I'd an issue yesterday where every time I logged in, it kept me on the log in page and it looked like I wasn't logged in. I must have entered my username and password five times without getting in but when I clicked on stories, I was logged in... shrugs... not a biggie but just weird

Happy birthday Kistin.. keep writing 😘

Happy New Year everyone!!!

For those of you having a party let’s hope the aftermath isn’t like my competition entry.. shameless plug ahead.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/quickie-sex/happy-new-year-hayley

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Been meditating on a writing question I think about from time to time. Front load (sex right from the get-go leading into the plot), back load (sex as the climax with plot building up to it), or mix sex and plot all through?

I go for back load, using the sex as literally the 'climax' of the story, but with a reader-teasing hint in the first paragraph or two of what (or who) is going to come later on.

On another topic, I'm a bit concerned about the quantity of unhealthy food at this bar. It's all donuts and cookies! Shouldn't we have some healthy soups and salads? I'll see what I can do.

I usually go for the sex at the end with the story plot to set the scene and give the back story/build but occasionally I've started off the first paragraph with them having sex but a story like that still needs sex towards the end too, otherwise I'd feel cheated lol

I'll have a beer please.. in fact make it two.. since it is Twos-day .. boom tish.. I'm here all week

Well it’s Friday so at least I survived another week.

This cheerful little tale of seduction is my 100th story on Lush.

I’ll have a G&T with ice and a slice to celebrate.

Hopefully the second century of stories will be as much fun as the first lot. Cheers 🍸

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/teen/mums-bloke

Hi everyone.. sliding onto the bar stool.. I'll have a gin and tonic before bed.

We survived Storm Barra though they shut the schools and told us to stay at home for the day.. which was a nice mid week break.. back to work today was hard. Still tomorrow's Friday so I may be back then for a beer.

Cheers 🍸

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I started a forum thread somewhere awhile ago that asked the question about if female authors got more attention here. Many said, "Yes." Ha! I think readers often think writers are same sex as what POV was written from.

My latest micro was a little experiment in naughty titles being click-bait here. It was an average-written micro that already has twice as many reads as my last comp piece, but had "bad girlfriend" as title that I thought would pique interests. I think I was right. Most of my stories with naughty titles bring way more reads.

Votes, comments, reads are interesting here and many opinions about what gets them.

I so agree.. I wrote a story with a click-bait title.. Toni takes two cocks in her tight teenage pussy.. it got 1000s of views even though it wasn't about Toni and there was no two-cock action 😜

thousands of views, but how many intelligent comments. Real readers are best.

I completely agree... views are pretty meaningless.. there's no way of knowing if they only read the first line before heading on somewhere else or read and enjoyed the whole thing. It had 25 readers comments which was about average for me before the migration which proves that extra views were pretty meaningless. Like you said, its the comments from real readers that matter.

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I started a forum thread somewhere awhile ago that asked the question about if female authors got more attention here. Many said, "Yes." Ha! I think readers often think writers are same sex as what POV was written from.

My latest micro was a little experiment in naughty titles being click-bait here. It was an average-written micro that already has twice as many reads as my last comp piece, but had "bad girlfriend" as title that I thought would pique interests. I think I was right. Most of my stories with naughty titles bring way more reads.

Votes, comments, reads are interesting here and many opinions about what gets them.

I so agree.. I wrote a story with a click-bait title.. Toni takes two cocks in her tight teenage pussy.. it got 1000s of views even though it wasn't about Toni and there was no two-cock action 😜

Congratulations Tam, WW and Kimmi.

There were so many good stories in this competition and I’m delighted to be among the top 10.

Did someone mention drinks?

Congratulations to Kimmi on her podium place... A very well deserved 3rd place in the Mega Comp. I loved this story.

https://www.lushstories.com/forum/site-announcements-feedback/announcing-the-winners-of-our-the-ultimate-seduction-story-competition

Happy Sunday Mr Bear.

Thanks for the weekly story shout-out.

I’ll have a coffee and croissant please as I peruse the Sunday papers.

Cheers 😘♥️

I’d love a gin and tonic please… since it’s Saturday night.

Good luck everybody with the comp results tomorrow… I’ve really enjoyed reading them and hopefully the Rumps Regulars will feature strongly in the top 10.

Meanwhile I wrote another little micro tonight. Hopefully it will get published soon.

I may be awol for the next little while. Talk soon x

One of the authors hasn’t been on the site in over two years so it’ll be hard to ask her to remove my name.

Is this something that can be done by a moderator?

Hi,

is there any way to remove yourself from a story where you are listed as a contributing author?

i liked on the old site where you could hide coauthored stories but now you can’t.

I helped edit/proof read a few stories years ago and I don’t like seeing them on my story list.

Is there any way to get myself deleted from certain coauthored stories?

I had to delete a line between every paragraph with a direct copy and paste from google docs at the weekend.

I can’t get out of the habit so it’s just a manual pain in the ass between paragraphs every submission still for me but my lush experience is fairly fucked up anyway so might be fine for you.

I still don’t get notifications most times and I know lots of people don’t get notified of my stories… so the google docs delete pain is just another lush 2.0 joy to endure

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New Lush seems to have a similar wordcount discrepancy.

I'm drafting a micro. In the editor it's 98 words, which is correct, but when I click save draft it says 101. I've been trying to diagnose what the difference is by deleting things, but haven't figured it out yet. There are no dashes in the story.

Is it counting the words in the title or the one liner perhaps?

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I wrote a micro yesterday. I hadn't intended to, it just popped out as I was fixing Miss Pixel's supper. It is a subject I know nothing about and the votes seem to prove it -- a 4 in the first five minutes, a 3 in the first ten, and a 1 for breakfast this morning, my first ever. On the other hand, it has been read more times in ten hours than my last three stories combined. It really is tiresome trying to understand these things. Photographing birds is a lot easier. And more fun.

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Well there is nothing like a full set to show you can run the gamut of emotions.. Are you still waiting on a 2?

Yep, still waiting. Do you still get a gold Princess Plug when it happens? Might tempt me to have Miss Pixel vote it if you do.

Yep.. well it's gold-plated anyway... here's my favourite scoring chart.. that was a love it or loathe it story lol

Can I get a coffee and a beer... actually, hold the coffee.. I'll just have the beer.. and then another. it's been that kind of saturday. 

I see Mr Kite has dropped a story in the competition so I might just take my beer to the corner table and have a perusal

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I wrote a micro yesterday. I hadn't intended to, it just popped out as I was fixing Miss Pixel's supper. It is a subject I know nothing about and the votes seem to prove it -- a 4 in the first five minutes, a 3 in the first ten, and a 1 for breakfast this morning, my first ever. On the other hand, it has been read more times in ten hours than my last three stories combined. It really is tiresome trying to understand these things. Photographing birds is a lot easier. And more fun.

Every Other Thursday (no guarantees it will still be there by noon)

Well there is nothing like a full set to show you can run the gamut of emotions.. Are you still waiting on a 2?

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But without further ado (whatever that is), here are the

Latest Licentious Offerings by the Literarily Pretentious of Rumps Regulars:

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DeviantSusie – Washerwoman (Seduction)

KimmiBeGood – Desire (Masturbation)

AngelWorthy – A Wonderful Afternoon Treat (Micro)

KistinsPencil – Valediction (Micro)

KistinsPencil – Do Androids Dream of… (Micro)

TechGoddess – The Temptress (Flash)

DeviantSusie – Charlotte Sometimes - 10 - Let's go to Bed (Novel)

Fluttered – Trust (Micro)

LilCoffeeLuvr111 – A Woman Scorned (Micro)

Fluttered – Master of Her Dreams (Flash)

StarBelliedBoy – Doll Parts (Competition Entry)

Verity100 – My First Threesome (Threesomes)

Wet_n_Willing – Tasteful Sex (Micro)

Fluttered – Where Does Real Beauty Lie? (Love Poem)

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And there you have it, so have at it! This, plus reading the competition entries, should keep you busy for a while!

Take care, from da Bear!

Thanks James for posting this. It’s really useful for catching stories I’ve missed.

washerwoman is my entry into the competition. I was trying to write one for the StoriesSpace spooky company and a seduction one for here and in the end they kind of merged. Not sure if it was either seductive or scary but it’s here anyway. Cheers. I’ll have a beer since it’s definitely after 6pm 😃

I'll have a beer despite it only being Monday night.. but I finally got round to entering the comp so hopefully, my story will briefly grace the front page sometime tomorrow.

Can't believe it's November already

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I wanted to leave a comment on a story and got the following message:

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WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?

It means the writer of the story has disabled comments from men. Quite possibly unknowingly.

Thanks for your input. But, if the writer has blocked story comments from men, why not simply state that instead of the nonsensical waffle about upgrades?

it's a glitch, it happens every so often..it's incredibly irritating.. it's nothing to do with the author blocking comments, despite what some helpful posters might construe. If you try again later, it might work.. it might not... it's all part of the fun of the New World Order

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But it is but.

Not a big deal but I noticed the story count on my author badge seems to be stuck on 89 when I’ve published 94.

Also the competition top 10 badge has disappeared.

Just flagging it as the badges seem ok on some other peoples pages, not that I’m a badge whore, honest 💋

I’ve noticed the blocked category is very warped. I had blocked in v1 yet the two stories that have been parked on the front page for the last 6 weeks are visible and I can open them and read them but the link to the author is blocked. I can’t click on Shawnababy’s name to go to her profile. If I do go to her profile by another route, those two stories are not listed in her stories page.

Another thing to get fixed, no doubt

Is the listing for the competition entries based on views or what?

There doesn't seem to be any reason for the story order.

I preferred when it was date, that way, I could keep track of which ones I had read more easily.

Hey James, since it’s Friday night, if I futter my eyelashes, any chance of a double Jameson’s, no ice and just the tiniest splash of water?

It’s been quite a week. I popped a micro up today to check the editor. Double spacing is still an issue. Gotta love deleting a line between every paragraph. I also managed to submit it twice.. well two versions ended up in the queue heck I don’t expect most people to read one of my stories once, let alone twice.

I’m with Kimmi. Let’s drink more beer.

I always liked referring to Friday as POETS day. Piss off early, tomorrow’s Saturday.

Slainte 💋

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I quite like the fact that 'activity' shows you when people read your story. But from a reader perspective, that might be a bit creepy!

Where do you see that? Or do you mean the people that have looked at you Profile page? That's all I see besides friend's status posts

I don’t get that either but then my activity seems stuck unless a friend comments on another friends activity.

I posted a micro to check out the new editor. Sadly when I cut and pasted from google docs, every return in google docs became a double return so had to manually delete one between every paragraph. Just as well it was a micro 🙄

And I’m not having a go at any developers or mods in posting this, just feeding back that there is a glitch. I was using chrome on a laptop if that helps. 💋♥️

I quite agree with WWs idea and offer and said that a list without deadlines would be great. WW made very good reasons why a timeline isn’t a good idea. 

I do have faith, as I am constantly telling others as I try to convince them not to let their memberships lapse. 

I’ll keep quiet then as I don’t want to upset anybody. 

Slides onto the closest bar stool. 

Hi everyone, it’s been that kind of a week and it’s only toos-day so I’ll have a gin and tonic and make it a double. Not sure if Curvy is in here much these days but set a beer up for her anyway.  (Pint)

I miss the old pint emoji. 🍺 just doesn’t cut it. Probably just me being biased cos it looked like a pint of Guinness