The 2025 750 Word Story Challenge Support Thread

[Actingup]

I've got a Valentine's Day 750 Word in the queue for 1st Feb. It was a fun write.

 

[Erozetta]

I have one queued up for loving wives and one queued up for erotic horror.

 

[Actingup]

I have one queued up for loving wives and one queued up for erotic horror.

What a good reason for us to sharpen our positive commenting quills ready for LW! How does erotic horror go in terms of supportive culture?

 

[ElectricBlue]

What a good reason for us to sharpen our positive commenting quills ready for LW! How does erotic horror go in terms of supportive culture?

Fairly quiet, I think.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Mine's in. Going into E&V, but with a twist. See what happens.

 

[jsmiam]

Regarding 750 word stories being related to other stories, regardless of how they relate, what we call them, and the spirit of saying, “I wrote something in 750 words and 750 words alone.”

A quiz:
Person (a) creates three 750 word entries. Each had absolutely nothing to do with the other. There is absolutely no benefit to any one of the three entries from reading the others.

Person (b) creates three separately submitted 750 word entries. There are commonalities between the threee stories. There is at the very least some inkling of background information that did not require as much in-depth expounding upon in later entries, since it was explained elsewhere.

Question: Who has more entries fully contained within 750 words, person (a) or person (b)?

Its not so much about whether its the rules or not. You’re supposed to be challenging yourself to write something in 750 words. If it expands beyond 750 words by way of additional stories, then did you really meet the challenge?

 

[Erozetta]

What a good reason for us to sharpen our positive commenting quills ready for LW! How does erotic horror go in terms of supportive culture?

I'd personally prefer honest, lol.

EH is pretty quiet outside of Halloween.

 

[Erozetta]

Regarding 750 word stories being related to other stories, regardless of how they relate, what we call them, and the spirit of saying, “I wrote something in 750 words and 750 words alone.”

A quiz:
Person (a) creates three 750 word entries. Each had absolutely nothing to do with the other. There is absolutely no benefit to any one of the three entries from reading the others.

Person (b) creates three separately submitted 750 word entries. There are commonalities between the threee stories. There is at the very least some inkling of background information that did not require as much in-depth expounding upon in later entries, since it was explained elsewhere.

Question: Who has more entries fully contained within 750 words, person (a) or person (b)?

Its not so much about whether its the rules or not. You’re supposed to be challenging yourself to write something in 750 words. If it expands beyond 750 words by way of additional stories, then did you really meet the challenge?

This brings up a question I have. The loving wives one I entered is from the wife's pov and I was considering doing one from the husband's pov. They aren't interacting in the wife's story, it's fully contained to her inner thoughts, which was the same idea I was going to do with him. It's not necessary, I just thought it would be fun to see if anyone reads both and connects them on their own. I wouldn't connect them by title and it would only be noticeably connected if the readers pick up on it on their own.

Would that be considered a 1500 word story, or two 750 word stories?

 

[Actingup]

I'd personally prefer honest, lol.

EH is pretty quiet outside of Halloween.

i was just thinking ‘without machine guns and poison gas’ in LW. Honesty is good too

 

[ElectricBlue]

Its not so much about whether its the rules or not. You’re supposed to be challenging yourself to write something in 750 words. If it expands beyond 750 words by way of additional stories, then did you really meet the challenge?

In my mind it's the containment of a story element within the word limit that's the thing. Whether it then goes on to a longer story, or whether you have more self-contained 750 elements that might interconnect - who cares? so what? That's pedantic nit-picking.

I say this, of course, having written both a and b, and also c, which you don't mention.

My first 750 word piece actually contains within it a 400 word vignette. The rest of the piece is a framing story for the element that for me, was the most important, the vignette I wanted to tell. Was it a 750 word exercise, or two inter-linked shorter pieces? I don't care.

My second 750 word piece was self-contained, until a little bit later I wrote a second chapter, then a third and a fourth, each one a little longer. It was a deliberate experiment - how many readers would stay with the story to the end. Answer: enough.

In the 2023 750 word collection I wrote four sequential pieces, each alternating the point of view, each element progressing the story. The first part is a typical 750 word score (4.33/365), the other three are all Red H, but with a third of the Views, culminating in 4.70/80 from 5300 Views. By any measure, that's a successful story with a high Vote/View ratio. Sure, it's really a 3000 word story, but with the discipline of equal length chapters.

Here's the thing - not once did anyone comment, "Oh, but you didn't follow the rules." Which tells me the only people who get bothered about the "rules" are some writers - readers don't care. It's the story that counts, and if you tell it well enough, the readers will let you know.

 

[Erozetta]

i was just thinking ‘without machine guns and poison gas’ in LW. Honesty is good too

Nah, I can handle it. I carry super glue

In my mind it's the containment of a story element within the word limit that's the thing. Whether it then goes on to a longer story, or whether you have more self-contained 750 elements that might interconnect - who cares? so what? That's pedantic nit-picking.

I say this, of course, having written both a and b, and also c, which you don't mention.

My first 750 word piece actually contains within it a 400 word vignette. The rest of the piece is a framing story for the element that for me, was the most important, the vignette I wanted to tell. Was it a 750 word exercise, or two inter-linked shorter pieces? I don't care.

My second 750 word piece was self-contained, until a little bit later I wrote a second chapter, then a third and a fourth, each one a little longer. It was a deliberate experiment - how many readers would stay with the story to the end. Answer: enough.

In the 2023 750 word collection I wrote four sequential pieces, each alternating the point of view, each element progressing the story. The first part is a typical 750 word score (4.33/365), the other three are all Red H, but with a third of the Views, culminating in 4.70/80 from 5300 Views. By any measure, that's a successful story with a high Vote/View ratio. Sure, it's really a 3000 word story, but with the discipline of equal length chapters.

Here's the thing - not once did anyone comment, "Oh, but you didn't follow the rules." Which tells me the only people who get bothered about the "rules" are some writers - readers don't care. It's the story that counts, and if you tell it well enough, the readers will let you know.

I submitted the husband's pov thanks to this.

The readers can sort out if it's within the spirit or not. From my perspective, they are two sides of a single story, but they each stand alone to tell a story, they just tell a more complex story read back to back.

Everything I've posted to this account so far have been playthings and experiments. Should be fun to see the reaction.

 

[D_K_Moon]

I'm working on my first entry, this one will go into Incest.

 

[jsmiam]

Sure, it's really a 3000 word story…

Thank you. It is a 3000 word story.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Thank you. It is a 3000 word story.

In four x 750 word parts, each separately published. If the challenge hadn't been there, the story construct would have been quite different, and very possibly, the story wouldn't have been written at all.

Those year though, I've got one which definitely won't be extended. I have made it part of a Series, but I doubt anyone will care about that.

 

[secretLace]

I actually like the idea of, say 3, 750w stories that interconnect and put them in a serie. It could be that each revolves around a thing or three different persons experience at a sex show. Love playing with formats to challenge myself.

 

[secretLace]

typical, I started to write a nice exibition story for this and when she takes her clothes off I only have 45 words left

Ohh well, time to draft up a new one and see if I can hit closer to the goal.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Alright. Submitted.

 

[PapaRomantic]

I'm thinkin of writing one for the Humor category that would be a spoof of the usual tropes in the Incest category. I might have to include a note to administrator about what my purpose is.

"Brother, we are 18 today? Guess what that means?"

"Sister, it means that it's finally Literotica legal to have sex with my twin sister!"

"I'm so excited, Brother! I'm so glad we have a backyard pool with a privacy fence high enough that no one will ever see us!"

"I'm excited also to watch you take my 14 inch cock that's as thick as a loaf of bread!"

"Brother, that big monster will look amazing between my 36KKK tits!"

"Sister, I don't know how you manage to stay at 105 pounds with honkers that size!"


Yeah, that kind of stuff.

 

[Actingup]

I'm thinkin of writing one for the Humor category that would be a spoof of the usual tropes in the Incest category. I might have to include a note to administrator about what my purpose is.

"Brother, we are 18 today? Guess what that means?"

"Sister, it means that it's finally Literotica legal to have sex with my twin sister!"

"I'm so excited, Brother! I'm so glad we have a backyard pool with a privacy fence high enough that no one will ever see us!"

"I'm excited also to watch you take my 14 inch cock that's as thick as a loaf of bread!"

"Brother, that big monster will look amazing between my 36KKK tits!"

"Sister, I don't know how you manage to stay at 105 pounds with honkers that size!"


Yeah, that kind of stuff.

What is 14 inches in metres, brother?

 

[PapaRomantic]

What is 14 inches in metres, brother?

Huge

 

[sinfantasy]

The ShelbyDawn57 Duleigh 57 Dirty Joke SubChallenge
Enter your favorite Dirty Joke in exactly 750 words in the Humor & Satire Category. Originality is not required, a punchline is.

Use the following header (or something similar):

This story is part of the 750 Word Challenge, Dirty Joke sub-challenge. Below this line are exactly 750 words.

Let the laughs begin!

Submitted under "Humor and Satire",

Cupids Cry: Modern Romance Minefied
Cupid's dayout and his struggles with modern day romance

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Okay slightly frustrated and it is my own dang fault. This is the first time attempting a 750 word challenge. I misunderstood the rules and wrote in total 750 words, including A/N and intro Rightfully so my story was rejected for being too short.

So I rewrote the final para and got it to 750, according to Google it was 750. MS Word said 751 , and resubmitted.

If it gets posted and if you are so inclined to read a Sapphic story, check out Dark Roasted Coffee when it is published.

 

[D_K_Moon]

When can we start submitting our 750 word masterpieces?

 

[Actingup]

When can we start submitting our 750 word masterpieces?

Some have been submitted already and are being held for publication until 1 Feb. So, anytime, but I imagine that Approval Central is pretty busy right now so waiting a day or three is also fine.

 

[D_K_Moon]

Some have been submitted already and are being held for publication until 1 Feb. So, anytime, but I imagine that Approval Central is pretty busy right now so waiting a day or three is also fine.

Then I'll wait until the weekend. I was talking with another writer, and I think I'm going to try to write a few entries, each one in a different category, and maybe even try to write in categories that I haven't in the past.