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Introduce the title of your story:
A Teutonic Temptation

Genre/Category:
lesbian

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https://www.lushstories.com/stories/lesbian/a-teutonic-temptation.aspx

What first inspired you to write this particular story?

Katie - The idea to collaborate in the first place was totally Chrissie's. I think it would be fair to say that much of the plot and structure came from me. The inspiration for every other element of the story was completely shared, even down to the artwork for the story's banner. This is a true collaboration in every sense of the word.

Chrissie - I’ve been a big fan of Katie’s stories from day zero, and I’ve also toyed with idea of doing a collaboration for ages. When the topic came up in our talk, I simply couldn’t resist asking her if she was interested. And interested she was! We found that we both had the time, and like pulling a rabbit from a hat, she didn’t need but a moment to have a perfect story line laid out.

How did you come up with these characters?

Katie - I'm just Katie in the story. That doesn't change in all my written ramblings.

Chrissie - The same for me. I mean, not me being Katie. I’m very much myself here, which is different from most of my other stories.

How does it differ from some of your other stories?

Katie - All my stories are based on experience of inspired at least in part by my travels and things that have happened to me. A Teutonic Temptation has none of that in it. I've never been to Germany. I had to look up all sorts of things in research including castles, Bavarian food and even the name of Munich's airport to name but a few. What fun though!

Chrissie - As said above, there’s more of plain Chrissie in A Teutonic Temptation. It’s my first collaboration story too, so I had really no idea what awaited me. I was completely astounded by the ease with which everything flowed together though. Katie’s a wonderful planner and an even more wonderful co-author. Things just clicked, and waiting for her next part, hooking my part into hers and laying out some hooks of my own which she could build upon was a thrilling writing experience.

What was the most challenging thing about writing this piece?

Katie - We wanted to write a story that played a little on the age difference between Chrissie and I. While 15 years isn't that much really, there was enough of a difference to make that an interesting plot device. It was fun to write about the insecurities I might have about trying to seduce an older lady, but the challenge for me was to make that sound natural rather than something odd or almost fetish like. Chrissie's also a very talented and prolific writer. It's fair to say I felt quite daunted about the prospect of trying to live up to any expectations she had or me.

Chrissie - Normally, when I write, I can go all out and not worry about where my imagination carries me. Working on this story together with Katie meant that I suddenly had to think about her views too, make sure that our descriptions matched up and reign in all these plot bunnies that suddenly tried to jump in the way. Watching the story grow piece by piece was an incredible experience, and Katie seemed to pick up my thoughts without me even having to voice them. I have to admit, to get a grip on my nerves and ask her in the first place was a challenge in itself, perhaps the biggest of all.

Anything else you want to tell us about it?

Katie - Chrissie and I hadn't really spoken that much prior to writing, so there was a little bit of the fear of the unknown before I started. Those fears soon disappeared. Chrissie was just amazing fun to work with and the whole experience was a complete delight.

Chrissie - As Katie said, we only knew each other a bit, so there were a lot of unknowns. Those evaporated quickly. Katie’s brilliant! The story itself is both sweet and steaming hot. We both were blushing a lot while we wrote it. There’s a lot of flirting and tentative seduction going on that should be as much fun to read as it was to write it.
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The finger coated in her nectar slid in circles through her folds, stirring butterflies to flutter to her chest and escape in lustful moans.
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Congrats for getting your poem into print!

Quote by avrgblkgrl
And too, a publisher has actually contacted me. She's giving me a little time to finish up one of my manuscripts. I'm excited to see what happens with that.


This is marvelous! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this really takes off!
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...Is A New Beginning

Reality fades
Takes pictures and words away
Your heart lies empty

Scars heal over time
Blemishes fade from your soul
Now you're a clean slate

A whisper from dark
A wind that turns into storm
Tells you you are loved

Soft touches like ink
Fill your canvas with color
Your soul becomes art

Warm kisses like rays
Make your heart shine like diamonds
You glow once again
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Quote by dpw
Chrissie, there is no such thing as British English. There is English and it has derivations and bastardisations.


Well, it's a lot less of a mouthful than "predominant common denominator in accepted guidelines for written grammar on the British Isles and in major parts of the Commonwealth with regional exceptions" so I'll just keep using it

Quote by tiddlywink
So remember this: If in doubt, rearrange the words.


Thank you! This is never a bad idea, as it can make you aware of many finesses of grammar. Another rule for collective nouns from a famous philosopher is: don't stare at them too long, or they'll stare back into you
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Quote by Vilhelm1970
My humble opinion on the matter is as follows.

'A group' is a singular subject so the verb 'is' is correct.

'of people' is a prepositional phrase describing the group.

'Playing in the park' describes the action denoted by the verb.

The sentence is technically correct.


This is not a clear-cut case. Almost every noun that stands for more than one of something (collective noun) is in itself singular and can be used as such, though almost all usages agree that you use plural when the verb targets each member of the collective noun indivdually.

In the example, most would use plural, because every member of the group is playing and likely not the same, highly coordinated thing. When it is really important that every member of a collective noun is doing something, plural becomes unavoidable. "The recruits gave their oaths," is just as necessarily plural as, "The new group of recruits gave their oaths," because just a single one not giving it would break the whole image.

In contrast, if you swap "A group" with "A band", which makes the "playing" a coordinated effort and takes the focus away from each individual, you'll look at the band as a whole and use singular -- but let them play "instruments" and you'll be back to plural, because every member of the band plays his/her (I'm deliberately avoiding the neutral 'their' here) instrument differently.

As I wrote, it's not clear-cut, and you'll always find edge cases where you can go one way or another. British English prefers plural while American English tends towards singular, but if in doubt, use a search engine. English can even differ between different parts of the US. Keep in mind that there are some expections that are idiomatic too. In Lush guidelines, we lean slightly towards British English for consistency's sake.

As another example, it's always, "The couple split up to go their own ways," but, depending on regional preference, "The couple had its/their honeymoon in Vegas."

SereneProdigy's advice is correct, also about the class being the best. If you look closely, a class can be the best ever while it still has members who aren't really up to snuff, so you're not looking at every individual.

So, back to the original question, both "is" and "are" can be used, and its more a question of regional preference and consistency (and perhaps applicable style guidelines) than of black-or-white rules. There's no clear, universal, ten-words rule-of-thumb.
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Quote by sweetyorkshire
I'm 44 & I've never had good sex


It's never too late.

I moved your thread to crowd sourcing.
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"Your payment transactions here are as safe as they are when used elsewhere" This could be its own thread. Spoken in true legalese! This statement should have ended with a question mark? How safe is everywhere? NSA says 98% of all websites and bank accounts are not secured. The statement is circular in nature. Designed to be reassuring without actually making any claim of such or placing any liability on the author. hmmm.......


Have you stopped crossing streets too just because the world isn't a perfectly safe place and nobody guarantees that you won't be run down by a car?
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For those in the United States, there is an option to transfer plain cash to paypal through moneypak. I don't have any experience with that, but I've seen it recommended by PayPal forum moderators. Perhaps someone familiar with it could say if this is an option?

If you're having trouble with prepaid credit cards, check if the name and address stored with the card company are correct. These details may be missing or incorrect and make otherwise correct transactions fail (I experienced that once trying to use a gifted prepaid card in a local store, which would have been quite embarrasing if I hadn't had my regular card with me). Your best bet is usually a phone call to the issuing company.
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Your timezone. Timezone setting appears to have a bit of a glitch though, as I have to set it to GMT to have the correct times in the forum (I'm normally one hour ahead), but then the timestamps of PMs lag an hour behind.
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Quote by avrgblkgrl
Remember too, every poem without stanzas does not have to be double spaced. Removing the double spacing often looks better on the page and increases the readers speed (which may improve the poem itself). Sometimes I like a reading that pushes forward because it builds momentum for the main thought presented at the end. If there is rhyming, removing the double spacing (when you do not have stanzas) works well for increased flow of rhythm.


This is very, very good advice. I see a lot of free-form poems where I have to scroll down to read the last two lines. Unless you need the double spacing as a necessary pause for thought, don't be afraid to leave it out. A lot of (print-)published poetry uses double spacing for no other reason than to fill up space. Don't fall for that.

Sometimes even free-form poetry can benefit if you group lines together with single spacing (those groups can even be of varying lengths). It's not all-or-nothing.
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Dare To Be Crazy

You’ve probably experienced yourself already what a fickle thing the muse is. She pokes you constantly in the ribs, whispering parts of wonderful stories into your ear, only to hide away when you most need her. You’ve sat for hours and days, stuck on a scene, tied to that story, and wracked your brain until you reached the inevitable, heartbreaking conclusion –

Writer’s Block

So how do you lure her out into the open again? Forget all the tips about structure, rituals, special surroundings and “simply writing.”

The muse is a little punk, a frail thing with neon colored hair held together by these silver gum wrappers, a crazy bitch who wears dirty blue jeans with holes in tandem with Louboutin heels, who turns off the alarm clock with a well-placed arrow and who uses her original Hemingway first edition to prop up the old table on which she fucks the neighbor while she smokes weed. You’ll not impress her with a neat writing room and a lovely cup of tea.

Noticed something? Good.

What works for me, and reportedly for others, is to deviate from the usual questioning of “what if” and, instead, snatch the most unlikely things you come about.

Go For Crazy Yourself

Your main character, Jennifer, is sitting at the kitchen table with her boyfriend Toby? They’ve just argued because he missed their anniversary and now you can’t for the love of it find the way to move the scene from that depressing, static setting to the happy, romantic ever after you had planned?

Stop wracking your brain. Turn on the TV. Sounds crazy? Yes, but remember the muse. Try to find the first thing that you think doesn’t fit your story at all.

I just tried it, and as I still had a documentary channel running, the first thing I saw was a hippo. I scribbled that down, but I still had no success. So I switched one channel down.

Starfighters. Okay, I admit that I’m a bit of a documentary addict. Hippos and Starfighters. So far, so good.

Another channel down, I spotted a bare-chested chocolaty beauty dancing on a carnival wagon in Rio. This was perfect!

A hippo, a Starfighter and half-naked girls dancing on the carnival are to be my ingredients, and I’ll force them into the story, no matter if it makes sense.

Jennifer’s eyes shot open. A hippopotamus shot through the room, trampling the table on its way, and crashed out through the window that was now a door. A Starfighter thundered over the house in hot pursuit of the massive animal, and both Jennifer and Toby tried to duck under the table – if only it had still been there. As if on a signal, both jumped from their chairs and raced out of the house, through the splintered remains of the entrance door and onto the street. Toby rubbed his eyes. A carnival wagon slowly rolled down the road towards them, and on top of it danced the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.

Is This Stupid? Hell, Yes!

Now you have holes in the wall, a demolished kitchen, a rampaging hippopotamus, the Air Force in an uproar, a beautiful Brazilian dancer in the middle of a small town in the USA with no clue how she got there, and on top of all that, if you haven’t paid attention, most certainly a jealous girlfriend at hand. That last one is a chilling thought.

Let’s Try Something Completely Different

Well, not completely, but let’s at least tone it down some. Trampling hippos are neither native to the States nor very romantic. Romantic? Heart?

Let’s try this:

“You know,” Jennifer said, blinking away her tears, “it feels like hippo has trampled over my heart. I hate it! We used to have fun; we didn’t even need to talk to understand each other.”

Yes! A whole paragraph! So, the Starfighter. Can we use it for another metaphor? Hm. They were renowned for crashing down – let’s not care about how warranted that was. But how to work them into the story. Only someone with a bit of an airplane fetish would talk about Starfighters in such a situation. Or someone who knows one like that.

Toby chewed on his lip. “Grandpa once told me that his relationship with Gran is like a Starfighter. If it doesn’t touch down and get refueled often enough, it’ll crash.”

You think that’s both cheesy and horrible? I do too. Hell, Jennifer does as well.

Jennifer looked at him with wide eyes, unsure if she should laugh or cry. “That’s the silliest metaphor I’ve ever heard!”

Toby deflated. “You know how Grandpa is; it’s either aircrafts or fishing he talks about.”

You think this is going in circles? Nope, *insert evil giggle here* because here comes our last weapon:

“Or that time in ’72 when he visited the carnival in Rio,” Jennifer added with a small smile tugging up the corner of her mouth. “Do you really believe he rode on a wagon with ten half-naked samba dancers?”

Toby covered his face. “Don’t start with that. Gran still hits him every time he mentions it, even after forty years.”

“I’d like to see it.” Suddenly, Toby’s misstep didn’t appear as big anymore.

“What?” He asked. “You want to see Gran hit him or Grandpa with ten…”

“The carnival! God, you’re such a pervert!”

“Hey, just having you on.” He couldn’t stop from chuckling at her outrage. “I’d like to go there, one day,” he told her, his voice now quieter, “with you. There and to other places.”

Jennifer froze. A part of her wanted to stay mad at him, but another part caved under his nervous, hopeful look. “I’d like that too,” she whispered, and then he was suddenly next to her, pulling her up into his arms, and her lips parted eagerly for his.

Yes! We Did It!

See, it wasn’t that hard. This is no guaranteed recipe to cure writer’s block, but more often than not, you’ll find writing a chore when the muse hides. Going crazy will help you come up with ideas that are outrageous enough to make you smile. When you smile, you have fun, and when you have fun, it’s not a chore anymore.

I hope you could take something from my ramblings.

Now please excuse me, as I’ve got a story to write about a punk girl who owns Louboutin heels and a Hemingway first edition. I’m still not completely ruling out hippopotami.
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Quote by JefferyB
My stories do tend to be lengthy because I like the charters developed and the sex detailed.


That's never a bad thing. Well, some of the readers may be too spent to leave a review afterwards, but knowing it is a reward in its own
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Quote by clum
I think I have a combined 1 billion words in unfinished stories at the moment, if that counts...


Please tell me that's just what it feels like and not the real count. Lie if you have to.
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I have to put in a little objection to Twain's statement. New Year is a wonderful excuse to accidentially turn your head while giving friendly hugs to people who'd otherwise skin you alive for kissing them, and to get 'accidentally' kissed just the same.
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Time to look back at the year that has almost passed now and do some re-evaluation.

Mile High Sluts finally got its second chapter and also came dangerously close to the 11,000 words mark. Huge thanks to the verifiers, it's incredibly difficult to stay focused on catching all the small bits in such a long story!

Another long single piece story is Just A Tiny Spark at 10k. I'm proud about its RR, as there's a lot of personal emotion in that story, and keeping the level of writing up all the way wasn't easy.

Last, but not least, A Bunny To Play With came full circle in November and stands finished at a little over 75k words.

So, let us know, through which word count barrier did you break this year?
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Mine are:

- Keep writing and get published. I've started another novel (I'm now roughly 10,000 words into it) that I want to feel in my hands as a real book.
- Smoke less. Not sure about stopping completely, but at least keeping it a bit in check when stress is high would be a first step.
- Get outside more. I've let myself get complacent this year. So more swimming, more archery, more running this year, and to hell with the weather, it's never right. And I won't have to consciously think about losing weight...
- Re-learn guitar playing. I've hardly touched one in ten years, but I've gifted myself one for Christmas.
- Tackle one of the big mountains (big as in almost 3,000 meters) just a little over two hours of driving away. There's nothing more grounding and more humbling than fighting your way to the summit, and little matching the monumental beauty of the alps in late summer.
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No, I'm not going to sing Guns N'Roses here. My insurance isn't that good to pay for the hearing loss

I want to ask all authors who are submitting stories (or have recently) to show a little understanding. We story verifyers here are a volunteer bunch, and you won't believe it, some of us have a private life too and family and friends to visit over holidays. So, if your story took a few days longer to approve over Christmas or perhaps takes a while over New Year, it's neither some technical glitch nor wilfull ignorance on our part.

I know that it can be annoying to wait for your baby to make it to the front page, and double annoying if it gets sent back to you for the one or other, what may feel like, minor issue after days of waiting. Please take a breath, try to be civil and don't read more into our messages than there is. We verifyers are humans too, and some of us work through mountains of personal odds to be able to moderate your submissions that you can't even begin to fathom. Winter hols should be a time of peace, love and understanding. Please try to keep that spirit alive.

Thank you. May you all step into a wonderful new year full of love, health and joy. May your imagination soar free on wings of magic.
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Woohoo! Just A Tiny Spark has been granted that wonderful, desirable, sexy, blue thumbs up sign called "Recommended Read".
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A new librarian shows up at Molly's college, and a friendship develops between the two. But Molly's emotions are suddenly all over the place and question marks arise over everything she thought she knew about herself. Accompany Molly on a journey through turmoil and insecurities to find love where she would never have expected it. Follow her through heartache and hope and keep your hankies ready.

A sweet, sapphic novelette that can found in one piece here on Lush:



I hope you enjoy reading it!
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Quote by OldDog_BlackHeart
I don't use the chat rooms so that must be the only place these changes have occurred. However it still doesn't change the point of my post. You get what you pay for. There's not enough of that happening. A minimal membership fee even if it's only $12 a year. Not much of A challenge if you ask me. Would help greatly in creating improvements.


You're not wrong there. It's no secret that advertising revenues are slowly dwindling everywhere in the internet while server costs are staying the same or even rising - it's all a friend of mine who's into webpage design has been talking about the last half year...

There have been a lot of changes, both 'under the hood' and quite noticeable ones, though. The nested story comments feature with the like button and email notification is just one of these, the Amazon book library on the profile page another. Recently, a word count has been added to stories and background transparency is also a an addition that came this year. When you compare all the new features to the innovations 'big players' like Facebook manage on their own (without buying a whole company for a single new feature) and have a look at our competitors, Lush's quite good - it sometimes doesn't feel that way if the new features aren't ones you'd use often, but every change needs a lot of planning to keep the site's performance intact and our personal data protected.
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Introduce the title of your story: Just A Tiny Spark
Genre/Category: Love Stories
Provide the link: https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-stories/just-a-tiny-spark.aspx

1. What first inspired you to write this particular story?

The turn of the year is approaching fast, and its a time where I catch myself feeling melancholic more often than not. Lately, there have been a lot of worries about relatives and friends filling my days, and I needed something sweet and deep to balance all the dark stuff I was wading through.

2. How did you come up with these characters?

Like almost always, they came to me on their own, begging me to be written. Molly, my main character, was a given. Joanne came in tow with her, with a good pinch of personality from a wonderful past lover sprinkled in. Jake was supposed to be mentioned in passing, but he's such a sweet guy, and before I knew it, he was filling a scene of his own with life.

3. How does it differ from some of your other stories?

This is softer and sweeter. It's a bit of coming-of-age and coming-out, and it is less about the sex itself as a driving force. Those who've read my stories know that almost all of them have power balances and submissive moments. This one doesn't. It's about falling in love against all rules, with an intensity that can crush your heart or make it fly.

4. What was the most challenging thing about writing this piece?

Not to rush things. I started what I thought were just a few thousand words, a short, sweet piece, but then it grew and grew.

5. Anything else you want to tell us about it?

It's a little over 10,000 words, so reserve some time.
It's also a story I invested a lot of emotions into. If you could see me, you could tell by my sweaty fingers.
It's about finding love and about letting go, about discovering yourself and facing change, about conquering fears.
Oh, and I almost forgot - it's a sapphic romance, as we don't have a "Lesbian Love Stories" category and I feel that love is the dominant motive.

I'd love it if you let me know if my newest story could light, perhaps, just a tiny spark for you.
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There's a special charm in a cold, white Christmas. It forces people to slow down. It's perhaps also a question of having grown up with it, but going for sleighrides and building snowmen brings back a spark of childhood and its wonders. I love huddling up inside with red cheeks after hours in the cold, sipping mulled wine while sharing funny stories from the past, the air filled with scents of cinnamon, vanilla, oranges and fir tree.
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Quote by KatieElizabeth
Santa delivered all four things on my list........



Happy Christmas everyone xxx


Me (whispering): Do we jump down Katie's chimney now or later?

Sprite: We wait till it's dark.

Me: But that's still so long. What if anybody sees us loitering on her roof?

Sprite: We pretend that we're Santa and his reindeer.

Me: Nobody is going to believe us!

Sprite: Of course they will. People believe anything. Just put lipstick on your nose and show them your fur.

Me: You're crazy! Hey, what are you... give my panties back!

Sprite (my red panties on her head): And how am I supposed to play Santa?

Me (grumbling): Okay. Have it your way.

Sprite: Did you bring Katie's gift though?

Me: Of course I did. (Pulls up my skirt, proudly showing off the rubber cap peeking out between my thighs) Oh. *bites lip*

Sprite (exasperated): What is it now?

Me: I think it needs fresh batteries.
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Quote by LadyAnnWest
No, but I wish I had.



I recently saw them on their Acoustique tour. An absolute must! Jukebox Hero and Flame Still Burns were absolute goosebumps moments. And who knows, perhaps, with a VIP ticket, it's not too late?
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Quote by SereneProdigy
I also thought about this: what if the number of words was shown next to each story (or at least when you access that specific story)?

Sometimes I don't always have a lot of time to read a story, and the 'visual length' is rarely representative of how long a story is. Stories who contain a lot of dialog or paragraph breaks can be much shorter than they appear (and vice-versa).


I'd love that feature too. Story lengths vary from a few hundred to more than 10,000 words, which makes for quite a difference in the time I need to set aside for reading.

And I love Liz's idea with the cover images on the profile page. Perhaps even with a short (but longer than the one-liner) blurb next to it.
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From what I gathered, there is some caching going on, and whichever page has been put into the cache last has the more up-to-date count. I've also noticed this. For older stories, it usually differs only by a single digit (if at all), but with new stories, it can be a hundred. The lower count will catch up over the course of a few hours though.
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I think I wrote something along the lines of that there are only two authors who placed in the top three more than once in the last twelve months, so this seems less of an issue than it was to me.

(The next part I had in my timeline - and don't ask me how, because then I won't have to deny accidentially quoting myself instead of editing the original post to fix a typo )

For RRs, those are handed out at individual moderator's discretion. The common demoninator is that they need to be
- mostly free of typos and grammar issues
- tell a compelling story
- tickle the verifyer's fancy in some major way

It's always a bit of a subjective thing. Sometimes, RRs are rewarded later on by a different moderator. There's no detailed list, and I don't think it would be possible to come up with one - a story may even be lacking in one thing but still be unique and interesting enough to recommend it to others. Keep in mind, a RR isn't an award (although getting it feels like one, we're all suckers for recognition, after all) but just as the name says, a recommendation to others that the story is well-writting, catching and a rewarding read.

An Editor's Pick, on the other hand, is handed out after being submitted to the EP panel (which I don't even know the members of) by a mod. I do know that there's a lot of in-depth discussion going on before a judgement is rendered, and the bar to earn one is quite high.

The number of moderator stories getting RRs is regularly a topic of discussion among us verifyers, as pulling favorites is not something we want to do, not even subconsciously. I do know that I'm not the only one among the mods who's dying to be able to hand out RRs. Verifying a top-notch story and being able to stick a RR to it, knowing that it'll brighten the author's day, is the highlight in an otherwise sometimes dull job of finding, correcting and/or explaining mistakes. It's a fact though that most verifyers get invited because they haven proven that they have the neccessary skills through their writing, and most of us had our first RRs before we joined the team, so a slight disparity in RR numbers between moderators and regular members shouldn't be surprising.
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