The 2022 Geek Pride Story Event: Official Support Page

[TxRad]

Speaking of retreads. My Geek story from last year is somewhere around 21k and the nerdy dirty girl main character hasn't even got to her astronaut training yet. This thing is going to be a monster if i live long enough to finish it.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Speaking of retreads. My Geek story from last year is somewhere around 21k and the nerdy dirty girl main character hasn't even got to her astronaut training yet. This thing is going to be a monster if i live long enough to finish it.

Yep, I'm going to resurrect one of my geek day stories that didn't get finished for this year.

 

[Blind_Justice]

I'm doing something totally different this year. It's more a shift in workflow than subject matter and it helps overcome my mental issues.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Woooooo, for once I am ahead of the ballgame. Almost have my geek day story done. Just the obligatory 35 Lit page sex scene to write

 

[Djmac1031]

This is where the fun begins...

 

[SimonDoom]

Woooooo, for once I am ahead of the ballgame. Almost have my geek day story done. Just the obligatory 35 Lit page sex scene to write

Chloe Tzang: Erotica, one pubic hair at a time.

 

[Voboy]

I think I’m out this year, alas. This one and April Fools are my two least favorites, I think.

 

[davion2308]

I'm with you

I think I’m out this year, alas. This one and April Fools are my two least favorites, I think.

I'm trying to figure out how to do "Geek" without cashing in on a tired, dusted of trope. And April Fool's Day isn't an easy one either.

I'm with you for these being my least-preferred but it's always an exercise in creativity to go outside my wheelhouse.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Geek Pride is my Christmas, birthday, Easter and surprise threesome all rolled into one. So far, I haven't missed a single one and each year, I've managed to outdo myself. Two space operas (one of them a 104k word long novel), one fantasy story which had turned into my longest series, one Urban Fantasy short and this year... something I won't spoil yet.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Chloe Tzang: Erotica, one pubic hair at a time.

Well, we could split hairs on that one, Simon, but one at a time seems good

 

[ElectricBlue]

Well, we could split hairs on that one, Simon, but one at a time seems good

See what you've done now, Simon? Now Chloe's going to write twice as much. Your one x 750 word story a month plan ain't going to cut it .

 

[SimonDoom]

See what you've done now, Simon? Now Chloe's going to write twice as much. Your one x 750 word story a month plan ain't going to cut it .

I don't pretend that I am EVER going to keep up with Ms. Tzang. I just proceed at my own pace, whatever it is and however variable it gets.

 

[TxRad]

I don't pretend that I am EVER going to keep up with Ms. Tzang. I just proceed at my own pace, whatever it is and however variable it gets.

Chloe has a tendency to run that pink bunny ragged. I write fairly quickly but with her, I sit back and watch her whizzing around. It is far safer that way.

 

[LongDraw]

I'm posting this thread to officially kick off the "2022 Literotica Geek Pride Story Event”. ...
The Rules are actually really simple
1. Have an awesome idea with some kind of geeky theme. Sci-Fi or Fantasy is the most likely category, but if you want to get geeky in any other category, you go for it!
3. Any geeky subject, any category, any length you like. But please, only stand-alone stories (if you want to clarify that, just ask right here in this Official Support Thread).
...

By stand-alone stories only you mean I can't enter my novel in parts? It would have to be submitted as a much larger submission that includes all the geeky content?

 

[ElectricBlue]

By stand-alone stories only you mean I can't enter my novel in parts? It would have to be submitted as a much larger submission that includes all the geeky content?

The spirit of the the thing is a completed, stand-alone story, yes. But if you had a completed work that was best presented in chapters (for reader convenience), then I don't think there would be a problem with that - but it should be complete, with all chapters going up in quick succession.

The idea of the anthologies is to avoid a first chapter of a much longer, incomplete, story - which might take ages to write.

 

[Rustyoznail]

The spirit of the the thing is a completed, stand-alone story, yes. But if you had a completed work that was best presented in chapters (for reader convenience), then I don't think there would be a problem with that - but it should be complete, with all chapters going up in quick succession.

The idea of the anthologies is to avoid a first chapter of a much longer, incomplete, story - which might take ages to write.

AspernEssling wrote a seven part story for the Tales of Leinyere event. A new chapter was released every two days, from memory. As it's not a competition, the normal rules can be bent slightly, I guess.

 

[ElectricBlue]

AspernEssling wrote a seven part story for the Tales of Leinyere event. A new chapter was released every two days, from memory. As it's not a competition, the normal rules can be bent slightly, I guess.

That's the kind of exception I was alluding to - a complete story released over a short period, within the spirit of the anthology.

 

[NotWise]

I spent what felt like hours last night semi-awake and trying to remember the first few rows of the periodic table. Don't know why.

I eventually remembered all but one element from the first three rows in order. I couldn't remember Beryllium.

That seems to me like a plot bunny for a geek pride story, but I'm not writing it.

 

[TxRad]

I had an idea for another Geeky story so I gave it a go. 12.5K later....

Butt, I might actually finish it in time.

 

[PeytonMirabelle]

I'll give it another shot this year. I have something suitably geeky in mind.

 

[Lifestyle66]

I'm already 5,800 words into mine. My wife sparked the idea when she had problems with a TV remote. It's a tongue-in-cheek parody of a geek writing a technical manual/user's guide.


"The Bitch User Guide v3.0 (Final draft)
Preface
This User Guide is a pro-active attempt to comply with the wife’s instructions: “If you decide to leave me, you owe me ???-weeks advance notice to document all technical instructions on everything in our house!” NOTE: The timeline increases as I add more tech to the house.
Other technical guides describing the network cabling, routers, wifi access points, file/media servers, data backups, printers, TV remotes, garage tools, generators, charging stations, and numerous sex toys are provided separately. (See tech file backups on the server share under the folder “Bitch”.)
This guide is focused on navigating the complex and dynamic challenges of fine-tuning the wife for sex."


The story's opening scene describe why he gets away with calling her a bitch. (She is, and she readily agrees with that description.)

 

[SimonDoom]

D&D-style gameplay would fall under this event, right?

If that's the case, would two different stories with the same cast of characters be eligible?

Yes to both, I would think.

Contest and event parameters are interpreted very broadly. Since it's an event, not a contest, nobody could complain about any sort of unfairness. Nothing is at stake.

As long as each story stands on its own as a complete story, there should be no problem in posting both stories.

 

[eroticstoryspinner]

Hoping to whip the backstory for one of my Lodge characters into an entry.

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

Yes to both, I would think.

Contest and event parameters are interpreted very broadly. Since it's an event, not a contest, nobody could complain about any sort of unfairness. Nothing is at stake.

As long as each story stands on its own as a complete story, there should be no problem in posting both stories.

Nothing at stake?!? What about the Glory?

I have not finished anything in a long time, but I have a partly completed Time Travel story with Group Sex and BDSM aspects to it, that I hope to complete in time for this. It is tentatively called "Time Enough". And, yes, I stole that from RAH himself.

Excuse me. I have to pick up a buncha dangling participles and stitch together a crap load of split infinitives.

 

[Ian_Snow]

Just to clarify, when do we submit for this? Does early May work?