Other story sites?

[Rozn]

Not sure if it's a breach of etiquette to ask this here, but are there any other story sites that you regularly use, erotica or otherwise?

Thanks!

[Crumbly Writer]

This is a site for SOL readers & authors, but it isn't an SOL site, it's a Google Groups site. Thus I wouldn't think it was restricted. That said, I wouldn't purposely badmouth SOL, but....

I post to SOL and ASSTR (even though I get VERY little response from ASSTR -- even when errors make the text unreadable -- so I've always taken that to mean that the ASSTR readers simply don't care as much), however, there are a lot of readers there.

I recently tried to post to Literotica, having heard it had decent numbers of readers, but I couldn't get clear answers from the staff about ANYTHING, they'd reject items for reasons that had nothing at all to do with the story (it seemed they were rejecting it simply because I'd asked a question in the posting notes). So after wasting about 7 weeks trying to get a single chapter posted, I finally gave up and asked them to delete my account, as I couldn't see myself ever trying to post there again giving the limitations.

If anyone knows decent sites to post to, either erotic or not, I'd be glad to hear it, as I'm always interested in expanding my readership. But I'd also appreciate hearing about what each site offers authors (like SOL is better for reader feedback, whereas ASSTR give the author's more control over their own content).

[Vanquished]

There's http://mcstories.net - I'm glad to say that they've fixed their
caching issues now, which were getting annoying.

And outside erotica (or not necessarily outside but across) there's
http://fanfiction.net which has some interesting things and a huge
amount of crap.

--Vanquished

[Crumbly Writer]

I always viewed mcstories (never having visited it much, mind you) as a bit limited. Kind of along the same lines of fanfiction. It's not meant as a home for writers or readers, but a site dedicated to only one story genre. If your a nut about that genre, you can go crazy, but otherwise, you may only be able to only list one or maybe two stories to the site, which makes it much less appealing. It's kind of like a "pre-teen werewolf zombie apocalypse site".

Mind you, I'd be more interested if either site had several other genre specific companion sites, so it wouldn't be so burdensome to cross-post stories.

[Rozn]

I know what you mean about huge amounts of crap being on FanFiction. I've looked through lots of stories and found four that I'd like to see continue. Two Harry Potter and a SG-1 alternate universe and a continuation of Firefly. Everything else that I've read is pretty terrible. It's the same with FictionPress, unfortunately.

[Switch Blayde]

I'm an SOL man. I stopped posting stories on ASSTR although my account is still active with some of my old stories there. I don't read much erotica anymore, but when I do it's pretty much on SOL.

I haven't been to Literotica in years. I hated that site so I stopped.

One site I used to go to before SOL was www.eroticstories.com.  Again, I haven't been there in years, but I'm surprised no one ever mentions them. Like SOL, you need to register, which is free.

I've been spending time on www.wattpad.com. It's pretty much a teenage site, but I've met some published authors there (both self- and traditionally published). No erotica, though. In fact, if you use curse words in dialogue you have to give your story an R rating. I had a reader comment because I used the word "whore." She was young. She was Christian. She was offended. But she liked the story. :)

Switch
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:23:20 -0700
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To: storie...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Other story sites?

Not sure if it's a breach of etiquette to ask this here, but are there any other story sites that you regularly use, erotica or otherwise?

Thanks!

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[Rozn]

Wattpad seems pretty good after having looked at it for half an hour or so.

[Sagacious]

I have posted to three other sites, ASSTR, Literotica, and Beyond the Far Horizon.

I agree that ASSTR gives me no feedback but there are 20 or more readers checking out my stories there every week so I keep the stories up and will post again when I have another sex story done.

Lit is a pain in the butt, but at the same time I had thousands of readers within the first few days of posting, more than anywhere else. Feedback is limited, but at least it does occur.

SOL is my favorite site, but Beyond the Far Horizon runs a close second. Published writer Gina Marie Wylie put up the site and runs it. The stories found there are of a pretty high quality and range from erotica to some of the best SciFi to be found anywhere. Gina Marie and Bruce Bretthauer, another published author, use the site to test out new stories before publishing them. There is also a very active forum. The site is free but requires registration.

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[Serena Jones]

I use SOL primarily. Everything fiction I write winds up there. Most of it eventually goes on ASSTR as well.

If you are looking for fan fiction, I don't like Fanfiction.net because it has restrictions on how sexual Sex can be -  and they seem to be a bit inconsistent as to who is in violation of the terms of service and who's not. The writer skill is inconsistent as well. I've found gold and I've found crap.

The big alternate I've found to ff.net is AdultFanFiction.net. It was founded in response to ff.net's restrictions. Many of the authors booted off ff.net move to aff. I used to post on aff, however, recently some long standing tech issues combined with some BS from the moderators prompted me to pull my stuff. Personally, I no longer recommend posting there. But for reading, I find the quality a notch or two better than ff.net. Although ff's system is definitely easier to use.

SJ

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[sourdough]

Besides most of the other sites mentioned, I've tried my hand at cross
dressing and transgender stories. fictionmania.tv specializes in those
types of stories.

[otakuman]

If you are interested in underage erotica, Loliwood Studios and
Leslita (both hosted at ASSTR) deal with that. Leslita is intended
for lesbian stories involving an underage character, while Loliwood
can have any gender combination. Be warned, on either site the
stories might involve two 17-year-olds, or might be adults and very
young children.
http://www1.asstr.org/~leslita/main.html
http://books.dreambook.com/lolstu/chat.html

If you AREN'T interested in underage erotica, then...
These aren't the droids you're looking for.

[massivereader]

Other than SOL, I usually hang out with the other old reactionary farts (like me) at the forum on Gina Marie's site. You have to register to check it out but there are no adds. It's primarily an authors site so there's not a ton of content and only a couple of active stories posting at any time but most everything there is decently written and there's a disporportional number of really good stories.

 

 http://www.beyondthefarhorizon.net/

 

For the rough stuff:

 

understories is run singlehandedly by a programmer named Djian. He's into all the hard stuff and the site reflects that. Registration is not required. The only adverts on his current site are some voluntary links he provides and banners on the individual story pages. Right now he's in the middle of a major redesign, and it looks like he's the process of moving the whole thing piecemeal from a pretty conventional site design to a new very graphics intensive version based on some of the blogsites I've seen. If you're into this stuff, the link to his tumblr site on the old homepage pretty much sums up what he's about: intense, in fact downright graphic, content with artistic leanings and a touch of of whimsy and humor thrown in here and there. Not for the faint-hearted. 

 

old design http://www.understories.com/index2.html

 

new design http://www.understories.com/

 

 

BDSM Library is a site with host of problems. It's story formatting has been nightmare for the past several years, and it only updates erratically (about every three or four weeks most recently) basically, it seems,  when the whim strikes the administrator. There are only a dozen or so stories in progress at any one time because of this. The design trully sucks. There are adds and links everywhere, to the point where they nearly overshadow the content. The story section is more of an aftersight to the main site. That is a pay site for pictures and video. In fact it looks like they just haphazzardly threw in everything they knew how to do or ever heard about, including the kitchen sink. If you can believe it, it's more cluttered and clunky than literorica.

 

But for all that BDSMLibrary has a sizable library of tens of thousands of stories stretching back over more than a decade, a lot of it classics from ASSTR and a lot of stories wou won't find elsewhere. While not quite up to SOL standards, there is a pretty decent basic search and author index function. And there's a neat feature on each story page similar to amazon's lists.

 

http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/stories/

 

Ask Jolene, which purports to be the porn world's answer to google has tons of stories seemingly grabbed from just about everywhere. I don't know if there's even a submission process. It might be done with robots or spiders.

 

 http://stories.askjolene.com/?qr=&l=grid&t=dark

 

If you're just looking for good reading material sources there are a couple of dozen others of various flavors I could recommend.

 

John

 

On Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:23:20 AM UTC-4, Rozn wrote:

[Deadly Ernest]

I'm the same, I stopped posting to ASSTR when I found everything going up as a new story was being stolen by people setting up pay for membership sites and not sending me any money. I do still have some html version up on my ASSTR page, but I don't update them.

[Graybyrd]

"I usually hang out with the other old reactionary farts (like me) at the forum on Gina Marie's site."

Don't say that without some warning first! I nearly choked.

First, I second the notion that some of the very best sci-fi writing can be found on Far Horizon, without a doubt, including works by Gina Marie herself. Simply outstanding!

But be forewarned: when MR mentions "reactionary old farts" in the Far Horizon forums, that's only a hint of what pitfalls await the unwary. One slight sniff of liberalism will put the regulars hanging out there upon on a visitor with fangs and claws. They be just a few miles to the right of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

Other than that? It's a really cool story site. Just don't make any flippant remarks in the forums.

=GB=

[massivereader]

No, no, that's part of the fun!

 

Just be prepared to back up whatever arguments you put out there with demonstrable facts and clear, concise reasoning. Otherwise you just might get dismembered.

 

John