The Official Authors' Hangout Halloween 2022 Contest Support Thread

[lovecraft68]

6. Amorphous, Madness, Cyclopean, Gibbering: use at least one of these words (Or a form the word) in each paragraph
7. Someone must faint. Often.
8. Any cat must have a very offensive name. Never mind. Don’t go there. No cats. Unless it’s a cat that isn’t really a cat any more, no longer even of this world, it’s mould-ridden, foetid form an abhorrent travesty on the feline shape. And nameless.

We can use the Cats of Ulthar

 

[Duleigh]

 

[oggbashan]

My first entry: Ghost Sisters has been posted.

I submitted my second last night and then noticed two typos which I edited this morning.

 

[Kethandra]

We can use the Cats of Ulthar

Ooh! The LitE version: The Pussies of Ulthar. Would have to be careful with the orphan’s ’kitten’ but the ending with all the local pussies doing their vengeful thing could be fun.

 

[lovecraft68]

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I'm still riding around with a Cthulhu 2020 'No More Years" bumper sticking on my car.

 

[Imstillfun]

I posted my contest story in LW. I’ve got a lot of comments saying I shouldn’t have, that they loved it and know it won’t do well in that category. I just love posting in LW and annoying the trolls.

that being said, what’s the next most read category after LW and incest Where I usually post.

 

[oggbashan]

My second one: Haunted Dare is now posted.

And of course, I found a typo in the first one but ONLY after it had been posted. 'Of pounds' should read 'The nephew'. I don't know how I missed that.

 

[MillieDynamite]

My second one: Haunted Dare is now posted.

And of course, I found a typo in the first one but ONLY after it had been posted. 'Of pounds' should read 'The nephew'. I don't know how I missed that.

My second one died a slow death in the land of, WTF happens now?

 

[Bazzle]

My second one died a slow death in the land of, WTF happens now?

So many of my stories end up in that Cul de sac.

 

[MillieDynamite]

And what a merry-go-round it is, isn't it?

 

[Bazzle]

And what a merry-go-round it is, isn't it?

I do try the idea of jumping ahead to the next block and write that on the hope that the connecting bit comes to mind. But often I just end up on another dead end.

 

[Kethandra]

I see a small sweep of a likely 1* last night. Recent contests have seemed to have more of these mini-sweeps which aren’t always evident depending on how active voting is and less of the big sweep at the end.

 

[Duleigh]

Nice little sweep last night, both of my stories got a reprieve, both lost a one-bomb and jumped up refreshed and happy to be published

 

[Bazzle]

I see a small sweep of a likely 1* last night. Recent contests have seemed to have more of these mini-sweeps which aren’t always evident depending on how active voting is and less of the big sweep at the end.

Was coming here to say the same. There has been a sweep. I'm above 4 now!

If 8 kind soles could vote me 4's or 5's for the next week, I would then reach 25...

 

[Rustyoznail]

Must have been selective. Nothing changed with mine.

 

[DarkRaven13]

I think I see what you all mean by the sweep thingy. I just realized that the number of votes went down, but the score shot up.

 

[Lifestyle66]

My Amorous Goods story benefitted from the sweep by going up to 4.45.

Of course, that same sweep affected my Gathering of Trolls, too. It now has 172 ratings for a 2.51 average.

 

[Emotional]

I must be too new to have attracted trolls yet, mine didnt move in votes or score

 

[Duleigh]

My Amorous Goods story benefitted from the sweep by going up to 4.45.

Of course, that same sweep affected my Gathering of Trolls, too. It now has 172 ratings for a 2.51 average.

Rock Hudson would be proud!*


*Reference to my favorite bad movie, A Gathering of Eagles

 

[Duleigh]

I think I see what you all mean by the sweep thingy. I just realized that the number of votes went down, but the score shot up.

I've been seeing "mini sweeps" a day or two after the NEW tag comes off the story, they just effect the story that lost the tag, for my AG/Halloween stories they happened at the same time. There's usually a BIG sweep at the end of a contest, in the past the BIG sweep touched some of my stories that were outside of the contest

 

[HBuff]

Hi!
Just posted a second story. I have a question for the more experienced authors here.

My new story (Witch Love, Woman's Love) has mostly interracial gangbangs (black men / white woman) and I wasn't sure in which category to put it --- Group Sex or Interracial.

I posted it in Group Sex.
Any thoughts?

 

[TxRad]

Since that sweep last night fell in the middle of the month. it is probably the sweep for the monthly stories from last month.

 

[KeithD]

Since that sweep last night fell in the middle of the month. it is probably the sweep for the monthly stories from last month.

Agree. It affected more than just the contest stories. A slight one on my stories, though.

 

[oggbashan]

Hagiology?

In my latest story, unlikely to be a contest entry, I have used iconoclast.

No wonder Grammarly has hysterics!

 

[TruthwithaTwist]

I struggled with this year's Halloween story: A Super Halloween - I actually started it early, lost track of time, then saw the contest go live & scrambled to get it finished. The only good part of this was that I started my Winter Holiday story a few weeks back & I'm dedicated to getting it finished sooner rather than later!