What do you hate in a story?

[Sammael Bard]

I can usually read from any category and enjoy the story for what it is. Gay male stories don't turn me on, but there are quite a few with noteworthy style of writing and presentation. I can certainly appreciate a story for that.

A story with poop/piss and certain other things tied closely with fetish are the borderline for me. I've seen and been around worse, so it isn't sickening but it isn't something I'd call a good time for personal pleasure. Extremely bad grammar is a turn-off but fortunately a lot of that crap is moderated.

So --

Be it a particular kink, writing style, plot or certain elements like bra-size/cock-size, what is that thing which you absolutely hate reading in a story?

This thread has no statistical purpose whatsoever, so don't censor yourselves.


And Happy New Year to you all.

 

[Handley_Page]

Bad spelling and construction of sentences.

 

[Devilius]

Happy New Year to you too.

Bad spelling and construction of sentences.

This.

And stories that have legal age characters with underage features (big male, tiny petite females etcetera). It's a cheap way to bypass the rules, but here it is. Worse are Non-Con/Reluctance stories that have such characters being "used" for pleasure. Reminds me of rapey pedo stories.

This is a personal preference but it's sickening nonetheless.

 

[reddelicious]

Stories that aren't written in first or third person where they tell me what I'm supposedly doing. I find it jarring and not sexy.*

"You wake up and find a rose on your pillow. You smile, remembering the things we did yesterday and sink deeper into the black silk sheets."

Uh, no, I didn't. And I wouldn't own those sheets.




*Exception: Choose Your Own Adventure Stories! Are there sexy ones on Literotica?

 

[lovecraft68]

As everyone knows I loathe non consent. I can handle rough as hell consensual sex, I can deal with a well written reluctance piece, but flat out rape is disgusting to me. It pisses me off more if I find it in a story out of that category because to me we have categories for the sole purpose of reading what you like and avoiding what you don't.

Other wise I think there's two other things. Extremely, for lack of a better term, sexist writing, Stories where the woman or women act like drooling moronic cum dumpsters who lose their mind at the sight of a cock. I don't care the women are crazy for sex, its the portrayal of it, like the 'stud' is doing them a favor by allowing them to fuck him. The scenario where its multiple women with a middle aged loser are the worst.

The other thing and that more to do with writing style than any form of kink is not being consistent with a character and having them do a total 360 with no explanation other than this is the story.

Perfect example the shy wall flower type girl/woman who has little to no experience with men because of how shy she is, ending up agreeing to a gang bang in some way and suddenly fucking and sucking like Sasha Grey.

If the character truly is shy and repressed, she could be brought out of her shell, but its not going to be instant and with five guys. Want to write a gang bang scene? Make the girl open to one from the start.

The last is-and I'm twitching just typing it-the beaten beyond a dead horse trope of the 'vanilla' woman seeking more who walks into a BDSM club meets a guy and after a five minute conversation goes back to his place and gets treated like Justine in 120 days of Sodom with no hesitation at all.

So basically any piece that is totally implausible and caters to 14 year old male fantasy and 'real men'

 

[Learin]

A story that, after reading, feels like a complete waste of time.

Also, stories with unbelievable characters, especially women with 32EEE bra size, men with "12 inch worth of dicks". They feel more like cartoons than human. Shy women that end up being sluts in 3 hours....

The list is long but in a nutshell, anything that's insanely illogical isn't worth my time.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I hate patches of filler material. The author had almost enough good material but hadda add some water to the soup to stretch it.

Chandler suggested you shoot someone. John D.MacDonald hits women or fucks a guy over or the secretary offers herself to somebody who matters, who turns her down and creates the special hell of a woman scorned.

Wives buy it...SWEETHEART I DID IT TO NIP HELL IN THE BUD, IT WASNT LOVE OR ATTRACTION. I DID IT TO BUY TIME WITH 'THE BEAST'.

 

[lovecraft68]

The topic has me thinking of levels of 'hate' I listed above what will lead to an automatic click off the story.

But there's things like the 36dd breasts and "12" long and thick as a coke can' coke. That's an eye roll, a little hiccup, but if the premise and other writing seems interesting I'll keep going.

Another eye roll, but not necessarily a reason to give up is the ridiculous sex slang like "One eyed snake" or her "steamy love tunnel" I like to stick to basic terms.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

The topic has me thinking of levels of 'hate' I listed above what will lead to an automatic click off the story.

But there's things like the 36dd breasts and "12" long and thick as a coke can' coke. That's an eye roll, a little hiccup, but if the premise and other writing seems interesting I'll keep going.

Another eye roll, but not necessarily a reason to give up is the ridiculous sex slang like "One eyed snake" or her "steamy love tunnel" I like to stick to basic terms.

You provoke an interesting question I now aim at the girls: HOW MUCH SCHLONG IS PLENTY?(Length/girth) schlong do you want in sexual description?

 

[lovecraft68]

You provoke an interesting question I now aim at the girls: HOW MUCH SCHLONG IS PLENTY?(Length/girth) schlong do you want in sexual description?

From what I've heard from real women-as in not the little over sexed porn persona's that run amok in the fetish sections, most women prefer average to slightly above.

Most real women agree a huge cock is not fun at all, it can be painful, you can't perform oral as well and there's the intangible;e that a lot of well hung guys are cocky and think all they have to do is show it to them.

My wife made a comment once that I think fits the average woman's thoughts on this. "The only way I'll take over ten inches is if I do seven twice."

But there are women who are obsessed with it 'size queens' but they tend to be the minority and big time.

Now a lady here can feel free to post and tell me what an idiot I am

 

[Learin]

I'm not going to say that size doesn't matter.

A 2 inch peewee is as useless as a 10 inch dick -- meaning it won't bring me any pleasure.

Size matters, but only to a certain extent. On an average, six-seven inch dicks are the most comfortable ones. Normal sex, blowjob, anal is pleasurable for both of us.

Anything more than that... I'll have to reconsider. The largest was more than the size of my hand, about 10 inches I think. He went slow, but it still hurt. Mostly, it was me trying not to panic. The smallest I had was barely the size of my pinky. I didn't feel a thing. He was lousy with his fingers and tongue as well. It was one of the most disappointing sex I've ever had.

Thickness... I haven't had the pleasure of fucking a baseball bat. I could encircle most of the dicks with my fingers, which I'd consider as average in my opinion. I don't think I can comment much on thickness given the lack of extremes.

I think I'll stop here otherwise I'll end up writing a thesis on penis size and male ego.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

From what I've heard from real women-as in not the little over sexed porn persona's that run amok in the fetish sections, most women prefer average to slightly above.

Most real women agree a huge cock is not fun at all, it can be painful, you can't perform oral as well and there's the intangible;e that a lot of well hung guys are cocky and think all they have to do is show it to them.

My wife made a comment once that I think fits the average woman's thoughts on this. "The only way I'll take over ten inches is if I do seven twice."

But there are women who are obsessed with it 'size queens' but they tend to be the minority and big time.

Now a lady here can feel free to post and tell me what an idiot I am

PILOT will be along in 10,9,8.....

Me personally do not like tits bigger than C cups. I favor plump bodies. I prefer the Mediterranean coloring, blacks are welcome to all the white girls. No hair down to the ass, please.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I can forgive most things that construct a story, except specific descriptions of the anatomy. The authors fetish for huge breast or giant cocks may not and definitely is not my fetish. I want to be able to image the perfect woman, not be told what the perfect woman is. As for huge cocks...if there were that many huge cocks in the world there would be a lot of guys walking around with their dicks dragging in the dirt.

 

[_Solus_]

I hate when the author flips back and forth between first person and third person throughout the story.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think I'll stop here otherwise I'll end up writing a thesis on penis size and male ego.

That's easy. The bigger the truck the smaller the penis.

 

[GoldenCojones]

Drug use, Non-Consent, scat, politics, and 2nd Person POV are automatic click outs for me.

Extremely poor writing is not good but sometimes it gets so funny I have to read the story; kind of like watching a D grade sci-fi movie.

 

[Hypoxia]

Wall of text; data dump; bad orthography; bad anatomy and physiology; 2nd person POV; dialogue only; endless minutely-detailed descriptions of repetitive sexual activity; wittols and bulls; probably a few others I can't think of now 'cause I ain't had coffee yet, alas.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

Characters who act unrealistically in a non-fantasy setting. Instant chill. Whether it's the otherwise sane virgin who's begging for a gang-bang, the high powered female executive who's a trollop all night (hint: people have to sleep sometime, and the high powered business folk put in long days), or the supermodel 23 year old in a male dominated culture who's a virgin but clearly always horny...

It shows up in dialog first. Once I hear a character say something that no one would say in that situation...

"Oh baby, I know we just met, and I've never done anything like this before. but your dick tastes so good, I can't wait to feel it in my pussy," moaned Terri, a twenty four year old virgin with perfect tits and a Hooter's calendar body.

Yeah. For one, I'm reliably told that dick is an acquired taste; most first timer are pretty shy about it; and for another anyone desirable who's remained a virgin to 24 is a virgin because she's got some self control, and she's not going to act like this for a stranger. You pulled this crap on page one? Bye.

Ditto a pretty catholic girl whose never been kissed, suddenly, at age 27, discovers she's a raging lesbian and needs her pussy licked RIGHT NOW by three mean girls with transparently evil plans. Newsflash: people who are gay generally figure it out during puberty, and most aren't overjoyed at the discovery. You're writing here because you don't like catholics and virgins? Aww, did Marcy refuse to sleep with you in high school? Ten years later, this is your best response, huh? Bye.

Maybe a simpler way of putting it: if I can see your female character is pure wish-fulfillment - if I get the sense you're writing about stuff because you can't get it in real life - I'm done. I need realism and some sense of real life experience, or it's just not hot. There are stories here that belong in Mind Control because nothing else explains them.

 

[lovecraft68]

Maybe a simpler way of putting it: if I can see your female character is pure wish-fulfillment - if I get the sense you're writing about stuff because you can't get it in real life - I'm done. I need realism and some sense of real life experience, or it's just not hot. There are stories here that belong in Mind Control because nothing else explains them.

This is a a great post. This is exactly why I hate the drooling giggling cum dumpster girls falling all over the average to even loser type guy because...he's got a cock! A cock! Have you heard?

Girls who ct so brainless and with such low self esteem that its like they have a disease that robs them of reason at the word cock or sex.

To me those stories are written by and enjoyed by men who couldn't get laid in high school or hell, any level. The ones that have been shot down their entire lives and in their fantasies this is how it should be.

That level of embarrassingly slutty behavior in women to me is a calling card of sexual losers.

 

[Nathan_Brazil]

Wooden acting in a porn film.

He: (meeting a she while booking a vacation with a travel agent). Your tan is hot. I would like to fuck you right hear baby.

She: Yes. That would be hot. Let's do it right hear on my desk.

Stories that read like this.

 

[HeyAll]

When people overdo it:

"The sun rose lazily over the frost colored mountain, lighting the sky in a...."

Those types of sentences turn me off fast.

 

[sr71plt]

Oh, god. Yet another "you should write just to please me" thread.

 

[Ewobbit]

What do I hate in a story?

Well, most all of it's been said already. But, for me there is a continuum of "hate".

I think I can pretty well roll with the punches on the grammar and spelling so long as it isn't so bad that I have to work it like an acrostic to figure out what the writer meant to say. For the most part, that doesn't happen here. But, I did run across one a few years back that read like someone had used Google's translation tool to get it from some other language to English. And a bad translator tool at that. I don't know that I would call that "hate" though. It's just my eyes should skim across the words smoothly like a sailboat across a lake and the meaning almost effortlessly seeping into my consciousness. Puzzles are all well and good but requiring a cracker jack decoder ring just to lift the words off the page is a bit much.

Characters that I not only can't identify with but can't identify at all as members of the human race (sci-fi and/or horror aside) make me eye-roll, whether it's Captain Fabulous with his twenty-four and a half inch magic cock that dribbles drabs of the magical elixir of youth wherever he goes or the ditzy as hell buxom bombshell who is convinced that the secret of life is contained within the semen of someone and she'll find it if she can only schlurp enough. Again, "hate" may be too strong a term. But, if it reads like a cartoon caricature, I'm probably not sticking around to find out if Wonder Bra manages to schlurp the meaning of life from Captain Cock.

On the other end of the spectrum, where "hate" may not be a strong enough term, I hold child molesters and rapists with a special contempt that is almost holy in it's burning passion. I refuse to acknowledge them beyond that and forcing me to do so on their part would be... decidedly unwise. And were they to be acceptable to Literotica, I would vote with my feets.

In between, I've got a lot of squick issues. I do tend to be pretty vanilla with some, relatively mild, kinks. So mild that most don't qualify them as "kinky" at all. But, so long as they are clearly labeled, I can avoid them. Some I have an aversion to for reasons I won't go into but the astute might draw a conclusion from the previous paragraph. Some make me a little nauseous. Some I just don't understand the appeal. Some I can read through spread fingers like a little girl in a scary movie.

What will annoy me is someone slipping one I have a major squick with into one I don't as if it were some prank. Miscategorization is understandable in a complicated plot twister. I can deal. But, if it's one of the accepted "trump" categories that they are trying to fly under the radar... Yeah, I'll nod and smile faintly and admit you got me. But I won't ever trust you again.

Mmmm.

Other than that, I can't think of anything constructive to add to the discussion that hasn't already been said and much better.

It has, however, been something of a relief to read that I am not as strange in what I find bothersome as I had half feared.

Peace upon your path, wherever it may lead you.

 

[SecondCircle]

Oh, god. Yet another "you should write just to please me" thread.

It's more of a "this is my opinion on what I don't enjoy reading" thread.

 

[lovecraft68]

Oh, god. Yet another "you should write just to please me" thread.

No, its an opinion, not a how to.

The op asked what we dislike and everyone is answering the question based solely on opinion its not telling people what to write.

If anyone here writes something people here are saying they don't like then its up to them to be thick skinned enough to shrug and say fuck ya then because plenty of people do like it.

If they get offended, then maybe writing on a free public site isn't for them.