If you like dirty, foul-mouthed, teenage stories, please check out my first foray into the genre, Sacriliege. Don't bless me, Father, for I am sinning. It's a quick, hot, dirty read.

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Krystalg - wow, such a charged response! I could almost see you standing delivering some TedX talk on this. If you write with anywhere near this much verve and emotion, not sure I’d make it through your story without having to take a nerve-calming break!!!!

Thanks for your comments!

Opinions on my writing vary, but I do write prolifically, and I'm always trying to expand my mastery and meager skills.

Because I'm recovering from surgery I need to wear them 😠 Mine are pink with "It won't lick itself" on the front.

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I write to cause a reaction... I want to effect ones emotions

- as an author, the ultimate measure of success is whether our words alone can create that emotional response we desire.

THIS! DeepDarkness, this!

Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and, in some cases, an ass may be worth a thousand Lush coins, but what you said there, even though it was to buttress your desires for pictures in your prose, is the hallmark of the perfect attitude for a writer.

Structure, flow, grammar, and a vocabulary to the point of being sesquipedalian can all be learned and mastered with practice, but writing in a way that evokes emotions within the reader can only come from one's attitude and inner essence. Churning up emotions, be they soothing and languid or raging like volcanic fire, is not success or failure, it is the lofty goal writers constantly dangle in front of themselves as if it were some literary carrot. It is what we strive for. Pursuing that endeavor allows everything else to fall into place.

Well said!

Despite some life stuff cramping my style, I finally completed the multi-world, steam-powered, fantasy romp I called Planarscapes. Episode five just dropped. If you like hot, steamy sex (<--pun intended), dramatic sword fights, Victorian slang, and a humorous, rowdy time, check it out.

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Yeah, amazing work both of you. I need to mod more. Or get a better ass.

Modding is good for the glutes; that's a win-win.

Congrats to you, Cydia for a well-deserved nod of acknowledgment.

Does my mother, an Elder in the pagan community, and the entire coven (my Goddess Mother is the high priestess) count?

Excellent! I'll probably sit this one out, though.

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How about I go in and start "editing" all your stories? ALL of them.

If you're offering editing services....just sayin' 😜

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3/4 of a new Alice chapter written. 1/3 of a new Space Girl written. Other than that, fuck all, and it's been since before the holidays i've even touched them. i tend to write like that, though. It's nothing new. in about a month all knock out those and probably 3 more in about a week. lol

Christopher Walken appeared in my mind as I read that. "I have a fever, and the only thing that can cure it is more Space Girl."

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A horror novel set in Pueblo Colorado. A young man desperate for the approval of his father turns into a monster seeking the approval of something much darker.

So, basically, adolescence?

Of course, it is still relevant, albeit not appreciated by most. The thing about sound advice and truth is that they transcend cultures and time and are immune to the opinions of others. When communication, acceptance of somebody for who and what they are, and catering to your lover's desires are out of vogue and not longer pertinent, the world will be an abysmal place.

One of the most common missteps writers make is sentence fragments, one of my pet peeves right up there with lacking proper commas. This brief treatise helps: https://www.niu.edu/writingtutorial/punctuation/sentence-fragments.shtml

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The inflated words that are used for the author’s ego rather than developing characters and themes.

Don't read me, then!

I get off on exhibiting myself, especially to appreciative strangers in a safe, public setting. It's my one kink that never gets boring.

Let's just say there's a very hot reason I never wear panties when we go out.

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Its a bug that I reported circa 10 days ago and its being investigated.

The problem can be emulated if one uploads a picture through messaging, into your Misc gallery and then transfers it to another gallery, such as public.

the same thing happened with a picture of my ass. I was flabbergasted; my ass is ALWAYS met with instant approval!

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For fucks sake, how long was the wedding?!

It was five orgasms long.

Congratulations, Seeker!
There were so many fantastic entries in this one, but yours went further than the others. A well-deserved win.

Episode 2 just dropped. Critiques welcome: https://www.lushstories.com/stories/steampunk/planarscapes-episode-2-the-argo

My entry: Santa Is Coming

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I'm in. Wait, what's the tag?

"christmas micro" (no capitals) is the tag.

However, just because you beat the pants off of me in the last comp does not mean that my submission is not the bestest, greatest, hottest, and every other "est" ever written! Tremble before my Yuletide cheer, Ensorceled. 😜

Cardboard cutouts instead of characters...mere placeholders for the sex; lack of a story that makes it just porn instead of erotica; and that constant, subject-verb, subject-verb patterning. Give me a well-punctuated, compelling story with real people that I can sympathize with or at least view as having substance and some good context rather than "she was stacked with 36 DD's and horny and they fucked."

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How did you manage that without being caught or seen? Wow!

Who said I wasn't?

In a church filled with people, sitting in the pews, during a wedding ceremony...and the always-classic in a movie theater.

I just wrote my first Steampunk story, here on Lush. Find it here: Planarscapes I'd really love some feedback from Steampunk aficionados and fans.

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"Really good," was what I heard.

Touché

Congratulations on earning your placing. As Ensorceled said, it was a great story.