What do you like?

[jayisthemasternow]

Do you enjoy reading stories more that get to the sex or are longer?

 

[sr71plt]

.Yes.

 

[alt68]

.Yes.

Do you walk to work or carry your lunch?

 

[patientlee]

Do you enjoy reading stories more that get to the sex or are longer?

Depends on my mood.

 

[sr71plt]

Do you walk to work or carry your lunch?

I walk to work. It's like forty feet down the hall from my bedroom. And I eat lunch in the kitchen, while watching CNN news, except now, when they are thinking that the only news is about the missing Malaysian Air flight, I tend to watch MSNBC news.

I take it your capacities didn't permit you to figure out the relevance of my first thread post. I enjoy reading them both. I like variety in what I read.

And this is yet another one of those threads trying to assume that there's only one way to write a story and one universal, mythical reader (with extremely limited likes) authors are supposed to please.

 

[alt68]

... I take it your capacities didn't permit you to figure out the relevance of my first thread post...

You're right.

 

[sr71plt]

You're right.

So, since you're quick to attack me and disrupt threads, I guess that narrows down the field a it whose alt you are.

 

[alt68]

So, since you're quick to attack me and disrupt threads, I guess that narrows down the field a it whose alt you are.

Sorry, I didn't mean any harm.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I thought it was a good question, pilot, and not a nasty intrusion. I felt our new alt was posing a rhetorical question to the OP, pointing out that his original question was not an either/or situation.
Maybe HP and I threw him a bit earlier when we metaphored him.

So...yes, alt68, I walk my lunch while I eat my work.

 

[StrangeLife]

I eat my work.

Which can be a very pleasant experience if you're a baker or a prostitute...

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Which can be a very pleasant experience if you're a baker or a prostitute...

or a college professor...

 

[JKendallDane]

I enjoy both so long as they are well-crafted. Like patientlee said, "Depends on my mood."

Not "rules" by any means, but my experience has been:

One-off, stroker stories will garner you the most views, and usually a corresponding larger amount of votes and comments.

If the story is going to go much past three Lit pages (approx. 10,000 words), breaking it up into two or more chapters seems best. Two or three chapter stories seem to still do well with numbers of reads.

Once you are beyond three or four chapters it becomes more of a series since you are headed for novella or novel length. Views tend to go down, but percentage of votes, comments, and author and story favs, seem to rise. My impression is that is where you build the most dependable fan base.

I write both, so the only real advice is: There is a reader and fan market for both. Go down whatever hallway your muse leads you.

 

[sr71plt]

I thought it was a good question, pilot, and not a nasty intrusion. I felt our new alt was posing a rhetorical question to the OP, pointing out that his original question was not an either/or situation.
Maybe HP and I threw him a bit earlier when we metaphored him.

So...yes, alt68, I walk my lunch while I eat my work.

And I answered it. I like to both read and write both, depending on my mood. So, my answer was "yes." I simply left it at that at that point. Others can simply leave at that too, unless they want to pursue other agendas.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

PILOT is wasted, happens every day.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I read to study how the story works, I do the same with people and plants and machines.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

And I answered it. I like to both read and write both, depending on my mood. So, my answer was "yes." I simply left it at that at that point. Others can simply leave at that too, unless they want to pursue other agendas.

I'm referring to alt68's question, not the OP's. Both are good, and the answer that the OP's options are not mutually exclusive in underscored by both your "yes" and alt's "walk to work or carry your lunch."

 

[sr71plt]

I'm referring to alt68's question, not the OP's. Both are good, and the answer that the OP's options are not mutually exclusive in underscored by both your "yes" and alt's "walk to work or carry your lunch."

OK, I don't get alt68's lunch question--to me--in context. But we can leave it at that, because obviously the thread is being hijacked for the usual.

The AH is becoming more like the GB every day--purposefully.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

OK, I don't get alt68's lunch question--to me--in context. But we can leave it at that, because obviously the thread is being hijacked for the usual.

The AH is becoming more like the GB every day--purposefully.

Yes, there are those who frequent both and would appear to want them the same. So let's just keep having our fun here, then...

 

[lovecraft68]

Do you enjoy reading stories more that get to the sex or are longer?

I'm a porn snob I like longer stories all the time. If I want fucking only I will watch porn.

That's for me. If you're trying to figure out what goes over better there are plenty of readers for both.
.

 

[Hypoxia]

Yes.
And no.
And maybe.
And none of the above.
But I digress.

My walk to 'work' is about 5 meters each way. Longer if I stop in the kitchen. Otherwise, I walk to the couch, put up recliner section, set the 12.5" ThinkPad on my lap, put the 8" Vizio tablet on the lamp table, pull out a rhyming dictionary, and fire away. Maybe pour another cup of Genmai-Cha (brown rice tea with matcha powder) with a dollop of red miso. Life sucks.

My reading goals vary. Sometimes, get hot'n'bothered. Sometimes, get involved in ongoing saga. Sometimes, look for stimulating snide clever wit. Sometimes, switch to video and watch TinTin animations. Sometimes, put it all down and play ukulele.

Ideal story: It's long, and full of surprising sex, and snide and clever, and may include a uke. Or at least a dobro. Steel-body National tricones make excellent berserker bludgeons, y'know.

 

[SecondCircle]

Both. Though more often I may opt for shorter stories due to time. But I've found both can be equally as good.

 

[sr71plt]

I never have been able to work with a laptop on my lap. Haven't even been weaned away from using a mouse with the laptop. Sometimes that's inconvenient, yes.

 

[Dyslexicea]

I walk to work. It's like forty feet down the hall from my bedroom.

It's down the hall but I'm sure it's up hill both ways.

By the way your "Yes" to the OP's question is a non-answer but I knew what you meant and it was kinda cute.

Do you enjoy reading stories more that get to the sex or are longer?

I'm not sure the length of a story has much to do with it. For me, I like at least enough character development to understand the motivations of the players but I don't need, nor want, the characters life histories. If it's not relevant to the story or character development leave it out. And please don't bore me with paragraph after paragraph of your characters physical descriptions.

As far as sex scenes go, most here at lit tend to suck, including lesbian sex scenes, but if it's well written there's nothing wrong with a short sexy story but still I need some kind of hook to get me to read the sex part.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I don't care.

 

[sr71plt]

By the way your "Yes" to the OP's question is a non-answer but I knew what you meant and it was kinda cute.

No, it was a complete answer. It's sort of like the question of whether black or white encompasses all of the colors of the spectrum. A "yes" response here is all-encompassing, even if succinct.