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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!

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.

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?