You know how our mind can easily jump from one idea to another, sometimes resulting in strange conversations if it happens while talking to someone? I firmly believe that has been encouraged by the arrival of the internet, but that's not really relevant. It's actually just another example of my mind having a hard time staying on the course I had planned.
A few weeks ago I was searching the forum to find how to write a blog or to change my profile text. In hindsight it's not that hard to find and I should have found it before resorting to the forums, but sometimes I get a little (or much) shortsighted. While reading, I stumbled upon a thread discussing ratings for stories, with a few writers talking about the individual marks for their stories. That stole my attention as I'm definitely curious to see those for my stories as well. So I read on.
Until a message of someone remarking off hand that the easiest way to get a good score was to write about underage teens and incest. Again my attention was diverted. That was a statement that I wanted to test out. It's the origin of "Gangbanging my sister", written just before I went on vacation. I didn't get to posting it at the time though. During my vacation I was still curious about that statement, so I decided to write another quick story, again about underage teens and incest, that I could start posting sooner. That's how "Oops" saw the light.
Anyway, though my data are insufficient to draw statistically valid conclusions, it sure looks like that person (I don't know who it is anymore) was onto something. Though these two stories didn't get me a higher rating than I did before, the number of downloads, votes and bookmarks are making clear that these two stories are readers' favorites in my list. As for the other searches, I clearly found out how to write a blog (though the forum didn't help there). On the other hand, I still haven't found how to see the individual scores for my stories.