Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post

I take it by your original post that you have recieved less than stellar story reviews and or other feedback on the content?[/COLOR][/B]
Actually, no, I've received generally good reviews and feedback for my work. However, reading through threads on this forum and and reviews on other literature sites (like the Literotica comments for NC stories), I began to wonder if my stories are particularly fucked up.

When I started writing BDSM stories less than two years ago, I thought my type of content was par for the course, but... now I'm not so sure. I was rereading this thread and began wondering if my emphasis on depressing/hopeless endings made people, even within this community, think I was a bit crazy or 'fucked up'. Most stories on the site either end with the 'victim' or submissive liking it in the end, or-- if it is a bad ending-- don't focus nearly as much on the emotional pain and horror of realizing that the protagonist is going to spend the rest of their life as a slave.

There's something captivating about emotional intensity, and utter hopelessness seems like a reliable way to elicit that type of response.