The Official Authors' Hangout Winter Holidays 2025 Support Thread

[TheRedLantern]

Story gets sent back because they think it's Ai.

First of all, I'm sorry that this happened. It must be frustrating.

Check out this thread: https://forum.literotica.com/threads/awkwardmd-ai-rejection-help-desk.1635750/page-9#post-101874495

AwkwardMD gives advice on exactly this situation. AI is new to all of us, Lit included, and we're all still feeling out how to integrate this new thing into our society and there are a few bumps along the way. Check soon. There's still a few weeks but time flies and you don't want to be stressed about getting stuck in a queue near the end of the competition and not be sure whether to wait and hope for the best or delete & resubmit.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Your command is my wish.

Please tell me you've used this in a D/s story somewhere. It just SCREAMS for inclusion in such a story.

 

[talemestories]

@ChloeTzang, @talemestories , @Lord_Libido,

I am not ready.

Then write something else and come back to it.

 

[RoyalAuthor]

Yours. I have yet to read one I love more than yours.

So here's my plug again for The Velvet Ribbon!

Thanks so much! I really enjoyed yours as well!

 

[Lord_Libido]

I just...okay, I'm going to have to explain to my husband why I am crying now. My score dropped so much last night I just figured having any sort of good rating was a fluke (which is fine, I didn't expect to stay highly rated in a contest with this many great names and writers) and so just to be on anyone's top list is just....wow.

Your story is good. Makes me...thirsty

 

[Actingup]

Please tell me you've used this in a D/s story somewhere. It just SCREAMS for inclusion in such a story.

I haven't tried to write one of those yet, but I'll work up to it. I've been tackling safe topics like incest, post-traumatic stress, choral singing, and world peace (and.... coming soon with @PennyThompson.... the most daring story yet... 18th century philosophy in Loving Wives!)

 

[Ian_Snow]

Right now my leaders are Milk From Cookies and Snowfall in Love, even though I almost stopped reading in the first thousand words. The FMC starts as such a bitch it reminded me of being stuck in the car with my wife when she’s feeling bitchy. It gives her lots of room to grow, and it takes talent to evoke that kind of visceral response.

Just read Snowfall in Love this morning and that's really a great story too. Lot of good ones this year.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I've submitted mine, called 'Last Christmas'. It didn't really fit any category well, so it's gone in BDSM.

 

[talemestories]

I just put up another one. After I wrote the last one, the concept of using a song really appealed to me so the idea came to fruition. Hope to see it posted in a couple of days.

First crack at a romance as well though I'd say most of my stories have a romantic twist of sorts, I suppose.

 

[talemestories]

I haven't tried to write one of those yet, but I'll work up to it. I've been tackling safe topics like incest, post-traumatic stress, choral singing, and world peace (and.... coming soon with @PennyThompson.... the most daring story yet... 18th century philosophy in Loving Wives!)

This sound very cool actually.

A Marvel 1776 cum Loving Wives story perhaps?

Or perhaps, "I Just Kant Control Myself"?

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

I haven't tried to write one of those yet, but I'll work up to it. I've been tackling safe topics like incest, post-traumatic stress, choral singing, and world peace (and.... coming soon with @PennyThompson.... the most daring story yet... 18th century philosophy in Loving Wives!)

Ah yes, the safe topics and categories. If you're going to get to it, I won't ask permission to use it then. I want to see where you go with it!

Your story is good. Makes me...thirsty

Damn, that is really high praise for that story. Achievement unlocked!

Or perhaps, "I Just Kant Control Myself"?

Please tell me the MMC cums on a schedule in this one - mid-afternoon every day?

 

[Actingup]

This sound very cool actually.

A Marvel 1776 cum Loving Wives story perhaps?

Or perhaps, "I Just Kant Control Myself"?

You'll just have to control yourself long enough to find out - it comes out in just over a day's time! But let me say that I think that Penny's ad hominem zinger "Address the idea, not the incel" is worth the price of admission alone.

 

[BryanRichardson]

Holy cow! That is a rocket ship!

Ok so my last several stories:
https://literotica.com/s/one-night-stand-74 6.5k views in Erotic Horror since 10/3
https://literotica.com/s/dead-grass-in-the-morning 6.7 k views in Mind Control since 10/7
https://literotica.com/s/my-first-year-on-literotica 383 views in Essays and Reviews since 10/16
https://literotica.com/s/dear-santa-11 1.2k views in Letters and Transcripts since 11/11
https://literotica.com/s/miracle-on-69th-street 3.6k views in Humor and Satire since 11/15

They are all doing well with votes and comments, I’m very happy with all of them.

And then comes:
https://literotica.com/s/home-for-holidays-2 in Taboo/Incest
4.67 stars with 672 votes 42 likes 13 comments and 27.5k views in 22 hours! Twenty two hours!

Even the anonymous comments are good!

Holy cow, what a rush!

 

[Rustyoznail]

Lol... Mine went in scifi /fantasy. After a day, it's had 1300 views and is sitting on 4.24 from 21 votes. Interestingly, there's a spread of scores. Haven't seen that before. Usually just 1 or 5.

 

[talemestories]

I just put up another one. After I wrote the last one, the concept of using a song really appealed to me so the idea came to fruition. Hope to see it posted in a couple of days.

First crack at a romance as well though I'd say most of my stories have a romantic twist of sorts, I suppose.

And sent back for 'how characters talk' due to what I think was single quotes for text messages and doubles for dialogue. If that was the issue, it's odd as I have used that format on a number of stories already.

Let's see.

Resubmitted.

 

[Lord_Libido]

Mine just hit 1k and is at an acceptable 4. Guess there's a lot of other stories I'm competing with.

 

[Duleigh]

Submit a story, it gets sent back due to poor spelling,layout and grammer.

Read it through and agree with that, it did need tidying up.

Spend many hours making sure the spelling,layout and grammar are perfect.

Story gets sent back because they think it's Ai.

I would take that as an insult! I constantly have arguments with AI! It's so STOOPID!

"AI Write me a 750 word story on the majesty of Niagara Falls" I got back a 7,853 word story about King Charles visiting Canada.

I do AI art work, if you want a laugh look through contest entries of sites like Night Café When you make an AI picture you write a text prompt to tell the AI what to make and the site leaves that prompt as the piece title. Beginners leave it, and rarely is it close to what is produced. A beautiful tall ship on a calm sea on a sunny day is titled "Early explorers sail through the ice filled arctic under the aurora borealis."

I recently did fairly well in an AI contest with an ink-and-pen sketch of a woman reading a book on a park bench with no background. It's a nice drawing, I wish I was as talented when I did ink pen sketching in days gone by... but there are leaves on her jacket. Why the hell are there leaves on her jacket?

There are certain phrases that AI uses repeatedly because AI has no imagination, it's just a search engine. Laurel's AI detector (probably AI driven) is looking for them and you probably stumbled on one.

 

[HuckPilgrim]

a whole day in and...

 

[Rustyoznail]

a whole day in and...View attachment 2578717

Hey, it’s a long story in a quiet category. It'll get there. I started reading it, but I'll be dipping in and out when I have time. Like it so far.

 

[talemestories]

And sent back for 'how characters talk' due to what I think was single quotes for text messages and doubles for dialogue. If that was the issue, it's odd as I have used that format on a number of stories already.

Let's see.

Resubmitted.

Put it in this morning, it will be published on the 21st. I am well impressed with the responsiveness of @Laurel et al in screening and posting the contest works. That being said, once I showed I was capable of writing consistently, my posts seemed to speed through within a couple of days so that's good, too.

Off to search the forum for a style sheet for including texts because I am not happy with the heavy handed way I corrected the texts in the text.

 

[dreams_in_words]

I've read a few stories from this comp so far. Despite my love for Halloween and spooky stuff, these have been more enjoyable overall.

5 star event

 

[HuckPilgrim]

Hey, it’s a long story in a quiet category. It'll get there. I started reading it, but I'll be dipping in and out when I have time. Like it so far.

hey, thanks for taking a look and for pointing out the stuff about the catagory, that makes perfect sense. I totally get what you're saying about the length, thanks for the kind words too!

 

[Actingup]

hey, thanks for taking a look and for pointing out the stuff about the catagory, that makes perfect sense. I totally get what you're saying about the length, thanks for the kind words too!

Hi HP, also, I just wanted to mention that the story doesn't seem to have any tags on it, or mention that it's part of the comp. I wasn't sure if this was deliberate, but it might be a factor in getting eyeballs* along with the category and length?

*digression - I can't ever mention 'eyeballs' in relation to Erotic Horror without thinking of Jack Vance's brilliant 'Liane the Wayfarer' (https://hell.pl/szymon/Baen/1635 The Eastern Front/The World Turned Upside Down/0743498747__27.htm)

 

[Actingup]

"It Just Ain't Going To Happen", cowritten with @PennyThompson, is out. Because it's in Loving Wives, there is zero - zip - not a snowball's chance in hell - of it winning anything, but we're hoping that we get some good engagement alongside some expected brickbats. We'd obviously be very interested in comments from anybody with time to read it. The basic plot is that an estranged couple's precocious daughter does her utmost to get her parents back together again, using trickery, badgering, emotional blackmail, sentimental music, food associations, science and philosophy as best she can.

 

[HuckPilgrim]

Hi HP, also, I just wanted to mention that the story doesn't seem to have any tags on it, or mention that it's part of the comp. I wasn't sure if this was deliberate, but it might be a factor in getting eyeballs* along with the category and length?

*digression - I can't ever mention 'eyeballs' in relation to Erotic Horror without thinking of Jack Vance's brilliant 'Liane the Wayfarer' (https://hell.pl/szymon/Baen/1635 The Eastern Front/The World Turned Upside Down/0743498747__27.htm)

ohhhh, tags! I always forget. I typically do put an authors note but not this time. I'm not even sure why.