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I think it's adjacent, but not quite the same thing. I'd phrase it as "focus on what matters". There might be situations in which it is important to know exactly what a character is wearing, or which objects are in which room, or the precise steps of configuring some highly technical...

Most of us were raised on audio-visual culture: movies and TV. There, on the eve of a steaming hot date, it makes total sense to do the whole "start with a maximally-zoomed in shot of her high heels and then slowly boom upwards" thing. But if you try doing the same thing in prose, then no matter...

You definitely should.

I'm on Firefox and just tried loading The Gamer's story map and encountered no issues.

Found a new video game and my writing time is in the dumpster. Very glad now that I promised updates so infrequently. :P

But why did you publish it at all?

I am considering trying my hand at monetization, actually! But no, I don't, and I expect that even if I do end up trying it, it'll never be more than a trickle, and that's fine. I'm having some second thoughts about my previous post, though. The whole point of writing is to be read, and...

This is exactly how I started. First I was led by the LLM, then I started having ideas of my own and tried to coerce it into that direction, then I just wrote my own higher level plot with the LLM filling in descriptions and such, and finally I just did it all on my own. So I'm not one of those...

Sure, as long as your next mortgage payment doesn't depend on your writing doing well (ie. for most of us here on CHYOA), do whatever.

Just to be clear, when I said "preparation", I wasn't talking about the general "start off slow, ease into it, then gradually intensify" that any sex act (or portrayal thereof) can benefit from. I was talking specifically about dealing with the fact that this is a hole that poop comes out of and...

It is allowed. Whether readers will like it is another matter, but if this is how you want to write, then go forth!

I think for anal specifically, the prep is just kinda gross (or at the very least not explicitly sexy (unless you're into some very specific kinks, in which case more power to you!)), so skipping it on that basis might be good for the story. But there are many kinds of "prep", and there are...

I strongly believe in narrow focus. It's very hard for readers to find the kinks they're re interested in if you sprawl too much, even with "just" 100 chapters. You also risk alienating faithful readers if your central themes shift too radically. I did this once in The Belly and the Boy, and...

I find that if a story contains lots of images (1+ per chapter), I start glossing over the text and just look at the images. Doubly so if they're GIFs. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, but at that point, why bother with the writing at all? I think that's something authors of such stories...

Fun fact! And the dynamic holds for erotic story writers like ourselves! If I post the title and a synopsis of my story to CHYOA and then say "now come to my site and pay $5 to read the story", my business will crash and burn, because there's millions of stories out there that can be read for...

All good points! I want to zoom in on this part of your post, and provide some supporting arguments for my basic point of "models have to do at least something for free if they want to be succesful". You're right that there's a process of selection on both sides: models want to find people who...