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![]() 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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| free web space | file heading | A.S.S.M. | | groups | .html hosts | text hosts | | STORY FINDER | mags | fiction directories | | recommendations | web rings | search engines | | linking to other authors | blogging | P2P | | allow feedback | label your site | | e-mail me | link to these notes | ( If anyone wishes to link to these notes, thank you. Please click here for the URL to use. ) 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.
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14. LINKING TO OTHER AUTHORS I started my favorites page, RASA, with links to my own favorite stories, mostly for my own use. I'm glad that it has led some readers to some good stories. I don't know if any visitor to that page has clicked on the link to my own stories. But in any case I would recommend to any author to maintain a posted list of your own favorite stories. Etiquette requires that when you post a link to a story, you email the author, telling them you have linked. They will be glad to know - no complement is better than a link: first because it is a complement from another author, and second because you are not just telling the author you liked the story, you are telling everyone you liked the story. Etiquette also requires that when you link direct to a story, you also link to the home page of the archive (or author's website), for example: Debt Price by Dusk Peterson. On his website Master/Other Linking to the story directly is called "deep linking", and a few webmasters object even when the home page link is also there, so ask. One way to get links to your site is to ask for them, from any site you can e-mail. A few sites have rather rude notices saying they don't want such requests, and perhaps even if there is no such notice, you will still get a rude denial (or no answer). But if you are thick-skinned enough to try it, I'm sure it will work some of the time. You should have a link to their site, before you ask them to link to you (and shamelessly mention that fact when you write them). The links you provide to others, will also be a major way that people find your site, using search engines, even if you don't get a reciprocal link. My site RASA gets a lot of hits from people who type "stories xnxx" into Google. xnxx.com is an archive; I link to two stories on it, and as a result I get a lot of hits. Linking is a gift that pays the giver. (But Google suggests they rank pages lower that have too many links, and they mention 100 as being too many. So it is probably better to have a separate links page.)
16. P2P (file-sharing) distribution of e-books : . e-books are mostly in .pdf format, and the e-book business is quite large. You can get your stories converted from other formats to .pdf for free at PDFonline. At PDFonline, if your files are in web page (.htm or .html) format, and you want them converted into .pdf, you must first use MS Internet Explorer to convert the .html file to .mht format (this is a format that contains your text, and also any graphics you may have used, bound together in a single file). To make an .mht file, open your .html file in Internet Explorer, then select "File->Save As...", and then choose "Web Archive, single file (*.mht)" under "Save as type." Once you have the .mht file, you can upload it to PDFonline, and they will e-mail back to you a .pdf version. You can upload the .pdf file to your web space, and then put a link to it on your home page. Here is a link to a converted story of mine, and here is the original html version. If you click on the "converted story" link, you will probably see it in an Adobe Acrobat window, perhaps within your browser. Another free .pdf reader is FoxIt. An ad-supported program called pdf995 also makes .pdf files, and others are CutePDF writer (requires ghostscript) and pdfMachine . I'm not sure about these programs, though - they work by catching the printer stream - which has advantages and disadvantages. Text files are small, so even a very prolific and popular author, whose stories are requested many times a day, will not usually exceed the bandwidth limit of a free web account, and certainly not the space limit - so there is no real reason to use the alternative, P2P (peer-to-peer) method of distribution for stories at all, and in any case it does not work very well. P2P, also called file-sharing, is mostly used for distributing large music, picture, and video files, and the sheer amount of illegal stuff out there, such as pirate copies of CDs and TV episodes, tends to overwhelm any legal files. The search engines are meager and hard to use (that is, hard to use to find legal stuff - they work just fine if you're looking for an illegal track ripped from a popular CD). Typically, you can search only on the file name, so you should give your .pdf file a name that includes the story title and your pen name, such as: PassionWriter__Only_Called_Blowing.pdf. To share your .pdf file on a P2P file-sharing network, you must have a program, called a client, running on your computer all the time. There are about ten P2P networks ; only one client program (that I know of) supports multiple networks : ML Donkey. (There are disadvantages to using multiple networks, however.) To share files, you put them in a particular directory, and tell your P2P client program that you want to share that directory. As long as the program runs, it sends out to the networks the name and some details of the files you are sharing - if anyone requests the file, the client program running on your computer will send it. Thus, in a sense, it makes your computer a server, and all the space on your hard drive into free web space. But how would anyone know to ask for it? One way to let them know is to use something called the BitPedia on Bitzi.
You need to download from Bitzi
a program called the BitCollider
; once installed, you just right-click on a
file that you are sharing, choose "bitzi lookup", and
that will submit information about that file to Bitzi's BitPedia. This may let someone may find that file by a
search on Bitzi, but Bitzi
also provides you with two special links called : a magnet link, and an ed2K
link. These links can be placed in your
web page
; here are the links for a story of mine
called Midsummer Fires magnet
link | ed2k
link . ( I stopped sharing using P2P - it was too much work. So these links don't work.) If an author has a network client program such as MLDonkey running all the time, and if some reader clicks on a magnet or ed2k link on the author's web page, and if it the reader also has a P2P client running, and if the reader's browser and P2P client can handle the link (for example Morpheus handles magnet links but not ed2k links), then the reader's browser might just be smart enough to pass the link to the running P2P client program, so the file can be downloaded. When everything works, when the reader clicks on the link, a window pops up to ask if the user really wants to download that file; if yes, then the request goes out over the P2P network. If the reader's computer manages to link up with a source of the file, such as the author's P2P client, then the file will be transfered. After the file is downloaded to the reader, as long as the reader leaves the P2P client program running, that will make that reader another source for that file. If some second reader requests it, they may get it from the first reader's computer rather than the author's, reducing the use of the author's upload capacity. But you can see how many things can go wrong - the search engines, such as Bitzi, do not scan your file or know much about it, so they can't index it effectively - they don't read the keywords or description. If someone does find a link to your file, they have to be running a P2P client in order to use that link, and then their browser has to pass the link properly, and then the client program has to accept the link, and then the author has to be sharing the file at the time the reader asks for it, and then the reader and the author have to be on the same network. And even when all that works, it is still very, very slow. If you decide to go with ML Donkey, be aware that it consists of two parts - the client itself and the interface for it - and you download them separately The interfaces available are G2gui ( another source for G2gui ) or Sancho's, or independent interfaces BlogTorrent for Windows and MLdonkey ease. (When you download from MLdonkey Ease, you get both parts). File-sharing search engines (torrent search engines): not torrent : ShareProvider : ebooks ( register to submit ) [ ed2k links ] not torrent : Share Heaven : ( register to submit ) 16B. By far the largest P2P network in terms of the amount of traffic it produces, is BitTorrent. ML Donkey can access the BitTorrent network for downloads (although for me it hasn't worked yet). As far as I can tell though, ML Donkey does not share files over the bittorrent network. For that you need a BitTorrent client, available from BitTorrent's home page, or you could use one of many other free clients such as BitLord. Until recently, to share files with BitTorrent, you had to place a small program called a tracker on a server (a computer that can respond to requests from the internet). But this has now changed : the latest BitTorrent (and only the one from BitTorrent itself) has a "trackerless" option. So here's how it works with trackerless BitTorrent. Once you have BitTorrent downloaded, installed, and running, place a file you want to share (which should be .pdf for your stories, I think) into some directory, and then choose "Make Torrent" from the File menu of BitTorrent, and select your file. Select the DHT (trackerless) option, and make sure you put a description of your file in the "comment" box. When you make the torrent, there will be an option to start "seeding" it; do so. The "torrent" you create is a tiny file with the extension .torrent (it is created in the directory where your file is.) Upload the .torrent file to your web space, and place a link to it in your web page, like this : A story set in 1968, in San Francisco. Katherine and Johnny ( .torrent ) In principle, if someone who visits your web page has a file-sharing client that can read torrents, they click on the torrent link, and their BitTorrent client will start downloading the file for them. If you write something so popular that a lot of people use BitTorrent to get it, then under the bittorrent system, those other users become additional sources for your file, and that makes the download faster for each reader who downloads it, and you don't get a bill for using too much bandwidth. But effective hub-less file-sharing is at present only a dream. Torrent search engines : (other P2P search engines) isoHunt ( release page ) register to submit on home page MadTorrent ( onlytorrents.com Torrent reactor Bittorrent junkie ( no books at all ) TorrentSpy HyperTor MiniNova (633 e-books) Yotoshi bitoogle myBitTorrent (has despicable pop-ups) Cloud-Five Torrent resources Torrent genie Typhoon torrents Start torrent Direct downloads Crackhell The torrent network ought to be ideal for obscure and marginal subjects. If someone had a lot of data from some project or other - such as a local historian with a lot of scanned old letters - those files could stored on a personal computer for a one-time cost of about $1 per gigabyte (based on the cost of a hard drive), and P2P would be a great way to distribute them. Sounds like a way to get all the world's information online, doesn't it? But the way Bittorrent is set up, you are penalized for being interested in obscure things. The only way you can keep your upload/download ratio high, is to download things that everyone else wants. And about the only way to do that on the BitTorrent network is to share illegal copies of popular TV shows and CDs. 17. Providing forFeedback Bravenet offers a form (there it is at the bottom of this page) to put on your web page for readers to e-mail you. It is ad-supported, so when someone uses it to mail you, they are taken to a page of ads after their mail is sent. Please send me some mail to try it out. ASSTR provides a form (with no ads) but it only works if your web page is on their site. Bravenet tells me the IP address (the thing that looks like 34.105.123.99) of each person sending me e-mail, and some of the traffic trackers discussed below tell me the IPs of recent visitors. To translate an IP address to the location of the service provider, use ForMyIP.com. If you post to a text archive, the archive will likely provide a way to get reader feedback to you ; you may get e-mail which has been sent to every author on the archive, saying something like "I really liked your story - tell me more." This is an attempt to harvest your e-mail address ; they are hoping you will reply to the mail, and they will get your address and sell it. So you should use a disposable e-mail address, unless you are sure you have been mailed by a real human. When you get feedback, which after all might be genuine, the answer you send back should include your home page URL. However, some e-mail programs truncate long web addresses (and sneakemail.com, where I get my disposable e-mail, is one of them). So if you want to e-mail anyone your website address, you may want to visit tinyURL.com where you can get a short URL which gets re-directed to your real URL. For example, the short URL for this page is : tinyurl.com/anebs 17B. Tracking your visitors. It is always interesting to know how many hits your page gets, and even more interesting to know from what other page they followed a link to find you. And if it was from a search engine (most hits to most sites are from search engines) it is interesting to know what the user was searching for. There are free counters available that can tell you this stuff. You can see the stats for the STORY FINDER by clicking the following link ( after clicking, check out the options under the "statistics" menu to the left, especially "Keyword analysis" ) StatCounter stats.
For the stats for this page, the Erotica Webmaster, click this planet
icon.A lot of hits to my favorites list, RASA, come from people who typed "sex stories" or "hardcore sex stories" or something like that, into Google or MSN. If "hardcore" is what people are searching for, and if the stories you offer are hardcore, then you increase your chance of being found if you include "hardcore" in the description or keywords tags of your site (these are part of the HTML header). Naturally, there is no point in calling your stories "X-rated" or "hardcore" if they aren't - you'll just get readers who won't like your stories. Suppose your story involves incest; I think "incest" may be the most searched-for sex category word in search engines. Having "incest " as a keyword will do you almost no good at all - it must be in your title, description, or content - especially near the top. You may not be willing to change your title or the story itself to suit the search engines, but do use your description tag. Even those disclaimers which you put in to warn the kids, can also get you traffic, but be straight-forward with your warning, don't expound your politics - if your warning is something like "This site has stories which some narrow-minded people might find objectionable," then you will get visitors who typed "narrow-minded" into Google, and they were not looking for your story. You can include a description or summary in the text of your story too (if you are submitting to a text archive, this is the only you can have a description). The same rules you follow to get traffic from those who are looking for sex stories, also makes your website easier for nanny software to screen out; if you use words like "hardcore sex" and "incest" they can screen you out, but they will not screen out "vivid descriptions of natural acts" or notice that the two characters in your love story happen to be related. Here are some of the free counters: ![]()
annonymouse 17D. Consideration for your user's browser, screen, and connection speed. AnyBrowser.Com will run a test. However, I don't think you need worry about thier strictest test, level iii. The "HTML 4.0 transitional" test is enough. They also have a HTML validator. Their "not fussy" validator is fussy, and does not explain well how to fix things; the WC3 service on that page is better.
19. SOME SITES WITH INFO ON SELF-PUBLISHING or WEB SITE PROMOTION
20. Stories rated or suggested to me.
21. LINKING TO THIS PAGE : http://adult.pornparks.com/sexgames/giverotic.htm
22. MY BLOG ROLL - E-MAIL ME about a site or a story. Mail me the URL of your own site or blog for the list below: "Independent Free Erotica : Author's Story Sites and Blogs," or mail me about any other story site that should go on that list. (By "independent," I mean not hosted on a major story archive such as ASSTR.) Or tell me about any site with free stories, or any free site that is useful to authors, or send any sort of comments at all. If you want to recommend a single story to me (including your own), please go here. Thanks.
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