Ramble Ramble Ramble

This past weekend was super relaxing, which I needed... if you follow my Facebook or Twitter page, you know that hubby and I have decided to get a house, so things are going to be stressful soon, but it's time to get out of the apartment situation!  Should give me lots of insight for my writing, since eventually some of my characters are going to need to move into houses.  A few of them are already there, but Hilary and Liam are still in their apartment.  I'm having a lot of fun with their novella and I'm right on track to have it out in July, which makes me happy.  It's going to be about 30k words or so.

Literotica has been making me want to facepalm a bit lately.  Someone apparently took umbrage over the fact that I said "he plundered her backdoor" in one of my stories, and lectured me on the incorrect use of the word "plunder."  They very thoughtfully included a dictionary definition.  Apparently they've never heard of creative license.  I think 'plunder' is a perfect word, esp when it comes to the backdoor and there's an element of reluctance.  Pillage works too, in my opinion.  That one was pretty eye-roll worthy, although it also just makes me wonder about some people.  The real kickers were the whiners who read 23 chapters of Taken by the Wolf so that they could complain about both the length and the content.  It's like eating an entire meal and then saying it was terrible.

Although, honestly, that's not even what makes me shake my head at them.  What makes me shake my head is wondering what their possible motivation could be.  It's a little too late to go back and change the story, even if I was so inclined.  Do they think they're going to make me stop writing?  Or are they just miserable people who need to put others down to feel better about themselves?  Sometimes I wonder if they're jealous failed writers.  Or maybe they're just people who have never taken a creative writing class and don't know what constructive criticism is and also don't realize that, after taking a creative writing class, generalizations just aren't that insulting.

You haven't been torn up till you've taken a creative writing class and had people TEAR it apart, with valid and specific criticism.  I'm lucky, I've always been pretty good at taking criticism, but it still can be rough.  And then the teacher tells you that it's not very literary, which is followed by a blank look when you tell them that you want to write pop fiction, not literature.  LOL.  Worst English major, ever.  I always wondered what would happen if I brought one of my dirty stories to class.  Sometimes I wish I'd been brave enough.  Probably would have been hilarious.  

Seriously though, it makes me wonder... do people actually go to Literotica looking for something other than stroke stories?  Cuz that's never what I thought it was for.  I make sure to try and have some kind of erotic content in every single chapter, because the few times that I haven't, people get all whiny about that too.  I know I can't please all of the people all of the time, but it does seem weird that people would complain about too much erotic content when the word "erotica" is part of the site's name.  So if you read on Lit, what do you go there for?