The Official Valentine’s Day Contest Support Thread 2026

[EmilyMiller]

Are there any competition in between?

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...-support-thread.1642084/page-2#post-101696998

 

[DEFCOM5]

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...-support-thread.1642084/page-2#post-101696998

Holidays give me a sense of dread ..... I think I will pass ..... Not everyone can write the Nightmare before Xmas.

 

[Voboy]

Valentine's day feels so far away. But I am thinking and thinking about a story.

We have not dealt yet with the trifecta from Hell (Thanksgivings, Christmas/Hannukah, New Year).

Are there any competition in between?

Thanksgiving/Christmas/NYE is just one contest, though. The entries are usually Christmas-themed, but not exclusively. VDay is only about a month and a half later.

I know that the 750 words is happening in February too. Have an idea. Not sure I can express it in 750 words. Sure that if I do, it will likely suck but not in a good way.

I don't do 750-worders anymore. I think they are a useful exercise for writers, but I disagree that they should be published as an event: they are always gimmicky, are seldom really good, and they cause a very real problem when they flood the New list in endless profusion because so many writers figure, "hmm. Why not just write seven or eight of these little motherfuckers?"

I've done it myself in the past, but just once or twice and I keep meaning to delete them. I wasn't satisfied with my output. They do serve to beef up a writer's story count, I suppose, but that doesn't mean much if they're not good stories.

My advice is that you NOT try to cram a good idea into 750 words just for the sake of the event. You'll regret it later.

 

[DEFCOM5]

I think they are a useful exercise for writers,

That is what is interesting to me. Writers I respect told me it would improve my writing. I plan to write 1. At best. Not good enough to write 7 or 8 of these fuckers, to quote you.

My advice is that you NOT try to cram a good idea into 750 words just for the sake of the event. You'll regret it later.

If I do succeed and I feel like the story should have been longer, I will expend it.

 

[iwatchus]

Holidays give me a sense of dread ..... I think I will pass ..... Not everyone can write the Nightmare before Xmas.

I am not writing a holiday season per se for the winter contest. It is a snow storm stranding romance.

 

[Trionyx]

My advice is that you NOT try to cram a good idea into 750 words just for the sake of the event. You'll regret it later.

I tend to agree but I have had two of my 750'ers serve as a nidus for a longer story. The newer stories can be read and understood without having read the 750er, but the idea started there. And if you are trying to maintain an unbroken streak of red H's, don't even try a 750er. Readers generally don't like them.

 

[DEFCOM5]

And if you are trying to maintain an unbroken streak of red H's, don't even try a 750er. Readers generally don't like them.

I do not have an unbroken streak of Red H. Quite the opposite. Red H are the exception, not the rule!

 

[Voboy]

I tend to agree but I have had two of my 750'ers serve as a nidus for a longer story. The newer stories can be read and understood without having read the 750er, but the idea started there.

I can see that. I don't usually adapt existing stories and expand them, and if I thought a 750-worder was useful for that, I'd probably just roll that story fragment into the better version and then delete the 750-er.

And if you are trying to maintain an unbroken streak of red H's, don't even try a 750er. Readers generally don't like them.

This is true, too, but my main objection to them is what they do to the New Stories list.

 

[Trionyx]

And now I need to think of a Valentine's Day story.......

CT, you’ll do fine if you wait until Feb the fourth or even the fifth.

 

[KindredFlame]

Valentine’s Day story, so I suppose you are looking for more romance rather than hard sex in this endeavour?

 

[Husky_Embrace]

Valentine’s Day story, so I suppose you are looking for more romance rather than hard sex in this endeavour?

Why would they? It's a hard knock up life. Just write anything around Valentine's day, which you can take in the opposite direction!

Someone rejecting VDay, and going for the best fuck of their lives instead. VDay can be a central theme without the romance. As long as VDay is intertwined with the story you can take it in any direction you want.

Say two people are doing their very best to make a romantic time on VDay, and find out it doesn't work. They don't match as well as they think, romantic dinners or gestures are falling short. There is some unexpected drama.

At the end he brings her home, both frustrated that nothing worked. The reality that they don't fit smashed into their faces, and they start to accept that.

So... How about to bang it into a nice evening instead? Sexually is the only way they match, so let's make the best of it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Valentine’s Day story, so I suppose you are looking for more romance rather than hard sex in this endeavour?

You have an awful lot of discretion. It could be a gang bang arranged for Feb 14th. It could be - as I wrote last year - twelve months of a woman’s life between two Valentine’s Days. Or - as I wrote the year before that - an angel banished to earth and trying to figure out what to buy her she-demon girlfriend based on having only read the Wikipedia page on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be romance, it doesn’t have to be HEA. But something adjacent to the day or related themes. It could be an origin story for Cupid. It could be sex in a factory making chocolates.

 

[KindredFlame]

You have an awful lot of discretion. It could be a gang bang arranged for Feb 14th. It could be - as I wrote last year - twelve months of a woman’s life between two Valentine’s Days. Or - as I wrote the year before that - an angel banished to earth and trying to figure out what to buy her she-demon girlfriend based on having only read the Wikipedia page on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be romance, it doesn’t have to be HEA. But something adjacent to the day or related themes. It could be an origin story for Cupid. It could be sex in a factory making chocolates.

I take it that you have been winning a lot then.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I take it that you have been winning a lot then.

Huh?

 

[DEFCOM5]

I take it that you have been winning a lot then.

Nope. Her stories are worth winning but the haters 1 bomb her.

Losers.

 

[KindredFlame]

Huh?

Sorry, I didn’t explain very well. I assume you have won a lot of these competitions.

I have an idea for a story and I’ve done the first draft, but I don’t know whether it would qualify. it is based around a song that I believe is a story of a spurned love between a priest and a young lady who ends up working at the church where he is the pastor, priest, father whatever everyone call him.

I was thinking her final death could be on Valentine’s Day and only the priest understands the significance of this date. Maybe they first met on Valentine’s Day before he became ordained.

My question is would this be allowed as it’s based on a song?

 

[DEFCOM5]

it doesn’t have to be HEA.

Does HEA stand for happily ever after?

 

[iwatchus]

Sorry, I didn’t explain very well. I assume you have won a lot of these competitions.

Being competitive to win is a goal for many of us. Actually winning is largely a matter of luck (and not alienating the wrong people, perhaps). It's a touchy subject for some people.

 

[iwatchus]

Does HEA stand for happily ever after?

Yes, like every Romance story is expected to have.

 

[KindredFlame]

Does HEA stand for happily ever after?

HEA???? Did I say that?

 

[EmilyMiller]

Sorry, I didn’t explain very well. I assume you have won a lot of these competitions.

Nope. I’ve been in the top five three times, but 11th hour tactical voting is a very real thing here, and the much vaunted sweeps only deal with naive attacks, not ones from people who know how the site works.

It is what it is. It’s kinda funny that some random is so fixated with me that they have to do this. I hope they at least get to cum while voting one handed, then at least one good thing comes from it .

You get used to this place being bizarre after a while and stop worrying about it. Best to treat comps as a fun but silly confection, not a measure of merit.

 

[KindredFlame]

Yes, like every Romance story is expected to have.

Happy Ever After. No way Romeo and Juliet love story and many others end with tragedy and some of these are some of the best ever.

 

[iwatchus]

Happy Ever After. No way Romeo and Juliet love story and many others end with tragedy and some of these are some of the best ever.

You notice Shakespeare called R+J a tragedy, don't you.

 

[KindredFlame]

You notice Shakespeare called R+J a tragedy, don't you.

Yes but it was still a romance story that ended in tragedy. West Side Story, She’s Having A Baby. And if you go into music then Honey, Copacabana all are tales of Love the end in tragedy

 

[iwatchus]

Yes but it was still a romance story that ended in tragedy. West Side Story, She’s Having A Baby. And if you go into music then Honey, Copacabana all are tales of Love the end in tragedy

R+J is a romantic tragedy, not a romance. These days, especially in writing, Romance means a very limited range of tropes.