"On the Job" Story Event 2025

[Izanami9]

Can I, um... Can I send you my resumé?

Oh, please do - as long as you include a head shot

 

[Actingup]

Oh, please do - as long as you include a head shot

This conversation is cracking me up!! I think that the genre readership is a valid point (and thanks @LoquiSordidaAdMe for the reminder on that article), because it leads us to reflect on readers coming to a story from multiple pathways. I don't have the exit polls to prove it, but I think from the comments on the story it's a good mixture of author followers, event followers, and genre followers. We want them all on the same page. So, if some of the readers came in as romance readers, the brief note at the start of that particular story might not have been enough to set expectations. I could have been clearer:

Dear romance readers, in real life, sex happens in workplaces. For more details, ask @Izanami9

@Izanami9, if you've read my 'Monsoon Coming', you'll know that sex happens within as well.

 

[Izanami9]

This conversation is cracking me up!! I think that the genre readership is a valid point (and thanks @LoquiSordidaAdMe for the reminder on that article), because it leads us to reflect on readers coming to a story from multiple pathways. I don't have the exit polls to prove it, but I think from the comments on the story it's a good mixture of author followers, event followers, and genre followers. We want them all on the same page. So, if some of the readers came in as romance readers, the brief note at the start of that particular story might not have been enough to set expectations. I could have been clearer:

Dear romance readers, in real life, sex happens in workplaces. For more details, ask @Izanami9

@Izanami9, if you've read my 'Monsoon Coming', you'll know that sex happens within as well.

Oh yes, by all means direct this sort of inquiry my way! I LIVE to offer enlightenment with such liberating insights.

This convo has given me the least cynical laughter I’ve had so far this week, % unpolluted by white-hot rage as a huge, increasingly rare bonus! Thanks to you both - and the rest of the community too - for giving me some much-needed relief from mocking the homicidal clown car shit carnival that’s currently occupying too much space and time on the world stage. I find it very difficult to turn off the noise sometimes, due to my day job, but hanging out with you all here on Lit spurs my creativity, keeps my sense of humor intact, and indirectly gives me hope. I genuinely appreciate you guys; I was close to burnout before I joined the site.

On that unexpected note of sincerity, I will now go read Monsoon Coming and work on my Pair of Queens for Geek Pride!

 

[Actingup]

There was a period of a few hours between some pretty heavy teasing and the next bit, but that was within a broader context.

Good point - thanks!

Hi - just a thank you to Anonymous, who is an author here and left a detailed and thoughtful comment on my story. Much appreciated.

 

[Jimyfoxx]

Why is this listed as being a current open contest when it closed weeks ago??