The Best You've Ever Written

[Dream_Operator]

A thread to share what you feel is your best moment of glory as a writer, where you really killed it and knocked it out of the park. Tell us why it was your best and why you are proud of it.

I'll start things off with one of mine:

<Shameless plug>

https://www.literotica.com/s/so-i-fucked-a-zombie-so-what

The idea for this story came to me one day when I was watching a Walking Dead episode I had recorded. When it ended my TV reverted to basic cable and one of the Twilight movies. The thought struck me Why do Vampires and Werewolves get all of the trim?

It took me a while to write the story and get the balance right. I'm a habitual re-writer and I can truthfully say there is nothing I would change to make this story better.

Who's next up to the plate?

 

[R. Richard]

My best was Second Chance: God Killer, a scifi novel that's the start of a 20 novel series.
I wrote the original, as a short story. No one would publish it. I finally got it published when I expanded it to noel length. The protagonist starts out as a criminal, who has been chewed up and spit out by life. He's a poor 71-year-old man,, planning a bank robbery, to finance the few remaining years of his life. Je gets into a paranormal adventure that will allow him to get younger, larger and stronger. Since my protagonist is essentially immortal, I can do a lot of character development and the action keeps on coming.

 

[Dream_Operator]

My best was Second Chance: God Killer, a scifi novel that's the start of a 20 novel series..

Thanks, but your link doesn't work, and I was thinking that this thread would be more about something readers could read for free.

 

[JKendallDane]

If I had to pick, mine would be a combination of the last few paragraphs of chapter 19 and all of chapter 20 of the first book in my Pizza Boy series. They are both among my highest rated stories. (squick factor warning: these are in gay male.)

After getting the two main characters married in chapter 19, I dared end it with a major cliffhanger of a gruesome automobile accident and the title character's fate completely up in the air. Chapter 20 opens in his hospital ICU room and goes through all the details of the funeral week of the other main character's father. Even with having no "real" sex in the entire chapter, readers commented how I managed to make them cringe, cry, laugh, cheer, jump for joy, and leave them hard or wet at the ending. It was probably the most all-encompassing, emotion-filled work I have ever written. Thankfully it also gave me an ending point for book one (after 158,000 words I was desperately searching for one!) and set up perfectly the next book in a planned trilogy.

My stories usually have a serious romance angle to them, but this one just seemed to go far beyond anything I thought possible in getting reactions from the readers and fans. And when you can get the readers so deeply emotionally invested in your characters that they laugh and cry right along with them, then I guess you've done something right.

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[Hypoxia]

I'll stick with That's My Girl, an inadvertent incest tale, though Left Behind and The Botanists ain't bad. Totally different tropes.

 

[R. Richard]

Thanks, but your link doesn't work, and I was thinking that this thread would be more about something readers could read for free.

Thanks for your feedback. I did fix the link. You can read any number of things, however, if you want professionally edited material, you gonna have to pay.

 

[lovecraft68]

Tough one. It's hard to say because some stories are so different its hard to compare them.

I think as a whole my Siblings with benefits series was a home run-although more for myself and a handful of loyal followers than the majority of the readers in incest-it was exactly what I wanted, dark, depressing, violent, a true train wreck, yet a dark romance none the less. I dare say its unique, there is not another series like it here. I'll add some would say for good reason

For a study in total contrast I would go with a romance (although in the mature section) Home is where the heart is

https://www.literotica.com/s/home-is-where-the-heart-is-1

it's four years old and admittedly the grammar is weak and I think way to much tell rather than show in a couple places, but my goal was an unlikely romance and I nailed it. To the tune of a 4.85 on over 5k votes a top five all time Mature Hall of fmae story(number one for a long time) and close to three hundred comments.

ON the other side of the spectrum, last years Halloween opus "Abigail" A tribute to several strong influences in my creativity. King Diamonds 1987 Theme album by that name and the iconic brutal revenge movie "I spit on your grave."

The story is dark and the main character broken in many ways, the type that only is the 'white hat' because everyone she deals with is far worse than her. It deals with a survivor of abuse that blames the wrong event in her life for why she's fucked up.

It's violent as all hell and I pull no punches. Some erotica, but mostly mayhem and one screwed up character after another.

https://www.literotica.com/s/abigail-5

 

[redzinger]

I really don't know. I have no idea. Not a fucking clue.

 

[oggbashan]

Probably my best recent one is my 2013 Winter Holiday Contest winner:

https://www.literotica.com/s/christmas-truce

Of my older ones, the three part Brigit series from 2004:

https://www.literotica.com/s/brigit
https://www.literotica.com/s/brigit-too
https://www.literotica.com/s/brigits-babies

But for humor/humour. my contributions to AH Chain Stories:

2004
https://www.literotica.com/s/the-literotica-olympics-day-17

2003
https://www.literotica.com/s/the-worst-chain-story-ever-ch-01

Of course I have some stinkers that I prefer to forget.

 

[HeyAll]

Hard to say because I have over 100 stories.

But the funny thing is, most of the time when I think "wow, this is one of the best things i've ever written, i can't believe i did this."

Those stories often get an average reception.

Stories of mine that often do big numbers and get big reactions are often stories that I think, "it's not bad."

Often true, but not always.

 

[oggbashan]

Hard to say because I have over 100 stories.

But the funny thing is, most of the time when I think "wow, this is one of the best things i've ever written, i can't believe i did this."

...

I have over 250.

But 'Best' is a subjective judgement and doesn't necessarily mean popular. Popular means 'best for many Literotica readers'.

What you (or I) as authors may consider is our best could be unsuitable for Literotica readers.

 

[TxRad]

My best is yet to be written.

 

[lovecraft68]

My best is yet to be written.

Great post!

 

[oggbashan]

My best is yet to be written.

Snap!

And mine probably never will be. I'll run out of time and life before I produce something that satisfies my Muses.

 

[SecondCircle]

My best is yet to be written.

This.

 

[Ewobbit]

~snip~

Of course I have some stinkers that I prefer to forget.

"Doctors bury their mistakes, barristers argue about them, and politicians deny them, but the indiscretions of a writer's youth haunt him on bookshelves forever." - Lee Killough



As far as my best writing, I hope it's the one I have restarted eight or nine times now.

 

[oggbashan]

"Doctors bury their mistakes, barristers argue about them, and politicians deny them, but the indiscretions of a writer's youth haunt him on bookshelves forever." - Lee Killough



...

I could delete all my stories from Literotica. That wouldn't solve the problem. They've been stolen and posted all over the world on some very dubious websites.

Why would anyone searching for Japanese Anal Fisting Teenagers want to read one of my stories? But they can.

 

[KINKYCanada]

Well the "Best" I've written to date is a 30 page story I wrote on yellow legal pad. It's the one that got me writing and though it pains me to admit I threw it out in a stupid hasty decision. It was the one that got it all going. I have attempted to reconstruct it but no use yet.

The basics. Three friends share a week with two women at a music festival. They open their minds and souls to each other and discover that life is nothing more then a series of adventures, and you should never lie to yourself. I was young when I wrote it and poured my heart into it. I read and re-read it a million times till that day of stupidity. It was written before the net, Literotica, before writers forums. It was pure and unbiased it was full not only my idea's but the truth of who I really am.

They were true thoughts put down on paper for me and me alone. I was a lost young man struggling with my fetishes and the story was therapy.

That was the best I've written.

KC

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Oh so many to choose from...

As always, it's the one I just finished or the one I'm working on. Or one of the thirty unfinished on my hard disk.

The one I enjoyed writing...Walker Brigade even though it took a year of my life.

The one I think is the best...God Mother this one also took a lot of my time.

And any one of the other 50 or so post in various places on the net...some free, some for a price.

 

[MagicaPractica]

My best, so far, isn't here. I've read it to an audience but it hasn't been published. As for what I have here, I would hope that my latest is my best written but perhaps not. It certainly isn't the dearest to my heart. A Christmas Dream won the winter holidays several years ago while I was also competing in Survivor, and placed third in that. I guess I'm proud of what I accomplished there. Longing is a close second just because I loved it.

 

[JKendallDane]

My best is yet to be written.

When you decide to smack that ball, you just drive it right out of the stadium and through some windshield halfway out in the parking lot.

Those words should be the goal of any writer. Keeps the Muse on her toes too.

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[TxRad]

When you decide to smack that ball, you just drive it right out of the stadium and through some windshield halfway out in the parking lot.

Those words should be the goal of any writer. Keeps the Muse on her toes too.

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Someone once said, that even a famous author is only as good as his next book.

Some very famous authors don't seem to realize that from some of the crap I've seen on the NYT Best sellers lists lately.

 

[PervOtaku]

There's a sequence I'm still rather pleased with that I privately called "dueling flashbacks" in my story "Interview with the Tentacle Demon". Basic setup is the demon was captured and is held in a government lab. At the end of chapter 4 he mentions a Sorority house he once stayed in for a while. Chapter 5 opens with the gal from the lab tracking down the old woman who had been the Sorority chapter president at the time.

The story then drops fully to a first person perspective as she recounts the events that happened all those years ago. The trick is, it suddenly switches to the demon's first person retelling of the events, and then switches back and forth several more times (with minimal overlap, no alternate-POV repeat of the same scene) through to the end of chapter 6. The full effect gives the reader a chronologically correct sequence, including events that one or the other were not present for, as opposed to the lab gal character herself who had heard the entire story from the demon before going after the sorority woman for her side of it.

 

[YDB95]

My favorite of my own work is definitely the Elizabeth series (those stories take forever, but it's worth it!), although it has few readers. I think of it as a special treat for the few who do appreciate that particular style, and I think it's the only part of my work of which there's absolutely nothing else like it on Lit. (There is one other author here who specializes in hairy-pussy stories, but his style is the absolute polar opposite of mine. I doubt our respective fans would even have a beer together!)

According to everybody else, though, "Grand Island" would appear to be Number One. Two years and change after it gave me my last placement in any contest, it still gets a few favorites a month.

(Both linked on my sig-line.)

 

[NOIRTRASH]

My best isn't the GREEN E I got, its an account of a hanging in the 1890s.


The word of God is beautiful and to be respected wherever uttered; faith, hope, and charity are virtues the angels smile upon. The full power and beauty of that splendid hymn, "Nearer My God to Thee," can only be appreciated when heard from the lips of a person who stands on the threshold of eternity.

The sweet evangel, "I am the way, the truth and the life: He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever believeth in me shall never die," shines out in its full splendor of promise when it is read to the dying to sustain his spirit. In ordinary times, when our minds are not sensitive for its reception, it fails to impress us much.

Ever and anon the condemned man cast shy, furtive glances through the window at the crowd below and the enclosure of the scaffold.

Shortly before 11 o'clock Jailer Alvarez came up to the cell and gave Spinks a cigarette, which the boy accepted thankfully and smoked as his last material solace. A little later Mr. Alvarez brought Spinks a suit of new clothes and a hat; the preachers helped him dress. Soon thereafter the ominous clanking of the heavy locks sounded below, and the sheriff entered, accompanied by Deputies. Time was up.

A few days earlier, Spinks threatened that there were not enough men in Palmetto County to hang him; trouble was expected. But, because of the effective work of the preachers, no unpleasant scene occurred. Spinks was handcuffed without defiance, opposition, or resistance, and the solemn procession went out of the jail, led by the preachers, down the stairs and up the steps of the scaffold.