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Question: what should I allow to influence the direction of a story?

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Lately, I've found myself in the same quandary time and again when I'm trying to devise the plot for current and new WC stories. And I haven't been able to reach a conclusión yet...

So, I ask my fellow degenerates: What should I allow to mainly influence the direction I would be taking a story to upload on QQ, Plot or horny?
 
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Either is fine so long as you keep it consistent, nothing worse than having to wait 50 chapters for smut or having a nonstop action fic become a slice of life smut with the action becoming cliff notes just as it was getting good. Just decide if it's going to be smut, a story with smut, or a story that should go in the sfw category before you start posting it.
 
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Soupervan said:
Either is fine so long as you keep it consistent, nothing worse than having to wait 50 chapters for smut or having a nonstop action fic become a slice of life smut with the action becoming cliff notes just as it was getting good. Just decide if it's going to be smut, a story with smut, or a story that should go in the sfw category before you start posting it.
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Interested in this too, have occassionally suspected some reader frustration in responses (to various stories) regarding works which appear to not be "offering up the goods", so to speak, along with the constant backlash of SFW fics in the NSFW section, along with SB/SV reposts. Admit. Experiencing some pressure to include some sort of hanky-panky in the first 10 chapters of any story to avoid "cheating" the audience, personally.

Admit. Then again, might be overthinking again.
 
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Experiencing some pressure to include some sort of hanky-panky in the first 10 chapters of any story to avoid "cheating" the audience, personally.
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Just pop a tag or put something in the synopsis saying it's a slow romance and you should be good with most people that will read it.
 
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Just pop a tag or put something in the synopsis saying it's a slow romance and you should be good with most people that will read it.
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That is the thing - still remember some offhand gripes that "slow romance" and "lewds eventually" tags serve as red flags for SFW fics in denial. Implication that the story is just a long tease with no payoff. Hence the nervousness.
 
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gripes that "slow romance" and "lewds eventually" tags serve as red flags for SFW fics in denial.
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Huh, guess I'm too used to light novels where slow romance doesn't mean lewds, just that it takes a hundred chapters or so for the romantic partner to show up and another hundred for them to get together.
I guess a good alternative would be just to say which chapter the smut will start, either by writing most if not all of it before posting or having a good plot outline before you start writing.
 
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Soupervan said:
Huh, guess I'm too used to light novels where slow romance doesn't mean lewds, just that it takes a hundred chapters or so for the romantic partner to show up and another hundred for them to get together.
I guess a good alternative would be just to say which chapter the smut will start, either by writing most if not all of it before posting or having a good plot outline before you start writing.
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Opinion. Common assumption is for most fics not to last log, unfortunately, hence assumed concerns of said stories ending well before reaching said "fanservice" points. At least as far as observation claims.

ADD: Light novel example provided would technically fall under the "long tease" umbrella, in hindsight.
 
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