Your worst story

[cahab]

Reading through people both picking their brains for their best story and recommending bad stories begs the more modest question; what's your worst story?

I'm going through a period of, to me, inevitable dullness in a story arc that i'm doing for lit, that I just can't bring myself to really do justice. I rarely contribute at the moment, and when I do, in retrospect i'm not happy with it, and as my scores are on a downward trend I can only assume that goes for the readers as well. Though I did write a story I was quite happy with, that also got quite low scores. Maybe everyone's just got winter blues.

The point was, is this just me? Does anyone else write stuff for lit, and then later regret it? If so, did you pull it, or just let it ride?

 

[Guest]

Hey, Cahab. I'm fine. Nice to see you too.

Perdita

 

[Quasimodem]

...Does anyone else write stuff for lit, and then later regret it?...

Inevitably!

Remove it?

And forsake creativity?

 

[oggbashan]

Define your terms...

1. Do you mean intentionally the worst?

2. Or the one that turned out to be the worst in the author's opinion?

3. Or the one that the readers decided was the worst?

4. Or the one that didn't capture the author's intention?

5. Or the one the author wrote in a shameless plea for votes?

6. Or the one that will never get votes?

7. Or the one that was deliberately depressing?

Answers for my stories (all listed in the link from my sig line)

1. The Worst Chain Story Ever Chap 01

2. Stag Party

3. White Scut

4. Beach Protest

5. Halloween Viking

6. Survive (non-erotic poetry)

7. Donna

The absolute worst was my first which will never be completed and was set in the Balkans in the 1870s. It is full of peasants fighting invaders, obscure sexual references, no reasonable sex scenes and is written so boringly that even I can't read it without falling asleep. Average sentence length 50 words; Grade index 12, readability nil.

It has accurate descriptions of mountain cannon, mule harness, peasant women's dress, hydraulics and mechanics, light infantry tactics, how to load a muzzle-loading black powder rifle - all essential items in a well written sex story. Just think of the innuendos hidden in the rifle loading!

Og

 

[LorriLove]

hiya

hiya cahab, well i've only written one, so that's got to be my worse who cares though i like it, sod the rest of them

 

[raphy]

Love the AV, lorri!

 

[ffreak]

I have to reply to this if for no other reason than the AV's of Cahab (always wondered what it looked like to catch a bunch of snowflakes on the tongue) and LorrieLove (that cold white stuff sure makes you stand out nicely) - I cannot resist these lovelies.

First, let me say that I like the contributions I've read from all of you.

My worst - at lit, um probably yet to be - the lowest score I've gotten is for my favorite story Picture Perfect.

Would I pull a story if I thought I did a poor job - I don't know, ask me again in a year. I would pull a story if I got an offer to publish elsewhere and the publisher wanted exclusive serial rights.

-FF (ah, such sweet, beautiful white glitter, to bedeck such lovely angels)

 

[Icingsugar]

I have a poem or two that in retrospect really sucked. Most of them are removed. I think one might be left. Will take care of that later...

Stories? Naah. I kind of like them. Let me write another five and I might think otherwise.

 

[Quasimodem]

I don't have a WORST story . . .
ALL my stories are my worst!














Err . . . . . . that didn't come out quite right.

 

[LadyJane]

(Don't know how to do that clever thingy where a portion of a previous message is displayed in your own message, so I just copied and pasted.)

"It has accurate descriptions of mountain cannon, mule harness, peasant women's dress, hydraulics and mechanics, light infantry tactics, how to load a muzzle-loading black powder rifle - all essential items in a well written sex story. Just think of the innuendos hidden in the rifle loading!

Og"

This is hilarious - I'd like to read it based on your description alone!

 

[flawed_ethics]

rant & ramble

I think we've all penned many a bad story at some point over the course of maturing into writers. They just don't stick out because we care not to include them in a list of works. Selective memory, if you will.

As for Lit, where a story is automatically listed under your name unless you take the effort to remove it, there's a bit more accountability to deal with. Personally, mine was one I wrote quickly while waiting for proofreading feedback on another. I didn't rest on it to reflect whether it was any good. I submitted it, and awoke to regret it the day after.

 

[Guest]

 

[LorriLove]

giggle

Love the AV, lorri!

bit bloody cold though raphy lover, i suppose they should be blue really not red i am a bird lover too so a pair of blue tits wouldn't go amiss, giggle.

hiya ffreak honey, it's certainly the snow that does it

 

[Dirt Man]

Reading through people both picking their brains for their best story and recommending bad stories begs the more modest question; what's your worst story?

I'm going through a period of, to me, inevitable dullness in a story arc that i'm doing for lit, that I just can't bring myself to really do justice. I rarely contribute at the moment, and when I do, in retrospect i'm not happy with it, and as my scores are on a downward trend I can only assume that goes for the readers as well. Though I did write a story I was quite happy with, that also got quite low scores. Maybe everyone's just got winter blues.

The point was, is this just me? Does anyone else write stuff for lit, and then later regret it? If so, did you pull it, or just let it ride?

First off you ask "What's your worst Story?" For me that would be the first book that I ever wrote. It sits in a box in my closet, and will never be read by anyone. I only keep it to remind me of my arrogance as a fledgling writer back then, and all that I have learned since about my craft, and too, I learned a lot just by writing that book.

Have I written stuff for lit, and then later regretted it? No. I write mostly hard core porn here at lit, and have no patience for those who think that seven pages of flowery prose discribing a character, and their reasoning for doing things erotic is normal. I think in paragraphs so I believe in the short in the term: short story. For long I write a book. And even then I am never redundant. I believe in the old adage: KISS

As Always
I Am the
Dirt Man

 

[DirtyJJ]

(Don't know how to do that clever thingy where a portion of a previous message is displayed in your own message, so I just copied and pasted.)

"It has accurate descriptions of mountain cannon, mule harness, peasant women's dress, hydraulics and mechanics, light infantry tactics, how to load a muzzle-loading black powder rifle - all essential items in a well written sex story. Just think of the innuendos hidden in the rifle loading!

Og"

This is hilarious - I'd like to read it based on your description alone!

Lady Jane,
I agree with what you said about Og's comments... and I wanted to let you know that the way you quote what someone said in a post is to click on the link that says QUOTE in the lower right hand corner of their post.

Hope that helps - took me a while to figure that one out too.

JJ

 

[Sabledrake]

My worst -- in terms of "I hate it and wish I'd never ever ever written it, let alone be stupid enough to post it anywhere" -- is a dirty Scooby Doo story. Oh, the shame.

Sabledrake

 

[The_Fool]

I keep wanting to post that they all suck at one time or another, depending on the mood. Hmm....I guess I just did.

 

[Quasimodem]

Technology has not been created, which is capable of plumbing at a sufficent depth, to measure in what sequence the following three stories stand.

"The Perverted Love of Dr. Doolittle" (Bestiality) the episodic amours of an amateur zoologist, "Traders of the Lost Dildo" (Group Sex) archeologists compete for possession of a storeyed artifact, said to produce "The Perfect O," and "Mattrix" (How-To) an Olympic medalist uses his gymnastic talents to free a frigid society from a single sexual position.

Luckily, the website where these stories were posted, spontaneously exploded. The editors perished in the resultant computer crash, and fortunately, all the readers contracted Alzheimers.

My output on Literotica is rapidly reaching a similar density, and I am trying to remember how the previous conflagration was induced.

 

[Quint]

My first ("Sweet Salvation") is my weakest. I was arrogance incarnate when I posted it and expected laud and/or honor. The thought is decent, many lines are quite good, but the entire thing is far too sketchy for my personal satisfaction--and the title only stops being ungodly cheesy in oh, say, chapter 4. Chapter 4 will never be written. That's another reason why I consider it my worst--I published the first two chapters and shall never work on it again, which makes me "one of those." Not my style of romance anymore.

However, it's encouraging that I consider my subsequent works improvements.

 

[pop_54]

Yeppers

I don't have a WORST story . . .
ALL my stories are my worst!














Err . . . . . . that didn't come out quite right.

I'm with Quasi and Pierce on this one, they're all worth redoing, I won't bother though.

 

[cahab]

I keep wanting to post that they all suck at one time or another, depending on the mood. Hmm....I guess I just did.

Now that sounds like a plot...