The 2024 750 Word Story Challenge Support Thread

[EmilyMiller]

I'll pass, goddammit. This Super Bowl story isn't writing itself. Grumble grumble grumble.

Two girls, one bowl ?

Emily

 

[EmilyMiller]

Pennsylvania Horowitz and the Synagogue of Death

And you said I was posting in poor taste yesterday

 

[Rob_Royale]

OK AHers - one more image challenge for the 750 word event.

Xitter link.

Off you go…

Emily

Okay, I feel safe on this one. Anything I come up with for this lass will be way more than 750 words. Whew!
An interesting idea. Add Allan Quartermain as her competitor and ex-lover for some good sexual tension and drama.

 

[Bamagan]

Okay, I feel safe on this one. Anything I come up with for this lass will be way more than 750 words. Whew!
An interesting idea. Add Allan Quartermain as her competitor and ex-lover for some good sexual tension and drama.

A Victorian pulp adventure/romance: The League of Exhibitionist Gentlemen

 

[EmilyMiller]

OK AHers - one more image challenge for the 750 word event.

Xitter link.

Off you go…

Emily

OK - I’m just giving this away, but Juliana’s female love interest is clearly Marion Shavengood.

Emily

 

[Bamagan]

OK - I’m just giving this away, but Juliana’s female love interest is clearly Marion Shavengood.

Emily

But you could make it more trope-y: she's her lesbian lover, yes, but her name is Marion Cravinwood, and she... well, you get the picture I'm sure.

 

[EmilyMiller]

But you could make it more trope-y: she's her lesbian lover, yes, but her name is Marion Cravinwood, and she... well, you get the picture I'm sure.

So off you go, hun. It ain’t gonna write itself.

Emily

 

[Bamagan]

So off you go, hun. It ain’t gonna write itself.

Emily

Well, if it does write itself, the site probably won't publish it.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

And you said I was posting in poor taste yesterday

Did I?

 

[jhealy55]

Well, if it does write itself, the site probably won't publish it.

Well played, my friend.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Couldn’t recall the title

It didn't have a title when you read it.

 

[XerXesXu]

Interesting one today. I submitted a story showing exactly 750 words in Word and Lit’s Control Panel.

Sent back:

‘Hello, and thank you for sharing your work! This story is showing as 747 words in Word, Google Docs, and the Lit Control Panel. Please either make the story exactly 750 words. Thank you!’

I’ve added three words. It now shows 753 words, exactly, in Word and Control Panel. We shall see.

 

[EmilyMiller]

It didn't have a title when you read it.

Ah! That would explain a lot!

Emily

 

[EmilyMiller]

69 Minutes

 

[AlinaX]

Celebrating 10 years of Lit stories:
Starter, Main and Dessert

 

[Omenainen]

Ours came out today: Fairy Tails

Have anyone seen the “only one line” thread? I can’t find it and I have a line I wanted to post in it, this one:

“They were almost as wise as their asses were asswise.”

Such elegance! I’m proud of myself.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

Ours came out today: Fairy Tails

Have anyone seen the “only one line” thread? I can’t find it and I have a line I wanted to post in it, this one:

“They were almost as wise as their asses were asswise.”

Such elegance! I’m proud of myself.

It's called, 'Just one Line.' I just posted a few lines again, so it should be near the top of the page.

 

[Omenainen]

It's called, 'Just one Line.' I just posted a few lines again, so it should be near the top of the page.

Thank you! Don’t know how I didn’t find it.

 

[alohadave]

Gym Shower

Two friends at the gym act out what they'd do to their gym crush.

 

[EmilyMiller]

UPDATE:

So I’ve published 7 - this where I am:

1. SciFi & Fantasy
2. Non-erotic
3. Romance
4. BDSM
5. Humor & Satire
6. Gay Male
7. Lesbian Sex
8. Toys & Masturbation tomorrow
9. Toys & Masturbation (couldn’t be two more dissimilar stories)
10. Interracial Love
11. Mind Control
12. Mature
13. Celebrities & Fan Fiction

Added one more. Again in a category I’ve never written before.

Emily

 

[joy_of_cooking]

A 7 Train Stiletto Show (750 Words)

Taking a break from this plot and character stuff for some mindless smut.

 

[SimonDoom]

Well, all be danged. My story was rejected for being too short -- 743 words. I re-checked the Word version I submitted, and once again it said 750 words. Then I copied the text of the story as I submitted it from the text box back into a Word document, and it confirmed it was 743 words. Then I compared the two documents, and the words were line for line the same.

They were formatted differently, however. With my initial submission, the draft contained automatic paragraph spacing, which I copied and pasted into the text box. Since all the automatic spacing was deleted, I had to reinsert paragraph spacing manually, and somehow, although it did not appear to affect the words themselves, the re-spacing changed the word count.

I added one sentence of seven letters. We'll see how it goes.

Lesson: Make sure the document you paste into the text box has no automatic spacing. Get rid of all of the automatic spacing and manually insert spaces into the paragraphs. When you do that, the document as it appears in the text box will have the correct spacing, and the word counts for your documents will match (although I don't understand why this matters for the word count).

 

[EmilyMiller]

Well, all be danged. My story was rejected for being too short -- 743 words. I re-checked the Word version I submitted, and once again it said 750 words. Then I copied the text of the story as I submitted it from the text box back into a Word document, and it confirmed it was 743 words. Then I compared the two documents, and the words were line for line the same.

They were formatted differently, however. With my initial submission, the draft contained automatic paragraph spacing, which I copied and pasted into the text box. Since all the automatic spacing was deleted, I had to reinsert paragraph spacing manually, and somehow, although it did not appear to affect the words themselves, the re-spacing changed the word count.

I added one sentence of seven letters. We'll see how it goes.

Lesson: Make sure the document you paste into the text box has no automatic spacing. Get rid of all of the automatic spacing and manually insert spaces into the paragraphs. When you do that, the document as it appears in the text box will have the correct spacing, and the word counts for your documents will match (although I don't understand why this matters for the word count).

I always write the body text by itself first (no “this is a contribution to the…”) and check the word count in both Word and the Lit text box. And yes there have been discrepancies.

Emily

 

[SimonDoom]

I always write the body text by itself first (no “this is a contribution to the…”) and check the word count in both Word and the Lit text box. And yes there have been discrepancies.

Emily

That's smart. I didn't add any extra, explanatory text, although in retrospect I wish I had because it would flag it for the reader and the score might be higher. My 750-word stories consistently get penalized for being too short.

The problem stems from the fact I'm working with a default Word Template that has the automatic formatting. Previously, I had created a template that was just right for Lit stories, with none of the formatting, but I went back unwittingly to using the old one.

 

[EmilyMiller]

That's smart. I didn't add any extra, explanatory text, although in retrospect I wish I had because it would flag it for the reader and the score might be higher. My 750-word stories consistently get penalized for being too short.

The problem stems from the fact I'm working with a default Word Template that has the automatic formatting. Previously, I had created a template that was just right for Lit stories, with none of the formatting, but I went back unwittingly to using the old one.

I see. I write plain text in Word and handcraft markup.

Emily