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2019 Clitorides Announced

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AvidlyCurious
Cummunist / Sinfluencer / Mod
CONGRATS!!! THANK YOU ALL!!
Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification.
Green_Man
Primus Omnium
Congratulations to some friends of mine.

Mysteria27 won first place with Cyber Session in Best Erotic Poetry 2019.

Grace won second place with The Eyes Have It and third place with Deep Throat in Flash Erotic Story of the year 2019.

There were several other Lushies who got first, or second, or third in other categories. I am not personal friends with all of them at the moment but a great job, all. Please check out how well the winners all did.

I was lucky and proud to come in second place with The Green Heron in Best Gay/Lesbian/Gender Bending story 2019 and in second place with How Love Grows in Best Erotic Poetry 2019.
RejectReality
Testing The Waters.
Mine were 3rd for Short Erotic Story with "Rim Fire", 3rd for Seasonal with "Hung by the Chimney", and 2nd for Voyeur/Exhib. with "At Heaven's 'Bate".

Rim Fire was a bit of a surprise, because that was a far more competitive category with more SOL finalists. ( where most of the voters have historically come from ) Seasonal had fewer finalists, ( and one of them was another of my stories) and there were only three finalists in Voyeur, so placing in that one was a foregone conclusion. LOL

Nominations are already open for 2020, so no need to wait if you want to see someone from Lush recognized next year. Take note of the categories that have few finalists, and fill them up with worthy Lushies for next year. There are some where Lush's trend toward shorter stories give authors an advantage over the other big 2 sites where longer and epic length stories dominate.

I don't know about anybody else, but I saw noticeable bumps in reads, favorites, and votes on mine throughout the last month or so of nominations and final voting.

Good Will ---|--- Three Alarm <= Both almost famous, give them a read and get them one step closer!
naughtyannie
God Empress of Lush
I had one second place this year, in the Best Erotic Horror Story category, with "Lesbian Vampire Lust."

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/horror/-lesbian-vampire-lust-.aspx

Which is some compensation for the fact that it was ignored by the judges in the Lush comp for which it was originally written ?

Why not join my popular Lush Group One Tit Out Group | Lush Stories? For all those who enjoy pictures of women showing just one boob. Lots of cheeky flashes and accidental slips. Come on, you know you want to! Annie xxx
Liz
Scarlet Seductress
Are these awards based just on the number of public votes nominees receive in each category or is there some sort of review/judging process involved as well?
RejectReality
Testing The Waters.
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Are these awards based just on the number of public votes nominees receive in each category or is there some sort of review/judging process involved as well?


It's all votes. That's why it always skews heavily toward authors and stories on SOL, which has remained active in the Clitorides during the several years when others had forgotten about it. ( The owner of SOL took over hosting and maintaining the awards, so announcements are made on the main SOL page regarding them )

The last couple of years, a few of us who are on SOL as well have started advertising the awards here and on the 3rd of the big 3, trying to diversify the field with worthy nominations from outside of the bubble. There were some categories that often had few or no nominations at all, which were perfect fits with Lush's lean toward short-form works.

Good Will ---|--- Three Alarm <= Both almost famous, give them a read and get them one step closer!
Unknown User
Nice to see so many familiar names on some of those lists. Lush completely dominated the Flash category, eh. Congrats to all the Lushies on there. I'm not going to list names because I probably missed someone or overlooked someone I don't know well.
RejectReality
Testing The Waters.
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Nice to see so many familiar names on some of those lists. Lush completely dominated the Flash category, eh. Congrats to all the Lushies on there. I'm not going to list names because I probably missed someone or overlooked someone I don't know well.


And poetry. The only nominations in that category were from Lush. Poetry just doesn't get any traction at all on the other two sites. While response here may seem low compared to stories, it's orders of magnitude higher by the same metric than what you'll get on the other of the big 3 sites. Flash is much the same way. Even short story response isn't the greatest until you hit the 5k-7k word range on the other two.

The number of comments you'll get on short form isn't even in the same universe when you compare Lush to the other two. Lush readers are far more likely to comment than anywhere else.

Lush more or less dominates the short form categories, and has some serious competitiveness in others that aren't as popular elsewhere. You may not get a ton of fresh eyes on your short stuff from the Clitorides, but every new set of eyes is a potential regular reader who may be yearning for something more compact than what the other two sites offer smile

Good Will ---|--- Three Alarm <= Both almost famous, give them a read and get them one step closer!
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And poetry. The only nominations in that category were from Lush. Poetry just doesn't get any traction at all on the other two sites.


Even here, poetry doesn't get the eyeballs that the stories get. It's too bad. At the same time, I have to concede that even good erotic poetry isn't usually "strokeable" material, which is what a lot of people are looking for. And good erotic poetry is hard to write. You usually end up with graphically sexual bad poetry that isn't sexy at all or maybe a good love poem that is more about warm fuzzies than popping a boner. And, to be clear, I am including my few attempts at verse on this site in that. I shall keep trying, but I kind of get why it isn't more popular.
RejectReality
Testing The Waters.
I don't get poetry. I'm sure I'm not alone in that. My "not getting it" grows more pronounced the farther beyond simple rhyming couplets the form is. All I see most of the time is the most complex words possible rammed into a form that is utterly incomprehensible to me.

You'll still get a proportionally much larger response here than you will anywhere else. I took a look elsewhere, and when comparing poems posted vs. the absolute lowest traffic category on the site ( which is an unpopulated wasteland only really worth posting to if you're trying to hit every category ) during the same time frame, that wasteland category still had double the numbers of the poetry. Go with the most popular category on the site, and even a poor story can get as many votes in five minutes as a poem will get in a decade.

The most favorited story of all time has 71x the favorites, 44x the views, and 21x the comments of the most favorited poem. The poem was published five years before the story. That's the kind of disproportionate response I'm talking about elsewhere.

If you make the same general comparison here, using the main page popular tab, you have the most popular story clocking in at 3x the votes and 1.75x the comments of the most popular poem.

That's as close to apples to apples as I can get, because you can't search by favorite numbers here, and you can't search by vote totals there.

Good Will ---|--- Three Alarm <= Both almost famous, give them a read and get them one step closer!
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I don't get poetry. I'm sure I'm not alone in that. My "not getting it" grows more pronounced the farther beyond simple rhyming couplets the form is. All I see most of the time is the most complex words possible rammed into a form that is utterly incomprehensible to me.


I get that. I love poetry. I buy books of poetry (the late Mary Oliver is a favorite among modern poets, the Latin poet Horace among classical). I even try to write it. But I know it's a taste that many in the modern world don't have and I don't fault people for that.