============================ Your readers are precious. Help them My first foray into the How-to category. Some notes on making your stories more 'readable' and therefore, more enjoyable. ============================ Let's face it. The readers here on Literotica have a lot to choose from. If they have any issues with your story, it's easy enough to drop...
Depression is Some stories on Literotica are hard to read. They may hit too close to home, or describe cruel or violent events, or contain so many errors that the reader is distracted from the narrative flow; No matter the cause, the reader is no longer willing to suspend disbelief (cf. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor). The story fails because the reader is no lon...
If you are reading DanielQSteele1's stories, and since you are interested in this essay, you ARE, then know that there are no happy endings in his stories. Not in the way the average reader will recognize. I have read all of his stories on Literotica so far (and am following When We Were Married, the on-going story), and there is one characteristic, one defi...
The Matrons of Regal Bay An Introduction Seeing as how this series is really beginning to take off, thanks in no small part to you, my many fans, I thought it time to provide not only a little background, but a little bit of a description of "Regal Bay" proper. I began working on what would eventually become the "Regal Bay Matrons Club" series many, many...
‘We’re sending you an assistant.’ ‘An assistant?’ ‘We need you to work with us here, Paddy. You -- that is to say we -- because we’re all in this together -- have a bunch of readers just dying to read your next book. But they won’t wait for ever. We need to get the new book out by mid-October. At the latest. And I do mean at the latest.’ ‘This assistant ....
I am far from unique in the world, but I have recognized the deep-seated aspects of myself and can relate to them daily, and thus, find a pleasure in sharing these incidents and people with the fantasy-rich audience of Avid Reader, who is abundantly populating the erotica boards. There are always going to be Origination Stories behind all epic sagas, and man...
Lady be Good Oh please have some pity I'm all alone in the great big city. I'm just a lonesome babe in the wood So lady be good to me Oh lady be good to me. Lady be Good - George and Ira Gershwin 1924 Midnight in Hong Kong, just before noon back home and my internal clock was somewhere in-between. I looked out at the city before me so different, so dynam...
This story is written by both Dice Casden and Kristi as part of the D&K Universe. ****** At an ECW taping at the Hammerstine Ballroom located within the Manhattan Center in New York City, Tony Mamaluke is sitting with his tag team partner Little Guido Maritato after their dark match against SmackDown's Paul London and Brian Kendrick. Guido, dressed in his...
At the Age of 84, while walking a trail he'd loved in his youth, Reader collapsed of heart failure. A member of his hiking club, a woman 20 years his junior who would never know that her crush on him was reciprocated, gave him CPR until paramedics arrived. He was pronounced Dead On Arrival, but by then his attention was already elsewhere. The world's grip on...
You've written a story, you want to post it. You're not an English major, but want your story to read well. I wrote the following short checklist to help you. It contains no jargon or technical terms. Much below reflects my opinions, not rules of grammar. Remember free advise is worth everything you paid for it. * * * * * Proofread your story by reading it...