A friend and my husband. But my last story imagines a whole family of secret, closeted Lush writers!

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/incest-fantasy/all-in-the-family-4

I have a whole series of true stories! They're based on questions and chats on the forums.

No.1 in series, and popularity, is https://www.lushstories.com/stories/true/the-sluttiest-thing-ive-done!

Wannabe Wordsmith has some great titles; https://www.lushstories.com/stories/lesbian/choices-between-a-cock-and-a-hard-place

And, of mine, the Three Wise Men star in https://www.lushstories.com/stories/gay-male/oh-come-let-us-adore-him

So now my new one is up. It's pretty silly, hopefully fun and if you are put off by IF, all I'll say is they are just writing about it, not doing it, for what it's worth!

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/incest-fantasy/all-in-the-family-4

So I need a new project, I haven't done a series for a long time and I think I'm going to try my idea about a euro coin that gets passed from person to person and sees sexual scenes across the continent!

I sent my new story to the mods!

I don't know if it's the best, but it is definitelly the most outrageous story I've written on Lush!😅

Doubly glad: Dronette56, who is one of my favourite Lushites as both writer and mod, wins. Congratulations, Genny!

And my first placement in a comp!😀

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Thanks for reminding me. Anyone else nervous?

Not really. Honestly, I don't really enter to win, I just enjoy the challenge!

Oh results day!😎

Playing with an idea I had about a family of four, all of whom are secret contributors to Lush, reading each other's work without realising it. Whether or not the secret is let out of the bag and how, I haven't decided yet but it's quite fun to write!

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Oooh another one in the prestigious club. Yay, congratulations on this achievement.

Thank you, WW! It's been my goal for a long time, so I need to plot my future Lush goals now it's done!

Muchas gracias, Kimmi!

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Got it. Next time I'll share directly before submitting. Still learning about even the basics of this site.

Hi! Welcome to Lush! Moderator here. So, you have to press the 'publish' button which will appear when you save your story. Then it will join the moderation queue, be read by a moderator and hopefully approved. It may be sent back to you if it has content deemed unacceptable...non consent and underage characters are the most common reasons for this.

One way you can help your story and the moderators is to run a simple grammar and spell check on your story before submitting it to us. We do reject stories that are riddled with mistakes, and it doesn't cost writers anything to proof read their work. Good luck with your writing!

Final editing of my steampunk tale, which (I've now double checked) gets me the omnium.

The plan is to get it up on the fifth of May, which is the four year anniversary of publication of my first Lush story!

Then march to my next goal, millionaires club! I'm about halfway there but I've learned the system now and know the dark arts of Lush clickbait so hopefully the second half million will be quicker!

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Hi, guys! I am not familiar with the criteria for judging in the story writing competition, as it is my first. But I must say, whoever is judging the entries, they will have a difficult time. Many stories are equally beautiful, sensual and powerful. So glad that I get to read more entries this week.

Have a look at this, it explains the judging process!

https://www.lushstories.com/forum/welcome-to-lushstoriescom-site-guidelines-help/lush-stories-competition-judging-process

Can I add a recommendation? A writer called Timothy Hickson has three books called "On writing and worldbuilding." They are really well written and have lots of great advice!

I've finally cracked the steampunk tale that will complete omnium for me, and thank God because I'm tired of writing to genre! Beyond that, I've got an idea for a short series about either a family or a group of colleagues who all write Lush stories but don't know about each other's secret double life of smut.

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Hello! May I ask: How many days does it take to approve a competition entry?

I submitted mine yesterday. I hope it's not too late! ๏_๏

If it arrives in the story queue before the deadline, you're fine. The deadline is for submission, not publication.

This is an aspect of Lush I've tried and failed to understand! Obviously, what a writer thinks is their best work is as subjective as what they think other people's best is...I think A Christmas Carol was Dickens best, but he thought it was David Copperfield.

Let's be honest, you can game the system by loading it with certain tags....if, anal, first time etc.

I thought this tale of an old man growing obsessed with his actress neighbour deserved more love, but if I'd finished it in time and entered it to the obsession comp I wrote it for, it probably would have, so thats on me! https://www.lushstories.com/stories/voyeur/the-girl-in-killer-rabbits-from-hell

This one is my personal favourite and is sort of mid table in terms of engagement. Take a trip back to ancient Egypt with https://www.lushstories.com/stories/historical/takabuti

Now my elements comp emtry is up...

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/fantasy-sci-fi/a-voyage-to-lushland

I'm trying to think of something interesting for my 4 year Lush anniversary, which is coming soon!

My entry was posted today! A naughty tribute to the site and a riff on Gullivers travels!

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/fantasy-sci-fi/a-voyage-to-lushland

I'm whizzing through my comp entry and should have the first draft done by tonight!

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With my Element competition published, by the way, that took me past three-quarters of a million words published on LushStories. I am currently working on 'Cash in Hand – 12', the final story in the series before I take a hiatus from writing about JJ, John, William and Earnest, the older lecherous men.

My next story after that will be in the Supernatural genre. A story I have been carrying around in my head for three years, as it is the one I wanted to finish my omnium badge with. Not sure when that will be written, as I'm not going to rush it, but it will be different!!! 😈

I am also reading all the comp entries, giving them a comment and a like. 😜😎

Wow can you tell how many words you've written? How?

Still trying to think of an idea that fits 'steampunk', my last genre for omnium (I think). Crickets, so far! 😢

Abandoned my first idea for the competition. "A stunt actors challenge to have sex in/under earth, wind, water and fire" was just too silly!

I've had a bit of a Lush holiday recently, but the competition may be my cue to jumping back in. Interesting theme!

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What is the point of singling out this category only?

Because, unlike all the other categories, it involves matter that may be triggering for abuse sufferers.

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I wonder if they are open to competition suggestions. Mine would be: Every story starts with the same line like, "It was a dark and stormy night" or something to that effect and go from there. Or start a competition where only one category is used.

There's a thread for competition ideas somewhere but it might be on one of the moderators only ones, I'm not sure.

Theres one roughly one every three to four months. I think (and hope!) one is due fairly soon.

Still totally idea free re. Steampunk, the last genre aI have to do. I might wait to see what the next comp is.

Definitely.

Have you ever been to a big professional sports event?