The Official Authors' Hangout Halloween 2023 Contest Support Thread

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Yes, very special.

It was a question, and you answered it how I expected you to!

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

I got slammed by a few readers for putting ghost stories in Erotic Horror. That seems ridiculous to me, but it's the convention of the category, so I'm sure it cost me some votes.

I've got another ghost story this year (Actually, the one that I had planned for last year. I lost the final draft when I had a computer glitch, and have been reconstructing it from earlier drafts). I'll be putting it in Non-Human, even though the theme of it is pretty much that ghosts are still human...

Why wouldn't it be in Erotic Horror? Sounds perfect to me.

 

[MillieDynamite]

What @theWollstonecraftWoman said.

 

[MelissaBaby]

WTF? Where else would a ghost story go?

I posted my one ghost story Recall in Erotic Horror and got no blowback. Maybe that was before any gatekeepers of that category appointed themselves.

It may have just been nitpicking because they were contest entries.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Why wouldn't it be in Erotic Horror? Sounds perfect to me.

One reader wrote to me and said that the category should only be for monsters and succubi/incubi stories.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Wow, I just had this brainstorm idea for a three-thousand-year-old Mummy to fuck a guy's wife while the guy watches him just destroy her way better than he can, for Halloween 2023!

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

One reader wrote to me and said that the category should only be for monsters and succubi/incubi stories.

What a fucking dipshit moron!

 

[MelissaBaby]

Wow, I just had this brainstorm idea for a three-thousand-year-old Mummy to fuck a guy's wife while the guy watches him just destroy her way better than he can, for Halloween 2023!

Please, please, please title it “Tut and the Slut”

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Please, please, please title it “Tut and the Slut”

More of a joke than a real thing. LOL but you never know.

 

[KeithD]

Submitted two today.

 

[MelissaBaby]

More of a joke than a real thing. LOL but you never know.

Maybe make it an I/T story, "My Mommy the Mummy?"

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

LOL

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Readers, they are so fucking fickle. I said fickle ignore the fucking that was a slip of the fingers. Shit, they slipped again, didn't they, well fuck.

 

[Fatdog25]

Submitted "Devil Woman" for both the Karaoke Challenge and Halloween 2023. I requested Erotic Horror but we'll see what Laurel has to say. My first time for this category, don't think it will be my last.

Just in case anybody wondered if I wrote something other than I/T...

 

[gordo12]

One reader wrote to me and said that the category should only be for monsters and succubi/incubi stories.

Category cops! Gotta love 'em. Mine has ghosts too and EH seems like a reasonable fit.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have a question. I have a story I'm thinking of entering with. However, there's a part of the story where there is a summoning spell. I published just that part here as a poem. If I were to submit the story would there be an issue?

 

[MelissaBaby]

I have a question. I have a story I'm thinking of entering with. However, there's a part of the story where there is a summoning spell. I published just that part here as a poem. If I were to submit the story would there be an issue?

I don't think it should be, but when it comes to contests, people become sticklers.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't think it should be, but when it comes to contests, people become sticklers.

Well, the story is 42k so other than a 150 word poem its all original. But to your point people are...people.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Well, the story is 42k so other than a 150 word poem its all original. But to your point people are...people.

You ought to get consideration based on the fact that if you hadn't said anything, few people would have known.

(No offense intended to your poem)

 

[lovecraft68]

You ought to get consideration based on the fact that if you hadn't said anything, few people would have known.

(No offense intended to your poem)

My question was geared more towards would lit kick it back because they think I'm plagiarizing(myself)

 

[Bazzle]

Well my story Phantom Flings is in...
I am going to confuse lots of you with it, and peeps are going to complain. Please be gentle with me!
B

 

[lavendersilk]

Wow, I just had this brainstorm idea for a three-thousand-year-old Mummy to fuck a guy's wife while the guy watches him just destroy her way better than he can, for Halloween 2023!

I always wanted this to happen in the Mummy movies.

 

[Nellymcboatface]

Holy cow, October nearly here and the comp closes in 3 weeks!
I purposely started this story very early so I wouldn't need to rush and once more it will go down to the wire...
ARGhhhhhhhhhh....
Thankfully I've written the ending quite early on... just have to fill the middle bit, ha ha "just"...
Looking forward to reading all the fun-filled other ghastly entries - In the best possible taste!

 

[JaxRhapsody]

If I knew how to do a screen cap, I'd show you.

On an Android there's sometimes a button in the drop down menu, or you hold volume down and the power button together. On PCs it's the Print Screen button and located in the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer folder. I don't fucks with the Apples.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I got slammed by a few readers for putting ghost stories in Erotic Horror. That seems ridiculous to me, but it's the convention of the category, so I'm sure it cost me some votes.

I've got another ghost story this year (Actually, the one that I had planned for last year. I lost the final draft when I had a computer glitch, and have been reconstructing it from earlier drafts). I'll be putting it in Non-Human, even though the theme of it is pretty much that ghosts are still human...

I have a ghost story, but it isn't scary. Wonder if I should aim elsewhere...