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Thanks everyone for the steady stream of suggestions prompted by my previous post.
Now I haven't had anywhere near time to go through all of them, obviously, but I have already followed up one lead and discovered my so-far-favourite author! The stories by Ryan Sylander are sublime.
I have just updated my story Mid Summer Madness. As I originally envisaged it I deliberately left the story with imperfect heroine. Of course after the story was out there, my feelings towards the heroine softened and I wanted to give the story a nice hopeful happy-ever-after ending. So, from half-way down page three onwards, is Sanna's just desserts :)
In other news, I've just published Chapter 3 of Distance. The protagonist is going to learn romance the hard way :)
I read more than I write.
How do I find stories? I read the 'new stories' section! And if I like the story or if its a continuation, I click on the author and see what else they've written.
But of course there aren't many new stories. I can read quicker than people post. So I've taken to searching.
Only searching is very crude. I'm kinda skeptical about the scoring algorithm and classifications. I have actually taken to searching by random word like a thing 'lake' or a person 'alice', just to get random stories and see what is good.
What this site really needs is a recommendation system. "People who liked this story also liked..." etc.
Technically this is called 'collaborative filtering'. Its not as scary mathematically as it sounds. If there were a list of users (anonymous, their usernames are really not useful data) and their views and scores, it would be trivial to group stories by who likes them, and to suggest to people what stories they might enjoy reading next.
As it is, the homepage announces there are over 46 thousand stories, but I'm sure that searching by category is not going to find good ones just as I'm sure that the absolute scoring doesn't reflect anything useful.
In the meantime, if you know any authors with good romantic stories, please let me know; the chances of me chancing upon them by random searching are pretty slim! ;)
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