What Grabs You?

[GrahamXBryce]

Hello all,

I'm brand new to the community, and plan on submitting my erotic series and short stories. I was wondering, through the eyes of the active community, what grabs you about a title or short one-line description that makes you truly believe it'll be a good read? I'm trying to avoid the stereotypical erotic titles, I don't want my work to blend in with a common group of buzz words. So I suppose the real question is, what instantly makes you feel the need to open up a story?

I appreciate all who give their time to read and to respond, thank you.

Graham X. Bryce

 

[lovecraft68]

Hi Graham, welcome to the AH.

No easy answer here because there is something for everyone. There is a big readership for over the top 'porno' titles like "Fucking the slut sitter" and an equal audience for more subtle erotic titles.

Best thing you can do is go with what you want and see what the response is. The good thing about the large and varied readership here is after a few stories, they find you.

The one other suggestion I can think of is go to the top lists of whatever category you want to write in and check out the titles and tag lines, or even do that with some popular authors from that list.

 

[GrahamXBryce]

Thank you for the advice, I am happy to learn there's a seemingly equal readership for both sections, since I plan to delve into both. I didn't even think of the keyword search for top stories per category, that's a brilliant idea.

 

[AKentuckyLady]

Welcome I've only been here a few weeks myself. Great bunch of people here in the AH!

 

[oggbashan]

These atatements are my personal opinions.

The obvious thing is the title of the story.

If it is different, appropriate to the story, and possibly intriguing, then readers might look.

Titles to avoid are those including names, e.g.

Carol's adventures - people will have their own association with the name Carol that might be nothing like your intention. That title tells the potential reader nothing about the story.

If you have a possible title, try the story search system to see how many times it has been used before.

This old How-To by whispersecret is still useful:

https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-get-people-to-read-your-story

 

[jomar]

Also, sometimes author notes befor the story can be helpful.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Hello all,

I'm brand new to the community, and plan on submitting my erotic series and short stories. I was wondering, through the eyes of the active community, what grabs you about a title or short one-line description that makes you truly believe it'll be a good read? I'm trying to avoid the stereotypical erotic titles, I don't want my work to blend in with a common group of buzz words. So I suppose the real question is, what instantly makes you feel the need to open up a story?

I'd suggest rather than "what makes people click", focus on "what makes the right people click" (i.e. the ones whose tastes match your story).

My most-viewed story has a fairly low rating relative to the others, and I think the problem there is I was a little too "successful" with the blurb - my style's slow and talky, and in hindsight the blurb comes across as a "hot sex" kinda thing, which may have led to disappointed readers. So think about what the strengths are of your story as you see them, and try to evoke that in your blurb (easier said than done!)

 

[GrahamXBryce]

That's a very good way to put it, thank you. I am not on here merely to approach the masses or gain the most votes, etc. I do want to reach a particular audience, one which I hope exists on Literotica. I appreciate you input, I think that kind of clears things up for me a bit.

 

[Hypoxia]

If you're writing Incest-Taboo, put Mommy! or Daddy! etc in the title. If S&M, mention pain or tools. MOM'S NEW WHIP should grab many eyeballs.

 

[GrahamXBryce]

I may use that last one as an entire story! Thanks

 

[Darkniciad]

Yes, if you plan to write for the incest category, absolutely get at least one of the familial words in the title and/or the description.

Especially with your first one ( Not so much if you end up established and well known in the category ) that can easily double your views.

You have 64 characters ( including spaces ) to work with in the description, so avoid punctuation, & remember the ampersand can save you 2 characters.

Crafting a description line that catches eyes and accurately represents the story within that limited span of characters can be as difficult as any other part of the process.

 

[Hypoxia]

I may use that last one as an entire story! Thanks

Yes, that bunny hops right along. A tale of discovery...

It could lead to an entire series tailored for multiple fetishes. Mom's New (Mask, Boy-Toy, Big Black Cock, Girlfriends, Position, Orgasmatron, Cigar, Butt-Plug, Sub, Shoes, Unicorn, Tentacle, etc). Many possibilities.