Quote Originally Posted by balorlv
I am just interested in hearing other peoples views on this topic. Personally, I think the quality has declined and it is harder to find good new stories. The good writers also seems to be posting less and less new material or updates. Is it time for some rules in regards to length and structure of a story for it to be posted? I look forward to reading your views.
It's true there is a lot of rubbish around and most so-called "authors" seem content to write a story of about 5000 -10000 words or so as they can then knock off their efforts in an evening or two. However, few publishers would look at such material as most are not worth publishing from a commercial point of view (remember most novels in print are MUCH longer than 10000 words). That's why such stories tend to abound on the free sites - and thus why the quality is perceived to be dropping.

If you want to home in on longer and hopefully better quality writing then please feel free to read my story "The Inheritance - Ex-Wives 1" which is recently posted here at bdsmlibrary. It's just over 30,000 words. Obviously something this long takes a long time to write and as such I do have a publisher which is selling it for me and my other writings.

I think many of the longer story writers have realised the time involved in creating their works and are steadily moving to sites that sell rather than give away their creations - they make a bit of money for their efforts and hopefully, as a result, the quality and content stays higher.

I hope this is of help to you - the comments of one writer who now has about ten mini novels in publication at www.a1adultebooks.com where there are about 200 books of a similar nature - enough for anyone to get their teeth into.