Challenges and Contests

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[PennLady]

After years, I have never figured out how to plug in to the 'fun and games'. Any advice on how to get engaged with the challenges?

Just write and submit the story. Well there's slightly more to it, but not a whole lot. Literotica has several themed contests during the year. The last one for this year, Winter Holidays, closed for submissions on Dec 7, winners should be announced this weekend, maybe Monday.

However, to get an idea, here is the official announcement for the contest, with the rules. There's also a link for next years' contest schedule. Since the next contest is Valentine's Day, it will probably start in early-mid January. I'll start an Unofficial Author's Hangout Support Thread for it in a week or so.

There are other threads for other writing exercises, such as this one at the top of the Author's Hangout: http://forum.literotica.com/forumdisplay.php?f=56

Jump in and good luck!

 

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[_Lynn_]

The schedule for next year isn't up yet . . .

2015 Special Contest Schedule (posted 11/3/14)

 

[PennLady]

2015 Special Contest Schedule (posted 11/3/14)

Thank you. Total brain glitch. My eyes also don't seem to be working quite as well as usual today.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm excited for April Fools, there should be some fun stories in that one.

 

[_Lynn_]

Thank you. Total brain glitch. My eyes also don't seem to be working quite as well as usual today.

I've had those days. You're welcome.

I'm excited for April Fools, there should be some fun stories in that one.

I've never seen the attraction of that day.

 

[lovecraft68]

I've had those days. You're welcome.



I've never seen the attraction of that day.

Maybe its because I'm an April Fool...

But you know, these days with everyone being so overly sensitive someone could probably sue you for a good prank.

The stories will be interesting

I will start taking over unders on how many stories we get of family members wearing masks, or being in dark rooms, or some other mistaken identity and yelling "April Fools"....

 

[ScouriesWorld]

looking for a contest? well you've cum to the rright place...

[size=+2]ASSOCIATION of INDEPENDENT READERS (A.I.R.)[/size]

2014 Xmas/New Years Contest

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You can begin submitting your stories on December 7th and up until December 31st .
The winners will be announced on or around January 3rd 2014

You can discuss this special contest on the tigerlady’s AHland toady thread, or of course on the A.I.R. thread.​

RULES (for the A.I.R. section of the contest):
(see the QUEEN for this weeks LITEROTICA Rules and their interpretation)

- All submissions must be stand-alone stories created for this contest theme. We will not accept individual chapters of a larger work submitted separately.

- Nor will stories featuring characters, locales, plot lines, etc., etc., that have been previously used by the author be accepted.

- Prizes will be awarded in the following categories (a story can only win one prize in each contest):

1) Best Overall Story
2) Most Views
3) Most Comments
4) Most Votes
5) Highest Score

- A story has to accrue a minimum of 250 votes to be eligible (higher in some categories). The vote, comment, view, favorite, and score numbers that are reported by LITEROTICA will be used subject to final verification by the A.I.R. Computer Center.

- Authors are prohibited from voting or commenting on their own stories. Their votes on competing stories will also be swept away.

- Story must have a Xmas/New Years Theme.

- It must be erotic in content.

- Non-Human/Science-Fiction category stories will not be accepted in this contest.

- Story must not exceed 5 LITEROTICA pages in length (20,000 words).

- Each author is allowed only one submission (under his name and his various ALTS – ie darkboy and the lesslight ALT are allowed only one entry - not two) per contest.

-An exception to this rule has been made for Top 25 “Most Favorited” authors – they are allowed two or three depending upon their ranking.

- No character may be named Pauletta.

- Don’t just submit some rehashed story you’ve been working on for years. We want something fresh. Be creative!

- The "least viewed" story in the contest has absolutely no chance of winning a prize.

- A.I.R. reserves the right to disqualify without notice or explanation any story in which any kind of cheating or vote-tampering is suspected.

- Every story that meets the above criteria and is submitted to LITEROTICA during the contest period will be automatically entered into the A.I.R. contest. No special submission form must be filled out. We believe in inclusivity!

- If you have any questions regarding any of the above or anything pertaining to our contests, feel free to contact me by PM or email, or post any questions you have on this thread.

Good Luck!!!

 

[TxRad]

For any newbie looking at the above posting about a contest and its rules, forget it. It ia ll fake. The association is fake, the rules are fake. the contest is fake.

Scouries aka scouriesworld puts on these fake contests to try and disrupt the real contests and so he can feel like he won a contest of any sort. Since he is the only one to vote then I guess he can't lose.

Putting him and his alt on ignore makes life here so much better.

He also puts out a couple of fake lists so he can associate his name with the real writers on the site.

His fake awards are even more pathetic.

Fake about sums him up totally.

 

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[PennLady]

I've had those days. You're welcome.

I ditched my contacts for my glasses a lot earlier than I usually do. Much better, at least for today. I'm going to hate it when I have to go to glasses all the time...

I've never seen the attraction of that day.

Me either, particularly. I don't mind a little joke, but I don't go in for big pranks. Or even medium-sized ones. If I'm the target, I feel utterly stupid at the end and don't feel it's funny. And I pretty much never do it to anyone else.

Once I pulled a good one on my mom, but it was almost accidental. I never expected she'd believe me.

 

[TxRad]

Thanks, Tx. Got a list of his Alts?

The two I mentioned are the main ones here in the AH.

 

[redzinger]

April Fool's isn't really done here much, I can't remember ever having a prank pulled on me. There's the odd planted story in the papers, but that's about it.

I'm gonna struggle for this one, I've written humorous scenes, but they're usually a small part of a larger story. Gonna hav'ta hunt down a bunny.

 

[_Lynn_]

I ditched my contacts for my glasses a lot earlier than I usually do. Much better, at least for today. I'm going to hate it when I have to go to glasses all the time...



Me either, particularly. I don't mind a little joke, but I don't go in for big pranks. Or even medium-sized ones. If I'm the target, I feel utterly stupid at the end and don't feel it's funny. And I pretty much never do it to anyone else.

Once I pulled a good one on my mom, but it was almost accidental. I never expected she'd believe me.

I started with glasses full-time. Contacts aren't an option.

Most jokes/pranks seem like a waste of time . . . as well as boring.

 

[PennLady]

I started with glasses full-time. Contacts aren't an option.

I started with glasses at ten and went to contacts at fourteen. Mostly love contacts. However, I'm getting older and so are my eyes and at the moment I need those reader glasses when I have my contacts in so I can read books, screens, etc. So I think there will come a time when I'll need strong enough readers that it'll only make sense to go to ... gasp ... bifocals.

Most jokes/pranks seem like a waste of time . . . as well as boring.

Here was the one I did: I was in grad school, in a Russian studies program. I don't know what possessed me to do this, because although I'm all for joking around, I generally don't "play jokes" on people. So I was talking to my mom on the phone, and told her that I'd met a guy from Russia in my program and I was going to marry him and live with him in Russia.

First there was silence, then something like, "Are you sure? Have you thought this through?" I was like, Mom, does this at all sound like something I would do? (answer: no) I just found it so bizarre that she would believe me. (Turned out my brother had had a problem at school so I don't think she was processing at top speed. )

However, the time I called three days before my scheduled c-section and said Mom, I have to have the baby today, she said, oh please, you're kidding. Moms.

 

[lovecraft68]

I started with glasses full-time. Contacts aren't an option.

Most jokes/pranks seem like a waste of time . . . as well as boring.

The biggest one ever pulled on me was when I was fooling around with my sister's best friend(my sister was not supposed to know about it,but) I was um, a little less than legal here.

My sister calls me in her room, she's dead serious and tells me her friend is pregnant and is like "I didn't even know she was messing around with anyone..."

Made me sweat for a week until she gave in.

 

[mynameisben]

Thank you very much. The issue of schedule, announcements, rules etc was what I felt I was missing. Writing is the easy part. Any idea when the sdcvhefule will go up? Again, thanks!

This gets my vote for the worst spelling of "schedule," ever.

 

[desertslave]

I ditched my contacts for my glasses a lot earlier than I usually do. Much better, at least for today. I'm going to hate it when I have to go to glasses all the time...

Just throwing out a little sympathy on the glasses front. I had Lasik done in 2003 and I've loved every minute of it! My only regret is not robbing a bank or something to have it done much sooner. The killer is that, almost immediately after having it done, I discovered that I absolutely needed mild reading glasses for very close work...like at my torch. Great! I've skated by for the last 11 years but was recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and encouraged to have an eye exam for a baseline. Everything in back is lovely, but I'm functionally 20/30-20/25. Feh! I'm procrastinating because I really don't want to wear glasses all the time, but I'm noticing that I might be a bit too proud about this. Feh!

 

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[PennLady]

Just throwing out a little sympathy on the glasses front. I had Lasik done in 2003 and I've loved every minute of it! My only regret is not robbing a bank or something to have it done much sooner. The killer is that, almost immediately after having it done, I discovered that I absolutely needed mild reading glasses for very close work...like at my torch. Great! I've skated by for the last 11 years but was recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and encouraged to have an eye exam for a baseline. Everything in back is lovely, but I'm functionally 20/30-20/25. Feh! I'm procrastinating because I really don't want to wear glasses all the time, but I'm noticing that I might be a bit too proud about this. Feh!

Well, take care of yourself and good luck managing everything. I have to admit I'm a little vain on this one point. I think I look better with contacts in, so I prefer to wear them, but if I have to switch, I will. I'm not sure if I'm a Lasik candidate, although I've never tried to find out. My brother had it done years ago and had great success (good thing, since he's in the Air Force).

I think yesterday my eyes were just too dry or something. Contacts are much better today. I definitely need the reading glasses, though. I used to be able to get by at times without them, but now I need them, even if I bump up the font.