What Would Be The Best...

[dr_mabeuse]

thing that anyone could say about your writing? The highest compliment? The thing that would see you through all those times when you fall face first onto the keyboard in despair and think about taking up stamp collecting instead?

 

[carsonshepherd]

Sad to say, only my own opinion matters. Other people can praise me up and down and I don't hear a word of it; I only hear the negative until the voice in the back of my head lets me drag myself back up and keep on.

Please don't take up stamp collecting. The despair will pass.

 

[logophile]

The best thing anyone could say about my writing is that they felt my words while they were reading.

 

[Guest]

"We'd like to pay you."

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I think I get the biggest boost when someone says they thought of my characters as real people.

 

[English Lady]

Like Colly, I like it when my characters become real for a person. I love feedback that tells me I my work got a response from the reader and most of all I cherish feedback from fellow Authors, especially those I greatly admire (I'm looking at you Dr M )

Actually, I'm quite easy to pick up again, a positive feedback of any kind would bring me out of that despair pit.

 

[Guest]

if someone 'feels' anything while reading something i wrote...i really enjoy feedback on the 'humorous' stories i write. if i can make someone laugh, then the day is good.

 

[rgraham666]

Stunning and extraordinary
10/03/05 By: Some one I like and trust
The most seductive voice I have heard in a very long time. I could harken to your narrator for aeons. Truly, this is remarkable work - more so than I can well say. It's enchanting, beautiful, and superb writing, with a central character perfectly rendered and intensely human in his war with inhumanity. This will live with me a very long time.

-For my Halloween story.

This one is going to stick with me.

It absolutely floored me when I first read it.

I wasn't at all sure the story was any good when I submitted it. I've changed my mind since.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I admit it, I love being petted....

Praise does wonders for me... and every time I get criticism it makes me ill, even when I *know* they're right... something about that always wanting to please gene I got somewhere in my DNA strand...

So speaking from THAT part of me, the best thing I could hear is, "It's perfect!"

But, of course, I won't believe that for a minute...

but I DO know heartfelt criticism when I hear it, and the best feedback I've received has been that... it makes my whole body sing... the words don't matter at all... it's the feeling I get from the reader, that I've touched them, that they see the light in me that I shined into my story...

that's the best thing...

 

[cloudy]

...that I made them think, that I made them feel....any kind of reaction makes me happy. And if it comes from my fellow authors, then it absolutely makes my day.

 

[oggbashan]

This one...

"I'm impressed
By: Anonymous in (edited out)
I'm a married female in her 30's, currently on anti-depressants that made my sex drive go fron 55mph to maybe 5 at best. (With my husband using every trick in the book--so to speak--at once).
That was well written, imaginative, and sexy. Plus, I think someone just FLOORED the gas pedal to the metal. Thanks. I needed that. Writer? Try to publish! You can do it."

That story is currently rated 3.50 and has only one PC - that one.

If one of my stories can produce that reaction in just one person then I think I have succeeded as a writer.

Og

 

[JRaven]

"We'd like to pay you."

That would certainly be great. But will never happen with any of the drivel I write.

On the other hand, I think the feedback about how the reader hated the antagonist was one I really liked. They voted my story poorly because they hated the character so much. That they had the emotions I was trying to illict, makes it all good for me.

Jenny

 

[impressive]

... that they didn't want it to end.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

The only thing I ever need to hear to avoid stamp collecting is, "I can't wait to read more of your work."

~lucky

 

[Stella_Omega]

I got this one yesterday,

oh wow! I came so hard I saw flashing spots! My pussy is a slick gushy mess that is still giving twitches. Damn you are good, Stella. This chapter had all the hot, intense dialogue that I had hoped you are capable of. ...

It went on like this for two more paragraphs! She tells me I dominate the Dyke erotica on lit, my characters make her fall in love.. my bull dykes excite her unbearably...

I looked up from reading this email with my face flaming, and I don't blush easy!
I like the negatives, too- they are usually proof that I did what I set out to do. I write kinda intellechul, yanno?
(And of course I got another feedback about how horrible I am not to write feminine lesbians)

 

[BlackShanglan]

"I guess all that immersion in Wilde has paid off, huh?"

One of the most delightful compliments I have ever been paid.

Much of it's in who makes the comment, in my opinion. Half a dozen "that was INCREDIBLE" from people I don't know expressing joy for a bit of stroke that got them off isn't a patch on a single encouraging word from someone I respect. The context makes a great deal of difference, because I then know something of what the reader was looking for in the story.

The other thing that really warms me is when someone "gets" symbol or theme on a deeper level and writes to tell me that s/he was pleased with that. It's the sort of thing one can't really mention about erotica without feeling a bit pretentious, but sometimes I am working to incorporate such elements. It feels good when someone sees it and responds to it.

Shanglan

 

[kbate]

My favourite feedback comment ever:

You're quite the marvelous writer. ******* *** is as literate as anything I've read on here. I would go so far as to say you're too good to be submitting here.I majored in English Lit so i've read a well crafted passage or two and your brief story had all the ingredients to keep a reader captivated. You maintained flow, you were discretely descriptive, never becoming too bogged down in details thus keeping your tale moving along. Where you did inject color, well, let's just say it was quite a piece of art.Please keep the work coming. After this,i will read your entry in Humor & Satire, not quite the subject lines i seek in Literotica, but mandatory for me to sample further of your skills.

I would have married this reader if he had asked at the end of this note.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

"We'd like to pay you."

I just hope that one works better on authors than it does on women in bars.

--Zoot

 

[eric shawn listo]

Let's just say it's in my sig.

 

[Penelope Street]

What would be the best thing that anyone could say about your writing? The highest compliment?

"You made me cry"

 

[Whisky7up]

"A touch of Nabakov, a touch of Kafka, plus our sad inevitability of our mortality.

Thumbs up!"


That one pleased me...but it was on a very short, non-erotic story The Visitor



For the majority of tales here, it's praise on the writing style and characterisation rather than the sex. That tells me that, maybe, I'm capable of writing something more than erotica.

Finally, requests to write more...whether that's another part or just more of anything.

 

[shereads]

thing that anyone could say about your writing? The highest compliment? The thing that would see you through all those times when you fall face first onto the keyboard in despair and think about taking up stamp collecting instead?

"Her writing was inspirational. It inspired her to take up stamp collecting."



second best:

"She was no more prolifiic than she was talented."

 

[Boota]

The best things I've heard about my writing, things absolutely made my day, have been about how people felt about my characters. One guy told me that he finished the book, turned to the front and started reading it over again. He didn't like the idea of giving up the characters. He said they felt like friends to him. Another guy sent me an email and said that he was reading in the bathroom and started laughing so hard that he fell off the toilet. I've had a few people who have made deep connections with the characters in Mr. U. That's very cool, to me.

I'd say, without being specific, the best compliments I could get would be along those lines. Even if it's not about missing the characters as if they were real people or laughing until falling off a toilet, getting the word that what I was attempting worked well for someone is nice.

 

[fifty5]

Comments that mean that - in any way - it got to them.

Those on use of language or writing skill (although nice things are always very nice) come second - it's when what they say means I've moved them that make me glow. Perversely, negative comments (because I've moved them) seem almost as valuable as positive ones. Some that have kicked ass for me are: "Pardon me, but you sound obsessive and I worry for the girl"; "i wish someone wanted me that bad!!!" ; and, "I was extremely irritated with the story in that it seemed to have great potential with no delivery. Why build us up to show us nothing in the end?" (sucked him in then, didn't I?)

'Lit. crit.' is nice, but 'you kicked me in the balls' means it REALLY worked!

PS Don't think I don't value flattering comments on style, I do, but 'kicking them in the balls' - without going near them! - is tops.

 

[Guest]

"It really made me think."