The Official Authors' Hangout Winter Holidays 2025 Support Thread

[Kelliezgirl]

The stories in Romance can be all over the place in terms of how explicit the sex is. Apparently the community does not accept anal. I have never tried it. And I probably would;dn't do any group sex or gay male either. But I think anything that would be appropriate in EC would work, as long as it ends up HEA.

You can do anal in romance, but it can't be early in the story or early in the sex (meaning not the first several times they have sex). At least that's the feedback I've gotten.

 

[lovecraft68]

The stories in Romance can be all over the place in terms of how explicit the sex is. Apparently the community does not accept anal. I have never tried it. And I probably would;dn't do any group sex or gay male either. But I think anything that would be appropriate in EC would work, as long as it ends up HEA.

Anal is a love or hate thing.

It doesn't go over the greatest in I/T they seem to think its not how you'd treat your mom/sis/daughter. Its okay to fuck them in any other way and even get them pregnant but not in the ass...usually.

Couple of years ago I entered a story in a contest here that had been published for sale for some time. In the original it has softer more romantic scene, but in the epilogue its raunchier and there is anal sex because the mother made a couple of comments early on about it. Because this was for lit, I took that part out and ended it with the nicer scene.

Several comments in, "I was hoping for anal seeing mom hinted at her willingness for it."

I was the victim of Chekhov's anal.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think I broke that assumption of 1 review per 100 views, 1 comment per 1k.

The Velvet Ribbon has 29 comments (not including my own responses) after less than 7k views. My next highest commented story has 23 after 61k views. Win or lose this contest, I'm chalking that level of engagement up to a win. Can't imagine what it might have looked like without that odd publishing bug on day one.

I'm glad to see someone separating their comment total by your replies and actual reader comments. More honest than some are with that.

My story was in early enough for day one, but for whatever reason was held back to day two, seems like that was a good thing to happen.

 

[Rustyoznail]

My story has stalled. Hardly any new views over the last three days and stuck on 27 votes.

 

[cw5523729]

Just submitted a very belated entry written in collaboration with @Kelliezgirl

Better late than never, right? Hopefully it gets processed in a timely fashion

A big thank you to her for both the original idea which was entirely hers, lots of feedback and (completely valid) criticism, as well as contributing a significant portion of the writing herself. Without her input, the story would have never existed. If it ultimately sucks however, that's entirely my fault and claim full responsibility.

 

[RoyalAuthor]

I was the victim of Chekhov's anal.

Brand new sentence.

 

[Actingup]

My story has stalled. Hardly any new views over the last three days and stuck on 27 votes.

I just commented - it's fun, original, short, and very Australian. Once I realized what the hell was going on, I loved it. And you even went there with Rolf and the six white boomers!

 

[Rustyoznail]

I just commented - it's fun, original, short, and very Australian. Once I realized what the hell was going on, I loved it. And you even went there with Rolf and the six white boomers!

Thanks mate. Appreciate it.

 

[TheLobster]

Just submitted a very belated entry (…)

No, mine is going to be belated. I’m about 70-80% in, which is clearly a lot of progress compared to the two sentences I had reported earlier

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Just submitted a very belated entry written in collaboration with @Kelliezgirl

Better late than never, right? Hopefully it gets processed in a timely fashion

A big thank you to her for both the original idea which was entirely hers, lots of feedback and (completely valid) criticism, as well as contributing a significant portion of the writing herself. Without her input, the story would have never existed. If it ultimately sucks however, that's entirely my fault and claim full responsibility.

It's totally your story, unless you win in which case...

 

[secretLace]

Just submitted mine. A magical little moment as Lacy stops to admire the Christmas display at a lingerie boutique.

 

[talemestories]

The stories in Romance can be all over the place in terms of how explicit the sex is. Apparently the community does not accept anal. I have never tried it. And I probably would;dn't do any group sex or gay male either. But I think anything that would be appropriate in EC would work, as long as it ends up HEA.

Funny that I am going to follow up my romance with a hard core anal story.

When I saw this post yesterday, I was going to go in a much different, funnier direction suggesting that one does not have to take part in what is written about but(t) ...

 

[talemestories]

It's up and doing well. Never really considered myself a romance category writer but, perhaps, it's an option to further explore.

Super happy with the response to the story. The first holiday one isn't doing as well as I expected but the second is.

I passed 500 followers as well so that's a huge milestone for me, too.

 

[Duleigh]

My second story went live today - https://literotica.com/s/a-christmas-carol-revisited-1

It's the old story, the worlds worst grandmother is redeemed by ghosts... how bad was she? It took FIVE freaking ghosts to pry her head loose!
It's a Christmas gift for the readers of my first big series, We're a Wonderful Wife which was based on a modern retelling of A Christmas Carol. The really cool thing is that both stories I wrote this year are based in my Andi's Dream universe (AKA The Andiverse) which puts them on the Andi's Dream timeline. Both stories are unrelated, and take place 1500 miles apart, but both stories end at the exact same moment on the timeline, Christmas eve, one year from this years Christmas Eve on the fictional time line.

 

[YmaOHyd]

My second story went live today - https://literotica.com/s/a-christmas-carol-revisited-1

It's the old story, the worlds worst grandmother is redeemed by ghosts... how bad was she? It took FIVE freaking ghosts to pry her head loose!

Let me guess: Christmas past, present, future, future perfect and pluperfect.

 

[Duleigh]

Let me guess: Christmas past, present, future, future perfect and pluperfect.

No, it was Past, Past, Past, Present, Future, and a witch to train Future (It was her first haunting)

Grandma had a hell of a past.

 

[taytay4eva]

Just submitted my own entry! I had it finished back in, like, June, then got critiques for it in July, and planned to be able to submit it to the contest right at the start! I didn't realize that the start was in November. At least I got it in before the deadline! Now I just need to wait for it to be approved.

 

[Duleigh]

Just submitted my own entry! I had it finished back in, like, June, then got critiques for it in July, and planned to be able to submit it to the contest right at the start! I didn't realize that the start was in November. At least I got it in before the deadline! Now I just need to wait for it to be approved.

OUTSTANDING! May the divinities of the blessed 5 Stars shine on your work!

 

[cw5523729]

@Kelliezgirl's and my collaboration story, Baking My Case for Christmas is live.

https://www.literotica.com/s/baking-my-case-for-christmas

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Absolutely!

Has anyone recently tried to set a future publication date? I was seeing a few threads on it and saw something about it only being able to be done a week in advance, but being do-able. I want my story to remain a stand alone (so that it stays quaified), but I'm considering writing a sequel (if I can find some plot bunnies).

 

[RoyalAuthor]

The really cool thing is that both stories I wrote this year are based in my Andi's Dream universe (AKA The Andiverse) which puts them on the Andi's Dream timeline. Both stories are unrelated, and take place 1500 miles apart, but both stories end at the exact same moment on the timeline, Christmas eve, one year from this years Christmas Eve on the fictional time line.

I've been tying all of my stories, with a couple of exceptions, into a shared universe as well. It's a hell of an exercise trying to line up timelines, especially at the micro level, since most of my stories so far have taken place over less than a year.

It's worth it, though, because now I get all these ideas of fun ways to play with the cast of characters in the sandbox I've created - most of which will never see the light of day out of sheer abundance of possibilities. It also means I never have to say goodbye to my characters, because they could always pop up again, which is great for my overly sentimental mind.

 

[cw5523729]

Has anyone recently tried to set a future publication date? I was seeing a few threads on it and saw something about it only being able to be done a week in advance, but being do-able. I want my story to remain a stand alone (so that it stays quaified), but I'm considering writing a sequel (if I can find some plot bunnies).

I've had stories that were automatically assigned a future publication date but I don't believe you can choose a date yourself

 

[old_prof]

I've had stories that were automatically assigned a future publication date but I don't believe you can choose a date yourself

I have never done this but multiple people have said they successfully requested specific later release dates in the note to admin.

I don't know it anyone had done it recently but the notes seem to be being seen and considered again.

 

[Duleigh]

I've been tying all of my stories, with a couple of exceptions, into a shared universe as well. It's a hell of an exercise trying to line up timelines, especially at the micro level, since most of my stories so far have taken place over less than a year.

Tell me about it! I have three big series, two of them are close, one is out on a farm in Minnesota. The third one was the worst because i didn't pay attention to the events of the other series when I wrote it first, now I'm re-writing the entire series. There is one scene where the main characters head for the Bahamas on a yacht, but that's it. The two series in Springville are neighbors and visit with each other on occasion, the third in Minnesota (Actually my very first ever series) is fairly isolated. It's been a hell of a challenge to line everything up.

 

[talemestories]

Tell me about it! I have three big series, two of them are close, one is out on a farm in Minnesota. The third one was the worst because i didn't pay attention to the events of the other series when I wrote it first, now I'm re-writing the entire series. There is one scene where the main characters head for the Bahamas on a yacht, but that's it. The two series in Springville are neighbors and visit with each other on occasion, the third in Minnesota (Actually my very first ever series) is fairly isolated. It's been a hell of a challenge to line everything up.

This is one of the reasons I don't write part twos of many things. At some point, I need to organize the characters, locations, and such in some sort of digital format.