Fair enough. Maybe it should have been clearer in the rules then.
In that case does the word have to be pumpkin or can it be any other member of the Cucurbitaceae family?
Or since pumpkin carving came from Europe and they didn’t have pumpkins there and carved jack o’lanterns from turnips or swedes can turnip be used instead? Or turnips even.. or neeps?
Noticed a few with ‘pumpkins’ too.
Are they disqualified since they can’t read the rule or does that go by the way too?
Just thought it better to get this clarified now since the debacle with the Debauched competition where some stories were sent back to be rewritten as they didn't have a wish while others were allowed without a wish and it created all kinds of bad feeling so rules were going to be clearer in future I think was the decision from Nicola at the time.
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remind me to send you coins for name-checking Jello Biafra.
met him once, btw. REALLY nice guy. and smart. DKs still get played here at Casa de sprite. them and The Ramones. \m/
DKs and The Ramones.. did I ever tell you I'm in love with you? 😘❤️
This site is getting worse. Yeah it’s on the list to be fixed yada yada yada
I have notifications I click on done I get more I have none. Make up your fucking mind. I can’t choose what sort of notifications I get. It’s all or nothing.
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I'm getting to an age where I find myself increasingly irritated by people screwing up perfectly fine things in the name of novelty and progress. I find the free open-access nature of Lush Stories part of the appeal. We're a community of amateur writers sharing our work freely with each other. Monetizing that would introduce a commercial aspect to the site which I think would undermine its charm and community-mindedness. If you want to be paid, there are other sites (a big one starting with the letter A, for instance) where you can self-publish and sell your work.
I love the bluntness and directness of this. I hated the idea of lush coins from the start. I saw it would be used to buy things other than tip authors but lush management think that’s ok and use coins however you want.. it’s just another example of Jello Biafra’s song That’s Progress
I never said I was a poet but I did have fun writing this…
https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-poems/songs-of-love
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So, real life question: I just used the sentence, "Don Henley is on the radio, singing about rebels being rebels." Think I can get away with it? It's nearly a direct quote of the song.
Yes, otherwise any sentence could be argued as a song quote...
If the wife in a story asks her husband to fix the tap in the bathroom and he says "as Jarvis sang, I'll see what I can do." Is that using a song quote? as "I'll see what I can do" is a line from Common People by Pulp.
If that is viewed as not allowed then we might as well give up.
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i am trying to use the new cover image. i go in there and upload my image. Add the text so it shows right. i go to save, and there is a button that says Save to Story. i clicked on it and it says it's building template It takes a few seconds, then stops. There is no cover image in my story.
i go back in and click on the cover image, and it's there but doesn't show in profile mode or edit mode. I clicked on Save as New Template, and it's been thinking for well over five minutes. maybe ten.
I find this issue if I go to an already published story without an image and click on the add cover picture banner at the top.
I make the image and click save but it puts me back in the story as published.
I then have to go to edit story again and click on the add cover image and select the cover image that i had made.
This confused me the first time I did it
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I have just a few media items I can use thus am unable to be creative with my covers due to so few choices. I have reached my limit of media items since I am not a member.
With the lush cover editor, you can use the external link to link to the url of an image not in your media library and then add the text over the top
Well I’m working on a bank robbery story with a touch of cyber crime and lesbian domination and seduction. It’s only at first draft stage so might be finished by Christmas lol
Other than that… I’ve been trying to write micros inspired by an image rather than spending ages searching for the image to suit the story. My latest, Pink Ribbons was published yesterday.
The Lush cover designer works really well. There is a good range of fonts and the drop shadow and lift options really help the text stand out.
Slides into the bar stool and smiles at Bear…
I hope we’re not going to fall out.. but Ireland are playing Canada in the World Cup in under 3 hours time. Sadly it’s too early for a beer so I’ll have to make do with a coffee.
I tend to go for different styles of cover depending on the story... often moody black and whites, sometimes with a splash of colour but I try to convey a part of the story but not always show gratuitous amounts of flesh
Well it's the beginning of the Woman's World Cup today -Thursday if you're in Australia- and just the small matter of host Australia's opening game against Ireland.. with Canada also in the same group along with Nigeria, it's the group of Death.
No doubt CuriousAnnie will be supporting the Matildas but I've my fingers crossed for the girls in green.
I'll have a beer while I'm waiting
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I’ve only in the past few months started submitting cover images with my stories. Echoing both WBWS and Susie, I plan to start adding them to at least a few of my earlier stories.
Are the Mods prepared to deal with an increase in the number of submissions as we all do this? Also, if we update historic Comp entries (even my Noir entry lacks a cover), will they be removed from the official competition list because they have been updated?
I've updated quite a few covers and the Mods do it very fast as they aren't rereading the story, just checking the picture doesn't break the ToS. I always put a note to the Mods to say I'm just adding a cover pic.
No, you don't lose anything.. all comments, likes and entries into competitions stay as is.
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The popular story carousel is just the first step in using covers more widely across the site. Maybe in future, as adoption of covers becomes more commonplace, the covers will appear alongside the excerpt information in story lists. So don't be too hasty in deleting them
I think having the carousel on the front page would help the uptake of covers. If your story is sitting there with a greyed out box you’d be more inclined to make a cover.
If the reason for the portrait cover has been communicated at the time rather than letting people bitch about it for a year, there’d have been less resistance and people would have more readily been designing covers to suit the new template in my opinion.
I love the idea of an Amazon type layout with cover and one liner. It would make people put more effort into both
I do this the popular stories stay on the front page for too long. A month seems excessive. In the old lush the popular list changed quite frequently
But that’s just my opinion x
And another.. possibly one of the greatest most underrated love songs of the 1980s
Sneaks in and puts a quarter in the jukebox. Seems appropriate given the weather here in Ireland…
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Don't quote me on this but I assume the reason for enforcing the portrait format is that, one day, the various front page and category story lists might incorporate covers too. Maybe even as a grid with title, one liner and cover pic, like browsing Amazon and other bookseller websites. Who knows.
And as if by magic.. it happens.. love the carousel of cover images on some of the categories... makes me want to go back and redo some recent cover images properly now 😀
Did you start this thread just to tell us your rubbish story ideas?
Generally the ideas I don’t write are shite. I don’t think people want to read those.
If you are harvesting for ideas, there’s easier way to find ones.
There seems to be an inverse correlation between popularity and what might be termed quality. Competition winnng stories don’t often warrant more than 1000 views and there are not many recommended reads and editors picks amongst the highest viewed and scored stories.
Just an observation
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Don't quote me on this but I assume the reason for enforcing the portrait format is that, one day, the various front page and category story lists might incorporate covers too. Maybe even as a grid with title, one liner and cover pic, like browsing Amazon and other bookseller websites. Who knows.
Now that’d be a gallery worth browsing rather than the recycled porn gifs that clutter it up at the minute
It’s a shame they made the cover image so small on the screen and only portrait. I used to love making cover pics.
Algorithms choosing stories to feature based on a cover pic seems nuts when we don’t see a cover pic until we open the story. By that stage it’s too late to attract attention and I’ve never not read a story just because the cover pic wasn’t enticing.
The algorithm suggested one of my own stories for me to read which I found slightly bizarre.
I find I get roughly the same amount of likes and comments for every story which suggests I get the same readers every time.
Strawberries…
Or go for the Beatles..
I’m on vacation. .. back soonish mwahhhh 💋💋💋
Right-click on the picture.. save to your computer.. then upload it as your story picture
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I'm starting to worry about you...
Me too… even the cover art has pink text. 🤣
