Time for another LW tale?

[sirhugs]

Posting my thread about looking for new ideas for Cassie has made me notice that it is four years since I wrote Not Another Loving Wives Tale! and I haven't posted in LW since.
I appreciate the controversies about LW, but it was my first category as a Lit writer, so I have some nostalgia.
Wondering if I should try to write another and if so what the idea is?
Suggestions welcomed. As always I can only use them if they excite me.

 

[Lifestyle66]

Posting my thread about looking for new ideas for Cassie has made me notice that it is four years since I wrote Not Another Loving Wives Tale! and I haven't posted in LW since.
I appreciate the controversies about LW, but it was my first category as a Lit writer, so I have some nostalgia.
Wondering if I should try to write another and if so what the idea is?
Suggestions welcomed. As always I can only use them if they excite me.

I've been a regular reader of the LW category for over a decade. And within the past five years I've posted over fifty stories in LW to gauge their reactions, trying to understand what they are looking for.

First, the MC's need to be married or in a committed heterosexual relationship.

There needs to be extra-marital or at least sex outside of that committed relationship.

If the extra is known and consensual to both of the couple, then your story won't reach the Red-H level. Depending on the writing quality and any other factors such as story arc or other fetish triggers, there is a vocal "monogamous-only" faction in LW who will dislike or hate the sharing.

If the story is about one of the couple cheating (having the extra sex without the other's knowledge), then the rating will depend on whether they reconcile or divorce.

The vocal audience of monogamy-only will applaud your story is it shows that swinging and sharing are a bad idea, and that those who do it are eventually punished with broken marriages. Basically, most of the Red-H or 5-Star stories publishing in LW today must exclude that LW definition of "FUN" when it comes to swinging and sharing.

There are many in the LW audience (like me) who look for the fun sharing stories. Our ratings will prop up the fun stories to the 3.5 to 4.4 level. But the haters of that sharing fun will be more vocal in their comments. And their hateful comments will attract the wrong kind of attention with future 1-bombing haters weighing in to keep the average below 4.5.


EDIT: If you're looking for story ideas, I just ignore the 1-bombing haters. I write my storries looking for ways to change their attitudes toward that sharing. I tried building characters who have a reason for the extra-marital sex. In my "Aftermath" stories, I painted the perfect MFC wife as having been raped, and now NEEDING more than her loving husband could provide. And in my latest "Band" story, I show the loving GF/wife who needs the extra to fight off PTSD, instead of using drugs.

With those two examples, even if you show the very real NEED for extra marital sex, the haters still 1-bomb the story. But they are not as vocal in their comments. And those depressing themes of death or desperation seem to turn off some of the sharing lovers.

But it's fun to experiment with such ideas of showing them a different view of WHY would anyone do that.

 

[sirhugs]

I've been a regular reader of the LW category for over a decade. And within the past five years I've posted over fifty stories in LW to gauge their reactions, trying to understand what they are looking for.

First, the MC's need to be married or in a committed heterosexual relationship.

There needs to be extra-marital or at least sex outside of that committed relationship.

If the extra is known and consensual to both of the couple, then your story won't reach the Red-H level. Depending on the writing quality and any other factors such as story arc or other fetish triggers, there is a vocal "monogamous-only" faction in LW who will dislike or hate the sharing.

If the story is about one of the couple cheating (having the extra sex without the other's knowledge), then the rating will depend on whether they reconcile or divorce.

The vocal audience of monogamy-only will applaud your story is it shows that swinging and sharing are a bad idea, and that those who do it are eventually punished with broken marriages. Basically, most of the Red-H or 5-Star stories publishing in LW today must exclude that LW definition of "FUN" when it comes to swinging and sharing.

There are many in the LW audience (like me) who look for the fun sharing stories. Our ratings will prop up the fun stories to the 3.5 to 4.4 level. But the haters of that sharing fun will be more vocal in their comments. And their hateful comments will attract the wrong kind of attention with future 1-bombing haters weighing in to keep the average below 4.5.

this post would fit nicely in a couple of threads over in the Author's hangout, if you want to copy and paste it there. Not sure it is really a Story Idea post, but I will leave it here unless it evokes great protests.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I've a story in planning step of a wife, who returns to work after the kids leave for jobs/military/marriage. Her husband has done everything he apparently can to sink the family and they are very close to bankruptcy. She finds an ad for a job for an investment accountant which is what she once did and gets the job for a small startup company working out of a rental house. The three young men love her and are so positive of her efforts that in short order she's very fond of them. It's not long before things turn sexual and she makes no secret of it at home.

I've never done a humiliation cuckold story and three years ago I'd never have considered it. But I'm not the same writer I was then. I'm sure I'll get all sorts of grief for it but I really don't care anymore.

[just cleaned up a few typos]

 

[sirhugs]

I don't think it necessarily needs to be a humiliation story. Perhaps hearing about it just inspires hubby to get his act together (not that she stops sex with the coworkers)

 

[Rob_Royale]

I don't think it necessarily needs to be a humiliation story. Perhaps hearing about it just inspires hubby to get his act together (not that she stops sex with the coworkers)

True. But I'm rather inspired by a friend who is sadly married to the most worthless individual I've ever known. Normally I'd never wish such humiliation on a person, but this guy? All I can think is that this toad deserves every bit of it.