I put down the silent patient probably four chapters in. Too wordy for me. I’ve since read another Ali Hazelwood (gonna be sad when I’m through all her books).
Now I’m reading Listen for the Lie, by Amy Tintera. A new author for me, recommended by my cousin. What a first fucking chapter! I don’t think I’ll be putting this down
I edit the fuck out of it before I submit, to the point where I usually don't love it anymore. It's a character flaw I guess lol. Once I'm sick of it I read it one last time, sometimes parts of it aloud because my eyes aren't working and the brain is barely braining. Then I hit publish and don't ever want to read it again. I even feel bad for the mod that has to read it.
I recommend getting sick of your work. You'll never recall it. 🤣🤣🤣
EDIT: I have had a story here for years, where the character never puts down the coffee mug but it's magically gone. I did actually reread it a couple years after I'd published it and just facepalmed. But no one else caught it and it lives on as a teaching lesson for me and makes me laugh when I think about it.
Toasting to Kat's brain and raising a glass to Issabela, who won an EP! Check it out!
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Brain scan was clear...still dealing with sinus crap, but all drinks are me today! 🍺🍷☕️😎
Brain scans can't find your crazy. 
❤️❤️ Aw, man, that's SO great to hear!
And here I was gonna complain that Rumps wasn't open this morning and I had to make my own coffee
More often than not these days, this world seems like it’s headed toward nothing but a hopeless dystopia. It’s what makes stories like Prison Planet intriguing and a bit unsettling. But somewhere in the cracks there’s always a rebellion starting to burn. Maybe even a shred of love.
And sex. Always sex. 😈
Congratulations on your EP, Issabela!
Amidst the surveillance state, two strangers find a shred of love.
Fantasy & Sci-Fi
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I will be having a brain scan on Monday to see if the sinus/tooth infection has spread into my brain. Tuesday I will have the root canal, Wednesday will be a temporary crown, then Thursday we will head to Miami and Friday we depart on a three-day cruise as a distraction from all this infection bullshit.
TGIF all y’all.
Omg girl. I mean, just take a vacation already. No need for all this to just get one *hugs*
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Just popping in to say hi and give a brief update in my sinus saga. The infection is in the root of the tooth next to where the one I had pulled in May was. We thought it was just one infected tooth. Scan now shows this one is infected too. So next Tuesday I will have a root canal and the next day prep for crowns. I also have an antibiotic mouth rinse that my doc prescribed. It never ends. Oh, and I already used my dental benefits for the year. So this is a big chunk of change out of my pocket. 😩 I will keep y’all posted. 🥰
have they tried to just give you antibiotics and see if it helps? Maybe it's something to try while wasting time until January, when you maybe have more benefits available? :/ I'm sorry sister. I hate the dentist. And bills.
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Another here is getting close. 😳
Although, for fun, 🙄 I am doing it the hard way, as I am writing a novel that links all but two genres I have left to write a story in. ATM: I have just Teen, Medical, and Mind Control to go, plus Cuckold – currently in the mod queue (first part).
I can’t see ATM on lush and read it as at the moment anymore
Ummmmm I’m editing an old story. It’s going slow af but I’m finally starting to like it. Hoping to get it out this month
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I love it!! I had a silly thought. I try to respond to everyone who takes the time to comment on my stories. Now if those “authors” who use AI were to use AI to respond?… I guess it's a possibility.
They aren’t really machines lol. And they’re actually typically very nice so it’s a real mind bender. Most of them could very likely write their own stories for real but they’re either too nervous or too lazy, I think.
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Unless you pay for the privelege of fast tracking, you may look at a new publication once a month. I am a non-member and have become increasingly frustrated with the wait time, as I have a lot of chapters to add to my existing work. I have been told that the moderators are all working free and in their own time and reviewing long submissions takes time. I get jealous when I see some of them publishing work every three days while I have to wait and wait and wait. So I have quit submitting any more stories on this site.
Boy! You’ve published three this month! Lol
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Glitch Awareness: New stories you add to an existing series aren't always slotted in the final position; your series might be ordered 1, 4, 2, 3 if you aren't paying attention. 😃
Boy, even the old ones from a completed series do this. THEY'RE ALIVE
lol seriously, just to be thorough, double check the series and edit them as needed to go in the right order. They're not gonna party once you've told them where to go, but they might bust out the booze (without sharing) if you add another story
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I have been adding some stories to my Actual Micro series. The newer ones go live right after I hit publish. Older ones (2020-2022) are sent back for re-moderation, though I have done nothing else to them. They got okay'd right away, but I don't want to bother you busy folks with my triviality.
Weird, I haven't seen one back in the queue for that yet. I just did a few of mine (early 2010s) to try to make super sure I wasn't going to be talking nonsense in this thread and checked the queue then, too. Let me know if it happens again. (I thought it happened to me once but it was just bc my dumbass forgot to hit the create option lol)
Also, to not confuse anyone reading, Kistin isn't talking about a real story of a billion micro chapters, just linking all her micros together so a micro person might chase all her micro stories quickly. 
Creating a series? If it's on an existing story, find that story and click on "edit." For a new story, you're already at the right place.
Scroll down the page to the "Series" box and write the name of the series. Click on "create" the series when the option pops up, then hit publish.
If you need to reorder the series, go to your stories, choose the series option, and edit.
Have fun!
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Morning, Rumpies!
Just a quick hello as I’m headed out for some twin time! We’re seeing the Taylor Swift movie this morning. One of us is decked out in Swiftie gear. The other is wearing a Chiefs tee.
I didn’t know she had another film out! It was good?
Water for me! I know, I know. SO BORING
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Does being an RR equate to a "Do Not Read?"
Scroll past your story on the RR page to look at others’ views and 🔥 and you’ll see this is def not the case, lol. Def check out WW’s advice. 🤗
And congrats on the RR!!
The Japanese woman had to pee very badly at my party.
Watersports Quote by fuzzy1954
Had to post this from 2010. I know I'm not the only one that misses him.
DirtyMartini
Purveyor of Poetry & Porn
26 Jan 2010
"Is this the place I heard has "Warm beer and cold women"???
Hmmm...give me a double bourbon with a bourbon chaser...it's one of those days...put it on my tab... "
Peace Shall Be Your Wings
Miss ya brother
☘️
Great guy. He was everywhere, even outside of here, and always helping connect writers to publications. The entire online writing community mourned him. May we all make an impression on the world like that.
Cheers to him
Hey, guys! Idk if anyone who needs this post is in the forum or will see this, but!! All categories except flash and micro require a minimum of 1000 words. Literally wait times are hard enough and I’d hate anyone to wait so long just to be told they didn’t write enough. 😣 I try to check for those and return them as soon as possible but save yourself (and us) the time. ❤️
I need to check in here more often—I missed an awesome discussion. I won’t dredge it from the dead now, but I did want to stop in and raise a glass to Klaus_B_Renner, who won his first EP!
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Years ago, I recall the issue of recording a sexual encounter without a participant's knowledge was a violation of the guidelines. Which would reasonably be considered a violation of the consent rules
However, I’ve read through the documentation and I don’t find a reference to that today. This is relevant because I’m writing a story currently where a person is videotaped and blackmailed to prevent them from committing further abhorrent behaviors
Y’all don’t come for me. It’s allowed. The sex itself has to be consensual, but it’s limited to that. It opens up the drama to blackmailing or whatever else might ensue in the plot.
If you’ve not yet read Riding the Ghost Train, you’re missing out. Don’t expect it to be comfortable—it’s not. Don’t expect pretty things or anything close to Disney. If you think you know what’s about to happen next, you don’t. The author, Klaus_B_Renner, said it best:
“It’s about the city that got buried. About the girls who didn’t make it out—and the one who did, and what she became. This story is soaked in sex, sweat, ghosts, ink, addiction, theft—and a kind of love that never learned to behave, or let go. It’s personal. Violent in its tenderness. Tender in its brutality.”
It lingers on in your mind after you’ve left it, like any good movie, show, or story. It's too complex, too nuanced to be summarized unless you write an essay about it, and ain’t nobody got time to read that. So read this.
