Wilde_Guess

Hello, all. “Social Media” is like any other form of media for the purposes of marketing. You evaluate it, decide if you are reaching or can reasonably reach potential customers (readers;) and if so, you post a “teaser,” to encourage those reading your “Social Media” post to click through to your actual site where full content is offered. When you apply those steps to prose you are actually likely to publish here, you also need to ask yourself whether it’s worth the bother of creating a “Social Media Presence” for your your “nom de plume” for erotica and or pornography, or have your actual identity known for being a “hobbyist text pornographer.” If so, then do it, and evaluate the results for yourself. Some people would rather not go through the bother, or don’t want their “text-only” work competing with the “visual arts.” Cheers!

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42285, Sweeden, KY. Was it the ex-Swedes in Sweeden who changed the spelling, or the other locals. Hmmm...

Chapter 46, “Now in Stock,” is uploaded and available.

Hi, Deadman and all. That would depend on what I’m writing. If I had something I was writing under my actual name, I’d certainly post “teasers” at least, particularly if the story itself was behind a paywall where I received a nice portion of the revenue from it. My writing here is under a ‘double-pseudonym’ for anonymity, so the promotion opportunities are quite limited. I thought about creating a larger ‘online presence’ for this pseudonym while writing this reply, and discarded the idea out of hand as ‘too much work.’ YMMD. Although I’ve yet to be paid for anything I’ve written, I have posted content under my own name, mostly in history and public opinion. Cheers!

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42277, US Zip Code for nowhere in particular, other countries may vary.

Such well-written prose to describe a five digit number is truly inspiring. But it has little if anything to do with Cheers!

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42269. Really? Two hundred eleven couples doing that? Oh, well; happy Friday!

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Chapter 45, “Differences of Opinion,” is uploaded and available.

Forty two thousand, two hundred forty-four.

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Hi, Deadman and all. Thinking about your original question, I would suppose that the ending of the story should make sense within the story itself. While the occasional surprise ending out of left field can please readers, it can also disturb them. You should also keep in mind that if you persuade a reader to invest in your heroic and likeable protagonist, only to have tragedy befall them beyond the protagonist’s control, the reader might get upset with you. As a comparison with another medium, if you watch episodes of The French Chef, you know that the lobster always “gets it” in the first five minutes. But if you watch Leon the Lobster, you would understandably get upset to see the bright-red shell, the lemon slice, and the drawn butter. If the audience agrees with the ending you’ve chosen, then you’re writing well. Or, I suppose you could deliberately write stories where the (tragic) ending only makes sense to the reader on a second or third reading. But if you do that, keep the fireproof curtains well-drawn while you build up a following. Cheers!