Virtual Literotica Convention 2025 Author Challenge Official Support Thread

[FreyaGersemi]

Virtual Literotica Convention 2025
Author Organized Challenge by Freya Gersemi

You’ve all lovingly written and read characters in Literotica stories that just seem oh so lifelike. Well, what if they actually came to life? Here’s your chance make the entire Literotica Universe some to life!! In this Literotica Challenge, you get to flex your writing muscles and weave other, already established, characters into your own stories using them as your own. Crazy, huh?

So, what in the world am I talking about?

Picture if you will, a Literotica Convention where all of the characters from all of the stories ever published on Literotica are invited to attend. Within the 3-day weekend of this convention, they meet, mingle, meander, and… well, what happens next is entirely up to YOU!!

STARTS: April 25
CLOSES: May 16
FINAL ANTHOLOGY LIST POSTED: May 17

Please copy and paste the phrase "LIT CON 2025" (quotes not needed) in the "Notes to Admin" field of your submission.

Also, please copy and paste the phrase "LIT CON 2025" (quotes not needed) as a story tag so that your stories can be found easily.

Like right here: https://tags.literotica.com/lit con 2025/

This thread is to support and encourage and just chit-chat about this challenge.

And there are a LOT of very good writers here, so if you’re new to this, please reach out. We’re all here to help!

So, the specifics of this challenge…

The setting: The 2025 Virtual Literotica Convention at “The Grand City Hotel” in Grand City (of course). It all happens over a long weekend.

The Grand City Hotel is (in reality) The Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC, United States. But to avoid any issues with using the real name, we're using The Grand City Hotel in Grand City. You can do an Internet search for The Marriot Marquis and see pictures, rooms, amenities, surrounding neighborhoods, etcetera.

On Friday, the first night of the convention, there is a meet and greet in the hotel’s main ballroom with a jazz band playing on the small stage at one end, and a bar and light buffet set up at the other end.

The next day (Saturday) consists of various workshops in some of the hotel’s smaller conference rooms (think: “How to Please a Man,” “How to Please a Woman,” “Sex in the Modern Age,” autograph signings, etcetera -- make up whatever you want, if needed). That night, there is a formal dinner in the main ballroom with some keynote speakers, then dancing into the wee hours.

On the final day of the convention (Sunday), there’s a brunch in the main ballroom, followed by a few more workshops and a casual buffet in the early evening back in the main ballroom.

No worries about overlapping stories or situations that someone has already come up with. Just write whatever you want to. For example, someone writes a story where a freak storm hits and the power goes out in the entire hotel. You can write a story that the weekend was perfectly sunny. Remember, this is all make-believe and YOUR story is for YOU to write!

Please mention/tag the authors whose characters you are using in a foreword to your story. The characters are their intellectual property, so be sure to credit them properly. And it’s a great way to get readers to read other authors’ work (as well as your own) and readers won’t do that unless they know where to click.

Here's a thread with characters available for use in this challenge: Characters Available For Use

This challenge is open to everyone.


TO SUMMARIZE:
1. The initial setting is a Literotica Convention where various Literotica Story Characters meet. Where it goes from there is up to you.
2. Get the approval of an author to use their characters!
3. Credit the characters’ authors in a foreword with links to their profile page.
4. This is a challenge, not a contest. There are winners or prizes awarded.
5. Make sure to include “LIT CON 2025” (quotes not needed) in the NOTES TO ADMIN field AND as a TAG so that your story can be easily located and posted in a timely manner.


And please remember… Be kind to everyone’s characters!

These characters are the hard work of an actual human being. Characters may seem to take on a life of their own, but there’s a real person behind them. Try to be cognizant of that fact. And please get permission to use a character. It only takes a few seconds to ask.

And, of course, if you have any questions about the appropriateness of something that you are writing, please contact the author privately as in: “Hey, I’m writing So-and-so doing this-and-that. Are you cool with it?” Some authors may not want their character involved in certain things.

So make your reservations at the Grand City Hotel for Lit Con 2025!!!

 

[Actingup]

Hey @FreyaGersemi congratulations again on getting this official! I guess it's going to be really important to 'get inside' the other author's character - if we select them because they have a really impressive penis (which is very unusual here, obviously), we also need to pick up that they have a law degree, read Jane Austen and enjoy basket weaving.

 

[FreyaGersemi]

And by the way, let me be the first to say that ANY of my characters are available for whatever anybody would like to do with them in this challenge. Just link to my Literotica Profile in your story foreword and give me a heads up so I can read them when they are published!!! Thank you!!!!

 

[FreyaGersemi]

I know that it's REALLY early, but I like to get a jump on things. I'm a very slow writer!!

Who has characters that they would allow me to use in my story? If you could tag me and then give the name of the character and some very basic personality traits. There are just so many different and great characters in so many stories, and to do all of the research only to find out that the author doesn't want their character used would be a real bummer. Thanks!!

 

[oneagainst]

Working something up... but first, Frey, how about including https://tags.literotica.com/lit con 2025/ in the original post. That way we can always click through to the growing list. Obv zero entries at the moment, but give me a minute

 

[FreyaGersemi]

Working something up... but first, Frey, how about including https://tags.literotica.com/lit con 2025/ in the original post. That way we can always click through to the growing list. Obv zero entries at the moment, but give me a minute

The challenge doesn't start until April 25, but I added that to the original post. Thank you so much!!!

I'm just starting to think. In fact, I woke up in the middle of the night last night with a sudden "ah-hah!" idea. So, now it's just a matter of assembling words into cohesive sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into something resembling a story. You know, the easy part.

 

[oneagainst]

The challenge doesn't start until April 25, but I added that to the original post. Thank you so much!!!

I'm just starting to think. In fact, I woke up in the middle of the night last night with a sudden "ah-hah!" idea. So, now it's just a matter of assembling words into cohesive sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into something resembling a story. You know, the easy part.

...stories into books... books into epics... epics into an inevitable sale to Disney for a billion dollars.

In some weird alternative universe where Walt Disney was into sexy blowjobs in hotel rooms.

Oh. Wait

 

[FreyaGersemi]

In some weird alternative universe where Walt Disney was into sexy blowjobs in hotel rooms.

In some weird alternate universe where Larry Flynt was the one that made movies, theme parks, cute stores at the mall...

 

[StillStunned]

Who has characters that they would allow me to use in my story? If you could tag me and then give the name of the character and some very basic personality traits. There are just so many different and great characters in so many stories, and to do all of the research only to find out that the author doesn't want their character used would be a real bummer. Thanks!!

Perhaps start a separate thread where people can make their characters available? And link to it in the first post of this thread? That way you have them all gathered in one place (as it were) and other writers don't need to go digging around for characters to use.

 

[FreyaGersemi]

Perhaps start a separate thread where people can make their characters available? And link to it in the first post of this thread? That way you have them all gathered in one place (as it were) and other writers don't need to go digging around for characters to use.

Done! Thanks for the suggestion!!

 

[Lifestyle66]

This sounds like an interesting way to evolve some of our own characters.

There will probably be some conflicting stories when all are done, if the same characters are used by multiple authors. After all, on the first night of the convention, "Freya Darlene Prossa" might find herself to be VERY busy!

But I'll add my own two favorite swinger characters, Ted and Jan (no last names, appearing as MCs in two-thirds of my stories) as up for grabs. I'll post their descriptions in the other thread.

 

[FreyaGersemi]

There will probably be some conflicting stories when all are done

I'm sure. But this is all make-believe. Having everyone check in with everyone else would just be nuts. So everyone is free to write whatever they want to. Turn a gay guy straight, hang an elf by its feet from the chandelier and tickle it with an ostrich feather, create the world's longest chain of women eating each other out, gang bangs at $20.00 a pop, a serial blowjobist crawling under the tables at dinner... I feel that the creative imagination should have no limits and having any kind of restraint is a limit. Go crazy and write anything you want!!!

To be honest, I would be thrilled if every single story submitted in this challenge was complete mayhem!!!

 

[Lifestyle66]

I'm sure. But this is all make-believe. Having everyone check in with everyone else would just be nuts. So everyone is free to write whatever they want to. Turn a gay guy straight, hang an elf by it's feet from the chandelier and tickle it with an ostrich feather, create the world's longest chain of women eating each other out, gang bangs at $20.00 a pop, a serial blowjobist crawling under the tables at dinner... The creative imagination should have no limits and having any kind of restraint is a limit. Go crazy and write anything you want!!!

To be honest, I would be thrilled if every single story submitted in this challenge was complete mayhem!!!

Be careful what you wish for. Ted and Jan will be sure to bring plenty of toys and lube!

 

[oneagainst]

Just saw this listed in the 2025 author challenges and noting that it now has a fixed timeframe - instead of running all year. Better get skates on and get a story together then...!

 

[FreyaGersemi]

Just saw this listed in the 2025 author challenges and noting that it now has a fixed timeframe - instead of running all year. Better get skates on and get a story together then...!

Yes. I think Laurel wanted more specific dates. Or at least the information that was outlined for idea submissions asked for start and end dates and suggested looking at other challenges so there wouldn't be too much of an overlap. I didn't want to be a jerk and overlap with every single other challenge, so I went with April 25th. After all, it is the perfect date.

 

[StillStunned]

All you need is a light jacket!

 

[FreyaGersemi]

So, as my little brain is mulling things over, I had a question. How annoying is it to have links within a story? Like:

"Don't look now, but there's Name-1," Cynthia whispered.
"Oh, wow," Freya goggled. "He was so sexy in Name of Story w/ Link."
"Right?"

I was thinking that my story could have a little section where they first get to the convention and are looking around at all of the different characters. I think it would be a nice way to name-check some characters and some authors, but I don't want to annoy readers too much. I'm thinking maybe 5-6 hyperlinks within the text over a couple hundred words or so.

Would this be cool or super annoying?

 

[ElectricBlue]

So, as my little brain is mulling things over, I had a question. How annoying is it to have links within a story? Like:

"Don't look now, but there's Name-1," Cynthia whispered.
"Oh, wow," Freya goggled. "He was so sexy in Name of Story w/ Link."
"Right?"

I was thinking that my story could have a little section where they first get to the convention and are looking around at all of the different characters. I think it would be a nice way to name-check some characters and some authors, but I don't want to annoy readers too much. I'm thinking maybe 5-6 hyperlinks within the text over a couple hundred pages or so.

Would this be cool or super annoying?

In moderation, and in context.

The problem you might have is readers find the other story more interesting, and don't come back to yours...

 

[FreyaGersemi]

The problem you might have is readers find the other story more interesting, and don't come back to yours...

Yes... But the terrible marketer in me says: "then that is on me." The nice person in me (who works hand-in-hand with the terrible marketer) says: "but it's nice to show support for others."

 

[oneagainst]

I'm intending on putting the refs in an author's note at the top, as in: this story involves X [link] from story [link] - e.g. what I did at the start of A Place For Us All To Belong - readers won't click into the links because it's pre the story starting, but they know to scroll up to the top for background.

 

[Bamagan]

So, as my little brain is mulling things over, I had a question. How annoying is it to have links within a story? Like:

"Don't look now, but there's Name-1," Cynthia whispered.
"Oh, wow," Freya goggled. "He was so sexy in Name of Story w/ Link."
"Right?"

I was thinking that my story could have a little section where they first get to the convention and are looking around at all of the different characters. I think it would be a nice way to name-check some characters and some authors, but I don't want to annoy readers too much. I'm thinking maybe 5-6 hyperlinks within the text over a couple hundred pages or so.

Would this be cool or super annoying?

A couple of hundred pages?! That's pretty ambitious.
I think, as long as you don't lay the links on so thickly that it makes it hard to scroll on a phone, you will avoid annoying most people too much. Anyone who reads news articles is probably accustomed to such interconnectivity. There are likely at least a few readers who will find it fun and perhaps even helpful. I doubt many will leave in the middle of your story, or if they do, they probably wouldn't have finished it anyway. As a convenience, though, you might consider adding the links a second time, at the end of the story, so that people don't have to go back to find any that they were intrigued by. Especially if they'd have to poke through hundreds of pages!
It does seem kind of like fourth wall breaking, though, to reference other stories like that. Are you planning to imply that the stories are themselves famous in the context of your own? Like they're movies or something, and the characters in them are now celebrities of a sort?

 

[FreyaGersemi]

A couple of hundred pages?! That's pretty ambitious.

Whoops! I meant words. I edited my comment! Sorry!!

 

[FreyaGersemi]

It does seem kind of like fourth wall breaking, though, to reference other stories like that. Are you planning to imply that the stories are themselves famous in the context of your own? Like they're movies or something, and the characters in them are now celebrities of a sort?

I think so. I tend to work in strange ways. I might make it like the characters are all characters in Literotica stories that have a life of their own, but still know that they are characters. Kind of like the "Toy Story" movie franchise where they know that they're toys but still live their own lives, too. I'm not really sure. I'm still in the "forming an idea" stage and figuring out my options. Thinking "out loud" may help others, too.

 

[oneagainst]

I think so. I tend to work in strange ways. I might make it like the characters are all characters in Literotica stories that have a life of their own, but still know that they are characters. Kind of like the "Toy Story" movie franchise where they know that they're toys but still live their own lives, too. I'm not really sure. I'm still in the "forming an idea" stage and figuring out my options. Thinking "out loud" may help others, too.

I'm going to bring in Lily, from my multiplicity story sequence... she knows she's in a story. It's led her on a rollercoaster journey of self discovery. I mean, what if you found out the answer to where you came from and why, and it was that you were a character in a smut story, to be disposed of immediately afterwards. How would you feel?

 

[MelissaBaby]

So, as my little brain is mulling things over, I had a question. How annoying is it to have links within a story? Like:

"Don't look now, but there's Name-1," Cynthia whispered.
"Oh, wow," Freya goggled. "He was so sexy in Name of Story w/ Link."
"Right?"

I was thinking that my story could have a little section where they first get to the convention and are looking around at all of the different characters. I think it would be a nice way to name-check some characters and some authors, but I don't want to annoy readers too much. I'm thinking maybe 5-6 hyperlinks within the text over a couple hundred words or so.

Would this be cool or super annoying?

It might make more sense to do them as footnotes.