Official Support Thread - 5th Annual 750 Word Project

[alohadave]

Here's my story: Birthday Present - Friends celebrate a 40th birthday - 750 word challenge.

 

[Lifestyle66]

Thanks for organising.

I see from someone else's entry that they've included a link to this thread and a brief explanation, which falls outside the 750 word count. It would be really helpful if those permitted introductions were included in next year's in the challenge invitation post - maybe like a template we could all stick to? I've added my explanation as a comment, which isn't ideal.

I began my story with an Author's Note stating "Author's Note: This is very short and intentionally written this way for an author challenge. This task was to write a story with ONLY 750 words, the minimum number of words allowed for a Literotica story."


This is the third year I've submitted 750-word stories, and I saw others doing that in the past. And after receiving shitty comments in the past about my stories being too short, I thought I'd head them off with that warning. The word count is 789, but the story "My Busy Day - 750 Words" starting after that note is exactly 750.

 

[ecorche]

Mine is A User Manual for Your New Massager. This was a fun challenge. Thanks for organizing.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Here's mine: Dan's New Job
There's zero sex in it, but it was a bit of writing that I didn't want to use elsewhere and it edited down to 750 words quite nicely, I thought. Some people might find my other stories through it.

 

[SoCalAshley]

Here is my story - Fourth of July Fireworks. I will be very curious to see how ratings on this story compare to my first two stories. I've read the comments on this thread regarding the reader's lack of understanding of the contest. I think it is sad that a reader would think longer stories are more worthy than shorter ones. Personally, I prefer breadth over length.

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

Here is mine, based on a line from a well known song. Not getting many views and as I was warned, my lowest score to date.
Still, it was fun to write and a big step from my usual verbosity and back-story creation!

No Escape From Reality

 

[AlinaX]

Two very tongue-in-cheek entries from me:
A Lively Tale Indeed - my first ever (and, likely, only ever) story in Celebrities & Fan Fiction
Pretentious Nonsense - pretty much what the title suggests; in Humor & Satire

 

[GrantBricksly]

Here is a link to mine: Magical Daddies

It is a bedtime story, meant to be read by Daddy-doms, to their littles. As a bedtime story, it is non-erotic (don't want to be exciting my little before bedtime) but it's a fun tale with magic, wizards, good v evil...

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

So my 750-word story is up. I have gotten a few new followers on it already. Had 40 votes, three likes, no comments, and only a 3.58 score. I don't think folks on here like my writing or is it my focus on Interracial?

 

[Omenainen]

So early you all are. I only just remembered this is on my todo list. But hey, how long can it take?

 

[MrPixel]

...only a 3.58 score...

750-word stories, in my experience, and from what I gather from others, do not score all that well. Some do, but I can't put my finger on the winning formula. It's been said several times that the format limitation is too short for decent development for anticipation of the eventual climax (of either kind).

I guess it's the LitE equivalent of a quickie, yeah, it might get one of you off, but the other is likely to be left wanting more.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

So early you all are. I only just remembered this is on my todo list. But hey, how long can it take?

If you type fast, don't edit, and post right off, you can have it in the queue in fifteen minutes.

 

[FifthEstate]

So my 750-word story is up. I have gotten a few new followers on it already. Had 40 votes, three likes, no comments, and only a 3.58 score. I don't think folks on here like my writing or is it my focus on Interracial?

I liked it—I just gave it 5️’s! I think the scoring might be hurting a little cuz there’s no mention of the 750 word challenge. Maybe an acknowledgment on your bio page?

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

Mine is up, and the tag search shows that it's also in Pink Orchid. So, as I'd hoped, I've been able to wriggle into two events with only 750 words.

 

[Lifestyle66]

750-word stories, in my experience, and from what I gather from others, do not score all that well. Some do, but I can't put my finger on the winning formula. It's been said several times that the format limitation is too short for decent development for anticipation of the eventual climax (of either kind).

I guess it's the LitE equivalent of a quickie, yeah, it might get one of you off, but the other is likely to be left wanting more.

As stickygirl mentioned earlier, maybe next year the challenge should include a standard author's note explaining the conditions limiting it to 750 words. The Amorous Goods anthology challenge has its standard mandatory prologue. This might assist new authors by being proactive in heading off the reader critics.

 

[alohadave]

As stickygirl mentioned earlier, maybe next year the challenge should include a standard author's note explaining the conditions limiting it to 750 words. The Amorous Goods anthology challenge has its standard mandatory prologue. This might assist new authors by being proactive in heading off the reader critics.

I put a short note at the top of mine stating it was for the challenge and Laurel linked it to the official page when she processed it.

 

[Omenainen]

I don’t think disclaimers help. People will hate these for being too short, no matter what we say.

 

[Lifestyle66]

I don’t think disclaimers help. People will hate these for being too short, no matter what we say.

My previous entries solicited several shitty comments about it being too short. At least I haven't yet received such comments this year with the disclaimer stating it is required to be only 750 words. But I've still appreciated my dedicated 1-bombers!

 

[GrantBricksly]

I don't know how mine will fair. (so far, it has done well, but I do not have a lot of votes, so that may change) But I did not put anything in the body of my story indicating that it was for the challenge. The short description reads: "750 word Contest - Daddies are magical. Here is their Origin." And I used the Tags: 750 word project 2023 750 word project But within the story itself, there is nothing to indicate that.

The body of the story is exactly 750 words, as it should be. And I fully expect that my scores will reflect that eventually. And that is OK. This was a fun challenge, and nothing more. I did not write it to get high scores. I wrote it to see if I could.

 

[stickygirl]

Mine appeared today Soaked in Summer Storm, in Romance and zero sex, which will disappoint those expecting a wet t-shirt story and take it below 4. These things take a couple of weeks to settle down, once the 1-bombers have had their fun.

It's too early for comments to been moderated and filtered through.

I wrote another and posted it today in Humour.

 

[Lifestyle66]

Yours (Grant) is one of the better ones I've read so far this year.

In some stories, I think the authors removed too much to fit within the 750-word limit, and it makes the story too hard to follow. But yours was well done.

 

[GrantBricksly]

Yours (Grant) is one of the better ones I've read so far this year.

In some stories, I think the authors removed too much to fit within the 750-word limit, and it makes the story too hard to follow. But yours was well done.

Thank you. I actually had to add to it to get the word count right. I wrote that a few years ago. And it only had 450-500 words. So I figured with my increased writing skills, I could take it and re-work it and make it better. Being meant as a bedtime story I think helped, as it is naturally shorter.

 

[AlinaX]

Here's my story: Birthday Present - Friends celebrate a 40th birthday - 750 word challenge.

I know it's a typo, but now I'm stuck wondering what a cuck sucker might be.

 

[KeithD]

750-word stories, in my experience, and from what I gather from others, do not score all that well. Some do, but I can't put my finger on the winning formula. It's been said several times that the format limitation is too short for decent development for anticipation of the eventual climax (of either kind).

I guess it's the LitE equivalent of a quickie, yeah, it might get one of you off, but the other is likely to be left wanting more.

My first one up this time has already done far better than in earlier 750-word-exercises. 56 votes already (which is very high for me--the GM category) and is Hot, currently at 4.56. In previous exercises, my entries usually didn't get above the high 3s in rating, at least not initially. No complaints of "too short" yet. My author's note is a simple notification that it's submitted to an exactly 750-words exercise. I've just submitted the second one (of six), which is much different from the first, but also set in a blizzard.

 

[ecorche]

Mine was doing well, until someone gave me a 3 (if I'm computing the average right).
For what it's worth, I just went through a bunch of 750-word stories, from any name I recognized including everyone here, and voted them all five stars. My thinking was, we all need a "750-word handicap".
Honestly, though, y'all wrote some pretty outstanding stuff. Didn't think twice about the 5 star ratings.