The Official Authors' Hangout Winter Holidays 2025 Support Thread

[ChloeTzang]

I am starting this thread now so that writers have no excuse for not starting a story in plenty of time. The Halloween contest is still running but the Winter Holidays contest follows a short time afterwards - just over a month from this post. The Literotica Annual Winter Holidays Contest is the last of the annual Lit contests of 2025. The contests challenge writers to create compelling, fun tales on a theme. This time, the theme is seasonal holidays and winter-related events.

Winter Holidays (all holidays/events/activities from November through January)
themes: winter holiday traditions (dreidels, gift giving, etc.), cold weather (snow), holiday mythology (Santa, elves), etc.
starts: November 11
closes: December 5
winners announced: December 12

This thread is to SUPPORT and ENCOURAGE authors to enter stories in the 2025 Winter Holidays Contest. Get your characters cold and snowy, celebrating Christmas, giving and receiving presents and being bad for Santa.

And now, a few rules:

• All submissions must be stand-alone stories created for this contest theme. We will not accept individual chapters of a larger work submitted separately. If you have a multi-chaptered contest-themed submission, please submit all chapters together as one story submission
• A story has to accrue only a minimum of 25 votes to be eligible for a prize - not a high bar to surmount - and on the very odd occassion, a story with just over 25 votes HAS won

The following guidelines also apply:

• Author must copy and paste the phrase "WINTER HOLIDAY 2025" to the "Notes to Admin" field of the submission (quotes are not needed).
• Again -- PLEASE do not forget to put the EXACT phrase "WINTER HOLIDAY 2025" IN THE "Notes to Admin" FIELD - NOT the description field or anywhere else. In fact, we recommend that you copy and paste to avoid typos. If it is not in the NOTES field – or if it's typoed - we cannot easily find your story and it may not be approved in a timely manner to be entered into the contest!!
• Submissions must have a Winter Holiday theme: i.e. holiday celebrations, winter weather (will be different in north and south hemispheres!), winter events and superstitions, all things Wintery. Be creative! Please don't just submit a normal story in which everyone is wearing a Santa hat. That would not be in the spirit of the contest, and readers (aka voters) will likely punish you for your trickiness.

There is an advantage to entering stories in one of Literotica's themed contests, apart from the possibility of winning, and that is that your story gets far more exposure and attention than it would normally do.

Some of that attention might be unwelcome of course, some abusive (we have trolls to entertain too), but some could be appreciative and helpful.

Important Note: Once your story is submitted, it may take over 72 hours for it to be posted, or may be sent back to you for clarification/mending. We strongly suggest that you do not wait till the last day of the contest to submit your story. The sooner you submit, the better chance your story has of accruing the votes necessary to be eligible.

Good luck, and have fun!

 

[EmilyMiller]

I am starting this thread now so that writers have no excuse for not starting a story in plenty of time. The Halloween contest is still running but the Winter Holidays contest follows a short time afterwards - just over a month from this post.

Winter Holidays (all holidays/events/activities from November through January)
themes: winter holiday traditions (dreidels, gift giving, etc.), cold weather (snow), holiday mythology (Santa, elves), etc.
starts: November 11
closes: December 5
winners announced: December 12

This thread is to SUPPORT and ENCOURAGE authors to enter stories in the 2025 Winter Holidays Contest. Get your characters cold and snowy, celebrating Christmas, giving and receiving presents and being bad for Santa.

There is an advantage to entering stories in one of Literotica's themed contests, apart from the possibility of winning, and that is that your story gets far more exposure and attention than it would normally do.

Some of that attention might be unwelcome of course, some abusive (we have trolls to entertain too), but some could be appreciative and helpful.

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Yay!

I have a novella in editing - organized for once in my life!

 

[Bamagan]

The following guidelines also apply:

• Author must copy and paste the phrase "WINTER HOLIDAY 2025" to the "Notes to Admin" field of the submission (quotes are not needed).
• Again -- PLEASE do not forget to put the EXACT phrase "WINTER HOLIDAY 2023" IN THE "Notes to Admin" FIELD - NOT the description field or anywhere else. In fact, we recommend that you copy and paste to avoid typos. If it is not in the NOTES field – or if it's typoed - we cannot easily find your story and it may not be approved in a timely manner to be entered into the contest!

A minor typo in an ironically amusing locale.

 

[Voboy]

I'm working on mine right this moment. It's been a bit locked up, but it's flowing again now.

The usual. Woman falls for younger man at work, then fucks him when she finds herself fleeing an unexpected orgy at her house featuring her best friends ravaging her son and his army buddies.

Ho ho ho.

 

[ChloeTzang]

A minor typo in an ironically amusing locale.

A thousand thanks. Good catch LOL

 

[dream_yahoozie]

What are people's thoughts on doing different versions of already established concepts and/or properties?

Because I have a concept for something about The Grinch *maniacal laughter

 

[Voboy]

What are people's thoughts on doing different versions of already established concepts and/or properties?

Because I have a concept for something about The Grinch *maniacal laughter

I did a version of the poem "Tam O' Shanter" by Rabbie Burns. It went over quite well, seemingly, but I feel like much of the readership probably missed all the effort I put into making it poem-accurate.

It was a lot of fun, honestly.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Yay!

I have a novella in editing - organized for once in my life!

Now thinking of expanding it to maybe 30,000 words from the current 20,000

 

[ChloeTzang]

Now thinking of expanding it to maybe 30,000 words from the current 20,000

I have to actually think of something to write

Yikes

And it's the last competition of the year so i have to do something.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I have to actually think of something to write

Ideas are weird, right. I had nothing and then one just popped up and said, “Here I am.”

 

[ChloeTzang]

Ideas are weird, right. I had nothing and then one just popped up and said, “Here I am.”

"A Friend for Christmas Dinner" LOL

Has anyone ever watched "Eating Raoul"

 

[dirk2024]

Suddenly, Dec 5th feels like its right around the corner.

 

[sirhugs]

I have started a Story Ideas thread for those who need inspiration, or need a place to send stray plot bunnies to be fed....

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/winter-2025-contest-ideas.1642226/#post-101655022

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

How big are ear muffs for plot bunnies?

 

[sirhugs]

How big are ear muffs for plot bunnies?

like cock size, they are never as big as promised.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

They had Lit Stories
And Bunnies by the score
All dressed in satin
And waiting by their keyboards

Ohh, what lucky Litsers they were.



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[Five_Inch_Heels]

Bunnies have cameltoes?

 

[Actingup]

Last year I wrote a Christmas-themed, hopeful story about Pacific diplomacy, Peace On Earth. In the story, the locals in a small island developing state not unlike Samoa outmanoeuvred the Aussies, Chinese, Kiwis and Americans to get what they actually wanted in an era of cargo diplomacy. They urged the Americans to see beyond a zero sum game approach, they convinced the Chinese of the value of taking a step back in empire building, and the lead characters in the story made sweet, glorious intercultural love. There’s been more than once this year when I’ve considered deleting it due to its ridiculous optimism, but I’ve let it survive, perhaps as an expression of hope.

I haven’t had any ideas so far for this year, but I might try something similar.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Is November 11th the first day that you can submit a story for the contest or the first day that they will be published?

 

[Trionyx]

I have to actually think of something to write

Yikes

And it's the last competition of the year so i have to do something.

My guess is that you will submit your story in the usual style; seconds before the deadline.
(BTW, are you feeling OK? Your Halloween story was posted so early.)

 

[ChloeTzang]

My guess is that you will submit your story in the usual style; seconds before the deadline.
(BTW, are you feeling OK? Your Halloween story was posted so early.)

Ohhh absolutely - 5 minutes before the deadline - any earlier is wasted effort LOL

Halloween - well, not making excuses for being early here but I wrote it for Crime and Punishment and it was late LOL -so I tweaked it and submitted for Halloween. I mist try this more often - write it for the prceding event and get it into the subsequent one early rotflmao

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Ohhh absolutely - 5 minutes before the deadline - any earlier is wasted effort LOL

Halloween - well, not making excuses for being early here but I wrote it for Crime and Punishment and it was late LOL -so I tweaked it and submitted for Halloween. I mist try this more often - write it for the prceding event and get it into the subsequent one early rotflmao

I've started writing for Halloween 2026 because I doubt I'd make the Halloween 2025 deadline. That...could be a way to do it?

 

[ChloeTzang]

I've started writing for Halloween 2026 because I doubt I'd make the Halloween 2025 deadline. That...could be a way to do it?

Well my Geek Day 2025 story which I still haven;t finished will be my Geek Day 2026 story so it seems to be a good way to meet targets - just a year further out is all

 

[dream_yahoozie]

Well my Geek Day 2025 story which I still haven;t finished will be my Geek Day 2026 story so it seems to be a good way to meet targets - just a year further out is all

Stop reading my brain. That's my plan too

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Oh well, I tried to add some happy happy here.