I too have an attachment to my characters because I am the protagonist in all but one of my stories. I suppose I will eventually follow other authors and expand my writing beyond my own narrow viewpoint - if I ever run out of ideas involving different variations of myself.

I suspect it will be a contest that finally drags me across that line. Or possibly age.

Whew! Been a busy December! Publishing mY Christmas Eve poem leaves only one of my many holiday objectives still open: Scandalous Sixties. Then I hope to ease the pace back to more gradual work on the multiple Becoming A Man stories that are in progress. Oh, and Swinging Sixties, and … well, you know how it goes …

In the black banner at the bottom of the page, under the Top Authors. There is also Top Stories there too, both have month and all-time options. 😊

Oh boy, now I know that exists, I’m going to have to figure out how to avoid checking it all the time. Especially since (thanks to having published five stories in the past 30 days) I have just cracked the monthly top ten overnight, probably for the first time and possibly the last.

Twats the Night Before Christmas is my new parody of the classic Christmas poem, a 400-word confection that may melt away as fast as one of those pillow buttermints, depending on whether you suck or chew, I guess.

Assigned to a dreary night shift for Christmas Eve, I get sent home early ... to find beautiful creatures stirring.

Wonderful advice! Good of you to share.

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A candle, solid and thick ... lol, I am feeling my way towards a sexy Beckett style story (I know, I know,) Gooning for Godot is about 2/3rds written but I am still not convinced I will get it done.

Here's hoping you get it done! An irreverent CuriousAnnie story about a thick candle being used down under, down under, in pursuit of salvation sounds like a winner to me!

I looked at all the Google results that came up, and nothing I saw addressed this particular problem. Most of the results talk about how IOS 26 now allows you to select part of a text message and paste it into other apps, which is great (previously you could only select and copy the entire message) but not related to my problem. Some talk about disabling or adjusting the Liquid Glass related settings, or problems with the select/copy/paste menu (which I can't even access on many websites) not scrolling horizontally properly.

The problem is limited to Safari (all other apps I've tried work fine) but is not limited to Lush. A few major sites (Amazon, Google) work fine, but in MOST others (including DuckDuckGo and wikipedia), I can't select text in the editing window or bring up the copy/paste menu. In some cases, if I try to tap in the editing window after entering some text, the editing window disappears completely or becomes partly obscured by something "on top" of it in the Liquid Glass scheme. I've also tried adjusting the Accessibility and Display settings affecting Liquid Glass, as well as turning off Dark Mode, None made it better, some made it worse. Since it seems to be a safari problem, my dumb workaround for now is to use a different browser (as I am doing right now) until Apple pushes a fix.

Got my entry in! Usually when the word limit is tight, I end up overshooting by 30-40% and then hacking it back down. Which does enforce a certain discipline on the writing. This time, I aimed for 1500 words, and the first rough draft came in at 1502.

So maybe this one is a bit more undisciplined? It's snarkier than my usual, anyway. See "Presents Cum Early" in my sig.

Presents Cum Early, my entry in the current Advent story competition, has me helping my neighbors decorate their apartment ... until I accidentally reveal Molly's Christmas gifts for Adam. Oh well, with the surprise spoiled, we can all start playing with his new toys right now!

Thank you! I guess I never look at the bottom of the page. Hey, I’m #13!

Also, my contest entry got published today! See “Presents Cum Early” in my signature.

I got upgraded to 26 the other night, and since then I am pretty much unable to edit text. The keyboard comes up and I can type, but I can’t select text, or copy or paste. I can sometimes move the text cursor by tapping within the text area, but even that is now inconsistent. Any other attempt to tap in a way that might bring up the select/copy/paste menu causes a flicker and artifacts flashing around the screen. Anyone else experiencing this?

It’s not critical problem, since I have access to an actual computer, but I often do minor edits from my phone and pretty much can’t do that now. I don’t seem to be having this problem with other sites or apps, and it’s only a problem on my phone since installing IOS26.

Where’s that Top Authors screen?

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There’s no way I’m going to make much progress on my Sexy Sixties series, even if it’s set during the holidays, so I may have to give up that dream.

Oops, within five days of giving myself permission not to work on Surprising Sixties, I finished the first draft, cleaned it up and got it published.

Next, I've just finished the first draft of my contest entry, at 1502 words. But not yet the right 1500 words.

After that, my Christmas poem, which I need to submit by the end of next week.

After that I'll work on Scandalous Sixties, the next chapter of Sexy Sixties. Possibly by Christmas, possibly not.

12/10 UPDATES: Submitted the contest entry a couple of days ago. Got the Christmas poem drafted and in a decent state, ready to submit soon after the contest entry publishes. And have made good progress on Scandalous Sixties - which, while not a contest entry, is Advent-themed and should be ready well before Christmas.

With Surprising Sixties, I'm following through on my threat to later use contest entry Secret Sixties as the launchpad for a whole new series around my future self's sexuality as I enter my sixties.

This story picks up at the orgasmic moment where the first chapter ends, having resolved the morass of conflicting feelings, prompted by my forced retirement and a low-sex marriage, that led me to cheat on my wife In the first installment. This story features both gay and straight sex and pillow talk, plus a brightening of my sexual future as my remarkable wife surprises me with a sexy proposal - and then stuns me with another surprise. Or two.

Guess I'd better go get starring, or I'm going to lose a lot of messages!

For me, it partially works. I have some threads with people where I only see messages up to two months old, but I know we messaged only a month or two before that. I have others that go back 2-3 years even though none of the messages are starred.

One thing I’m noticing is that if I have EVER starred at least one message in a discussion with someone, the feature absolutely does work consistently, and beyond two months I only have starred messages.

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I surprised myself and wrote out my idea in a few hours. I just gotta tweak the grammar and all that, I wonder if it is advent enough lol. Kinda fitting theme after NNN. Deck the dash with all the quickies, fa la la la lololol ...

Wonderfully imaginative first entry in the contest! Absolutely drenched with kinky holiday fun.

On a personal note, it took me a couple of days to come up with my story idea, but I just got it outlined.

Within two hours of the competition announcement, I had come up with what might be a better idea, which might have even aligned with the Elf on a Shelf challenge. But I couldn't figure out how to fully realize the idea within the rules of the site. Let's just say it involved a pop-up Labubu store. Feel free to take the Labubu idea and run with it, anyone else.

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I just did it today> i like the way the guys penis felt in my mouth~

Awesome! Sounds fun.

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Ah. I didnt think of that. It's the British one🤣 enlighten me on the American meaning please .

In America it's synonymous with "ass." Er, "arse" since you're British.

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How would you like these submissions formatted? Double space? Font size 12?

Will these stories also be posted on the website???

Regards,

Richard Burns

On the competition page (linked under the original post above), click the "Enter Competition" button and you'll be presented with a page where you can enter your story title, a one-line description, the story body itself, and more. Mostly you'll be entering pure text, no worries about fonts, although you'll have options for boldspace, underline and italics. If you've been writing your story in an external editor, you'll paste it in here.

You don't have to submit it all in one shot. If you want to hit the Save button and come back later, the work you've entered so far will be available for further editing under your Profile -> Stories -> Drafts.

Once you hit Publish, moderators will take a few days to review your story, and then once approved, it will show under "Competition Entries" on the same competition page. So far there aren't any, but that will surely change soon. Besides being listed on the competition page, entries will be visible on the website the same as non-competition entries: initially on Lush's landing page until newer stories bump it off, and for much longer on the page for whatever Category you assigned it to.

Wow, Omnium … boggles my mind to think of how I would tackle those last few categories. I do now have a plan to get to Prolific, at least.

In the shorter term, rethinking December, always too busy IRL. There’s no way I’m going to make much progress on my Sexy Sixties series, even if it’s set during the holidays, so I may have to give up that dream. But I did get Cock 1 published yesterday, just a week after Beaches avd Cream, so feeling good about that. Next, I have to get to my half-finished Christmas poem. And what’s this? A story contest? Oh boy.

Has Cock on the Rock been done yet? Oh wait, here we go: Jugs on the Rug.

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How about Tranny with a Fanny?

Of course the direction of that story very much depends on whether it is the British or the American meaning of fanny.

In Becoming A Man: Cock 1, my friend Matt has been restoring a classic old Mach 1 Ford Mustang, which (sometimes annoyingly) he refers to as "Cock 1." After Kurt and I help with the big engine swap, all three real cocks converge in a messy cum swap.

I’ve been wishing for the ability to view or extract data about my stories too, not least so I can see how things are trending over time. It’s a very manual process right now.

That said, life is full of tasks that shouldn’t be difficult to do, but still take time - and may never get done. Sure, the underlying query should be a piece of cake, probably simple SQL, and I presume that creating a custom page that displays the data in an html table (allowing the user to copy-paste into excel) might not be hard either. I would not presume that generating a csv and then provisioning an export/download interface that reliably works on all browsers and platforms, with all datasets, is necessarily less work than a display interface, though.

Like seeker said, the ease of doing this may depend on whether this site’s platform comes with a robust report writer - and especially whether it includes solid export capability - out of the box.

I would absolutely love to have this feature, but I understand that this site’s small, busy crew have to prioritize their work.

Wow, case sensitivity strikes hard.

A wildland beach hike turns even wilder for two young men in my new story Beaches and Cream, as they acknowledge a connection they haven’t had the balls to discuss and realize that their first sexual experience doesn’t have to be with a girl after all.

Beyond maybe some light spanking, hard pass. Giving or receiving. Sex for me is about mutual affection.

Yes.

Everyone is different. For some people, it makes sense to wait. But with the average age of marriage pushing 30, it no longer makes sense for most.

And the pressure for people to wait until marriage is profoundly stupid. It's led millions of people to get married before they're ready, or to the wrong person, just so that they can start having sex. It's also led many couples who are sexually incompatible to get married before they've figured that out.

I think it's best to wait to get married until you're ready to get married, so you can be sure you're with "the right one." You may not be ready to have sex until then, and that's fine, but most people are ready long before that, and are better off NOT walking into a lifelong commitment as virgins.

The dominance of the wait-until-marriage point of view has led to far too many divorces, which are supposed to be the bane of conservatives pressuring people to save sex until marriage. Assholes.

Personally, being comfortable with my Bisexuality, I find both man-man and woman-woman play to be incredibly hot.

I think most (straight) men find it "gross," because even admitting they find it slightly interesting would threaten their self-conception of masculinity and/or "straightness." And straightness continues to be a big deal: even today, a lot of guys who will openly admit to an interest in sucking cock - and who clearly fit the definition of Bisexuality, should they choose to accept it - still officially identify as straight. Or as "straight, but ...", which has gotten vastly more fashionable than "bisexual."

Women don't care about that as much, of course, and it does seem that a few are turned on by the thrill of provoking two men to violate their usual sexual boundaries. I have featured women like this in a number of my MMF stories. That said, the primary appeal of MMFs for most women is being the center of attention, and significant man-on-man activity within the encounter is going to end up a turnoff for most. Numerous women have said exactly this on Lush Forum threads.

I've published dozens of stories on this site over the past six years featuring man-on-man sex, and I don't get the impression that very many women at all are turned on by the idea of it happening in the real world (by which I mean outside of porn and other than confirmed gay guys).

In some ways, man-man sex might be as threatening to a lot of women as it is to a lot of men, whereas woman-woman sex threatens neither, so here we are.

Great story. Sure, you could polish it up and submit it as an official story (title suggestion: “Leotards in the Last Frontier”), but that would take hours of work. I got plenty hard just reading it here!