hehe knock yourself out sweetie, no need to apologise :rose:

 

This is something that perhaps we could expand upon infinitely in the library....

 

Damn! I wanted to check who voted positive for my new story and I clicked on the positive vote thing instead and voted positive for my own story. I liked the story but didn't intend to vote for it myself. Honest!

 

Lol - I think we may all be guilty of that when our 'babies' are voted down

And I was one - I enjoyed it very much

 

I just went in and voted it up.... having previewed it

 

I don't have that excuse, but I voted positive also. Very well written, very unusual story to find here. You done good.

 

If anyone's wondering-

I'm back from visiting family all over the country and I've figured out that the perfect story I had in mind will take me far too long to enter it in CAW 6.

It's not a silly story and for me that means it has to bake for literally months. I just want to try to do as good of a job of it as I can and I have to get away from it for weeks at a time in order to look at it again and figure out the next round of changes. The good news is that I still have a day job.

 

His country bred prose is unique to say the least. Now if he would humble himself and write about riding through the countryside atop his trusty steed, the guy might be able to relate to those of us who post here and actually understand poetry, especially yourself, clarise.

Then, once he's written more than the one thread in GD, he would have enough je ne sais quoi to engage you in a conversation about prose, much less poetry.

Stumbler is quite the storyteller, in more ways than one. He weaves webs that a spider can get stuck to. But what he writes is simplistic. A man and his horse. Alone in the country. A burly, snorting, clippety-clopping animal beneath you.

I could go on but I don't want to lose the three people who read what I write :excited:

 

Thanks.

His prose is clean. Sometimes a paucity of imagination, but I suspect he has had some formal training in exposition. But the mere notion of discussing poetry with him... too weird.

BTW, confession... I responded to him again. Just now. His brain is what fascinates me. I am most definitely studying him. I plan on using him, or some aspects of him, in Sublimated.

 

I wouldn't doubt he listened well in his literature classes.

It's like talking sex with your parents. There better well be a good reason for doing so, and expect it to last longer than you ever thought imaginable.

 

CLASSIC!!!!!

 

First, you should always vote positive for your own story, as soon as it hits the site. Why? Not for ego, rather, because that will get it a 100% rating quick, and jump it to the top of the Sex Stories, where you'll start to get a lot of read traffic.

Second, you have to decide what you are going for when you post over there. If you have no specific "haters" then I find it is best to post where only logged in members can vote. Typically, unless you run across a dickhead, logged in members don't vote you down. So you have a good chance at staying at 100% and get a lot of reads. I let anyone comment. Now, I have a single "hater" so I have to take my chances, or, if I think I have a series that might appeal to the general public and not a niche like a story entry, then I will let everyone vote, because that will help chisel away at the negatives from the haters. Keep in mind that a logged in member vote is worth 4x that of an anonymous vote, so, you weigh your odds.

Third, I vote for ya! :excited: I love period pieces and yours is very good, except that I was rushed to get a review back to you and didn't catch the events of the end...and then I felt like an idiot when I PM'd you with a dumb fact.

Anyway...that's my take on voting over in the Stories section. It's a game I enjoy playing.

 

I have about 20 or so trolls... so if you take that into account and my stories are at 90+% that's gotta say something

 

Says you are a good writer!

Do you have trolls who vote against you while they are logged in, or just anonymous?

 

One or two will vote logged but most of them are anonymous.

 

How did you get a building out of that?.... Hmm no climax and no backstory... I can work on that I suppose...

 

You mentioned that one of the character's feet hit "floor". If they are outside, are there floors? It's a technicality I guess. And yes I did notice that it said something about a cave. I would have thought to mention a type of rock that the ground/floor is made out of.

The characters would probably be able to venture a guess as to what the floor looks like, feels like, whether it is smooth...etc.

Again, a minor detail but I sometimes have trouble imagining a setting in my mind's eye so it could very well be my problem.

 

Well if I had said the landed on a big pile of breakdown would you have had any idea what that was? Floor as in Floor of the cave... littered with rocks and boulders of various sizes...

 

I agree. At one point I refused to vote up my own stories on principal, but I quickly realized that if I had the poor luck to attract negative votes before the story was widely read, it would drop like a stone and possibly never be seen by anyone who would have liked it. The four votes give you something of a buffer.

Now, this DOES mean that your score, whatever it may be, is artificially inflated. However, unless you're some kind of stickler for record-keeping, I'm not sure this matters. If your popular story is at 88 instead of 83 thanks to your own vote, well, honestly, who cares? Conversely, if everyone hates your story, and it sits at 60 instead of 50 on your own account, well, again, it doesn't much matter, because once the numbers drop down there it's largely all the same anyway.

If you care about the numbers for their own sake, then perhaps it makes a difference, but if you only care to the degree of the effect the score will have on who reads it, then it tends to be a wash.

 

Well, that's what made me think it was in a building of some making. Mentioning the word floor. Suggesting that they landed on the ground would immediately infer that it is outside. Floor, for me, equals a setting based inside of a building.