Thank you so much for the response. I guessed it would be Group Sex, but any doubts probably come from my own perceptions of the term, not the shared understanding of those who know more about it, The tag advice is very helpful. May choose reluctance and voyeurism and follow your advice regarding the tags, It's heartening when a query gets a response like this and a learning curve suddenly feels less daunting.

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Because a printing error meant the box had contained a worn crotch and less panties and the world needed protecting from your wrath,

Writing his thoughts in the night,

Designed for a smile, not a fright,

He's happy to please,

With the odd cheeky tease

Coaxing plenty of fun

Out of sight

( Autobiography box ticked!

Tickets, hand in her knickers. Holiday time!

Make it make sense....

Happy being me

With an apology for not knowing where to put this...

I have completed a story to the final and hopefully satisfactory read aloud again stage. Just a punctuation and grammar check with my poor sight after that.

A group has a sex party. One narrates and is pleasured by another to bring his story to life for an observer and a listener.. He participates on the periphery and is used to help the three others present to perform for the observer/ listener.

There is oral and an anal sex act and plenty of masturbation, and the transforming of someone who began as just a watcher of people who knew she was there into an active participant.

The narration of what is happening by characters in the story is central to it.

How on earth does a newbie get his head around tagging and putting things in the correct genre? If anyone sees this and can help, I'd be grateful. I don't want to cause anyone to have to spend time trying to get me to get this right AFTER I've submitted something, if possible.

Thank you

I hope the feeling of having accomplished something I got when seeing my second effort was up just now stays with me. Like all things in life, we can set our own levels for what makes us feel this way. You'll read far better from the experienced, I'm sure, but everyone was at novice newcomer level once and some might connect with the satisfaction, regardless of their experience and expertise.

' What have you got to lose?' is one of those questions I'd only ever pose to myself, not others, because I know what I'm like. ' What could I possibly gain?' however, is sometimes different. In the latter, you've already identified what the benefits might be, at any or all of the levels you've mentioned. If you enjoy doing something, it will be a far better way to enhance the traits you feel you want to than analysing the worth of it against your own view of yourself.

Enjoyment- Worthwhile- Less Anxious- More Yourself- More Skills Relevant To Both Worlds,

If it doesn't go to plan, you'll have still gained the experiences that will help you and you can use what you've learned elsewhere.

Final thought. If people 'appear' confident, they may be/ they may be good at appearing so/ they are just themselves being themselves and don't feel the need for labels.

Me? Not the first of the options, a mix of second and third. I'd say.

No, thank you, (Comes with free politeness reminder,)

Hopefully not inappropriately placed, if it is, I apologise and will try hard not to do so again.

Moments ago, I finished work on a story, i'll leave it a few days before one last read out loud. This point of the process will take place on one of my early ventures into this area, so I'm delighted to have got there.

The effects of a brain injury are not mentioned to be cut slack, or sympathy, it's just part of how circumstances can make what is ordinary to some less so for others,

Writing can present physical, emotional, and other barriers to overcome, Of course I want to be the best that I can be, I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

I write this in solidarity with those who have extra hurdles to overcome. I feel proud to have put something together. I hope what I've created will be deemed up to standard when it's time to submit, but getting to this point is an achievement and a win, Beyond submission? Anything positive is a bonus and not the reason I wrote my story in the first place.

I'll do as I'm told. There's a first time for everything, apparently.

I'm the ( harmless ) Cheekiest, if it helps.

Better to be who you are than spend time and energy trying to or pretending to be something you're not, I'd say. The 'in crowd' might do things in a way that just isn't you, for example. It doesn't mean you or they are wrong, If you put yourself out there and be yourself, then that's what people respond to. I'd rather wait longer for people interested in me being me, than make up something for clicks and hits. I'm a newcomer, but very confident in what I'm looking for and equally what I'm not. An introvert being themselves will fair better than anyone who's not, but who thinks the 'real' them isn't enough.

Just my view, that's all. No offence to anyone who sees things differently.

I have memory issues, so I write EVERYTHING down.(True) Problem is the pages with answers on so I can participate here are stuck together. (Poetic licence.)

But coffee's all about grinding and full of beans, so quite friendly too.

Her managers' box tickling replaced box ticking,

Because I couldn't stop giggling at 'fountained on my lawn' and wanted you to be my private giggle slave.

That's at least two of us then. We should form a defiant smile-makers' club!

Thinking about what the writer gets out of doing something being of primary importance does not, in my view, make anyone a 'bad' person who does it. Neither does creating something that you know will have its faults, but is an honest expression of your imagination, Not having to concern yourself with mass approval is very liberating, as is creating something that might not be written particularly 'well', but manages to make a stranger somewhere smile.

Large numbers of people saying they like what you've done is something to be proud of. So too is managing to make a story that is true to what was in your head when you decided to do so, with or without it being ' popular'

I remember a particular piece of fiction that I had to 'dissect' as part of a university degree course paper. By the end of the process. even though I did 'well', with the analysis, I resented the book. Three years later, I read the book as a cure for boredom and quite liked it.

People who like to write for uncomplicated escapism are not the enemy of those who take it all seriously. Someone may enjoy a piece of fiction for exactly the reasons many others hate it. 'If only people could be more like computers.' Yes, that was something else I succeeded in dissecting. I did so by cynically telling the over-analysts exactly what I knew they wanted to hear.

The ' mechanics' of the subject area here probably do have a point at which most variables have been exhausted, The creativity around those mechanics? I think and hope not.

Feel free to disagree/ agree / not care about any of the above!

Perhaps it's because there are more variables to aspects like locations,emotions and other elements than there are between parts of anatomy that find people embellishing the latter with terms. Originality is fine, but sometimes saying what something is might just be the best option. ' Tried to make the story unique with clever wording'- Exactly. ( Without the exclamation mark avalanche or capitals that could be someone's red flag.)

An ' upside down frown' of appreciation here for that response!

Hug...well, making sure I don't get in the way of what;'s ' Yikesing' you too!

Being accused of sounding like a kindergarten teacher would, of course, matter a great deal more to those taking themselves, escapist fun and life too seriously. I'm fortunate there. It's a big world and things can mean different things in different parts of it. 'Encouragement' does mean something different where I'm from to the sentiments you attach to it here, but so be it. There are those who think sport outside the elite fraction is meaningless, however much those outside of it get out of it. I'm not surprised that it's a philosophy that creeps into other areas, or any less determined to do what I do, regardless of what experts ( self appointed, or otherwise ) think.

A smile 😇

CAUTION- Imagination Working Overhead

Times may change, the joys of imagination don't,

Smirking? grinning? It's a minefield out there, isn't it. Unless you're writing a bespoke story for someone you've known for decades, trying to please all of the people. all of the time isn't an achievable goal.

If putting a roof over your head depended on how many people connected with what you wrote, I can see why it might be worth having a 'red flag' list, but if it doesn't, a general awareness of certain things that seem to get people irritated should suffice.

There is nothing wrong in striving to be the best that you can be at something, but if you get to the point where you can't be spontaneous, write how you think and get pleasure from doing so, the reason for doing it is lost for me.

A template of popular style, focus and expression could well see someone put something together that connects with more people. There is nothing wrong with that at all, What I would be sad to see is a time when being yourself and writing what you feel is redundant. Yes, some of us like to write in a way that is true to how we feel and think, others are more formulaic. It would be ironic if others' pleasure in doing things differently was was frowned up somewhere like here, wouldn't it?

Of course, Some are quite happy to see something ( either in reality, or via pictures) and imagine themselves being there. I will always prefer to give the chance for people to create their own pictures, but appreciate that's not for everyone.)