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Erotica Webmaster - notes and links  by David Nunes da Silva Do you write erotic stories, and are you willing to let people read them for nothing? These are some notes, with some links, about where to upload your stories, and how to draw traffic. |
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1. CONTENT If you
tell a story about characters who have sex, get hurt, or die, and if
you tell things the way
they are, be aware that many web sites will not want
your story.
And then there are those other sites - the ones that only want stories about sex. Not about people, particularly. If you write about anything other than sex, in a story on one of these sites, that is called "slow", and you will be asked to put the word "slow" in the story codes, so that readers can be saved from wasting their time. It is an unfortunate situation. But even so there is much excellent writing on the sex sites, as indeed there is on the no-sex sites. I wish there was a place to post stories, where the readers would just hope for good writing. I wish there was a place where it is the author's business, and no one else's, to decide how graphic to be in describing any particular scene. But I don't know of such a place. I would post there if I did. And I would go there to look for stories to read, too. But I haven't found a site like that. So if you plan to let the public see what you write, you must either plan to post to a no-sex site, or to a sex site. If you will be posting your story to a sex site, and don't put in enough sex, you will get complaints. If you will be posting to a no-sex site, you must keep the sex out, or at least down. Prejudice against the rarer forms of sex also plays a role in determining what you can get away with: sex with animals is forbidden even to be mentioned, even on some sex-story web sites. If Bronzy likes to lick clit, you may think that is mildly amusing - but not it seems to some district attorneys. We are goverened by sad perverted men and must live under them as best we can. In addition to deciding whether your story will be written to go to an all-sex or a no-sex site, you will also be forced to categorize your story as straight, gay, or lesbian (plus a few). There are many gay-only sites. Even if the site has a mix of stories, you will be forced to put your story in one particular box : straight, gay, lesbian. (Indeed your male/male story must be either gay, slash, or yaoi, and I hope you know what those are, because there are different archives for each.) If your story is a mix, like, for example, life - well, sorry. You can of course put your fiction on your own web site, and write what you like. But then the problem is that no one will find it - you will need to get your site listed in fiction directories, or join some web rings, in order to draw any traffic, and the fiction index sites and the web rings are mostly either all-sex or no-sex, all gay or all straight, just like the archives. One exception is the web ring genre free and happy. Since independent author's sites can be hard for readers to find, I am trying to compile a list of them - if you have one, please let me know.
3. YOUR HANDLE Very likely you
want to be anonymous. Whether you do
or not, it is probably a good idea to choose a one-word author
name. Something like GoodStrokes or
TheNewOvid or
NakedBard. Check the name you pick on
Google
and
look for one that produces no hits (none of these do, as I write
this; When I first made up some names for this paragraph, one
name I made up was PassionSinger, but I liked that one so much I have
since used it.) A handle keeps your
work together as it gets spread across many web sites and archives, and
readers can find your stories using a search engine, by looking for
your handle. If you don't want to use
your own name, then your handle is also your pen name. Use
your handle as your part of the domain name when you sign up for free
web space (so your web address will be, for example,
http://goodstrokes.50meg.com, or http://geocities.com/goodstrokes);
this increases the visibility of your
handle. (I recommend using all lower case
for the domain name.)
4. SPAM AVOIDANCE and FREE EMAIL The best spam
defense is to use a
disposable e-mail address for
everything posted to the web. Once
any particular address becomes a "spam-trap," you can delete
it. But this means that if some
archived
version of
an old posting has that e-mail address, and someone finds that story,
then they will not be able to reach you at that
address. So
it is a good idea to include in every posting of a story, a link to
your home page. If the reader visits your home
page, you
can provide a way to send e-mail from there. I use
a form mail provided by Bravenet.
html GEAR
from Lycos also provides form mail and other free tools.
I get my disposable e-mail addresses from sneakemail.com. Yahoo, Microsoft (hotmail), and Literotica offer free e-mail, as do hundreds of other sites. To get mail from the  Google
mail service, which is
called gmail,
you need to be invited by a current subscriber - if you get mail from
someone with a @gmail.com address, ask them to invite you. Gmail
provides forwarding.There is a free service from returnpath.com which may be of some use if you have an e-mail address which is no longer valid but is still out there on the web. But the reader trying to reach you has to know about returnpath.com for it to work. Many story archives (if you chose to upload to an archive rather than have your own web page) provide a means for the reader to contact the author, without revealing the author's e-mail. I provide only an image of my email address on my web pages, 
as an anti-spam measure. @sneakemail.comThe part of this address before the @ is a .jpg image, which I made by a screen capture, using a free program from Gadwin. This does mean that anyone who wants to mail me, has to type in the address, rather than just click on a "mail me" link.
6. FILE HEADING At the top of every story, in both the HTML version and the text version, there should be a heading, something like this (although you should look at other people's stories when you submit to an archive, and respect local customs): A Hot Time in the Old Town
-------by MyPenName Story codes: (MF cons zoo) Warning: This is an erotic story, for ADULTS Rating: NC-17 Fanfiction disclaimer: Harry Potter et. al. are the property of JK Rowling and WB, not me. This fanfiction story is not written for profit. Summary: Snape gets a surprise. Pairing: Severus/Hermione Copyright 2005 by Author's Name Please send me feedback : address@whatever.com All my stories are available at my web page: http://mypenname.somesite.com/list.htm The story codes look like, for example, (MF bd voy), and are explained here. Different versions of the ADULTS warning can be found if you look at a few stories on ASSM. Some sound like they are written by a lawyer, some don't. I don't know how much you really need. Here is one.
This
story contains descriptions of sex, including sex between family
members. It is intended for adults only. If you are
offended by material of this nature, are under the legal age in
your location to read this material, or it is illegal for you to
possess this material, go no further.
I would suggest using the word "incest" rather than "sex between family members" however. People looking for incest stories will type in "incest stories" to a search engine; if your story about incest does not use the word "incest," you might lose those readers, so you should use "incest" in the warning label. For the .html version of a story, you can put words you hope people will search for, in the "description" and "keywords" meta-tags of the .html file, but when you submit your story to a text archive, the heading at the top of the page is your main tool for search engine optimization. The above warning does use the word "story," which is good; if your story is about sex in an office, for example, it may contain words such as "office," "copier," and "ass," but the text of your story probably won't contain the words "story," "erotica," or "fiction." People looking for a story about sex in an office will type in "office sex story" or something like that into a search engine. Also use explicit words such as "explicit," "hardcore," and "X-rated," if that is what your stories are, rather than "may be offensive" or "not for children" or something wishy-washy like that. "Not for children" will not help you in searches, but "for adults only" will. Using words such as "hardcore" will also help net filtering software such as Net Nanny to filter out your story. Different versions of the copyright notice can also be found. Here's a random one:
This
story Copyright (c) 1993, by the Flying Pen. All rights reserved,
permission granted for a single copy in paper form for personal use.
Retransmission of this story in its electronic form is permitted as
long as
no alterations are made to the text, and this message is included in
its
entirety.
There's an  organization
called Creative
Commons
that provides licences that can be used either for placing stuff in the
public domain, or allowing reproduction with some restrictions, such as
no commercial use. Here is the text of
the licence which I
include as an ID3 meta-tagon
my music .mp3's, and I think it would work just fine in the heading
section of a text story. The "verify at" link goes to your own
web page, where you should mention the copyright and licence
status of your work.
Copyright
(c) 2005 by David Nunes da Silva. Licenced
to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ verify at http://adult.pornparks.com/sexgames/music.html  For the version of your story in .HTML format you can get one of these cute CC buttons. The
button
comes with some .html code that provides an rdf (resource description
format) tag, so a computer can figure out that the page has the
licence. You should also have the licence statement as text
(which they also provide), like this: This work is
licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License verify
at http://somewebhost.com/~yourwebpage
. The fanfiction disclaimer, which of course is needed only if it is fanfiction, can also be found in many different forms if you look at some fanfic stories. Make sure you mention the name of the fandom, as it will help readers find you using search engines. Use the word "fanfiction" since some readers will do a search for "Harry Potter fanfiction." Here's a random fanfiction disclaimer :
Gundam
Wing and its characters belong to Bandai, Sunrise and Sotsu
Agency and are only being used for non-profit entertainment purposes.
7. POSTING TO alt.sex.stories.moderated AND OTHER GROUPS I consider the newsgroup alt.sex.stories.moderated to be the single most important place to put sex stories. Here is the FAQ file. Stories posted to the newsgroup are automatically archived to a site called ASSTR . Your browser probably has a "newsgroup server" for reading and posting to newsgroups. Here are instructions for a purely web-based alternative way of reading and posting to this newsgroup: A. Go to Google groups
and
create an account. You may want to use a temporary e-mail address.
B. Once you have your google groups account, click on this link for the group alt.sex.stories.moderated. C. To post a story, click on "Start a new topic." D. The subject line should have this format. {ASSM} Title, sequence {Author} (Story Codes) "Sequence" can be, for example, "3/4" for part three of four, or "chap 2." or "part 1." The story codes are explained here. So a subject line might look like: {ASSM} It's Only Called Blowing, part 2 {GoodStrokes} (Mf cons oral) E. Then you need to copy the text of the story to the box labeled "Message:" If your story exists as a .HTML file, then a good way to get the story as text, is to cut and paste it from your .HTML file (as displayed by your browser) to the "Message:" box. This will usually produce a wordwrap at 75 characters as required, and a blank line to separate paragraphs. You lose any italics you used. F. Review the story before you hit the "POST" button. G. Once your story appears (which takes a day or so), sometimes the easiest way to get a text version (which you will need) is to cut and paste from the news group to a .TXT file. Downloading the file from the newsgroup works too. 7B. CHAPTERS
Most people divide their
stories into chapters of no more than a few
pages. I
don't. Probably, I
should. I think
it is supposed to be helpful for people with slow
modems. So do as I say, not as I do: make
chapters.
When posting to a newsgroup, each chapter is a new "topic", with the
sequence identified in the subject line, for example chapter 2 of a 6 chapter story
looks like:
7C.
USENET
GROUPS - not fanfic{ASSM} It's Only Called Blowing, 2/6 {GoodStrokes} (Mf cons oral) . For the HTML version of a story divided into chapters, each chapter is a separate .html file, and there should be, at a minimum, a link to the next chapter at the bottom of each chapter, and a table of contents (in a separate file or at the top of the first chapter) with links to each chapter. Also every chapter must have a link back to the table of contents. This is the minimum of links - more is better. A link to your home page at head and foot of every page, for example.
The following site, a very large one dealing only with male/male spanking, is not indexed by Google, but has its own search function:
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in the address window. To put an icon on your web page, you need lines like these, in the HEAD section of you HTML file:
