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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?

No, not exactly....two people met through me and later married. Unfortunately, she was married to someone else st the time! 🙄

Have you ever done a pilgrimage?

Yay (mostly!)

Tennis or soccer?

I've got some 'true' stories in my 'Sexual autobiography" series. And yes, there is an element of artistic licence. But they are not purely invented. Did every move and position change happen exactly as I wrote it? No, honestly. Did the night in question happen? Yes it did! I really have dabbled in facials and given blowjobs in cars and had sex at work.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for me to write a totally fake story about me being gang-banged by six well-hung Black men, or my brothers, and I know that would get a ton of likes and clicks, but it's never happened, so I'm not doing it. My true stories are, basically, true, if not word for word true.

I submitted my cross dressing story today, so I just have to do steampunk to have written in every genre in Lush...(unless I've miscalculated, which will be very embarassing!) I'm looking forward to not writing tp genre any more tbh. Omnium has been a bigger slog than I'd thought😅

I.S.S. It has a great idea; Nuclear war breaks out between Russia and the US on Earth. The astronauts on the space station have to take sides, but pretend they are still on the same team. But the film doesn't do the premise justice.

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Thank you all for your hard work❤️. I sent in a story last Thursday and I was wondering when it might get approved? Thank you again.

I looked in the queue but I couldn't see your story, which means someone has locked it for review!

As a mod, based on my experience, I'd like to offer two tips to get your story passed quicker: 1. Proofread it yourself using grammarly or ms word. It costs nothing and saves both you and the moderating team time. 2. Keep stories under 4k words. Moderators have jobs and lives and limited time for a site they volunteer to help on. A 10k word story takes a long.time to read and a mod is more likely to pick up and pass four 3k stories in an evening than one 10k.

No.

Hye tried something you read about on Lush stories in real life?

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I find it a little hard to believe its that random. I thought there was some review and consideration for content and reader response incorporated into that decision. But I guess this is a... "fair" way to do it? Complete luck of the draw seems a little wild to me. Maybe i'm just old fashioned and silly.

I think Sprite was joking

I'm nearly done with a short crossdressing story based on a real historical figure, leaving just one more to do to achieve omnium. I also had a trawl through the Lush forums yesterday to see if I can find an interesting question for a chapter in my sexual autobiography!

None, I've never been, unfortunately.

Reading this to see if I've experienced any of these in real life!

Wow, thank you very much!

And thank you for your generous sponsership, Kimmi and family. Congratulations LYFBUZZ, James Llewellen and Cliff_edger!

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So much for the break, they won't be here, but last night I got two ideas for fanfiction.

Hi, mod here. I'm sure your ideas are fun and creative, but they won't be for Lush stories....we don't publish fan fiction here. I don't want you to set your heart on a project that won't be suitable for this site!

Thanks Kimmi! These are always fun!

I overdid it in 2025. There's no getting around it. A lot of male meat passed through my lips and my hands this year. I made my NY resolution: 

“I will not see or touch more than three cocks this year.”

It was going really well. I met a nice guy, we were great in bed, and I was dropping unsubtle hints I wanted something serious.

Alas, the chicken farm sent me a job offer.

In case you've read all the great advent entries and you fancy a bit more Christmas-themed reading,

here's a collection of my Christmas tales from over the years! You'll find Mr. and Mrs Claus, the three wise men, a corrupted nun and all sorts of silliness!

(For what it's worth, I reckon 'Oh come let us adore him' is the best one I've written)

Merry Christmas to the Lush community and thanks for reading my stories!

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/microfiction/naughty-or-nice-3

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/swingers/get-your-claus-into-me

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/gay-male/oh-come-let-us-adore-him

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/first-time/caga-tio

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/fantasy-sci-fi/sister-noelias-christmas-visitation

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-stories/heavenly-peace

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/microfiction/my-daughters-true-love-gave-to-her