Where Have All The REAL Writers Gone?

[Guest]

I've been writing on the interactive literotic site for quite some time and have noticed something. People are getting lazy, completely boring and unoriginal with their add-on chapters. I know this is a free to write whatever you like site and I respect that but a four word sentence doesn't even count for a paragraph nevermind a chapter! Chapters that follow like: "We fucked and then she sucked my cock and I ate her out."
What do you do? 1 - fuck more 2 - do her mom. are EXTREMELY lame and lack creativity. I'll say one thing. If this is your idea of foreplay with someone of the opposite sex, I can see why you're stuck on a computer instead of getting some REAL action!!!
PLEASE show some passion in your writing!!

 

[Michael]

"a four word sentence doesn't even count for a paragraph nevermind a chapter!"

Hmm, well, one "real writer," Herman Melville, starts a great novel with just three words: "Call me Ishmael." (Great title, too, "Moby Dick," though it was never submitted to this site.)

And a passage in another all-time best seller, describing a man's grief at the tomb of his best friend, is just two words: "Jesus wept."

"I can see why you're stuck on a computer instead of getting some REAL action!!!"

I guess I must be naive--some of the best stories I've read here sounded like they must have originated in some "real action." They certainly convinced me.

Anyway, they're "stuck" here, but you're just...what? A sightseer? Passing through?
Taking a momentary breather, at midnight, from all the real action you're getting to correct their literary tastes? That's very generous of you.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Michael look at that post from William again. He isn't a sightseer and isn't talking about stories written by one author.

I personally tried to read some of the stuff written on the interactive page and gave up. It just didn't flow and some of the folks weren't writting, just posting an action they wanted to see next. While some of the posts there are by really good the next one up may read like chapter one in Sex on the train, " fucking and sucking."

The choppy nature of a story written by many people almost made me stay home from the reunion. I hope that your installment will be more than three words as I look forward to getting to read it, much as William was looking to read what the next person wrote after him.

I hope that the other folks out there writing on the interactive read his comment and put some thought into each of their posts.



[This message has been edited by Fallen Angel (edited 12-19-1999).]

 

[Laurel]

I think you're right about the interactive stories being unreadable. The reason we originally put those up is this: we received one legitimate interactive story (the My Daughter Jenna piece). People wrote in saying how much they liked it and how they would love to see more stories in that fashion. I posted a desperate plea (well, a couple) on the BB for more Interactive stories and received zero, zipp-o, nada. We found a script that enabled us to allow readers to write the stories themselves and put it up, feeling that it was the next best thing.

The Interactive stories can be a lot of fun. However, I think at times they are fun for the writer at the expense of the reader - someone thinks it's funny to follow up another person's carefully crafted addition with "then I fucked her in the ass" or a similar one-sentence/phrase post. They tend to attract the people who don't have the patience/ability/whatever to sit down and write a full story, and the people who do write stories for submission on our site don't have the time/patience/whatever to sit down and try to make a sensible chapter amidst all the stuff that gets posted.

I would rather receive more stories like the My Daughter Jenna interactive bit. I'm not sure why authors shy from them. That story wasn't excessively long - less than 10 pages with all the parts put together in a Word document. And logistcially they aren't all that complicated - I believe that MDJ branches off 3, maybe 4 times. The first section is the longest, and the others are less so.

If I had the time, I would love to sit down and write a story in that fashion. I was a big fan of the Choose Your Own Adventure series, and think that writing something of this nature could be as fun as reading it. But maybe I'm wrong; there's obviously a reason why no one wants to write these stories. If anyone knows the reason, please tell me!