The Official Authors' Hangout Winter Holidays 2025 Support Thread

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Santa gives vibrators to all the good girls and strap-ons to the bad girls.

Ohh if my Winter story wasn’t a mystical romance I would work this line in. Damn that’s a good one

 

[Trionyx]

Santa gives vibrators to all the good girls and strap-ons to the bad girls.

I smell an informal holiday side challenge: Who can write the best 750-er with this as a theme?

 

[dreams_in_words]

*bows

*Awaits applause

 

[dreams_in_words]

I smell an informal holiday side challenge: Who can write the best 750-er with this as a theme?

Hahaha. Love it

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

I really do not mean to poke the bear by posting this here. However, the contest opens on November 11 and closes December 5.

With the reported lengthy delays from submission date to publication date what is a recommended date to post a story for the contest?

 

[iwatchus]

From what's been reported on the forum, there have been few, if any, long delays on stories submitted for Halloween contest. Nothing like the Crime and Punishment event, which seemed to get the worst beating of anything. I think there is a good chance the Winter contest will be largely unaffected by the pending problems.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I really do not mean to poke the bear by posting this here. However, the contest opens on November 11 and closes December 5.

With the reported lengthy delays from submission date to publication date what is a recommended date to post a story for the contest?

I think oir should be okay if you copy and paste the phrase "WINTER HOLIDAY 2025" to the "Notes to Admin" field of the submission (quotes are not needed).

Laurel uses that to search for the entries and it should pick them up regardless.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

From what's been reported on the forum, there have been few, if any, long delays on stories submitted for Halloween contest. Nothing like the Crime and Punishment event, which seemed to get the worst beating of anything. I think there is a good chance the Winter contest will be largely unaffected by the pending problems.

Thanks. I hope that is the case

 

[TheRedLantern]

Thanks. I hope that is the case

Santa publishes stories that make his "naughty" list first. Just FYI.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Santa publishes stories that make his "naughty" list first. Just FYI.

It occurs to me that Santa is jolly because he has a naughty list.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

back to working on mine. Got sidetracked by a plot bunny a few days ago that became the Halloween story I just submitted. Two contests in a row, damn...

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Santa sprained something important this year while trying to fulfill one of the Missus' wishes, so he's laid up. She feels bad and will be making the rounds.

What happens at all the houses where a hot young thing is expecting the old guy?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Santa sprained something important this year while trying to fulfill one of the Missus' wishes, so he's laid up. She feels bad and will be making the rounds.

What happens at all the houses where a hot young thing is expecting the old guy?

Well, he has lots of reindeer, and reindeer are hung like.....?????

 

[dreams_in_words]

It occurs to me that Santa is jolly because he has a naughty list.

And he knows where they sleep

 

[Ian_Snow]

This thing got way chunkier on me than I was expecting.

Can a person "that's what she said" themselves? No? Damn.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

This thing got way chunkier on me than I was expecting.

Can a person "that's what she said" themselves? No? Damn.

That’s what she said.

 

[sirhugs]

There is a sprawling and building collection of story ideas appropriately on the Story Ideas forum if you need them.

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/winter-2025-contest-ideas.1642226/page-3#post-101735107

 

[talemestories]

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.

Darn it, I had the same story cooking except the friends were in the navy.

Back to brainstorming, I guess.

 

[GemmaGemmaGemma]

I've started mine in the last couple of days, and somehow almost finished it too. I'll probably finish tomorrow and have it uploaded after a couple of proofreadings. I'll never be this prepared for a contest again in my life, but what a feeling

 

[TheRedLantern]

Back to brainstorming, I guess.

There's always the drunken SantaCon pub crawl.

 

[Voboy]

Just finished with my story.

I'll wait until early November, give it my customary one read-through, and submit. I like the story a lot, but it's nearly 40k words with just one ejaculation. That's an interesting proportion, I think. We'll see if I still like it in November.

 

[TheLobster]

From what's been reported on the forum, there have been few, if any, long delays on stories submitted for Halloween contest. Nothing like the Crime and Punishment event, which seemed to get the worst beating of anything.

Well, it does have punishment in the name…

More on point: I submitted my Halloween story only a few hours before deadline, and it got approved quickly enough to be going live tomorrow. So, contests seem indeed unaffected by whatever issues are currently plaguing the submission queue. I’d still recommend you submit your stuff early, of course.

 

[iwatchus]

So, contests seem indeed unaffected by whatever issues are currently plaguing the submission queue.

Or maybe things are getting more back to normal. Maybe I'm just an optimist.

 

[RoyalAuthor]

I decided to just forget the issues and submit a regular story yesterday. Approved by this morning, and set to publish tomorrow. Fingers crossed it all goes well, but it does seem like my normal submission-to-publication timeline.

 

[dirk2024]

Santa sprained something important this year while trying to fulfill one of the Missus' wishes, so he's laid up. She feels bad and will be making the rounds.

What happens at all the houses where a hot young thing is expecting the old guy?

I hope Mrs. Claus is packing a strap-on!