Perhaps futile, but a new strategy in content writing.

[Menard]

Okay, this is not a new form of content writing, just new for me.

I have been on a spree with short story writing for some new websites I am working on.

When I sit down to write, I really don't know how long the story is going to be; I just go with the flow. One such story I had started on with the intention of writing a short story; I am presently, probably about midway, maybe less, through a novelette which will likely exceed 15,000 words, maybe longer.

One of my strategies for promoting these sites, as they are adult websites and adult websites are difficult to promote, is to host several other websites as sub-domains on free hosting; primarily adult hosting services. Now I can modify a few portals I have to change them enough to make them different for different sub-domains, but I also wanted to put up a few sites offering short fiction of the subject content as well.

The problem is that I apparently have difficulty understanding the expression 'keep it short'. This can be evidenced by my tendency toward long posts on forums.

These stories can take a while to write and if I'm going to put that much effort into them, and make them worthwhile, I'd rather put them on my own domains rather than farming them out to sites I am just using for networking links.


Two potential options exist, and to some degree the are cross compatible:

1) Devise a scheme for writing based on a template for composition we used in high school. In English class, we would write a short article which was only allowed 5 paragraphs: an introduction paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a summary paragraph.

My thing is holding to this scheme as I get carried away when writing. My first vampire story, which is now being rewritten and turned into a series was intended to be 10 paragraphs long; 10 paragraphs didn't even cover the introduction.

I'm thinking for such a story template to limit it to: 1-2 paragraphs for an introduction (in adult stories, a lot of those searching for the keywords used in these stories really don't care to 'meet' the characters); 4-6 paragraphs for the body of the story; and 1-2 paragraphs for a wrap-up.


2) Being that, the more I write, I notice using a number of common expressions, fragments, in describing something, I thought of collecting these fragments, snippets, into a collection, and writing new ones as well, to essentially devise a system for cutting and pasting snippets into a story with a fill-in-the-blank connection of the elements.

Obviously I wouldn't use such a system for my writing on my domains as one of the fringe benefits of story writing is enjoying the writing part, or essentially the creation of the story.

Hence, it's not very enjoyable for me to write to a story length; say writing under 500 words, and for me to write anything under 500 words is a miracle.



Just some ideas; kindly ignore this.

[toprngr]

You must be a really great writer to achieve such heights. I am sure that the websites that you are currently running are doing perfectly well, as to get your website to the top, it is indeed important for a website to have high quality contents. You should update them frequently as well. It helps a lot more doing so. I don’t see how writing some articles can related back to your adult website, maybe you know the way, as the idea came from you.

[MarkHaigh]

If you're not enjoying writing short content - I'd recommend paying someone else to do it for you instead. Don't kill your writing flow by trying to write in a box, it'll just drive you nuts.

But if you're concerned it won't be up to standard (a valid concern - there's a lot of bad writers out there), you could pay for short rewrites of longer material you provide instead. Pay by the article not by the hour.

[Andy]

It's a good thing to get in the flow and write long content.

Then you can create sub-articles for link building by transforming your content to a template such as:

• Introductory opening paragraph
• Key points
• Summary closing paragraph
• Resource box

But if you are writing stories then they probably don't lend themselves to being shortened or re-written as articles.

[Queen Bee]

One of my strategies for promoting these sites, as they are adult websites and adult websites are difficult to promote, is to host several other websites as sub-domains on free hosting; primarily adult hosting services. Now I can modify a few portals I have to change them enough to make them different for different sub-domains, but I also wanted to put up a few sites offering short fiction of the subject content as well.

As long as they are just stories, there's nothing that prevents you from promoting them to people other than those only interested in X-rated material, no? Maybe I am not understanding this bit.

Lots of people read dirty romance novels. These books are openly sold at places like Barnes and Noble, aren't they? I was horrified by the last book I glanced at in the romance section. If you keep the rest of your site clean, maybe you can promote the content as less adult-related and more romance fiction.

[Menard]

I'm going to have to let you read some of my stories...uh-huh.

[Queen Bee]

Oh dear...

[Andy]

I guess that much romantic fiction is based on fantasy rather than true to life so it errs on the side of idyllic romance? But Menard could maybe have an edge by erring it towards the other direction whatever that may be 

[waterproof mp3]

In my opinion, writing about subjects that you already know is very easy and fast. But writing about topics that I barely know or that is new to me will take time due to research. Either way, I use a basic essay template when I write most of my material because it provides good structure that is easy to follow.