The Milestone thread...Brag here.

[lovecraft68]

I posted the link to the voting thread in the coffee shop along with the morning coffee.

Not to be an asshat but I'd like to point out that chapters are not stories, they are parts of stories.

I'll double down on the asshattery and point out the people who only have one long unfinished series shouldn't be up for any type of "author award" FFS you've never finished a damned thing.

I thought Laurel said years ago she was no longer going to allow chapters?

Oh, right she just decided no one is allowed to say it in the actual thread.
Same thing.

 

[MelissaBaby]

It would make it difficult for us to vote for each other there. I'm just amazed that with all the last minute fiddling I did with my story that anyone noticed it. At the last minute I couldn't kill off the FMC... just couldn't do it. Major re-write for this and the parallel story We're a Wonderful wife... the nomination for this is kind of unique. the chapter that clinched the Novella nomination is the same story as the story that clamed the Horror nomination they're told from 2 different angles.

So, you wrote the same story from two different perspectives and both got nominated? That's very impressive!

 

[Duleigh]

So, you wrote the same story from two different perspectives and both got nominated? That's very impressive!

A Krissmas Karol is a different take on A Christmas Carol, I tried to do something original (Hallmark movies pissed me off)

I missed the 2021 Winter Holiday date but I fell in love with the characters that I made for A Krissmas Karole so I just started noodling around on the keyboard until 2022 rolled around I started publishing the backstory as We're a Wonderful Wife. About 3 months before the start of the Winter Holiday contest I ended up doing a rewrite because there were parts of the story I just couldn't publish. In some ways they're both better after the re-write, and in some ways they miss that "pop" that makes a story stand out. So I'm shocked as hell to be able to talk like this with some great writers,

 

[Phantom300]

I got nominated for a 2022 End of Year Award!

 

[FifthEstate]

Very proud to say I received 3 nominations in the Special Categories section. And shockingly (for the moment) I’m the leading vote getter in all three against some talented competition including one semi-well known author who has 45,000+ more followers than I do! …and yes, I screen-shotted it.

Congratulations to all the nominees!

 

[Phantom300]

And I broke 1100 followers today.

 

[Blaggs08]

Nothing to $2m revenue in 6months - under annual budget by 10%

 

[MillieDynamite]

I was able to buy new shoes with last month's Amazon earnings. But not 2 million dollars worth.

Nothing to $2m revenue in 6months - under annual budget by 10%

 

[Blaggs08]

I was able to buy new shoes with last month's Amazon earnings. But not 2 million dollars worth.

Not my money I’m afraid. How were the shoes

 

[MillieDynamite]

Little tight, but they'll break in. Black spik heels, to go with the dress from the month before. Going to wear them out dancing with Jo soon.

Not my money I’m afraid. How were the shoes

 

[Publius68]

Not to be an asshat but I'd like to point out that chapters are not stories, they are parts of stories.

I do not think you are an asshat for that sentiment, and I got two nominations this year... for two chapters in the same series!

While I feel perfectly fine with Alistaire Chapter One being nominated in First Time, his finale, nodded in Erotic Coupling, in no way stands alone. It's good, I think, but it stands on a hundred thousand previous words.

My only consolation (aside from the fact that it will not win), is that it is the final chapter, which makes it really a nomination for the whole, completed series.

That said, your point stands.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I didn't wanna say anything but after basically a decade here, I finally got a red h. I didn't wanna jynx it and have one-bombs or sweeps take them away, since that's about par the course. Probably the first real joy I've felt in a while.

 

[Duleigh]

I didn't wanna say anything but after basically a decade here, I finally got a red h. I didn't wanna jynx it and have one-bombs or sweeps take them away, since that's about par the course. Probably the first real joy I've felt in a while.

Feels great to have the world acknowledge your work!

 

[FifthEstate]

I didn't wanna say anything but after basically a decade here, I finally got a red h. I didn't wanna jynx it and have one-bombs or sweeps take them away, since that's about par the course. Probably the first real joy I've felt in a while.

That right there is the best reason to not get rid of red H’s. Congrats JRhap!

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

For the first time, I now have twice as many followers as I have fiction items (with a part in a series taken to be an 'item'). Pretty lame, compared to the standards of the significant authors here, but it's something.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

For the first time, I now have twice as many followers as I have fiction items (with a part in a series taken to be an 'item'). Pretty lame, compared to the standards of the significant authors here, but it's something.

Well, I only have ten stories but 46 followers so I guess I'm not doing all that bad.

 

[K155]

My 4th publication passed the 30k views today, which I'm pretty stoked about!

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

Well, I only have ten stories but 46 followers so I guess I'm not doing all that bad.

Clearly not.

 

[Zach_lost_in_Aus]

Well, I only have ten stories but 46 followers so I guess I'm not doing all that bad.

Still, better than eight stories and 22 followers. No complaints, it’s all relative, or something.
I’m clutching at the possibility that low readership leads to more red ‘H’s? Discuss.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Still, better than eight stories and 22 followers. No complaints, it’s all relative, or something.
I’m clutching at the possibility that low readership leads to more red ‘H’s? Discuss.

I have no red H. None, not one, nada, zip, zilch, my glass is empty.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I don't know if it's exactly a milestone, but this was nice.

Mary and Alvin Ch. 29 was published in 2019. As one might expect in a chapter that far along in a series, it got a very high score, but only about 6k views and just a handful of favorites.

But it had been on my mind recently. In the main plot line, a tropical storm hits the coast of Maine, as it did last week. Alvin and his 11 year old daughter, Bonita, go searching for a family lost at sea in the storm, and are caught up in it themselves. It's one of my personal favorites of all my writing, and, with family and friends still living in Maine, it's natural that I would be thinking of it.

Then, out of nowhere, after almost four years on the site, I started getting more favorites. I was puzzled as to why, and discovered that it was one of the "Related Story Previews" on the Romance Top List page.

It's a wonderful feeling to have even a few people discover a story you care about after so much time.

 

[Duleigh]

My favorite brag from a couple of months ago



This was a couple of months ago but I had the #1 and #8 of ALL stories until a few fours took me out. I don't care, I'm happy with the stories and I love every word I wrote, and I hope I turned a few Literotica readers on to the amazing Discworld of Terry Pratchett

 

[MelissaBaby]

My favorite brag from a couple of months ago

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This was a couple of months ago but I had the #1 and #8 of ALL stories until a few fours took me out. I don't care, I'm happy with the stories and I love every word I wrote, and I hope I turned a few Literotica readers on to the amazing Discworld of Terry Pratchett

Always get that screen shot!

 

[Duleigh]

Always get that screen shot!

I took them every day. Another favorite - The SciFi standings

The land where I chose to live, the Sci-fi category. I hope to hit the top again, it's a lot of fun to write scifi and fanfics.

 

[lovecraft68]

Model Sister just went over 1k favs. Tomorrow makes three months since its publish date. As far as I can tell its my fastest to hit that number.