Winter Holiday 2024 Contest Support and Seasonal Story Discussion Thread
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I have an idea, but that's all it is right now. "Mrs. Clause gets a free pass." I'll work on it and maybe have it ready for next year.
Duleigh
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How long? I just published my longest single entry story.
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I'm about maybe 70% finished with it and it's clocking in currently at 23k words. My longest story that I've published capped off at a little under 24k words.
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Awesome!
Once I got hooked on long form story telling, I found short stories were hard to do. Picture it: late at night... chapter 37... half way home! Publishers consider a novel 84k words or longer. The first time you hit that mark you say to yourself "that wasn't so hard, let's do more!" I'm not saying don't write longer stories, I'm saying that when you discover how freeing it is to tell the entire story and not having to worry about compressing details to fit in the narrative, the books start to flow...
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My first entry is on the boil. My recurring muscular, well hung exhibitionist MC's nude calendar will be out just in time for Xmas. Cue sex with celebs on the press tour, and a Xmas shopping in-store signing CFNM riot! Merry Christmas!
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OMG I gotta do at least ONE story on Lit this year, so I might as well make it the Winter Holidays. LOL. Working away on it.
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It would be an honor if you selected our little celebration of Winter to warm us up.
ChloeTzang
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After you have witnessed The Christmas Mass of the Order of the Blessed Magdalene, you will be warm indeed.
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A cult of erotic Catholicism? I like it!
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LOL. Very. And may the Blessed Magdalene forgive me for the writing of this blasphemous little story.
I've got a good part of it done now, and I may even get it in for the start of the competition. THAT would be a first!!!!
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I don't think being canonized kills a sense of humor. She probably never noticed. And besides I'm not a Gnostic Christian so if she gets mad she has to leave me alone.LOL. Very. And may the Blessed Magdalene forgive me for the writing of this blasphemous little story.
It's in the rules...
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NICE!!!!
I'm hoping to have my first draft for winter holidays done in time for Valentines day.
(I'll keep it short and submit it in the 750 word event)
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We moved from Phoenix to Chicago a few years ago because we missed winter, so this is up my alley. Of course, my longest story so far was Christmas-themed and I published it in the summer, because I had the dumb. Or the muses.
I was going to write something short, just for variety, but this is shaping up to be a long one.
I was going to write something short, just for variety, but this is shaping up to be a long one.
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A reader dared me to write a "normal" (for me) story for a Literotica contest. I refused. We got to the double dog dare stage. Still I held my ground, albeit a little nervously. And then a slight breach of etiquette, and the reader jumped straight to the triple dog dare. And... now, I'm 12K into a "normal" story for the Literotica Holiday Contest!
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This question might be more for the other Antipodeans on this thread, but is there any sense that readers will penalise authors for writing warm tropical stories at Christmas? The language around this competition tends to be very Northern Hemispheric.
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Not really. I'm writing one set on a Gippsland beach in July. I've read temperature hot stories as well.
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I'm not going to dispute that it is very Northern Hemispheric. The contest is driven by the fact that there's so many holidays during early winter, but we want to avoid naming any of them in the title of the contest. Also - I don't think we've had a story about someone going snow skiing at Coronet Peak, Mt. Hutt, or Craigieburn Valley in New Zealand, that would fit the parameters of "Winter Activities" or you can write about what what you do while all us seppos are freezing our arses off.
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My winter story "Carol" from a few years ago takes place on a day warm enough for the protagonist to do her shopping in a bikini top. It isn't the southern hemisphere, but it is southern California, which is close enough. Nobody gave me any trouble over it.
And, for what it's worth, "Summer of Sydney" started out as a winter in Australia story. (The character sharing her name with the city was going to be a whole thing.) I reworked it into a summer story in America because it took so fucking long to write.
I think this is one of those times when stories, even in small ways, can remind people that life is different all over the world, and that not everybody experiences the same stuff (e.g. winter holidays) in the same way.
And, for what it's worth, "Summer of Sydney" started out as a winter in Australia story. (The character sharing her name with the city was going to be a whole thing.) I reworked it into a summer story in America because it took so fucking long to write.
I think this is one of those times when stories, even in small ways, can remind people that life is different all over the world, and that not everybody experiences the same stuff (e.g. winter holidays) in the same way.
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Well... we wouldn't want to stir up too much jealousy, would we? The fact that we take a month off to laze in the sun and watch sports whilst stuffing ourselves with Christmas leftovers probably shouldn't be mentioned in every single Southern Hemisphere story!
Thanks for the response Duleigh!
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I've got that thing where as I write, I keep discovering new things about my characters. It'd be fine if it didn't keep making the story longer.
But I never criticize the muses. Nope. The muses are wise, and I appreciate all their gifts, even completely unexpected backstories.
But I never criticize the muses. Nope. The muses are wise, and I appreciate all their gifts, even completely unexpected backstories.
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I started work on Alan Scarlett and the Title To Be Determined a week ago. I jumped in knowing where I wanted my characters by the end of the story, what planet or space station they would be on, who lived, who died, who was fucking who, etc. and that's it. I let my muse take over from there. It started out just like I thought it would then - Holy jumping shit! My muse just started interplanetary war with the 22nd century communist party! What fun! I can't wait to see how this turns out.
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