Drought of Stories and Feedback

[Paolo]

You write up a story in Word, Open Office, or something similar and save it as a .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .odt or whatever the preferred format of your writing tool. You then email that file: Stories (the file) can be emailed to eafictionarchive at treemail dot net

If you forget, you look at my signature line or Bella's. And that's really all there is to it.

It's nice if you manually set the line spacing of the document for 'single', and the 'after paragraph' to something like .2", so that hitting ENTER once gives you a double line break. This can easily be done in a new document by right clicking in the blank area of the documents page and getting the shell menu that will pop out. Look for "paragraph" or something similar and click on that, then look for "after". It's not a requirement, but it saves me or Bella a ton of time in taking all of the extra breaks out between paragraphs.

[Paolo]

There's really no point in providing feedback or request/suggestion idea for future stories.

There's very little diversity/range of the stories on this site - they're all the mostly same. Hence why for over 3 years I've been suggesting a particular topic to spice things up a little. To get new ideas coming with fresher kinds of stories!

Particularly Glans/cock-head amputation!

Every single time I got push-back/declines. Even in forums.

Authors don't want feedback/ideas, it seems they want the same boring vanilla stories that are little different from the hundreds of the same stories in the archive.

Well, seeing as just about every single comment or post you made was the same thing about glansectomy, do you really wonder why you got said pushback? I mean, really, were you just copy/pasting that?

As for stories being all the same, it can also be said that all of the major works (Ender's Game, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Alvin Maker, The Dark Tower, la la la, and the list goes on) are, in fact, ALL the same bloody story known as "The Hero's Journey." This was written about by Vladimir Propp, in his famous analysis of Russian fairy tales and other stories. Nearly all elements are the same. It is merely the setting and supporting characters that make it different. When you get right down to it, Ender Wiggin is Harry Potter, who is Luke Skywalker, who is also Frodo Baggins. Only the names and places and times change.

One wonders if anyone ever told Charles Dickens that he was writing the same story over and over again?

[cutnbulls2ox (imported)]

I ve seen a number of stories in the EA fiction that do fit his glansectomy ideas. But as he knows, not every glansectomy story is the same. He wants to see how many different people can tell somewhat different stories that all have the same endings for the dicks.

I think the authors have done an amazing job of writing so many different ways to get to the same or similar ends. The fiction stories on EA have just about any ideas men can dream up. But it how it is set up and how a man gets there that makes every story different for the readers. The real challenge is how to tell each story in a different and new way that hasn t been done before. Maybe that is what is making it tougher for writers to create as many new stories now.

But every author will automatically come up with unique ideas and stories just like every person lives such a different life story in reality. Billions and billions of people following the same exact plot line, born, live, die. Its what they do with their real life plot line in the set up, along the way, and at the end that makes it so different, unique, and fascinating !

People still keep coming up with endless new ways to live their real lives.

[Atreyu69 (imported)]

There's really no point in providing feedback or request/suggestion idea for future stories.

There's very little diversity/range of the stories on this site - they're all the mostly same.

Authors don't want feedback/ideas, it seems they want the same boring vanilla stories that are little different from the hundreds of the same stories in the archive.

There's a reason I stick to the same themes. I'm trying to recapture the feeling of both wonder and terror that I experienced as an 11 and 12 year old. Some of my stories have come sort of close but, in one way or another, they have all fallen short. Try as I might I have yet to write the definitive castration story. The reader feedback keeps me on the quest for that elusive tale.

[CircItaly (imported)]

Atreyu, you defenetly catch that terror. When I read your story i feel again at 12yo, with a pending circumcision on my dick.

[Prudence (imported)]

I agree. I don t understand how someone knows just what they want to see and enjoy in EA fiction stories, but won t try writing any stories. Potential writers should simply approach it like, how would I tell this story in words around a campfire to my friends ? Even as kids, we all told and shared stories around campfires. Its not that tough to do.

Here is a serious question ? To write a story, do you just write it out like a long email, or an word text document that is sent with an email as an attachment file, or what ? I m guessing most amateurs just don t know what form a story needs to be in to send it to you and what is involved in trying to write and send a story to the EA ? Please use non tech language to answer this for us non computer types if you can. Thanks.

Also, I think hearing stories in each man s unique language and slang and in his own non perfect wording and in his way of telling it adds to a story more than needing to use perfect textbook english. As long as I can understand it and read it, it doesn t need to be perfect or like its written for an english teacher s class to be graded for me to enjoy it.

Maybe a few basic campfire stories put into writing would be enough to tell people s story ideas and get the number of stories to increase again ?

Some very good advice for writing stories in the thread "Writer's Block - How do you deal with it" in the "Archive Writing Help Center" ( http://forums.eunuch.org/showthread.php ... al-with-it ). Not Tech stuff, but the actual writing process - as in how to develop characters and how to get your ideas from thoughts to actually typing it up.

[kwanmingmin (imported)]

Hey,

One more thing regarding only the four submissions.

The submission guidelines found inside the fiction archives still say:

Submission Guidelines

Send your submissions to eafictionarchive @ gmail (dot) com and put only EA story in the subject line. (or else it can end up in my spam folder.)

Include your story as an attachment to the email.

I don't think that is the correct email address.

I do think that many new writers sent to this wrong email address if they only read the submission guidelines there.

[bella (imported)]

Submission guidelines :: email address has been fixed

[cutnbulls2ox (imported)]

Thanks for these answers and fixing the submission info. Maybe the long winter has people s sex drive and writing urges still frozen in hibernation and waiting too long into the spring calander. Hopefully warming weather will fire up author s desires and inspire more great stories. There s always a new way to skin a ball (cat).

[cutnbulls2ox (imported)]

Obviously one of the major reasons discouraging all stories and posts is a lack of civility by a few people who seem to love putting others down for various reasons. The whole point of this website is communication between people, not to put others down. Anyone interacting with chips on their shoulders, pointless aggression, or holier than thou attitudes really turns off a lot of people, and for good reason. If its unpleasant to post because of a few people s reactions being mean spirited, then people won t post.

No, I m not slamming anyone in particular. This is simply a general statement of fact that mean spirited reactions from anyone will obviously discourage stories and posts. I m on here for fun, not to slam or hurt anyone.