Nude Day contest story for Nude Day, Friday, July 14, 2017

[SusanJillParker]

I've been writing a Nude Day contest story for the past few weeks. Presently, the story is about 20,000 words and will morph to be around 30,000 words.

Only, when I sat down to continue to write the story this morning, my characters spoke to me.

Instead of submitting this in the Nude Day contest, I decided to break the story in chapters and write an even longer story, perhaps around 60,000 words.

It just flowed better as a chapter story than it did as one giant, stand alone story.

I think I made a mistake in not making my 86,000 word Valentine's Day contest story and my 46,000 word April Fool's contest story chapter stories. I suspect they would have earned more views, more votes, and higher scores. Even now, after writing here for 10 years under 15 different names, it's a crap shoot to know should I or shouldn't I?

Has anyone else started their Nude Day story?

Just wondering, does anyone else have the same dilemma in deciding when to leave a story as a complete story and/or when to break it into chapters?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Has anyone else started their Nude Day story?

No, I haven't. I'm not even sure what the theme for Nude Day is? Apart from the obvious LOL. I have to go and read up on this one (and I just did - public nudity and exhibitionism - hmmmmm). So I just did and it starts June 20th and closes July 11th so there's a good 12 weeks lead time.

I'd like to try it but I'm just not sure about the time right now. I just started a new story that a reader asked if I'd like to write and it totally grabbed my imagination so I started on it yesterday. But 12 weeks.... okay, I'm going to give it a try but no, not started and no idea what to write.

Although public nudity and shy chinese girl, there's a certain attraction to writing that.

Just wondering, does anyone else have the same dilemma in deciding when to leave a story as a complete story and/or when to break it into chapters?

Nope. None at all but on the other hand I don't think that much about it either. I just cut it into chapters at a max of 35,000 words per LIT installment (give or take little) except for a competition story where it is what it turns out to be. I never worry about it, but on the other hand I haven't been writing here that long either and I don't have that many stories up. I'm kind of learning as I go and as you said, you keep learning here.

Love to know how the rest of you make that decision. Won;t change what I do but curiosity and cats....

 

[OmnislashXX]

Although public nudity and shy chinese girl, there's a certain attraction to writing that.

Do a story where she either loses or gets her clothes stolen, so she has to find some way to get out of the situation without being seen.

 

[MoonlightandRoses]

Susan, Chloe and Omni, sounds interesting. I actually like nudity more than sex and I have written a number of stories about what I think of as one-sided nudity that is where only males or females are nude, but not both. Most of them have a young man or men nude and some are about a shy nude young man. The trick is to do it so it is not “offensive” so that the nudity is appreciated by others. It is easy to write such a story about a nude young woman the challenge is to write one about a nude young man, particularly a shy nude young man.

Moonlight and Roses

 

[lovecraft68]

I went with a totally different version of 'Naked' back in 2015. I wrote it mostly as catharsis and put it in romance and it ended up winning the July monthly that year.

 

[sr71plt]

Four years ago I flipped it for the Nude Day contest with an "unnaked" story, "Enticingly Unnaked," in which being partially clothed was set forth as more sexy than being naked. The story has held up well in the ratings.

 

[YDB95]

My most popular Nude Day story to date was "Beware the Quiet One" (linked on my sig line). I'm working on a sequel to that.

 

[TamLin01]

I always find Nude Day the most difficult theme, but this year I resolved to enter something in all six regular contests and started working on entries back at the beginning of the year. I'm doing my Halloween stories now. Cross your fingers.

 

[KenNicottii]

Hmm … has someone been looking over my shoulder? My Nude Day entry is going to be over 40,000 words before I’m done—and 5,000 have already been cut out. Now if someone had put a gun to my head and said “Start writing. I want to see at least 40K words. Here’s the theme: Nude Day. And it better be good,” I’d still be trying to come up with something. I thought I was pushing my boundaries when my last two stories passed 20K.

Would I break this into chapters if it wasn’t such an apropos contest entry? Maybe—but I personally shy away from most multi-chapter stories as a reader. I’m using pseudo chapter titles within the body of the story to give the reader visual and psychological break points. Even so, as a reader I’d hesitate before selecting a story that stretched to 12 (or more) Lit pages unless it had a lot to recommend it (red H, reliable author, fave of someone whose taste I respect, etc.).

So hypothetically, should all these upcoming Nude Day contest entries fall into the Exhibitionist & Voyeur category by default? Should novella-length stories like mine go into the N/n category? I was surprised to see the wide range of categories used in the recent Winter Holidays contest (which was the first contest I’ve entered). It’s interesting that the contest entries portal doesn’t identify the category, although I always clicked through on the author to check for no-go categories before starting to read one of the entries.

 

[SusanJillParker]

I always find Nude Day the most difficult theme, but this year I resolved to enter something in all six regular contests and started working on entries back at the beginning of the year. I'm doing my Halloween stories now. Cross your fingers.

I always have fun with Nude Day. It's easy to strip my characters naked in public (lol).

"What? I beg your pardon. Sorry, you want me to do what? Take off my clothes? I won't do it," said John. "I'd be so embarrassed to strip myself naked. Shall I remind you that nudity isn't even in my contract?"

Susan smiled at her character with patience.

"Must I remind you that I'm the writer, the one who created you? Instead of having you strip naked, I can just write you out of the scene. Or, I can change your name and description so that you no longer exist."

Her character started undressing.

"Sorry Susan. I'm removing my clothes. There. I'm naked. Are you happy now?"

Susan made a face.

"Actually no. Now that I see you without your clothes, I need to give you a bigger cock."

Her character looked down at himself before staring up at Susan.

"I'd rather like that and while you're at it, could you make me more muscular, give me more hair, and a cooler name like Rick, Brad, or Brock?"

 

[SusanJillParker]

Hmm … has someone been looking over my shoulder? My Nude Day entry is going to be over 40,000 words before I’m done—and 5,000 have already been cut out. Now if someone had put a gun to my head and said “Start writing. I want to see at least 40K words. Here’s the theme: Nude Day. And it better be good,” I’d still be trying to come up with something. I thought I was pushing my boundaries when my last two stories passed 20K.

Would I break this into chapters if it wasn’t such an apropos contest entry? Maybe—but I personally shy away from most multi-chapter stories as a reader. I’m using pseudo chapter titles within the body of the story to give the reader visual and psychological break points. Even so, as a reader I’d hesitate before selecting a story that stretched to 12 (or more) Lit pages unless it had a lot to recommend it (red H, reliable author, fave of someone whose taste I respect, etc.).

So hypothetically, should all these upcoming Nude Day contest entries fall into the Exhibitionist & Voyeur category by default? Should novella-length stories like mine go into the N/n category? I was surprised to see the wide range of categories used in the recent Winter Holidays contest (which was the first contest I’ve entered). It’s interesting that the contest entries portal doesn’t identify the category, although I always clicked through on the author to check for no-go categories before starting to read one of the entries.

Sadly, too many readers don't read chapter stories. Too many readers just want something to masturbate to and won't invest the time to read. Too many writers write pornography instead of writing real stories with plot, dialogue, tension, description, and imagery.

Yet, I'm more of a novelist than I am a short story writer and am more comfortable writing longer pieces broken into chapters. Besides, unless I'm writing a commissioned story for someone, I have the luxury of not writing for any audience. I write for myself and if someone enjoys reading what I write, all the better.

The best contest Literotica ever had was the year long Survivor contest, the writer with the most stories in the most categories wins. Alas, there wasn't enough participation in the contest to keep it going. Because of that contest, I stretched my creativity to routinely write in nearly every category.

As the only writer to have won the contest 3 times, finished 2nd, 3 times, and placed third, 3 times, perhaps Laurel will bring back the contest and call it...Susan's Survivor Contest (lol).