The 2025 750 Word Story Challenge Support Thread

[Duleigh]

one character must go up so the other character can go down

Years ago the French developed this position where both characters can go down... on each other... at the same time... wait...... we're talking about something else, aren't we?

 

[MillieDynamite]

I'm rather challenged in the rhyming department, though, I've managed a few poems but never at this site.

Precisely! I have a nonerotic poem that I put up on 1/2022. It has 7 votes and 618 views in all that time. Of course on my part, not being a poet might have a little to do with that.


Comshaw

 

[MillieDynamite]

Yeah, that's what poets do: hang out. Coffee shops, specialty bars, college campuses, bookstores, and bedrooms of lovers.

Very true! (Exceptions made for the good poets, I am not one of those.)

I still like hanging out there sometimes, though.

Sadly, that seems to be true outside the Literotica community as well. And this is a time when we need poets.

 

[Duleigh]

Yeah, that's what poets do: hang out. Coffee shops, specialty bars, college campuses, bookstores, and bedrooms of lovers.

I just can't picture Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, or Henry Wadsworth Longfellow hanging out in Coffee shops, specialty bars, college campuses, bookstores, etc... Edgar Allan Poe on the other hand probably did all that and it's probably where he got his weird ideas and plot lines.

(BTW, those four are why I don't write poetry... I will NEVER come even close to their brilliance or agility with the English language)

 

[StillStunned]

I'm rather challenged in the rhyming department, though, I've managed a few poems but never at this site.

Give alliterative poetry a try! Apparently there's a revival going on, which makes me very happy, because I've been saying for thirty years that it's far better suited to the English language than rhyme and metre are.

 

[SomaSlave]

*Both hands in the air* ME! ME! ME! I volunteer!!!!


Comshaw

Could be an interesting challenge: I'm starting on a 750 Word story based on that (tentative title: Going Up? Going Down!). Would you be interested in writing a similar story?

 

[glynndah]

I've had my last two 750s rejected due to one being two words under and the other being two words over. Of course when I run them both through Google Docs word count, they're both at 750. I think they're within Lit's guidelines now. That is, if I didn't mix up the two and one's now four words under and the other's four over. *sigh*

 

[jaF0]

I've had my last two 750s rejected due to one being two words under and the other being two words over. Of course when I run them both through Google Docs word count, they're both at 750. I think they're within Lit's guidelines now. That is, if I didn't mix up the two and one's now four words under and the other's four over. *sigh*

^^^^ ... vvvvv

Paste the doc into the submission text box and use the diagonal arrows to expand it. You'll see the official word count.

Never use the Goo.

The Goo don't know pooh.

 

[Duleigh]

I've had my last two 750s rejected due to one being two words under and the other being two words over. Of course when I run them both through Google Docs word count, they're both at 750. I think they're within Lit's guidelines now. That is, if I didn't mix up the two and one's now four words under and the other's four over. *sigh*

That is why I said several times - most notably in entry one, page one of the event instructions:

It is allowable (and encouraged) to set reader's expectations with a line that reads something like:
This story was written for the 2025 Literotica 750 Word Challenge, below this line are exactly 750 words:

Had you done that there would be no problem

 

[OffNSFW]

I always forget how good these 750 worders are for clearing out writer's block and getting ideas moving again, but I just started a new story today (not for this event) and I've already got about 2k words. Very different from what I was doing before, which was struggling unsuccessfully with a Pink Orchid/possible Valentine's story.

 

[PapaRomantic]

My second-person fetish piece Help Me! has just published. I will be very interested to hear how people will react to the topic and the writing style.

 

[shelleycat1]

@PapaRomantic The 2nd person didn’t do anything positive, sorry. Its consistent but seems awkward. I was also put off by the baby not having a name! It made me worried the father was not happy about him! And I didn’t buy getting up for a pee and not looking in on the baby.

 

[jaF0]

@PapaRomantic The 2nd person didn’t do anything positive, sorry. Its consistent but seems awkward. I was also put off by the baby not having a name! It made me worried the father was not happy about him! And I didn’t buy getting up for a pee and not looking in on the baby.

Part of making 750s work is cutting out details.

 

[StillStunned]

My second-person fetish piece Help Me! has just published. I will be very interested to hear how people will react to the topic and the writing style.

One slip: "after the birth of our son". Unless that was deliberate, and it's a very strange story indeed.

It's not my fetish, but it was well-written.

 

[PapaRomantic]

One slip: "after the birth of our son". Unless that was deliberate, and it's a very strange story indeed.

It's not my fetish, but it was well-written.

That one puzzled me. I wanted to indicate it was " their" son but didn't know how to voice it properly to convey that. I didn't like "your" in that spot but never figured it out.

 

[StillStunned]

That one puzzled me. I wanted to indicate it was " their" son but didn't know how to voice it properly to convey that. I didn't like "your" in that spot but never figured it out.

I think "your" would work as the second person plural. Or perhaps you could have done something with "since you've had a newborn rival" or something.

 

[ICantLeafYou]

I have an already existing WIP that's at ~800 words and I see where I could trim it to 400-500 and finish it quicker...

I worked on this tonight. First I pared it down to ~500 words and ended up at 740 words and had to add a line to fill that out.

Just submitted it.

 

[glynndah]

That is why I said several times - most notably in entry one, page one of the event instructions:


Had you done that there would be no problem

Yes, I did that. And there was a problem. Ironically enough, when I saved one of the submissions on Lit's control platform it showed the count for each at 750. They were still rejected. I've added and subtracted the correct number of words and submitted again. May the kitty mama smile upon me.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Here's my first piece published here. 750 word first-person story I put in Erotic Couplings, because it does contain a consensual not-really-reluctant sexual encounter, but maybe it more correctly belonged in NC/R. Or even non-erotic; despite (because of?) the sexual encounter it's a story that I find deeply unsexy. It was a nice change of pace from the damaged-young-people summer romance I've been working on for the last month.

 

[ICantLeafYou]

And it's up!

Just a quick visit to a glory hole. I had originally planned to draw this out to a second orgasm, but felt that brevity might fit the setting better and repurposed it for the 750 word challenge.

https://www.literotica.com/s/third-times-the-charm-8

 

[ElectricBlue]

Another one of mine just went live.

Melissa Works at the Hardware Store

 

[jaF0]

Of this I am certain. THIS 750 will be despised by all.

I've never tried ScFi, until today

I know for sure it will crash and burn.

Listen Saturday for The Scream Of The Butterfly

Coming soon to a 2.0 rating near you.

My first there will go up (and probably down in flames) Saturday.

Starting off pretty much as expected.

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[Actingup]

Starting off pretty much as expected.

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https://www.literotica.com/s/the-scream-of-the-butterfly-750
Did you disable comments? I was going to say that I liked it despite the mass extinction....
A minor word issue: fazed rather than phased. Don't kill me.

 

[jaF0]

Yeah, I guess I had that set years ago and forgot about it.

Should be open now.

 

[ICantLeafYou]

Checking on the stats before I go to bed, ~7hr since it posted and I'm quite pleased with this.