I took a little summer vacation of my own and stopped writing around the 4th of July. (many thanks to those who participated in the 4th of July challenge btw). Lajeez even wrote to me and told me it was fine to ask for informal story challenges and to knock ourselves out!
Now I am back and I have continued where I left on "Naked on Summer Vacation: Slut Summer School" story but the comments/readership dropped off dramatically.
While I was gone some loyal readers wrote "Hey, please continue!" which is awesome encouragement. Thank you for that!! I don't want to leave you hanging or pull a George RR Martin and just abandon ship.
However, I have a question for you:
Do you USUALLY go back and read the back work of your favorite authors?
It stands to reason many of my past work was good if you like this story, yeah?
Why I ask is I look at story stats and see that basically everythign I wrote in the past is DOA. Other than a few tiny little peaks, very little changes week over week.
Other than my first Game of Thrones story about Sansa being trained like a pony for Joffery's amusement, I am pretty proud of my earlier stuff. The writing has evolved and I am getting better at realizing "Than" and "Then" or "To" and "Too" and fixing it but in general if you like my current stories -you will like my old stories.
This isn't so much a plug for me as it is for any author really. There are some who write a lot of DIFFERENT types of stories for sure. However, me - I stick to a kind of genre involving reluctance and evolution and BDSM/humiliation. Story codes would tell you that.
Some of my past stories that didn't get far were:
Reba: This is based on the TV show. If you ever watch that show, its like a modern day Brady Bunch in reverse. Perfect for sexuality. You got the hot blonde bimbo daughter, the hot blonde milf neighbor/current ex-husband wife, etc and a HOT RED HEAD.
The Naked in the Trailer Park Series: This was an homage to "Hard Times", one of my first bigger two part stories and I think it was awesome but a lot of people didn't (clearly)
Then you got the "Do you have a big dick why not?" epic that has since chilled on ice/no one pays attention. It feels like I wrote this awesome porn that was only filmed on VHS and no one has VCRS anymore so no one watches it.
I do have intention to go back to its sequel "Its not cheating if you watch" and finish it. In fact, I wanted to do that but I felt it was unfair to stop before I finish the summer school story.
Would you prefer I switch? The girls wore body paint bikinis to the beach as part of the slut summer school "art program" which I think was hot.
Bonus points if you can figure out what SOL author "Kiwi" is an homage too.