mj2001:
I entered 3 stories in the latest challenge, all between 4,800-5,800 words. One got read 232 times, the second 212, and the last 142 times. Not surprisingly, the one that was read the most often scored the highest (essentially 5th place overall). So why didn't people read the 3rd story? Maybe the title wasn't catchy enough or the concept didn't appeal to people. So even though I thought it was the best of the stories I submitted it never had a prayer of winning because it just didn't attract enough viewer interest.
Well, I read and voted on all three of your stories (and everyone else's too), and in this case I believe that the two Challenge entries of yours which got 200+ views were the better ones--I gave both "Taking Over for His Mother" and "Caught Spying on the Slumber Party" a maximum "10" rating in my voting, and I'd personally consider the latter one to be in the Top Three overall in this Challenge.
However, I believe that you do have a point about the "catchy" title, since both of those stories have titles which clearly can be interpreted to involve spanking, while your third one, "The Acting Bug," doesn't. If you look at the Challenge-winning entries, all three top vote-getters, and five of the top six, have titles which suggest the possibility of spanking in their plotlines--thus there does seem to be a general tendency involved.
So if the "competition" aspect of these Challenges has meaning to you, I suppose that in the next one you'll want to consider the potential importance of an entered story's title.
As I've stated earlier, I hope that holding an F/M-based Challenge will become an annual tradition in this Library, it's gratifying to have primarily non-F/M authors realizing that they can write a good F/M spanking story or two while F/M-oriented authors are encouraged to write entries for it. I don't mind if there's a bit of controversy involved either, unless it gets unfriendly with personal insults being exchanged, because to me that's an indication of interest in the Challenge.
How about "Caught Spying on the Girls' Locker Room" for (hopefully) the next F/M Writing Challenge...??
--C.K.