Authors : What are you working on?

An entry for the comp. Needs an ending but otherwise it's in pretty good shape. And I have ideas about the ending.

Jen's last nerve, apparently.

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Jen's last nerve, apparently.

I like your peacefulness signature. There's a quote by Jimi Hendrix that I like.

It goes: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

My Island Getaway story is about 4500 words in its first draft, so shouldn’t too hard to tighten up, and I think it might prove one of my best ever. But finally reading it in full, I now realize that while it ends on an island, it may not be island-centric enough to meet the rules of the competition. Restructuring it a bit …

Meanwhile, I laid down the Law and banged out four-way gay romp I Shag the Sheriff over the last two days.

Whew! Rewrote all the sex action (of which there is a lot, with six distinct sex scenes) so that it all takes place on the island in question, so I should be fully compliant with the rules. And while the initial rewrite still remained at 4500 words, I’ve since chopped it down to just under 3900. Now comes the tweaking of this word and that word to get it all just right …

I have just finished my competition story, Euphoria Island

My next task is to read, like and comment on all the other competition stories. I am about halfway through, and I have to say that there are some really cracking stories entered. 😊

Island Comp story. Finally getting around to editing.

Labouring through an island comp story, having started and thrown away three ideas already😅

Competition story with others for both here and Lush's sister site on hold. Hope to get the comp story out today.

Now that my comp story is published, I’m working on a few different stand alone stories and additional parts to Mac and Grace’s story.

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Island Comp story. Finally getting around to editing.

On the penultimate stage of editing, which is the most annoying. After that is Grammarly, then publishing.

I have another story that's complete and I only have to run through Grammarly before submission as well. I'll submit that after the comp story is published. Maybe in early June.

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On the penultimate stage of editing, which is the most annoying. After that is Grammarly, then publishing.

I have another story that's complete and I only have to run through Grammarly before submission as well. I'll submit that after the comp story is published. Maybe in early June.

I can’t wait to read your comp story, C! And I hate Grammarly. I use it to find the typos and big punctuation blunders but generally ignore its suggestions.

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I can’t wait to read your comp story, C! And I hate Grammarly. I use it to find the typos and big punctuation blunders but generally ignore its suggestions.

All the ‘premium’ suggestions are exactly what I don’t want. ‘Let AI fix your writing.’

No it may not! Which is why I will never give them a dime, but I would donate to them to make the premium suggestions go away and never come back.

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I can’t wait to read your comp story, C! And I hate Grammarly. I use it to find the typos and big punctuation blunders but generally ignore its suggestions.

I skip a large segment of their suggestions. Punctuation or if I screw up some hyphenations are where it helps me the most.

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All the ‘premium’ suggestions are exactly what I don’t want. ‘Let AI fix your writing.’

No it may not! Which is why I will never give them a dime, but I would donate to them to make the premium suggestions go away and never come back.

The premium suggestion section I use mainly for punctuation. A lot of their sentence restructuring suggestions are very meh to me. Like, I just wanna know my punctuation is decent, man 💀.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/flash-erotica/alternative-route

Me and my wonky brain made it to 100! 😀

I wrote Seduction of a young wife.3QLDHvWAX1KI6Gf2 exploration of the blurred lines.

I have now made this personal and writing a five part (true) story of my daughter-in-law and myself. I’m going for a June publication.

Looking at the story I was working on before the comp started and wondering why I was so stuck on ending it. The ending I was originally going to use seems entirely appropriate now.

a wicked little tale where surrender tastes like sin, obedience is sealed with a kiss, and no one’s innocence makes it out untouched 😈

I just completed my first set of stories about a married woman being seduced which is my main genre. I’m currently rewriting a story I wrote years ago, which was more or less a really, really long 5000 word paragraph, yuck. The story is a true account about the 1st time I was shared by my husband. The rewrite is becoming so much more this time around. With paragraphs and everything. 😆

I'm working on the third part of Dirty Diana. It was meant to be a two-part story, but a third part has developed in my brain, and I figured I should share it. 😉

As part of gaining an Onium badge, I have just finished writing a story in a new genre. It's a little different. 😊

However, the story still needs a bit of a polish, and also I find myself asking burning questions – do I split this into two parts (it is already over 4k words)? Give it another twist? Leave the ending open for another day?

There are so many directions I could take these characters... I guess we all know the answer when I look to publish it next week! 😊

I've been working on several true stories about my own memorable experiences. However, I'm not comfortable enough yet to share most of them. In large part because I get a thrill from the , and have had some inappropriate behaviors with some of my friend's husbands.

I'll write them out, then feel ashamed for being such a terrible friend and how the public would judge me. But I promise everyone here that I have been working on myself. I'm trying to break those thrill-seeking feelings that I get from being bad. I also need to stop being afraid of single men and commitments. I just need to take more time to get to know them and look for the red flags that I often tend to ignore because I'll feel lonely, horny and get impulsive. It's like a vicious cycle, and I'm frustrated.

I'm too old for this shit.

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I've been working on several true stories about my own memorable experiences. However, I'm not comfortable enough yet to share most of them. In large part because I get a thrill from the , and have had some inappropriate behaviours with some of my friend's husbands.

I'll write them out, then feel ashamed for being such a terrible friend and how the public would judge me. But I promise everyone here that I have been working on myself. I'm trying to break those thrill-seeking feelings that I get from being bad. I also need to stop being afraid of single men and commitments. I just need to take more time to get to know them and look for the red flags that I often tend to ignore because I'll feel lonely, horny and get impulsive. It's like a vicious cycle, and I'm frustrated.

I'm too old for this shit.

Don't let that stop you writing and sharing. I have put up a couple of true stories and One I am developing about a family member. Never be ashamed. You write with user name, we are a global community. let it all go...

I agree. Lush is an anonymous (if you want) and judgment-free place to write about the kinds of things you mentioned. That’s why we use pseudonyms (sorry, Joe’s not my actual name), and usually change the names and maybe some of the physical attributes of the people in our stories.

Sure, maybe you’ve done some things that on some level you feel were inappropriate, and maybe sometimes you feel guilty. But if they also thrilled you, they might thrill us too. Writing about these encounters may even help you work through your conflicting emotions, help you identify the red flags you mentioned and maybe even break a vicious cycle or two.

I am writing my first novel, which I will self-publish. I have the final four chapters to clean up before sending it to my editor, who is holding my first three chapters captive.

I'm traveling today and we have been driving through periodic rain. So instead of actual rode fun (keep those hands on the wheel, babe) I let my imagination run amok and have created a fun road head story that I need to edit properly on my laptop. I hope to have it ready to submit in the next day or so. 😈

Here's the product of that wild imagination I was talking about:

Keep Your Hands On The Wheel, Babe

Now I'm working on Boardrooms and Boudoirs Part Eleven.

When a holiday lunch becomes something else:
https://www.lushstories.com/stories/seduction/table-for-two-eyes-for-one-2

I've published a couple of Midlife Renewal chapters this month and while it's been fun to write the testosterone-addled, four-chapter rental Cabin sequence, I'm ready to bring some femininity back into the story already. While I know what I want to happen in the next 2-3 chapters, I've been struggling with how I want to write it. Sure, I know the basic sequences of events and sexual choreography, but any keymonkey can write about connecting body parts with each other. How do I keep the writing fresh, emotionally involving, and maybe even a little surprising or suspenseful, especially with characters that are already well-developed?

Fortunately, I went on a long dog walk today, and while I was listening to music and struggling with the above thoughts, unrelated clevery, pithy chapter titles suddenly started popping into my head. I had to pause my walk a couple of times and write them down. Some are better than others, but I'm now pretty sure that the planned mall-chase scene in my action-heavy Joe Dick federal agent series will be entitled "Mall of Contusion."

Many of these new title ideas also spawned story ideas to back them up, including a series that will be my first time writing from a feminine perspective.

And then, the act of thinking that through inspired some additional ideas for the next Midlife Renewal chapter that deepen the developing relationships and the story arc of that series. Not the first time I've found my writing blocked, and ultimately that the way to unblock it was not to push harder, but to find another way around.

Good to hear you're back on track, Joe. I'm a huge advocate of using a mindless task to unlock creativity. Wash the dishes. Sand some wood. Paint a fence. Walk the dog...

The mind works in mysterious ways.