We’d still be waiting for the first book of the A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) series.

 

Look at it these ways. 1) You are an author in the early days of man. You've written what you think is a great story and your telling it around the community fire after the evening meal. Your friends and neighbors start to get up and leave shortly after you've started to tell your story. It's a bad story told badly. 2) Move ahead a few centuries and you are William Shakespeare. You've written a great story about a guy named Hamlet. One evening you set out out tell this story to a few hundred of your close friends and neighbors. You start with Scene 1 Act 1. When the scene is over, you tell your audience that they can hear Scene 2 in a few days, weeks or months when you get around to publishing it. Because your thought highly of, a large portion of your audience returns when you call them back. You present Scene 2 Act 1. When the scene is over, you tell your audience that they can hear Scene 3 in a few days, weeks or months when you get around to publishing it. Fewer people come back for Scene 3 and still fewer for the scenes that follow. Moral of this story is that it doesn't matter whether your stories are good or free, the audience will not put up with your crap (and you're not William Shakespeare)!

 

I’m guessing you’re not familiar with how long stories were serialized in the 19th century? Novels, as we know them, were often presented periodically in magazines or other print media. The general public couldn’t afford the price of a book so they followed along as the chapters were released.

 

Remember that this is a FREE site. And all authors contribute their time free of charge, and 90% of the authgors that write for this site and/or others (Myself Incuded) have a job and a life outside of writing stories. So take your bitching elsewhere and buy a book.

 

As this appears to be a site organized and managed for the benefit of the authors with little consideration for the readers, I have no choice but to seek my entertainment elsewhere. I invite all readers to join me. Goodbye!

 

Lmao. Adios, mi amigo.

 

Please look at this way, It's like a good movie on tv, you watch the whole movie, 2 or three hours long and then it stops, that pieces me off, you don't know what happened, is part 2 next, is it the end who knows, you know what I think, that's readable!!

 

Lol... no, it's like watching the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. You watch 3 hours and it's over. You wish it was longer because the trilogy is unfinished. What do you do? Not watch the the Two Towers or Return of the King? No.... you wait until they are released. WTF are you two talking about?

Lmfao

 

I'm new here (well, I read some stories from here but have posted mine elsewhere so far) Today I wanted to post my first one on this site and ran into the exact same issue, every 'select' in the text got replaced by ****. The story is already in the queue so I can't change anything except maybe delete it and start over, but I'll run into the same issue again I guess? So any thoughts on how to fix this? The idea to use '1' instead of 'l' is interesting but I'd prefer if there would be some sort of escape character or something.

 

The sexstories.com site can be so frustrating. I had two stories in edit mode. I was making changes and proofreading. Then it screwed up the formatting on one of them and wouldn't accept my edits to remove spaces between lines. Then when I went to save it the only option was publish. I didn't want to publish them as they were so I deleted both. It sucks how it just does shit sometimes and ruins a good bit of work.

 

Thanks for the reply, I did delete and repost my story with a slightly different title and replaced the "l" in every 'selected' with a lowercase "I". It indeed looks almost indistinguishable I think. Still learning the ropes around here, the site feels rather arcane so far.

 

I have written sex stories almost as long as I can remember and started posting some publicly about 6 years ago. I kept writing whenever I felt like it so I have a bunch of stories in my library. I started of on deviantArt but the policy on actual sexual content is pretty restricting there (they do have a great community though and you'll get lots of feedback). I posted some on literotica but the process takes some time and it's not easy to edit lateron to fix stuff (similar to here). I actually ended up having a personal site for the latest and greatest versions but am still on the lookout for other options. Have not found a site yet that checks all the boxes. Thanks for the tip about Wrist, will look at that as well. Not too concerned about the skimming. It's certainly not good but the same thing happened on literotica already, so I guess I'm not surprised it happens here as well.

 

Hello there ,

I was wondering how long does it usually take for someone to approve of a story ?

 

It can sometimes take a couple days. And nothing happens over the weekend.

 

ok thank you , I just have so many stories to share and wanted to know

 

Hi folks. I recently tried to publish a story, but it's still stuck in "Edit Mode" even though I've indicated that the story should be published (I have "Publish Your Story" set in the dropdown.) Is there another step I need to talk to actually publish the story? In the screenshot of the original post, I see "Validating..." as a status, but I'm not sure how to get my story to that status. Thanks in advance.

 

If you've hit submit, then just wait. It takes some time for review. Sometimes just a day or two, sometimes longer. Just DON'T keep hitting submit again, that will keep pushing you back to the end of the line. Just be patient.

 

Am I fighting a losing battle?

On sexstories.com there are often comments left that are just spam ads for sites or services that are often against the website rules. I report these but rarely eve see them removed. It would seem easy enough for the monitors to remove the offending user and their posts with them.

 

Just be patient. It usually takes a couple days. Nothing happens on weekends or holidays. As long as you have hit submit, it is in the queue.