They're cumming fast and furious! New chapters, that is. Of course.

If you weren't sure whether I'd done the wrong thing by blowing Sam at the end of Part two, you'll get your answer in Serial Thriller, Part Three: Sixty-Nine Plus!

Latest Spoiler: it was the right thing, turning our next encounter into an all-male, all-out fuckfest. Find out how, now.

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I think rubbing against a crack or what you describe might actually be more interesting to me than actual anal. Similar to how I find frotting an appealing idea, even though I have never done it.

I wrote Dreaming and Creaming a few years ago, featuring precisely the act you describe: a guy rubbing in an ass crack until he cums, never actually entering the hole. I think that could still be incredibly satisfying for both partners, especially with lots of lube (or foreskin, as in this story).

Would make for a nice, low-pressure situation for someone unsure about whether they want to be an anal recipient. If they're not ready, no big deal and still a very hot way for their partner to get off. On the other hand, if the lust does strike in the moment and they're ready to open up, no pause needed because they're pre-lubed. Is probably how I'd do it if I pursued anal.

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I just have to do steampunk to have written in every genre in Lush

Ha! I'm not as far along as you, but I do at least have story outlines or ideas for every non-IF Genre ... except, you guessed it, Steampunk. Just looked at my notes again ... months ago, in all caps, I wrote "NO FUCKING IDEA YET." I'll get there, though. Just need to take the time to read a few stories and get a feel for it.

Serial Thriller, Part Two: First Taste is published. If you were awaiting the second chapter with ... well, bated breath, wondering if Bate Club would escalate from merely beating off in front of each other, here's a spoiler: Yes, it does. Lap it up.

Along those lines, simply switching between edit mode and Preview mode in Lush helps a ton. I do catch a lot of errors in Preview, as well as simply better ways of writing something that doesn't pop out at me while in edit mode.

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I don’t think I ever made it that far. I still use Grammarly on a regualr basis.

I don't think I ever will make it that far. I make too many mistakes (leaving out a word or putting the same word twice in a row) that my eyes tend to skim over no matter how carefully I think I'm reading, at least when it's my own work that I'm going over. Grammarly is absolutely indispensable to me for flagging those. Even though it is absolutely useless to me for almost every other purpose.

Asking AI to generate story ideas seems okay to me, but once it starts writing actual words for (even if you "de-AI" them by modifying and rearranging them), that sounds to me like crossing over the line.

I don't know why the pizza nazis get so worked up about this and whine that it's "not pizza." As with sex, don't get hung up on labels and definitions. Just enjoy what you enjoy. If you don't like it, don't eat it. But don't tell other people what to eat. There are a lot of foods in this world that are gross to me - including several other popular pizza toppings - but I don't go around bitching about it. Eat and let eat.

Personally, I like it but wouldn't often order a whole pie of it because there are other pizzas I like better. But if someone orders a bunch of pizzas for a group, and there's a Hawaiian in there, I'll have a slice.

Well, if I did bother writing them out, my true stories wouldn't be more exciting.

I'm happy to announce a new series! This one will be short and (I hope) sweet, with six chapters that I should be able to turn out one after another.

Serial Thriller will tell the tale of how an unexpected circle jerk (described in Bate Club, the first chapter, published today) somehow led to a gangbang with an eager woman. No, I didn't see that sequence of events coming either. Nor did I expect how much she would enjoy it. I thought gangbangs, especially in porn, were often demeaning to the woman involved. But by the end of this series, I will find that Fiona is positively empowered by being able to make four virile young men cum.

I wrote this series several years before joining Lush, but have never bothered cleaning it up and getting it published until now. It's time to get it out of my Drafts folder and into the world!

My latest story in the ongoing Becoming A Man series is How Do They? My straightlaced, mildly homophobic dorm buddy is oddly curious about how anal sex works. He asks me to help him with a "science experiment." And then we validate the result by repeating the experiment.

Sometimes a tissue, sometimes my hand and then slurp it down. Once last week, I threw my legs over my head and shot into my mouth. At my age the distance has gotten further, so a lot of it misses, but it's still fun.

In my newest story and my first in the Facesitting genre, Sloe Ride, Sloe Gin appears to be the ticket as a beautiful plus-sized woman rides my face and my cock, not necessarily in the expected way. This juicy installment in the Becoming A Man series takes place the day after my recent Rediscovered! MM story, and shortly before Cock 1.

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No lie, I started writing because so many of the top MM stories on another erotica platform … see if I could beat them in the ratings with characters that behaved in a more familiar manner to me. I…am…[sigh] still trying.

Well, keep at it! I applaud your efforts. I have your story in my Queue and will check it out.

To be clear, I have no problem with this phenomenon of women writing male erotica, but if it occasionally verges into the unrealistic in ways that the female audience doesn't put a check on, (1) it can’t possibly be as ludicrous as the bulk of “lesbian” erotica created by and for men, and (2) it is an opportunity for men like you and me to add a male voice and set the record … uh, straight.

Club bathroom quickie? The guy who gets turned on by thunderstorms? The straight bro who tries to fight his fiancée's male best friend and loses the fight and his anal virginity?

Any of those sound like good MM fodder, but I must say the lightning one is [corrected] most intriguing to me. “Lightning Rod” sounds like a good title.

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Any of those sound like good MM fodder, but I must say the lightning one is most irritating final. “Lightning Rod” sounds like a good title.

2/15 update: OMG, I don't find any of your story ideas irritating, and I'm sooo sorry I didn't double-check AutoCorrect's work here. I meant to say "most intriguing to me," not "most irritating final." Corrected above!

I'm shifting gears to focus on the pile of mostly-done stories languishing in my Drafts folder. I submitted "Sloe Ride" last night. "How Do They?" is ready to go once that gets published. "Dating Daphne" and "Daphne's Double Date" follow afterward chronologically, and should be ready within a few days. I have also been cleaning up my six-story "Serial Thriller" bate-club/gangbang series, which will go next. "Try Sexual" needs a bit more TLC than the others, but can be ready when all of the above are released.

Whew! That's eleven stories that will be ready one after the other (and take me past the 100-story mark). I will still try to respect the Mods and wait a couple days between publication and submitting the next, as has been suggested.

I've also given more thought to the MM-novel situation I described above. With a minor change in plans, my long-paused It's A Date! series could become a decent three-act, fully-MM novella - with 80% of Act One already published. I think this exercise will make good training wheels for the genre.

It's true that building erotic tensions is harder and more rewarding, but personally I'm looking for that reward and the prior buildup just makes it that much hotter.

I have written a number of stories that juice the expectation without any actual sex, but I only do that in a series where I'm going to deliver the hot and nasty to my readers in the following chapter.

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You should’ve seen what I came up with when I asked the AI generator to give me a picture of a redhead with a man between her leg legs 🤪😹

Sounds like a good idea for a Fantasy/Sci-Fi story.

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That sounds like a terrible case of plagiarism, eh?

And that's why it's called Generative AI and not Creative AI. Its entire existence is about gobbling up massive amounts of human creative output and answering questions about it (including "Write me a story about...").

There are plenty of great use cases for it, including creative ones. If you use it to generate a dirty pic for a story cover, or put together a PowerPoint deck for work, that is not plagiarism.

If, however, its output is in turn submitted to a place like Lush (or any academic setting) where work is required to be original, then yes it is plagiarism.

Congratulations!

The advice to not worry about labels is excellent, yes, but misses the more important consideration: you need to figure out whether you prefer having sex with males. Get on one of the apps and find someone. Until you have a throbbing, fleshy cock filling your mouth with cum or jizz dripping out your asshole, you won’t really know if that’s something you can’t live without.

Maybe you find out that it's just a "fetish" (OP's word) or side fantasy. Maybe you find you’re the lucky unicorn who could be ecstatic fucking (and eventually falling in love with) either sex. But you also need to face the third possibility, that you will enjoy gay sex more, a preference that is guaranteed to widen with age and become undeniable. Find out now.

Having sorted your sexual preference first, you can then play with cross-dressing or even gender experimentation, Once you've found males to hook up with, it will NOT be hard to find someone willing to help you with that.

"Write what you know" remains the cardinal rule. Kimmi absolutely nailed it by saying the absolute first thing to play with - and the second - is the setting, with the characters being maybe the third. Change the date, change the location, change the scenarios that bring the characters together, change the characters' backgrounds and internal motivations.

Personally, I've been slower than a lot of writers in changing my voice, even after 90 stories having rarely departed from making (a version of) me the protagonist, always speaking in my own voice. Again, write what you know. This year, I plan to finally enter the Novels genre and write third-person with omniscient narration that can see everyone's internal thoughts and not just my own. But it has taken me years to work myself towards even that. Not saying you would want to take that long in shifting your tone and perspective, but I don't think you need to be in a hurry to do so when there's so much to play with in terms of setting and characters.

Which leads to my other major tip: keep entering Competitions when they come up. You got a great start with Elf on a Shelf. These contests will force you to refine and improve your writing, and to come up with scenarios that would never have come to mind otherwise. Without a competition prompting me to come up with the idea, would I have ever written a 9000-word Noir thriller, or a love story about biking the Great Divide Route that crams six sex scenes and twice as many sex partners into just 2000 words? A humorous, cum-drenched, Hitchcockian piece about solving the mystery of a future genetically-engineered bioterrorist Porkdemic? A tale about skiing and and getting high on pot cookies with former Indian coworkers on an unplanned Christmas layover? Or ... an erotic poem, about anything? Nope. None of these would have come into existence. Sorry if sharing some of the contest entries that I'm particularly proud of comes off as making it about me, but I really, really owe a lot to the competitions I have entered, with or without any recognition for it. It's about the writing, not the winning.

Sorry, I only just saw this now. Belated happy birthday!

Fantastic achievement. And so is the 300th story itself.

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❤️ Joe, could you maybe message the big Cheeto in the big White House about maybe following your lead and doing something for the good of the whole instead of just satisfying the one.

What! The Flood the Zone strategy isn't good for everyone?

Personally, I always have several things brewing at once, and work on whichever inspires me at the moment. Sometimes my Midlife Renewal series goes on hiatus for several months while I work on other things, but I always come back to it. Most of my series are not officially “concluded,” and sometimes they come up with ideas much later to extend things.

I thought I had nearly concluded Contagion after writing the first four chapters in 2020, but then added another after a nearly five-year hiatus, and intend to add one or two more more this year. I originally thought I had concluded Becoming A Man with Thanksgiving Stuffing, but after several years realized I had other stories that fit into that same canonical timeline, reassigned them to that series and am now writing more stories to fill in gaps in that timeline. And so on.

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whereas here it is two weeks.

If your own stories are really taking two weeks, fair to point that out, but I hope you are not getting the two-week figure by extrapolating from my above post. That one was due to a glitch and was an extreme outlier. I have NEVER otherwise had any of my 85+ published stories take over a week, and even with the recent slowdown it’s only been taking 2-3 days. If two weeks were typical, I couldn’t very well have published six stories in a 30-day period, as I recently did.

WannabeWordsmith just took care of it, and explained it was due to some bug that sometimes assigns a story to whoever approved your last one; without putting it in the queue. Anyway, to be clear I wasn’t complaining or considering it a serious hardship, but I guess it’s good I said something because no one but me knew the story was “stuck.” Still gonna take a break for a few weeks from updating my covers, to give you all a break.

After being very busy publishing five stories in December, accomplishing most of my 2025 writing goals, I haven't since been writing at all (although I'm about to restart work on my MF story Sloe Ride). Instead of writing, I have been thinking about where I want to go from here. For some time I've had a good idea of what I want to get done in time for Pride Month, but beyond that, what are my writing goals for the coming year?

One thing on my mind is how MM fiction is having such a cultural moment and (largely female) audience, So far, I have overwhelmingly written about male bisexuality, and have developed an enthusiastic male following on Lush - but I've also learned how the subject matter does NOT appeal to very many women. I think it will soon be time for me to broaden my base. Based on what I've learned appeals to the MM-enthusiast community, I think I could do a really good job of it.

My other major pondering has been about achieving Prolific and then Omnium. I'm well past the halfway point at 40 genres now, and I think I can achieve Prolific by the end of this year and Omnium by the end of 2027. More specifically I've been thinking about how to eventually take on the Novels genre, and this has finally intersected with my MM-fiction thoughts in a couple of juicy new ideas for story arcs suitable for novel, or at least novella, length.

No, they will not be about hockey.

Things must be backed up more than ever, because I’ve had a story in the queue for two full weeks now, and it’s only for a new cover image. I sure hope I put in the moderator note that that’s the only change, which I always try to do.

I think, given the backup, I’m going to wait a couple of months before updating any more cover images. I only have five left to do anyway, so this is a good pause point.

Well, in a world that celebrates tall men, here is one very decisive advantage of being a short man: guys, if you can find a taller-than-you woman who is openminded about the relative height (they do exist) shower sex is much easier if she is taller than the man. Conversely, some taller women might reconsider us short guys, at least for a fling, if they knew this. Obviously, heels nights still present a dilemma for the woman, though in my experience it was more a problem for her than it was for me.

I once dated a woman who was 3” taller. We played a lot in the shower, usually proceeding to intercourse on the bed, but we did sometimes fuck in the shower and it was super easy. Just the right heights for our parts to line up, usually doing her from behind. No squatting, straining or slipping. In fact, I will say that there was one time, wherein I held her steady against the shower wall, lifted her leg and and slipped myself inside her at a perfect angle, that I still consider the most memorable sexual encounter of my life. No idea if she does, of course.