Hey all, a bit of a poser for everyone here...One thing I've always tried to do with my stories is make them so they're good stories, with inflation, or basically, if the inflation was removed, then they story would still function at some level. Now, I've been thinking about that, and I'm wondering if that may be more of a negative than a positive. It's good to be accessible, but should that be something that I worry about, and is it decreaseing the quality of my stories?
To use an example, Johnny Swell did a picture of a mermaid maybe a year or so ago, very well done, and of course, boobs the size of beach balls. I showed this photo to a girl I was dating at the time, and she was very impressed at the quality of the drawing, and liked it a lot. To my mind, that drawing was very accessible, if you removed the boobs, it'd still be a good drawing, and people would like it. I guess what I'm asking is do you think it's important for a piece of work to be able to stand on it's own, or should it be more focused on the inflation community? Anywho, just some random thoughts and questions.
I'm guessing that the responses will be half "good" and half "bad". Seems like some (mostly other writers) can appreciate a good story that stands on its own merit, while others couldn't care less and just want the girl blown up.
Count me in the "good" camp. It's something I try to do with my stories, and while it takes a lot of effort, I think it pays off in the end.
That's not to say that short and to-the-point stories don't have their place in the community. Hell, I've written a few myself. They're easy to write and don't take much time, whereas longer stories are very time-consuming and mentally exhausting for me. But I like to think of reading the short stories as getting my paycheck... it's what we subsist on, what gets us by in our fetish. Reading the longer, more well-developed stories is like getting my Christmas bonus, an extra treat that only comes around every so often.
Stories I have written