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Anyone interested in a little friendly wager? For the SS comp over on the blue site: Lush writers vs. SS writers? Team Blue vs. Team Red? Best average score? If you write for both sites you get to choose your team. I'd be Team Blue.
Lol, as my results are way better on Lush than SS I'll have to go team Red.
It's 7:30 am on Christmas Eve and I've done the fruit and veg shopping before most of the crowds. Now off to work and then on to the first family festivity, my uncle's tradition Christmas Eve shindig. Been so much fun so far, seeing Christmas through the eyes of one very excited three year old.
Merry Christmas to you all. Enjoy and remember the sunscreen, it's hot out there this time of year.
Two flash competitions, I have only just recovered from the Lush one (mind you I had two goes at it and went with my second attempt,) but I have what I think is a cool idea for the SS competition. Molly clarifying that it doesn't actually have to be about snow came as a relief as I have no experience of snow, but now I think snow is going to get a mention.
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looks around It is quiet in here. I'd like a root beer float please, preferably with vanilla Haagen Daz. The Comp entries are pouring in, I wouldn't want to be a judge. Lots of great stories including by some of the regulars around here. Its a balmy 34F here, I might take my bike out.
It was 34 (or more here too) but balmy isn't the word I would have used. Humid with an expletive in front of it would be more accurate.
Looking forward to reading more Competition stories, the ones I have read so far have been so very good.
It's Christmas, so sunscreen up and stay hydrated 😇
Evening all, so hot and humid down under ... I should say enough of that innuendo, Annie. Except I wrote a whole flash about that, thanks to all who have checked it out. It's a fabulous competition, I've really enjoyed the ones I have read so far. Hope you all have a good Sinday.
Take no notice of a loose-living woman, for the lips of the adulteress drip with honey, her palate is more unctuous than oil - The Bible, Proverbs 5:2-3
Exhibitionism
I'm in, early (well in the sense of not being a day or two before the competition closes) for once
The Ghost of Christmas PastTake no notice of a loose-living woman, for the lips of the adulteress drip with honey, her palate is more unctuous than oil - The Bible, Proverbs 5:2-3
Exhibitionism
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OK, so – does it have to be about Christmas? Would another religion's Winter Festival do?
Asking for a (feckless) friend…
What, it has to be a winter festival?
No flashing of my summer Christmas midnight Mass story in the Competition List, you mean ... End Northern Hemispherism I say.
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Good morning, y'all! It's the first day of Advent for those of us who subscribe to the Christian calendar.
And the first day to open a door on your Advent Calendar, for those of us who have them.
Where did the year go?
Alright, so his grandparents bought him a Bluey (I hope I do not have to explain Bluey, as it is the most watched show in the US despite being about a family of Brisbane cattle dogs) advent calendar, with chocs every day till Christmas. The first was consumed at 7:45 am on the first and then a meltdown was occasioned by a parent saying the second choc would be tomorrow.
Hope your summer, whoops some are less than summery atm, is going well, here the jacaranda has fallen, the humidity is rising and there is only one seasonally appropriate song for us all:
Congrats to all who entered, the top ten and in particularly the podium three. I've not read as many as I would like, but did manage three of the top four, which were a testament to the quality of writing on Lush. I also loved many of the stories outside the top ten, which shows how deep quality runs.
As always, thanks to those who entered, who read and commented, who organized and who judged. Thanks also to those who read my story; bring on the next competition.
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34 stories in so far and almost a week to go.. still a few regulars missing - can we get odds on a raunchy last minute entry with an Aussie slant and colloquial wordplay?
The quality in this one is really good.. It's taking me a while to get through them.. must be over 200K words all in so far.
Last minute, I so dont know what you are talking about. Just submitted, 50 minutes before midnight on the 17th. But that's Australian midnight, so in reality I have plenty of time before the US time guillotine falls.
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And one more, a story by that devious bastard Verbal. It's a tentacle-sex story he wrote back in the day. He says it's the best thing he ever wrote here, but be forewarned he has a pretty high opinion of himself.
This is one of my absolute favourite Lush stories, which inspired my approach to my two tentacle stories ... though I do like Purr (the Verbal and Sprite cowritten story ) just as much if not a little more.
She touched nerves never before touched.
Monster Sex Interesting, Post Covid the US economy seems to have performed better than comparable countries. I had read in our local press in the lead up to the election that US median household income in 2023 was over $80,600, an increase of 4.0 percent, having adjusted for inflation. I thought the Democrats would get credit for that, jobs and even inflation where the US really has out performed many other countries.
Then I googled today and saw this Median Income breakdown, which may have more explanatory power:
No high school diploma $36,620 + 1.1
High school, no college $55,810 + 4.3
Some college $73,610 +3.1
Bachelor’s degree or higher $126,800 + 3.1
Congratulations to all, especially those now with the coin, and thanks to Kimmi for organizing. Lots of fun 😘😘
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I hope you all had fun! Winners announced tomorrow! 😊
But it's already tomorrow here, like fifteen minutes into All Saints' Day, the 1st of November EST ... oh, I see, you don't mean that EST. I will take myself to bed then.
“Everyone started eons ago, Mom!”
“Irks my intuition, Faith; no hijinks, limited candy!”
With mom tricked, Faith’s Halloween treat was the almost-slutty—undies optional—outfit in Mandy’s wardrobe.
Mandy began at the foreboding Gothic mansion; Faith blushed, entranced by Lilith’s black leather corset. “Trick …”
Her friend interrupted, “Or naughty treat!”
With randy Mandy fucked, Miss Lilith’s toy-filled dungeon seduced the virgin trick-or-treater into her dissolute sapphic, albeit sugar-free, coven.
I popped in, but got distracted (8:30 am Friday) by work so didn't actively participate. So good to learn a little more of Ines and Carlton's approach to their craft, writers sharing experiences is always a fabulous idea. One issue for me, having entered the chat well after the beginning, I didn't see what had been discussed before I arrived: was that me or the function of the software?
For a girl who always starts with the beginning then the end of a story, the Whodunnit presents a unique challenge. I've written a 3000 word opening I like, and a 1500 word conclusion I like ... but how do I craft a disingenuous middle? My role model so far is a certain influential Agatha Christie story, but I don't want this to be too English (though it's set in England.) There's a bit of hard boiled Raymond Chandler style in my Aussie narrator.
I'm in two minds, to continue or to start again, but binning close to 5000 words is a tad traumatic.
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Just to clarify, I don't want this comp getting too narrow, or want people to pore over the technicalities.
If people want to be creative with their writing, that's fine. Plot twists are fine. The only elements I'm looking for are:
1. There's a crime
2. The story eventually reveals who did the crime
3. It's fucking hot.
Generally in a whodunnit, the perpetrator isn't revealed until the end, so if you want to write about a crime that it seems like one person has done, and it turns out to be another, that's fine in my book.
If you want to reveal the perpetrator halfway through instead of at the end, that's also fine, but the initial actual perpetrator should be unknown.
So not necessarily this from Wikipedia: 😇
A defining feature of the whodunit narrative is the so-called double narrative. Here, one narrative is hidden and gradually revealed while the other is the open narrative, which often transpires in the present time of the story. This feature has been associated with the Russian literary terms syuzhet and fabula. The former involves the narrative presented to the reader by the author or the actual story as it happened in chronological order while the latter focuses on the underlying substance or material of the narrative.QN4TnPpOjpTXWoOM
The double narrative has a deep structure but is specific, particularly when it comes to time and a split gaze on the narrative itself. The two tales coexist and interweave with the first tale focusing on the crime itself, what led to it, and the investigation to solve it while the second story is all about the reconstruction of the crime. Here, the diegesis, or the way the characters live on the inquiry level creates the phantom narration where the objects, bodies, and words become signs for both the detective and the reader to interpret and draw their conclusions from.
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so... murder or theft - any opinions?
Just thinking through a plot and at the moment the answer is ... both.
I have a title (and not much else
The No 1 Lesbian Detective Agency. Which is of course a play on a modern detective series.
As for sheep brains, the real test is sheep testicles which I have seen on a menu as (not in these parts I might add,) mountain oysters.
Congratulations and thanks to all who entered, read, commented, organized and judged. Special congrats to those on the podium, unfortunately life kept me so busy that I only read 20 percent of the stories and only three in the top ten. One was TheShyThespian's which I totally loved; I will have to find the time to read many more inside and outside that top ten.
Congratulations to all who entered, to those who were in the top thirteen and in particular to the well deserved trio on the podium. Thanks to all who read and commented on the entries and to the organisers and judges of this fun competition.
Congrats to all, this was lots of fun. I'd no idea there was such a thing as hint fiction. Such an enjoyable challenge, thank you Kimmi for organising.
Its not what it looks like competition ... all I can think about is that's the opening line of your spouse when you walk into the bedroom and see another in your bed.
Morning all, thanks for the heads up on blue, I shall wander over. A toddler constrains one's writing time. I published one story on the last day of the last competition (31 December) and the next on the fifth to last day of this competition (11th April.) That's by far the least productive I have been since I joined lush.
I'm very pleased with this latest story, thanks for the lovely comments of those who have checked it out: Bull Shite, Bull Dykes, Bull Fights: That’s Your Everyday D/s Love Story. | Lush Stories
Kat (and anyone else who knows what I'm talking about) have you seen the 30 minute Bluey yet? I think I loved it more than the toddler, the sly little adult orientated jokes like the coin gag in particular.
He knew she’d sensually shed her summer frock in quiet Bluebell wood.
In the azaleas, Lord Chatterley remained stubbornly impotent. So thick John Thomas obligingly ploughed Lady Jane.
Her shrillest orgasm accompanied the spurts of gardener seed. Finally he'd stiffened.
Congrats, so well done. A fabulous portfolio of hot well written stories.
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well... fuck me. i might enter this one.
So long as Mistress gives permission presumably.
I’m in of course. Written four or five stories on this so it’s just the non-trivial matter of distilling what ideas I’ll focus on. I’m tempted to rewrite Miss, my Miss but I’m not sure I could make it sufficiently different from the original to qualify as a ‘new’ story.
A question I often ask myself. For me, that Latin saying, make haste, slowly applies to my writing. I spent yesterday writing about 1000 words for the opening of a story for the BDSM competition. Only 300 remain which shows that most of the time was editing. And I have to do that to be in the right frame of mind to write the next scene. If I speed write I’ll only end up with the plot I have in mind but not the language dexterity I want. Often that’s about finding the right word … I had a bland sentence about the dad in my last story that I stared at for ages until the word sourpuss occurred to me, which brought the sentence alive and allowed me to happily move on. Like you, the best ideas seem to take the longest, the most editing, and are mentally difficult. But that’s the most rewarding writing, quality trumps quantity for me.
