Wow, incredible to have that many stories in the Famous category, and now one Legendary. Fantastic work.
I have very, very far to go, with just two ... er, "half-famous?" stories above 15k, and two more now past 10k ("local celebrity," maybe?). Several more approaching 10k, including one at 9997 right now ... anyone wanna give Handy Men a nudge?
My newest story, No-Dating Policy, is my entry in the Dirty Talk competition. My coworker Sherrie has been flirting with me for months, but I daren't act on it because of my employer's strict no-dating policy among coworkers. But when she (yes, she, maybe a surprise to those familiar with my work) quits the company, for one precious night she is fair game. So might be her intriguing friend Terri, but that's (literally) another story.
Per contest rules (all entries must be at least 50% enquoted) there's lots of increasingly dirty talk, cu(l)minating in some very spicy sex. And, since this is an office romance, I couldn't resist throwing in a few dozen Easter-egg references to office supplies and equipment.
I hope you enjoy. Please read, Like, Favorite or comment as you see fit.
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Now that The Last Dance - Part Two is published, I can focus on getting my comp story ready to submit.
Isn't that always the way? Scrambling to finish a story not only for the sake of getting it published, but to get it out of the way so we can focus on the next one?
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That is on pause for the moment, however, while I polish my Dirty Talk competition entry, which will be entitled "No-Dating Policy."
Done! No-Dating Policy. Now to get back to work on Midlife Renewal.
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This is so exciting for me. I can't wait to share a recent conversation with my sex therapist. Thanks for this opportunity!
Ooh, that could be fun! We have had an entry where the protagonist give a filthy confession to a priest, but a sex therapist conversation promises to be a lot more interactive.
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My series on Lush rarely start out as series.
Most of mine have, but Summer Cockbuster - the very first story I published here - is an exception. I ended up stretching it out to seven stories before forcing it to a logical conclusion.
I also have had several competition entries where readers suggested subsequent chapters. Not officially declared a series yet, but Dick Job and Pork By Northwest (interestingly, my only two Recommended Reads) bookend a 16-year Horny Federal Agent epic that I intend to eventually flesh out as a full series.
After I do all the other stuff I just mentioned above. I'm sure that's years away. Ultimately, all this hobby writing is a lot of work.
And a hot story your Dirty Talk entry is, WBWS! I felt like I was in Paris again. But better!
The past few months, I've been working on getting more chapters of my Midlife Renewal series out. Given the balance between my busy personal life and the considerable number of hours I spend on each story, I'm lucky to get a story published every two months, but I continue working on it. The next chapter is mostly drafted, and I've got clear outlines written of the next three chapters after that.
That is on pause for the moment, however, while I polish my Dirty Talk competition entry, which will be entitled "No-Dating Policy." I started a few days ago with a never-published draft that was several years old ... and about 5000 words. The first full cutting of the fat chopped it nicely down to 3300 words, the second round to 2800, and a few more editing passes eased it below the 2000 word limit.
Like a good sword, it's getting better the more time I spend sharpening it. As I found with my entry in last year's Free Spirit comp, the length limit forces me consider the meaning, flow and impact of every single word. I have it down to 1700 words now, a buffer which may allow me to squeeze in even more spicy dialogue, should I dream it up. The end result should be a better, more competition-worthy story.
My rule for competition entries is not to submit until I can make a full pass through every word of the text without finding even one word I feel the need to change. That's still a few passes (and days) away,I think.
I just have so many series in my head that I can't keep them all going at once. Right now I'm focused on new chapters of Midlife Renewal. I think It's a Date will pick up when that winds down. Then, I'm hoping to revisit Becoming A Man, the first series I published. That one reached its logical conclusion, but I'd like to spiff it up with cover images and fill in a couple new intervening chapters.
Two of my series, Keith and Kate and Dating Daphne, each have only two chapters published, but at least three more each that are fully drafted. But as fellow writers know, that first draft is only 10-20% of the work. Maybe when I get the above two series fully fleshed, I'll polish these up and get them out.
One that I really did leave hanging fairly indefinitely is Contagion, a series that I whipped out in April-June 2020 at the height of the Pandemic, culminating in a six-way all-holes-balled orgy as pent-up energy from the lockdown was released. I intended to pick up the following morning with several more chapters, but never got around to it. I still intend to pick it up again if/when we have another lockdown.
Hairy is great for me! I’m fine with well trimmed or a small landing strip too, but for me there’s gotta be something.
I came of age in an era when only little girls were bald down there. I understand most guys have moved past this, but I can’t deprogram my libido. To my subconscious, shaved ones still seem prepubescent and are an instant, boner-shrinking turnoff. At least a little bit of real-woman hair is a must.
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Nope. The cap is part of the challenge.
Agreed, and the mods couldn’t make exceptions in holding everyone to the same standard.
In the case of my Free Spirit entry last year, chopping those last two hundred words forced me to rethink how I was saying things and even rearrange a few things to streamline the flow. The result, despite some hard work, was a significantly better story.
One trick I’ve done a couple of times so far is to actually shift descriptive/explanatory text into dialogue. Like having a character say, “Ooh, that little black dress looks painted on!” instead of a long paragraph describing what that character was wearing.
Also, question for the mods: if it’s in quotes, does internal monologue count? Example:
“What’s she up to this time?” I asked myself.
I think it’s a good idea to become at least a little attached to your character, so that as you said, they develop real personalities and quirks rather than being bland cardboard cutouts.
As far as falling in love with them … well, I don’t know, why not? They are your fantasies. Of course you are going to develop some characters that come close to your ideal. I haven’t done so, but I can think of several characters in my stories I could fall in love with.
If you can’t let them go after a story is finished, then the solution seems obvious: a series!
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Sorry, I'm a relative newbie here, and this is my first competition. But I don't see how the stories are scored. Number of likes? Number of favorites? Number or views? Some combination? Thanks!
The Score you see with each story is a count of the number of Likes and Favorites combined.
But the competition itself is decided by human judges, not tied to the numeric score.
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Dude had a bad night. It's reported he had a head cold.
A "bad night?" That's what you say about someone who has mental illness or the early stages of dementia. We can't afford a President who has "bad nights" when he's 81, and plans to remain in office until he's 86. God help us all.
A cold explains his hoarse throat; it does not explain a total inability to speak coherent thoughts and sentences. But your sentiment is the dominant one emerging from the party machinery and the media they control, so ...
Looks like these fucktards who run the party are going to "run this train into the wall," as Rowan put it. And Trump will win. Humanity is doomed.
All right, yesterday I picked a good story whose first draft I wrote several years ago, and is already very heavy on dialogue. It's 4900 words now, but as I recall that is about where my 2000-word Free Spirit entry started. Now to begin the distillation process and boil it down to its essence. (Utters mad-scientist cackle).
(Edit: a couple of hours of editing later, biggest fat trimmed and down to 2800. Each pass is going to get more painful, but I think this is doable. And hot).
Jesus. Can't say I didn't warn the Dems about propping up Sleepy Joe, but that was the most godawful debate performance I have ever seen from a Presidential candidate.
And the other guy gave the most lie-filled performance I have ever seen.
Paraphrasing the OP's question: how the fuck did we end up with these two dildoes as our candidates? This display of total rhetorical incompetence just accelerated our planetary descent into nationalistic, authoritarian lawlessness.
Every goddamned time I think I could not get more pessimistic about humanity's prospects, shit like this happens. Christ weeps.
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I was just saying to a friend that we'd never had (as far as I can remember) a comp with a 2,000 word limit and how I'd appreciate a shorter one. How's that for mind-reading... 😊
Last year's Free Spirit competition had a 2k limit, and resulted in some of the best writing I've seen on this site. For my own submittal, it was a great exercise in rewriting and reediting to cram absolutely as much dirty action as possible into as few words as possible, with as much clarity as possible.
Now to do the same thing with dirty words instead of (or in addition to) dirty action. I expect some very serious competition yet again.
The hot, steamy shower action between Rick and Eric continues in my next Midlife Renewal installment, Meatier Shower.
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... strong bi desires revolving around oral sex having realized how much I loved going down on my wife. This was always my favorite activity, the scent, smells, and taste of her sexual fluids. This has fed into my current bi oral desires. I think if I was to come out it would be as a guy with an oral fixation!
I get that. For me there's an awful lot of overlap between my love of oral sex on a woman and my interest in oral sex on a man. The tastes and smells might not be the same, but in a lot of ways the experience is similar and wonderful.
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I sucked another boys cock off aged about 17 when we shared a changing cubicle at a school swimming lesson. The experience of being naked together with another boy gut us both up rock hard erect. He dared me to suck his cock off and I did it to show I wasnt shy and to broaden my sex experience. He sat with his legs wide and cock sticking up and I knelt between his legs. He enjoyed it but I didn’t. I preferred it when he hand jobbed my own cock off.
Even if you didn't end up enjoying sucking him that much, good for you for being open minded and trying it. That's one hell of a dare.
