The now fully official Author’s Hangout Halloween 2025 competition support thread

[EmilyMiller]

@not2percy, if you read @EmilyMiller entry in the contest, they make even more sense!

*cough* pervy not percy

 

[sophism]

This happened to me. Tell me the story name and I will try to help.

The name is The Day We Bound Ourselves (https://www.literotica.com/s/the-day-we-bound-ourselves), thank you if you are able to help!
I have sent a message to Laurel but nothing yet.

 

[Indian_Princess]

I have been away from literotica for over a year but I'm back now and I submitted my Halloween contest entry yesterday. it's in my pending folder.

I submitted another nonconsent story 4 days ago and it is still pending. Did the processing times change recently? I've been a member of literotica for over a decade and it never took this long for stories to get published.

 

[DEFCOM5]

*cough* pervy not percy

Back in my days on the trading desk, my nickname was "Fat Finger"

Not because my fingers were big but because I made all kind of typos, especially when entering number of shares (back when keyboards had 0 and double 0)

 

[EmilyMiller]

I have been away from literotica for over a year but I'm back now and I submitted my Halloween contest entry yesterday. it's in my pending folder.

I submitted another nonconsent story 4 days ago and it is still pending. Did the processing times change recently? I've been a member of literotica for over a decade and it never took this long for stories to get published.

There are lots of threads about this, just take a look.

 

[EmilyMiller]

The name is The Day We Bound Ourselves (https://www.literotica.com/s/the-day-we-bound-ourselves), thank you if you are able to help!
I have sent a message to Laurel but nothing yet.

I’ll see what I am able to do.

 

[Trionyx]

Emily, I just gotta say your daily contest images are really killing it, a fantastic addition to these contest threads!

If you keep raising the bar, no one else will ever host a support thread again.
p.s. Go for it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

If you keep raising the bar, no one else will ever host a support thread again.
p.s. Go for it.

@Duleigh is doing Halloween next year. I’m doing Valentines

 

[dream_yahoozie]

Raise the bar.

 

[Eisenloewe]

Well, I can't believe I did it, but I got a story written and submitted for this one, too. After leaving a great deal on the cutting room floor--potentially even enough to continue the universe in future Halloween writing sprees--I got it down to 23k words. After 29k for the Dark Fairy Tales challenge and 30k for the Crime & Punishment challenge (which still remains in Pending limbo), means I've cranked out 82k words in maybe a month and a half, not even counting things that are still in draft form. Think I might need to take a break after this one.

 

[EmilyMiller]

82k words

That’s the current length of my novel, which I have been writing since November 2024. Admittedly I’ve published a lot of other stuff since then, novella, novelettes, short stories, etc.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Mine sez it'll be published tomorrow. Good. Now I can get back to struggling with other stories.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Mine sez it'll be published tomorrow. Good. Now I can get back to struggling with other stories.

Yay!

 

[EmilyMiller]

Welcome to Day 7 of the Halloween Competition

https://www.literotica.com/stories/contest.php/halloween-2025