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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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.
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.
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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.
You appear to be a lovely, beautiful woman, and I am disgusted that anyone would body-shame you. I think your body is amazing, and I think you will find plenty of people on Lush who will agree. I hope you find the strength and courage to be(come) the best you that you can be.
I think many (if not most) of us on Lush are here because of dirty or forbidden desires that we can’t talk openly about in front of our IRL friends or loved ones. I know I am. If anything, being able to talk and write about that keeps many of us from doing things we might later regret. .
What a great competition this was! Having read every entry, I wholeheartedly agree with the Top 15, and especially with the Podium finishers. All three are spectacularly worthy.
Thanks to everyone involved, especially our hardworking moderation team. And an extra thanks for expanding to a Top 15 - or else (at #11) I wouldn't have made the list!
You’re not going to find “an AI” to do it all, I think. You’ll probably need multiple tools.
But at least for prompt to photo, Perchance AI can do explicit photos once you turn off the PG13 filter. It generates decent nudes in whatever setting you want, including erect cocks on men (and remarkably often on women). It goes haywire pretty fast when you try to prompt it to get your nudes to do things to each other, though.
That’s all I have tried with genAI, so not sure about video generation. Story help from genAI, on the other hand, is NOT something I would do - nor would I recommend trying, given the rules of the site.
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I couldn't agree more, Piquet... 😀 And I would just like to add, give every author a chance, read their stories and don't be put off by the standard they write to. There are some crackers in the list. A few that were very "unique" and at least a couple that had me laughing out loud. 😳🤣😊
Agreed! The list of entries might be long, but the stories themselves are short. I have read all of them except for the IF ones. Many are very entertaining.
Yeah, neither two-finger tapping nor long-tapping brings up a context menu on my IOS device (which is an iPhone). On a PC, two-finger tapping (on the screen) or right-clicking does bring up a menu with a Save Image As tab. Not sure I know how to help.
It can still take me a while to get Perchance to generate that base image that I want (although sometimes it “gets it” right away), but I spend a lot less time on that than I used to take searching porn sites for images I wanted to use.
When you did that image for Minnie’s Merry Mall Christmas last year. Seeker4, it made me go “Whoa.” It’s hard to believe that was just a year ago, and look where we are today. Not only am I using AI for all my new cover images, but I’ve gone back and used it to generate new cover images for many of my older stories. I’ve become aware that there are porn companies making a profit center out of filing “nuisance” lawsuits for people downloading and sharing copyrighted porn, so it seems prudent to me to avoid publicly available porn of unknown provenance completely.
I do think it is worth the time it takes to create a good cover image. I don’t think it’s the #1 factor driving viewership, but in my observation it seems pretty significant, especially the first day or two after publication when your story is shown on the front page (and, if you’re lucky, the Trending gallery) and competing for new readers’ attention based heavily on that visual.
I create two images for all my new stories: one “clean” one to make the official cover image and which follows Lush’s rules for that, and one “dirty” image that is more explicit, which I post to my Wall when the story is published. Just in the past week, someone has commented on a new story saying it was that image that drew them in, so I know cover images matter.
I’m happy to report that while 26 initially made text editing nearly impossible on MANY popular websites in addition to Lush, it has been fixed with 26.2. Will see if the intermittent problems with no data service and with excessive battery consumption go away too.
