What have you posted recently?

[Z_TheWriter]

My very first story went up today!
You Know Why I Climbed This Tree?

I am currently vacillating between being intensely proud of my work and the reception so far, and feeling like a complete fraud who obviously has no business letting other people see the drivel I wrote. I'm guessing that's normal.

It's a fairly short romance based on an unusual real life experience at a party during my student days, and I will admit that I saw this thread while poking around the forums, and thought it might be a chance to prod an actual author or two to read it. I'd like to know if I measure up at all.

 

[StillStunned]

My very first story went up today!

Congratulations, and welcome to the weird world of erotica!

 

[DEFCOM5]

My winter holiday contest story Snow Fall in Love posted this morning (along with many other event stories.)

Congrats!

It's a 30K slow burn. No sex what so ever in the first 3/4, then a lot. Very dialog driven. think there's a lot of humor in it as well as tension, but I'll let others judge whether that works or not. I don;t think it's my best story, but I think it's probably my best written story. And I hope one of my better stories.

It is a very sweet love story. I cannot wait to read the final version!

 

[NoTalentHack]

Spectrums went up this morning, and it's currently hovering around 4.57 with ~600 ratings.

There's a trope/subgenre in LW of "Honey, We Need to Talk," wherein the FMC tells her husband (usually) that she's going to cheat on him ahead of time, and it's just going to be this one time and then she'll be faithful, etc. Which, from an RL standpoint, is kind of a ridiculous thing by itself, but then there's a sub-subgenre of this that's "... and I'll sign this contract to prove it."

It's a ludicrous premise, like many of the stories on the site. But one of my favorite things is to take a ludicrous premise, look at the structure, and then try to come up with an at least semi-plausible way that they would work, taking into account character motivations, etc. And I'd long wanted to play with how characters in these stories are coded (the morally rigid, highly perceptive husband who's still somehow blindsided by his wife's sudden, seemingly unfeeling turn to the dark side, and what those depictions usually mean in other media), so this seemed like a perfect place for it.

 

[DEFCOM5]

Spectrums went up this morning, and it's currently hovering around 4.57 with ~600 ratings.

I can only dream of 600 votes in a few around. My highest number of vote is 257

There's a trope/subgenre in LW of "Honey, We Need to Talk," wherein the FMC tells her husband (usually) that she's going to cheat on him ahead of time, and it's just going to be this one time and then she'll be faithful, etc. Which, from an RL standpoint, is kind of a ridiculous thing by itself, but then there's a sub-subgenre of this that's "... and I'll sign this contract to prove it."

This is so ludicrous!

It's a ludicrous premise, like many of the stories on the site. But one of my favorite things is to take a ludicrous premise, look at the structure, and then try to come up with an at least semi-plausible way that they would work, taking into account character motivations, etc. And I'd long wanted to play with how characters in these stories are coded (the morally rigid, highly perceptive husband who's still somehow blindsided by his wife's sudden, seemingly unfeeling turn to the dark side, and what those depictions usually mean in other media), so this seemed like a perfect place for it.

If someone can pull that off, it would be you!

Did you BTB and if not, how did appease the toxicity of the crowd that read that category?

 

[NoTalentHack]

Did you BTB and if not, how did appease the toxicity of the crowd that read that category?

Sort of? It's not a BTB (or at least I don't think so), but it's also not a reconciliation story, although it is, in a... not exactly redemption, but grace? story.

 

[Gamblnluck]

If someone can pull that off, it would be you!

Did you BTB and if not, how did appease the toxicity of the crowd that read that category?

What you and other authors hee on the forum need to understand is BTB is not needed to be successful. What IS needed is a logical conclusion. The response has to fit with normal

Sort of? It's not a BTB (or at least I don't think so), but it's also not a reconciliation story, although it is, in a... not exactly redemption, but grace? story.

Oh it's definitely a BTB story, but NOT in the way most of the authors here would recognize. The MC refused to accept what his cheating wife wanted to levy upon him. He turned the tables. Yes, he tempered what he did, but he burned her.
I loved the story and hope authors here will read it and understand their ideas of what a good LW are flawed. You wrote a great story. It had a well developed plot, insight and a reasonable resolution. Kudos!!