Limnophile: Blog

Thousands of authors make our stories available online for free, and our main motivations to do so are your votes and comments.

If you thought something was particularly humorous, creative, or sexy, please say so in the comments section at the bottom. Even a simple "Good story", "Hot", or "Funny stuff" makes my day.

One of the nicest things a reader can say is "More please!" If you want a writer to produce more chapters for a story in progress, tell them and your wish is more likely to come true.

I seriously doubt I can ever surpass all the thousands who already wrote about falling in love with their sister or giving their virginity to a hot stranger. I also doubt anybody will this year.

On the flip side, unless somebody copied my idea, I'm the best in the world at writing about boy + girl fraternal twins who grow to adulthood and have sex in an artificial womb, getting the sister pregnant before they are even 'born.'

https://storiesonline.net/s/28846/tube-twins

I might also be the best at writing about video game characters getting revenge on bad players who killed them repeatedly.

https://storiesonline.net/s/28839/the-ledge

If you can't be one of the best at a common trope, maybe you should create something wildly innovative and be the best at that instead.

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The worst thing to feel during a prostate exam is two hands on your shoulders.
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6.9 is something great, ruined by a period.
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What's the difference between medium and rare?
5 inches is medium, and 8 is rare.
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These are just my opinions and you know what opinions are worth. Take with a large handful of salt.

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Below 5.5 - Focused on a rare fetish most people dislike or generally terrible writing, usually with many punctuation and spelling errors.

5.5 to 6 - Story has many errors or a plot which doesn't appeal to most people. Might be okay if it includes your favorite fetish.

6.1 to 6.7 - Has a reasonably good story line and a small mistake here or there. Usually worth a look.

6.8 to 7.9 - Great stuff, unless it contains something you are squicky about.

8 and above - Many excellent stories fouled by some which are too high-brow and overly fortified with 15-letter words to entertain mere mortals.

The portion with overly complex sentence structure and excessively pompous puffery may be small, but they irritate me so much I skip any story with a score over 8. Lugubriously, many writers don't consider the 95% of their readership who lack degrees in literature.

Writing 'down' to a difficulty level average college graduates can understand shouldn't be frowned upon, and 'Entertainment' shouldn't require a dictionary five times per sentence.

** Steps off soap box **

AuthorWench's blog post really hit the nail on the head -

"I can only write as much as my inspiration and free time allow. On a rare holiday weekend when the muses are working overtime, I might write forty pages. If I only have a couple of hours, I may only do a single page.

The other reason for short chapters is the 'New Story' and 'New Chapter' notices. If I posted 50 pages at a time, there would only be one message and not many people would see it.

Apologies that it may be inconvenient for readers, but that's how it goes. If it annoys you too much, maybe wait until there are 6 chapters and read them in one sitting?"