Valentines Day Contest Support Thread.

[Kumquatqueen]

Ug. Story submitted. I thought I was doing well at midnight, but somehow half of it lost all the paragraph breaks. So I put them all back in. Only they didn't show up on Lit. Had to put them all in again in the draft text box.

Don't want to see certain paragraphs again!

 

[YDB95]

After a week or so of trying to get started, I finally got a first Lit-page or so that I really like. Now it's just a question of whether I can finish in time!

 

[UnquietDreams]

Done, and submitted. I don't care about the voting. It was something different, with almost no sex, and I got it done. Even added an afterward, which is new as well, explaining what a genius I was for ripping off Platonicus. It's a banner day.

And I got to use the title "Enough Commas for Lawrence."

 

[TheRedChamber]

Mine was published today (A White Valentine's in BDSM)

Not a contest winner by any stretch of the imagination, but Valentine's added a nice layer of extra meaning to the play session.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Mine was published today (A White Valentine's in BDSM)

Not a contest winner by any stretch of the imagination, but Valentine's added a nice layer of extra meaning to the play session.

I liked it, even though parts triggered rheumatism just reading about it! And a fair bit wasn't my cup of tea, though there was the odd bit of inspiring imagery...

Loving and caring, and different from the usual tedious BDSM story. Thank you.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Story going live in just over 12 hours. Trying to summarise it in 65 characters took forever - it should really be 'they host' but it didn't fit and at 1.30am I gave up!

Title: Sex Swing Satisfaction
Description: Sex club shuts; he hosts gang-bang party with young fireman.

I spent a ridiculously long time deciding whether 'gangbang' is hyphenated or not. I figure it is, except in the tag because the cloud for it is twice the size without.

 

[luv2custrip]

My contest stories always do below 4.5. I think it’s because they’re outside the box in which my followers expect me to write. I consider them challenges, and challenges improve my writing.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

My contest stories always do below 4.5. I think it’s because they’re outside the box in which my followers expect me to write. I consider them challenges, and challenges improve my writing.

There's advantages to not many followers, then, I guess!

 

[luv2custrip]

There's advantages to not many followers, then, I guess!

Sort of. My faithful fans give everything a 5; then there’s that sinking feeling.

 

[mrs_mackenzie]

My entry has been published this morning: The Missing Pilot in First Time.

I enjoyed writing it and tried to make something of the theme so I'm happy, personally.

 

[TheRedChamber]

Story going live in just over 12 hours. Trying to summarise it in 65 characters took forever - it should really be 'they host' but it didn't fit and at 1.30am I gave up!

Title: Sex Swing Satisfaction
Description: Sex club shuts; he hosts gang-bang party with young fireman.

I spent a ridiculously long time deciding whether 'gangbang' is hyphenated or not. I figure it is, except in the tag because the cloud for it is twice the size without.

I entered through My Home Activities so didn't see the description:

Me one third of the way down page one - I see where this is going, don't see how it's going to take six pages though.
Me two thirds of the way down page two - Oh...okay...that's not where...
Me on page two - okay, we're kind of back where I thought, but Kumquat's forgotten the Valentine's angle.
Me on page six - god-dammit.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I entered through My Home Activities so didn't see the description:

Me one third of the way down page one - I see where this is going, don't see how it's going to take six pages though.
Me two thirds of the way down page two - Oh...okay...that's not where...
Me on page two - okay, we're kind of back where I thought, but Kumquat's forgotten the Valentine's angle.
Me on page six - god-dammit.

Mission accomplished! Could I persuade you to post that as a comment on the story? Comments breed readers...

V relieved the formatting finally looks OK - only noticed one typo and one failure to split two lines of dialogue into two paragraphs, which isn't bad for a 6-page story.

 

[TheRedChamber]

Mission accomplished! Could I persuade you to post that as a comment on the story? Comments breed readers...

V relieved the formatting finally looks OK - only noticed one typo and one failure to split two lines of dialogue into two paragraphs, which isn't bad for a 6-page story.

Okay, done.

 

[AlexFourways]

Just checking a rule. It says "All submissions must be stand-alone stories created for this contest theme." I have a story that is set in the context of a Series (same characters and locations) but I have made sure that you don't need to have read any previous. Can I submit is as I notice other submissions that are also part of a Series?
Alex

 

[Voboy]

Just checking a rule. It says "All submissions must be stand-alone stories created for this contest theme." I have a story that is set in the context of a Series (same characters and locations) but I have made sure that you don't need to have read any previous. Can I submit is as I notice other submissions that are also part of a Series?
Alex

Yep. I do that all the time.

Don't think of it as a "series," in a given sequence, like a chain. Think of it as a "shared universe," more like a web.

 

[AlexFourways]

Yep. I do that all the time.

Don't think of it as a "series," in a given sequence, like a chain. Think of it as a "shared universe," more like a web.

Thanks Voboy (and =b from Kumquatqueen). I suppose it's my engineering background that makes me a bit literal on rules. OK, just finishing my umpteenth read through and tinkering to submit it v.soon. I have two stories in Pending, so hopefully this will be on line in time!
Alex.

 

[alohadave]

Thanks Voboy (and =b from Kumquatqueen). I suppose it's my engineering background that makes me a bit literal on rules. OK, just finishing my umpteenth read through and tinkering to submit it v.soon. I have two stories in Pending, so hopefully this will be on line in time!
Alex.

As long as it's not a chapter in a story, you are fine.

 

[AlexFourways]

As long as it's not a chapter in a story, you are fine.

Thanks alohadave. There's the rub.
Chapter in a story or Story in a series? Hopefully as I have added detail to make it self contained, with no need to read previous stories in the series I will be OK.
My stories

 

[Voboy]

Anyone here ever encountered a fellow named "Commentarista82?"

He just left about 3k words on my entry. He seems to have emerged from that "stacnash" school of overly thorough commentators. Seems to be interested in odd minutiae.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Anyone here ever encountered a fellow named "Commentarista82?"

He just left about 3k words on my entry. He seems to have emerged from that "stacnash" school of overly thorough commentators. Seems to be interested in odd minutiae.

Never encountered those. Just my familiar friend Anon complaining my dialogue style is 'a challenge'. I doubt he even got to the section where characters not understanding each other is the point...

10 votes, which is more than I expected for day 1 of a GM story, and a solid 4.0 - as expected!

 

[Priscilla_June]

Anyone here ever encountered a fellow named "Commentarista82?"

He just left about 3k words on my entry. He seems to have emerged from that "stacnash" school of overly thorough commentators. Seems to be interested in odd minutiae.

Yeah they left me a nice one too, long, great feedback, I enjoyed it. Better than a random appearance of Anonybush.

 

[Voboy]

Yeah they left me a nice one too, long, great feedback, I enjoyed it. Better than a random appearance of Anonybush.

I replied. He replied.

*sigh*

He's far, far more granular than I need him to be.

 

[AlexFourways]

Thanks alohadave. There's the rub.
Chapter in a story or Story in a series? Hopefully as I have added detail to make it self contained, with no need to read previous stories in the series I will be OK.
My stories

alohadave and voboy. I have submitted my story, but still as part of a series, so I'll see if it gets sent back and I will keep you updated.

 

[AlexFourways]

I replied. He replied.

*sigh*

He's far, far more granular than I need him to be.

I would welcome some feedback as apart from my first stories where I had a couple of flamers from Anon(s) who objected to the woman having several partners in a Group Sex story (?!) I haven't had much so I am working blind based on reads, follows and votes!

 

[StillStunned]

I've had some interaction Comentarista, in the Story Feedback forum and in comments on my stories. I find their analysis interesting, and it's clear they read the stories very closely. (I might just be saying this because they seem to like my stories.)