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Shylass
Over 90 days ago
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Quote by Dancing_Doll



I have 6 stories that are over 30,000 views, with my EP one being close to 70,000 views. I have a 7th story that's at 26,000 views so it's slowly creeping up there too. Many of my others are around the 20,000+ view-mark at the moment as well.





Ah, so it is achievable (if one is an amazingly top writer combined with being an amazingly hot lass combined with being amazingly wise - stop being amazing, you're making me look bad). Top stuff, that's awesome!
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Facebook, Texting, Twitter? Doesnt anyone physically talk anymore, LOL!!







Having signed up and having two followers, I still don't really get it.
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Yes, i really AM opening this back up again. as a story mod, i watch how fast stories get published and processed through here. stories that might have once spend some time on the front page are usually gone within 12 hours, usually less. i don't track other people's stories, but i DO track mine. as time goes on, and we get more and more writers, i know i get less and less views and i think that i'm a fairly noticable author here? funny, i get more votes and comments, but breaking 2,000 has been difficult. sure, we have more members, but we have way more writers as well and i think it makes it harder to even hit the old goal of 30,000 let alone 100,000 (or is it 60,000? i'm not sure).

anyways, just wanted to point that out and maybe, take a look at it and see if, in a years time, ANY one's hit that famous author mark. i'm guessing that it's a badge that may very well have become extinct. just my POV, obviously, but it would be nice to have an obtainable goal rather then do what most of us have done, shrug our shoulders and say 'oh, well. we missed the window for getting that one'.

a non-rant by sprite. smile



I agree with Sprite about the views. Not including poems, which I think is a niche all of its own, only four out of my eight stories have gone over the 2000 reads mark. I do think the category makes a huge difference, so writers who tend to write for a less-read category will certainly find the Famous Story badge difficult to obtain (whatever that mark may be). Only one story has come close to a number I never thought I would reach, and that only shot up since a certain situation made it possible. But it is very clear that if, in four months, a story can reach nearly 10,000 views, however that might have been achieved, it may be worth believing that something like 30,000 is possible - as Mazza and Steph have already shown.

The question that brings up for me is, a story that gets so many hits because it is an Editors' Pick (speaking from my own experience, nobody else's), has already been rewarded. The real challenge would be to obtain something like a 30,000 mark without an Editors' Pick! And I don't believe I could manage anything close to that without it. I have only two other stories that might hit 10,000, but it would need well over a year and a lot of forum whoring on my part (or Sprite's if I can convince her to do some video demonstrations on my behalf).

I'd be interested to see if any of our more popular writers agree have seen a similar pattern. 28,000 gets a flower from me!

I am now bamboozled with numbers and I have forgotten what I was saying. So here is a famous story (sans voyeuristic orgies) to make sure I am still on-thread...


Quote by sprite


umm... you should re-read that bit and see how funny it sounds - would you say you're easily offended? sorry, but i couldn't resist. *giggles and runs*


I still haven't been able to get through all the posts yet, but Great Neptune! This reminds me of a course I was once on. Sessions revolved around this conversation:

1: I find what you just said offensive.

2: I am offended you find me offensive! I'm not at all offensive!

1: You so are offensive, or I wouldn't be offended!

3: I can't believe you you have offended 1, that's so rude!

2: 3, I am utterly offended by you, 3! *flounces out and slams the door*


Next session:


2: I'm so sorry I walked out, 3. Something you said reminded me of my father when he once offended me, and I couldn't deal with it. I'm so sorry for offending you, 1. I never meant to.

1: You're a very offensive person, but it's why I like you.

3: I do not accept your apology, you clearly have many issues that you need to sort out before you come into the classroom, and until you do, I shall not be a part of this any more. *flounces out and slams the door*



Next session:

3: I'm so sorry I said those awful things to you, 2, and walked out. It was very rude of me, but I needed to calm down, and sort out some issues.

2: Please don't do it again, I have a walking-out-on-me complex and it makes it very difficult for me to function.

4: I can't believe how rude and dysfunctional you all are! This is terrible for my mental health and I'm on medication for it now! You're all rude, aggressive and self-centred! How dare you infringe on my mental well-being! *flounces out and slams the door*





I left that course. Best thing I ever did (no, I was not 4, I was 5, the one crying with laughter in the corner).
I think most of it is attention, but sometimes it's just lack of forward thinking. I have a few friends who risk cameras in their faces when they go to the supermarket/out with friends, and sometimes their significant others or friends have to remind them about certain items (i.e the ones that need another layer underneath, or what happened last time the wind blew when they wore a short, full skirt). Sometimes you just don't think about these things. You can't always just put something on, you have to think about what will happen if there's strong lighting, or the sun is behind you, or your strap falls off. And who has that much time?
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Just looking at the different sub genres on the home page. I want to know which genre is easier to write or what is a challenge that grabs you as an author?


I write the story, and then decide which category it fits best. It just so happens that the things I am most comfortable writing about are generally in one or two particular categories. I don't look at them and think, "Now, shall I go for Bisexual with some Spanking and Voyeur on the side?" I just look for the overriding theme of what I wrote and stick it in there (arf arf).

The easiest category to write about is the theme of what you most enjoy writing, I think.
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There was a story I read a while back, It was about a mom having sex with her son and her son's team at some hotel i think, I can't put my finger on it. I can't find it and was wondering if anyone could throw me a bone. Sorry if this isn't the right place for a question but I'm new to the forum. Thanks!


It will depend on what the story is tagged, but you could try the Stories Search: http://www.lushstories.com/search-results.aspx

Choose the correct category, and then add in your key words. I hope that helps.
Some of us need scaffolding, as opposed to simple support. I only wear one make, and have done ever since I hit a certain size. It suits any activity I might be doing, including trampolining, but to be honest, I use my hands to help for that as well! Sports bras have no support for somebody my size/shape (or maybe it's just me, but I've tried, okay?), and I refuse to be seen by anybody without a bra on except by one man. On my own, I'm most comfortable physically without one at all. But if you ever meet me, I will be wearing my scaffolding, and I will be much happier because of it.
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59% partner focus
29% aggressiveness
50% adventurousness
Quote by ch_brian
Yeah...I've moved to several new cities where I knew nearly no one, and getting involved in things like people have mentioned helps a lot. Volunteering or joining a kickball/dodgeball league (those are great if you're not super athletic) or taking a class. Do what you like to do or just try a lot of different things. It's funny, I had this conversation with a friend years ago - most guys aren't great at making friends, or rather, it takes a long time if you didn't grow up with the guy or go to school with them. And as for being shy, sometimes faking it helps; just start off by saying hi and keeping expectations low until you're more comfortable having a short conversations. Or just ignore the last part and join something.


Just an addition to this, if you ask people about themselves, generally, you find they keep talking. If there's a lull, ask them something else either new, or following on from what they told you. Share when they ask you, but mostly, people are happy to talk all about themselves to you. It's sometimes harder to keep listening than it is to talk back.
When I am writing memories as stories, I write in the first person, past tense, as I remembered it.

When I write madey-uppy stories, I tend to write in the third person, also past tense.

I don't know why, but I find myself irritated by present tense stories, although that might not be the tense, but the stories themselves. I have used second person viewpoint (thank you for explaining, Clum!) in poems, but it's not something I like to read.

I did write one story where the viewpoint (always third person) switches between two characters (I believe this may be multiple viewpoint?). Nobody has trashed me for it yet, so I think it may have worked. I didn't set out to do that, though.

Generally, I prefer to both read and write in the third person, past tense. I don't know why, but I do know that I don't like reading first person stories very much, as I feel bound to the one character, and find it hard to get an overview. I like overviews, as I like to know everything that's going on. But a good writer means that I don't notice any of that, just that I feel I have been transported somewhere else and enjoy the ride.
I can't deal with this right now, sorry. Mods have free rein to do what they feel is best for the site, taking into consideration any PMs that may have been swapped.

Thank you, FtLMale, you have been able to ask, as far as I am currently able to understand, things that I would like to know but couldn't put into words.

Thank you to those who have contributed. Sorry for currently bowing out. If the thread continues, I will read and ponder when I am more able. Sorry.
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I like my titles to be a play on words, though i guess if I really wanted a lot of people to read it I should go for something more literal.

Would "I finger a girl on a train ride" got more hits than "Unreserved seating"? Would "Fucking a student in her bedsit" have been a better choice than "The Student Body"?

Mind you "A bunch of lush sluts get it on with each other one by one until it gets back to the first one your were reading about" is a bit clunkier than "Circle of Friends"


Ha ha! I called one of my stories very clearly that it wasn't about relatives getting naked together, although the tags and the way the story began made it appear it was. It struck me as very odd how people seemed to miss the fact that the title clearly said it wasn't, but assumed it was. It did make me wonder if people ever actually take the title in, as opposed to just seeing it and forgetting it.
If I'm alone, I don't mind, as long as there is a good reason for it, rather than, "Guys, we need a naked lass right here!"

As kids, right up until we were old enough to realise we shouldn't watch telly at the same time as our parents, whenever something Mother disapproved if was on, she would do this particular cough, and then stand in front of the screen and use her skirt to shield us from it. It could be a topless woman, heavy petting, whatever. It made a huge amount of fuss over something we'd have probably just grinned embarassedly over and forgotten about, leading us to both resent not being able to see what the big deal was, and saying automatically when Mother mentions a film she'd like to see, "You wouldn't like it...". I hate watching anything with more than a quick snog in it when Mother is around, because that cough gets a lot more frequent, and I hate how she reacts.

Like I said, if there's a good reason for naked/semi-naked women, and it's filmed well, I don;t mind. Mostly it depends on whether I'm watching it alone or with someone else. I get embarassed anyway, but it's ten times worse when other people are around.
Quote by DirtyMartini


Yeah, I usually take a line or phrase from the poem...do that for stories sometimes as well...

I can appreciate Miss Mazza's method of just sticking anything in there to get it posted though...actually, I have more trouble with tags than titles...

One day with the tags I just sort of wrote "sex, more sex, whatever"...and the "whatever" sort of stuck...

But, that's another story...whatever...


I struggle with the tags too!
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It seems to be following you about these days. Just about every thread your start turns into drama (always nothing to do with you).









I also have a lot of reading to catch up on.


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Exactly, DM. I also dislike, for example, First Time stories entitled, 'My First Time'. SRSLY!?


There's a picture for that...







I usually get the story idea, and call it something in my head (like FtLMale), and the real title either comes to me as I am writing, or it pops into my head well before the checkover read. I usually find the title during the first section of my writing. It sort of "appears" in my brain as I write.

Poems are different, as I never know what they are called until I've written them.
Quote by chefkathleen
This fits here.



But... it doesn't have flashing lights!











Better.

Callgirlstacey, aren't you glad we're here? Every time we post, you get more profile hits.
There is a startling new development in the Fred saga!

I belong to a private forum. There are 10 members. We can see who has been active in the last 24 hours. Nobody can find the site without the (unlisted) address, nor can they get past the log-in page unless they are logged in. How, then, did this happen (I'm the invisible user)?



3 Staff Members, 3 Members, 18 Guests, 1 Invisible User




It's that stupid Fred! He's brought his mates along!
Quote by etairay
hey beautiful ..trust me ..been there and done that dont get me wrong, it does hurt when ur only judge on ur post number and made fun of due to it ive learnt the hard way ..nothing to worry bout [-X dont work urself up over it I still hate my post numbers hate it with a passion BUT until Gav can come up with a way to delete it ..im goin to sit and wait for that day il be the happiest person on forum.

try to ignore it if you can if i can, surely u can ..enjoy urself on here. Its a beautiful place to lose urself in. The threads are awesome soo many beautiful topics to read ..and ur under no pressure to post ..freedom of choice, you can take it or leave it. Ok ..ive blah blah blah on long enough sorry!!

have a blessed one ..mad love


Was that your 27,000 post??? If so, I am Proper Honoured! If it wasn't, can I get your 28,000th?
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trouble maker! i am SO keeping my eye on you!



Can't you find a shelf?
I didn't read it out of principle. I'm even more annoyed at myself for coming back to look at the replies now that I know what the thread's about.


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Daisy let me get this right - are you saying that Sprite is the women in the pic or that one of those 'things' is Sprite's dildo?


I'm saying nowt! I'd hate to share Sprite's secrets without permission.