I don’t think Enthusiast is active. I would have qualified for it at least a year ago, and started looking for it then, but don’t have it.

In! Blowing Smoke

I have thrown my hat into the ring of the Elements writing competition with Blowing Smoke. Two lone backpackers join forces to save, and maybe change, each other’s lives as they experience the terror of near-death and the joy of life, out amongst all the Elements of Air, Earth, Water ... and Fire!

Favorites are bi male, gay male, lesbian, hotwife, cougar, MILF, various configurations of group sex, occasionally watersports. Almost anything set in the great outdoors, too.

I quietly avoid stories involving degradation, dominance, submission, cuckolding or family members. Or any kind of sex so rough that it qualifies as violence. Hard turnoffs.

Yeah, I'd edit and Unpublish it back to Drafts. That'll pretty much accomplish what it is you want to do.

I've come to embrace how the tight word limits of some of the comps have forced me to focus my writing, seriously considering every single word and thought. What bits are tangentially relevant and might enrich a longer version of the story, but don’t really add more value than they take away from advancing things along?

This one didn't win any honors, but I'm still happy at how much sex and adventure I crammed into just 2000 words with Buff Bluff in Banff. I believe the first draft of that one was more than twice that length. This was when my only Recommended Read so far was a sprawling 9000-word thing, so I did have to retrain myself a bit.

Point is, don't let the word limit deter you. You can tell a fantastic story involving the elements within 3000 words. You can do this!

Got my first full draft done! Yay, that's like 5% of the work! The journey of three thousand steps begins with the first ... uh, shitty three thousand steps.

I also have the cover done (without AI this time), though I want to keep my plans secret for now. I will say that the story involves all four elements, Fire playing a disproportionate role.

EDIT, 3/21: Story complete and submitted!

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I must be the odd one out here. I haven’t a clue how to use AI. MY covers are either my own pics or pictures I’ve found with my pal Safari. 🤣

Perchance AI Image Generator is ridicu-easy to use. You need to create a free account and do a per-session PG-13 filter override to generate NSFW images; otherwise, you don't even need to do that.

I think I have a good idea taking shape that involves fire as the main element, though the others will be part of it too.

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That said, I am probably starting over. First attempt headed into territory that I found a bit too familiar (i.e. taps into elements of past stories of mine).

I see what you did there.

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Oh yeah, I love me a good ellipsis as well ... LOL

Dot ... dot ... dot ... damn, that's hot ...

Did I like it? Yeah, when I ate my own cum last night, I think I did like it. It’s something I do pretty often.

When I was younger, I wasn’t quite as fortunate as alphabeta, but I could regularly get as far as licking the tip. My body always tensed up when I came so it was always from at least a couple of inches away, but I have jacked off directly into my own mouth many times. Due to the increased distance, I can't easily hit the target at my age now.

IDK if it’s an American thing but it is definitely a thing. When I lived in Pacific Northwest and the rain was a light steady, unthreatening mist for a few months at a time, it wasn’t usually as noticeable.

But here in the Midwest, we get a lot of no-fucking-around weather, and Mother Nature can kill you any day of the year if you’re not careful. People were killed by tornadoes in Illinois and Indiana just this week, for example, and it’s likely the blizzards hitting the Great Lakes right now will take lives. Those hazards also include big scary-ass thunderstorms, and yes you often can smell the ions in the air before it rains as well as during.

There is a scientific basis for this, so unlike a lot of things going on in my country, it is not a mass delusion. Heavily ionized air (or is that ozone?), as caused by strong rainstorms, especially those with a lot of electrical energy, has a very distinctive scent. We are not making this up.

I’m with Kimmi and wxt in liking the purple one most, but with seeker4 on the second being a very close second. And while I suppose her boobs are effectively the same size in all three, in the third one they seem more out of proportion, plus the look on her face is really blank.

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Question, does the use of AI include using AI art for the cover art for the story? Cos I've seen some cover art for stories that looks like AI art to me, which is saying something cos sometimes I can't tell, but I'm trying to get better at discerning what art is AI and which is just some human artist's digital art.

Yes. AI is allowed for the cover art, just not for the writing. I think almost everyone is doing it now.

Personally, to keep myself fully legal copyright-wise, I’ve gone to the trouble of replacing almost all of my previous story covers with AI-generated ones.

Oh! This should bring on some really inventive writing. I have no idea how I will tackle this yet, but I don’t usually lack for ideas for very long. Maybe I’ll go watch those hot Pagan Forest videos again for inspiration.

Good on you for the stern AI warning. We’re all drowning in slop already (though some have yet to fully recognize our new reality), and it is an existential threat to what we do here. Good writing is hard fucking work, at least it is for me. No cheating!

Echoing the above comments, I don't think there's a perfect way to do it. Sure, Strap-On Sex arguably belongs under Toys, and Horror and Monster Sex seem an unnecessary dichotomy ... and where's the split between those and Supernatural? Also, why have the vague "Occupations" when most of those stories could either go under Uniform, Medical or Office Sex?

And all sex involving four or more people is supposed to be in Group Sex? That can include orgies (have written that), gangbangs (just wrote that), circle jerks (ditto), bukkake (story planned) and swinging (just wrote that too, although Swinging gets its own genre for some reason), all of which have separate appeal.

Then again, I love that Cuckold and Wife Lovers are separate, because even though the physical acts tend to be about the same, the emotional dynamic can be vastly different. Not to mention the appeal: Cuckold and its related degradation are a pretty hard turnoff to me, while Wife Lovers/hotwife action is a pretty hard on.

In any event, these are the categories we have, and for which hundreds of authors have intentionally written stores. Like Kimmi said, maybe the ambiguity of the categories is a good thing. God knows I wouldn't have much to write about if my own sexuality was cut-and-dried.

Oh boy, choices, choices, choices! Now that I’ve got my Sexy Sixties series capped off, for now at least, um … swingingly … and my Dating Daphne magnum opus out there, and my MLM series kicked off with Succumbing to Temptation, I’m trying to decide where to focus my attention next? Notwithstanding that we are overdue for a competition [3/18 edit: not anymore! Pausing everything to work on my Comp entry! ... published 3/21], three compelling projects compete for my attention.

More Daphne stories seem the obvious choice, since I just introduced her character and want to maintain momentum with her, and of the immediate three I have planned. one will be a “very special” tear-jerker. But I also have three very special Matt-focused stories (set in the steamy summer before I meet daphne) to do, which for seasonal reasons I want done by June. Plus, I’m so happy with how Succumbing to Destiny has started, part of me wants to get cracking on that, even though I officially have higher priorities.

One thing’s for sure: I will never run out of ideas!

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After the deeply emotional monument I erected to opposite-sex love in my 100th story, Dating Daphne, I'm going equally deep on same-sex love with my 101st. Succumbing To Temptation dips my toe in the hot waters of fully homosexual MLM (Men Loving Men) fiction for the first time, kicking off my new Succumbing to Destiny series. I acknowledge that this will not be to all of my regular readers’ tastes, but I am confident that it will very much appeal to a subset of them. While depicting physical/sexual acts between two men as vividly as I ever have, I've also tried to paint a much stronger romantic/emotional connection than in the bi-male stories that will continue to form the bulk of my writing.

At fifty-three, Jack can no longer deny his repressed manly desires, which are as much romantic as they are physical. Wanting to forge an emotional connection before hooking up with a man for the first time, what does Jack do? He starts hanging out at the nude beach. Read on to find out how that goes.

Okay, admittedly, the title might be giving something away here. But I hope you still read it.

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When I see anything about Golden Showers, I am so turned off and just want to log off.

To be fair, there are other categories on Lush that do that to me. Not to mention some of the stuff that trends in the Gallery.

But don't worry, I won't get into a pissing contest about it. 😉

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So very sad how the voting minority is completely unable to accept their status as the minority.

You mean middle aged white guys?

Both are ugly people. But I’d say dingbat Noem is arguably uglier (and orders of magnitude stupider, intelligence being a dimension of attractiveness for me) than supplicant Bondi. Physically, Noem has made her face truly hideous. That there are guys who find that unnatural butchery attractive staggers my mind.

If those two were my only female choices, I'd really have to give God extra thanks that I was made Bisexual.

The OP question was about whether the guys would suck each other (not whether the woman would suck a guy, which is already expected in MFMs). And my answer is Hell yes, given that I identify so solidly as a cock-loving bisexual that it might be hard for me to agree to mfm/mmf if the other guy isn’t into at least a bit of mutual contact. I certainly haven't written any two-male threesomes where it doesn't happen, or at least lead to something later.

From what I have gathered on the forums here over the years, Manda’s perspective is an extremely common one. Many (maybe most!) women feel threatened or insulted if the guys' activities with each other take the focus of attention off of her. So while MM contact can be part of the action, the woman needs to remain the center of the action, or disaster may result.

That means that any touching or sucking between me and the other guy would likely be fairly brief and not go all the way to orgasm. Also, many women seem to get a special hot thrill in coaxing guys into kissing each other (see: Challengers for just one example), and I'm totally into that if the other guy is. The only anus likely to be penetrated would be hers, though, except for the rare situation where she insists on watching us men fuck. Which I would still totally do if asked.

If the guy and I want more from each other than makes sense in the presence of a lady, the solution is not to embarrass her by leaving her out of anything. It’s to meet up one-on-one later without her! I have no problem with that.

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not surprising that magas are eager for get to use ai to spy on us. drones, everything.

the rightees were alway screaming about how the gvt would do that when democrats were in power.

now reepies - it's just fine, let's do it.

Yep, typical rightie hypocrisy and projection. It never fails. EVERYTHING they have ever complained about is something they are guilty of already … or secretly planning. And all this P2025 shit that Trump has pulled proves the "secretly planning" part. I mean, they fucking documented it.

And that goes double for the complaining itself, which they do a remarkable amount of. Calling libs snowflakes is just a distractionary strategy to keep people from noticing what whiny, wimpy, pussy snowflakes they are themselves.

It’s here! My one-hundredth story! The one that you've been waiting ... well, okay, maybe you haven't been waiting for it, because I haven’t really told you about it until now. But it’s the one that I've been waiting to get *just right* to celebrate this milestone.

Dating Daphne is a tribute to the feeling of falling in love with someone who breezes into your life and, with little warning, reshapes your world. In it, misfit-toy Joe finally meets the woman whose sexual (and non-sexual) quirkiness complements his own. It's a special story for me, in some ways an ode to all of the unique and special women that I have loved, and I'd like to think that it’s one of my best ever.

I hope that you will give it a read, and that it evokes your own memories of one of those helplessly weightless times in your past.

Although I'm in the midst of a creative spurt right now (although at least partly, it's a matter of spurting out some languishing Drafts that I created years ago), at times I have taken breaks of a couple months, or more. I'm not doing this for the zero money, so if I'm not feeling the creative juices, I don't force it. That's just drudgery, and usually when those feelings of repetitiveness seep in.

I did just take a monthlong break after Christmas, partly because of some huge IRL things going on. Even though consciously I felt uninspired, I think the wheels were still turning in the background. And then BAM! Ideas up the ying-yang. I may not have enough time on this earth to write them all down and get them to publication quality.

The "ideas" I'm talking about mostly aren't about who does what to whose body, although the possible combinations are nearly infinite. The juicy ideas are more about the who. Who are my characters? What is their motivation? What are they thinking - and feeling - as they steer (or stumble) into their latest sexual situation? How does it change them?

Wow, haven’t heard much about condoms and blowjobs since the Eighties. Have we gone back in time?

Condoms are sort-of okay for vaginal sex, but would dull the sensations from what the giver’s tongue is doing so much that I’m not sure I’d see the point in it. Might as well jerk each other off.

And as others have said, if you and the partner are in a situation where you can’t even trust each other to do a fucking blowjob bareback, why the fuck are you even in bed together? I thought sex was supposed to be about intimacy. Sounds like sacrificing quality for quantity to me.

Another new story! Swinging Sixties refers to my swinging sixties, not the swinging nineteen-sixties. When I started my Sexy Sixties series a few months ago, I heard strong feedback from my readers, many of them mature men like myself, asking for more senior bisex!

Well, here is more of what you asked for: My wife Jen, never short on irreverent surprises, suggests we give up monogamy for Lent, and we swing with two other couples. Afterward, Jerry springs some big news on me. Don't worry, it's very good news.

I believe I can confirm Kistin’s experience. Usually if I add a series or change categories or add tags, it just accepts it, but I’m pretty sure I’ve had it throw my story into the submission queue at least a couple of times when it was not “supposed” to. That’s why I ALWAYS add a moderator note when I change anything, even for changes that are not supposed to trigger remoderation

Sorry, can’t remember which stories specifically this has happened with.

Whew! This past month was frantic. Published eight stories in thirty days. And my thanks to the moderators for making this possible! Now I'm going to slow down to about three a month.

Just got "Swinging Sixties" submitted to cap off the Sexy Sixties series for the moment. Given the reception, I may resume my tales of liberated sexuality in my sixties ... after I get a bunch of older "younger" stories released out of my drafts folder. I will be in my own sixties soon enough, by which point I kinda want to be done writing a lot about people in their early twenties. But in the near term, I still have some great ideas for Becoming A Man, including an overall climactic finish. In the next installment, Joe is going to get knocked head over heels in "Dating Daphne," an ode to that weightless, helpless, painless feeling of falling in love. It will be my 100th story published here, and I've been working hard to try to make it my best.

My thinking around MM/MLM continues to progress (and what a beautiful take you had on it, techgoddess). While I still want my It's A Date characters to fall in love, I want them to remain gay-leaning bisexual after all, territory I haven’t covered much. Instead, my MLM series with fully gay main characters will be Succumbing to Destiny, with the first chapter, "Succumbing to Temptation," out soon.

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I really need to get educated on Steampunk. When it comes time, may I pick your brain?

Sure! I probably won't get to this story until sometime in 2027, with everything else I have brewing, but yes, absolutely happy to chat about it as it gets closer.

I’d forgotten this thread had taken place, and in the meantime, had begun giving Novels serious thought anyway, in service of my Omnium plan. I’m in no hurry to get to my Big O, by the way, with a goal of late 2027. I did finally come up with my Steampunk concept this week, though, which means I now have at least an idea for every genre. That wasn't easy.

Anyway, I don’t have a strong opinion towards keeping this genre, but I’m going for it anyway. I have realized that a series I started and paused a couple of years ago (It's A Date!) could, with a slight change in direction going forward, become a decent MLM novella. To that end, I have already started reassigning its chapters to the Novels category, with intent to write additional chapters later this year, coalescing into an actual plot. I also have ideas for two additional series that would be conceived as full novels with intentional plot structures.