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GrushaVashnadze
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Quote by KimmiBeGood
Do Recommended Reads for collaborations not get to update the RR badge number? I would have thought they would, but I noticed the count on my collaborator's badge didn't go up. Mine, however, as I submitted story, did go up. He hasn't mentioned to me, I just noticed and was curious. Is this the intent or a coding booboo?
Ditto for me. Hers has been counted, but not mine.
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Piano, professionally.
(And some other instruments which, if revealed here, would make me just a touch too identifiable...)
(And some other instruments which, if revealed here, would make me just a touch too identifiable...)
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As CuriousAnnie says, never mind that it's 100; more important is that you are a superb writer, who has turned the micro into a sublime art form. I wish they gave RRs and EPs on micros - because some of yours deserve those accolades. Sorry I haven't been on Lush much recently, Kis - but keep writing. I'm not the only one who loves your work.
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Quote by CarltonStJames
A few of these posts ain't hentai. Below is the definition:
a genre of Japanese manga and anime characterized by overtly sexualized characters and sexually explicit images and plots.
True. But the definition is often stretched. And you won't object to this picture, will you? (Isn't she beautiful?)
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Quote by Verbal
I really did give it a try, with an open mind.
Ditto.
Overrated.
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Hi! I'm writing a story featuring an Italian character. I want her to utter some reasonably convincing (and hopefully appropriately filthy) talk whilst in flagrante delicto (er, that last phrase is not Italian, obvs). I am writing her dialogue in my fairly rudimentary Italian - but I was wondering if there is a native Italian speaker here who would be willing to help me tidy it up, and ensure that it is genuinely sexy, and not just dumb...?
Please feel free to PM me.
Thank you so much!
Grusha
Please feel free to PM me.
Thank you so much!
Grusha
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Double Stopping
is a technique of string playing involving two fingers of the left hand putting pressure in just the right places. There's quite a bit of that in this first collaboration between myself and the prodigiously talented CuriousAnnie. Hope you enjoy it!
Grusha
is a technique of string playing involving two fingers of the left hand putting pressure in just the right places. There's quite a bit of that in this first collaboration between myself and the prodigiously talented CuriousAnnie. Hope you enjoy it!
Grusha
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In Britain, families can fall apart over what is the correct order in which to put the cream and the jam on a scone. Here are three stories I recommend, which deal with this important culinary question head-on:
A Matter of Taste (naughtyannie)
Afternoon Tea (kkikkiriccio)
A Working Fuck (GrushaVashnadze)
A Matter of Taste (naughtyannie)
Afternoon Tea (kkikkiriccio)
A Working Fuck (GrushaVashnadze)
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Quote by JamesLlewellyn
come up with a situation, place the characters in it, and then let them tell the story. He also comments that they often take the story in very different directions than he expected, or sometimes than he wanted.
He sets up the situation and characters, then just starts writing, and keeps writing until it feels like time to stop. Then he goes back and starts working on the story, weeding out the bad bits, re-writing the prose, correcting mistakes, and so forth.
Spot on.
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the word count on the editor
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I had this problem several times writing micros
Frustrating, especially when writing micros. The Lush word counter seems to count anything separated from the rest of the text by spaces as a word - including ellipses, dashes, asterisks, tildes. Often re-punctuation is the easiest way of getting the word count to fit.
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There are so many 5’s handed out, that when I pull up the competition data, sometimes a couple of 2, 3 or 4 votes knock down someone’s average to 4.85 for example.
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Is a '4' considered a "down vote"? I didn't give any, but I know some that do, not to be malicious, but just judging a story as 'not their favorite.'
Thank you, Nicola, for that very lucid and helpful explanation - as well as that link, which I had never found before!
May I please echo Kimmi's question? I feel very much a newbie here, and haven't quite worked out the accepted scoring etiquette. I am usually delighted to receive "4"s; after all, it means "good", right? Perhaps therefore I naively give out more "4"s than is considered appropriate, to stories I genuinely like: I don't think of that as "downvoting" - quite the contrary. Am I misjudging that?
(I actually have a much-treasured "3" vote on one of my stories, from a writer for whom I have the utmost respect. It was accompanied by some truly helpful and encouraging comments. Honest assessments, accompanied by thoughtful constructive criticism, are worth far more than uncritical adulation.)
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those contestants who deliberately try and gain an advantage by voting down other entrants' stories
Even without your kind intervention, Nicola, would such subterfuge by contestants actually be worth the trouble? Both of the following comp entries of mine received straight "5" scores (c. 30 or 40 of them each) - and neither made it into the top ten. Apparently, therefore, public scores are of limited relevance, and the judges have other more important criteria. Am I right?
Metamorphoses
And There Came Two Angels to Sodom
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Quote by LucaByDesign
That's the beauty of people, Mags: every person unique.
Always great to learn how other writers on here approach things.
In my case, I came onto Lush specifically because I had three or four really important stories I wanted to tell, which I have been developing for years. I have now published two of them:
Alison Goes to London
A Worthless Filthy Fucking Smoking Trash Cunt Whore
The others will appear gradually over the next few months, I hope.
As for the competitions - I have written for four of them, for "a bit of fun". I try not to take them too seriously (at least in retrospect!) - though a couple of the stories I have written for comps are now suggesting follow-ups...
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Last night. And it was a bit like one of the sex scenes in this story:
Our Porge
Which one do you think?
Our Porge
Which one do you think?
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Timeline still broken for me. Any update from the tech department?
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Quote by StarBelliedBoy
Clearly my understanding of Catholicism is way off if electing Satan as Pope is not a sign of weakness in a cardinal.
I have studied Catholic doctrine in some detail - and I think it is safe to say that StarBelliedBoy's story is debauched.
...just in case there was any doubt... 
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This competition has, at least, prompted some fascinating discussions on the subject of what "debauched" actually means...
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You know your Alison series needed to be read in its entirety to see what it was really about. I know you never write just to be filthy ... you always have a much deeper storyline. I wish more had committed to reading Alison til the end to see how truly brilliant that series was.
That is very sweet of you, Kimmi. However, why the past tense? Alison Goes to London is alive and well, welcoming new readers all the time. I think it's still the best thing I've ever written here. Please tell your friends!
However - to tie your comment in with the above discussions on this "debauched" competition and what it means... I find it is important for me, in creating, appreciating or judging any work of art (and there's no reason why dirty stories can't be art), to clarify in my own mind the relationship between style and content. "Debauched" is a stylistic instruction: it tells us what sort of images, dialogue and events are likely to appear in the story. But it does not tell us the content, i.e. what the story is wanting to meaningfully say.
There is a lot of emphasis on style in the creative process these days - on Lush as much as elsewhere. That is not intrinsically a bad thing. Many people read stories here to have a damn good wank - and for that purpose, style is everything. Others here are more concerned about literary qualities, e.g. vocabulary, imagery, dialogue - a more respectable set of priorities, to be sure, but also principally about style. As a theatre musician myself, I am used to this: audiences and critics alike like to talk about the performance - the singers, the acting, the sets, the orchestra (style) - as much as or more than what the composer/author was wanting to say about the world in creating this work (content).
However, a really good work of art invites us to go deeper - because it may be trying to tell us things about ourselves, our relationships, the societies we live in, the universe we are part of. This can be as true in smut as in literature, theatre, music, art. Two examples out of many on Lush that I am impressed by are Jaymal's Lusts of the Flesh and curvygalore's Tobias series - very stylistically different from each other, but both with profound thought-provoking content.
But here's the rub - and it ties in with what you say above: a reader or audience member (or even a judge!) can only truly appreciate the quality of a work by getting to the end of it - whether it is a quatrain, or a short story, or a novel. It is a bit like unwrapping a Christmas present: the paper is lovely, and so is the gift tag, but often the box needs to be opened, the contents removed and viewed from several angles, before true appreciation sets in. You're not going to appreciate Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice if you give up before Darcy's first proposal; nor Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades if you leave at the first interval; nor H-G Clouzot's Le salaire de la peur if you give up before Yves Montand gets into his truck. In the Lush context, the style of Curvy's Tobias series is witty and endearing - but once I got to the end of it, I found myself amazed, shocked - and utterly delighted. Similarly, the debauched filth of Jaymal's Lusts of the Flesh makes for a damn good wank (er, a friend told me...), but once I realised where the protagonist had got to by the end of the story, I found myself deeply personally affected.
So, if I find myself in the position of having to assess someone else's work of art (and I do in a professional context, in the music world), then I have a series of choices to make. If I like and am comfortable in the particular style in which the person has composed or performed, then I will feel confident in my first impressions of the quality of its content. But if I am not, then it will take me far longer to feel able to assess that content honestly and competently.
So, to bring this back to debauchery (and who wouldn't want to do that?) - if I start to read a story on Lush and find myself faced with something I find filthy, vulgar or disgusting, then, if I like that particular style of filth, I will probably be very happy. If I don't, then, as a private citizen, I can, without guilt, drop it. But if I have a reason to provide a formal assessment of it, then I am duty-bound to read the whole thing. For only then will I have "unwrapped the present" and be able to assess with integrity the quality of its content.
So, thank you - please do encourage your friends to read Alison. The first three or four chapters may seem like EvilAngel.com-style porn - but that is just the style. The content unwraps itself through the rest of the novel, and is complex and multi-layered - concerning politics, religion, racism, the warping of ideals, mind-control, cognitive dissonance, friendship, and love.
As far as this "debauched" competition goes, it is so exciting to see so many different types of content attaching themselves to stylistic debauchery. I am sorry I have not had the time to read more of the wonderful stories there are! May I just give a shout out for dolphinman's The Frog Prince. Dolphinman's stories are frequently of the type which absolutely demands reading through to the end. His style initially appears gauche and disjointed - but then I realise he's playing with the reader - and by the end, I am floored.