Invitation only events

[EmilyMiller]

This is from the Lit Xitter account and so hopefully @AH_Mod will be OK .

https://twitter.com/x/status/1766169860311265432

So, I realize exactly what I’ll be accused of here, but I don’t really care. I’ve kinda given up on comps, unless they align with something I’m doing anyway. And no I’m not feeling left out (I’m still a golden member / Illuminati writer remember?).

But… what’s the deal with these invitationals? Friends of the organizer? The great and the good? The usual suspects from the last five years? People with a Z in their name?

Anyone know?

Emily

 

[StillStunned]

I can't see the Xitter page, but I can quote this from the Author-Organised Challenge List 2024 thread:

Some challenges are open to all writers. These challenges are marked [ OPEN ] .

Some challenges are not open to all writers. These challenges are marked [ INVITATIONAL ].

Past years' Author-Organized Challenges can be found here.

The challenge organizer decides whether a challenge is Open or Invitational based on the goals of the challenge and the subject matter. For some challenges, an open call makes sense. For others (for example, challenges where one author continues the work of another, or where each writer contributes a chapter so all stories can be read as one work), an Invitational challenge is a better fit. Please respect the wishes of the organizer regarding the parameters of the challenge.

Presumably, if you need to know, you know. If you don't know, you don't need to know.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I can't see the Xitter page, but I can quote this from the Author-Organised Challenge List 2024 thread:


Presumably, if you need to know, you know. If you don't know, you don't need to know.

Just curious. Emily needs answers.

Which sounds like a great story title.

Emily

 

[EmilyMiller]

I can't see the Xitter page, but I can quote this from the Author-Organised Challenge List 2024 thread:


Presumably, if you need to know, you know. If you don't know, you don't need to know.

Here’s the Lit page:

https://www.literotica.com/s/wicked-games-coming-soon

Emily

 

[Wonderer67]

The theme immediately made me think of this song

 

[StillStunned]

Just curious. Emily needs answers.

I'm afraid you're not the Illuminata you thought you were. Not quite the innermost circle yet.

 

[lovecraft68]

The challenge organizer decides whether a challenge is Open or Invitational based on the goals of the challenge and the subject matter. For some challenges, an open call makes sense. For others (for example, challenges where one author continues the work of another, or where each writer contributes a chapter so all stories can be read as one work), an Invitational challenge is a better fit. Please respect the wishes of the organizer regarding the parameters of the challenge.

Guess that part is too much to ask.

 

[StillStunned]

Guess that part is too much to ask.

How so? Em isn't crashing the party. She's just asking whether anyone knows anything about the process behind it, who gets invited and why.

 

[lovecraft68]

Presumably, if you need to know, you know. If you don't know, you don't need to know.

Yeah, I mean, wait...what?

 

[EmilyMiller]

The challenge organizer decides whether a challenge is Open or Invitational based on the goals of the challenge and the subject matter. For some challenges, an open call makes sense. For others (for example, challenges where one author continues the work of another, or where each writer contributes a chapter so all stories can be read as one work), an Invitational challenge is a better fit. Please respect the wishes of the organizer regarding the parameters of the challenge.

Guess that part is too much to ask.

It just strikes me as kinda weird.

Many more things round here are more weird, but still.

Again, for the avoidance of doubt, I’m not pining to be invited.

Emily

 

[AwkwardlySet]

And no I’m not feeling left out (I’m still a golden member / Illuminati writer remember?).

It means that you need to up your game with Laurel and possibly join the diamond member group

Btw, greetings from the wood and stone member group... Deep in our hole, we are working hard towards the copper member group, and a few weeks ago we even had a brief glimpse of the sun!

 

[MillieDynamite]

I'd never be invited to be in the COOL-writer events. I'm just not that cool.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I'd never be invited to be in the COOL-writer events. I'm just not that cool.

No worries, you can be invited to my HOT writers events

 

[StillStunned]

I'd never be invited to be in the COOL-writer events. I'm just not that cool.

Probably the only writer in the Hangout who's cool enough to be invited is @Devinter. But he'd be so cool that he'd prefer to hang out with us plebs so we feel better about ourselves

 

[EmilyMiller]

It means that you need to up your game with Laurel and possibly join the diamond member group

Btw, greetings from the wood and stone member group... Deep in our hole, we are working hard towards the copper member group, and a few weeks ago we even had a brief glimpse of the sun!

You’re in the mud group, hun

 

[EmilyMiller]

I'd never be invited to be in the COOL-writer events. I'm just not that cool.

We need to pitch a non-cool writers event

 

[lovecraft68]

It just strikes me as kinda weird.

Many more things round here are more weird, but still.

Again, for the avoidance of doubt, I’m not pining to be invited.

Emily

Well, like you said, there's way crazier things than this.

Best way to put it is if you were going to throw a party would you invite your friends or invite everyone?

Now, is that a popular answer? No. Is it the right one? Yes.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'd never be invited to be in the COOL-writer events. I'm just not that cool.

It's OK, Millie. At least, the event organizer didn't refer to you as "a vile creature, hardly human." Your chances of getting invited are quite a bit better than mine, I reckon.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Probably the only writer in the Hangout who's cool enough to be invited is @Devinter. But he'd be so cool that he'd prefer to hang out with us plebs so we feel better about ourselves

Well at least one of my alts is cool…

 

[EmilyMiller]

Well, like you said, there's way crazier things than this.

Best way to put it is if you were going to throw a party would you invite your friends or invite everyone?

Now, is that a popular answer? No. Is it the right one? Yes.

Seems strange a public site is a party venue.

Just sayin’

Do they pay to do this?

Emily

 

[ElectricBlue]

It just strikes me as kinda weird.

Many more things round here are more weird, but still.

Again, for the avoidance of doubt, I’m not pining to be invited.

Emily

They're convened by a self-contained little group, best leave it at that.

I made the mistake one year of asking, can I be a part of that? (because I had a story that seemed to fit the theme). The organiser said, "Oh, but I don't like GM." If you go look at my story file, you'll see the organiser has a fucking astonishing ability to select the one story out of my whole body of work that's GM, and judge my whole work on that. That told me enough, don't want to know. The other tip is to check out their category of choice.

Be like Groucho Marx: "I'd never want to be a member of a club that would invite me to be a member."

 

[EmilyMiller]

It's OK, Millie. At least, the event organizer didn't refer to you as "a vile creature, hardly human." Your chances of getting invited are quite a bit better than mine, I reckon.

Yeah, but they have a non-human fetish, it was a pick up line

 

[EmilyMiller]

They're convened by a self-contained little group, best leave it at that.

I made the mistake one year of asking, can I be a part of that? (because I had a story that seemed to fit the theme). The organiser said, "Oh, but I don't like GM." If you go look at my story file, you'll see the organiser has a fucking astonishing ability to select the one story out of my whole body of work that's GM, and judge my whole work on that. That told me enough, don't want to know. The other tip is to check out their category of choice.

Be like Groucho Marx: "I'd never want to be a member of a club that would invite me to be a member."

Got it - so I’m free to pitch a tentacle porn / lesbian water sports event if I like?

[starts writing a PM to Laurel]

Emily

 

[SimonDoom]

We need to pitch a non-cool writers event

Simon's Story Event: LARPers Gone Wild. Write a story about a group of people who organize a LARPing (Live Action Role Playing) event in a park, featuring Medieval costumes and fake swords and bad British accents, only with a kinky twist.

 

[StillStunned]

Well at least one of my alts is cool…

So it's true then? I really am the only poster here who isn't one of your alts?