Quote by GrayGhost
I think it takes time to get the knack of writing for LUSH. Every moderator is different. Some are very picky and others are not. It just depends who draws your story.

After you write the story, reread it at least a couple of times. Out loud is best. Then, do not be afraid to do some rewrite on the story.

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Eloquently put! I alway try (although I'm sure I must have forgotten once ore twice.) to say thank you, a in the little "notes to the mods" box. It it REALLY IS so exciting to put a story out. I've learned a lot LISTENING to the wisdom they share, and it really has helped me grow as a writer, improving my skills.
So, I don't care who you are...try and take some advice. Nobody (imho) is trying to put anyone down.
P.s. The best advice I've been given, is don't over post. Put a week or more (preferably more) between stories and/or poems. If we saturate the site with something daily, no one will take us seriously, and eventually stop reading (thank you, Poppet!).
Anyway...just my humble opinion.

Quote by Just_A_Guy_You_Know
This is advice is bullshit. The way to deal with a rejected story is to question everything you think you know about yourself and the world. Go on a three-week "vision quest" bender filled with Cystal Meth, Mescaline, and Vodka so cheap, it's intentionally misspelled Vaudca to avoid false advertising lawsuits. Then write a lengthy rejection of the rejection letter explaining in full graphic detail all the disgusting things you would do to the reviewer if you ever met them on the street. Be sure to use lots of racial epithets. If you don't know the race of the reviewer just sprinkle in a little of everything - something is bound to stick. Instead of sending it directly to the reviewer, post it on every possible message board you can, from this one to Craig's List to the Microsoft support site and Questions. You might consider printing physical copies to staple to telephone poles and construction sites. Then, get into a 1979 Ford Pinto, with Creedence in the tape deck, drive north, and go on a sperm bank robbery spree. Don't ask questions, just do it!

Wake up sticky and bleeding in a ditch, where a hobo is pissing in your face. Realize what a total wrong turn your life has taken. Go to rehab and get cleaned up. Come to the realization that you're not Hunter fucking Thompson. Then get back to your story. Take the feedback, which is probably not too bad after all, and use it to clean up your story so it's more readable and in line with the guidelines of this site before resubmitting it.

Or you could just start with that last sentence, I guess.

Quote by MonsoonMicky
Before I start this post, let me just tell you all that I am a grammar and punctuation freak. Before I started reading amateur sex stories, I was all about good writing.

But today, after spending the past three months reading amateur-written sex stories, I find myself wondering if perfect grammar and punctuation are the key to a good sex story, are the two things mutually exclusive? I am leaning towards the opinion that a good sex story should titillate and entertain, rather than be grammatically perfect.

The stories on this site are great and very good with regards to grammar and punctuation.

But I've read stories that are absolutely atrocious grammatically, yet really seem to push my buttons, so to speak.

So does adding too much emphasis on grammar and punctuation take away a little of that "je ne sais quoi" from a sex story?

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It was either THAT or hit someone that made me instantly explosively angry. "Boxer's fracture"

TPBM has a secret "sweetheart" on LUSH>

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The expert mistress is sleeping above me (Sprite).... you may wake her up to fulfill your desires.... at your own risk :P

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.... and THAT"S on a GOOD DAY being nice

Quote by oceanrunner1974
There was an episode of a sitcom I saw once (How I met your mother, maybe?) in which one character admits that for him to fantasize about women other than his wife, he has to kill off his wife in his fantasy, because he could never cheat on her. So she has to have died in a car crash or of some disease before the fantasy makes sense to him.

Although at some level that's rather weird, there's another level at which I completely get it. I don't really want to read, and especially not write, stories in which the plumber shows up and says, "I got a call someone needs their pipes cleaned?" to the naked girl who answers the door.

I like the set-up. In fact, I'd venture to guess that for many a fault in many of my stories is that the set-up is perhaps too long. But for me, I want to make sure that the sex "makes sense," even if it is a fantastic situation.

So, if we hear that the girl has been challenged to answer the door naked and is doing it on a dare, and we know exactly how she happens to be in that situation. And the friend who dared her did it because she knows that the plumber who is coming is really the guy she's fantasized about for years, and...

Well, then the story got a lot more interesting for me.

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Yes, it was the oral sex comp. That was when the Flash erotica category was brand new.

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What is an orgasm??

Hey Chatty

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So I can cross you off the list of Mods & other staff that send me warnings, suspensions, bans, & other junk-mail-like things without reason.

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Don't hate me b/c it's true.

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If that were true the site would actually be more LuSh, & less BS.