"One Night in XXX” Story Event: Official Support Thread

[ChloeTzang]

I have written a draft called One Night in Sydney Cove. Maybe I could call it One Night in The Rocks. Either way, it's set in the very early days of Sydney, Australia. If I have the time for a proper edit/proof read, I’ll submit it for the event.

Do it, mate. The more stories, the more fun it’s going to be.

And yeah, I know how you feel MelissaBaby.

My One Night in Xanadu is turning out rather different to the story I started writing. The ending is ... hmmmm, I don’t even know how to describe it. Bloody? And hot. I just reread it and thought wow, I wish somebody could film this. Sex and gore and shamanistic drums and everything.....

Oh well, back to the real world

 

[Kethandra]

To all that noticed my new name "Beautiful Zelda," is a Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band song!

I love this band - have since I was 8 years old and my hippie brother gave me one of their albums for my birthday. I even flew to Edinburgh in 2006 to see them on their 40th anniversary tour.

Best $3500 I ever spent!

I LOVE THE BONZO'S - R.I.P. Viv Stanshall

Haha. I was 6, and my hippy brother saw them perform in London (pretty sure he was on acid). He brought home the album “Tadpoles” and I was hooked for life.

I have fond memories of singing “Ali Baba’s Camel” over and over on a family road trip circa 1970. I had no idea why my older sister insisted we change the line
‘Out for what we all want/Lots of LSD’
To ‘...Lots of Sugar and Tea’

 

[NotWise]

My One Night in Xanadu is turning out rather different to the story I started writing. The ending is ... hmmmm, I don’t even know how to describe it. Bloody? And hot. I just reread it and thought wow, I wish somebody could film this. Sex and gore and shamanistic drums and everything.....

Wow, that sounds almost like my one night story. Pretty damned bloody at the end, but the hot parts are earlier. And the drums aren't shamanistic. They're beating to recall a successful sortie.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Do it, mate. The more stories, the more fun it’s going to be.

And yeah, I know how you feel MelissaBaby.

My One Night in Xanadu is turning out rather different to the story I started writing. The ending is ... hmmmm, I don’t even know how to describe it. Bloody? And hot. I just reread it and thought wow, I wish somebody could film this. Sex and gore and shamanistic drums and everything.....

Oh well, back to the real world

Wow, that sounds almost like my one night story. Pretty damned bloody at the end, but the hot parts are earlier. And the drums aren't shamanistic. They're beating to recall a successful sortie.

Holy smokes... mine are so tame, almost vanilla, actually they are vanilla. I feel so ashamed/a shamed(which would it be??.

And thanks to Chloe

 

[ChloeTzang]

Holy smokes... mine are so tame, almost vanilla, actually they are vanilla. I feel so ashamed/a shamed(which would it be??.

And thanks to Chloe

Ohhhhh no, a story is a story. I just started with Xanadu, and there you have the Mongols, and where you have the Mongols..... but my heroine is Xiongnu, aka the Huns.... anyhow, still have to finish the big first time sex scene.... flames coming off the screen hot as the Great Khan ravishes his newest wife ... and then the real fun starts

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Holy smokes... mine are so tame, almost vanilla, actually they are vanilla. I feel so ashamed/a shamed(which would it be??.

And thanks to Chloe

Mine are so tame, and boring as fuck. Plainer than vanilla is that possible.

Really so boring I think I'm just going to trash what I've written so far and bow out of this.

And I know this is probably all because of the mind fuck my mom recently gave me...but not much I can do about that.

 

[rebel_code]

Holy smokes... mine are so tame, almost vanilla, actually they are vanilla. I feel so ashamed/a shamed(which would it be??.

Mine are so tame, and boring as fuck. Plainer than vanilla is that possible.

So you think your stories are tame, well, watch my smoke. The sex in mine goes as far as his 'n' hers handjobs, and there's no violence, and no romance either. People seemed to like it the first time around--why, I have no idea. So I'm sticking with the basic formula in my rewrite. I'm not ashamed.

Z_C and CWM, I've read some of your stories. You write good. If anyone can make vanilla exciting, you can. Come on, say it with me now--

"I wrote vanilla, and I am not ashamed!"

 

[ChloeTzang]

Mine are so tame, and boring as fuck. Plainer than vanilla is that possible.

Really so boring I think I'm just going to trash what I've written so far and bow out of this.

And I know this is probably all because of the mind fuck my mom recently gave me...but not much I can do about that.

It’s all in the readers perception. Write it anyway, mellow vanilla is very calming and enjoyable. I’m not even sure I could write mellow to be honest.

 

[NotWise]

Ohhhhh no, a story is a story. I just started with Xanadu, and there you have the Mongols, and where you have the Mongols..... but my heroine is Xiongnu, aka the Huns.... anyhow, still have to finish the big first time sex scene.... flames coming off the screen hot as the Great Khan ravishes his newest wife ... and then the real fun starts

I started with the Spanish Reconquista, and especially the period when the Moors tried to re-establish control of northern Iberia, added a witch, a couple young nuns, and some spies. Anything could happen .

 

[Zeb_Carter]

So you think your stories are tame, well, watch my smoke. The sex in mine goes as far as his 'n' hers handjobs, and there's no violence, and no romance either. People seemed to like it the first time around--why, I have no idea. So I'm sticking with the basic formula in my rewrite. I'm not ashamed.

Z_C and CWM, I've read some of your stories. You write good. If anyone can make vanilla exciting, you can. Come on, say it with me now--

"I wrote vanilla, and I am not ashamed!"

Thanks rebel, that's very kind of you.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

In my first 14k words, I have a stabbing, a shooting, a handful of contusions, and some indiscriminate automatic weapon fire. So not exactly a blood bath, but not exactly vanilla either. Of course I still have yet to get to the actual naughtiness. 14k words, and no one is even naked yet. SMH. When I finally do get there, it won't be a First Time - that's kind of the Crux of the story. If it was my heroine's first time, there'd be no story.

 

[MelissaBaby]

It doesn't sound like many of these stories are likely to be picked up by the local tourist bureaus of the places described.

 

[overwatcher]

Sorry to hear you're pulling out

Mine are so tame, and boring as fuck. Plainer than vanilla is that possible.

Really so boring I think I'm just going to trash what I've written so far and bow out of this.

And I know this is probably all because of the mind fuck my mom recently gave me...but not much I can do about that.

I read what you guys write in this forum and that in itself is enough to want me to read your stories and I'm not alone. This event is inspiring, and you're better at writing than what you give yourself credit for, yes I've read what some of you guys have written it is really really good. I feel disappointed that I won't get the opportunity to read your stuff.

 

[Kethandra]

Mine are so tame, and boring as fuck. Plainer than vanilla is that possible.

Really so boring I think I'm just going to trash what I've written so far and bow out of this.

And I know this is probably all because of the mind fuck my mom recently gave me...but not much I can do about that.

A lot of the best sex I have had or read was ‘vanilla.’ Or maybe ‘French vanilla.’
That the people involved and their situation/feelings/build-up/dialogue is interesting and compelling seems more important than if they are involving fetish/bdsm/or whatever external elements that make it ‘non-vanilla.’

Now, if the whole story is vanilla, that might be a problem.

Maybe people are using a variety of meanings for the term here.

 

[KeithD]

One distinguishing element of this exercise is that setting should matter--that's one of the two essential elements we're working with--setting and time period. I'd be looking at how the setting is used and highlighted.

 

[MelissaBaby]

One distinguishing element of this exercise is that setting should matter--that's one of the two essential elements we're working with--setting and time period. I'd be looking at how the setting is used and highlighted.

I agree with that. I tried to really give a feel for the city, for both good and bad. Before I submit, I may do one more run through and perhaps add a bit for local color.

Genrally, I try to create a real sense of place in my writing, so I am looking forward to see how other writers handle it.

 

[Kethandra]

One distinguishing element of this exercise is that setting should matter--that's one of the two essential elements we're working with--setting and time period. I'd be looking at how the setting is used and highlighted.

In short pieces especially, for me it is all about the characters. How they got to this one Night, how they react and reveal and play off each other in the limited time available.
The place effects who they are and what they do, but Place doesn’t matter much except in how in effects the people. To me.

 

[KeithD]

In short pieces especially, for me it is all about the characters. How they got to this one Night, how they react and reveal and play off each other in the limited time available.
The place effects who they are and what they do, but Place doesn’t matter much except in how in effects the people. To me.

But this is an exercise on place and time. It's advertised as such. That's what is distinguishing this exercise from "just submit anything."

 

[SimonDoom]

But this is an exercise on place and time. It's advertised as such. That's what is distinguishing this exercise from "just submit anything."

Indeed. And representing Mordor as a site for an erotic story presents an interesting challenge.

 

[KeithD]

Should be a piece of cake for BDSM.

 

[Hypoxia]

In short pieces especially, for me it is all about the characters.

The setting IS a player. Some stories can best be told of certain people in certain times and locales. The setting may determine which humans (or aliens or orcs) are involved, and their histories. Some events can only occur in San Francisco, Heidelberg, Niagara Falls, Oaxaca, or Cairo, and the casts will differ. One Night In Bisbee should be unlike One Night In Beirut.

 

[KeithD]

One Night In Beirut.

I wish I'd picked that. During the early 80s, I was monitoring the news from the Middle East from a nearby location. Beirut was being bombed nightly. But a social magazine named "Monday Morning" continued to print society news from Beirut, covering glittering weekend partying in bunker nightclubs with bombing and city-leveling devastation going on overhead. Many of the superrich in Lebanon would yacht over to Cyprus to homes there during the week, but return to Beirut on Friday night for the weekend parties in the bunkers. That background would have made a great erotica story, I think (and I may write it someday).

 

[Hypoxia]

I recall P.J. O'Rourke's HOLIDAYS IN HELL mentioning 1980s surfers riding the waves off Beirut as artillery shells splashed nearby. Sounds like hot fun.

 

[KeithD]

I recall P.J. O'Rourke's HOLIDAYS IN HELL mentioning 1980s surfers riding the waves off Beirut as artillery shells splashed nearby. Sounds like hot fun.

I remember that I'd be covering radio reports of shelling of Israeli-occupied Beirut on a Saturday night and see people I knew in glossy magazine coverage of underground parties there that night on the next Tuesday when the "Monday Morning" mag reached us and would be partying with men I'd seen in that mag edition and UN soldiers in Larnaka on Tuesday night. A bit of the surreal I haven't written on before.

OK, so I guess I'll add a "One Night in Beirut" story, if no one's already taken that location.

 

[gunhilltrain]

In my first 14k words, I have a stabbing, a shooting, a handful of contusions, and some indiscriminate automatic weapon fire. So not exactly a blood bath, but not exactly vanilla either. Of course I still have yet to get to the actual naughtiness. 14k words, and no one is even naked yet. SMH. When I finally do get there, it won't be a First Time - that's kind of the Crux of the story. If it was my heroine's first time, there'd be no story.

Actually this inspires me to a complete and post a couple of "dark" stories - but after the contest.

There are no guns or physical violence in them - but there are psychological issues that are perhaps more painful than physical attacks. But perhaps I'm exaggerating the impact a bit because it's outside of my usual comfort zone. The readers may think differently.