Including images is normally straight forward. Just make sure that you copy the link to the image, not to the containing page, then click on the middle button above the comment box and paste the image link into the popup. I mostly tend to use images from my hard disk and upload them using the rightmost button, so I can't say if there are sites that try to prohibit that in some way.
I think I might be able to stop loving someone if it turned out that everything that I had thought I knew about my partner turned out to be wrong. That hasn't happened yet, and I'm usually too realistic to fall for pretty lies. When I'm in love, it's not just an obscure attraction, it's a deep-rooted feeling that grows upon little insights into the vulnerable parts of a person, into the complexity and uniqueness of their thoughts, into the ways they overcome the baggage that they carry around (and everyone has) and that always threatens to overshadow life. It grows upon shared intimacy, laughter and tears, and its not something that I can stop feeling at any time. There are partners I parted ways with twenty years ago because it didn't work out, but I still feel as much love for them now as I did back then. Just as I can not un-see or un-hear something, I can not un-love someone. Once someone has cracked the shell and slipped into my heart, they stay there.
Writer's block is exactly that. I've had this too, lots of unfinished pieces on my hard drive and thousands of ideas in my head, but lacking the emotion that pushed me towards writing.
My personal cure was to participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). It's got its own site and forums for that month where you can talk with others and cheer each other up. The goal is to write 50,000 words (the minimum length for a printed novel) in the month of November. I had to do some plotting beforehand so I didn't get lost, and I had to force myself through some very exhausting days where I got hardly anything written. But I was fed up with my "I'll write that when I feel more like it" attitude, and I persevered.
It's a bit like with sports, at least to me. It was easy to get excited and start running or swimming, but once the first wave of enthusiasm had worn off and the weather wasn't to my liking, keeping it up got hard. The brain's a funny little place, though, because it loves patterns. Once I had managed to write each day and was rewarded by all the happy hormones that my body released when I realized that I had reached my daily goal (not to speak of making the 50,000 words which I even overshot by good margin), my brain was hooked. There are still times when outside factors dampen my desire to write, but I've found a wonderful muse who can get the corners of my mouth quirk upwards and get the ball rolling in my head again.
I think I've already said it in another thread, but perhaps not in these terms - the brain's an electronic muscle, and it needs to be exercised. Writing constantly, even if its just a measly hundred words a day, gets it into shape and makes writing so natural that you simple can't not write anymore.
Huge congratulations to the winners, the runners-up and everyone else who entered!
To me, there are more than a handful of outstanding stories that should have earned a place on the pedestal, and quite a few that unfortunately went without a honorary mention despite being brilliant.
Now, my only hope is that you'll all take extended holidays abroad where you don't have internet access while the next comp is on so I've got an effing chance! Seriously, though, that comp brought out the best in everyone, and reading all the great entries is both a huge inspiration and a challenge to do even better next time. Keep the comps going, Nicola!
*tapping fingernails impatiently on the table top and biting my lip* Has the new comp already started? Do we know what it is about? When can I start writing?
Morning dew glistens
Rose petals bloom full of scent
Between trembling thighs
Strings of a harp pulled
Violin tune plays from your lips
Love song in your eyes
Rivers overflow
Geysir erupts in fountains
Your sweet moans my prize
Beauty flows in words
Pleasure trickles over skin
My soul rejoices
I'm always glad when I can help! Good luck with your story!
If there's not too much of it, putting that in italics should work. I myself don't like that style though, I'd rather weave it into narrative.
My mysterious lady SexyFox69 had signed on again. I squealed with delight, already excited by the implications. I logged in with my screen name StudPower69 and started typing, the words appearing next to my name as soon as I hit the enter key. 'Hey babe is that you?'
Her reply was instant. 'it sure is, lover'
I felt the need to reassure myself, though. 'Hey wait you are a chick rite?' I waited for her answer, afraid to breath. Five seconds later, I had it.
'Yes,' she wrote, and I sighed. This was going to be a good night.
I'd use italics and, depending on how you weave it into the story, single quotes to distinguish it. If you're talking about longer chunks, separate paragraphs may be an option too, but you may run the danger of overdoing it. Generally speaking, it's just another form of quoted speech and all you need is to make it appear distinctive enough (therefor the italics and single quotes) from regular quoted speech, if you have any.
I don't know if I can do anything about the second chapter as it's not in your stories list, and I don't know if there is a backup where Gav can access individual story submissions.
But what you can do is to hide the third chapter. If you click on the "My Stories" link in the popup menu that appears when you hover over the cog wheel at the top, you'll find a "hide story" link next to each published story. This way, you can put it online again yourself once the missing part has been restored.
"It's okay if you don't understand what I'm saying. You're the boss, you don't need to do any real work."
It's actually not that difficult to define. My main trigger is a good description of that sweet moment when whatever holds the character back - a sense of propriety, insecurity, outrage or rational thought, as examples - crumbles under the force of their carnal desires. It's not so much the 'what happens' there - the moment where the character bares her breasts to her partner for the first time can be just as intense as when she has full-blown sex - but rather how it happens, and how detailed that moment is described.
And then there's teasing. Lovely, long, drawn-out teasing and juicy descriptions of the sweet torture it brings. A soft, wet kiss is lovely, but even more intense is the minute that precedes it, where lips hover just an inch apart and hot breath tickles with delicious promises, where fingers softly caress instead of pulling them together and have the characters tremble with need, until my own breathless anticipation makes me shiver and want to shout, "Do it!"
*flutters lashes* 
