TheLobster
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The front page lady looked much different last year, so this festive change of clothes is definitely new.
The Official Authors' Hangout Winter Holidays 2025 Support Thread
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SamanthaBehgs
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Dang it - we should have gotten warning. She's a story all on her own and I'm just not good enough to produce it in a day.
iwatchus
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I still want an author event (in 27?) writing stories about her.
IWroteThis
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Well, after being happy to finish last year's story in time to actually submit it this year, I just deleted it from the perpetual Pending queue. To the organizer and all of you that managed to get stories published, know that I'm there with you in spirit, just not in print.
TheRedLantern
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You should still have some time to resubmit your story. They know the end of the contest window is coming up so it might get approved pretty quick.
Jorunn
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I spent a week on the west coast of Ireland in early November, absorbing as much of the incredible Irish scenery, history, culture, and Guinness as I could. Putting these into a story was a must. My story, “A Heart of Irish Gold” is live today in the Romance section.
A young woman from Galway flees the city for a small village on the west coast of Ireland, taking a job at an historic pub. An unexpected delivery on Christmas Eve leads her on a journey uncovering lost memories from her own life and from Ireland’s past. She finds a nearly two hundred year old letter telling a tale of fear, sacrifice, hope, and love. But the young woman soon realizes that the letter is more than just past history, it is also her future.
A young woman from Galway flees the city for a small village on the west coast of Ireland, taking a job at an historic pub. An unexpected delivery on Christmas Eve leads her on a journey uncovering lost memories from her own life and from Ireland’s past. She finds a nearly two hundred year old letter telling a tale of fear, sacrifice, hope, and love. But the young woman soon realizes that the letter is more than just past history, it is also her future.
SamanthaBehgs
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We should start a thread starting in January '26 trying to document any change the undergoes. Think she'll be dressed as the Easter bunny? A New Year's Eve celebration? My goodness, I hope so.
YmaOHyd
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...looking forward to World Nude Day.
taytay4eva
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My newest story, "Sammi Elf Sweetens Her Sugarplum", is now live and it already has a score of 2.67. Like, sure, it's not my BEST work but Jesus Christ.
I'm starting to think that submitting anything during a competition month is just a bad idea if you want to get a rating that isn't immediately in the tubes. Or maybe I'm just not as good an erotic writer as I think I am.
I'm starting to think that submitting anything during a competition month is just a bad idea if you want to get a rating that isn't immediately in the tubes. Or maybe I'm just not as good an erotic writer as I think I am.
SamanthaBehgs
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My Halloween poem did something like that and then a sweep somehow brought it to 5 stars even though it wasn't even technically qualified for the contest! (I still don't see why poems can't get their own category or at least honorable mentions without monetary rewards, though) I'd say wait until after like the 13th or 14th before trusting the numbers. And also remember that post on "regression to the mean" goes both ways. Extremely low AND extremely high scores will find a center over time.
taytay4eva
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I know, and I'm sure that the scores will adjust properly in time, I just wish they'd not be so bad in the interim.
<Deep breath> I'm a good writer, and I'm putting out new works, and that's enough. Scores are just icing on the cake, they aren't the eggs.
cw5523729
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One note - I assume this is a sequel to the earlier story mentioned? The contest stories are supposed to be stand-alone, so a lot of readers coming in blindly might be getting pissed at being confused.
It looks like the earlier story was from last winter's contest? And it looks like that story was a very solid 4.7.
SamanthaBehgs
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Heck yea you are. And, interestingly, it shows as 5 stars when I pull up your stories page. So at least at one point, it had a 5 star rating on there.
taytay4eva
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It was originally going to be a follow-up to last year's contest entry but I decided, when it got rejected, to submit it as just a Christmas story, so nobody should be going into it thinking it's a contest entry.
If it's in the contest I'll be surprised.
Yeah, that's why I'm disappointed with how this year's winter stories are going. Sure, the end of "A Mid-Winter Night's Dream" cuts out before the sex because the story doesn't really build to a sex scene, but I didn't think it was *that* disappointing. The kiss felt like a natural climax.
I like getting "Hot" ratings, they make me feel like I'm really doing well and that I could make it as a published author.
cw5523729
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Oh, my bad. I saw it mentioned in here and just assumed it was an entry for this year's contest.
taytay4eva
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Nope, I just don't know where else to talk about it because I'm excited about it.
YmaOHyd
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https://forum.literotica.com/threads/what-have-you-posted-recently.1586479/page-61
That thread is a good place.
Actingup
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If she’s a lady, then I’m a gentleman.
taytay4eva
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You got this!
WriterPerson314159
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Ah. I love the smell of one-bombs in the afternoon.
MegaTank
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Not sure what I'm supposed to do besides stress-check my story's current score the same way I kept stress-checking to see if it'd been approved yet, but thanks.
Voboy
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Most of us do that at least once per day; some people here admit to doing it once per minute, with spreadsheets!
Either way, enjoy the ride. The fluctuations in the numbers usually don't have much to do with the final result, though.
Fatdog25
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"Christmas Rayne" (T/I, 17.4k words) has been submitted.
A very public thank you to @NaughteeDragon for their efforts as beta reader, editor, and critic. It's a better story than it has a right to be because of them.
A very public thank you to @NaughteeDragon for their efforts as beta reader, editor, and critic. It's a better story than it has a right to be because of them.
ChloeTzang
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Finishing ff my Winter Holidays story and then I saw this and realized hw much I have absorbed witghout thinking LOL
Half of these are in my story and I didn't even look them up rotflmao
Half of these are in my story and I didn't even look them up rotflmao
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