The Official Authors' Hangout Winter Holidays 2025 Support Thread

[ChloeTzang]

The updated list.....as of this morning

 

[Voboy]

I'm getting an unusually high number of views and favorites on my back catalog this time around, which is delightful!

 

[BryanRichardson]

Woo hoo! 25 votes!

https://literotica.com/s/dear-santa-11 published 11/11 just got to 25 votes! That means I’m tied for fourth place again! It is in Letters and Transcripts, and that category doesn’t get many readers, but 25 votes over 677 views seems a good ratio.

It turns out that https://literotica.com/s/miracle-on-69th-street published today (11/15) in Humor and Satire has already gotten 28 votes over 830 views which is also a good ratio. Also in a little-read category.

 

[dreams_in_words]

Two things.
First, congrats to everyone who had there stuff together and got there stories in at the start.

Second, it's a perfect day to stay in and finish this silly story of mine so hopefully it will be up soon.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

I am happy to see my story, Winter Loves Red, has 2100 views and >50 ratings. I wasn’t certain how it would do as it isn’t a standard Leabian Sex story

 

[Lord_Libido]

I'm getting an unusually high number of views and favorites on my back catalog this time around, which is delightful!

Good for you. I am not getting more attention.

 

[BryanRichardson]

I’ve got two categories left for Survivor. My Taboo/ Incest story Home for the Holidays is almost done, I just need to strengthen the ending.

The other story I am working on is for Novels and Novellas and it is more than half done. It’s about an exhibitionist/ horny slut and a camping trip with sex in a swimming hole/ waterfall and an open air tent. Does anyone see a way I could make it work for this winter holidays event? Maybe putting it in Australia? I don’t think I know enough about Australia to make that work, though.

 

[iwatchus]

How many categories do you to write for in the survivor contest

 

[BryanRichardson]

How many categories do you to write for in the survivor contest

All of them.

Not counting the categories that require extra technology and or cooperation: Illustrated, Audio, Chain, Illustrated Poetry and Poetry with Audio.

You can write in those for bonus points, but I gave up on illustrated after the rules change.

 

[Voboy]

How many categories do you to write for in the survivor contest

All of 'em.

It used to be a big thing on the writer side, just before I got here. It's still a goal some people have, like climbing all the 8,000m mountains just for the sake of completeness.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

All of them.

Not counting the categories that require extra technology and or cooperation: Illustrated, Audio, Chain, Illustrated Poetry and Poetry with Audio.

Do the story games not require extra tech? I always thought they did. Or do they just not count in general?

 

[BryanRichardson]

Do the story games not require extra tech? I always thought they did. Or do they just not count in general?

I guess they don’t count since I only have a vague idea how they work.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

I guess they don’t count since I only have a vague idea how they work.

Fair enough. I'm with you on that - I tried to look once, thought I saw them requiring a program to be downloaded, and decided I'd try again later.

 

[dreams_in_words]

Submitted. And now we play the waiting game.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Submitted. And now we play the waiting game.

May your wait be short and your stars be multitudinous

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Submitted. And now we play the waiting game.

Hopefully your don’t have the wait t8mes 8nhad experienced previously

 

[dreams_in_words]

Also, rhyming is hard. I'm NOT doing ABAB rhymes again.

 

[Voboy]

Also, rhyming is hard. I'm NOT doing ABAB rhymes again.

I love poetry and I have a couple of stories that use it extensively. People really seem to dig that, which I find interesting.

 

[dreams_in_words]

I love poetry and I have a couple of stories that use it extensively. People really seem to dig that, which I find interesting.

I didn't so much hate it. But had to constantly change sentences so I could use a better rhyming word.

My favorite dinosaur came in clutch.

 

[NaughteeDragon]

Nearly there.

It's more serious than a typical Lit story. I predict a bunch of people will hate it, but at least a Christmas story should get some readers...

You gonna give us anything more for a tease. Please?

 

[NaughteeDragon]

I am happy to see my story, Winter Loves Red, has 2100 views and >50 ratings. I wasn’t certain how it would do as it isn’t a standard Leabian Sex story

It's on my TBR list.
I'm sure your win at Halloween is helping. Even though I had a couple if issues with the story, it was a great read and I really enjoyed it.

 

[NaughteeDragon]

A Gift She Wasn't Expecting was submitted about 5 minutes ago. Hopefully it will post in a couple of days. Now I'm just hoping that it gets more traffic than my Halloween stories did. It's T/I, so it at least has that going for it.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Tossed a short Scifi /fantasy story into the mix. Doubt it'll do much, but you never know.

 

[Duleigh]

*Comes up for air*

Finally! A Harmonica for Hanukkah is polished as well as it is going to be so I finally submitted it. I'm currently working on a second entry which I'm pretty sure will make it in time. This second entry features a new (to me) character but most of the rest are characters established in another series that got its start in the Winter Holiday contest.

Most of my major series got their start in a contest. Andi's Dream and Wonderful Wife series both got their start in the Winter Holiday contest, Enchantress and Alan Scarlett got their start in the Geek Pride event.

There's something about these events that get the creative juices flowing!

 

[dreams_in_words]

Yay, publishing date for tomorrow