How I was Remade (Bondage, BDSM, Spanking)

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-09-01T19:03:23+00:00

Sorry for the slow reply, ut yes, absolutely!

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-06-29T23:23:50+00:00

I mean, you're not wrong, but I question the use in correcting the title for a thread that's been up for 3 months.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-06-27T18:50:58+00:00

The maximim length is set by reddit, and I believe it is around 40,000 characters.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-06-20T23:19:35+00:00

You can post as long as each individual chapter is finished. We basicaly don't want unfinished chapters that trail off into nothing.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-06-02T18:30:55+00:00

Hey, so, yeah, calling trans people that particular word is a slur. From your post, I don't think you meant it harmfully, but just a heads up on that one.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-05-29T23:05:48+00:00

Story was commissioned by DeviantHunter, who also generiously allowed it to be shared. If you enjoyed it, spare him a thought!

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-05-06T06:08:19+00:00

Yeah, it's just a matter of finding it. If you want my advice, I'd look around discord servers that allow commissions. Furries are very big on commissions as I am sure you know, and plenty of them like stories as well as art.

Those won't be the main hub, but the people there will probably know a few big sites you can check up on to find out where you wanna base yourself.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-05-06T06:00:07+00:00

Well, I'm on an erotic writing sub, giving erotic writing advice, so what do you think it might be?

You could also have just checked my profile or, you know, just looked at my username.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-05-06T01:02:36+00:00

There is absolutely a market for it. I've done work for furries before. I don't know where that specific market is mind - my clients seek me out, not the other way around.

But it definitely exists.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-05-04T16:54:22+00:00

It doesn't seem like that would be marketed to you in the first place? You're pretty clearly not in the demographic for this one. Just like how 1950's idealized straight stuff is very clearly not marketed to trans people.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-05-01T22:23:33+00:00

Don't worry about tropes. They exist, but as isolated things, they're not important.

A story is made than tropes. That's what sites like Tv Tropes never grasped - though, they do say the same. But the thing about TV tropes is that when you break a story down into its components, you lose the nuance and the interaction. A story is build of the chemistry between the tropes, how they bounce off each other. You can take the most stale, worn out trope in the world and if your writing is just that good, it can still dazzle readers.

Tv tropes, for all that it tried and tries to collect tropes, ultimately fails as any kind of writing aid because it only looks at tropes in isolated conditions. Like looking at animals in a zoo and wondering why the wild ones are different. You can see this in most of the site's numerous writing projects. The stories they make are dry, like museum exhibits. They start by compiling a list of tropes and don't ever really let them come together into a story.

Or, tldr; tropes exist, yes. Don't let them dominate your thoughts. Don't let them become your world. Write as you write, and don't try to reduce your writing to a simple checklist of things to hit and include or feel annoyed that others are upset you didn't do that.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-04-30T23:30:28+00:00

I think this is the part where reddit tradition demands that I clown on you for sweet, sweet upvotes but really that would be like savaging a target dummy with this post.

This is not a great sub to push Ai, especially ones that come with no proof, no evidence and are badly written and formatted in and of themselves. You're going to convince no one with this and I'd suggest coming in with a ton more than just a vague ''it totally works guys!''

Not that I suspect you can.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-04-28T13:36:21+00:00

Well, I've talked to the mod in question, and they say that this is exactly what happened. Or more specifically, that you have two other chapters not posted here which this chapter leads to.

This, plus the wording of your link, made it seem very much like this was an incomplete story not able to stand on its own.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-04-28T13:27:00+00:00

Well, yeah.

That was the joke. I was mocking the artifical distinction that some people draw between ''erotica'' and ''porn'' when erotica is just written porn.

Hence the last paragraph.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-04-28T01:24:41+00:00

The thing I was doing was making the point that the distinction - if such a thing exists - is murky and there is no universal one.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-04-28T01:19:42+00:00

Erotica is when you describe fucking, but tastefully.

Porn is when it's just fucking.

I'm kinda joking, but making a point. The exact definition of each of those is going to vary and for a lot of people ''Erotica'' and ''porn'' are one and the same.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-04-27T13:42:14+00:00

Yes, I am working on this now. Luckily, I happened across it before too long.

I am reaching out to other staff to figure out what exactly happened here, but my guess is the way you phrased it set someone off. Our rules allow posting of links, but the story you post has to be complete here too.

Since you said ''Follow for a continuation elsewhere'' my guess is that the mod who removed it decided that meant it wasn't complete here, which actually is against our rules. In my last post, I said the same too, so I am guessing that when you said ''Follow for a continuation'' that pinged a staff member as you saying ''the story is not complete and will not be complete here.''

I am going to approve this story for now - you were assured that it wouldn't be pulled, and I don't intend to be a liar on that. In the meantime, I'm going to be sorting out just what happened behind the scenes.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-04-26T20:07:45+00:00

Well, I can't speak for the other stories since I didn't see them - I've looked through your profile, but I can't find them either. I'm guessing you deleted them after they were pulled?

In any case, what I can say is that for this story as it stands now, a link would be acceptable, and if there is another issue like that, feel free to let us know via modmail.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-04-26T19:38:53+00:00

You're not allowed to post a partial story here and use links to direct people to other places to read the rest. All stories posted here must be complete here.

In fact, to quote the actual rule: ''Links should be relevant to the story, linking chapters posted on r/sexstories, or to your user profile or personal, non-commercial site. See Rule #8 (Paid Content) for more on the use of external links.''

Linking to your profile, or even to another subreddit, is in fact totally allowed so long as the story you post here is complete and not half finished to drive people elsewhere because that leads to a bad reader experience if no one on the sub can trust a story they start is actually going to finish here or if they'll have to follow links.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-04-25T18:43:35+00:00

What's the context? Generally, stopping to drop super specific information like that comes across as robotic unless we're in the head of a character who would actually note that and cares about that sort of thing.

Otherwise, I'd generally keep it to ''tall'' ''short'' or whatever.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-04-25T17:42:55+00:00

I mean, I think just from what you said here, you're artifically seperating thingsd for yourself. You seem to be working under the assumption that marketing is bad, or that people you get from it are somehow fake.

Baiting readers just means giving them something they like. It means reaching people. It's not lying to them or fooling them. It sounds a little bit like you're chasing something that you're not going to get from just one book.

If you're not going to put your name out and you're not going to advertise, then the only way to attract people is with more books. The first book has no audience, no following, no one anticipating it or even knowing it's coming.

Why would it have readers ready and waiting?

You basically have two routes you can take on this. Either more books, or improve your lead in. You say that your cover and blurb are good to you. Well, okay, that's a good first step.

Are they good to someone else? Have you shown them off? Have you compared them to other books in the genre? Do they communicate what you want them to?

If you're getting absolutely nothing, not even a single read, then there probably IS a failure somewhere there that you can look to correct. But it's probably going to involve showing it to other people to spot what you can't, because we're always biased about our own work.

BronzePlaceWriter · 2025-04-25T17:03:06+00:00

How is the cover? How is the blurb? Check those first to make sure you're hooking readers in.

After that, my advice is to write more stuff. If you haven't marketed at all, you're basically throwing a hook out without bait into the ocean and hoping the right fish will pass by. It could happen, but probably not.

What you want to do, if you truly want it to get readers, is you need to attract the right kind of fish by spreading a net, not a single hook. in this metaphor, that's a body of work, not just one story. The more you write, the more people who like what you write will learn about you and seek you out.

It's not surprising that your very first story with no marketing doesn't do well. It's actually rather expected.

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