I agree good cappies can leave a lot to the readers imagination. I started out doing a lot of them with very short stories to get people to imagine the rest.

That is a good idea for starting a caption with, as a testing ground to see if people like the caption or not, also  to engage their imagination too. It helps to have both image and short story plot to help the readers imagination see the events that lead up to the final outcome seen in the image, even to imagine what happens afterward.  I think it is a case of  finding the right ballance, a  lot can be left to a  persons own imagination, but with people having  diffrent imaginations, this means also that some people will be able  to  imagine things  better than others, and thers  not so  much.

I can well appreciate that sometimes  it is not easy to get the right ballance of getting a good image and getting  the short story plot to  be equally as good as the image to help people of all imagination levels  be able to see things better in their minds regardless if they have better imaginations or not. I feel that to be key to any good caption. I hope you agree?

Lately I have gone as far as posting  non AB pictures with an AB Story. Someone told me they were surprised to be posted without a diaper or dress on, but they understood where the cappie was going.


I am glad that your readers were able to  understand where the caption was going, without the visual refernce being there in the actual image. That proves your caption was  very well written, that they could see where things  were going. Personally my self, I like to have an image that has some point of visual reference for me to work with even thugh I do have a good imagination.  I  always approach what I do from as  though putin gmy mind in the minds of my audience. I have a good grasp of what different levels of imaginations  to be like.

I have been around many different people and have observed many diffrent levels of  imagaination, obviously not every single one, that would be impossible. I put what I have observed to good use and hope  that I can with my stories, captions  etc. Appeal to as many different imaginations as I possibly can do. I am grateful of the fact and feel honoured  that I am able to put my self in the minds of others, in the way that I do that.

The idea of being put in a diaper or frilly dress can be embarrassing by itself.

 
Yes that is so true.  *Big Grin*

Happy Thanksgiving,

Baby Butch

Happy Thanksgiving  to  you too.

BTW - I have captioned you again for a future thread. : )

Oh,  Fank you so  much Baby Butch  I feel so  very honoured. Keep that sort of thing  up and I will end up smothering  you with lots of sissy baby kisses and hugging  you so  much,  that you will end up in a sea of  kisses  and  being  hugged  several times over,  by a Sissy Baby Octopuss. *Lol*