Hello everyone, I wanted to give an update on my progress. I went and remastered Ryujin and the Tales of Heroes using Grammarly and past writing experiences to eliminate errors and typos. The story is better than ever now. Ryujin is the sequel to Ariadne and the Tales of Heroes. If you haven't read it, then I recommend checking it out. :)
Ayida Weddo still needs a full revision/remaster but that will be until next year. I want to write again. Gabatrix: The Silver Rain for upcoming Halloween and Opet and the Tales of Heroes are planned for this year.
I have had to disable the voting for Taweret and the Tales of Heroes as well due to lower scores. It is ironic for the story that actually helps lead into Gabtrix that Taweret is the least viewed upon on this site. I have had others accuse it of being a drug feast or femdom by the use of drugs which is way off, especially for the main characters. The Yuki in my stories produces a powerful chemical during their heat cycle. It is basically like a powerful aphrodisiac that causes a person to lock onto them. No way do I have it where the men are enslaved to the female Yuki as a result. If anything, the female Yuki have an issue where if they don't have sex during their heat cycle, it can actually end up killing them. In other words, characters love and treat each other with respect in that book.
I am still in debate with the voting. Right now, I am not pleased with the voting system on Storiesonline as mentioned in my last blog. Understand I am not upset towards the general audience but the few that degrade it. I use the voting system to get a brief gage on what people think but that in itself doesn't do much. To me, constructive feedback is ten times better. My stories fit into certain areas/niches and if one person doesn't like it, then they either leave or vote down and walk away for the next person to see it. In certain degrees, the voting system can determine the next person from reading the story entirely just based on its score. A few trolls can destroy that process of a writer's work. A bad score might as well be telling others to not bother reading your stories. That is not fair and I don't tolerate it especially when others are struggling to become better and better writers themselves.
It would be like this, the day of the elections show up. You have done a lot of research towards your candidates spending a month deciphering who would be the best candidate as a leader. You cast your ballot and walk away but the next person has done no research. He or she then looks at the candidates' faces and then cast a ballot based on how they look. This would completely undermine the election system as a whole and destroy your work and research on the best candidate for leadership. I believe that there are constructive voters but a few bad people can ruin it very quickly.
I went ahead and removed the "Rape" tag from Gabtrix: The Violet Wave since I feel it isn't enough of a scene in Chapter 5 to make it a rape scene. The "Implied Rape" in the description will remain though. That being said, please read the disclaimers before reading my stories. It gives a more detailed description of what is going to come up in my story. I still believe that some people are not doing that and then vote the story based strictly on the tags. Only one story in all the stories truly has a rape scene (more like a non-consensual) and that is Ryujin.
I don't have to beat this over and over again. My presumptions are that people don't like rape (who doesn't?) in my stories. I don't encourage it and don't try to bring a thrill to it. I use the term "Implied Rape" so that the audience understands that a character was raped but the scene is not entirely depicted in the story. A character might have been assaulted but that is to drive the story and not to actually promote it. However, it is under my belief that people see the tag and downvote my stories without even reading it. If that is the case, then I will keep the voting disabled forever for the sake of abuse by the voters.
With all that said though, I have received a lot of support from individuals. I wanted to give thanks to those people for constructive feedback in my last blog post. In reality, I receive a lot of good feedback (far more than bad) and I don't let the few get to me. In fact, I have actually received a lot of support from others and actually had a fan donate money to make the book cover for the upcoming Opet and the Tales of Heroes. Pretty cool, eh? :)
As always, I have the link for my Patreon. If you wish to support me then you can. A little bit goes a long ways and makes the universe get bigger and bigger. Happy reading to all.
https://www.patreon.com/TheUniverseofCMed