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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.

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 while to come up with it, but I just got my story idea outlined.

Right away 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 that 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!

I've made great progress this week! I got Beaches and Cream submitted for publication just seven days after even coming up with the idea. I've also finished my first draft of Cock 1, which I think is in better shape than most of my initial drafts, so it shouldn't take too many hours to get done once Beaches and Cream is approved. Next major goal will be to get Scandalous Sixties published by mid-December for maximum holiday visibility.

11/25 UPDATE: Beaches and Cream is Published! I’ll give the mods a break and wait until after Thanksgiving to submit Cock 1, which is now ready to go. I also just came up with straight story concept called Sloe Ride, which will eventually slot into the series just ahead of Cock 1. And Scandalous is evolving into three stories: Surprising Sixties, Scandalous Sixties and (you guessed it) Swinging Sixties.

The other thing I've been working on isn't writing at all: it's making sure all of my public media images (especially story covers, because of their visibility) are copyright-free. I've become aware that a handful of porn companies are making money by getting litigious around individuals' use of their intellectual property, so I have deleted all of my public media that might be copyrighted. Going forward, I'm only posting copyright-free images, whether by public license or by my creation using AI tools. A lot of my stories are missing covers right now as a result, but I'm steadily working on updating them - and often, coming up with hotter covers than the original ones.

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I also mostly try to avoid reusing names. At some point I may need to write out a list of all the names I've used, to avoid duplicates, but haven't bothered yet.

Finally did this the other day. I did find a couple of duplicates that I wasn't aware of, especially with minor characters. Fortunately Eric is the only name I've used twice for significant characters.

Also, as I flesh out my canonical Becoming A Man series, I just realized that one character has been referred to as Daphne in a couple of stories, and then as Heather in another. Oh well.

I'm also going to start a list of names I haven't used yet, to make future name-picking easier.

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Bisexual and gay male.

Same.

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I have to say, once I hit that publish button, I never recall. The reason is that by that time, I would have edited and read the story for hours, many more times longer than it took to write. Typically about 5x more. Happily, these days I'm fairly certain they will be published, although that doesn't mean they are perfect.

Same. I've reread and re-edited my stories so many times, by the time I've hit Publish, that I rarely take another look and hit Recall after that, though it has happened. Got plenty of other things to move onto, usually, and I hate to make more work for the overworked and underpaid mods.

That said, I did recently withdraw and resubmit a story after it was published, and after polling a number of readers who'd made comments for more specific feedback. Based on that, I decided to make some aspects of the tone and internal monologue more subtle, though probably 97% of the words were unchanged. Again, I hate making extra work for the mods, but I felt that it made the piece quite a bit better.

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None or just a little. I hate hair in my mouth.

Apparently no one knows this anymore, but brushing beforehand solves that problem almost completely.

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I've got a steampunk story going . But I was thinking today it's time for a new competition. Hopefully the Lush bosses will have one up their sleeves soon!

I'm thinking that too. Most years we see something holiday-related around now.

Working on outlines for three stories simultaneously, all three about ready to start actually writing:

• Midlife Renewal: Cock 1, in which I help a friend restore a classic Mach 1 Mustang. And other things.

• Scandalous Sixties, following on my recent Secret Sixties contest entry. Apparently, Diane did hear Jerry and me talking, and she wants in.

• Beaches and Cream, a rugged outdoor (and sexual) adventure on the wilderness coast of Olympic National Park.

No time crunch on these, except that Scandalous Sixties is Christmas-themed, so I'd like to get it done within the next month. Also for Christmas, I plan to finish a holiday-themed poem that I started on during the Small Moments poetry comp earlier this year.

I'm going through the process of converting ALL of my story covers to images that are copyright-free and not exploiting actual humans who may not have consented to the use of their likness. I am also deleting or hiding anything in my Media folders that might be questionable in these respects. I'm hearing about more companies getting litigious and even extorting settlements out of people, so better safe than sorry.

Nightcafe does decent SFW images, and although the process of getting free credits is a bit convoluted, it's not hard to pile up a decent stack of them. And while it's not AI, Creazilla also has a nice trove of stock copyright-free images that I use for quite a few things.

That said, I want to do NSFW images, including for story covers (because boobs), so this week I started experimenting with Perchance. As vampire_vixen found, it will generate something I can work with using relatively simple prompts and not too many attempts. If you just ask for nude bodies in various settings, it tends to do that fairly well, with reasonably realistic (but perhaps too pretty) bodies, including penises, breasts and (because I request it) pubic hair on women. It even gets the pubes right, usually, but occasionally generates a trans woman by throwing in a penis. Not that I mind.

Where Perchance seems to go haywire is if you ask for much physical action between the people in the image. It usually gets kissing right, and renders cocksucking acceptably about half the time, but anything more than that and you seem to end up with a tangle of phantom limbs, mutated genitalia and the usual malformed hands and fingers. Still, overall I'm happy with what I can get from a free tool.

Sorry to hear about your situation. Being out of work certainly puts a damper on things. I hope you find work soon.

Not really into it, but not judging those who do like it. I may not be ultra-masculine, but I present and identify as a man. End of.

I absolutely adore 69, and have no issues with concentration. I suspect I would especially enjoy the mutuality with a man, where you can do the same thing to each other or "trade" actions on each other's cocks.

I think it's fair to say that one of the greatest sexual disappointments for me in life is discovering that very few people share my level of enthusiasm for sixty-nine. It doesn't seem like many women enjoy it except (briefly) as foreplay, due to the distraction issue, though some will tolerate it as an end in itself once in a blue moon. From the looks of this threat, sounds like not that many guys are into 69 either, at least as an "ultimate" act.

Fine. If I don't get to do it that much in life, I can write about it in my stories as much as I fucking want! You will notice that 69 features in a disproportionate number of my stories, often to orgasm. My 69th story (published earlier this year) was in fact an ode to 69.