifically about the ones who are okay with hetero porn, but can't stand the idea that sometimes a lesbian romance might go in Romance rather than Lesbian.)
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The woman who publishes my work on some venues has become a good friend and we talk all the time, and she's mentioned several times that it always amazes her how many of her erotic authors will be morally offended over a kink other than theirs, like a bizarre anti-honor among thieves.
She said one of them goes on and on about how wrong incest, and hotwife/infidelity stories are...but writes a series about women screwing Dobermans
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The woman who publishes my work on some venues has become a good friend and we talk all the time, and she's mentioned several times that it always amazes her how many of her erotic authors will be morally offended over a kink other than theirs, like a bizarre anti-honor among thieves.
She said one of them goes on and on about how wrong incest, and hotwife/infidelity stories are...but writes a series about women screwing Dobermans
I knew a guy who was a big fan of RL bestiality, who got highly offended by consensual spanking and light bondage.
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Be careful, at your age you could end up in the breakdown lane.
At least it won't be a train wreck.
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At least it won't be a train wreck.
Wanna swap a train wreck for a trucker's convoy full of fuckin' dummies? XD
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I did get one for an Erotic Horror story I wrote where the commenter said I should have submitted under "non-erotic", but I'm pretty sure that was just the commenter being an asshole. Two sex scenes and a murder qualify as erotic horror, thank you very much.
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The readers in Romance seem to want happily-ever-after stories and may scorn a story about a couple breaking up. One of them commented about such a story, "Guess I'm not sure what's romantic about this story. . . It may have been better suited for Non-erotic."
So I tried my next break-up story in the suggested category and it did fine.
So I tried my next break-up story in the suggested category and it did fine.
BiscuitHammer
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Romance seems to have a RAAC-heavy crowd, certainly.
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HEA, or HFN (happy for now) covers most of it, but I think there's some room for unhappy endings if they affirm the central relationship.
My one story in Romance is about a relationship where one partner develops dementia and eventually dies from it, and how the two of them deal with that. It's not a very happy ending but they're there for one another until the end, and apart from that one guy, most of the readers in Romance seemed to like it.
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True, that story does have an unhappy ending, but the couple did stay together ("till death do us part") even through adversity. Probably nowadays most relationships don't end that way.
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For me (sorry, brief tangent,) I’m irritated that the term “stay in your lane” got hijacked by that moron basketball parent into a misogynistic term. The past few years, a lot of terms have been hijacked by morons. Now the term comes with baggage.
Resume your on topic conversations. To the OP, do whatever you want. Once you enter Loving Wives, the comments are from an echo chamber. You don’t have to take them to heart.
Resume your on topic conversations. To the OP, do whatever you want. Once you enter Loving Wives, the comments are from an echo chamber. You don’t have to take them to heart.
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I've never received a comment like that. if I did I wouldn't pay it much mind. I have received a couple trying to tell me what I should and shouldn't write, as in, "You need to go back and rewrite this story to (how they want me to conform to their view). Even as an old fart, the best way to get me to NOT do something is demand I do.
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Yeah. Like a slow annoying car, I get in the lanes I want to and if someone don't like it, tough shit. There's probably some witty analogy about lane discipline and tagging that could be made there, so just pretend I did it, OK?
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Almost as good as the US journalist, annoyed that a prominent NBA basketball player actually publicly weighed in on politics:
"Keep the political comments to yourselves. ... Shut up and dribble."
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I absolutely hate that, too. Every citizen has a right to speak. For that matter, non-citizens have a right to speak, too, and that's one of the best things about this country. It doesn't matter what your profession is or what your education is.
