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I could probably post a chapter a day for the next 6 months, and still be able to tell 3 complete stories.

But for me, "readership" is not all that important, to be honest. I love telling stories, and hope to make characters that are believable and others want to follow.


than you should go for it - certainly don't want to discourage you - it's nice to have a lot of variety here, a little something for everyone, and we do have some people who have some very long epics going, myself included - i think my Alice story is at 22 chapters or so and still going, so... smile

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than you should go for it - certainly don't want to discourage you - it's nice to have a lot of variety here, a little something for everyone, and we do have some people who have some very long epics going, myself included - i think my Alice story is at 22 chapters or so and still going, so... smile


Thanks, I do appreciate that. But I already decided to just move on.

I decided that maybe the week wait was an aberration, so tried again. Even added a contest entry, just to throw one in. The next day, that entry was deleted, and was told I can only have 1 story in the que. Not sure why there is a que if only 1 story can be in it, and why of the stories to be deleted the contest entry was picked, but I am not really keen on posting a story, then waiting a week until I can post another. I am a storyteller, and doing this for enjoyment, not for money or "fame" or anything like that.

Look, I really do understand not wanting to flood a site by writings from one person, hence the que. It makes a lot of sense and can agree with that. But to just delete everything in that que, and not even look to see if one was a contest entry before deleting it?

I also thank you for posting my stories finally, I am sure if I had not mentioned it they would still be sitting in there. And I am not about to spend 4 months posting a chapter a week, monitoring my que to see when I can post another, and not writing anything else in the meantime.

I simply guess I have better things to do with my time than that. But thank you, it has been an interesting week or so here I do admit.
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I guess I am kind of the reverse. I am simply continuing from now on at SOL, and probably going to not bother here to be honest.

I was aimed here by another author, so decided to come check it out. But waiting almost a week now for 2 stories to be authorized, I just realize it is not really worth my time to be honest.


Every site has its own characteristics and quirks. SOL only has room for fifty new stories before you need a premeir membership to keep reading. Thus the story is only on the free feed for about a week, The stories are still available for free by going in by the author's name, but I suspect few people do it that way. You can also do a category search, but you only get ten results unless you have the premier option.

New Literotica stories show up in the different categories. It takes them about four days or so to approve a story unless you are a new member. In that case, they scrutinize you more and it can take a week or so.

Lush Stories, like SOL, has a continuous feed for all new stories, but there seems to be no limit based on paid memberships. You can adjust it so that only one category is shown. It seems to take them about three days to approve a story.

On all of these sites, after about ten days - or even less - the number of views starts dropping off. Well, it's more like the votes and comments that are dropping off. Like here - or on Literotica - the views do keep drifting up, but it seems that fewer people are really reading them.
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Every site has its own characteristics and quirks. SOL only has room for fifty new stories before you need a premeir membership to keep reading. Thus the story is only on the free feed for about a week, The stories are still available for free by going in by the author's name, but I suspect few people do it that way. You can also do a category search, but you only get ten results unless you have the premier option.


Of course, there are other ways.

As a frequent contributor, I have free premier status there. That is extended to most of those that post stories at least semi-frequently. And updates are also tagged on the main page. This is why many authors post new chapters on a weekly schedule. To ensure they are always listed there. Myself, I just post chapters as I finish them, with the condition that I always tend to keep 2-5 chapters held back "in reserve". In one today, I posted chapter 76, as I am writing chapter 79. I may post 2 chapters in a day, or 1 in a week, just depending on how fast I am writing at the time.
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Of course, there are other ways.

As a frequent contributor, I have free premier status there. That is extended to most of those that post stories at least semi-frequently. And updates are also tagged on the main page. This is why many authors post new chapters on a weekly schedule. To ensure they are always listed there. Myself, I just post chapters as I finish them, with the condition that I always tend to keep 2-5 chapters held back "in reserve". In one today, I posted chapter 76, as I am writing chapter 79. I may post 2 chapters in a day, or 1 in a week, just depending on how fast I am writing at the time.


I assume you mean SOL. I've only been there for a little over a month, and I've posted six stories. I'm not sure I can keep up that pace. I have a few series in the works, but I doubt that any of them will be even close to 79 chapters (more like fifteen at the most).

Anyway, I didn't see anything about free premier service. Did they contact you and offer it, or did you have to ask for it?
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I assume you mean SOL. I've only been there for a little over a month, and I've posted six stories. I'm not sure I can keep up that pace. I have a few series in the works, but I doubt that any of them will be even close to 79 chapters (more like fifteen at the most).

Anyway, I didn't see anything about free premier service. Did they contact you and offer it, or did you have to ask for it?


It's automatic once you've posted enough work.
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It's automatic once you've posted enough work.


"Automatic for the People." Thanks, I'll see how it goes.
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Anyway, I didn't see anything about free premier service. Did they contact you and offer it, or did you have to ask for it?


They just added me to the list as an author. Of course, that was when they first started to offer premier services.

Back then, I think I had a dozen 1 and 2 chapter stories, and a "long one" (at the time) of 11 chapters.

I am not sure of when they do that, but eventually one of the moderators will just do it. And they have a forum there also, and if you ask as an author there are special sections just for authors. That may help you get noticed sooner.

I think it is one of those "unpublished standards", be active enough and post long enough, and eventually they just do it. It is probably not advertised, to keep people from ripping off 4 or 5 stories from ASSTR and reposting there in the hopes of free membership.
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They just added me to the list as an author. Of course, that was when they first started to offer premier services.

Back then, I think I had a dozen 1 and 2 chapter stories, and a "long one" (at the time) of 11 chapters.

I am not sure of when they do that, but eventually one of the moderators will just do it. And they have a forum there also, and if you ask as an author there are special sections just for authors. That may help you get noticed sooner.

I think it is one of those "unpublished standards", be active enough and post long enough, and eventually they just do it. It is probably not advertised, to keep people from ripping off 4 or 5 stories from ASSTR and reposting there in the hopes of free membership.


Thanks! I have seven stories on there now, six of which are unique to SOL. With their loose standards, I can publish things there that other sites would reject. I'll just keep going along and I'll see what happens.
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Thanks! I have seven stories on there now, six of which are unique to SOL. With their loose standards, I can publish things there that other sites would reject. I'll just keep going along and I'll see what happens.


It's in the footnotes of your author stats page. You should start getting premium at 500k total file size, adjusted by score. So realistically, it's probably around 700k, unless you're consistently pulling down scores of 9+. For a word count to file size conversion, you're looking at a little under 5k words per 25k file size, or thereabouts.

The stats page has a counter at the bottom that shows total file size/eligible file size.
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Been getting more familiar with some of the other sites out there. A little shocked at how archaic some of them are (sexstories.com, storiesonline, literotica). Lush certainly owns the others in terms of experience and community.

Does anyone know whether the views reported by sexstories.com are accurate? They are 10-25x greater than other sites. Sounds fishy to me...
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Been getting more familiar with some of the other sites out there. A little shocked at how archaic some of them are (sexstories.com, storiesonline, literotica). Lush certainly owns the others in terms of experience and community.

Does anyone know whether the views reported by sexstories.com are accurate? They are 10-25x greater than other sites. Sounds fishy to me...


Both Literotica and Storiesonline haven't updated their appearances in a long time, although Literotica seems to be making a few moves in that direction. The software on SOL is a bit clunky and also needs an update, but I've gotten the hang of it. SOL also has rather loose standards, so if I have a teen coming-of-age story that won't be allowed elsewhere, I put it there.

I'm not on sexstories.com. What they count as "reads" should be called "views." I don't know why the numbers for that are so high. Maybe the fact that it is connected to a porn video site brings in more people.
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It's in the footnotes of your author stats page. You should start getting premium at 500k total file size, adjusted by score. So realistically, it's probably around 700k, unless you're consistently pulling down scores of 9+. For a word count to file size conversion, you're looking at a little under 5k words per 25k file size, or thereabouts.

The stats page has a counter at the bottom that shows total file size/eligible file size.


To be honest, as long as I have been there, I rarely look in that area. Just out of curiosity, I just did.

8423 (65603) KB of stories posted (the number in parenthesis is what they say counts). 623241 downloads, 12722 downloads in the last week, 4837 votes, 4149 members who have added a story to their library.

And my first story was posted on 2002-04-23. It is actually old enough to vote. *laugh*

The only really wonky thing I find there is how they arrive at their scores. They use some kind of averaging system, which really makes almost no sense no matter how try try to explain it. Something about averaging with the other average scores submitted during that day, but all it seems to do is drag high scores down, and pull up low scores. I have seen stories that are mostly a 10 ranked at barely above 8, in defiance of any kind of math I have ever seen.

Of course, I also readily admit I do not write for "scores". I have even purposefully submitted several badly written stories. One specifically intended to be a satire on what passes as "erotica" to a lot of people. And no surprise, it is scored at 5.54 out of 10. It was a challenge I made, to write a story as short as I could, and include all 100+ tags into it. And I did so, in a 6k story. Simply a parody on the "kitchen sink" style, but only a few got it.