Voting is Feedback

[urprvtjoy]

Hello all,

I do not want to sound bitchy, but why doesn't anyone vote? Maybe it is just my stuff that no one is voting on, but hey, if it is that bad, then at least vote a "1" and let me know that I need to change something about what I am doing. I am new here and I am testing the water before I submit some of my serious work out in the real world; I would like some feedback! Positive, negative, it does not matter--just something.

I have included the web address to my literotica bio. page which has listed all the poems I have submitted. There are not many, but with no response, I am not interested in submitting. I have read other members submissions and I vote every time I read something. What is so hard about finishing a piece, scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking on a number. Hell, if you cannot finish the piece, then click on the "1" and be done with it. JUST VOTE!

http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=56459

Thanks for listening. I hope I have not made any of you mad. It was not my intention. Just trying to rally the troops.

ENJOY,
urprvtjoy

 

[Unmasked Poet]

Sorry

Thank you for the nudge. I thought I had voted on your poems.
I try to read each days offering.

I'm on it now.

U.P.

 

[daughter]

No problem, poet

urprvtjoy--

Plenty of us have been where you are. Holla, and someone will answer. I'll check you out, too.

Post some of your feedback here. It will let folks know you're here. We get upwards of 70 poems a day sometimes. If you don't holla, you might get overlooked. BTW, I always return the courtesy when I get feedback from a peer. Most poets here do. Mailboxes maybe full.

Welcome. Glad to give you some support. Pull up a chair and get comfortable.

Peace,

daughter

 

[P. B. Walker]

I second urprvtjoy. I just posted my first story on here and in a day and a half there were over 2400 views... but only 5 votes.

- PBW

 

[NaughtyMike]

Feedback

You are doing better than me. Some stories I get 1 vote per thousand readers, eariler submissions got one per hundred. The best feedback I have found is to keep track of the number of hits your older stories get after you publish a new one. If people like your stlye, they will view your other submissions. I noticed a jump in hits in my older stuff when I recently published " 3 for Tammy." I also noticed the readers drop off drastically off after about 3 days. The increased in readership of my older stuff hidden away in the last page of the humor section, indicates to me acceptence by the silent majority.

I also noticed one old story got less read than the others. The explanation of that story was something to the effect "naughtymike does a Hog" or something to that effect. The reference was to a Washington Redskin who was plugging a hooker down on the Block, although the title might indicate some relationship with a beast.

My Block stories are basically true. I did at one time pay for sex, 3 times a night , once every 3 months, in Baltimore back in the 80's. The people in the stories are all real, and the events are basically true, although the more boring fucks have been left out, and multiple nights combined into one. The conversation between myself and working girl is mostly what I can recall. I wrote this series basically for myself, as I have no were else I can chronolog this portion of my life. I don't care if anyone reads it at all, but those who have gone to the Block during that era have responded in kind. The two stories which got the highest marks in that series, concerning sweet Sue, were however mostly fictional, indicating the best thing to do is to insult the reader with a bullshit story and claim it is absolutely true.

Personally I prefer a small cult following, who can appreciate the underlying humor and true look at the male mind. Hence our female editors who prefer stories on lesbians and incest will never give me an editor's pick because I use "cock" instead of "hot trobbing love muscle". In reading I avoid editor's picks because I have learned their tastes are radically different than mine. I don't like 90% of the "hot" picks too.

I will always read an English Bob story, although he is recycling ideas right about now, as are most of us. I do have some new ideas, but I don't know if the crowd would appreciate them, such as knowing they are going to die, a man rapes his secretary in the WTC, or better yet male underling rapes his female boss and tosses her out the window- maybe forgetting he was only on the second floor. (Feel free to use this one, I think I may pass on it.) You should get some feedback on that one.

 

[Black_Bird]

I always vote...

Any story which I read all the way through, I vote on. Its just how I am...

 

[NaughtyMike]

Re: I always vote...

Any story which I read all the way through, I vote on. Its just how I am...

That may be the rub. If it's a real good story guys don't make it to the end.

 

[39_Keeper]

What are the Points though

What is the highest point value you can get?

 

[Black_Bird]

Re: Re: I always vote...

That may be the rub. If it's a real good story guys don't make it to the end.

I do... even if *I* finish before the story is done! ;-)

 

[*ladylove*]

I also vote everytime i read a story or poem...even if i have to come back later and finish it...*wink* And i run in to similar problems...most of my stories and poems have no more than 18 votes...and friends that i talk with have told me that they voted on it but will read it later...that is very sweet...but i want HONEST feedback please...*now hoping i haven't offended anyone*...and me being a new author...i so look forward to suggestions and the such to help me along the way...also i apprciate it when links are given on here and in the chat...I always read those first...before just blindly diving into the stories...and i am working on sending more feedback...


http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=40408

 

[Black_Bird]

i so look forward to suggestions and the such to help me along the way...also i apprciate it when links are given on here and in the chat...I always read those first...before just blindly diving into the stories...and i am working on sending more feedback...

You've got votes... and feedback! I read your three stories...

As I said in my two little notes - what you lack the most is character developement. I don't get a feel for either of the characters - they just don't seem real to me because you make them both so perfect. Makes for a fine fantasy - but not a good story. Give them flaws, make them different in some way...

Your descriptions are wonderful. I can almost feel and touch and taste everything. Don't lose that...

 

[*ladylove*]

Thank you for the feedback Black_Bird and daughter! And now that I've put myself up for this, I wonder if I should run away and hide back under my rock. Just kidding! I'm checking out all kinds of stories and poems from here now, I wish I had started coming here in the first place. But anyhow, before i get carried away with the mouth, please keep the feedback coming. And I will also, though sometimes it takes me awhile.