I’ve done some soul searching over the past 24 hours and I’ve come to some conclusions. I’ve gotten carried away with the bells and whistles here at the blog and so I’ve decided to dial things back.
One of my (many) personal failings is that I’m one of those pathetic people-pleaser types. I want to make everyone happy. Intellectually I know that’s not possible, but instinctually I’m unable to resist trying. In terms of the blog, I’ve realized that too much of a good thing is spoiling it for a lot of people.
A big part of what prompted me to get to where I am with the blog was when I started hearing from people who said they visited the site every day to see what was new. I worried about how there wasn’t something new there every day for them, and felt guilty that they would be disappointed more days than not. This motivated me to add Captions – something I could have at least one new instance of each day. On top of that I added DMM Fan Fiction, Family Secrets, Dirty Polls, and the Reader Gallery. Each time I added something I was moving away from my core mission to create incest fantasy stories for people to masturbate like crazy to.
Adding the forum was apparently the breaking point for a lot of people. I got a number of angry emails when I changed over to DirtyMindedMinx, but from the comments and emails I’ve gotten since announcing the Forum I’ve alienated a lot more folks. I also know that for every person that makes a comment or sends an email, there are a hundred more who feel the same, but just quietly walk away. My first reaction was to dismiss these concerns. “How can people be upset at me for providing MORE free content!? If they don’t like it, they don’t have to look at it!” The more I thought about it, though, the more I could see their underlying objections.
One commenter described the site as becoming too “commercialized.” Technically, I’d argue that it isn’t, but I think the intention was more about conveying the idea that my blog was transforming from the humble efforts of a horny housewife into something that more resembled a porn-for-pay type of site. I could make some arguments there as well, but I can see the broader point being made and understand what was meant by “commercialized.”
This, however, wasn’t the deciding factor for me. Along the way, I convinced myself that each little addition would only take me an extra ten minutes a day to manage, or perhaps an extra hour each week, which I could easily handle. The problem is that those minutes and hours added up. So much so that my writing really has taken a backseat to administering my growing porn circus. This isn’t good for any of us!
So, here’s my plan. I’m going to roll the blog back to what it was in the beginning. It’ll be posts, my stories, more stories, and (probably) links. My target is to start 2017 fresh in this old skool mode. Over the course of December, I’m going to continue posting any contributions I already have, but I’m not going to accept any new contributions for: Captions, Family Secrets, or the Reader Gallery. I will still take DMM Fan Fic, but in the future these will simply go into the More Stories section. I’m also going to keep posting stories from readers because I still very much want to provide a supportive platform for first time writers, and others, to share their fantasies and erotic visions.
As much fun as they were, I’m going to get rid of the weekly Dirty Polls. Maybe I’ll do one now and again as a post, but we’ll see. I’m going to take the nascent Forum off of the blog, but I’m not going to delete it from existence. I’m going to leave it out there as an independent entity and let it live or die on its own merits. If you want to go there and use it, more power to ya. If you hate the very idea of the forum down to the center of your being, then you can console yourself that it will effectively be gone forever as far as you will be able to tell.
I know a lot of you will be upset with this rejiggering of my blog, which brings us back to the “can’t please all of the people all of the time” problem. The upside is that I will be able to take all the time I’ve been putting into updating the various ancillary features and devote it to writing stories about mothers fucking sons, daughters sucking daddies, and sisters pissing on brothers…or whatever disturbingly kinky thing is turning me on at the moment…
And, nothing is written in stone. If we find that life has been rendered all but meaningless without one of the features that went away, we can always bring it back to the blog down the road if we want. Hopefully, we won’t need to go there because we’ll be so drained of semen and pussy juice with the focus back on good, wholesome incest erotica that we won’t even miss all the extraneous porn candy.
Thanks, again, to everyone who supports what I’m trying to do here at the blog. And a special thanks to the people who stepped up and let me know I was straying too far off the righteous path of perversion.
Hugz,
DirtyMindedMom
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