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Hi ladies.
I finished a novella and I want a few of you on the first half before I do anything else with it.
It is dark. Explicit. Not a romance. She is thirty, just moved out, ovulating, and the men she hired are not what she thinks they are. I am not sending the night. I am sending the day before it. I need to know if you would turn the page.
If this is not your shelf, skip it. If it is, mail me on this account and tell me you want the file.
xoxo
Lila
When I first started posting on SOL, my scores were noticeably lower than what I was getting on other sites. Same stories, same writing, but the numbers here just didn’t match up. At one point I genuinely started wondering if the crowd on this site was just harsher for no reason.
Then I started limiting access, putting some of the work behind a paywall. And the ratings climbed. Not a little either, they moved much closer to the scores I see everywhere else.
I’m not saying this to complain. I’m actually curious.
Has other authors experienced the same thing?
Do fully open stories tend to attract more low-effort or drive-by ratings, while stories that require a bit more effort (login, payment, etc.) end up with a more invested group of readers?
I’d genuinely like to hear if this is a common pattern or if I just got unlucky early on.
Furthermore, should low-rating givers be forced to provide at least a sentence justifying the low score?
- Lila twitter/x: lilahartwrites
Been trying to add my X id to my author profile.. it keeps saying Invalid ID.
If u have X, come say hi to me.. https://x.com/lilahartwrites
You got any intriguing ideas I need to hear.. lets have it!
Read it rate it! If u want to rate it lower come tell me the reason in the comments. Read the tags.. if it’s not for u don’t bother reading! Don’t be a drive-by low rated jerk.
Hey,
So.. I couldn’t leave this one alone.
I originally posted Home for the Weekend and felt pretty good about it at the time. But the more I sat with it, the more I kept thinking about certain scenes and places where the control could’ve gone deeper, where the denial could’ve hurt more, where the emotional side of the obsession felt a little too thin.
I ended up going back in and doing a proper rewrite on a lot of it, welp... I know.. I know.. but bear with me.
And it wasn't even a quick edit. I expanded some of the key sequences (especially the laundry room and the kitchen teasing), strengthened her control throughout, and added more of the messy emotional weight that was missing. There’s a new late-night scene that changes the tone in a way I really like, and the ending hits different too.
If you read the first version, this one should feel more intense and more deliberate. I think it’s the version the story was always supposed to be.
Updated story is up! As always I welcome all comments more than low ratings.
Thanks for being patient with me while I obsessed over this one. Hope it hits the way I wanted it to this time.
-Lila
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