The Official Authors' Hangout Winter Holidays 2025 Support Thread

[Kumquatqueen]

Didn't mention mine was part of the comp or ask for votes/comments, but IME those make little difference. I got the New blob yesterday, but it's actually scheduled for tomorrow.

I suspect I messed up formatting of text messages (putting a br tag in but also the next text on a new line, albeit without a space), but we shall see. Anyone who gets that far should be invested enough in the story...

 

[iwatchus]

"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.

There's always got to be a first, right? And I can't imagine a pairing much more likely to break that barrier.

 

[PennyThompson]

A little bit late to the party, because this was an exceptionally challenging one to get right... but @Actingup and I just published a new collaborative story, It Just Ain't Going to Happen!

It went into Loving Wives, so we are most certainly not in contention for highest score

But I'm super proud of it, a story about loss, estrangement, and the hope of reconciliation. A precocious and slightly annoying college-age daughter tries to push her separated parents back together using trickery, music, bad weather, and her knowledge of 18th century philosophy!

edit: oops Acting already posted about it here... sorry for the double-shilling!

 

[RoyalAuthor]

A little bit late to the party, because this was an exceptionally challenging one to get right... but @Actingup and I just published a new collaborative story, It Just Ain't Going to Happen!

It went into Loving Wives, so we are most certainly not in contention for highest score

But I'm super proud of it, a story about loss, estrangement, and the hope of reconciliation. A precocious and slightly annoying college-age daughter tries to push her separated parents back together using trickery, music, bad weather, and her knowledge of 18th century philosophy!

edit: oops Acting already posted about it here... sorry for the double-shilling!

Great story, enjoyed it very much. Good luck overcoming the LW fans.

 

[RoyalAuthor]

I think I broke that assumption of 1 review per 100 views, 1 comment per 1k.

The Velvet Ribbon has 29 comments (not including my own responses) after less than 7k views. My next highest commented story has 23 after 61k views. Win or lose this contest, I'm chalking that level of engagement up to a win. Can't imagine what it might have looked like without that odd publishing bug on day one.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Last Christmas is now live.

It's in BDSM only because it had to go somewhere, and does start with our protagonist tied to his bed and his wife being nice to him, but shouldn't be too much for non-BDSM readers.

The text messages aren't grouped like I wanted, but I think the text conversations are clear enough from the characters' different typing styles.

It'll be interesting to see what people think.

 

[Actingup]

Great story, enjoyed it very much. Good luck overcoming the LW fans.

The range of comments and degree of engagement is amazing! It's not so much a question of overcoming as surfing through it all. I don't care about the haters so much when some of the comments are so extremely positive and there is such variety. Thanks for reading it. I wondered if we were making the music thing too obvious but it sounds like it was just enough to make you wonder without giving the game away!

 

[talemestories]

Put it in this morning, it will be published on the 21st. I

It's up and doing well. Never really considered myself a romance category writer but, perhaps, it's an option to further explore.

 

[RoyalAuthor]

It's up and doing well. Never really considered myself a romance category writer but, perhaps, it's an option to further explore.

I never know exactly whether I'm writing romance or not lol. I have emotional connections and meaningful relationships in my stories, but I also write pretty explicit scenes that are more than most stories in the romance category usually have, so I often decide at the last minute whether to put the story in romance or erotic couplings/some other particular category.

 

[iwatchus]

The stories in Romance can be all over the place in terms of how explicit the sex is. Apparently the community does not accept anal. I have never tried it. And I probably would;dn't do any group sex or gay male either. But I think anything that would be appropriate in EC would work, as long as it ends up HEA.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

The stories in Romance can be all over the place in terms of how explicit the sex is. Apparently the community does not accept anal. I have never tried it. And I probably would;dn't do any group sex or gay male either. But I think anything that would be appropriate in EC would work, as long as it ends up HEA.

You can do anal in romance, but it can't be early in the story or early in the sex (meaning not the first several times they have sex). At least that's the feedback I've gotten.

 

[lovecraft68]

The stories in Romance can be all over the place in terms of how explicit the sex is. Apparently the community does not accept anal. I have never tried it. And I probably would;dn't do any group sex or gay male either. But I think anything that would be appropriate in EC would work, as long as it ends up HEA.

Anal is a love or hate thing.

It doesn't go over the greatest in I/T they seem to think its not how you'd treat your mom/sis/daughter. Its okay to fuck them in any other way and even get them pregnant but not in the ass...usually.

Couple of years ago I entered a story in a contest here that had been published for sale for some time. In the original it has softer more romantic scene, but in the epilogue its raunchier and there is anal sex because the mother made a couple of comments early on about it. Because this was for lit, I took that part out and ended it with the nicer scene.

Several comments in, "I was hoping for anal seeing mom hinted at her willingness for it."

I was the victim of Chekhov's anal.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think I broke that assumption of 1 review per 100 views, 1 comment per 1k.

The Velvet Ribbon has 29 comments (not including my own responses) after less than 7k views. My next highest commented story has 23 after 61k views. Win or lose this contest, I'm chalking that level of engagement up to a win. Can't imagine what it might have looked like without that odd publishing bug on day one.

I'm glad to see someone separating their comment total by your replies and actual reader comments. More honest than some are with that.

My story was in early enough for day one, but for whatever reason was held back to day two, seems like that was a good thing to happen.

 

[Rustyoznail]

My story has stalled. Hardly any new views over the last three days and stuck on 27 votes.

 

[cw5523729]

Just submitted a very belated entry written in collaboration with @Kelliezgirl

Better late than never, right? Hopefully it gets processed in a timely fashion

A big thank you to her for both the original idea which was entirely hers, lots of feedback and (completely valid) criticism, as well as contributing a significant portion of the writing herself. Without her input, the story would have never existed. If it ultimately sucks however, that's entirely my fault and claim full responsibility.

 

[RoyalAuthor]

I was the victim of Chekhov's anal.

Brand new sentence.

 

[Actingup]

My story has stalled. Hardly any new views over the last three days and stuck on 27 votes.

I just commented - it's fun, original, short, and very Australian. Once I realized what the hell was going on, I loved it. And you even went there with Rolf and the six white boomers!

 

[Rustyoznail]

I just commented - it's fun, original, short, and very Australian. Once I realized what the hell was going on, I loved it. And you even went there with Rolf and the six white boomers!

Thanks mate. Appreciate it.

 

[TheLobster]

Just submitted a very belated entry (…)

No, mine is going to be belated. I’m about 70-80% in, which is clearly a lot of progress compared to the two sentences I had reported earlier

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Just submitted a very belated entry written in collaboration with @Kelliezgirl

Better late than never, right? Hopefully it gets processed in a timely fashion

A big thank you to her for both the original idea which was entirely hers, lots of feedback and (completely valid) criticism, as well as contributing a significant portion of the writing herself. Without her input, the story would have never existed. If it ultimately sucks however, that's entirely my fault and claim full responsibility.

It's totally your story, unless you win in which case...

 

[secretLace]

Just submitted mine. A magical little moment as Lacy stops to admire the Christmas display at a lingerie boutique.

 

[talemestories]

The stories in Romance can be all over the place in terms of how explicit the sex is. Apparently the community does not accept anal. I have never tried it. And I probably would;dn't do any group sex or gay male either. But I think anything that would be appropriate in EC would work, as long as it ends up HEA.

Funny that I am going to follow up my romance with a hard core anal story.

When I saw this post yesterday, I was going to go in a much different, funnier direction suggesting that one does not have to take part in what is written about but(t) ...

 

[talemestories]

It's up and doing well. Never really considered myself a romance category writer but, perhaps, it's an option to further explore.

Super happy with the response to the story. The first holiday one isn't doing as well as I expected but the second is.

I passed 500 followers as well so that's a huge milestone for me, too.

 

[Duleigh]

My second story went live today - https://literotica.com/s/a-christmas-carol-revisited-1

It's the old story, the worlds worst grandmother is redeemed by ghosts... how bad was she? It took FIVE freaking ghosts to pry her head loose!
It's a Christmas gift for the readers of my first big series, We're a Wonderful Wife which was based on a modern retelling of A Christmas Carol. The really cool thing is that both stories I wrote this year are based in my Andi's Dream universe (AKA The Andiverse) which puts them on the Andi's Dream timeline. Both stories are unrelated, and take place 1500 miles apart, but both stories end at the exact same moment on the timeline, Christmas eve, one year from this years Christmas Eve on the fictional time line.

 

[YmaOHyd]

My second story went live today - https://literotica.com/s/a-christmas-carol-revisited-1

It's the old story, the worlds worst grandmother is redeemed by ghosts... how bad was she? It took FIVE freaking ghosts to pry her head loose!

Let me guess: Christmas past, present, future, future perfect and pluperfect.