Amorous Goods

[Sparkw0od]

Well, mine finally got published. I think I went a bit overboard with this one:

Amorous Goods The Pendulum

I didn't realize until the editing stage that this story should probably have been a multi-parter. I had to cut out 2,000 words, and edit it down to the bone after trying to cram what should have been a novella into a short story. Still, at least I got it done.

Might rewrite the same idea later as a multi-parter (without the Amorous goods setting of course).

 

[davion2308]

Just so I'm within the rules

I never saw any of the shows mentioned in the earlier thread but I'm interested in stretching my imagination and playing the game.

Saying that, just for clarification:

I have to make mention of the store, and I plan on Scene 1 being the shopping experience, but I plan on taking it off on a tangent and seeing what the item actually does and how it impacts the relationship between my main characters. The characters make a quick stop in there, move on with the rest of their day, and hijinks ensue.

That's allowed within the framework and intent of the game, right? I don't want to go rogue here; worst-case scenario I have a new stand-alone story.

Do I have the spirit of jaF0's game down? Limited contact with Vicki, only at the beginning and the end, and a majority of the story with my couple?

 

[jaF0]

^^ Sounds like a plan.

You should try to view at least one episode of the TV series though if you can to get a feel for it.

 

[jaF0]

I didn't realize until the editing stage that this story should probably have been a multi-parter. I had to cut out 2,000 words, and edit it down to the bone after trying to cram what should have been a novella into a short story. Still, at least I got it done.

Might rewrite the same idea later as a multi-parter (without the Amorous goods setting of course).

I want to see how things go for the month. If there's enough interest, I may ask for the concept to be left open ended allowing for additions on a continuing basis.

 

[Small_Island]

Overboard?

Well, mine finally got published. I think I went a bit overboard with this one:

Amorous Goods The Pendulum

I didn't realize until the editing stage that this story should probably have been a multi-parter. I had to cut out 2,000 words, and edit it down to the bone after trying to cram what should have been a novella into a short story. Still, at least I got it done.

Might rewrite the same idea later as a multi-parter (without the Amorous goods setting of course).

Dude,
If I'm doing this right, you've got just shy of 8,000 words here.
My Opus went to 26,700!
If you're overboard, I'm down with the Titanic!

You're pacing was quick and it only took me 20 minutes to read. 20 well-spent minutes.
- dowsing for pussy - that's classic.

Well done!

 

[Rustyoznail]

Has anyone done the Japanese porn time stop thing? I've got an idea which will be too late for this Halloween, but will be perfect for AG.

 

[Sparkw0od]

Dude,
If I'm doing this right, you've got just shy of 8,000 words here.
My Opus went to 26,700!
If you're overboard, I'm down with the Titanic!

You're pacing was quick and it only took me 20 minutes to read. 20 well-spent minutes.
- dowsing for pussy - that's classic.

Well done!

Thanks, Small Island, that’s much appreciated. The thing is, I’m used to writing short fiction at around 2,000 words. It wasn’t until I started writing for this website that I got criticized for my stories being too short!

I might take the story idea and rewrite it as a multi-parter. I don’t like how some of the characters and events were skimmed over in my rush to get this done on time. Like Donna, Jane, Sarah, and the fetish party. I think they all deserve more attention.

Still working my way through your story – seems pretty good so far. I like your character development of Vikki and Morgan. The idea of Vikki being caught masturbating at work was pretty funny!

 

[davion2308]

Question

Here's a silly question:

I'm about 3500 words in and I like where things are going. The only issue is this is Halloween season, the original show is creepy and meant to be eerie, and outside the first scene in the shop, my show is much more light-hearted.

There's an element of "What is happening here?" and some confusion, uncertainty, but the main characters ended up being much more fun-loving then I expected and it isn't by any means suspenseful or eerie.

Is that still within the flavor or the spirit of the anthology? I'm going to finish the story but if it's not in the same vein, I'll stay out of it.

Any judges to score?

 

[Small_Island]

Fun or Scary, it's still Halloweenish

Here's a silly question:

I'm about 3500 words in and I like where things are going. The only issue is this is Halloween season, the original show is creepy and meant to be eerie, and outside the first scene in the shop, my show is much more light-hearted.

There's an element of "What is happening here?" and some confusion, uncertainty, but the main characters ended up being much more fun-loving then I expected and it isn't by any means suspenseful or eerie.

Is that still within the flavor or the spirit of the anthology? I'm going to finish the story but if it's not in the same vein, I'll stay out of it.

Any judges to score?

I see no one's responded to this yet, so I'll throw in my two cents. And I'll start with a quote from jaF0 himself.

07-11-2020, 06:05 AM #16
jaF0
The stories should have an overall 'odd' cast to them, but not necessarily supernatural.

In my own story I hinted that evil is possible, but nothing darkly evil happens. I think a light-hearted Halloween romp would fit in with the wide range of material I've seen so far.

Cheers!

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Has anyone done the Japanese porn time stop thing? I've got an idea which will be too late for this Halloween, but will be perfect for AG.

I think there is one, I saw one on the list that looked like some time stop story.

 

[HarryHill]

From 1987 - 1990, Curious Goods was the name of a fictional antique store in Friday the 13th: The Series. The storyline surrounded various cursed items in the shop and the adventures or consequences that befell anyone that came in contact with them.

If you're not familiar with the series, you can read up on it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th:_The_Series

Alter the concept and premise to 'Amorous Goods' and let the adventures or consequences be of an erotic nature. This could be a series done by a number of different authors writing to the theme and each submission could fall into almost any of the Lit categories.. Who knows, maybe even a story contest type thing.

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I need to know how to enter in conjunction with the HALLOWEEN 2020 contest and I'm too tired to dig the rest of this thread to find it. Could you add the info to this first page?

 

[Small_Island]

Halloween and AG

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I need to know how to enter in conjunction with the HALLOWEEN 2020 contest and I'm too tired to dig the rest of this thread to find it. Could you add the info to this first page?

HarryHill,

I simply put both AMOROUS GOODS and HALLOWEEN 2020 in the admin notes block and that seems to have worked.

 

[HarryHill]

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Well I'm probably out of the AG competition, didn't put the prologue up at the start for one, lost most of the boiler plate in the premise, and started mine 180 degrees out from the other stores in the challenge. Still it got me writing again, and reading though I loose interest in a lot or things here that seem more about porn than story telling.

 

[Ruffus_Goodman]

Gotta redo mine

You're complaining your story is out AG.

I'm rewriting mine.

I ditched my first premise, didn't find a living soul in this forum that would take a peek in my non-con story.

If that doesn't fly with editors, it certainly won't pass Admin's rules.

And I'm depressed thinking about how to connect horror with porn in a site where violence is not allowed.

It is like my whole experience with horror cinema is useless...

 

[HarryHill]

You're complaining your story is out AG.

I'm rewriting mine.

I ditched my first premise, didn't find a living soul in this forum that would take a peek in my non-con story.

If that doesn't fly with editors, it certainly won't pass Admin's rules.

And I'm depressed thinking about how to connect horror with porn in a site where violence is not allowed.

It is like my whole experience with horror cinema is useless...

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I read yours I think. It takes a long time to read through these things, I can only do one or two a day. Also votes/reads usually show up a day behind

 

[davion2308]

Not true

You're complaining your story is out AG.

I'm rewriting mine.

I ditched my first premise, didn't find a living soul in this forum that would take a peek in my non-con story.

If that doesn't fly with editors, it certainly won't pass Admin's rules.

And I'm depressed thinking about how to connect horror with porn in a site where violence is not allowed.

It is like my whole experience with horror cinema is useless...

That's not true that violence is not allowed. One of my two major characters is casually killed by the monster. It's not graphic, but there's a dead body to be sure.

The trick is to either tone down the blood spatter or ensure it's not sexualized. The constraints are: "A man can bleed out on the floor of a dingy warehouse after he's stabbed by the gang member he was trailing ... but that gang member shouldn't be jerking off using his intestines."

PM me and send me your story. I'll read it.

 

[HarryHill]

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The admin added the prologue to my story, thanks! But, I'm not entirely sure it should be there.

 

[Small_Island]

Where are these rules?

That's not true that violence is not allowed. One of my two major characters is casually killed by the monster. It's not graphic, but there's a dead body to be sure.

The trick is to either tone down the blood spatter or ensure it's not sexualized. The constraints are: "A man can bleed out on the floor of a dingy warehouse after he's stabbed by the gang member he was trailing ... but that gang member shouldn't be jerking off using his intestines."

PM me and send me your story. I'll read it.

My main issue with Literotica (which I otherwise love) is that the site is not intuitive.
In this forum a couple of authors discuss certain rules for categories.
Where are these rules?
I've looked in FAQ, Submission Guidelines, and generally poked around, but other than no beasts and no one under 18 can have sex, I can't find these detailed rules about violence, non-consent, etc.
Please, point me in the right direction. Thanks.

 

[davion2308]

How about this?

Okay, so my story developed and changed directions and now a pair of sapphire earrings have motivated our female protagonist to experiment with other women. Sapphire ... sapphic ... see what I did there?

Tyler points it out not-so-subtly in the store too.

My question: Woman gets frisky with another girl in a club then goes home and fucks her boyfriend relentlessly thinking about what she did.

Because the focus is on her suddenly finding women attractive and irresistible, does that make it Lesbian?

She doesn't do a whole lot besides some light touching and kissing, she's not going down on any woman, and she hustles out to take care of business with the guy.

What's my category here?

Thanks, as always.

 

[ElectricBlue]

My main issue with Literotica (which I otherwise love) is that the site is not intuitive.
In this forum a couple of authors discuss certain rules for categories.
Where are these rules?
I've looked in FAQ, Submission Guidelines, and generally poked around, but other than no beasts and no one under 18 can have sex, I can't find these detailed rules about violence, non-consent, etc.
Please, point me in the right direction. Thanks.

Here ya go:

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=175666

 

[HarryHill]

I think all of the Amorous stories are in this post.

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Amorous Goods-Exorcist Rings by Lovecraft_Lore
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Amorous Goods: The Pendulum by sparkwood
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Amourus Goods: The Magic Pen by yowser
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Amorous Goods: The Red Leather Boots by Omenainian
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Amorous Goods: Gaudus by ShowTime8
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Amorous Goods: Quilt of Dreams by sniffpanties
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Amorous Goods: The Victrola by saddletramp1956
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Amorous Goods: The Ring by JBEdwards

 

[Ruffus_Goodman]

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I need to know how to enter in conjunction with the HALLOWEEN 2020 contest and I'm too tired to dig the rest of this thread to find it. Could you add the info to this first page?

https://www.literotica.com/s/coming-soon-amorous-goods-a-lit-anthology-series

Idk if anyone answered, but it is good to have this link around our topic...

 

[Ruffus_Goodman]

Labels are not good actually

Okay, so my story developed and changed directions and now a pair of sapphire earrings have motivated our female protagonist to experiment with other women. Sapphire ... sapphic ... see what I did there?

Tyler points it out not-so-subtly in the store too.

My question: Woman gets frisky with another girl in a club then goes home and fucks her boyfriend relentlessly thinking about what she did.

Because the focus is on her suddenly finding women attractive and irresistible, does that make it Lesbian?

She doesn't do a whole lot besides some light touching and kissing, she's not going down on any woman, and she hustles out to take care of business with the guy.

What's my category here?

Thanks, as always.

It looks like you got a softcore homo going, with straight "rebound" so to speak.

If I had to categorize it, I'd put it on bi. But I'm against certain labels since literature has many things intertwined a story to tell them apart.

For example, is she acting lesbian because solely the earrings? Did the earrings turned her into bissexual or (future) lesbian? Is this reversible?

Was she all along bi/lesbian and the earrings showed her her true self?

Only reading your story we might know for sure. (What a promo I just wrote for ya )

About our theme, I think it is hard to juggle three ongoing themes:

- Softcore/Hardcore porn or some kind of eroticism

- Halloween scary stories of some kind (I saw a post about a guy telling his story was more comedic than horrifying and I say: if Evil Dead could pull it, why couldn't you? But all in good sense, don't write horror porn about Krusty the Clown, please...)

- Gotta fit into Amorous Good theme, meaning there must be some item related to your story that came from the store somehow.

Quick note here, I was reading the story about the emeralds, the author was really good, he wrote the item already at loose and the chars were trying to get it back. Didn't finish it yet and I'm not gonna spoil it for you guys.

Unrelated note now: I'm about to wrap up my story, review it myself and publish, but I want it to showcase cameos of some of your items if it's ok...

I'm giving underestimated point of view of some of them on purpose, so your stories may "plot-twist" them in their plots, so to speak...

 

[davion2308]

All good points

First things, first.

There's a sapphire earrings the woman purchases for herself at the store from Vicky and Tyler, and those bring out a bi-side in her where she's suddenly attracted to other women. She doesn't 'discover' that she really has been, it's a simple "Now you're into it" kind of thing.

She finds out as soon as she takes them off, she goes back to being straight, for want of a better way to put it. It's the earrings themselves that make her bi.

And you can borrow them. I also have a pocket atlas in the story but it asn't shown to do anything just yet. I don't have plans, help yourself.

The earrings are sapphires, intricate, and an heirloom of a woman who was forced to marry a man many many years ago. It didn't work out and she enjoyed a party lifestyle with women. That's the background for the earrings.

Use 'em if you want. Please feel free.

 

[Ruffus_Goodman]

Great idea!

First things, first.

There's a sapphire earrings the woman purchases for herself at the store from Vicky and Tyler, and those bring out a bi-side in her where she's suddenly attracted to other women. She doesn't 'discover' that she really has been, it's a simple "Now you're into it" kind of thing.

She finds out as soon as she takes them off, she goes back to being straight, for want of a better way to put it. It's the earrings themselves that make her bi.

And you can borrow them. I also have a pocket atlas in the story but it asn't shown to do anything just yet. I don't have plans, help yourself.

The earrings are sapphires, intricate, and an heirloom of a woman who was forced to marry a man many many years ago. It didn't work out and she enjoyed a party lifestyle with women. That's the background for the earrings.

Use 'em if you want. Please feel free.

Thanks!! Funny item... Can the user take the earring off if they want the lesbian urge to stop? Would it work on gay men? You got something interesting there.

The emeralds were another story. I should have quoted the author who posted here, my bad. But in my defense it was like 2 pages ago, so I grew lazy to look for it and quote.

But I'm reviewing (deadline is getting really tighter now) and considering changing to your item. It's just a cameo actually, simple change.

I got no proper ending to my story yet and this is driving me crazy. It's like having an awesome dream and you couldn't remember.