[Submit for Publication] How did you feel the first time you clicked this button?

[BobbyLaker]

Gawd ... I'm all of a flutter.

Not quite like losing my virginity but ...

 

[AchtungNight]

Hopeful. I had just been kicked off two other sites for what the admins termed unacceptable narcissistic behavior and was hoping Lit would be more supportive of my writing. Thankfully they have been so far. I’ve also grown as a person and a writer, so I can handle rejection better now.

 

[SimonDoom]

Excited. A little nervous. I had been thinking about writing and publishing a story for years so it was a big and fun step.

 

[alohadave]

I may have refreshed a couple times that day to see if anything had changed yet...

 

[Fatdog25]

Anxious as hell.

I considered pulling my story several times in between the time I submitted it and the day it went live.

Turns out that I go through the same emotional rollercoaster every damn time.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

The first time, only nervous for what my audience of one would think. I only posted it here as the easiest way to get a story to him when I could text but had no other non-work comms methods.

Then I saw 10,000 people had at least seen it. And the chap liked it.

Scrubbed up a couple more stories, and they went down well.

Been nervous a few times since, wondering about reactions from certain groups (people from Northern Ireland, or certain disabilities, or trans people, for example), but not had an issue. I post here for fun. Anyone wanting perfect tidy prose, with no typos or dangling participles, can pay me for it.

 

[KeithD]

It was pretty routine by then. I'd placed my stories on other story sites before being told about Literotica.

 

[BobbyLaker]

...

Turns out that I go through the same emotional rollercoaster every damn time.

I suspect it'll be the same for me but, hopefully, it'll get easier as my skin hardens over time.

 

[BobbyLaker]

I got sick, lol.

Aww ... bless.

 

[BobbyLaker]

The first time, only nervous for what my audience of one would think. I only posted it here as the easiest way to get a story to him when I could text but had no other non-work comms methods.

Then I saw 10,000 people had at least seen it. And the chap liked it.

Scrubbed up a couple more stories, and they went down well.

Been nervous a few times since, wondering about reactions from certain groups (people from Northern Ireland, or certain disabilities, or trans people, for example), but not had an issue. I post here for fun. Anyone wanting perfect tidy prose, with no typos or dangling participles, can pay me for it.

Wonderful response - thank you.

 

[BobbyLaker]

Everyone was super nice to me with my first submission so it was just unfounded anxiety. It's gradually gotten a little easier, but I'm still nervous about it. Just not as nervous as that first time.

I've won awards for anxiety over the years and have skin thinner than cling film! I've got everything crossed.

 

[K155]

Gawd ... I'm all of a flutter.

Not quite like losing my virginity but ..

I was the same. Its such a thrill!

 

[K155]

The first time, only nervous for what my audience of one would think. I only posted it here as the easiest way to get a story to him when I could text but had no other non-work comms methods.

Then I saw 10,000 people had at least seen it. And the chap liked it.

Scrubbed up a couple more stories, and they went down well.

Been nervous a few times since, wondering about reactions from certain groups (people from Northern Ireland, or certain disabilities, or trans people, for example), but not had an issue. I post here for fun. Anyone wanting perfect tidy prose, with no typos or dangling participles, can pay me for it.

Why are you worried about people from NI? If you don't mind me asking!

 

[FifthEstate]

I've won awards for anxiety over the years and have skin thinner than cling film! I've got everything crossed.

As long as you don’t expect to have as many followers as Silkstockingslover the first day after posting, you’ll be fine…congrats regardless. I still get anxious every time I post.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Why are you worried about people from NI? If you don't mind me asking!

I grew up in England during the Troubles, including living in a very Irish part of London (there were pubs which wouldn't let English people in, mostly where local drug dealers were, but there were also some scary types collecting for the Cause). It was a mantra that anyone not from NI doesn't understand the Troubles and should never talk or write about it as if they do.

Cut to me having Covid, being off my face on opiates, writing a wee character sketch, and next thing you know there's a series on Lit with a Republican guy from NI getting together with an English guy who'd served in the Army over there. As you do.

Even re-enacting a soldier roleplay (which goes badly). And many authors had mentioned that there's nothing like getting military details wrong for all the critics to come out of the woodwork.

I'm pretty good at writing dialects, according to commenters, but it would have been nice to have a beta reader. I've watched Derry Girls (which I highly recommend to everyone!) since writing Smoking Hot, which suggests I didn't do too badly on the language and characters.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

In comparison, I've posted stories elsewhere which may have been well-received with nice comments, but none have got over 1000 views in a decade.

 

[SeraphNocturne]

I was pretty ecstatic when I first published! I’ve been writing forever, so sharing is something I’m very accustom to. Because of that, I didn’t have those crazy butterflies.

Now… getting my first royalty deposit on the other hand, I’d say that was better than sex.

 

[K155]

In comparison, I've posted stories elsewhere which may have been well-received with nice comments, but none have got over 1000 views in a decade.

If you ever need a better reader for NI/Irish dialogue, I'd be happy to help! X

 

[Emilymcplugger]

It’s the excitement of doing anything new for the first time.

Fear of rejection by the readers, hopeful of a positive response, terror that I actually had nothing to say AB’s worry that I’d be mocked mercilessly.

Result - fear, worry and terror, all things not worth feeling.

 

[Pabiporffor]

First time I just wrote a short simple story just to see if the site worked on my phone. I was pretty chuffed it did.

 

[BobbyLaker]

It’s the excitement of doing anything new for the first time.

Fear of rejection by the readers, hopeful of a positive response, terror that I actually had nothing to say AB’s worry that I’d be mocked mercilessly.

Result - fear, worry and terror, all things not worth feeling.

Wise words - thank you

 

[EmilyMiller]

How did you feel the first time you clicked this button?​

Feels like a lifetime ago - I really can’t remember.

Em

 

[Britva415]

[Submit for Publication] How did you feel the first time you clicked this button?

Totally got a boner.

 

[Katie_Mae]

I just submitted my first the other day and had butterflies too. Now I have the same every time I check to see if it's got any likes and comments lol.

I was surprised at how fast it posted though, took about two days or a little less, and I'd heard about it taking a lot longer for your first submission so I must have submitted it in a lull or something.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I joined Lit, read a few stories, and thought, I can easily write as well as most of the stuff I'd just read. Wrote something short and quick, and published it a couple of days later. A million or so words later, death might stop me, but nothing else will.