The Official Authors' Hangout Halloween 2018 Support Thread
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oggbashan
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Usually about a week before the start date (Oct 2) but Laurel hasn't yet posted her thread in the Authors' Hangout.
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I have a question touching on ethics, regarding the Halloween contest.
I have a novel length story not yet published here—it contains a chapter with a really bizarre, horror-erotic Halloween party, attended by a group of English university students. Would it be ethical to ‘borrow’ this chapter, change the names, location, and the preamble to the party with a wholly different set of circumstances? But keep the truly bizarre happenings at the party?
It would result in a story of approximately 9,000 words.
I still plan to submit the novel in Literotica in a number of parts, further down the road, including the party. And I guess I’d include a disclaimer that I’d used the party-segment in a separate story.
What do you think...? Fair ball...?
I have a novel length story not yet published here—it contains a chapter with a really bizarre, horror-erotic Halloween party, attended by a group of English university students. Would it be ethical to ‘borrow’ this chapter, change the names, location, and the preamble to the party with a wholly different set of circumstances? But keep the truly bizarre happenings at the party?
It would result in a story of approximately 9,000 words.
I still plan to submit the novel in Literotica in a number of parts, further down the road, including the party. And I guess I’d include a disclaimer that I’d used the party-segment in a separate story.
What do you think...? Fair ball...?
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I'd say so. It's new to Lit, and it won't become a chapter story until after the contest.
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Fair game - it sounds like it can stand alone as a story, so go for it. This contest won't care if in six month's time, whenever, it pops up as chapter three in some longer thing.
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And you got it. It looks like people can start submitting their stories as early as tomorrow.
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And I so hoped to be first to submit . . . . next year maybe
Dream-Stone is on its way . . . strange, scary dreams, a Mayan Chief, a sacrificial altar and a young woman possessed . . . all contained in the boundaries of a couple of Lit pages. Heading into the Erotic Horror category just in time for Halloween.
Hope you enjoy.
Dream-Stone is on its way . . . strange, scary dreams, a Mayan Chief, a sacrificial altar and a young woman possessed . . . all contained in the boundaries of a couple of Lit pages. Heading into the Erotic Horror category just in time for Halloween.
Hope you enjoy.
oggbashan
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No one except Laurel knows who submitted first. All stories submitted and approved before the opening date will appear on Day 1.
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Not me. With luck and good writing mojo I can get my contest story done in about a week. But I have a noncontest story I'm trying to finish first.
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I'm trying to finish mine over the weekend.
tomlitilia
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Managed to get a draft done over the weekend. Now just hoping one of my regular editors have time to look at it so I don't have to shop around.
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We're off!
The link to the contest stories is now on the front page of Literotica:
https://www.literotica.com/stories/contest.php/halloween-2018
So far there are thirteen stories including two from me.
Where are the rest?
Get writing/editing - NOW! Please...
The link to the contest stories is now on the front page of Literotica:
https://www.literotica.com/stories/contest.php/halloween-2018
So far there are thirteen stories including two from me.
Where are the rest?
Get writing/editing - NOW! Please...
ChloeTzang
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Mines almost done. Almost....
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I've had laptop issues the past week. I never got a chance to send mine to anyone to edit, but I'm going to go ahead and submit it tonight. Hopefully it's ok without being edited.
tomlitilia
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You're brave. No matter how many times I self-edit, I seem to miss annoying mistakes. Until I've submitted. Then they appear.
A friend of mine once said that in every creative person lives a child who can't wait to show their latest drawing to their parents. I am increasingly learning to strangle that child and hold off on publication, at least until I've had an editorial mama read it.
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