Story that bridges a few categories

[kinkbugs]

Hi folks,

I wrote a series of stories about a girl named Dawn Simmons who is going through a journey of sexual enlightenment.

Originally, I was pretty confident that I would place all of them in the 'Anal' category, as she does love getting fucked in the ass. But the stories do include vaginal sex, and lesbian acts such as scissoring.

And now I'm questioning my decision to put it in the Anal category.

Example, in one of the Chapters, Dawn first scissors with her lesbian roommate, then goes onto have an all anal gangbang with 15 men.

Then in the latest chapter, she is fisted by her lesbian roommate.

Would you, as a reader, be put off by the appearance of it in lesbian category or the anal category?

Or does it not really matter at all?

 

[Liethra]

I obviously don't have a great deal of experience to draw from, but I'd say that if your stories don't have one central theme that outweighs all others, then it might be best to shift categories depending on the story. That being said, it might give in a less favourable reception than if it stuck to one central theme.

There's a thread in the Author's hangout that goes into this a bit, maybe that helps: https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1515261

Personally I would say I wouldn't be so fussed about it. But it all depends on how well reader x connects with the different things you put into your story. But it might well be that some readers in the lesbian section wouldn't be very thrilled to read about a 15-man gang bang, if you get my drift.

 

[DryLips]

I wrote an 18 chapter story that started as incest and migrated to romance. One of the chapters is group sex as well. I don’t see a problem with this and neither did my readers, in fact, one reader said that one of the chapters was in the wrong category (but didn’t suggest which category it belonged in).

 

[ElectricBlue]

Sounds like the story series is going down a "try every kink" path, rather than any over-arching theme. If so, I'd be moving from one category to another, based on the central kink of that chapter - but be sensitive to the category. By that I mean, a lesbian episode in an anal story probably won't upset those category readers, but an anal gang-bang from fifteen men will not go down well in the lesbian category.

 

[SimonDoom]

The problem of doing writing a multi-chapter series in which you switch from one category to another is that you will almost inevitably lose readers. Incest readers want incest. Many of them will choose not to follow your series if it veers into romance.

This may or may not matter to you, and that's fine. DryLips, for example, weighed in on this. His chapter 1, in incest, has 72,000+ views. Ch. 3, also in incest, has 27,000 views. That's a fairly normal level of dropoff. But then the next chapter, Ch. 4, was put in romance, and it dropped all the way to 9,000+. Ch. 18, also in romance, is under 3,000. This is a substantial level of dropoff, and it is much greater than what you typically see if all chapters are published in the same category. When you do that, what you typically see is that the number of views stabilizes after a while, usually around 25% of the original view total. If you are OK with a more substantial dropoff and loss of views (and, presumably, readers), then go ahead if you are determined to write a particular type of story.

Another way to do this would be to start a new multi-chapter series with the same character in a different category. You already seem to have done this with your Dawn character, so you might do it again. It seems to have been successful, because as you can see your first standalone Dawn story received 24K views and the first chapter of the anal series that followed received 55K views. If you do it this way then you may grab a new audience for stories about Dawn without pissing off readers who want the existing series to continue in the same category.