The 2025 750 Word Story Challenge Support Thread

[PapaRomantic]

And there's a story idea for next year's challenge: a Victorian matron visits her doctor to help remove splinters from an encounter with a not well made wooden dildo.

This also reminds me of the old joke about the naked girl sitting on Pinocchio's face yelling out, "Tell more lies! Tell more lies!"

 

[jaF0]

I have no idea what you're referring to, but it reminds me of the nickname some in the UAW gave to Leonard Woodcock back in the 70s.


Splinterdick.

 

[StillStunned]

I have no idea what you're referring to, but it reminds me of the nickname some in the UAW gave to Leonard Woodcock back in the 70s.


Splinterdick.

The Hardwood Son: A Fairy Tale

 

[glynndah]

Possibly my last one was submitted and submitted and submitted and submitted {I forgot how to indicate italics and it took me a few tries to figure it out.} a few hours ago.

And it was rejected with a rather cryptic message from the powers that be. More or less paraphrased: Is this really a story? Is it at least 750 words? I added one more word and resubmitted it. On the bright side, the formatting looks fine.

 

[D_K_Moon]

I managed to squeeze one more story out before the deadline, I managed to piss off readers in eight different categories!

 

[ICantLeafYou]

A final snapshot, there's still 1 hour of February left in my timezone.



I'm quite pleased with this, but I've been happy with how all of my submissions on Lit have gone over. This one does have the most number of ratings on it, though, that's cool.

 

[yowser]

Holy Mother of God, Two Hundred and Thirteen (213) of the things!

Thirty Nine authors couldn't help but do at least two, including twenty-one who did more than that. (One over-achiever wrote twelve.)

159,750 words of dazzling erotic prose -- that ought to keep everyone busy reading for awhile.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Well, for three minutes at a time.

Holy Mother of God, Two Hundred and Thirteen (213) of the things!

Thirty Nine authors couldn't help but do at least two, including twenty-one who did more than that. (One over-achiever wrote twelve.)

159,750 words of dazzling erotic prose -- that ought to keep everyone busy reading for awhile.

 

[Erozetta]

Holy Mother of God, Two Hundred and Thirteen (213) of the things!

Thirty Nine authors couldn't help but do at least two, including twenty-one who did more than that. (One over-achiever wrote twelve.)

159,750 words of dazzling erotic prose -- that ought to keep everyone busy reading for awhile.

There are at least four that didn't make it into the final list for some reason.

 

[ElectricBlue]

2025 750 Word story list

 

[MillieDynamite]

To avoid fainting, keep repeating 'It's only a 750-Word Challenge.'

 

[AlinaX]

An incomplete list, missing two of my three.

 

[Trionyx]

An incomplete list, missing two of my three.

And one of my three. I dropped a friendly request to Laurel.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Now that the list is posted, it will be interesting to see what that does to the traffic into the stories, and what it does to the scores.

I'm going to baseline mine here, as a record.
4.02/59, off 3600 views, 8 comments
4.47/36, off 2800, 6 comments

 

[Katie_Mae]

An incomplete list, missing two of my three.

Mine didn't make it to the list either.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Yeah, my story, Three Angels in the Morning didn't make the list either.

 

[alohadave]

An incomplete list, missing two of my three.

Unfortunately, edits to posted stories take 3-5 weeks.

 

[SomaSlave]

Another 750 Word Challenge is in the books and, once again, I've had the pleasure of reading and being encouraged by so many of you here in the AH. I've been introduced to several wonderful writers who, while providing me much reading pleasure, have also helped me become a marginally better writer.

This year, I contributed three stories. Two were in categories I hadn't tried before. One was an experiment whose results I'm still evaluating. Another was a completely gender neutral (I hope) fetish tale and the third introduced a thoroughly despicable character and no hint of a happy ending (except for him). One of the nice things about the 750 word format is that it encourages us to stretch our boundaries. Thanks to everyone for their good writing and even better words of encouragement.

We now return to our regularly scheduled writing.

My Contributions:
Thoughts Upon Worshipping Your Feet
Soma Interviews Soma
Going Up? Going Down!

 

[SomaSlave]

After reading the comment of @Jocelyn_Nicole_Sawyer on Thoughts Upon Worshipping Your Feet, I reread it and discovered I had accidentally omitted a key word from the story. It looks like the readers filled it in without thinking, but, still, it's essentially a 751 word story. I am mortified.

Mea culpa.

 

[Comshaw]

An incomplete list, missing two of my three.

It's missing all three of mine for some reason. Maybe I didn't put all the labels on right or at all. I thought I did.


Comshaw

 

[Actingup]

After reading the comment of @Jocelyn_Nicole_Sawyer on Thoughts Upon Worshipping Your Feet, I reread it and discovered I had accidentally omitted a key word from the story. It looks like the readers filled it in without thinking, but, still, it's essentially a 751 word story. I am mortified.

Mea culpa.

Lyricists leave whole syllables out of words to fit the music, and count it as artistry. You could do the same, and seek to build the skill next year by shooting for a 760 word story with 10 virtual words... And given that you're not the only who accidently leaves words out, we could do this as a challenge within a challenge....

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Lowest of my scores. YAY!!!

 

[SomaSlave]

And given that you're not the only who accidently leaves words out,

I saw what you did there.

 

[MK_Whimsy]

An incomplete list, missing two of my three.

Uh oh, both of mine are missing too. I'm pretty sure I put the admin notes in and correct labels.

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

Lowest of my scores. YAY!!!

Same here, and the ignominy of not being included on the list, lol.

Oh well. Back to the grind.