The Official Authors' Hangout Winter Holidays 2025 Support Thread

[DEFCOM5]

Write an Incest story. Make it the most cliché thing you can imagine, but give it a title that draws in the readers.

This will immediately satisfy your craving for views. Once you've got that out of your system, you can experiment with whatever weird stuff the Plot Bunny dumps on you.

I plead guilty as charged except my category was R/NC and not T/I.

Once I got some views and H, I decided to write stuff I could actually feel proud of the story.

 

[RoyalAuthor]

Really enjoyed "The Velvet Ribbon" by @RoyalAuthor and "Milk from Cookies" by @SamanthaBehgs, both of which got similar comments from me about their originality. Fantastic concepts for stories and both were really well-written. Looking forward to checking out more stories. Good crop of them this year.

Thank you! I'm glad people are enjoying it.

I'm always extra-flattered to receive good reviews from other writers, even if I already knew it was well-received by the readers here.

 

[old_prof]

I'm having submitter's regret now. I just realized your advice was probably the 90% of what you say I'm supposed to ignore. Maybe it will get stuck in pending and I'm off the hook.

Too late. I've been approved to appear on Sunday. (No idea why not tomorrow, but who am I to question the ways of the Laurel?)

 

[WittyUserName]

I have an idea for a one-off, but I'm not sure I'll be able to finish in time. Ugh. I started another story recently and it's taking longer than I thought it would.

 

[ChloeTzang]

......rather than the 50 that used to exist for the monthly contests (which, as far as I can tell, are no longer running).

Yep, the monthly contests have not taken place for a few years now.

What used to happen was that on the 15th of every month, literotica tallied up the votes from stories submitted during the previous month. The story in each category with the best voting score compared to all other stories submitted that month was automatically eligible for that year's Literotica Author Annual Awards voting. At the end of the year, there were 12 nominee stories in each category. The 5 stories in each category with the best voting scores at the end of the year went on to the final voting. One was elected in each category by voting i– as the top story for that year. If there were less than 5 nominees in a category, the top scoring submissions in that category during the calendar year become eligible.

The last Annual Awards (https://forum.literotica.com/thread...ual-literotica-readers-choice-awards.1594775/ ) were held in 2022.

It was alway interesting to see what emerged but alas, the monthly awards and annual awards have dropped off.

 

[DEFCOM5]

Final update on my progress.
I finished the story. It is a couple of hundred words short of 19K. Way longer than I expected.
I need to read proof and edit it before I master the courage to show it to my beta reader.
Once I incorporate all the feedback, I will publish it.

 

[Lord_Libido]

Ohhhhhhh we are doing well. More stories............

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You highlighted mine. I'm honored.

 

[MelissaBaby]

It was alway interesting to see what emerged but alas, the monthly awards and annual awards have dropped off.

In my fantasy life, they never stopped the monthlies or the Reader's Choice, and I've got, like two dozen W's.

 

[talemestories]

So I'm blaming this one on him. I swore I would never write a T/I story, but I wrote the cheesiest Christmas mommy in my lap story ever. Santa's Lap is now submitted for the contest.

I'm sure it will gruyère on you.

 

[RoyalAuthor]

I'm sure it will gruyère on you.

You should be simultaneously proud and ashamed of yourself.

 

[talemestories]

You should be simultaneously proud and ashamed of yourself.

Sometimes you just gouda laugh.

I'll see myself out now ...

 

[Lord_Libido]

My story contains violence and I forgot to put it in the tags. I apologize profusely.

 

[MegaTank]

Hey everyone, I'm in the middle of writing my first NCR story "Does She Know It's Christmas"

While things are coming along at a decent enough pace, this story's shaping up to be a whopper compared to me others; already longer than anything else I've published and the sex is a ways off. I'm hoping not to have to chug too much of the anti-procrastination juice (currently at 8K words).

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Hey everyone, I'm in the middle of writing my first NCR story "Does She Know It's Christmas"

While things are coming along at a decent enough pace, this story's shaping up to be a whopper compared to me others; already longer than anything else I've published and the sex is a ways off. I'm hoping not to have to chug too much of the anti-procrastination juice (currently at 8K words).

You got this!

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Nearly there.

It's more serious than a typical Lit story. I predict a bunch of people will hate it, but at least a Christmas story should get some readers...

 

[talemestories]

Hey everyone, I'm in the middle of writing my first NCR story "Does She Know It's Christmas"

While things are coming along at a decent enough pace, this story's shaping up to be a whopper compared to me others; already longer than anything else I've published and the sex is a ways off. I'm hoping not to have to chug too much of the anti-procrastination juice (currently at 8K words).

Now that you are half complete, it's just another few days to go. Go go, MegaTank!

 

[ChloeTzang]

The updated list.....as of this morning

 

[Voboy]

I'm getting an unusually high number of views and favorites on my back catalog this time around, which is delightful!

 

[BryanRichardson]

Woo hoo! 25 votes!

https://literotica.com/s/dear-santa-11 published 11/11 just got to 25 votes! That means I’m tied for fourth place again! It is in Letters and Transcripts, and that category doesn’t get many readers, but 25 votes over 677 views seems a good ratio.

It turns out that https://literotica.com/s/miracle-on-69th-street published today (11/15) in Humor and Satire has already gotten 28 votes over 830 views which is also a good ratio. Also in a little-read category.

 

[dreams_in_words]

Two things.
First, congrats to everyone who had there stuff together and got there stories in at the start.

Second, it's a perfect day to stay in and finish this silly story of mine so hopefully it will be up soon.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

I am happy to see my story, Winter Loves Red, has 2100 views and >50 ratings. I wasn’t certain how it would do as it isn’t a standard Leabian Sex story

 

[Lord_Libido]

I'm getting an unusually high number of views and favorites on my back catalog this time around, which is delightful!

Good for you. I am not getting more attention.

 

[BryanRichardson]

I’ve got two categories left for Survivor. My Taboo/ Incest story Home for the Holidays is almost done, I just need to strengthen the ending.

The other story I am working on is for Novels and Novellas and it is more than half done. It’s about an exhibitionist/ horny slut and a camping trip with sex in a swimming hole/ waterfall and an open air tent. Does anyone see a way I could make it work for this winter holidays event? Maybe putting it in Australia? I don’t think I know enough about Australia to make that work, though.

 

[old_prof]

How many categories do you to write for in the survivor contest

 

[BryanRichardson]

How many categories do you to write for in the survivor contest

All of them.

Not counting the categories that require extra technology and or cooperation: Illustrated, Audio, Chain, Illustrated Poetry and Poetry with Audio.

You can write in those for bonus points, but I gave up on illustrated after the rules change.