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.
Well I finally made it in.. not my usual run of the mill lesbian story..
I'm looking forward to finally reading all the other entires
A dead girl is found in a seedy hotel, a million pounds is missing but Detective Myra Harris still finds time to sleep with colleagues and suspects alike
Lesbian
“I love how Halloween brings out the slutty side of everyone,” Julie giggled, her hand brushing her boyfriend Chad’s hardening cock.
“It must be because no one knows who we are behind the masks,” she whispered, dropping to her knees.
It was as spurts of cum filled her mouth that Chad appeared in the doorway.
“Julie.. is that you?” looking from the identically dressed masked cowboy to the slutty vampire.
The AUP policy was highlighted in another thread...
"Anything illegal and contrary to the laws of England, Wales and Ireland, including (but not limited to!) the promotion, suggestion or allusion to ********** ***, **** or any non consensual acts, hard drugs or any other kind of illegal activity."
How can you write a whodunnit story if you cant allude to any kind of illegal activity?
Are all the competition entries in contravention of the Acceptance Use Policy?
Hi John,
Any idea why the AUP has the laws of England, Wales and Ireland? It seems an unusual combination.
"Anything illegal and contrary to the laws of England, Wales and Ireland, including (but not limited to!) the promotion, suggestion or allusion to ********** ***, **** or any non consensual acts, hard drugs or any other kind of illegal activity."
If the AUP means UK law, I believe England and Wales share a common legal system. Scotland has its own laws and Northern Irish law is different again.
Ireland however has an entirely separate legal system as it hasnt been part of the UK for over 100 years.
I really like making the covers. It usen't to matter because you only saw the cover once you clicked the story after the author, genre, title or byline had brought you in but now the covers are seen on the storylists, a strong visual can entice. Though I have been put off clicking on stories where the cover puts me off before even reading the byline or genre.
So i guess good covers help, bad covers hinder. Theres no excuse for bad covers now the cover designer is so user friendly.
Looking back, i hate some of my old covers so might have to update them
No, some are platinum, some are not. And Platinum is supposed to show last online 2 hours ago while you are 'hidden online'. One of the platinum members that it says hasn't been online for days doesn't have the hidden option set. The one who it says hasn't been on in a month isn't platinum.
Just to double clarify... it has to start with the crime and then the story is about revealing who did the crime.. is that correct??
It cant be about the planning and then execution of the crime?
Just in the past, some mods sent stories back cos they didnt gave a wish yet other stories didnt have a wish and there was all sorts of bad feeling at the results announcement so want to ensure there is no ambiguity here
I came to lush for the chat as some site i had been on had just been pulled.. endd up trying my hand at writing.. my first story was rejected and never saw the light of day.. i never considered myself a writer and just wrote the sort of stories that turned me on.. somehow along the way, i achieved all the goals MC1982 mentioned so perhaps my race is over and I've completed the game 🤷♀️
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The ' mechanics' of the subject area here probably do have a point at which most variables have been exhausted, The creativity around those mechanics? I think and hope not.
I agree. I love the build up, the scene setting, the world description, the why the are doing it. Sometimes I wonder if I need the 'insert cock A into pussy B' and 'insert cock A into Mouth B' bits which read as rather mechanical.
Like Kimmi, I enjoy the darker side of the street with questionable morals as it provides more plot potential than the Miles & Boom type stories that I've never been very good at. Or maybe I just love the conflict and the drama.
I voted to keep but but having heard the arguments I'm happy for it to be deleted.
It always struck me as an unnecessary category for the Omnium and a throwback to a gentler age before likes and coins became the obsession du jour.
I'll happily move my short novel to teen and perhaps reevaluate individual chapters later.
Keeping a lock reminds me of the vault.. an equally bizarre and now redundant idea.
Welcome to Fahrenheit 451.. novels? Right this way lol
I noticed the new look with the story cover showing on the home page and all the story pages. It looks great.
However I noticed some have a grey box. This seems to be any image which isn't the correct size 768 x 1200 pix or made using the cover editor.
Will all stories need to be reverified if I go in and fix them/resize them?
I thought we could have real life characters as long as they are long dead.. e.g. I wrote a story about a time traveller shagging the painter Degas in 19th century Paris. Other stories from other authors include long dead royalty and such like. I know fan fiction isn't allowed but if they've been dead so long they are out if copyright (70 years) isn't that OK?
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Readers won’t commit to more than 10K at a time. I should know…my attention span is short.
Micro word limits aren’t ignored. The word counter you see is different from the word counter mods see.
I just don’t see the need to eliminate a category that has more pages of stories than many of the other genres. If writers choose to put their stories there and don’t feel like they are getting enough attention, they can change their genre. But, personally, I’ve been happy with my feedback on Mac and Grace stories. If something isn’t broken, why are we trying to fix it? Eliminate it as a requirement for Omnium if it’s such a big deal. But many writers write multi-part stories with only a few parts to satisfy checking off that box. I don’t see this as an issue.
Exactly. If too many categories is an issue, put facesitting back into oral sex, put strapons back into toys, put uniforns and medical back into occupations.
If its about making the Omnium easier, remove it as a requirement and give them an Omnium Lite badge.
I always found the Novel category nonsensical as you can put a stand alone story of 2k words in it and leave it at that, so it's not a novel. There have even been top 10 competition entries labelled as novels which were just a stand alone story.
Looking back through the Novels category, there are quite a number where even with chapters the whole lot doesn't amount to more than one decent length story.
I also agree it's a miscellaneous category.
But I would also say that there is a proliferation of other categories which are nonsensical too. What is the point of Occupations.. it is as scattergun as novels. Do people camp out there?
I do think readers attention spans have decreased. I don't know how many have the patience to read 15, 20 chapters or more. I certainly saw my readership drop off as the chapters continued.
For it to really mean something, it should be like a series award, it gets awarded and moved into that category when the novel is finished, not when you've submitted chapter 1 but that's not going to work so I voted to keep it as is.
