The Official Author's Hangout Summer Lovin' Contest Support Thread

[TxRad]

I have two kids that keep interfering with my program... trying to write erotic stories with a 4yo and an 8yo around, with various cartoons going in the background, does not lend itself to a lot of inspiration.

Inspiration but nothing that Lit would allow anyway. Maybe a muppets lovefest.

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

I have two kids that keep interfering with my program... trying to write erotic stories with a 4yo and an 8yo around, with various cartoons going in the background, does not lend itself to a lot of inspiration.

Kids make it very tricky to write erotica, no matter their age. Mine are 18, 17, and 13 and they don't hover over me, but they still like to talk to me while I write, as well as watch TV and hog my computer. But mid-August the computer and free time will be mine again and that's when I'll be back to my normal writing schedule.

 

[PennLady]

Inspiration but nothing that Lit would allow anyway. Maybe a muppets lovefest.

There. Managed to get 300 words down. Maybe a few more while the kids are upstairs.

 

[estragon]

To the mothers, bless you, ladies! I don't know how you keep your sanity, much less try to write, with the young'uns running around.

Red, three teenagers? Had you never considered running away from home? They're great when they're little, and wonderful when adults, but the in-between is tough!

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Yeah, well I went to Orlando a couple of years ago. The May weather in Florida had been dry and hot until then, but that week it rained so much that the space shuttle had to land in California after two aborted attempts at Kennedy. In fact, Florida hadn't had so much rain for a week since October 1924 or something like that. By the time I went home, people were more worried about flooding than drought.
The number plates on the local cars said Florida - the Sunshine State: Right, just rub it in....

And the hotel a/c didn't have a setting for 'warm' or enough blankets for the bed. At least, if you go on holiday in Denmark, you can only be pleasantly surprised if the weather is nice, and we have proper duvets.

I don't think weather will really be an issue. Between the Aquavit, Gammel Dansk, and Elephant malt liquor, I won't even notice the weather

 

[SandraMustard]

4yo and 8yo? Would those be grandkids, PL? Excuse me if I've been un-PC by measuring another person (you) by my experiences (I had my kids when I was in my early to mid twenties.)

Here's a note about sweeps that I just discovered. I did NOT vote in the Nude Day contest but my husband did with his own username (only voted for me - once). That vote still appeared today when he visited my story so the sweeps did not remove that despite coming from the same IP as the author.

 

[PennLady]

4yo and 8yo? Would those be grandkids, PL? Excuse me if I've been un-PC by measuring another person (you) by my experiences (I had my kids when I was in my early to mid twenties.)

No, they're my kids. I was 30 when I married and had my son when I was just shy of 34.

That put me way behind my mom. She was married at 20, had me at 23 and my brother at 34 (not an intentional gap, just happened that way).

 

[SandraMustard]

My apologies again, PL. I had your bio confused with another editor and thought you were about a decade older *ducks*. My oldest (38) is close to your age and had her third child at 35. I have a granddaughter older than your children (9).

Now, I suddenly feel old. *sigh*

 

[PennLady]

My apologies again, PL. I had your bio confused with another editor and thought you were about a decade older *ducks*. My oldest (38) is close to your age and had her third child at 35. I have a granddaughter older than your children (9).

Now, I suddenly feel old. *sigh*

Not a problem. It's easy to confuse online. As far as getting married, etc., it happens when it happens and I happened not to meet my husband until I was almost 28. So I guess it all happened when it was supposed to.

 

[bashfullyshameless]

Still stuck on the issue of summer as a theme rather than a setting. I can fill it with warm weather, bikinis, the beach, barbecues or whatever, but how does that mean anything other than setting?

Further--say you want to do something in a completely fictional setting (i.e., fantasy or sci-fi). Does that immediately ruin it as a "summer" story if it's summer on another world that doesn't use bikinis/barbecues/fireworks on the 4th?

Gr.

GRRR, I say!!

 

[lovecraft68]

Still stuck on the issue of summer as a theme rather than a setting. I can fill it with warm weather, bikinis, the beach, barbecues or whatever, but how does that mean anything other than setting?

Further--say you want to do something in a completely fictional setting (i.e., fantasy or sci-fi). Does that immediately ruin it as a "summer" story if it's summer on another world that doesn't use bikinis/barbecues/fireworks on the 4th?

Gr.

GRRR, I say!!

I think part of the issue with the summer theme is it's in one sense very easy, just say the story takes place in July and it was hot and you;re all set.

where the issue lies is going out of your way to do better than that and really make it significant.

 

[lovecraft68]

Not a problem. It's easy to confuse online. As far as getting married, etc., it happens when it happens and I happened not to meet my husband until I was almost 28. So I guess it all happened when it was supposed to.

I had my first at 22 second at 25.

Tough back then (especially seeing wife#1 and I didn't last much past daughter #2)

But now I'm only 44, they're both out of the house and I'm pretty free wheeling.

Except of course when they want or need something which is......

Okay, never mind.

 

[RodenAddison]

I've had the file open for days ... and no time to write on it... sigh.

You need to work on your priorities.

 

[PennLady]

You need to work on your priorities.

You come babysit my priorities, and then I can get something done.

 

[TxRad]

You come babysit my priorities, and then I can get something done.

I could hear that one coming from a mile away.

 

[_Lynn_]

You come babysit my priorities, and then I can get something done.

If you were closer, I would babysit your priorities.

 

[PennLady]

I could hear that one coming from a mile away.

I am opportunistic, I admit it.

If you were closer, I would babysit your priorities.

Well you're just "upstairs," right? Why not come down and visit?

My husband and I had season tix to the Capitals for a few years; we stopped going to games in the middle of the 2003-04 season, when I had our son. The following season was the lockout. So in fall 2005, I got a call from the Caps' sales office asking me about tickets. I said no, we weren't going to get any. The guy said well, what would it take for you to sign up again? I said, someone to babysit my kid. He was, to say the least, flustered. Nor did he volunteer. Hehe.

 

[_Lynn_]

I am opportunistic, I admit it.



Well you're just "upstairs," right? Why not come down and visit?

My husband and I had season tix to the Capitals for a few years; we stopped going to games in the middle of the 2003-04 season, when I had our son. The following season was the lockout. So in fall 2005, I got a call from the Caps' sales office asking me about tickets. I said no, we weren't going to get any. The guy said well, what would it take for you to sign up again? I said, someone to babysit my kid. He was, to say the least, flustered. Nor did he volunteer. Hehe.

Better yet. I'll open the door. Send the kids up.

 

[PennLady]

Better yet. I'll open the door. Send the kids up.

Don't tease me.

 

[_Lynn_]

Don't tease me.

Who said I was? I enjoy kids.

 

[PennLady]

Who said I was? I enjoy kids.

Sigh... wish you lived in my upstairs.

 

[_Lynn_]

Sigh... wish you lived in my upstairs.

Indeed.

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

To the mothers, bless you, ladies! I don't know how you keep your sanity, much less try to write, with the young'uns running around.

Red, three teenagers? Had you never considered running away from home? They're great when they're little, and wonderful when adults, but the in-between is tough!

Two teenage girls even!! lol

I had my eldest March 1994, when I was just a couple months shy of my 21st birthday, then 7mths and 6 days later gave birth to my second daughter in October 1994 and I was 21 then. My son was born March 1999 when I was just shy of my 26th birthday.

I'm happy I had them at the ages I did, but there were disadvantages too. I wouldn't trade the timeline for the world though.

 

[ScouriesWorld]

will you AHers join us bby stepping up to the plate?

Are you willing to join with the

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in their campaign to bring LITEROTIC'AS most favorited authors back into the themed contest fold?

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[sr71plt]

My Summer Lovin' story is back from the edit, so I'm ready to go.