The Official (Mostly) Literotica April Fool's Day Contest Support Thread!!!

[Duleigh]

This is the first contest I've submitted to. “Goddess” is a story about how one person dealt with his birthday falling on April 1.

Thank you for joining the party! I started writing for this contest to make it my first contest last year and I missed the deadline, however it fit in for the On The Job challenge. This year I'm writing a follow up to that story.

Mine is doing about as well as I expected..votes are coming in slowly..but it is 4 pages long..so I expected that.

I never made that connection until I entered the 750-word challenge... Maybe we need a Limited Attention Span category for stories under 5,000 words.

 

[GrantBricksly]

I never made that connection until I entered the 750-word challenge... Maybe we need a Limited Attention Span category for stories under 5,000 words.

I noticed it with the Vanlentine's Story...I got over 250 votes by the end of the contest..but they came in slowly...because it takes time to read a story that long.

It's not that people don't have the attention span for it. Sure there ARE some like that. Some that just won't read it because it is too long. (when My Halloween story comes out, I expect things to go very slow. That has 60k+ words...)

But mostly..I think it's just that it takes time to read it. And they may just not have the time right away. So they will wait til later. Or they will start, and then finish later. Cause the votes still come in. And they tend to be very good. (I've noticed a definite correlation between length and scores...longer is no guarantee of good scores, nor is short a guarantee of lower scores...but there is a definite connection...)

 

[Duleigh]

I noticed it with the Vanlentine's Story...I got over 250 votes by the end of the contest..but they came in slowly...because it takes time to read a story that long.

It's not that people don't have the attention span for it. Sure there ARE some like that. Some that just won't read it because it is too long. (when My Halloween story comes out, I expect things to go very slow. That has 60k+ words...)

But mostly..I think it's just that it takes time to read it. And they may just not have the time right away. So they will wait til later. Or they will start, and then finish later. Cause the votes still come in. And they tend to be very good. (I've noticed a definite correlation between length and scores...longer is no guarantee of good scores, nor is short a guarantee of lower scores...but there is a definite connection...)

My Valentines story was 16k words long and I just crested 101 votes with that. 4 out of 5 of my 750 word stories sailed past 100 votes on week 1. The fifth one may never see 100 votes, I categorized it as interracial and it's taking a beating from the few readers. If I picked any other category (except LW) it would be my best player.

Less is more.

 

[Duleigh]

I just submitted my second story, now I can get back to things that need my attention... like a nap.

 

[Duleigh]

I can't believe how fast story #2 went up, I expected to be able to take a nap and check on it this weekend but it went up in the wee hours of the morning.
Story #1 - Saturday Morning
Story #2 - Blindsiding the Blind Guy

 

[Duleigh]

We are up to 38 entries! It's looking much better on that website

 

[TheRedChamber]

No assist needed, but I am currently trying to get one written by the 23rd (minus some days for submission). With an estimate of 20k words and 5k written it should be doable with 1.5k words a day and some time for editing, but it's going to be tight.

I agree with others that this is quite a difficult challenge as it's not the sort of thing you can just look down your ideas list and find something already close. The prank (and in my case counter-prank) needs to be woven into the very basic plot or else you need something inherently funny enough that it's worth writing a story around. It not like say the Summer contest where you can just relocate everything to the beach or whatever.

The good news is that I've hit my estimated 20k words 4 days ahead of schedule.

The bad new is...well, you're all writers, you know what the bad news is....

EDIT: The situation has now gone from bad to worse. My wife has plans this weekend...

 

[KeithD]

I have another one to write and submit, but other stories and reviews keep playing through. I imagine I'll make it, though.

 

[Trionyx]

EDIT: The situation has now gone from bad to worse. My wife has plans this weekend...

Aww…and you‘re complaining?

 

[TheRedChamber]

Aww…and you‘re complaining?

Plans that involvevme .

My wife's plans always involve me.

 

[Trionyx]

Well, if they involved someone else, you’d have yourself the basis for a LW story, wouldn’t you?

 

[TheRedChamber]

Well, if they involved someone else, you’d have yourself the basis for a LW story, wouldn’t you?

A story where she hires a muscular black man to visit her parents all weekend with a four hours drive each way and a stultifying visit to a local scenery spot and inferior restaurant in the middle. All while the male mc is trying to finish a story for a competition?

Love the wife but was hoping for at least a morning where I could sit in bed and put some words on the end of the file.

 

[Trionyx]

“Some words“=my wife
“The file“=my cock
So we’ve moved from LW to EC?

btw, still more than ten nights of writing until the deadline.

 

[lovecraft68]

A story where she hires a muscular black man to visit her parents all weekend with a four hours drive each way and a stultifying visit to a local scenery spot and inferior restaurant in the middle. All while the male mc is trying to finish a story for a competition?

Love the wife but was hoping for at least a morning where I could sit in bed and put some words on the end of the file.

For whatever reason this made me recall the scene in Dirty Dancing where the schlub with the attractive wife tries to pawn her off on Patrick Swaze so he can play poker "give her some extra lessons"

 

[panaflora]

We are up to 38 entries! It's looking much better on that website

My entry is pending as of this morning.

 

[TheRedChamber]

btw, still more than ten nights of writing until the deadline.

I might still make it. But with my estimate rising from 20k to 30k, time for my beta readers to look at it and time for submission (and ideally time in case it gets rejected), it's going to be tight.

But I'm also happy with how the story is going and don't want to rush it just to get in for the deadline. And the additional pressure has kept me focused on one story and got me flying through it.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

Well, I just posted my first contest entry last night. It's currently pending. It's a bite-sized, body-swapping non-con story about 10k long.

I'm curious, does entering a contest tend to get more traffic to your other existing works?
I'm figuring that it must; although, surely not all of that attention will be positive.

Have any of you noticed any significant changes in viewership after entering a contest?

 

[Duleigh]

Well, I just posted my first contest entry last night. It's currently pending. It's a bite-sized, body-swapping non-con story about 10k long.

I'm curious, does entering a contest tend to get more traffic to your other existing works?
I'm figuring that it must; although, surely not all of that attention will be positive.

Have any of you noticed any significant changes in viewership after entering a contest?

It will lead the reader to your work if they like your entry. My entry, Blindsiding the Blind Guy has a link to a previous story and the series that the characters are taken from the both the previous story and series readership skyrocketed. Bear in mind however, there are trolls prowling the internet. Once they find you are out there, they may want to feast.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

It will lead the reader to your work if they like your entry. My entry, Blindsiding the Blind Guy has a link to a previous story and the series that the characters are taken from the both the previous story and series readership skyrocketed. Bear in mind however, there are trolls prowling the internet. Once they find you are out there, they may want to feast.

Yeah, I'm ever mindful of trolls.
I'm always down for constructive criticism. But some people just love being mean for the fuck of it. I'm not too concerned with such nonsense. I can take it.
I recently had someone tell me that Mediocre wasn't an insulting enough name for me. Lmao

I'm reminded of the comedy quote:
"There's nothing you can say to me, that I haven't already said to myself, 6 inches from the mirror. "

 

[Duleigh]

"There's nothing you can say to me, that I haven't already said to myself, 6 inches from the mirror. "

That sounds like my home-town boy Jamie Lissow

 

[Djmac1031]

Interesting; my story is at the top of the compiled list.

I'm assuming it's in order they were submitted, since it's not alphabetical. Unless it's alphabetical by author, I didn't check that lol.

EDIT: Nevermind. The list is a completely different order already lol.

 

[Trionyx]

And the additional pressure has kept me focused on one story and got me flying through it.

As soon as you finish it, you should start your Nude Day story. Deadline is in about 10 - 12 weeks or so. And don’t forget the Summer contest a couple of months later. And then Halloween…

 

[alohadave]

As soon as you finish it, you should start your Nude Day story. Deadline is in about 10 - 12 weeks or so. And don’t forget the Summer contest a couple of months later. And then Halloween…

There's On The Job due in April as well.

 

[Voboy]

There's On The Job due in April as well.

Not a contest, however.

 

[alohadave]

Not a contest, however.

True, but if you are looking for a deadline...