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P.S. I know I'm being simplistic in my bell curve analogy because there's no sensible way to grade content from bad to excellent, and there are different types of content (reference, factual, literature, poetry, journals, magazines, science fiction, romance, etc) all with different parameters and usages. But the fact remains that, however the AI is trained and slices and dices the entirety of human content, each slice/genre will statistically contain well-written and not-so-well-written content. The engine gobbles it all up and doesn't know which is which, then regurgitates the average when it's asked to help. People who are below average will get a boost, people who are above average will have their work diminished if they let it meddle. And the result when the "new" works are published is likely to include more content centred around the median for the engines to consume...

It's like kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron. Stiffle individuality and difference until everything is the same. What a depressing thought.

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That's really how these tools should be used and I don't think that's a problem. Frankly, though, these tools are not perfect and I rigorously use the "Ignore" option when I know they are wrong. One worry I have with these tools is that they enforce a particular set of rules and styles when language is, and should be, more fluid than that. They can discourage artistic license and developing one's own style in favour of a bland homogenization of language (which is also my concern about AI writing tools, really).

Exactly Seeker. The few times I looked at Grammerly it wanted to rephrase sentences in such a way it distorted the meaning i was trying to convey.

I write in Hiberno-English which AI bots of whatever colour or creed don't understand. At least when the mods send a story back I can try to argue the case as to why it is acceptable writing.

End of the day, this is a site for amateur writers, it's not the Booker Prize.

The whole use of recommending AI apps intrigues me.

There's a thread in this section of the forum about not using AI and Jen states that Lush is for writers who learn the rules of grammar and horne their craft yet gramercly and Quillbot are being pushed... despite Quillbot being described as

" an online tool that helps people reword and rewrite sentences, paragraphs, and even whole documents. It uses advanced artificial intelligence algorithms. The tool can help improve your writing skills by suggesting more natural and polished language.

In addition to being able to paraphrase, QuillBot also has a built-in thesaurus, a grammar checker, and a summarization tool that can help users improve their writing."

I don't think Quillbot should be used any more than chatGBT. If an AI app is going to rewrite sentences to make it read better, then it's part author. Perhaps anyone using Quillbot should name it as an additional author?

I've found a huge inconsistency in the moderation. I read stories with glaring typos in the one liner or throughout the story and then some of my stories get sent back for ridiculous reasons. But this is completely understandable as we have mods from different languages and cultures. I had one story returned because I said the girl was middle class and the American mod thought I meant middle school which was underage.

Anyway, just send it to Sprite for resubmission is what I took from this thread.

I find the comma police can be over zealous though to the point where its hardly worth resubmitting.

I've never come across grammerly only allowing 3 corrections but I find gramerly wants to offer corrections that changes the nuance and meaning of the sentence. Grammerly seems obsessed with commas.

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Hi How do I create a chapter for my story?

Create a series at the bottom of the submission page.. then when you write the 2nd chapter, type in the series name.. if they go in the wrong order you can reorder them from your own stories page

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I already had coffee over at the blue site, but I'll grab a donut or two here. You guys have better pastry chefs than the blue site!

Anyway, Kimmie and a few others were pushing me in the comments section to enter my tiny little story in the comp, so I fleshed it it out and did. Don't let the pretentious title of Leviathan fool you. It's short and hopefully hot.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/flash-erotica/shard-211-leviathan

Sorry for only showing up when I want to pimp a story. That's rude, and I will try to do better. I'm just not around here much anymore.

Cheers everyone!

Yay.. glad you entered

I become attached to a lot of my characters, they come to life because I put a little of myself in them along with traits I find attractive.. having said that, after 15 chapters I killed off one of my favourite characters in a bomb explosion.. so not too attached lol

Look at you with your fancy schmancy macros.. I did a word count, made a copy and then deleted all the text not in quotation marks.. 53.4% was left so I just about made it over the boundary wall.... the cuckold category is somewhere I don't venture too often but well, it is a competition.. it's called I'm Home for those who fancy a dander.. and by the way, the double dose of French filth was a very distracting start to my day I can tell you.

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Yeah, I guess formatting issues would be a nightmare for the mods.

But still...an X-rated play!

Go the whole hog and do it in film script format. .courier font, 12 point, centred for dialogue, left aligned for scene descriptions, caps for location.. yeah I can see why the mods mightn't be too gung-ho for that 🤣

Oh I'm excited but I'm such a refined girl I don't know how if I can quite dirty talk without blushing hehehe. Looking forward to this one though it is a challenge as I like to paint a cinematic landscape. Keeping it dialogue heavy will be tough but hey.. as Osgood said, "nobody's perfect."

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Hi, is 512x800 still the requirement?

I'm working on my first submission. Found a good image on DeviantArt that is creative commons.

The image when resized to 512 wide is shorter than 800 high but that leaves room on a 512x800 canvas to add both the artist credit and the CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 notice, both required for Creative Commons image use.

Is that okay to do? I'm hoping to submit the story with cover image before the end of June. Intellectual property rights are important to me so I have to follow the rules when using a Creative Commons image and would rather they be text on the image file itself, in the resulting top/bottom white margin from fitting it onto a 512x800 image.

I can do bold sans-serif which survives a resize better.

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Unrelated Side Note - "The Once and Future Kink" is a great title, I'm going to have to find it, the book the title parodies was a favorite in my youth.

There is a good cover creator now in lush that let's you design the cover bringing in an image and choosing a font from their selection. You can resize/crop the image to fit best and add whatever text you want. You just click on the add cover box in the page where you are writing the story

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Big News in Rumpland!

Our very own Bearkeep has joined the Millionaires Club! Meaning he has accumulated over a million reads on his stories! Only 81 authors have received that badge! Go Bear!

And he’s receiver the Pied Piper badge for over 500 followers!

Put his seals on my tab tonight, please! 😊

Congratulations, James.. nice to meet a Millionaire lol.. I'll have a coffee to go.. can't wait for the end of term ❤️

I need my eyes tested. I thought this was a question about titties... my bad x

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I can't believe how many people said no! You did mean sex in a car and not sex with a car, right?

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As a writer working on omnium now, can I second the objection to watersports? I got around by making it a story within a story... The really was a fantasy. But watersports? Ewwww! I'm holding my nose and doing a very silly entry that I hope will be OK. I do find I only write hot stories in scenarios I find hot and you can usually tell when my heart isn't in it🙄

I found Love Stories and Mind Control the hardest categories... the Omnium really pushes you. Thankfully you don't have to do

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Amusingly watersports was the first category I wrote on Lush, back before my comp years and I was invisible LOL to everyone except those who like that kind of thing. I think the hardest categories for me are gonna be Humor, Cos I don't think I'm that funny, but if I binge watch enough sitcoms and stand-up I might stumble upon something, and then the True category, mostly because of my actual experiences are not all that great, that's probably why I write so much, cos my fantasies are more satisfying than any awkward attempts at doing things with people for real. I may ask for a friend's consent to share one of their true real-life stories since I think you are able to write stories about other people as long as they are true, so they don't exactly have to happened to you.

I changed location, names and possibly with the passage of years and alcohol involved my true story was probably exaggerated for effect..

Humor is so subjective I wouldn't worry too much..

Good luck with it all x

Welcome back and congratulations on rejoining the Omnium club x

When you go to submit the story, it goes to preview mode first. Is the erratic spacing visible then? Can you go back and fix it then or does it only appear once you submit finally?

No, sadly not. They took all the stats that assisted authors away.

You have to go to your stories, then search.. and go through the genres one by one and see which ones are empty.

Good luck with getting the Omnium back... you probably are only missing the facesitting.. I had to write in that to get my Omnium back too x

I was wondering the same.

There's a Millionaires Club for a million story views so they must be counting them somewhere

I think this would make a great film.. supernatural with celtic undertones Leanan about a muse who takes your life in exchange for creativity..

I think quite a few of my stories would make good films. i tend to write visually.. with actions rather than emotions.. I think absinthe makes the heart grow fonder would make a great movie too.. time travel.. love.. artists, Paris.. it's got it all really

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Does anyone know if it is possible to create a series link retrospectively? I've read the thread above and can't find any blue boxes anywhere. I tried going via the edit story function but that sends an already-approved story back to the moderators creating unnecessary work.

Those instructions were all for the old site. Now, you just go back to edit the story, add a series title at the bottom. You can reedit the stories in the series via the stories page on your profile. Just click on the series button, choose the series you want to reorder and move them up or down.

Congratulations WW, your story was sizzling and certainly the clear winner. Congrats to everyone on the shortlist. A true bakers dozen of depraved filth and I’m chuffed to be among them. 🥂

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Huh? I'm not really understanding the whole "first step in an acknowledgment that Lush is more than just the stories." When have we not acknowledged as much? As far as I'm aware, we've always acknowledged that Lush is about more than just stories, with stories being the heart of the site, which is why they take centerstage in branding.

People typically come for the stories and stay for the community. We have moderators dedicated to the many facets of this site (story moderators, chat moderators, forum moderators, group moderators). The communal aspect of Lush, in my opinion, is what sets us apart from other smut story sites, so it'd be pretty counterintuitive on our part not to acknowledge that Lush is more than just the stories. It's something we've always done since before the switch to the new version of Lush.

Switching to just "Lush" dismisses the identity of this site that's rooted in stories. Not to mention, it'd be a shot in the foot because just Lush is a thriving (yet in my opinion shitty and overrated) cosmetics brand. No sense in fighting for our identity when we already have one, which is why that's not happening. As noted above, it was no more than a blip.

I was trying to be diplomatic but exactly. The stories should be the heart of the site and I was worried that just calling it Lush forgets that. Thanks for putting it so eloquently

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Bear: are you working with a publisher now? And cover’s grand! My preference is “Bear and Girl” title, but I know nothing of book sells. I liked simplicity of it as I view it as a soothing adult bedtime story.

One tiny comment on cover… gorgeous, but your name crossing his nose bothers me. Keep in mind, I’m visual creature. Just keeps drawing my eye there.

So happy for you!

I’d agree with Kimmi. Congratulations and the cover is fine but I’d centre the bear and scale it down a little so the nose is above the text. I’d probably go for a sans serif or slab font but that’s just me. The font you have points to a classic or more delicate story than the ones I write.

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IMO it makes complete sense to have a reduced logo for smaller screens, especially as the white on red can sometimes be straining on the eye. For a long time, it just read "LS" on phones and smaller tablets.

We all know which site we are on, so why withdraw something which makes smaller interfaces more streamlined?

People rarely call it "LushStories" when onsite and refer it to "Lush", so the shorter header also reflects that.

It was a cosmetic change which makes sense. If it's to be withdrawn because three people think Lush isn't about the stories anymore, they might aswell change the header to "LushStories.com" to remind the handful of people that keep referring to an app that it's indeed a website. 🤷‍♀️

I’m sorry if I come across as a paranoid delusional but I feel since the move to lush 2.0 there has bern more interest and development in the other aspects of the community here than in the stories. In my original post, I merely questioned if this rebrand on mobile devices was the first step in an acknowledgment that Lush is more than just the stories. If it is, that’s fine but be honest about it. You might vote Tory but you are still voting for the Conservative Party so you might refer to Lush but people still publish their stories on lushstories.

This was what the header looked like a couple of days ago so doesnt look like a space saving issue the lush is the same size just the stories is missing

On safari on ios

Top banner and footer

Take it to the graveyard. Dig up a freshly dug grave and leave the body on top of the coffin lid. It’ll be easy to dig as it’s just been freshly filled in. Fill it in. No pile of disturbed earth to give it away and nice and deep to keep carrion away. I read it in a book. The blokes who did it couldn’t keep quiet and blabbed about it down the pub so got caught. So remember not to tell people how clever you are.. sssh 🤫