The Official Authors' Hangout Summer Lovin' 2024 Contest Support Thread

[ChasBozwell30]

In math, if you take something negative, and then multiply it by something negative, you get back something positive. In my story I used this principle by taking an unhealthy relation, and then combining it with an unnatural obsession. Did it make my story better? worse? about the same? Should this story ever have been written? Guess it's for readers to decide now!

Set in the only setting I found appropriate for Summer Lovin' contest (seriously, what's with the people who go to warm places when it's already warm outside?) - please welcome "Sister Got Cold Feet", by yours truly.

As always, feedback from authors is especially valued. As a novice I feel like I struggle with dialogs.

Here I wanted to write banter between characters like they are actual human beings - not some porn props. But at the same time I could slash the story length by quarter if I retained only a few lines per "chapter" and conveyed the rest via indirect speech.

Still, characters presented a few interesting points, and I felt like censoring them just because I don't like what they say would be a sign of weakness on my end. At least we all managed to avoid falling into recursion, so there's something.

I liked this, I thought the second half was a lot stronger. There was a nice build, I liked the characters. There was a good sense of sexual tension. It leaves you wanting more, wondering what happened next!

 

[Agent0069]

I liked this, I thought the second half was a lot stronger. There was a nice build, I liked the characters.

Thank you, much appreciated!

 

[Northstar4695]

Summer of Firsts

My story is up! I’ve missed the excitement of posting a new work.

 

[TheFoxglove]

Explorer's Club
A student gets to know his teacher on a summer trip to Maui.

Hey all I just posted my first story on the site! I'm a writer in Chicago and just started submitting here as a fun little side hobby, and very curious to get feedback.

I've got more ideas for Explorers Club and I'd like to see if others want to see more of it. So far reception has been good, so if you want to see more just drop a comment on the story and let me know. I've got a few other series ideas I'm working on, and might get another one in the summer contest if I can get it polished up in time.

 

[Fatdog25]

"The Last Good Knight in Arizona" has been submitted. Going in I/T, 23k words so roughly 7 Lit pages.

This shit was a lot harder than it needed to be, I'll tell you what.

 

[Agent0069]

Hey all I just posted my first story on the site! I'm a writer in Chicago and just started submitting here as a fun little side hobby, and very curious to get feedback

No one said that yet, so I guess I’ll do it: “Hello and welcome to the fun house! Feel yourself like home!” (Sorry if I misspoke that, I too am still too new to the forum)

 

[MyBareTorso]

My first entry in the Loving Wives category has been unsurprisingly fascinating. Far more reaction than I am used to. Some nice comments, but some nasty ones too attacking me for writing "cuck shit".

My story features active, mutually enjoyable, consensual sharing, which I thought was distinctive from "cuck", but apparently not.

Also, the commenters seem enraged by how my story impacts the image of the "virile Aussie male" (I don't believe it does...quite the opposite actually), and one even mentioned Crocodile Dundee!!! Old school!

Unlike my man @Duleigh, however, I have not been told to "stick to my other categories" yet...

It's all very interesting, and I was definitely not being intentionally provocative with the story. Anyway, I would certainly agree with others in the AH that Loving Wives is great if you want an actual reaction to your stories, but a place to avoid if you are sensitive about your writing.

https://www.literotica.com/s/oz-beach-boy-and-hot-beach-couple

Anyhoo, check it out if you're into truly amazing erotic fiction that strays seriously close to genius territory.

 

[MyBareTorso]

Explorer's Club
A student gets to know his teacher on a summer trip to Maui.

Hey all I just posted my first story on the site! I'm a writer in Chicago and just started submitting here as a fun little side hobby, and very curious to get feedback.

I've got more ideas for Explorers Club and I'd like to see if others want to see more of it. So far reception has been good, so if you want to see more just drop a comment on the story and let me know. I've got a few other series ideas I'm working on, and might get another one in the summer contest if I can get it polished up in time.

Go for it! There is a lot of good, not-so-clean fun to be had here! Welcome, and keep bashing away at that keyboard!!

 

[Wineandcheese]

Explorer's Club
A student gets to know his teacher on a summer trip to Maui.

Hey all I just posted my first story on the site! I'm a writer in Chicago and just started submitting here as a fun little side hobby, and very curious to get feedback.

Welcome TheFoxglove! I haven’t had much time for reading lately. Real world shit going on. But I’ll be sure to check it out when life relents a bit.

 

[Jorunn]

All these wonderful, sexy, and barely clad summer stories makes me think that people don't appreciate finding out what is hidden underneath a nice wool sweater, while sitting in front a a warm fire! Wait now! It's time to start my Winter Challenge!!!

 

[TruthwithaTwist]

Got mine published today: Summer School Session

It’s a shorter story, but I think it’s a fun little romp and fits the Summer theme.

Hoping to get back into posting regularly again. I have a series I need to finish & a few in-progress contests tales that didn’t get finished in time.

Halloween up next - two ideas brewing & realization I need to get cracking on one of them. History has shown that if I wait…I don’t get them finished!

 

[Voboy]

Wait now! It's time to start my Winter Challenge!!!

Lol, I'm well into mine. I'm enjoying it.

 

[TheFoxglove]

Welcome TheFoxglove! I haven’t had much time for reading lately. Real world shit going on. But I’ll be sure to check it out when life relents a bit.

lol it happens to the best of us

 

[Wineandcheese]

Halloween up next - two ideas brewing & realization I need to get cracking on one of them. History has shown that if I wait…I don’t get them finished!

2600 words into my first ever Halloween story.

 

[ChasBozwell30]

Explorer's Club
A student gets to know his teacher on a summer trip to Maui.

Hey all I just posted my first story on the site! I'm a writer in Chicago and just started submitting here as a fun little side hobby, and very curious to get feedback.

I've got more ideas for Explorers Club and I'd like to see if others want to see more of it. So far reception has been good, so if you want to see more just drop a comment on the story and let me know. I've got a few other series ideas I'm working on, and might get another one in the summer contest if I can get it polished up in time.

Fun story, well written, and I like the characters, i enjoyed the build, not to slow or fast. Would like to read more

 

[Fatdog25]

So it begins...

"The Last Good Knight in Arizona" goes live 8/31/2024.

Sadly, it doesn't seem to be getting any easier to deal with the prepublication anxiety. So I'll be spending the next twelve hours or so fighting down the urge to scrap it.

I've enjoyed the stories I've read so far. There's still a bunch to go. It feels like the turnout is better this year and that's always a good thing.

 

[Jorunn]

So it begins...

"The Last Good Knight in Arizona" goes live 8/31/2024.

Sadly, it doesn't seem to be getting any easier to deal with the prepublication anxiety. So I'll be spending the next twelve hours or so fighting down the urge to scrap it.

I've enjoyed the stories I've read so far. There's still a bunch to go. It feels like the turnout is better this year and that's always a good thing.

Hiding under the covers and not peeking out for two days is the best cure!

Let your little bird fly, and hope the cats don't eat it!

 

[Agent0069]

It's time to start my Winter Challenge!

I think I have a moral obligation to continue my story with the same characters as in my “Summer lovin’” story, except they decided to go some place warm after disastrously chill summer vacation, and ended up in a place that is even worse.

 

[Fatdog25]

Hiding under the covers and not peeking out for two days is the best cure!

Let your little bird fly, and hope the cats don't eat it!

When it comes to publishing a story, I develop a split personality.

On the one hand, I wrote the story that was mine to write. I'm very happy with it. On the other, I still want people to like it. That's where the anxiety (imposter syndrome?) kicks in. While the score is not in any way objective, it is still reflective of the portion of my audience that votes. The same audience that also mirrors my taste as a reader.

If I like it and my audience likes it, then it must be all right. So far, with one questionable exception, this has been the case (the story in question is under 4.50 but over 4.00).

My struggle with leaving it up only lasts until it's published. Once it's out there, it is what it is. I have never had any desire to take down my lowest scoring story. I wrote that. I like it. On slow days, I'll go back and reread it occasionally. If no one else likes it, that's their problem, not mine.

You can bet your ass that tomorrow, I'll be checking my "Latest Activity" and "My Stories" page every few minutes, looking for views, votes, favorites, and new comments. By Monday morning local time, the numbers are what they are and I'm back to trying to work on my next story, in this case an I/T Crime and Punishment story tentatively titled "Home Is Where The Hurt Is".

Then I'll do this shit all over again.

 

[Morevinila]

Finally put the final period to my story. It's longer than I thought it would be when I first got the plot, 16k, which is a lot for me (how I envy those who run on 40K or even more easily). Now need to brush it all up before posting hopefully by Tuesday.
Anybody interested in beta-reading with comments & suggestions? Not deep, systematic editing work, don't think we have time for that. PM me and I'll email you the text.

 

[MyBareTorso]

So it begins...

"The Last Good Knight in Arizona" goes live 8/31/2024.

Sadly, it doesn't seem to be getting any easier to deal with the prepublication anxiety. So I'll be spending the next twelve hours or so fighting down the urge to scrap it.

I've enjoyed the stories I've read so far. There's still a bunch to go. It feels like the turnout is better this year and that's always a good thing.

Don't scrap it!!!

 

[Fatdog25]

Don't scrap it!!!

I go through this every time. I submit it and then start worrying that it's not good enough.

It has been 15 times and counting.

 

[nicksouth]

2600 words into my first ever Halloween story.

I have a 12K draft but it's going to put me fairly solidly into the fetish category so we will see how that goes. I didn't intend to write this story but it was within me and had to come out

 

[MelissaBaby]

I'm in.

If you are interested in hot sweaty dope smokin' lesbian action, here you go, The House on Hippie Hill

 

[TheFoxglove]

No one said that yet, so I guess I’ll do it: “Hello and welcome to the fun house! Feel yourself like home!” (Sorry if I misspoke that, I too am still too new to the forum)

Thanks!