The Official Valentine’s Day Contest Support Thread 2026

[FrancesScott]

Thanks. Keep in mind though, a high view count is not necessarily an advantage in a contest. Many people have won with relatively few votes. And if you do win, you will probably get a big influx of followers, which will in turn lead to higher view counts in the future.

I don’t have any aspirations about winning with this story. I just wanted it to be read.

 

[EmilyMiller]

14th January

I wonder who’ll be the winner
A slow burn, or tale about sinners
Or a moving vignette
‘Bout a little coquette
Who just needs a big cock slid in her

 

[RoyalAuthor]

I don’t have any aspirations about winning with this story. I just wanted it to be read.

Same for me. I've been just outside the top 3 at least a couple times but I don't see being that close with this one.

 

[FrancesScott]

Same for me. I've been just outside the top 3 at least a couple times but I don't see being that close with this one.

Once for me. And if that story didn’t place, I’m never going to place. I sometimes think I can’t possibly write a better story than my Summer Lovin’ one. But I have to try, I suppose.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Same for me. I've been just outside the top 3 at least a couple times but I don't see being that close with this one.

Three times (arguably four) for me. And I’ve been pack leader up until the very last moment. But hey, it’s all just fun, right?

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Three times (arguably four) for me. And I’ve been pack leader up until the very last moment. But hey, it’s all just fun, right?

 

[StrentWriter]

I don’t have any aspirations about winning with this story. I just wanted it to be read.

Snap. And I can just about manage the down voting, it turns out.

But it has now stopped being read I think, now at 1700, only up 100 from yesterday.

So yeah, probably out of the running now but it was fun. Maybe better luck next time.

 

[FrancesScott]

Maybe better luck next time.

I wasn’t aiming for prizes with this story. But I’d have liked some more people to read it.

 

[StrentWriter]

I wasn’t aiming for prizes with this story. But I’d have liked some more people to read it.

I’d have settled for being in the running for top 20 or 30 XD

 

[WittyUserName]

I’d have settled for being in the running for top 20 or 30 XD

Since only the top 3 are named, the rest of us will all tie for fourth place.

 

[StrentWriter]

Since only the top 3 are named, the rest of us will all tie for fourth place.

So I got my wish! XD

 

[Purechicanery]

I don't think I'll ever be top 3 because too many people probs want my stories to be longer. And I'm never making my stories longer just for the sake of it.

 

[StrentWriter]

Snap. And I can just about manage the down voting, it turns out.

But it has now stopped being read I think, now at 1700, only up 100 from yesterday.

So yeah, probably out of the running now but it was fun. Maybe better luck next time.

1900 now so obviously slowed down. I have 11 votes which is lovely! 16 shy of the contest spec but hey ho.

 

[Purechicanery]

OK my story is now published, hope it does OK. It's 3 pages long (I never know until after it's published because I type it straight into the browser and I don't really check things like word count or whatever, I just go by vibes) which from experience proooobably means it escapes the more indignant complaints of 'this is too short' so It'll probs clock in at around 4.6 I guess. IDK I'm still not 100% on what people like. This doesn't feel like one of my top ones, but the ones that I think are my top ones aren't the highest rated so what do I know I guess.

EDIT: currently at 4.7, but I reckon it'll eventually stabilise to somewhere between 4.6 and 4.7

 

[EmilyMiller]

15th January

We’re now up to day number six
You’ve still time to get in the mix
With a story ‘bout flowers
Or with golden showers
Or two women, one cock, lots of licks

 

[StrentWriter]

I’m staying for the daily rhyme tbh!

Thanks for the giggle Emily.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I’m staying for the daily rhyme tbh!

Thanks for the giggle Emily.

There are a LOT more of them!

 

[WittyUserName]

There are a LOT more of them!

I'm impressed you can come up with a new one every day. I haven't even finished my entry yet; way to make me look bad!

 

[EmilyMiller]

I'm impressed you can come up with a new one every day. I haven't even finished my entry yet; way to make me look bad!

I wrote like twenty in advance. I like writing limericks

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I wrote like twenty in advance. I like writing limericks

¿Sólo veinte?
Yo tengo ciento seis
todas en el culo.

I think the metric of my haiku is wrong on the second line. Took me less than a minute though.

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

Here’s more detail than usual in a support thread, but I’m providing it in case other folks are trying to work out their situations. I see 38 stories entered in the contest, on its sixth day. This seems like fewer than would be common at this stage of a Val’s Day contest. Maybe this means that there’s a logjam, and I do not say this as an accusation, or a hint of larger issues within Literotica. Just an observation.

Anyway. I submitted a story for the contest on Monday the 12th. When I shut down the computer last night, it was still pending. When I logged on today, the story showed as scheduled for publication tomorrow, the 16th. So the time between submittal and the notice of scheduling is between 56 and 66 hours. If you have a story pending, this may or may not indicate your situation. That darn mileage, it sure can vary.

A few more indicators: My story is 10.8k words, and it’ll be in Erotic Couplings. I’ve been posting here for six and a half years. Among my many items, there have been only two that were sent back, and the issues were eventually resolved. I don’t think I’m part of a clique or a cabal, but maybe I’ve been made into a sleeper agent without my knowledge.

I hope this info is helpful. Enjoy the contest.

 

[EmilyMiller]

¿Sólo veinte?
Yo tengo ciento seis
todas en el culo.

I think the metric of my haiku is wrong on the second line. Took me less than a minute though.

I tried writing limericks in French and Latin, it’s not easy

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I tried writing limericks in French and Latin, it’s not easy

Hence I stick with Spanish and try to stay away from English for anything poetry.

 

[Trionyx]

Or two women, one cock, lots of licks

Or one woman, two men and two dicks.

 

[EmilyMiller]

16th January

Valentine’s comp, it’s day seven
Which conveniently rhymes well with heaven
So write us an epic
Heroine quite angelic
Til she see a cock measuring eleven