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From the blurb:

This competition should feature your characters in some sort of simulation, virtual or augmented reality.

I take this to mean a good acid trip, or possibly even a dream, could comply with the rules.

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Did i win yet?

Yes. I'll PM you a website link where you can collect your prize.

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So staple in fact that it's in danger of falling into cliche

I hear you. I think it will require some careful thought to do this stim-sim thing without ending up trite and possibly even tired. Of course the addition of hardcore sex to the formula might have more saving power than I'm giving it credit for.

This changes my plan to stagger across the Omnium finish line in February with the Sci-Fi story that I've been working on - one which is not really amenable to simulation - and I haven't yet figured out a new plan. Fortunately for purposes of the contest, the process of conceiving that one has given me other ideas that I can use. Given some of the other time-sensitive stuff in my queue, I won't likely have it ready until mid-November, but I'll get there.

Dang, I thought I was all set to publish Daphne's Double Date after the two Daphne's Halloween stories. But then I realized that having entered the picture at the Halloween party, Stan needs a whole chapter, and it has to precede Double Date. So I've spent the past few days writing that. As a concert-centered story, it will be a hard-rocking musical homage to boot. I hope to get Stan Bi Me out there by the weekend, followed by Double Date next week.

Then it will finally be time to publish Persistent Terror! It's my first Horror story and one that I hope will be genuinely scary, or at least nail-biting. After that, Dong Way from Home is pretty much ready to publish, a lost-in-the-wilderness continuation of the Becoming A Man series after Daphne's and my long-dreaded breakup. The three remaining Becoming A Man stories after that are fully drafted but could use retooling. That should keep my busy until December.

Also rearranged my recent Steam Mates a bit today, moving the hook to where it belongs at the very top, instead of buried below some boring exposition that is necessary for this Steampunker, but can come after the ... uh, steamy intro.

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I almost always write in the third person, and if I go first person ... for me First person is a royal b*tch to write, unless it's based on a true event.

Interesting! It seems to be the opposite for me (and you do a great job with your third-person stories).

I first came to Lush to publish the sexual fantasies I'd been writing for myself for years. Being my fantasies, they were all first person, and I seem to have stuck with that as I come up with new ideas. Even the Sci-Fi story I'm writing, set in the 22nd century, somehow features the first-person me as the protagonist. Should I rethink that? I'm not sure.

It's only the past few months, as I've started writing MLM fiction, that I've finally started writing in the third person. As far as I'm aware, Succumbing to Temptation and Steam Mates are my only third-person stories so far, but I'm planning several more for next year.

Sorry I missed this earlier! Deepest congratulations. It's a huge accomplishment.

October always brings out the monster in me. This year, it's bringing out my first Monster Sex story! Sexsquatch is informed by the years I lived in Washington state, where I spent quite a lot of time exploring the various mountain ranges. This is my take on the legendary monster reputed to dwell in the Pacific Northwest's darkest corners. She saves my life (not to mention my libido), and in return I help keep her alive.

And stay tuned for a much scarier story coming out later this month, Persistent Terror. Also set in the Northwest mountains, this one will feature a far more evil kind of monster.

Tried when I was younger, especially after discovering a video of it. Just could not make it work. I could rub my cockhead against my asshole, but that was as far as I could get, no matter which way I tucked my balls.

I had more success sucking myself. Which was still not a lot. In neither case was I able to get to orgasm from it.

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The issue I have is that I can't upload a second story while I have one waiting to be reviewed. I have 16 stories in my series, followed by a 30-story series and a 19-story series. Even a 2-week delay amounts to years. As an author, we drive traffic to the website, and I would expect better turnaround times.

If you have sixty-plus stories to publish, yeah maybe that should take a year to publish. It would likely have taken you years to write them, so what’s the sudden rush? It’s an awful lot to ask of the mods to review that many stories in a short time. Most writers on here take years to publish that many stories, partly because the expectation is that they were written by humans.

How much marginal traffic is your sixty-fifth story in a short time going to “drive to the website” anyway? The fact that you’re using the word “upload” as opposed to “publish” suggests you’re expecting something different from this site than what it is.

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Thanks Jill. I might do that but I think a lot of people are put off by a too rigid observance of the rules being insisted upon when it is the meaning that is important. Grammar etc is important if it improves understanding but unnecessary if it does not. I have only limited time and would rather spend it on telling a tale than slavishly following a set of rules.

Having published over a hundred stories on here, I can testify that the mods are not at all “slavish.” They just want to see general adherence to the rules of English, with which not everyone is as familiar as they could be.

In a typical story, I probably have 20-40 items flagged by Grammarly. But I verify them all carefully, so that my “violations” are deliberate and make sense. Learn the rules to break the rules.

It’s been a while since I had a story rejected or substantially edited due to errors, but it’s part of the process of learning to be a better writer. When they’re starting out, a lot of people don’t know what they don’t know. Best advice I ever got on here was to start using Grammarly, despite its foibles.

Just published today, Daphne's Halloween, Part Two picks up where Part One left off. At a fancy Halloween sex party, Daphne is in shock at hearing a passing partygoer mention a "Gangbang Room," where I'm deducing Bad Things have happened to her in the past. I team up with Daphne's friends Rita and Bobbi, with whom we've just had a wonderful fourway encounter to kick off the party, to raise Daphne up and over her past trauma.

After she and I have each had amazing Bukkake experiences, gay and straight respectively, Daphne finds the new Goddess Worship Room to be rather uplifting. Oh, and I meet someone special, though he is no threat to my love of Daphne.

I really enjoy having a Platinum membership and not having to think about it, and as seeker said, I publish enough that the queue priority is really nice. I don’t do a ton of PMing, but probably enough that I’d chafe at the messaging limits of a basic account.

He was exactly right that it depends on what you want to get out of it. You can read and comment on stories as much as you want for free, so if that’s all you intend to do, it may not be worth it. But if you find you like this lovely community and want to spend a fair amount of time here, then it’s probably worth it.

This sounds like a very tall order. I think switching perspectives is a lot easier if they’re both written third person. Or if they’re both written first person, which I’ve seen pulled off as well too. In fact, one of my favorite stories on here (First Time Beach) is exactly that, a collab between two authors alternating between their first person perspectives,

But if the goal is simply to be inside character A’s head and not character B’s, most writers handle that by simply making it entirely third person from character A’s perspective as protagonist, or entirely first person. In either setup, the reader knows A’s inner thoughts but perceives everyone else by observation.

Now I have an outline, a working title and a cover photo! Coming early 2027.

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In looking through the cover photos I thought I saw one of a nude woman (no genitals showing) performing oral sex. It wasn't clear but it was distinctive. It must have slipped through.

I believe that's allowable. What I've heard before in discussions of this is that people can appear to be having sex in the cover photos as long as the actual genitalia are not visible.

Sorry for my misuse of the word. It was flippant and a sloppy false equivalence. I concede your point that it is quasi-Christian theocracy and not Sharia that is being imposed. Sorry if i've contributed in any way to spreading Islamophobia, which is certainly not my intent. I have known and worked with many Muslims over the years and have the deepest respect for them. I've long been outraged that the cons keep invoking Islamophobia by raising the alleged spectre that "Sharia Law" would somehow be imposed here, as if such a thing were even conceivable. I'll find better ways to argue against that in the future. Deepest apologies.

Apologies to readers too, for taking the bait and derailing this thread from its primary topic: Uncle Scam.

I have to once again thank everyone who participated, and especially Kimmi, for putting this challenge together. I intend to cross the Omnium finish line early next year with a Sci-Fi story, and the diversity of entries (including my own) has helped me finally start coalescing an amorphous swirl of thoughts into something that can become a story.

After publishing my Horror and Monster Sex stories this month, I will have just four more genres to go before reaching Omnium (no, not double Omnium, but good for you, Kat!)

Today I finally started writing the Sci-Fi story I intend to cross the finish line with. I've had a swirl of ideas in my head for a couple of months now, comsuming lots of potential literary, screen and musical influences. It's the recent informal Sci-Fi writing challenge that has helped me finally coalesce those into something that's becoming coherent. This is exciting!

I agree with most of what you said, but I'm using the word "Sharia" less narrowly, to mean the secular imposition of any form of religious law. Even if it's the religious law of what I would charitably describe as a misguided variant of Christianity (to which, not coincidentally, at least three Justices publicly adhere), that is what's being imposed upon many Red states in the wake of SCOTUS's official sanction. If anything, I'm using the term more faithfully than many conservatives, who mostly use it as a blunt hatemongering epithet. See also "communist," "socialist," "radical left," etc.

As an enthusiastic Christian myself, I certainly do not judge Christianity as a whole by these extremists who are imposing their contorted version of Christianity, and what they see as God's Will, upon the rest of us. My own view of God's Will is that we are called to be peaceful, loving, kind and forgiving, recognizing each other as instances of God's greatest creation. Consistent with that, I strongly believe that Christ's teachings, love supreme among them, support women's self-determination and sexual freedom - in diametric opposition to what the cons are trying to do to us.

Happy (almost) October! I’ll have several new stories popping up in honor of this scary/party month, starting with Daphne's Halloween, Part One, in which I team up with my girlfriend Daphne’s friends Bobbi and Rita to soothe her nervousness about the sex party we’re attending. Let’s just say we kick off the festivities with a bang, and as promised by the title, there will be a second chapter.

This is a continuation of my ongoing Becoming A Man series, but you don’t have to have read any previous chapters to enjoy this. Just jump right into the orgy! If you are interested in some background on Daphne, however, you may enjoy Dating Daphne and Daphne’s Rubber Ding-Dong for more history on how she and I got together.

Besides being guided by a patently unconstitutional core philosophy that repudiates the Ninth Amendment (without which, I will remind you, Jefferson refused to consent to the concept of a "Bill of Rights," lest it be construed as a strict enumeration of our God-given rights), this Court very much supports the imposition of religious law upon the country. The very repeal of Roe was the direct result of these two bullshit philosophies dominating the Court.

Put another way, not only are they not guided by the Constitution, they have already started imposing Sharia Law. Alito and Thomas are, at least, fully transparent about this, Thomas even admitting he wants to take it further by banning contraception too.

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Then Sara see's her first porn video on her brothers computer. John figured out a way around the safe guards. Sara now has questions about what has been kept from her. Sara wants her brother John to explain things to her.

And you're writing this in a way that these discoveries happen after they have both turned sixteen, right?

I've just published a rewrite of Kate and Shauna in the Sauna, the sequel to my most-read (and second highest-scoring) story, Skiing with Keith and Kate. The original version of Kate and Shauna was simply too goddammed long, I admit. That's always bothered me, so now I've chopped out more than 1000 words while retaining all of the hot gay-male and lesbian action of the original. I'm hoping that makes it 30% hotter!

In this story, Keith shares how his girlfriend Kate has seduced her friend Shauna into finally fullfilling her long-bottled lesbian fantasies during Spring Break. But he doesn't just tell me about it, he has me act it out with him, bikinis and all. If you liked Keith and Kate (and many of my readers have!, but you skipped over Kate and Shauna because of the length, now's a good chance to catch up with this hot couple! And by the way, they will be returning in November with a new fivesome story, Kate and Keith's Wedding.

Not a particular turn-on, but it could be hot if it’s a turn-on for my partner, male or female.

That said, I did write about it in Midlife Renewal: Piñas Coladas and Poolside Pleasures because “Eric” is into it. Even got into a 69 of sorts with him, sucking each other’s toes and rubbing our cocks together.

Shorter stories that people can read during the course of a wank get more eyeballs and higher scores. They just do. I notice a very substantial dropoff when I go beyond 4k words, and I usually try to stay below that, or closer to 3k if I can, which I find to be a good balance between appealing to a broad swath of readers while still exposing some sense of story progression, character development and illumination of internal feelings.

If the story I want to tell needs more than 3-4k (which it often does) and it's not a competition entry, I find it almost always better to split into chapters.

UPDATE 10/5: see Parts One and Two of Daphne's Halloween (in my sig) for an example. This started as a monolithic story, but expanded to over 6k with all of the emotional development I wanted to include, not to mention all of the hot orgy sex. Since it has a natural breakpoint in the approximate middle anyway, it works a whole lot better as two chapters IMO.

October is almost here! I have a Monster Sex story, a Horror entry and my two-part Daphne’s Halloween all polished up and ready to submit.

In the meantime, I have a rewrite of Kate And Shauna In The Sauna in moderation right now, having chopped out more than a thousand unnecessary words but kept all of the action. Should be 30% hotter then!

Now putting my attention to finishing off the Becoming A Man series, including a couple more Daphne chapters, by the end of the year, along with a seasonal Supernatural tale.

This is a sex-stories site! To me, it seems disingenuous to pass a sex story off as True if the sex itself was imaginary and didn't happen IRL. Everyone has vivid fantasies involving the people around them, so it's not like the OP's fantasy is somehow more "True" than everyone else's. Hell, the description (real people, real setup, imagined sex) probably applies to 80% of my stories! But I don't sell them as True.

Having vividly imagined it does not count as “true” in my view, but I guess that’s the post-Factual world we all live in, isn’t it? After all, "literally” got demoted to merely mean “very” twenty years ago, the top trending clips on porn sites now involve obviously fake 18” rubber cocks, and AI-generated porn is quickly overtaking porn involving real, breathing, sweating humans. More seriously, we can no longer distinguish fake photos and video from real, and have progressed from AI applying the Geminio curse to every human-created webpage, whether accurate or not, to us humans laughing it off as "hallucination" when AI regurgitates (or makes up) blatant falsehoods as fact. If insanity is the inability to distinguish fantasy from reality … welcome to the human race in 2026. Here we are now. Entertain us. Do not inform us.

Like AmuseBouche, I don't present a story as True unless it actually happened as I have written it. But even though A Hole New World is my only story in the True genre, because it is the only one that is 100.00% true, that is not to say my other stories don't have true elements. Much of the sex and dialogue in First Love and Dating Daphne are cribbed from past relationships with real women, the part of Lewd Beach where a woman reflexively smiled at me upon seeing my wank-reddened cock really did happen, as did the instance in Daphne’s Bath Accident when a girlfriend accidentally leaked in my face in the bathtub, as well as the moment in Thanksgiving Stuffing when a gay friend suggested I had a nice-looking package. Heck, even the guy and three women in the van in Buff Bluff in Banff directly mirror an actual van clan I encountered on a bike tour, though not in Banff and not sexually (and I did pick up a vibe). So while my stories are mostly grounded in real experience, I almost always scramble not just names, but circumstances and sequences of events, among other reasons to protect everyone’s anonymity - including and maybe especially my own! And to me, even when there are strong factual elements, that kind of mixing is the essence of fiction. Write what you know.

I can’t tell you what to do, and I certainly don't pretend all the stories in the "True" genre actually are anyway. I do wish you would just put your story in a genre that makes more sense for it, but I also take a dim view of any genre policing, so do what you want to do ... and I'll keep writing fiction that has a lot of truth to it.

Been to a few bachelor parties, but never one involving strippers or prostitutes.

Four excellent stories! Congratulations to Piquet and Kistin, as well as Rowan and DarkSide. Great work, everyone who contributed.

This was a nice bit of fun while we wait for the next comp (soon, I hope!), and has given me more food for thought for the Sci-Fi story I'll be doing early next year to push myself across the Omnium finish line.

Alcohol is not that important a part of my lifestyle (certainly not to the point of being dependent on it being part of my life), so the choice would be easy.

There's alcohol in a fair number of my stories, though. Can I keep that?