[Janus Steel]

I prefer longer narratives personally... I voted for the 10+

But that's not to say each work has to be an epic undertaking. I do like a few quickies depending on my mood. It really depends on the sotry.

What's going to kill me, and I'm going to use DT's stuff as an example since I buy a lot of DreamTales. Is making the transformations plausible. For instance in Beach Blanket Beauties II (Spoilers) the age ray suddenly turns into a shrink gun as well. Process for process sake is OK, but as a reader I'm quickly pulled out of a story if suddenly the mcguffin can do insert blank as well. Now, I don't want pages or even paragraphs of extra just a silly line of Star Trek Dialogue line can sometimes solve the problem. "Oh, I inverted the phase polarity on the mcguffin's flux capicator." It also depends on the type of process that the story is using.

The stories I write tend to be very long, 300+ pages, but I tend to lose steam and never finish them or never think they're good enough to share with others. This is mostly because I try to create a world, rules and characters that will be affected by Plot/Process and trying to keep everything interesting, like even a non erotic novel, can be a mentally consuming task, for me at least. The process/porn is central to the movement of the stories when I write, but I don't let "X's boobs get bigger here" if action beat it doesn't make sense. I've found, for myself, a process change every chapter, which in my case chapters are 5K to 30K words, is good pacing.

Just my two cents. The best thing you can do, tell the best story you can. Accept the criticism you get and just try to grow from that.