The Official Authors' Hangout National Nude Day 2016 Contest Support Thread

[sr71plt]

It's only been a couple of years since the April Fools Day contest (1 April) replaced the Earth Day Contest (22 April), so a slippage of three weeks.

 

[lovecraft68]

It's only been a couple of years since the April Fools Day contest (1 April) replaced the Earth Day Contest (22 April), so a slippage of three weeks.

Good point, this is why it seems so long, Earth Day was around for quite awhile.

I like April Fools better, seems a lot of people don't like it. I don't think the readers seem to like it much.

 

[sr71plt]

I obviously like the April Fools Day category just fine.

 

[lovecraft68]

I obviously like the April Fools Day category just fine.

Well, it liked you just fine this year no doubt on that.

Not sure about this year, but last year, the first one, it seemed there were lower than average scores. I don't think the readers were keen on all the trick endings. It messed with that desire many of them have to read the same story over and over and it ticked them off to have the rug pulled out in every entry.

This year I think were more prepared for it. Mine did better than last years by a good .15 and same category.

 

[sr71plt]

Last year for April Fools Day, I pushed the envelope with a bi cross-dressing one set in Savannah, Georgia, nine Lit. pages long (31,000 words), put in the Novels and Novellas category. Fewer than 10,000 reads, not a bad rating, and the single comment was an advertisement from an claimed actual cross-dressing performer in Savannah clubs, complete with an e-mail address (which the Web site hasn't deleted). It was published in pen name, but I don't think it sold any copies. Sounds like a success to me.

 

[oggbashan]

One advantage of the long gap is the ability to look in depth at draft stories.

Apart from finding a couple of small typos in my 'prehistoric' story, last night I noticed a minor glitch in timeline. The conclusion happened 'the day after' but re-reading it showed me that although just possible was unlikely to be that fast. It is now 'a week later' which is more credible.

A disadvantage is that I can think of major changes.

My other draft has been hacked about several times to introduce premonitions of later happenings and now it's a mess. The draft two revisions ago was a reasonable progression to the point I had got in the writing. Now I have to go back through 35 A4 pages adjusting the story to fit with the recent changes, and I still have some way to go to the ending.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Thinking up a Nude Day idea shouldn't be this hard, but I keep chasing my tail.

 

[oggbashan]

Thinking up a Nude Day idea shouldn't be this hard, but I keep chasing my tail.

You should be chasing naked tails, not your own...

 

[IvyWillcox]

Thinking up a Nude Day idea shouldn't be this hard, but I keep chasing my tail.

I agree with you but I finally came up with a few ideas and hopefully at least one will be finished in time. My question is do the stories have to be about the actual National Nude Day or does it need to have nudity as a main part of the story in whole?

 

[oggbashan]

I agree with you but I finally came up with a few ideas and hopefully at least one will be finished in time. My question is do the stories have to be about the actual National Nude Day or does it need to have nudity as a main part of the story in whole?

From the first post in this thread (and the official notification in Welcome Authors: Please Read):

themes: public nudity, exhibitionism, etc.

It is National Nude Day. I'm not US based so I don't have a National Nude Day. I write about nudity.

 

[TxRad]

From the first post in this thread (and the official notification in Welcome Authors: Please Read):

themes: public nudity, exhibitionism, etc.

It is National Nude Day. I'm not US based so I don't have a National Nude Day. I write about nudity.

Actually, the only country that has a legal National Nude Day holiday is New Zealand.

 

[IvyWillcox]

From the first post in this thread (and the official notification in Welcome Authors: Please Read):

themes: public nudity, exhibitionism, etc.

It is National Nude Day. I'm not US based so I don't have a National Nude Day. I write about nudity.

Oggbashan thank you for clarifying this for me. My stories will fit into this theme perfectly.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

From the first post in this thread (and the official notification in Welcome Authors: Please Read):

themes: public nudity, exhibitionism, etc.

It is National Nude Day. I'm not US based so I don't have a National Nude Day. I write about nudity.

Surely you took advantage of World Naked Gardening Day back on May 7th, did you not? (FYI, that's a real thing: http://www.wngd.org/ for more info.)

 

[oggbashan]

Names

My two draft Nude Day stories have a problem with character names.

For the Prehistory one I am avoiding names with Christian origins. That removes most names from the possibles. I don't want obvious Nordic ones either. That doesn't leave me with many to choose unless I have too many Eg-names. The Hero's name works but the few names I have used don't sound right for the other characters.

In the modern one I have used a name for the main female character that doesn't fit now she has developed a personality. The hero's sister has a name I have used too often and it isn't right. Even the names of the hero and the two villains don't appeal.

But Word's search and replace will make it easy IF I can find suitable names.

Back to reading from my collection of baby name books.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

My two draft Nude Day stories have a problem with character names.

For the Prehistory one I am avoiding names with Christian origins. That removes most names from the possibles. I don't want obvious Nordic ones either. That doesn't leave me with many to choose unless I have too many Eg-names. The Hero's name works but the few names I have used don't sound right for the other characters.

In the modern one I have used a name for the main female character that doesn't fit now she has developed a personality. The hero's sister has a name I have used too often and it isn't right. Even the names of the hero and the two villains don't appeal.

But Word's search and replace will make it easy IF I can find suitable names.

Back to reading from my collection of baby name books.

I struggle with names all the time. I keep a link to the U.S. Social Security Office list of top baby names. It lists the top names by year, though it doesn't go back that far, Og.

In too many of my stories, the names are placeholders for characters - rather generic and often interchangeable because I strive for neutral sounding names. Too often, I reuse a name in another story. Guess it's good that I keep with mostly first names!

 

[oggbashan]

I struggle with names all the time. I keep a link to the U.S. Social Security Office list of top baby names. It lists the top names by year, though it doesn't go back that far, Og.

In too many of my stories, the names are placeholders for characters - rather generic and often interchangeable because I strive for neutral sounding names. Too often, I reuse a name in another story. Guess it's good that I keep with mostly first names!

I have a box full of baby name books left over from my secondhand bookshop. Most of the time all I need is the Oxford concise dictionary of names but I have some specialist ones as well.

I've made some minor name changes in my prehistoric story, and major changes in the modern one. I think I can treat the prehistoric one as completed, but I still have some way to go on the modern one.

 

[oggbashan]

The starting gun has been fired. The official announcement is a sticky at the top of the Authors' Hangout.

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1317956

If you've been waiting to start writing - get going now!

 

[MagicaPractica]

Oy! Start and stall, start and stall, start and stall. I'm having a lot of trouble with my story for this one.

 

[Gorza]

My two draft Nude Day stories have a problem with character names.

For the Prehistory one I am avoiding names with Christian origins. That removes most names from the possibles. I don't want obvious Nordic ones either. That doesn't leave me with many to choose unless I have too many Eg-names. The Hero's name works but the few names I have used don't sound right for the other characters.

In the modern one I have used a name for the main female character that doesn't fit now she has developed a personality. The hero's sister has a name I have used too often and it isn't right. Even the names of the hero and the two villains don't appeal.

But Word's search and replace will make it easy IF I can find suitable names.

Back to reading from my collection of baby name books.

Which language or culture should your names belong to? How many do you need of each gender?

 

[oggbashan]

Which language or culture should your names belong to? How many do you need of each gender?

The 'prehistoric' one is Southern Britain 200 years after the Romans had left so about 600AD. I assume that the particular area is Triple-Goddess woshipping and as yet has had no contact with Christianity, neither Celtic nor Roman.

I don't want any names that have origins in the Bible, nor Norse. Most known names from that era are either Eg... or Aeth... Egbert, Egfrith, Egfrieda, Aethelred, Aethelreda etc.

My problem is twofold.

1. The known real names are very similar and it is difficult to distinguish between characters.

2. I would like names that have a hint of the era but are easy to modern readers.

I need about eight female and four male names.

So far I'm using Edith, Bertha, Gudrun, Helga, Helena, Agatha, and Ingrid; Alfred and Manfred. Temporarily Agatha has been replaced by Ingrid.

Unless other names really appeal, I'm likely to stick with those except Agatha.

 

[Gorza]

The 'prehistoric' one is Southern Britain 200 years after the Romans had left so about 600AD. I assume that the particular area is Triple-Goddess woshipping and as yet has had no contact with Christianity, neither Celtic nor Roman.

I don't want any names that have origins in the Bible, nor Norse. Most known names from that era are either Eg... or Aeth... Egbert, Egfrith, Egfrieda, Aethelred, Aethelreda etc.

My problem is twofold.

1. The known real names are very similar and it is difficult to distinguish between characters.

2. I would like names that have a hint of the era but are easy to modern readers.

I need about eight female and four male names.

So far I'm using Edith, Bertha, Gudrun, Helga, Helena, Agatha, and Ingrid; Alfred and Manfred. Temporarily Agatha has been replaced by Ingrid.

Unless other names really appeal, I'm likely to stick with those except Agatha.

In 600 Augustine's mission is only a few years old and limited to Kent. In places like Wight and Hampshire, you have complex settlement patterns: subjugated Romano-British people, some pagan and some Christian (but both Celtic religions would have been forced underground), Jutes who so threatened West Saxon power that they were later eliminated, and West Saxons. The Jutes and Saxons spoke a similar language and had similar pagan religion, albeit very different from Celtic paganism. If you go further west, Somerset had not long fallen to the West Saxons and Devon was still an independent British Kingdom. The triple goddess is a feature of Celtic paganism rather than the Germanic heathenism of Saxons and Jutes. So, your priestesses should have Celtic names, or even Romano-British ones, like Aurelia Rhianna. Under Saxon hegemony, it would be an underground cult mostly patronised by subjugated Celts, but you could have former Jute princes 'go native'. So, you could use names to highlight the complex demographic of the period, and you can do this far more richly than 'Eg- names'!

 

[lovecraft68]

Oy! Start and stall, start and stall, start and stall. I'm having a lot of trouble with my story for this one.

Hmm sounds like your ignition switch is on the fritz

 

[oggbashan]

In 600 Augustine's mission is only a few years old and limited to Kent. In places like Wight and Hampshire, you have complex settlement patterns: subjugated Romano-British people, some pagan and some Christian (but both Celtic religions would have been forced underground), Jutes who so threatened West Saxon power that they were later eliminated, and West Saxons. The Jutes and Saxons spoke a similar language and had similar pagan religion, albeit very different from Celtic paganism. If you go further west, Somerset had not long fallen to the West Saxons and Devon was still an independent British Kingdom. The triple goddess is a feature of Celtic paganism rather than the Germanic heathenism of Saxons and Jutes. So, your priestesses should have Celtic names, or even Romano-British ones, like Aurelia Rhianna. Under Saxon hegemony, it would be an underground cult mostly patronised by subjugated Celts, but you could have former Jute princes 'go native'. So, you could use names to highlight the complex demographic of the period, and you can do this far more richly than 'Eg- names'!

Thank you for this but your suggestions could be too complex for the story. The triple goddess is an essential plot device and it would cause a major rewrite to take her out, or possibly a completely different story.

What we do know about Britain in 600AD is basically "We don't know much at all", so I think my story is feasible if, like many of my stories, unlikely.

The West Saxons and Jutes didn't use the remains of Roman structures. My kingdom does and is trying to emulate some of the skills lost when the Romans left.

 

[prop69]

Thank you for this but your suggestions could be too complex for the story. The triple goddess is an essential plot device and it would cause a major rewrite to take her out, or possibly a completely different story.

What we do know about Britain in 600AD is basically "We don't know much at all", so I think my story is feasible if, like many of my stories, unlikely.

The West Saxons and Jutes didn't use the remains of Roman structures. My kingdom does and is trying to emulate some of the skills lost when the Romans left.

Just found the thread.

Is it too late to consider entering or at least being able to read the entries?

 

[HuckPilgrim]

Just found the thread.

Is it too late to consider entering or at least being able to read the entries?

It is not too late to submit!

Here are the dates for submitting from the rules thread.

You can begin submitting on (or a little before): June 20
The last day to submit is: July 11 at 11:59EST
Winners will be announced on: July 18

Here is the rules thread:

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1317956

And it's never too late to be a reader. You should see the first entries go live as early as June 20. You ought to be able to find them from a link on the main page. (Or just come back to this thread and someone will post a direct link, I'm sure)