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I am utterly surprised by the continued dialogue and fascination about co-written stories.

I agree partly with comments that several good authors, working on a piece, would be very unlikely to displace one of our site's rockstar writers (you know who they are). However, their effort, would likely better one written by a good author working alone.

Competitions are meant to be for individuals to compete against each other. They aren't meant to be collective efforts.

Head to any other story site, and you'll notice that every one of them, either directly stipulates, or heavily infers, that submissions should be individual efforts.

I have no desire to discuss the subject of co-written stories, further. They are not accepted in normal competitions, end of story.

The first post in this thread, has been amended, to sum up where we're at. I'll keep this thread open for comments for a few more days, then close it off.

Now you've all got me thinking it might be fun to have a competition specifically for co-written stories... Competition title ideas; "Ruined Online Relationships", "Forever Unfriended", "Never Again", "One's Company" "Creativity Quashed" "Coming Together" Joking aside, it could be fun if there's enough demand.

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Do I gotta pay up front and can I use my body as payment instead? I'm super cheap.

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No, I can't sprite.

So you want to enter the competition 20 times with 20 different writing partners ... great.

And, I don't even mind if you win.

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so if it was a comp. where you specifically HAD to have a co-author, I expect the prize would be split 50/50 so each party would have to be satisfied by their co-writer's contribution before entering a piece. I presume entries in the 'Masturbation' category would be disallowed *dab*

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How does your suggestion of allowing co-authored stories address Nicola's concerns regarding new members without many friends or a support network having a fair shot at competitions?

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I came out when I was 14. My parents and twin brother took it very well seeing as how they said they pretty much knew all along, all I did was confirm it. My relatives also pretty much knew and were surprisingly relatively supportive, to verying degrees anyway. I had a ton of guy and girl friends before I came out, once I did come out all the guys who were truly my friends stayed my friends and the ones who were just my friends because they wanted me split, and all but 2 of my girlfriends dropped me immedietly. I was crushed for a while I lost so many friends until my brother convinced me anyone who didn't stay wasn't a friend anyway. My parents were initially just ok with it and over the last few years have grown to become very accepting and supportive and my brother always has been and still maintains he knew as soon as I did because we share our thoughts anyway.

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Might I offer a suggestion? LOL!

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I like the idea a lot. There are so many valuable members who go above and beyond. I think they deserve to be appreciated formally!

I'm backing the 'awesome' badge. I'd also like to throw in the 'gold star' badge in too. At school when you're well behaved, kind, do good work etc. you get a gold star. Much coveted, relatable and fitting for this I think, after all, it is to be awarded to the stars of Lush. Something simple like 'Lushest Lushie' could also do the job and reflects that this is tied to the core values of our little community. I shall keep thinking too!

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What's a "Malta?"

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Milik and I were talking about a name for the badge. We feel if it is being made in Buz's honor. Why not name it "The Buz". I think it's a great name.

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Actually ... often the first ideas can be the best... and as I share your opinion of Buz why not keep it ... as the "BUZ Award"... or just "BUZ" ... with that awesome blue background.

Whatever you do not everyone will agree... but it's a neat thought.

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Cool idea. How about we call it the "ICE" badge? Reflective of a number of things such as 'cool' Lushie, like an iceberg 90% is what you don't see. (I think the award would usually go to someone who is not just superficially involved with Lush and had many contributions to Lush that many of us what not be aware of. I = Involved, C = Compassionate, E = Excellence?
and the badge is an iceberg, like this example but hopefully not so crudely rendered:

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This might be difficult to fit on a badge, but the word WAS invented because something was so great that there was not yet a word to describe the magnitude of its greatness.

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I really want to see Hidden Figures.

Lion too. I'm just finishing up the book now.

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Feel special. She's never asked ME to do that.

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Love some of these ideas!

I thought maybe SuperLushious or SuperLush could work. It could apply to anything that makes them an exceptional Lush member.

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or maybe just the "Heart" Award? Something simple to recognizes generosity and the goodness/kindness of their heart.

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That's kind of the thing here. It's a good faith rule. It's not sports cheating where you can test for PEDs. You can't test for PEE (performance enhancing editors). Especially if it's just say, an offsite friend/SO, etc. So, the writers who do show good faith are subject to those who don't. Which renders the entire premise for the rule kind of... empty?

Like I said. If you've having someone craft your entire story, all one need do is look at past entries or recent stories. Vast changes in style show up. They do. Every writer has a style you can pick out from a crowd imo.

And I mean....You CAN supply someone a story idea too, but the writer still has to be able to use that story idea for something that's original.

I like having people look over my competition entries. I rarely if ever get an edit from those eyes. Usually I'm just asking an honest opinion if it's worth posting. Or if a title works. Or if a certain scene works as is. Usually they're Y/N answers and I'll go back and tinker.

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Anyway. It's not like I'll stop entering. I'm usually too busy to think up story ideas and competition prompts serve as a drug to spark the imagination.

Just think the rule is kinda meaningless. The argument of good editor/bad editor is kind of moot when you have good writers/bad writers.

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Felt like it was, but maybe I'm just a bit tetchy today. Apologies if I'm misguided

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I think this is a great idea for a badge. And I like Frabjous! Callooh! Callay!

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Great idea! Has anyone mentioned me yet?

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I think this is a great idea for a badge. And I like Frabjous! Callooh! Callay!

Since it is kind of a whimsical award, perhaps it doesn't need to be the same every time. You could change the name every time! Or ask the winner what they'd like to call it. The winner gets to name the badge!

That probably makes way too much work for Gav, a new badge to design every month. But I love the idea of a sort of randomly named badge showing up for people who are good citizens of the Lush community.

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you could just use a synonym for awesome too. Like, marvelous or wondrous.

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dear me. this has turned nasty. perhaps i'll be the only entrant in the future. will this mean i get all three prizes?

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Xenia is the Ancient Greek concept of hospitality. You could call it the Xenia award? (Just throwing ideas out there, lol)

Kindness, friendliness and generosity are all synonyms for hospitality so this could be another idea.