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The consensus is that On Oxford Street, This Gay Girl Found Pride While Playing With Balls is my best story. And I am moved to tears whenever I reread the comments on that story. For it has touched the (especially gay) reader like nothing else I have written. Yet it wasn't as challenging to write as many of my subsequent stories so I don't quite have the sense of achievement as a writer that you might expect from my success in writing that story.

No, that is not right. Your story moved hearts and minds. That is the real goal, or should be. I know a writer's writer, a true master of words, and she can't make a heart beat above yesterday's pulse. Kit Marlowe was far above that sandy playwright Bill, but who do we read today?
The truth resides beneath the ink and it will be found.

By the way, has anyone seen my jar of pickles?

It occurs to me that my reflections on all this would be rather different, if I took myself seriously as a writer. I write what entertains me, what speaks in my voice. It is all I am capable of. I have never considered the desires of an audience nor taken a calculated aim at a category. Some stories find their mark and some do not.
In the end, I get what I deserve and live happy with anything at all. Past that, it's all a bother.

Quote by Mandapanda2025

Out of curiosity, how many entries have there been?

53 by my count. Somewhat lower than usual, but there may be a flurry near the end.

Quote by simplyjohn

Looks like a burnt sausage to me likely done on the BBQ.

Oh, scat, you naughty boy.

I've never seen an anal plug/wine glass combo before. Quite a concept. Bet there's a story in it.

I've had these same thoughts and wonders before. I am nowhere near either of you in writing ability or reader draw, but I do feel a little pride in what I have fiddled up overall. There are a few Micros and a poem or two that I think have a voice that speaks. My three longer lesbian pieces about the working professional made me feel immodestly pleased with myself, but they didn't stir much of a reaction and just collect cyber dust now.

I guess I get a very average number of likes and reads across my 200. Suffice to say I'll never get a Famous badge. I am far more pleased with the comments people (including you two) leave on my stories. Truly, it always startles me.

On the whole, I think I try too hard to be clever instead of sexy and I haven't a real talent for either.

One without a guy? That would work for me.
Interesting term "Thirst Trap." Before being taken up by social media, it was a survival term for capturing unsuspecting prey.

Quote by Seeker4
On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog, as the saying goes.😋

Or a pussy cat -- just saying.

High explosives head wrap, but it's kind of a one-off.

She is forthright and displays her Nabokov for all to see.

Quote by Ls63563

If you aren’t the center of attention you are doing something wrong.

Or that isn't your measure of a life lived.

I always fade -- here, there, and everywhere. I'm the visual equivalent of that word that just won't come to mind.

Or in my case, Quite Unlikely, Most Unlikely, and Utterly Unlikely.

Quote by MC1982

Still trying to think of an idea that fits 'steampunk', my last genre for omnium (I think). Crickets, so far! 😢

Steampunk paleontology rocks -- think Journey to the Center of Her Earth

One that made my father giggle

No story. No art. No clue.
I do have commas aplenty. I'm storing them up just in case.

Quote by simplyjohn

I do not see why that is relevant 😇

I know it's never made much difference to my readers.

Quote by Seeker4

On parchment with a quill pen? 😏😋

That's what I use and the reason I only do Micros now and few of those -- quills are easy, but that parchment has gotten really expensive, especially when you rewrite as much as I do.

Poached chicken breasts for Miss Pixel.

Quote by WannabeWordsmith
As a web developer, I class the "front page" as the bare domain (New stories, Classic stories, latest comp winners, who's logged on, etc). And I class any of the category list pages (/stories, RRs, any particular genre, story lists containing a particular tag, etc) as "landing pages".

Others may disagree with that terminology, so I apologise if I've been talking at cross purposes on occasion.

That is what I have always taken it to mean.

Or has there been some new unannounced development?

Quote by Down4anything23

But now it is no longer on the homepage, nor will it be listed with new stories or trending stories. I do not understand this decision and why we were not told ahead of time. What is the point of singling out this category only? If people can mute it Why not let them just do that instead of taking it away from everyone?. A vast majority of my work, including my famous story is in this category. I’m extremely disappointed in this decision. Extremely.

You need to read more carefully. Each individual may opt out, as I have done, but that is the extent of it. The category is open and visible to any who wish to see it.

Without the politics, there is no there there. Neither warrants a second look; their clones are everywhere.

It's a tie -- they're both ice cubes to me.

Microfiction. The rest of them just go on and on and too damn on.

Quote by AngelWorthy

52,501. I'm just over halfway to being a "Famous Member" 😇

I'll need another 16 years, but the AI Overlords will probably have taken over by then, so I'm not holding my breath.
I did like yours, though, just in case we come to our senses in time.

Quote by Piquet

As someone whose output includes a high percentage of 'Historical' stories, I feel the need to disagree. However, I'm sure that if I tagged a story of mine ' Fantasy,' yada, yada, yada, yada, 'historical,' - it would do very, very well.

I think if your tag just read "I wrote this" it would do very, very well.

poison

Quote by techgoddess

Fortunately, you can add a series without needing reapproval. 😎

Not always. I have added around 15 to my Real Micro series and 4 older ones were pulled out for reapproval. It may have just been an old glitch and the process is more polished now.