What Do You Like/Dislike In A Story?

I figured that this would be a good place to let people know what the board members are looking for in the stories they read. This way when trying to think of stories to write, we can have a better idea of what will get a reaction from the general populace, and therefore, (hopefully) more feedback. Be as honest as you care to be.

Here are some of mine.

Likes
-Body regression to about five or six years of age, diapered for whatever reason

-mental AR to a point. I prefer it gradually to all at once.

-Sad Endings

-Character development beyond a description of the ch's hair.

-Brotherhood or deep friendship prevailing.

Dislikes

-mental AR not accompanied by physical. The baby in an adult's body is a bit hard for me to picture, and I've got mentally disabled cousins.

-Older kids getting bullied and cowed from a spanking from a parent...if my mom, for whatever reason, forced me into diapers 24/7, and spanked me it I was bad, I'd probably get up, and walk out of the house. Never to return.

-Cliches without phenominal plot twists.

-Plot twists just for the sake of plot twisting.

-A large cast. I prefer the focus to be intimate on one or two 'stars'.

-*sigh* no attention to grammer/spelling at all. If anything, just pick up a book and see how it's structured. You don't have to be an english professor, but at least capitalize the beginnings of sentences and write the correct spelling of the word, not the Instant Messenger version.

-Peeps who read a story, enjoy it, but don't say anything! (Guilty as charged!)

Anyone else?
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Wow, is it ever easier to describe what I either dislike or am neutral about. As well as what influences direction from neutral. Having said that:

Dislikes:
-Filler chapters and chapters that seem like they're filler because in the large amount of space they take up, they only resolve or advance a single plot element *cough*Lord of the Rings*cough*. Having said that, I have been guilty of writing filler posts in fanfiction.
-Recurring events in unrelated stories that recur only for the sake of recurring.
-Unrealistic responses to spankings.

Neutral
-Use of spanking. This is neutral because how it is used affects whether I want to read it or not.

I will edit this post more when I'm more awake.

Likes:
~Good Grammar
~Coherent Plot
~Alive Characters
~Actions
~Romance
~Spanking
~Risque Situations
~Yuri or Shoujo-Ai
~Mental AR (most of the time without physical, since Solo Mental AR seems more original)
~Interesting Chapters
~Semi-period releases, at the very least. (KINDA holds himself to this)

Dislikes:
~Incoherent Storyline or bad plot
~cliches used at every turn, making it a clone of every story written before it
~obvious plot holes, and gaps
~realistic fiction...not many people can do it right, and anyway...who wants to read about real life? Sorry but not me.
~Characters that are 1 demensional
~People who focus on one subject matter more than anything else. Take diapers in AB/DL/BF fiction, people sometimes seem to make it THE THING to talk about, the diapers ARE the story, there's very little plot. Unless its some kind of erotic, or romance fiction there should be an equal or larger amount of description on other things.
~Lots of talk about "excrement" without the use of euphemisms to make it sound more pleasant, which winds up giving you an awkward sounding, immature feel to it.
~AR just for the sake of AR
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(Phew, okay, this contains more words than I actually speak on some days)

What do I look for? I'm kind of picky with stories. Unlike images, which are a single event, stories are a long chain of multiple events, and so making an entire story something I like is phenomanolly difficult compared to an image that I like. In fact my absolute most favorite stories are ones that came SO close but had something SO wrong that with my own editing, turned it into something pleasant.

First of all, the main character(and every one that wears a diaper/pullup/whatever for any duration or has an accident at any time) must be female, that is invariable. Teen and adult characters are preffered, but I guess a preteen or child can be worked, but those stories always seem so concerned with stereotypical modern Earth/school/friends/etc. problems that it's just too... Boring, I guess. Another undesired story element that younger charaters can fall into is the baby department. I'm exclusively "DL", no fur and no baby whatsoever. And tieing into the start of this paragraph and the entire next one, there's only so much children and preteens can be involved in(I use "sex" in this post in an extremely general and stretched way. Events such as seeing someone get dressed, watching them sleep, or tickling them when they have to use the restroom can sort of fall in with it, and those are certainly not bad for children).

But she can't just sit around in some giant diaper castle alone, can she? No of course not! This is where another element comes in-sex. No, not really "SEX" Sex, more like hugs/kisses/petting/making out with clothes on/orgasm at the most. But you see, something I notice a great deal of is when there's a boyfriend/girlfriend involved in a diaper story, it's always either mutual or the wrong gender who's in the diapers. Every single time. I do respect people's ability to choose and to do what pleases them, but frankly it disgusts me. Unfortunately I'm not much for making up stories and characters in a modern Earth setting, when I think of stories I go ahead and do what I can gain the most satisfaction from...

Stories of preexisting fictional settings. Like artwork, the idea of some female character I already like alot in a world I enjoy makes it exceptionally easy to make a story I like. In my signature I lead to a well-lengthed result of the most well-written and paced story I've ever made in a story format. I really like Reina and Krile as characters, so it was very fun to write about FF5. There are some Naruto fiction and I believe a Kingdom Hearts one up on the board as other examples.

Although decent grammer is very helpful, it actually isn't much of a necessity. The events said grammer, bad or not, depict is my focus. And the only spanking should be clothed spanking that's so soft and pleasant that it isn't actually spanking. And public settings are nice-I especially favor the mall, easily overused I know but it's one of my favorite places even without anything diaper-related. A dance is also very potent.

Another point is how the character starts. Does she already wear diapers when the story begins? I'm not at all opposed to it, but I feel it constricts a story's potential. If she's been wearing them, they can't be as embarrassing as if she was put into them within the story's time frame, and the prospect of starting to wear them is easy to tie into someone else(Hopefully a boy >.>) being in a "dominant" position.(For instance, she lost a bet, blackmail, to make up for something, out-of-the-blue enforcement...)

Words I do not favor. In fact, that make me cringe or feel uncomfortable. Especially since if most of these words are used once in a story, they always end up repeated frequently:

(... Is there some way to cover this better? Like you have to highlight it to see it or something?)

Nappy
Loo(used in all non-diaper pee stories)
Knickers(Same)
Dick
Cunt
Pussy
Cock
Tit
Piss
Shit
Fuck

Okay, and for a list-style summary...
Yes:
Girls
Romance/Sex(Male in dominant/non embarrased position)
Fan fiction is great
No:
Babies
Furry
Nursery settings
Foul language
Punishment

Oh, and one thing I didn't clearly address: realism. Suddenly waking up in a giant pink nursery in space where robots and machines give you enemas is no good.
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Age : 22 Joined : 27 Nov 2005 Posts : 867 Location : Canada

i like discription as well, I also like alot of action

I can stand/Write a Yuri or a Yaoi fic however if its a pairing i dislike it effects my writeing ^^" and people notice this witch i;m trying to improve on ^^
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Age : 22 Joined : 09 Nov 2005 Posts : 186 Location : uk

Most of this has probably been mentioned already, but hey, great minds and all that...

Likes
Girls in diapers
Incontinent characters (either natural or induced)
Original concepts
Real life situations
Clear progression of diapers/regression/etc
Embarrassment/unwillingness to be in diapers
Things that remind me of me Razz

Dislikes
Guys's in diapers
Diapered characters above the age of around 30 (sorry to anyone who is)
Spanking as an accepted convention
Cloth diapers
Sex beyond kissing
Fan fiction that I dont understand because I've never seen the original
Over the top furryness
Bad or immature language
Unrealistic reactions to diapers ("isnt it awesome how all my friends/family/partner suddenly likes diapers and wants to go along with me?")
Too much babying beyond diapers

Im sure some of these need expanding a little, and I'll probably add more as time goes on, but this is a rough idea of how a perfect story for me would go I love you

Likes:
Good Grammar
Coherent Plot
Sex is ok... I prefer M/M ...butI can tolerate whatever....so long as it's well written
kidnapping (Example : some massive lion kidnaps a not physically oriented Rabbit and decides the Rabbit is a cub... Rabbit can't do anything to hurt the lunk...but that doesnt stop him from trying..)
Romance
Spanking (depends on the usage)
Risque Situations
Mental Stability (I, persoanally, would hate losing what brain power I have..so no mental regression from me... I'm not a fan of it)
Interesting Characters

Dislikes:
Incoherence of story/plot
Extensive Cliche usage
Plot issues
Stories that extensively enulate Real life (which is why I w rite furry stories)
Mental Regression
Physical regression (Im not a little cub..and I don't want to be little...it isn;t my style)
little or no attention to Detail
People who make stories Based on Songs but have the story shorter than the lyrics....
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Fox Tales Artist Age : 21 Joined : 27 Oct 2005 Posts : 13

Likes:
-Forced babying
-Girls being mistaken as babies
-Conveyor belt situation (cliche, but cute)
-AR, if the victim is aware of whats happening.
-Cute character interaction

Dislikes:
-Guys involved... kinda ruins the mood.
-Non-Fiction.
-Stories that just go on and on about how much they love being diapered.
-Bland description of actions.
-When characters are WAY too cool with unrealistic situations.

Age : 21 Joined : 27 Jun 2006 Posts : 1

How does having guys in a story ruin it's mood? That's all i've had in mine.. Neutral

likes:
*guy as main character
*strong character development
*furry transformation
*original story
*some humor
*sad part somewhere in story
*plot twist
*mystery
*romance(some times if done right)

dislikes:
*cliches
*fan fiction
*focuses on diapers
*mental regression not accompanied by physical
*unrealistic reactions(basically same as what Pink n put)
*any sex
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People will still write stories that don't appeal to everyone, and I feel this list gives us a good idea of how who will react to what. Or for that matter, if they'll even read it in the first place.

Age : 20 Joined : 11 Apr 2006 Posts : 109 Location : uk

zhaleskra is right. this thread might put people off from posting if they think that the story doesnt meet the specifications that people have posted. it better to just read a story and if you dont like it say so.

at least then you can say what you dont like in it and how they can make the story better
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