I'm having serious fun with a hot teenage character who's teasing her boyfriend's dad. She's lively as all fuck, so if you like your erotica with lots (and lots) of seductive teasing, you should check out Pink.
Chapter 2 is awaiting moderation, chapter 3 is underway and chapter 4 is a sketch in my head. I wonder how far I can take this girl, hmm...
You could try recording it and using something like the free Audacity app to subtly pitch shift or time stretch the file.
If you do that, I would be tempted to record it directly into Audacity as a wav file to benefit from its lossless nature. Then export as mp3 (224 kbps minimum if you want to maintain the quality) in the final step
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I'm bashing away on a long-term collab.
And we finished it! Hope you like CTRL-Z: Love In The Time Of Anarchy. Bonus marks for figuring out who wrote which bits 
Wish I could undo the last nine months. Control-Z my stupid decisions until it was just us again. You and me versus the world.
Lesbian
Thank you for your generosity running challenges like this, Kimmi. It's hard coming up with a story bigger than 70 words. Stretches my creativity. ❤️
[Rain pic, obvs 😁]
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‘A chance of rain’?! Ha! He'd better be worth the wait.
I scan the crowds, deluge breaching my umbrella. There. Single rose. God, better than his profile pic. I quake at that dimply smile. Ridiculous behaviour, woman!
His baritone cadence undoes me. “Sorry. Meeting overran.”
Predatorially, he eyes my soaked, translucent dress. Boobs. Panties. “Let's get you out of these clothes.”
“Where?”
He points to an alley.
I drip.
Follow.
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Is the tech team wicked busy
This. And they won't be back in the office till Monday morning unfortunately.
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please keep it plausible.
Amen to this. It's what I strive for in my writing most of the time, even the sci-fi ones.
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How have you found writing from a female POV? ... Any tips or advice would be much appreciated!
It took a little practice but the main difference I find is to focus more on senses other than the visual.
As far as other tips go, read read read other works from that POV. I'm far from the best at it, but here are a few that you might be able to glean something from. Take your pick:
The Waitress (lesbian)
Where Angel Dared To Tread (hardcore)
Fucking With Art (by KimmiBeGood)
Learning The Hard Way (writing tutorial!)
Choices: Between A Cock And A Hard Place (noir lesbian)
The Five-Year Silence (seduction)
The Gift Of Leather (lesbian. Competition winner)
Contrast (flash bdsm)
Former Good Girl (flash bdsm)
That should give you some ideas. But I strongly urge you to seek out authors who can do it way better than me, and study how they construct the stories.
I expect there's a soft limit of 100 because nobody expected anyone to write more than 100 chapters in a series. I'll raise this with the tech team and see if they have any suggestions.
I'm bashing away on a long-term collab.
I wrote a story for the Punked competition a couple of years ago, and scrapped it days before the closing date. Sat the comp out because the story had transmogrified into a complex, boring mess of wiffle that had no real heart.
Codenamed CTRL-Z, it lay dormant for ages until I reread it one day. It was still shit. But there was an interesting idea about regret lurking deep inside it. About how choices affect those around us, and how people make decisions for what they think are the right reasons but turn out they're not. And yes, it had some hot lesbian sex scenes.
It was set in Australia and I'd sprinkled loads of Aussie slang in and a few half-decent lines, but it needed local knowledge to bring all the elements together and give it a sense of time and space. So I contacted CuriousAnnie and begged to see if she would be willing to rip it apart and make it good.
Gracefully, she did. And has.
It bears little resemblance to the original draft, and is shaping up wonderfully.
Our busy schedules have meant it's sat around idling for months between editing sessions, but I feel it's nearing something great. Well, when we fix the ending, settle on a title and add a decent cover image.
The original pic of a hot girl on a cool motorbike (which Sprite reliably tells me looks like a Street Triple), that inspired the idea of someone in a Mad Max kind of world at a crossroads, deciding whether to undo their mistakes—try again or carry on running—is shown here.
Really looking forward to publishing this.
Yes, FireFox desktop behaves like that for me too. My mobile browser (not FireFox) clears the notifications on click through to the post. No idea why FF doesn't.
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rolling around the bed, going line by line in a scene and doing what the character was as it was written to make sure it all worked
Method acting, ftw 🤣
Pulling people out of the story is a pet peeve of mine too. It includes plot and character inconsistencies, like someone repeating an action because the author was copying and pasting chunks around and left old parts in. And articles of clothing being removed twice, as mentioned above.
But more than that, inconsistencies in character voice can destroy a piece for me. That comes down to word choice in the prose or, especially, dialogue . You don't get many mid-fifties peeps saying they're glazing on Taylor Swift cos she's goated, for example.
I work hard to try and make sure my characters feel real, don't have eternal energy or do impossible things, and give readers an immersive experience. I don't always get it right.
Maybe a couple of deleted authors and it hasn't updated yet. Think it only refreshes at the start of each month. Not sure.
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didn't we also receive coins in the past for making it into the top ten? Is this still a thing?
That was a one- or two-off event recently because a kind benefactor sponsored the top 10.
Off-topic, but a cashless society also affects the homeless, widening the social divide. Donations to people begging will have to be in terms of "stuff" as they won't have a card reader. Charities too, like volunteers who sell poppies for war veterans, have to pay bank charges for taking donations.
A cashless society only plays into the hands of the rich, and the banks who charge per transaction. In their first month of trading, our new local greengrocer store had to fork out around £800 in bank charges for digital/tap transactions. They put an appeal out for people to please pay cash if they can (there's an ATM at the bank next door, for as long as that remains open). Thankfully, most have done so, meaning the grocers aren't frittering away takings to the bank, which keeps overheads and prices low.
Back on topic, as Susie says, the relative anonymity of cash is one of its major strengths. The day we lose that, one more power is stripped from the people.
Huge congratulations to the top 3 and everyone who bared their soul or in some way honoured Elliot by embracing their short-form creativity.
I managed to work my way up over half of them (some I haven't reached are in the top 10, d'oh) and there are some real gems in there.
That there was no shortlist demonstrates how much talent there is on this site, so everyone who entered should pat themselves on the back. And special thanks to the judges who had to read and rank every one.
Usual shouts out to Jen and the mods for keeping up with the deluge of entries, and everyone behind the scenes for keeping the site running. A superb competition.
Hmmm, I didn't realize the workflow was different depending on where you edited the story.
I was under the impression that as soon as you edit a story, a warning box pops up that it will be unpublished. At that point, it goes into your Drafts folder and needs resubmitting, as OF says.
If the popup box isn't showing when you choose Add a Cover, that should probably be addressed in some way to make it clear it will be unpublished and returned to your Drafts for you to resubmit.
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if there’s a top 100 list, there’s probably the entire author list ranked already, but just the top 100 displayed.
Absolutely. The number of authors to show is purely arbitrary. The decision to change that rests with the dev team and site owners.
What is far more taxing programmatically is calculating your rank compared to some other segment of authors to show on your profile.
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there are ways to present ranking information beyond just the straight number to avoid the demoralizing effect you mention...
Nice ideas there. If this has any kind of future, the trick will be in computing and comparing it in such a way that it doesn't bring the site to its knees.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of the best way to convert some score value snapshot into a rank text for displaying on your profile (and how often to update it) without slowing things down. It would have to compare your current score with the value from all other users, and slice/order them into tranches.
I can point the developers to this thread and see if anybody has any bright ideas.
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I created a spreadsheet and update it with my scores every once in a while to see how far below I am number 100.
Didn't realize this was a thing.
If it's something that interests a lot of writers then we should look at increasing its visibility or perhaps give some indication if you're getting close to the list, to spur you on. Maybe extend the top list a bit (250?). Or introduce a "rank" to show on people's profile, though it might be quite demoralising for a newish author to be shown as Rank: 16,384 or something!
Dunno.
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Here https://www.lushstories.com/top/authors?duration=all
(can find it at the bottom of the home page, under Useful Links)
... and on pages that don't auto-load endless content, thus never allowing you to reach the site footer 🙄
It is downplayed at the moment, tucked away in the footer there. Perhaps there's a way to give it more prominence as a link from the trending stories in each genre or something? Can't see any obvious place to add it, but there might be a way somehow with a little content rejig, perhaps...
Anything's possible but I don't know how much enthusiasm there'll be for extending it. I could ask.
Besides, keeping it at 100 gives those not on the list something to strive for and those on the list something to fight for 😃
(I'm currently only 75th so there's plenty of room for improvement)
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This link doesn't work?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Serious-Moonlight-Collection-J-Cain-ebook/dp/B0DV5RNN5X
Intriguing. Thank you. Swear I tried that and it didn't come up earlier. Fat fingers, sorry.
I definitely tried using the search on amazon.co.uk for "serious moonlight jg cain" and the full collection didn't show up, only (most of) the individual stories did, except chapters 11 and 14, before the list was exhausted.
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Must be a victim of that new 25% tariff on porn.
In England?! I hope not, but I wouldn't put it past the government. I suspect this is Amazon being all territorial, as they treat countries as silos.
.com != .co.uk
I often spend a considerable amount of time on cover art for my stories, so I appreciate when others do the same. And a good cover can influence, along with the title / strapline, whether I click through. But ultimately, I'm here for the words so any visuals should emphasize what I'm about to read.
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As end date approaches,
The poems keep flowing;
Full of fucking and sucking,
Cunts cumming and blowing,
Tales of Dommes, sluts and subs
And those tasty wet nubs,
Bi-curious and straight folks,
Daddy's girls and breeders,
But what we authors love most
Are our horny old readers.
Haha. Very nice. Can't say that mine fits into any of the above, but I think Hallmark might be giving me a call at some point!
Seeking strength in times of uncertainty
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Wonder what the justification for that is
No idea. But at the committee meeting, I suspect it will go along the lines of "anyone using a VPN must be conducting illegal business so let's block that traffic. All in favour, raise your hands... Good. Motion passed."
