Ah yes, the safe topics and categories. If you're going to get to it, I won't ask permission to use it then. I want to see where you go with it!
Damn, that is really high praise for that story. Achievement unlocked!
Please tell me the MMC cums on a schedule in this one - mid-afternoon every day?
You'll just have to control yourself long enough to find out - it comes out in just over a day's time! But let me say that I think that Penny's ad hominem zinger "Address the idea, not the incel" is worth the price of admission alone.
And sent back for 'how characters talk' due to what I think was single quotes for text messages and doubles for dialogue. If that was the issue, it's odd as I have used that format on a number of stories already.
I would take that as an insult! I constantly have arguments with AI! It's so STOOPID!
a whole day in and...
Hey, it’s a long story in a quiet category. It'll get there. I started reading it, but I'll be dipping in and out when I have time. Like it so far.
Put it in this morning, it will be published on the 21st. I am well impressed with the responsiveness of @Laurel et al in screening and posting the contest works. That being said, once I showed I was capable of writing consistently, my posts seemed to speed through within a couple of days so that's good, too.
hey, thanks for taking a look and for pointing out the stuff about the catagory, that makes perfect sense. I totally get what you're saying about the length, thanks for the kind words too!
Hi HP, also, I just wanted to mention that the story doesn't seem to have any tags on it, or mention that it's part of the comp. I wasn't sure if this was deliberate, but it might be a factor in getting eyeballs* along with the category and length?
ohhhh, tags! I always forget. I typically do put an authors note but not this time. I'm not even sure why.
There's always got to be a first, right? And I can't imagine a pairing much more likely to break that barrier.
Great story, enjoyed it very much. Good luck overcoming the LW fans.A little bit late to the party, because this was an exceptionally challenging one to get right... but @Actingup and I just published a new collaborative story, It Just Ain't Going to Happen!
It went into Loving Wives, so we are most certainly not in contention for highest score
But I'm super proud of it, a story about loss, estrangement, and the hope of reconciliation. A precocious and slightly annoying college-age daughter tries to push her separated parents back together using trickery, music, bad weather, and her knowledge of 18th century philosophy!
edit: oops Acting already posted about it here... sorry for the double-shilling!
The range of comments and degree of engagement is amazing! It's not so much a question of overcoming as surfing through it all. I don't care about the haters so much when some of the comments are so extremely positive and there is such variety. Thanks for reading it. I wondered if we were making the music thing too obvious but it sounds like it was just enough to make you wonder without giving the game away!
It's up and doing well. Never really considered myself a romance category writer but, perhaps, it's an option to further explore.
I never know exactly whether I'm writing romance or not lol. I have emotional connections and meaningful relationships in my stories, but I also write pretty explicit scenes that are more than most stories in the romance category usually have, so I often decide at the last minute whether to put the story in romance or erotic couplings/some other particular category.
