Probably for the same reason that none of your 48 friends are male
I find it fascinating that the actions of vampires (from Dracula onwards, anyway), which were meant to be a metaphor for sex (tall dark mysterious man seduces innocent girl - there's penetration and blood) are now seen as a kink in themselves. I'm sure there a plenty of other examples of fetishes born from similar metaphors
Good luck with the story. Just try not to make it thinly veiled True Blood fangfic
Ok, I've lived with it for a week but I can't get on with it. I have to say, I preferred it how it was.
There's nothing wrong with a slow beginning if the purpose of it is to build intrigue. If all you're doing is padding it out before the inevitable action starts then your stories are going to be about as exciting as waiting for a bus.
There's a huge choice of stories on here and people have limited time - you're in a buyers' market. Successful authors on here know this and they write their stories accordingly
I rarely do - it's one of the most pointless and divisive aspects of the site.
If you've changed your settings so that it won't show if you've scored a story on Friends Activity then I'd hope that would mean that fact is also hidden from the Timelines - if not, then it should.
The flipside of that setting, along with the setting that hides the stories you've commented on means that I often miss stories enjoyed by friends whose opinions on stories I usually share. I really can't see the point of hiding the fact that you commented on stories - for me it runs against the spirit of the site.
In the example you use "I was sat..." I can pretty much guarantee that a gerund or the past-participle of another verb is going to turn up pretty quickly, probably the next word - and it's more than likely going to be the most important verb of the sentence. In this case it's going to be something like - thinking, looking, discussing, wanking. For me "We were sat discussing... " is far more elegant than "We were sitting discussing..."
Nice to see the Help options back up again on the top bar.
If I was to cast a critical eye though, I'd say that at first glance I get the impression that focus has more slightly further away from stories - which I know isn't true, it's just that's how it looks to me. If you're just looking at the menu bar it can appear simply to be a forum and chat site.
The settings icon should be for settings only and something you shouldn't need to click on that often - Timeline and Friends Activity don't really belong there.
Now there's more room on the bar maybe a "Stories" drop-down can be added with options such as the existing "My stories" and "Reading queue" together with other options like "Followed authors", "Story guidelines", "Favourites" and more. This might have the added bonus of increasing the feel of inclusiveness for the many authors that don't participate in chat or the forums.
EDIT: Maybe a further consideration could be the combining of the Search drop-down and the Search Stories input box. Much like the search box on Firefox which allows you to either select , Google, wikipedia etc the Lush search box could allow author and user searches (and maybe forum searches) too
There's no trick to it, you just need to practice - a lot - until it becomes easy. That brick wall you're hitting is actually a rut you've found yourself comfortably slipping into. Experimenting with other writing styles will help you get out of it.
You'll find, with practice, that you already have the skills to write in third person - it's almost impossible to write in first person without them (unless you have no other characters in your stories!)
Well I guess if you've ever got some kind of sexual satisfaction from this site then it would suggest that this is a porn site.
As a site it's really what you make it to be - if you're a gold member you can turn off all the adverts (which do make this place look like a porn site). Anyone can also block out certain story categories - you can have it so that can only ever see love stories and love poems (I can only imagine how horrific that would be). The truth is, there's always an x-rated vibe here. People will behave here in a way they definitely wouldn't on a more mainstream social network
The people directly above me are quite clear this isn't a porn site but I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark here and guess that angiegirl's facebook picture isn't her holding her tits. Ardentmale's wallpaper on his profile is a close up of some cock jammed half way up a cunt (it's in black and white though so I guess that's erotic). Even the lovely Kiera has two images posted on her comments of people indulging in oral sex. Please don't think that I'm saying there's anything wrong with this. There's not but we have to face facts that a casual observer is going to think that this is - if not a porn site per se - then very much porn related.
There's always a level of subjectiveness that separates the erotic from the pornographic. There is some incredibly well written erotica on this site - there's also a lot of fuck-fiction here. Stories entitled something like "Fucking my 18 year old neighbour and her Mom" are likely to be more readily viewed as the latter rather than the former irrespective of their actual content.
If someone got hold of one of your private chats the source is far more likely to be the person you were chatting with rather than someone who has supposedly "hacked" your account.
It sounds to me as if you've been played by someone with multiple accounts.
