"One Night in XXX” Story Event: Official Support Thread

[NotWise]

Anyone else having a delay to the pending status? I guess I could just resubmit to be sure since there's plenty of time.

Mine went to the pending list immediately, which is the usual pattern.

 

[KeithD]

Mine went to the pending list immediately, which is the usual pattern.

Mine too.

 

[gordo12]

So mine is finished other than the title. One night in Faro is out.

I've written a Western based in the 1860's - 1880's or so and need a good town. Preferably one with some history like say Tombstone and Boot Hill.

Not too large and not too small. Cattle ranches/cowboys in the area are a must.

I've been Googling and reading up on old western towns and ghost towns but if anyone has an idea or is close to one locally that has some cool history, I'm open till tonight when I'll submit.

I'd like to add a quick little section about the town and history into the story if possible.

PM please.

PS Preferred Location: it seems Colorado, Wyoming and Montana seem to have the most towns, especially ghost towns.

 

[yukonnights]

I just went to my dashboard and clicked on my pending story, as if I were going to read the preview. The note is visible there.

Thanks MB. It has moved to pending, I checked as you suggested and there may be a problem. The official note is; '"One Night in XXX Story Event"' Mine is; 'One Night In XXX story event'.

What you guys think: Is that worth doing a change to the note? I'm not sure how critical capitalization is to this, probably depends on if it's a computer reading it or a human.

 

[NotWise]

Thanks MB. It has moved to pending, I checked as you suggested and there may be a problem. The official note is; '"One Night in XXX Story Event"' Mine is; 'One Night In XXX story event'.

What you guys think: Is that worth doing a change to the note? I'm not sure how critical capitalization is to this, probably depends on if it's a computer reading it or a human.

You should change it. The instructions were to copy the note right out of the event announcement. Laurel's routine for identifying your story may be that picky. Beside, you have almost a week to go. Moving your story back in the queue by editing it isn't going to hurt you at all.

 

[yukonnights]

You should change it. The instructions were to copy the note right out of the event announcement. Laurel's routine for identifying your story may be that picky. Beside, you have almost a week to go. Moving your story back in the queue by editing it isn't going to hurt you at all.

That's probably the safest thing to do, especially since it won't have any impact. Thanks to everyone who offered some advice.

ETA: Corrected and re-submitted

 

[Hypoxia]

PS Preferred Location: it seems Colorado, Wyoming and Montana seem to have the most towns, especially ghost towns.

Far out West here, ghost towns of many locales, eras, reasons, and peoples exist. I've atlases filled with listings. My little Sierra Nevada Gold Rush county possesses twice as many ghost towns and camps as living communities. Many were ethnic: China Bar, Chile Bar, French Bend, Germantown, N!gger Gulch, etc. The story you're telling may decide its time+space setting.

Chinese ghost fishing villages ring San Francisco Bay. Stetsons not needed.

 

[gordo12]

Far out West here, ghost towns of many locales, eras, reasons, and peoples exist. I've atlases filled with listings. My little Sierra Nevada Gold Rush county possesses twice as many ghost towns and camps as living communities. Many were ethnic: China Bar, Chile Bar, French Bend, Germantown, N!gger Gulch, etc. The story you're telling may decide its time+space setting.

Chinese ghost fishing villages ring San Francisco Bay. Stetsons not needed.

I kind of stayed away from the gold/silver/mining rush kind of thing. The towns tended to grow quickly and disappear just as quickly when the ore ran out. Lots are in mountainous regions where you'd never find a cattle ranch. I was hoping for more name recognition today. Famous like Tombstone, Dodge City and others. Still in the public consciousness.

Some wicked history would help too

I've been googling and reading up on stuff all day. My brain is turning into a one man ghost town tour...

Thanks for the suggestions.

So far Dodge City is leading the pack. Census 1870's around 900+ people and the Earp's and Doc Holliday by the early 70's. The town was full of gamblers, hookers, saloons, brothels and gunfighters. It's got a lot of history. Kindergartens need not apply

it was also the setting for the TV series Gunsmoke, so lots of recognition.

Thanks to Notwise also for his suggestions. I'm researching those too.

 

[KeithD]

Far out West here, ghost towns of many locales, eras, reasons, and peoples exist. I've atlases filled with listings. My little Sierra Nevada Gold Rush county possesses twice as many ghost towns and camps as living communities. Many were ethnic: China Bar, Chile Bar, French Bend, Germantown, N!gger Gulch, etc. The story you're telling may decide its time+space setting.

Chinese ghost fishing villages ring San Francisco Bay. Stetsons not needed.

My mother spent part of her youth living at a played-out silver mine that her mother had bought into that turned out to be a scam where something like 300 percent of shares were sold. Her mother squatted at the mine, wanting to get something out of it. The nearly abandoned town at the mine is named Stinking Gulch. My mother said it was well named.

 

[Hypoxia]

I kind of stayed away from the gold/silver/mining rush kind of thing. The towns tended to grow quickly and disappear just as quickly when the ore ran out. Lots are in mountainous regions where you'd never find a cattle ranch.

High country is the ranchers' summer grazing ground. And nearby ranchers and farmers fed the miners, gamblers, whores, et al. Merchants and farmers got richer than miners did. My 49er Gold Rush region is mostly in lower foothills with broad valleys adjacent. Yeah, Bodie and Virginia City were more remote. Hey, you want a wild place? Look up Bad Man From Bodie.

I was hoping for more name recognition today. Famous like Tombstone, Dodge City and others. Still in the public consciousness.

Tombstone is now a theme park. (I've lived nearby.) I've not seen Dodge lately but with over 21k people it's not exactly 'ghostly'. And the few shootouts in both (guns tended to be confiscated at the city limits) were corporate warfare.

Ghost towns are such because their reason for existence vanished. Mined or logged or burnt or washed out. Overgrazed. Railway went elsewhere. If more than a few humans are left, it's no ghost town, like Bisbee or Jerome. Or maybe it's a quaint historical park like Bodie or Calico or Colusa.

I don't know what site to recommend because it's a player in your story -- unless it's just a generic place like the nasty village in High Plains Drifter.

Some wicked history would help too

It can be invented. It probably was already, in penny-dreadful novels and cheesy horse operas.

 

[gordo12]

High country is the ranchers' summer grazing ground. And nearby ranchers and farmers fed the miners, gamblers, whores, et al. Merchants and farmers got richer than miners did. My 49er Gold Rush region is mostly in lower foothills with broad valleys adjacent. Yeah, Bodie and Virginia City were more remote. Hey, you want a wild place? Look up Bad Man From Bodie.

Tombstone is now a theme park. (I've lived nearby.) I've not seen Dodge lately but with over 21k people it's not exactly 'ghostly'. And the few shootouts in both (guns tended to be confiscated at the city limits) were corporate warfare.

Ghost towns are such because their reason for existence vanished. Mined or logged or burnt or washed out. Overgrazed. Railway went elsewhere. If more than a few humans are left, it's no ghost town, like Bisbee or Jerome. Or maybe it's a quaint historical park like Bodie or Calico or Colusa.

I don't know what site to recommend because it's a player in your story -- unless it's just a generic place like the nasty village in High Plains Drifter.

It can be invented. It probably was already, in penny-dreadful novels and cheesy horse operas.

I ran into Bodie already. So many cool towns in the Old West and such a rich history despite being of such short duration.

Thank you everybody for the suggestions. I had to make a decision to get it in and I've been reading up on the locations for two days now.

I've decided to go with Dodge City. It fits all the criteria I wanted and it's well known. Lots of evil doers. The population back then would have been perfect for the story and a possible sequel. The bad guy needs a back story to explain his behaviour and with a One Night limitation it would have been too much.

So I'm in for "One Night In Dodge City" Just heading to submit now.

Edit: Submitted!

 

[NotWise]

So far Dodge City is leading the pack. Census 1870's around 900+ people and the Earp's and Doc Holliday by the early 70's. The town was full of gamblers, hookers, saloons, brothels and gunfighters. It's got a lot of history. Kindergartens need not apply

Dodge City is probably a good choice, unless your story somehow conflicts with the widespread preconceptions created by Gunsmoke, Marshal Dillon and Miss Kitty.

Cimarron has a widely familiar name, even though it may not have many specific associations. Oklahoma has several places named Cimarron something-or-other but they are related to the Cimarron River, not to Cimarron, NM.

 

[yukonnights]

I ran into Bodie already. So many cool towns in the Old West and such a rich history despite being of such short duration.

Thank you everybody for the suggestions. I had to make a decision to get it in and I've been reading up on the locations for two days now.

I've decided to go with Dodge City. It fits all the criteria I wanted and it's well known. Lots of evil doers. The population back then would have been perfect for the story and a possible sequel. The bad guy needs a back story to explain his behaviour and with a One Night limitation it would have been too much.

So I'm in for "One Night In Dodge City" Just heading to submit now.

Edit: Submitted!

I'll be sure to look this one up for a read. A good western offers so much fertile ground to plow

 

[chasten]

I’ll go thru the posts in this thread tonight and put together a list. If you’ve submitted a story and the names not here, post it here or pm me and I’ll ping Laurel with a list of stories. I’d hate for anyone to be missed.

One Night in Manhattan

 

[gordo12]

A good western offers so much fertile ground to plow

Yes, it does. And she damn well enjoyed it

Edit: I wrote a Western previously. The Gunfighter It got published the next afternoon after it was supposed to because of the control panel update and then a few hours later an event posting took place. It got driven down the list in literally a few hours so the views were a fraction of other stories. Pissed me right off but that's the breaks. LMK what you think.

Thanks again for all the locations. I'm making notes of them all for usage. I have around 5-6 Westerns in my folders. Two are completed, two published and two are about 2/3 written. All need locations and I'd like to add local colour into them.

For some reason I really enjoy writing them they seem to just flow off the keyboard.

So I ran this story through the Hemingway Editor. I was unhappy. I've started a thread http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?p=90672336#post90672336
if any of you have anything to add to the subject of Editors

 

[JamesMiehoff]

Well, One Night in Beijing and One Night in Chloe are submitted.

The third, One Night in College is almost done. I felt bad about missing Melissa's comment, so I changed the female lead's name from Natasha to Melissa. Hope you like it my little honey nymph.

I tried to reset the location to Melissa, TX, but the town is too small and there aren't any colleges there. In fact, it sounds like they finally just got a high school.

james

Just finished the third and submitted it. I changed the name to "One Night in College Station" since there is a College Station, TX and Melissa, TX is too small to have a college.

I am pretty sure "One Night in McMurdo" is not going to make it. The heart monitor hasn't chirped in a while and it's pretty much a mess on the operating table.

james

 

[overwatcher]

Just finished the third and submitted it. I changed the name to "One Night in College Station" since there is a College Station, TX and Melissa, TX is too small to have a college.

I am pretty sure "One Night in McMurdo" is not going to make it. The heart monitor hasn't chirped in a while and it's pretty much a mess on the operating table.

james

So. McMurdo - Any sign of a heartbeat? Maybe it needs a little help from some of the Babes from Scott base to help it back to life.

 

[TxRad]

Mine is in. Uh, submitted.

I put it in scifi butt... An anal probe was mentioned butt none were used in the making of this mess, uh, story.

A lot was left to the imagination.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Mine is in. Uh, submitted.

I put it in scifi butt... An anal probe was mentioned butt none were used in the making of this mess, uh, story.

A lot was left to the imagination.

Xanadu has one sex scene left to write. I’m so behind.... the new job has really sucked up my time. I’m still working on my On the Job stories....

And I haven’t even updated my signature with my last story.....

 

[LupusDei]

I will do what I can, but right now I see no conceivable way I could possibly finish my historical mindrape novel in time; for the past 15k words the percentile completion meter is basically vibrating in place, although, however slowly, I am approaching midnight. Moreover, at this point there is no way I could abandon it either, it is no longer taking "No" for being written.

So... I will be back... someday... in the morning of 22 April 1995, whenever it might be.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

Xanadu has one sex scene left to write. I’m so behind.... the new job has really sucked up my time. I’m still working on my On the Job stories....

And I haven’t even updated my signature with my last story.....

Glad to know I'm in good company. I thought I was all alone, still working on Dubai.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Submitted - Pour nos péchés - One Night in St Jean

 

[gunhilltrain]

I will do what I can, but right now I see no conceivable way I could possibly finish my historical mindrape novel in time; for the past 15k words the percentile completion meter is basically vibrating in place, although, however slowly, I am approaching midnight. Moreover, at this point there is no way I could abandon it either, it is no longer taking "No" for being written.

So... I will be back... someday... in the morning of 22 April 1995, whenever it might be.

Three days after Oklahoma City bombing, one day after McVeigh was charged - is that the track we're on?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Glad to know I'm in good company. I thought I was all alone, still working on Dubai.

Not to worry. I have my second one to write too. One Night in Roanapur. In the best traditions of Black Lagoon.

 

[LupusDei]

Three days after Oklahoma City bombing, one day after McVeigh was charged - is that the track we're on?

Hmm... no, I'm in Riga, Latvia and deal with local and less to-the-day specific crap, and although have my reasons for the exact date, so far haven't invoked daily news at all. I will take this as a reminder to look at that; my protagonist should be rather informed (further emphasizing he's not your usual eighteen year old), and some of it, like Oklahoma City bombing perhaps indeed, can be useful ideas for minor talking points, like in a particular two guys car ride episode, just to add a little to the chaos, but none of that matters.