The Unexpected Surprise

[Brutal_One]

Lit is a great platform I am sure we would all agree for writers who have an erotic themed story they believe others will enjoy reading.

Across the wide breadth of categories it caters for all tastes and kinks for both writer and reader.

There is of course the personal aspect of why write and for whom. There is also the personal aspect of what you need, ego wise, to feel your writing is appreciated or worthy.

As a Taoist my approach to life is not to reach for or over celebrate personal success nor to despair or be despondent of personal failure. This is a life view of course and not just about writing.

My stories in general rate reasonably well but have low readership numbers and low numbers of readers who take the time to vote.

Having submitted quite a few individual chapters that are relatively short you can see the readership creep up, maybe a few dozen new readers a week across the series.

In general as more readers are added and some of the new readers vote I see very small increases in scores and in general the trend is upwards (scores improving).

You do of course need a decent number of voting readers and a decent number for your story to achieve an H rating.

It can therefore be a nice surprise to see a new H appear when you check. This was the pleasant surprise today with my chapter 9. It is one of the better chapters in the fact for readers that have followed the story there is a hidden ‘in joke’ between the two characters.

I am not usually one to self advertise and do not even have a link in my sig for my stories. That is the Taoist in me. But I do share the link and hope you enjoy the chapter as other clearly have done although as I said it took a little time for enough readers to read and rate the story.

A humble thank you for those that did!

Brutal One

https://www.literotica.com/s/rod-adventures-ch-09

 

[SyleusSnow]

Wow... you've posted a huge number of stories since only June. I'm envious.

While getting the ol' Red H feels great, it's just a number. And Lit's scoring algorithm is far from being accurate.

The most frustrating experience is watching the H blink on then off as a score wobbles back and forth across the threshold.

Why not link to your stories? By not linking, doesn't that contribute to disharmony by hiding your works from the world ?

 

[TeroWright]

The view count is something I take with a grain of salt, as in I know that not everyone who clicks on my work actually reads it, otherwise I would imagine something would be pointed out in the comments, but hey, what do I know.

It is flattering when the red H shows up, especially after a sweep that gets rid of the 1-bombs (given that it doesn't drop below 10 votes). A couple of my H's are right on the threshold of 4.5 and the next down-vote could take it away, could be between 2 and 4 and it'd be gone.

I think it's odd that two parts of one of my stories has 19 - 22 votes, but everything else is less than 15 votes (imagine my lack of understanding when people talk about getting 10's of votes an hour, and I'm lucky if I get 10 at all considering the category), and those two parts are 'build up' parts, as in not a lot of interesting stuff happens in them compared to later parts.

It's nice to have an average of 4+ across all of my submissions, but if I'm being honest, I'm just glad they are all above 3 because that tells me that readers/voters favor my work more than not.

 

[KeithD]

Unexpected good surprises found in one's story file are little gems of pleasure helping to justify going to the effort of writing and posting stories. Congrats on having received one.

 

[Brutal_One]

Wow... you've posted a huge number of stories since only June. I'm envious.

While getting the ol' Red H feels great, it's just a number. And Lit's scoring algorithm is far from being accurate.

The most frustrating experience is watching the H blink on then off as a score wobbles back and forth across the threshold.

Why not link to your stories? By not linking, doesn't that contribute to disharmony by hiding your works from the world ?

Haha. Thanks I appreciate the sentiment. Sometimes you can be happy with something you write, just a feeling. I may seem prolific but most are just 1 lit page long and chapters really of the one story arc. They do to an extent tend to be self contained as I write in the days that the story is unfolding with most chapters covering only one or two days in real terms but jumps for weeks or even months when there is not much happening.

The main erotic chapters are spread out so I am not filling each chapter with the raw and steamy sex but there is usually a good build up leading to such chapters. It has also tended to suit how I like to write with taking it in bursts where I can get a chapter written in at most one or two days. Once I start the chapter and have a good idea of what part of the unfolding story I like to tell it tends to come easy. I do though need to go over and get the technical stuff right usually. Grammarly is a big help and I was fortunate for a time to have a great editor for a while who certainly made me think about my writing differently.

Brutal One

 

[Brutal_One]

Unexpected good surprises found in one's story file are little gems of pleasure helping to justify going to the effort of writing and posting stories. Congrats on having received one.

Thanks Keith . Like I said it is a nice surprise as this is an earlier chapter so it does show readers will find and read stories that are a series by picking up a chapter in the middle. There are chapters that have scores that may be candidates potentially but the readers and importantly voters are lo so it may take some time if ever to see the H.

Brutal One