Types of writing that does well on this site?

[SuperWriter]

Obviously incest does really well, but what else? I'm thinking of branching out as an erotica author.

And do any of you write under different genres?

 

[tomlitilia]

Well in terms of what? Romance and Sci-fi with multiple chapters tend to do well in terms of score. LW attracts lots of reads and comments.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Go to the site home page, click on each category, and somewhere it will tell you how many stories are in that category.

Alternatively, go to the Tags Portal, and it will tell you the most popular tags.

https://tags.literotica.com

Some writers are niche, others wander around a bit.

 

[weftandwarp]

I don't think the numbers add up to much in terms of enjoyment. I find that humour is the most difficult to write. The art of good humour is extremely complex and many people study it hoping to unlock its secrets. I think humour is assumed to be pathetic before it is even read by most people here. But, it is a lot of fun to write good, tight humour and it gets enough votes and comments to be rewarding. I don't mean satire. I mean humour. I find the responses I get to humour are wonderful. I treasure them more in humour than any other category. I'm still learning. I think everyone who does humour is still learning. I don't do some categories at all so I can't say which are best but really, who does one write for and why?

 

[SimonDoom]

"Does well" is sort of a rabbit hole to follow. Hector Biden did an analysis of which categories appear to get the most views (and, presumably, readers), if that's what you mean, and I believe the top categories were Incest/Taboo (by far, number 1), followed by Loving Wives (second most views but lowest scores), and non-consent/reluctance.

But it's all relative. Compared to elsewhere on the Internet you can get big audiences for stories of nearly every type here.

 

[ausfet]

I don't write incest, but find anything that mentions a naughty wife will get higher scores. My two highest have the taglines 'fed up wife fucks a much younger man' and 'husband convinces his wife to put on a show for a tradesman'.

 

[JasonClearwater]

...followed by Loving Wives...

♫ Skrillex ablaze the fire
Make it bun dem ♫

 

[RetroFan]

Obviously incest does really well, but what else? I'm thinking of branching out as an erotica author.

And do any of you write under different genres?

I write a wide variety of stories frequently set in the past, hence my username.

One thing I have noticed in stories I have posted in the past 6 months is that stories I have written about good people in bad situations have rated really well.

For example, in 'April Leads Julie Astray', the two titular characters are nice girls who had pretty awful experiences in childhood that leave them scarred as young adults. April suffered serious physical and emotional child abuse at the hands of her estranged mother, while Julie was stricken with polio which left her with a damaged leg.

My Christmas story 'Take Cover From Tracy' was about a young man and woman Jake and Jessie who have a chance meeting in the Australian city of Darwin at Christmas in 1974 and fall for each other, but must survive the complete destruction of the city by Cyclone Tracy.

A romance story 'Learning to Love Louise' is a tragic story about a man trying to move on years after losing his beloved fiancée, something he never really recovered from.

 

[seeshelly]

Well written

"Types of writing that does well on this site?" - The types that are well written and grammatically correct seem to flourish more than those that have an awkward way of wording things.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

You want high scores, Incest/Taboo, Sci-Fi/Fantasy. You want a lot of readers but most likely low scores, Loving Wives.

I wander about but, mostly write LW, Sci-Fi and Incest.

 

[RejectReality]

I've had a lot of success with age-difference stories in Mature. I more or less consider anything that gets less than 600 votes in the first couple of days a dud.

Scores are also relatively good, good numbers of comments and favorites. Solid view numbers.

If you want to try your hand at something new and aren't interested in writing Incest, it's a rewarding genre. Milf is a little more popular than the older man with a younger woman, but not really by much — though there's a bias against the older man being the pursuer. That particular angle doesn't do nearly as well.

Anal also does quite well. My most recent one was between 600 and 700 votes in the first couple of days, and it's less than 70 shy of 1k right now after 20 days.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

'Doing well' can be taken in a couple of different ways. EB66, Simon and Zeb are all quite correct, of course.

On the other hand, if you are looking for happy comments, Romance does well, while Loving Wives is where writers go to have abuse, flaming rocks and sometimes death threats thrown at them (the why of it is a topic for another time, perhaps). Yet there is no doubting that LW stories get attention.

 

[Erlikkhan]

Obviously incest does really well, but what else? I'm thinking of branching out as an erotica author.

And do any of you write under different genres?

Write what interests you and turns you on and don't worry about the readers. You'll never win the ratings game if that is your focus.

 

[Hypoxia]

Write what interests you and turns you on and don't worry about the readers. You'll never win the ratings game if that is your focus.

Quite. Sometimes pandering works and sometimes it don't. Write murky or clearly, sensibly or not, and SOME audience will appreciate it. But there's a trick if you want high scores: write engagingly for 9-11 LIT pages / 34k-41k words. Only those who really like it will hang around to the end and vote.

 

[oggbashan]

Watch your grammar and spelling because obvious, not deliberate for effect, errors can throw readers off any story.

 

[jaF0]

Other than the thread being a year and a half old bumped up by a possible spammer, I only see a simple spelling error in the title.

Types of writing that does well on this site?

Should either be:

Type of writing that does well on this site?

-or-

Types of writing that do well on this site?

As a sentence in a story, you'd want it written differently, but as a thread title either is fine.

 

[gordo12]

Other than the thread being a year and a half old bumped up by a possible spammer, I only see a simple spelling error in the title.

Good thing somebody pays attention. That went right over my head too.

 

[gordo12]

Hmmm interesting. The OP's submission page is gone but he has a Smashword page.

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/SuperWrit3r

Almost all incest but...

Between April 2018 and May 2019 he published 27 books. Often just a couple of days or a week apart. That's a typical profile of a ….

Might be worth some of you taking a look and seeing if anything rings a bell.

 

[NotWise]

Between April 2018 and May 2019 he published 27 books. Often just a couple of days or a week apart. That's a typical profile of a ….

Might be worth some of you taking a look and seeing if anything rings a bell.

You're right. I recognized at least one of those stories, and he didn't write it.

 

[gordo12]

And here are those books on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-...nk&text=SuperWriter&ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1