What makes you click on a story?

Well, I must admit, I specifically LIKE stories about kids getting it. In particular, f/f is my favoriate. As you noted above it's not because it's anything I'd like to do or see in real life, but because it's about the situations I like to play out in my head.

As to the topic of the post, I have a hard time answering in full. The reason I click on a story is influenced by a variety of factors, not all of which stay static from day to day. I like f/f stories, but I'll read a M/M story with a good hook. Sometimes I want a quick read and sometimes to delve into a full on epic. Sometimes lazy writing will send me into skim mode and sometimes I just don't care.

However, the surest way to secure me as a loyal reader is to write interesting stories. What interests me? Well... it depends...

-LK

That's probably the best answer. Becasue it DOES depend, doesn't it, on lots of different things. I also like what you say about writing interesting stories - because (in my not-so-humble opinion) a spanking STORY should be a story, not just a spanking.

And thanks, LK, for your recent comments on my (Rick Marlowe) stories.

njrick made a very astute and humorous observation on what gets the most hits....and a funny suggestion as to title a story to attract the silent majority.

While "hits" do bolster an ego, I have found that what I do is of such limited appeal that I savor the few who get what I'm doing, like it, and tell me so. A comment or two that mentions a favorite sentence or aspect to a story that is also a favorite of mine means more to me than a huge spike on the hit-meter. It shows that what was important to me became important to them.

A writer has an intent. When someone gravitates towards and appreciates that intent, the writer has succeeded. I think is is just as true to the commercial book market. Some of the best books I've read don't seem to appeal to those who make up the huge audience that drives something into "best-seller" territory.

I am the same way with most things though. I prefer a select, small-batch gin to the one everyone knows and raves about. My tastes are my own. I am comfortable with who I am and I don't need nor necessarily want the approval of the masses.............just the crowd I'd probably be most comfortable with.

I agree with kd about what means the most. 200 hits in the first couple days MAY mean readers like you as an author, but is much more likely to reflect something of interest (titillating perhaps) in the title. While I agre that a good title can be a (minor) work of art in and of itself, the STORY is the reason we write. So I'd rather have a few selections as a 'favorite" (or even one or two!) to getting a much of hits from readers, and a couple comments (particularly ones that show the reader 'gets' the sotry) to marking as favorites. better, yet, if someone would even make the effort to WRITE me (my email link is on my author's page), that would really make my day (it's never happened yet). Of course anyone who's read one particular story of mine knows that I've already made this pitch. And it WORKED - but only for that one story. Of course, the sine qua non in writing is to please one's self.

@ Mr. Marlowe: Not at all, I quite liked them.

To clarify my earlier post and agree with the comments above, depending on the situation, I'll click on damn near anything. But clicking on something matters little when I can just as easily click away. What truly matters is continuing with the story and, perchance, the author. It's less about the number of views and more about the rare comment.

-LK

I like stories that involve adults being spanked over the knee with hand and hairbrush

I generally like either f/f or f/m stories. I love a good otk theme where the spankee is spanked long and hard mainly with the hand. Love mother teenager type stories or teacher student etc. Usually like the spankee to be younger than the spanker.

I am a F/M fan, so if I click on a story and it's F/M it has my attention, especially if it's hand and hairbush content.

I have been trying my hand at writing and have several stories I hope to post soon. I want to join the club!

This work has made me think about what I like in a story and what keeps me excited and interested enough to read an authors work and what makes me hit the CLOSE key.

First, there can always be an exception but I am turned off by fiction depicting rape, psychological terror, abject humiliation, sadistic brutality, torture and anything to do with sex with children. I am a MF with some FF with a little Ff . I am just not comfortable with FM.MM or Mm will not be a part of any story I do..

I like a story with a discipline theme where the wrong doer dreads facing her punishment but accepts it as fair and reasonable and for her on good.

The classic story would feature a wholesome, intelligent, confident grown woman who is basically honest with a sense of right and wrong and fairness. This woman has options in her life and can make choices. She probably is not a slave, prisoner or school girl locked in her room. My heroine is in some trouble of her own making. She is confronted by an authority figure whom she loves or at least deeply respects and is forced to face the consequences of her behavior.

Explain in detail her emotional response and those of the authority figure at each part of the story. As an example:

Does she understand what she did was wrong and is she sorry?
How does she react to being told why she is bring punished what the punishment will be?
What does she feel when she is told to take her pants down for a spanking?
Does she try and talk her way out of it?
How does she deal with the embarrassment and pain both corporeal and non corporeal.
Is there closure and forgiveness?

I love stories where the tables are turned.

The hen pecked husband finally takes his dominant wife in hand and regains his rightful place as HOH. In reality to the delight of his wife.

The stern mother used to administering discipline finds herself in a situation where she must face a spanking.

I totally agree with CLPollman's 3rd paragraph. In my opinion such stories have no place in the library.

For me spanking involves the 4 letter word love, which stand out in the Daria, Grace and Paris stories.