It can't have got past your attention that there are an awful lot of cow-pokes roaming the prairies at the moment.
Get your war-paint on and grab your tomahawks, before they shoot all the buffalo.
Look on the upside at least you found out what an uptight asshole she was BEFORE you added her as a friend (you didn't add her did you?)
This may be completely unrelated but you mention that you suffered from a life-threatening illness/accident.
Illness can have a huge psychological effect on sexual intimacy. Cancer, for example, can leave people revolted by the idea of sex - and this all happens at a subconscious level. If there have been any changes to your sex life from before and after your illness it might be worth exploring therapy as way of rebuilding the levels of intimacy you expect from a healthy relationship.
I see from your other posts you were circumcised late in life - now i'm only guessing but this would suggest to me that either:
a) you suffered from phimosis so found penetrative sex painful, hence your preference for oral sex, or
b) you had to on the grounds of your partner's religion or upbringing - which might suggest a more repressed attitude to sex hence her thoughts of oral as "dirty"
If it's a) you might need some help to get more pleasure from penetrative sex (stopping wanking might help too), if it's b) then you need to talk things over with her about the role sex has in your relationship but approach it from a position of what you both need from sexual intimacy rather than simply what you want
I've changed from first to third between drafts before. First is fine if the only head you need to be in is the one telling the story
Looking at my own work, gender appears to be the deciding factor. Where a female character is the focus of the story (Daguerreotype, Three bears, Brazilian Wanderer) the stories are told in 3rd person. Where a male is the focus (Student Body, Unreserved Seating, Totally Unacceptable, Scotch Bonnet) I use first person.
Luckily you have a gender-neutral name and av - this helps with first person as some readers are easily confused. For me, a female voice from a clearly male author (and vice versa) can impede the flow or lead to extra exposition in the opening. Yes, I know lots of people here manage it but I must be in the easily confused portion of the community.
There is a draft of Unreserved Seating where at the end it's revealed that the narrator is female but I dropped it before publishing. It can still be read with a male or female voice but I would think 99.99% of people read it as male.
My story, Circle of Friends uses a lot of scene transitions as it tells seven mini stories about seven characters. Like Abigail, I used story breaks (****) to signal the start of each new mini story.
I've seen other authors use italics to signal a separate sub-plot. I personally don't like this - I prefer to see story telling with words rather than typography. The practice encourages lazy writing.
the rusty sheriff's badge
the chocolate tea towel holder
Bourneville boulevard, Cadbury alley (US: Hershey highway)
marmite motorway
log flume
brass eye
brown eye
mudeye
muckspreader
the tradesman's
the munt
1500? I'm not sure I can stretch a story out that long ;)
Men of a certain age will have some kind of appeal to younger women but it's not usually because she wants a replacement dad.
Girls grow up attracted to boys older than themselves, it comes with reaching maturity earlier. Things we associate with this stage of our sexual development often carry through to later life, in one form or another - instead it goes from 21 year olds with their own cars to 40 year olds with their own house. Women who are attracted to older men will usually tell you that older men are more confident and are more comfortable with themselves. That's not necessarily true but older men do tend to have higher status and are usually better off - attractive qualities to a lot of women
Your friend should be careful though - a girl half his age may treat him a little too much like her actual dad: expect him to pay for anything she wants, not be entirely honest as to who she hangs out with or maybe just patronise him.
I have no idea but there are people who earn a good deal of money from people after the type of relationship you're looking for.
Apologies in advance if this seems out of turn but have you considered paying for sex? It would give you exactly what you want and you'd have no complaints about being duped or misled.
Allowing HTML tags in forms can leave a website open to script injections. Line breaks using the carriage return on its own should be enough for what you want.
*snaps fingers*
... and you're back in the room.
Any chance we can have a block gif option?
There's a user here with a 3.9MB gif avatar - yes, that's right - an avatar!
All you need do is call ████████ a ████████, a ████ or a ██████
Either that or point out how you can ████████████ █████ ██████ this site to ████ ██████ ████████████ - that should get your post deleted in no time.
Though of course you'll probably get a lifetime ban too
Feel free to tell me to shut up but I've noticed that at least one of the stories in the comp has been given a RR already.
I'm certainly NOT suggesting the story doesn't deserve a thumbs up, I just think that for the sake of fairness as a competition it would be better to hold back on handing out accolades until after the closing date.
Scoring is one of the most sensitive issues on this place and, for me, the longer I've been here the more meaningless it's become.
Most authors here will tell you that they love scores but what they really value are comments - good or bad. If you think something was lacking - tell them. You're entitled to an opinion and you shouldn't feel constricted in giving it.
You don't have to be a good writer to recognise when something doesn't work. Yes I value the comments made by experienced Lush authors, but I also value the opinions of those who i've never crossed paths with but who have taken the time out to read whatever i've produced.
Of course you have to differentiate between something that's bad and something that's just not your cup of tea. Different people like different things - if it's not your kink, just move on to the next story and leave that one for those that do like that sort of thing.
Hope that helps
Well let's put it this way: would you open up a joint bank account with your internet lover?
I wanted to go back and redo the research I did last time but it looks like the four-bomber was back in operation last week - stories getting 50-odd votes and only three comments - so the data will be pretty much useless.
There's no evidence at the moment to suggest that female avatars alone get better comments or votes but it would seem that they do get more attention