The Official Authors' Hangout Summer Lovin' Contest 2017 Support Thread

[TxRad]

Sorry, you're right of course. Half asleep as I was. My apologies. Correction underway...... still tho, I can't see why anyone would trash yours. Oh well. Some people ......

There are individuals and several groups that make it their job to downplay anything and everything having to do with the contests. They are the reason the sweeps were started in the first place.

 

[ChloeTzang]

There are individuals and several groups that make it their job to downplay anything and everything having to do with the contests. They are the reason the sweeps were started in the first place.

Aaaaahhh, enlightenment! There should be a contest sticky on this that packages it up for newcomers. It takes a while to understand these things.....but yes, thinking back on previous discussions.....

 

[jsmiam]

You'd need to PM Laurel to find out. None of us will have a clue.

If you're sure you put the right entry notice in the NOTES field, she usually expedites those; like I said above, mine was on the board after just 9 hours. But yours may have fallen through the cracks.

So many folks with comments about unusually fast postings. I was hoping to get lucky (I mean with the story submission time), but I suppose I'll just keep waiting.

 

[daremo68]

So many folks with comments about unusually fast postings. I was hoping to get lucky (I mean with the story submission time), but I suppose I'll just keep waiting.

My submission got up really quick. I submitted it before going to bed on Thursday and when I woke up, it was approved and public on Friday. It was certainly the fastest I've had a story approved.

 

[Halin24]

My story is still hanging around just below 4.5 but I had a good experience this morning (Swedish time of course) I thought I should share.

I don't get a lot of comments, ever, and I have to admit that I usually don't reply to them either (I never get PM's, which would be a different thing entirely). Last night I did reply to those I had got on 'Midsummer nights', and this morning when I checked I had two more.

One was very short but appreciative, the other longer and also positive. But, the second one also showed that the poster had really understood what I tried to express with the story. Maybe I interpreted more into it than was really there but... wow!

And - since this is a frequently discussed and bemoaned issue - the poster was - Anonymous!

 

[litfan10]

And - since this is a frequently discussed and bemoaned issue - the poster was - Anonymous!

Congrats! That is wonderful.

I woke up this morning to a great comment from Anonymous as well that totally made my day.

I often have readers reply with every bit as graphic depictions as explicit as the ones in my stories about what my story did for them. I'm flattered. (and amused.)

Well today, Anon told me that as he read the story to his wife she laughed so hard she peed her panties. He thanked me for the wet wife and the great sex after.

Good thing I meant it as a humorous story......

 

[litfan10]

So many folks with comments about unusually fast postings. I was hoping to get lucky (I mean with the story submission time), but I suppose I'll just keep waiting.

I just looked at the contest story listing and you are still not there.

Did you do this: Author must copy and paste the phrase "SUMMER LOVIN STORY CONTEST 2017" in the "Notes" field of the submission.

I find during contests it is less than twenty-four hours (sometimes much less) to get a contest story posted but often longer than usual for non contest stories to get posted.

I posted "Rekindling Old Flames" for the contest around 11:00 at night the day before the contest opened, and it was live three hours later when the contest did open.

Good luck

 

[ChloeTzang]

Did you do this: Author must copy and paste the phrase "SUMMER LOVIN STORY CONTEST 2017" in the "Notes" field of the submission.

I find during contests it is less than twenty-four hours (sometimes much less) to get a contest story posted but often longer than usual for non contest stories to get posted.

Pm Laurel with the summer login topic for the title and ask. It should be up the next morning at the latest. Something's slipped there if it still shows pending today. You can always go in and check your note. Don't use the quote marks

 

[jsmiam]

@Chloe & @Litfan, thanks. I definitely did it right though, no doubt about it. In my case, early a.m. Friday morning, with fingers crossed I'd have good luck and get it in for the weekend. Didn't seem meant to be. Not gonna beg. ;-)

 

[oggbashan]

I've just hit the submit button for a Summer Lovin' entry.

It isn't one of the drafts I had intended. They are still stalled - all four of them. This one is based on a memory of the 1960s and was written over the last few days.

 

[HuckPilgrim]

Yay, I got mine done last night! I was already to submit this morning, but then I noticed three small errors. I'll have to fix them later tonight and then "Hit the button Max*."


*Any Great Race fans?

 

[Voboy]

@Chloe & @Litfan, thanks. I definitely did it right though, no doubt about it. In my case, early a.m. Friday morning, with fingers crossed I'd have good luck and get it in for the weekend. Didn't seem meant to be. Not gonna beg. ;-)

At this point, all I can come up with is the possibility that your story involves sex with dead people. Underaged dead people.

Yay, I got mine done last night! I was already to submit this morning, but then I noticed three small errors. I'll have to fix them later tonight and then "Hit the button Max*."


*Any Great Race fans?

"Citizens of Boracho..."

Might do a pie-fight story for next year's Summer Lovin thing. Or a story about two cars on an ice floe for the winter one.

 

[HuckPilgrim]

Might do a pie-fight story for next year's Summer Lovin thing. Or a story about two cars on an ice floe for the winter one.

That's the spirit!

Pie-fights are classic. Whatever happened to pie-fights?

 

[Kethandra]

That's the spirit!

Pie-fights are classic. Whatever happened to pie-fights?

I was reminiscing about pie fights yesterday, and a particular classic Three Stooges one.

 

[Dream_Operator]

Pie-fights are classic. Whatever happened to pie-fights?

I think HR and OSHA combined to shut them down.

 

[NotWise]

WhooHoo! My story got its first comment after nearly 12,000 views.

I have not much to say about pie fights, other than that the one in "The Great Race" was awesome.

 

[KindofHere]

That's the spirit!

Pie-fights are classic. Whatever happened to pie-fights?

Are pie-fights another way to describe two women scissoring? Or are we talking baked good being thrown at one another?

 

[Voboy]

Are pie-fights another way to describe two women scissoring? Or are we talking baked good being thrown at one another?

Footnote, post 212. The Great Race, with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, was billed as the movie with the largest pie fight ever filmed. YouTube it. Wikipedia says the pastry used in the scene was valued at $18,000, the modern equivalent of $141,676 adjusted for inflation. That's $142k. In PIES. All thrown in like four minutes.

The whole film is hilarious. There are subtleties in the humor that underlie the slapstick, and the result was a brilliant film.

ETA: forgot to mention that Natalie Wood starts the fight in lingerie and a Sgt Pepper jacket. By the end of the fight she's lost the jacket. So, yeah. Natalie Wood, throwing pastry in her skivvies.

 

[litfan10]

Footnote, post 212. The Great Race, with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, was billed as the movie with the largest pie fight ever filmed. YouTube it. Wikipedia says the pastry used in the scene was valued at $18,000, the modern equivalent of $141,676 adjusted for inflation. That's $142k. In PIES. All thrown in like four minutes.

The whole film is hilarious. There are subtleties in the humor that underlie the slapstick, and the result was a brilliant film.

ETA: forgot to mention that Natalie Wood starts the fight in lingerie and a Sgt Pepper jacket. By the end of the fight she's lost the jacket. So, yeah. Natalie Wood, throwing pastry in her skivvies.

The Great Race and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad (I can never keep track of all the 'mads' ) World still have me in stitches every time I watch them.

Oh yeah, and the Quiet Man.

 

[Kethandra]

Footnote, post 212. The Great Race, with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, was billed as the movie with the largest pie fight ever filmed. YouTube it. Wikipedia says the pastry used in the scene was valued at $18,000, the modern equivalent of $141,676 adjusted for inflation. That's $142k. In PIES. All thrown in like four minutes.

The whole film is hilarious. There are subtleties in the humor that underlie the slapstick, and the result was a brilliant film.

ETA: forgot to mention that Natalie Wood starts the fight in lingerie and a Sgt Pepper jacket. By the end of the fight she's lost the jacket. So, yeah. Natalie Wood, throwing pastry in her skivvies.

That's the gold standard for both quantity and quality: where most 'pie' fights use whipped or shaving cream 'pies' - The Great Race was using fruit pastries heavy enough to knock some heads back.

 

[Voboy]

That's the gold standard for both quantity and quality: where most 'pie' fights use whipped or shaving cream 'pies' - The Great Race was using fruit pastries heavy enough to knock some heads back.

Indeed.

Blake Edwards wanted bright pies because he insisted on filming in Technicolor, so instead of half-assing it with food coloring he ordered the brightest berry pies available.

That's commitment.

 

[PuckIt]

Have to admit, I am getting a little worn out. The wife pointed out last night I've been working on this tale for slightly over a month and for eight to ten hours a day with not much of breaks. Not sure which of us is more ready for me to have done; me, wifey, or pup. There's probably not a lot of point in keeping on since we've crossed into novel territory with around 500kb and probably less than 100kb being sexy, but as she pointed out "you've come this far. Get it done so we can go back to having fun."

 

[toetyper]

WhooHoo! My story got its first comment after nearly 12,000 views.
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mines at 2600 views and has 3 comments.,,go figure

 

[HuckPilgrim]

Are pie-fights another way to describe two women scissoring? Or are we talking baked good being thrown at one another?

hahah! I was not talking scissoring, but that's a great image KindofHere.

In other news, I published mine last night (Push the button Max!) and it this morning I see that it's been live for like 7 hours. I guess it went up right after I published it, which is awesome. It's getting creamed in the score (Not that button Max!) and has about 1100 views.

 

[Kethandra]

hahah! I was not talking scissoring, but that's a great image KindofHere.

And that takes Blake Edward's commitment to a whole new level:

He insisted on using real pies - not those fake stunt pies others used - for his epic scissoring/pie fight scene with Natalie Woods.