The Official Authors' Hangout April Fool's Day 2017 Contest Support Thread

[SusanJillParker]

And I for one find twist endings really hard to come up with.

Hmm...if you find twist endings really hard to come up with, you could write an Earth Day story and post it in the April Fool's contest. Now there's a story with a surprise ending.

Someone going dumpster diving and finding a fake Oscar that was given to someone as an April Fool's gift. What do you think? I have a million of them.

Or, you could have someone trying to make for cleaner water with a strainer and cleaner air with a butterfly net. What do you think? Good right? I know.

"Hey, a butterfly net will do nothing to make for cleaner air and a strainer won't help to make the water any cleaner," said John staring at Crystal as if he had never seen a woman so sexy and so beautiful before.

John stared down Crystal's blouse at her bra and cleavage when she was waving her butterfly net around and he stared up her short skirt at her panty clad pussy when she squatted to clean the water with her strainer.

"April Fool's," said Crystal, a dumb, busty, beautiful, blue eyed blonde. "I just wanted to sexually tease you by flashing you my sexy underwear. I can tell by that big bump in your pants that you already have an erection."

John looked down at what tented his pants.

"Oh, April Fool's, that's not an erection. I keep my lunch there because these pants don't have any pockets. See?" He reached inside his trousers to pull out a banana, an apple, and an orange. "I had a ham and cheese sandwich in there too but the cheese melted, so I threw the sandwich away."

What do you think? Good, huh? Feel feel to use my ideas (lol).

 

[SusanJillParker]

And I for one find twist endings really hard to come up with.

I apologize in advance if I've offended you, this is just my sick sense of humor. With me growing up in Boston, those from the East Coast have a much irreverent sense of humor than those growing up in middle America.

Anyway, being that you're obviously Asian, by your photo, what if you wrote a story about an Asian woman having cosmetic surgery.

"Wait for it."

She has a plastic surgeon alter her pussy slit from up and down to sideways. What do you think? Seriously, you could have some fun writing that story being that a good percentage of American men, especially those who have never had sex with an Asian woman, believe that their pussy slits are sideways.

"Hey, c'mon. Put the knife down. It was just an idea for an April Fool's Day story. Speak English. I don't understand a word you're saying with you yelling at me in Chinese. Okay, okay, I'm going to go now."

 

[ChloeTzang]

I apologize in advance if I've offended you, this is just my sick sense of humor. With me growing up in Boston, those from the East Coast have a much irreverent sense of humor than those growing up in middle America.

Anyway, being that you're obviously Asian, by your photo, what if you wrote a story about an Asian woman having cosmetic surgery.

"Wait for it."

She has a plastic surgeon alter her pussy slit from up and down to sideways. What do you think? Seriously, you could have some fun writing that story being that a good percentage of American men, especially those who have never had sex with an Asian woman, believe that their pussy slits are sideways.

"Hey, c'mon. Put the knife down. It was just an idea for an April Fool's Day story. Speak English. I don't understand a word you're saying with you yelling at me in Chinese. Okay, okay, I'm going to go now."

Now the sideways one is no surprise and it doesnt offend me. Response depends on intent of speaker and varies from grin to "wanna see for yourself" to violence. . Usually comes up around midnight in a bar. When some guy is really really drunk. No, I need a real twist. I've got it now for my first story, the second is a bit harder but it's getting there.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Now the sideways one is no surprise and it doesnt offend me. Response depends on intent of speaker and varies from grin to "wanna see for yourself" to violence. . Usually comes up around midnight in a bar. When some guy is really really drunk. No, I need a real twist. I've got it now for my first story, the second is a bit harder but it's getting there.

In this world of anyone can have whatever they want for a price, I can't count how many men have asked me if my boobs are real (lol).

They are. I take after my mother.

Depending on the guy, sometimes I tell them that I've had a double mastectomy (lol) and my bra is full of falsies. They leave in a hurry.

I feel sorry for women who feel they need breasts to make them feel like a woman. Even if I was born flat chested, I've never had any kind of surgery done. Who knows? I can write that because I was blessed with breasts.

Still women shouldn't have to feel so pressured when too many men do nothing to improve their looks. Although, it might be kind of cool to have a sideways pussy, a real conversation piece (lol).

I love men who routinely call women sluts and whores. What does that make them?

 

[Kethandra]

Know what the problem with April Fools is? The point is to be clever and trick or misdirect the readers or give them a nice twist surprise ending.

The readers don't like that. They don't like to be confused or made to think. They want that same tired plot device and story line they've been enjoying every day for years.

In other words the concept makes them think or deal with something and well....no.

The example that comes to mind is the Halloween contest where 15 entries can be two family members having mistaken identity due to masks. All 15 will do very well just as the 1000 identical stories before them did.

They want the same lunch every day here. April Fools is a different type of lunch.

It doesn't always work, but I like to try and play a trick or fool one or more characters in the story, rather than the reader. Sometimes both character and reader, but just tricking the reader tends to feel gimmicky to me. I like to think some few readers might read my story more than once, which is less likely if it's just a a surprise ending. Did anyone watch the Crying Game twice? (And it turns out at the end that he's been dead all along! Who'd a thunk it?)

 

[Kethandra]

I love men who routinely call women sluts and whores. What does that make them?

Loved.

 

[SusanJillParker]

If judging this contest by the small amount of comments, unlike the Valentine's Day, Christmas, and Halloween contest, I'd say that there is little interest in this April Fool's Day contest. Why is that? Doesn't anyone have any ideas about trickery and deception mixed with sex?

Shockingly embarrassing, is my entry going to be the only entry in this contest? Actually, if my story was the only story entered in this contest, somehow, I don't think I'd win (lol). I don't think anyone would vote for a story about a man fooled into having sex with his mother, his sister, his aunt, his cousin, his girlfriend's mother, his girlfriend's sister, and his girlfriend's best friend.

Seriously, who would even read such a demented story? What kind of boyfriend would do that to his girlfriend? Perhaps a boyfriend who was cursed by Satan would do that by playing in the Devil's sexual playground.

C'mon, people. Let's see some excitement about this contest. Let's hear about your stories. What do you have? Give us all a peek in the humor of April Fool's mixed with sex, lots and lots of sex.

Hmm, now that I think about it, I wonder if my story is the only contest entry if I'd win first, second, and third prize. Wow.

Okay, never mind. Ignore the above post. No one else enter the contest. Okay?

"Where's my delete key? Shit! Too late. I just posted this."

 

[oggbashan]

I find it more diffficult to get reasonable plot ideas for the April Fool's Day contest.

Last year making the reader the April Fool didn't work well.

I still have a dozen incomplete Earth Day stories.

 

[SusanJillParker]

I find it more diffficult to get reasonable plot ideas for the April Fool's Day contest.

Last year making the reader the April Fool didn't work well.

I still have a dozen incomplete Earth Day stories.

With a little creativity, I'm sure you could easily transform one of your Earth Day stories into an April Fool's Day story.

"What do you mean there's no global warming? Seriously? There's no global warming? Are you kidding me? Then, why am I driving this shit, 2 cylinder, econo-box car when I could be driving a Hummer?"

Based on his girlfriend's April Fool's joke that there was no global warming, Jack traded in his shit, Chinese car and bought a real car, a truck, a huge Hummer.

"It's people like you why there's global warming," said his girlfriend's mother.

Not happy being tricked by her daughter, Jack decided to get even.

"I'll show you global warming," said Jack.

Exposing her low-cut bra and white, bikini panties, he pulled his future mother-in-law's dress over her head. Then, not stopping his sexual assault there, lifting her bra, he stuck his cock in between her big, naked breasts. Humping her big, naked tits, he fucked her big, naked tits.

"How's that for global warming. Are your tits warm enough? Now suck my cock, bitch, while I further warm your globes with my horny hands."

Huh? See? What do you think, Og? Feel free to use my idea. Seriously, there's no need to thank me. It's my pleasure.

'I hope he uses my story,' thought Susan. 'If he's the only other entrant with a stupid story like that, he'll never win. I'll definitely take first prize.'

And the winner of the April Fool's Day contest is Global Warming by Og.

"Shit," said Susan.

 

[RejectReality]

Large blocks of italics are hard on the eyes. They're also problematic near Lit's page breaks.

One thing I've done in the past is to use blockquote for a flashback. Still problematic near page breaks, but easier on the eyes.

I hope my 'April Fool's Day' story works. But then... from this tread it becomes quite clear that there is a wide range of definitions concerning funny jokes; perhaps I shouldn't worry too much.

I've had my story read by someone else, who said he immediately figured it out... That wasn't supposed to happen until the very last sentence. So I rewrote it, but now I can't really trust his judgement anymore - pre knowledge...

Anyone who has experience with, or an opinion about, the use of Italics for flashbacks? Is it a no-go?

 

[sr71plt]

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Anyone who has experience with, or an opinion about, the use of Italics for flashbacks? Is it a no-go?

For short passages, italics would be fine for that, but as RR notes, it's hard on the eyes for long passages. Sectioning off the flashback would be better. The kicker is not to use both treatments in the same work--stick to one so that the reader won't be confused.

 

[RejectReality]

You use blockquote by inserting the opening and closing tags directly into the text of the story.

<blockquote>This is the paragraph I want to be part of the flashback.</blockquote>

It will then be set off from both the left and right margins and look like this:

https://www.literotica.com/s/documentary-cougar

Here's a story where I used both blockquote and italics ( not recommended, but I don't feel it's bad enough here to submit an edit to remove the italics ) for an actual flashback, rather than an aside as it is in the previous example. It's near the middle of the linked page.

https://www.literotica.com/s/ebon-genesis?page=7

What is 'blockquote' supposed to do? I put it in my text, but didn't see any changes when I clicked on 'Preview Story'? (Even though I didn't see the text "<blockquote>" or "<blockquote>" anymore)

I did see the text change to Italics when I used <i> and </i>


Same for this forum
Here I use the italics indications between [] and it works,
Here I use [blockquote] the blockquote indications [/blockquote] and it doesn't work


In that case, I don't like the text 'Quote:' on top of the box

 

[oggbashan]

I've just completed printing out my first completed story.

I'll go through the printout tomorrow to look for typos and problems. It should be ready to submit tomorrow evening.

But the next one is a long way short of completion because I've been working on the final chapter of an incomplete story that has been posted for years.

 

[TamLin01]

I finally finished and put in my entry. Lies, disguises, fake identities, manipulation, adultery, secret societies, Hollywood glamour, etc all seemed well enough on the topic of fooling.

Naturally I got a better idea with just a week to go before the contest opened; ain't that always how it goes? But there's always next year.

 

[YDB95]

My two are submitted. I started a third but the real world got in the way. At least I've got a plot bunny for next year.

 

[oggbashan]

I've submitted my first one.

Remember that it is the START date coming soon (1st March). There is still time to write and submit an entry before the END date (20 March).

 

[ChloeTzang]

Ohhhhh, I'm still working on my first one. And I know it won't be finished today. I spent too much time waffling around when I had free time. Oh well, heads down tonite.....

 

[tomlitilia]

Submitted one. Hope to get one more done before the contest closes

 

[lovecraft68]

I went to put mine in last night. Formatted, dropped it in, did the title, tags...then I couldn't come up with a tag line. For fifteen minutes I tried about a dozen of them and nothing sounded right.

I ended up not submitting it and figure something will come to me today. Always amazes me how I can blow through a 16k story, but be stymied by a brief blurb.

 

[oggbashan]

My submission has changed from a blue pending to grey and is marked as submitted for 1 March.

I don#t seem to get those indications on the new version. Or am I missing something?

 

[lovecraft68]

Just tossed mine in. Still not thrilled with the tag line, but I'm not going to keep stewing over it.

Now to see if it makes it for tomorrow or not.

 

[YDB95]

Game on! No delay this time with the front page link or anything.

 

[lovecraft68]

Game on! No delay this time with the front page link or anything.

I was just going to post that. I'm impressed, the link is already up and working.

 

[oggbashan]

I have just submitted my second entry.

Probably NOW I will spot the typo I'm sure I had but couldn't find.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Even though I have a lot of hits and even though I have a lot of readers favoring my story and favoring me as their favorite authors, the votes are very low, about .2% when normal voting is .4 to .8%.

The only ones who vote all the time are the bashers, God bless them (lol).

I wish these people would get a life.

"So, what do you do in your spare time?"

"I vote a 1 vote to every story on Literotica. I don't reed any of them, I just give them a 1 vote to piss off the arthor. Sometimes, when I'm realy in a bad moud, I'll rite a coment bout how much they suk as a riter.

Only, I'm embarased that I kan't rite a gramatikaly korect bashing coment when these riters kan rite such long storys with no misteaks."