Unpublished stories

[DarkrSide]

Question for all,

Have you ever written a story knowing you were going to submit it, due to negative reaction to previous stories?

I wrote a series of stories that I liked, and that have been highly rated. But with all the good reviews, I've gotten some very negative reviews too. Not for the style of writing, but for the subject matter. The main character cheats on her husband. With all the other stories that are submitted, is cheating stories that bad? I want to know what everyone thinks.

 

[MathGirl]

Dear Dar,
As long as the story is conducive to the reader's bashing of the bishop, it will be well received.
MG

 

[Quasimodem]

. . . The main character cheats on her husband. With all the other stories that are submitted, is cheating stories that bad? . . .

As long as it doesn't parallel our own histories of husbands cheating on our wives, or wives cheating on their husbands, there should be no problem.

Of course, if your story sounds like it was inspired by our own personal stories, we shall be quite pissed . . . and we'll let you know about our displeasure.

 

[damppanties]

DarkrSide,

Somebody will find something negative in every story you post. Too many others will find something good. It's upto you to take what you want to take seriously among the feedback you receive. I don't think it's possible to write without offending. If people are offended, they're entitled to it. They can decide not to read you next time. But the others who like your stories will want to. Write for them.

Well, just submit.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Ignore all reviews that critisize the subject matter. If they don't like the subject matter, they shouldn't read the story. I don't go get books about football from the library and then write letters to there authors that I think the sport is a homophobic, chauvanistic game that adds to everything that is wrong with society and glorifies big dumb bullies, and encourages schools to ignore the quality acedemic educations for any fool that can kick or throw or run. And if I did, the author would probably have enough sence to ignore it

Likewise I don't send letters about animal rights to cookbook authors who feature meat dishes. But for some reason, there is alwasy someone who will go specifically to your story (who knows if they actually read it, even) just to tell you that you are going to burn in hell for your dirty sinful thoughts and that you are encouraging the low lifes of the world by posting them.

As I said. Just ignore those folks

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Dark,

Literotica organizes stories into categories to help people find stories on subjects that they enjoy, primarily. Theoretically It should also allow readers to avoid stories with themes they don't want to read. Most of my stories are F/F and located in the Lesbian sex category yet I STILL get the odd negative feedback from homophobes, misogynists and people who tell me the subject matter was disgusting.

Simply put there are some people who aren't happy unless they are biching about something or trying to tear down someone elses work. If the feedbacks are negative and deal only with the subject matter you need to just ignore them and go on. If they deal with style, grammar, spelling or something else you should look at the work and see if the person has a valid point or not, but attacks based purely on subject matter should roll off your back like water off a duck. They are just inconsequential and the purpose of most of them is not to try and help you grow as a writer, but to cause you injury and self-doubt. I sometimes wonder if the people who send this tripe even read the stories or if they just randomly pick things they don't like subject wise and send hurtful email for no reason other than their own pleasure.

-Colly

 

[sweetnpetite]

Hi Colly!

I don't think they read the stories either. (or maybe they do, then they feel really really dirty so they have to write you bad feedback to atone

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Hi Colly!

I don't think they read the stories either. (or maybe they do, then they feel really really dirty so they have to write you bad feedback to atone

Hey SnP

A lot of the time I imagine the sender of negative feedback as a religious zealot who can't control his dirty little urges so he comes to lit, reads a story, jerks off, then sends negative feedback to assuage his guilty concience. Annonyamous feedback works both ways, they are free to hide behind it and send slings and arrows, but I am free to imagine them however I choose and I can usually make them so amusing that it takes any sting from the feedback.

-Colly

 

[sweetnpetite]

Hey that would make a *great* masterbation story! Sure to get lots of hate mail

 

[DirtyJJ]

Question for all,

Have you ever written a story knowing you were going to submit it, due to negative reaction to previous stories?

I wrote a series of stories that I liked, and that have been highly rated. But with all the good reviews, I've gotten some very negative reviews too. Not for the style of writing, but for the subject matter. The main character cheats on her husband. With all the other stories that are submitted, is cheating stories that bad? I want to know what everyone thinks.

You will always have negative feedback, for the reasons that others here have stated. But this is a site for fun and fantasy, so you should continue to write what makes you happy and what you think other readers will enjoy.

As far as whether cheating stories are bad, well... I find the idea of a granny eating out her granddaughter (yes, this was an actual story idea posted recently - ugh) much more offensive than a cheating wife. But the point of this site, and sexual fantasy in general is - to each his own!

Now, I may be a bit biased because I just submitted my second story and it involves a cheating wife AND a cheating husband. I guess I should prepare now for the people who will bitch about it.

 

[DirtyJJ]

Hey that would make a *great* masterbation story! Sure to get lots of hate mail

*laugh*
You are right about that. Maybe one of us should write this.
JJ

 

[Jenny _S]

Never, Ever worry about the negative feedback. That's just the trolls at work. As long as your story reaches a 6 or 7 on he "Wanker Scale" you've done good.

 

[Quasimodem]

. . . As long as your story reaches a 6 or 7 on he "Wanker Scale" you've done good.

Good Grief, Jenny!

Don't you know that a rating of 0.7 or higher on the Wanker Scale causes lesions and abrasions to appear on the organ in question?

In point of fact, a perfect 1.0 is defined as violence so great as to qualify the individual for measuring all future activity on the Diddler Scale.

 

[MathGirl]

In point of fact, a perfect 1.0 is defined as violence so great as to qualify the individual for measuring all future activity on the Diddler Scale.

Dear Quaz,
Thank you for pointing that out. One must also remember that the Diddler Scale, like the Richter Scale, is exponential. A reading of 0.8 is ten times the magnitude of 0.7.
MG
Ps. The Scale is named after the medieval monk Brother Johann Diddler. His brilliantly illuminated copies of the story of Onan are priceless today.

 

[Uther_Pendragon]

Everybody has some squicks, and every sort of story squicks
somebody. I got an PM once saying that the reader had
given my story a 1 because I mentioned a condom. (Weird
criticism, the condom was mentioned in the short blurb.)
I've corresponded with people who don't like cheating,
don't like stories mentioning the woman breastfeeding
her baby, don't like any mention of parents having sex
'cause it made that reader think of *his* parents having
sex -- and the story which gave rise to that complaint had
parents of a *baby* having sex. One person told me that
she *knew* that sex involved dominance and pain, so she
couldn't stand romantic stories like mine, since the
anticipation of the coming violence was never resolved.
|
So there ain't no way to avoid turning some people off.
Live with it.

 

[DarkrSide]

Well I appreciate everyone's comments. I agree that of all the stories submitted to Lit on a daily basis, a story about a cheating wife isn't the worst thing possible. Especially since it starts off tongue and cheek.

Sadly the people in question have commented on both parts 2 and 3 of the story, (in part 1 no actually cheating occurs, it's more of a mental thing). I highly doubt my story mirrors anyone's personal lives, because it started off so tongue in cheek.

I'm not sure what I will do about part 4. I'm still writing it. But the popular opinion on this board is I should submit it?

 

[MathGirl]

Well I appreciate everyone's comments.

Dear DS,
Even those of Quaz and myself? I somehow doubt that.
MG
Ps. Should you submit it? To be perfectly honest, a story only really means very much to the person who wrote it. A reader or another writer doesn't much care. Make yourself happy.

 

[DarkrSide]

Dear DS,
Even those of Quaz and myself? I somehow doubt that.

MG,

Yes, even you and Quaz's opinion's count. Or else I would have said "Everyone except for MG and Quaz, what is your opinion?"

 

[damppanties]

To be perfectly honest, a story only really means very much to the person who wrote it. A reader or another writer doesn't much care. Make yourself happy.

MG,
We don't need that kind of a truth thrown at us. Really. You blew my illusion to pieces.

 

[MathGirl]

MG, We don't need that kind of a truth thrown at us. Really. You blew my illusion to pieces.

Dear Damp,
I'm not too crazy about it, either. I think it's true, though.
MG

 

[5extant]

Dear Damp,
I'm not too crazy about it, either. I think it's true, though.
MG

oppenhiemer(=approx)*f(e=mc>>2)=einstein
thinks - is significance relative?

 

[sweetnpetite]

the "people in qustion" don't happen to be "Laura and whats her face" do they?

Well I appreciate everyone's comments. I agree that of all the stories submitted to Lit on a daily basis, a story about a cheating wife isn't the worst thing possible. Especially since it starts off tongue and cheek.

Sadly the people in question have commented on both parts 2 and 3 of the story, (in part 1 no actually cheating occurs, it's more of a mental thing). I highly doubt my story mirrors anyone's personal lives, because it started off so tongue in cheek.

I'm not sure what I will do about part 4. I'm still writing it. But the popular opinion on this board is I should submit it?

 

[DarkrSide]

the "people in qustion" don't happen to be "Laura and whats her face" do they?

As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure it would be Laura and what's ehr face. I deleted the negative comment emails, keep most of my positive ones

 

[DarkrSide]

Update

I finished Part 4 of the Affair, and not sure what to do with it now. LOL. I know I shouldn't try to please everyone on the board, because that is virtually impossible. But I personally hate negative comments too. Especially when it's not about the writing it self. I'm complex.

 

[raphy]

As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure it would be Laura and what's ehr face. I deleted the negative comment emails, keep most of my positive ones

Aaah, you have the Laura and Lisa seal of approval then =-)

That means you're doing the right thing. Keep it up!