The Earth Day 2011 Contest Support Thread

[DG Hear]

I noticed that. i posted a new story yesterday when i got back from vacation. It had 60 views this morning.

I submitted a story the other day and within hours, I had 20 views. Of course the story wasn't approved until this morning. It's up now.

 

[LunaEroticaMystica]

Good idea. My story did get removed. Did someone PM him?

 

[scouries]

the QUEEN probably read it!

I submitted a story the other day and within hours, I had 20 views.

I have a story that was rejected in late November 2007 (when it had 8020 views). It had only been up for less than a day.

It’s averaged about 10 views per month ever since. When I asked for an explanation a couple of years ago I was told that certain PALACE insiders have access to both rejected stories and those not yet accepted.

I’ve been told that both the QUEEN and Prince MANU have read this story more than a dozen times! Miss Muffin also loves it apparently but it’s dixie c lee who’s read it the most – 27 readings and counting!
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http://themoderatevoice.com/wordpress-engine/files/2010_March/Bin_Laden_binladen_funny.jpg

9/11: "Bin Laden's Babies?" Ch. 01 Siblings fight terrorists & their growing attraction.
4.10 61 8375 Incest/Taboo (English) 11/28/07 Rejected - reason
Public Comments: 34
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[size=+2]james r scouries esq.[/size]
Multiple A.I.R. AWARD winner, MILLION SELLER,
Author of the MOST COMMENTED on
and the MOST VOTED on story on LITEROTICA

 

[PennLady]

I am so close to finishing my story for the Earth Day contest. I want to finish it. So why does it seem to take so long. Grrrr.

 

[SuperHeroRalph]

And don't come back!

Hey, Scabbies, if you don't have an Earth Day story to discuss, hit the bricks.

This is an Earth Day thread, not an extension for your lunacy.

Now beat it! Scram. Leave. Get lost. Get the Hell out of here! And don't come back or I'll have Big Louie kick your ass.

"Big Louie, show this bum the door."

Do you believe that guy coming in her like that and shitting all over the thread? Look at the mess he made with all these graphics. Does anyone have a mop?

You know, to be honest, I thought he'd be bigger. That Scabbies guy is just a little guy, isn't he? And he's wicked old, too. If he's a day, he's 75-years-old.

No wonder why he has all these pictures of naked broads. He can't get any of his own.

 

[SuperHeroRalph]

I am so close to finishing my story for the Earth Day contest. I want to finish it. So why does it seem to take so long. Grrrr.

Just a thought. I don't want to tell you what to do but...

Perhaps, if you let the story sit for a while, allow it to percolate and go back to it, this time, next year, you'd have a better story. Yeah, that's what I'd do, if I were you. I wouldn't submit the story, until next year.

You know, come to think of it, if everyone followed my advice, I'd have a better shot of winning a contest.

"Shit! Did I just write what I was thinking?"

 

[PennLady]

Just a thought. I don't want to tell you what to do but...

Perhaps, if you let the story sit for a while, allow it to percolate and go back to it, this time, next year, you'd have a better story. Yeah, that's what I'd do, if I were you. I wouldn't submit the story, until next year.

You know, come to think of it, if everyone followed my advice, I'd have a better shot of winning a contest.

"Shit! Did I just write what I was thinking?"

Ralph, that's very sly of you. But I'm not quite that defeated.

It's more a matter of time than anything. Also, I'm working on the sex, which is often the most difficult part to write. So, I'm sorry, Ralph, the story will be submitted this year.

 

[DG Hear]

Just a thought. I don't want to tell you what to do but...

Perhaps, if you let the story sit for a while, allow it to percolate and go back to it, this time, next year, you'd have a better story. Yeah, that's what I'd do, if I were you. I wouldn't submit the story, until next year.

You know, come to think of it, if everyone followed my advice, I'd have a better shot of winning a contest.

"Shit! Did I just write what I was thinking?"

Ralph, with the cute puppy, Everyone would have a better chance at winning if PennLady didn't enter a story. She is one hell of a good writer and a great editor.

Ralph, that's very sly of you. But I'm not quite that defeated.

It's more a matter of time than anything. Also, I'm working on the sex, which is often the most difficult part to write. So, I'm sorry, Ralph, the story will be submitted this year.

If you need help working on the sex, maybe I can help you out, after all I'm only a state aways.

 

[SuperHeroRalph]

Ralph, that's very sly of you. But I'm not quite that defeated.

It's more a matter of time than anything. Also, I'm working on the sex, which is often the most difficult part to write. So, I'm sorry, Ralph, the story will be submitted this year.

Actually, even though I was teasing, I was serious, too.

Whenever I get stuck on a story, I put it aside. Generally, I work on a least a dozen stories at a time, so I'm always getting stuck on one of them.

Yet, if I'm intent on finishing a story and can't feel what's next, I think about it, just before I go to bed and just before I fall asleep.

While sleeping my brain works on the outcome. When I awaken the next morning, I'm able to start fresh and finish the part that gave me so much trouble. It's weird, but that always works for me.

Sometimes, just going for a walk or a drive is enough to clear your head.

Good luck.

 

[PennLady]

Actually, even though I was teasing, I was serious, too.

Whenever I get stuck on a story, I put it aside. Generally, I work on a least a dozen stories at a time, so I'm always getting stuck on one of them.

Yet, if I'm intent on finishing a story and can't feel what's next, I think about it, just before I go to bed and just before I fall asleep.

While sleeping my brain works on the outcome. When I awaken the next morning, I'm able to start fresh and finish the part that gave me so much trouble. It's weird, but that always works for me.

Sometimes, just going for a walk or a drive is enough to clear your head.

Good luck.

Ralph, I agree. Really, I do. I've frequently left stories alone when I'm stuck. This is a different kind of stuck. This is a "I'm mad that it's not finished and by God I will finish it" stuck. And honestly, the sex scenes are often difficult, b/c you just don't want to make it the same thing all the time, and this one is already different than what I'd thought I'd do. Not bad, I don't think, just different.

And DG -- Thanks. You say the nicest things.

 

[silkstockingslover]

Finally finished my first draft of my Earth Day story...it took forever to come up with an idea. Easily the toughest contest to be creative for.

 

[SuperHeroRalph]

Ralph, I agree. Really, I do. I've frequently left stories alone when I'm stuck. This is a different kind of stuck. This is a "I'm mad that it's not finished and by God I will finish it" stuck. And honestly, the sex scenes are often difficult, b/c you just don't want to make it the same thing all the time, and this one is already different than what I'd thought I'd do. Not bad, I don't think, just different.

And DG -- Thanks. You say the nicest things.

Just a thought...

Sometimes, when I'm stuck like that, it's because I haven't fully developed my character and I'm trying to put words in her or his mouth or make them do things they ordinarily wouldn't do.

Maybe you should look to see what you created to see if you are being true to them. For me, the best part of writing is when the character grabs the keyboard from my hand and tells their own story.

That's when the writing is really inspired.

 

[PennLady]

Just a thought...

Sometimes, when I'm stuck like that, it's because I haven't fully developed my character and I'm trying to put words in her or his mouth or make them do things they ordinarily wouldn't do.

Maybe you should look to see what you created to see if you are being true to them. For me, the best part of writing is when the character grabs the keyboard from my hand and tells their own story.

That's when the writing is really inspired.

Well, it's finished and off for editing. My problem with sex scenes is that I often feel like I'm intruding, although it's gotten less since I've written more. Guess one gets jaded with practice. It's a good idea to re-read it, and I will, after a while. You have good points, and I will have to keep them in mind.

 

[scouries]

You know Ralphie I just hate to see you post. They’re just wasted words in your effort to drown the site in unedited (and often unreadable) 750 word stories.

STOP POSTING!

Now!!!

Just look – you’d have another story ready to go up if you hadn’t wasted your time. Although maybe you could throw together some of your inane posts and submit them as stories. Perhaps like the following:

Dawgs, Sex and James R Scouries
A unedited story of jealousy, kinky sex and poor advice…
Another 750+ word Survivor and Earth Day Contest Entry from little ralphie

http://listphobia.com/wp-content/uploads/Beastiality-Costume.jpg
author ralphie celebrating another stolen story


I'm not a betting dawg, but I've been down this road before with a stranger, a newbie, suddenly popping up from out of nowhere to win the contest. They can never just sit silently, in the way that I do and have done for so long. Always they must show their hand by making the same modest kind of posts. I'd like to congratulate MarlowBunny for winning the Earth Day contest and just in time for Easter, too.

Good job. You can do it the old fashion way, before they had word processors and just typewriters. Take your finger, it doesn't matter which one and... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... Just two more weeks to the start of the Earth Day contest. How is everyone doing with their stories? My first story is a Loving Wives story. God help me (lol). My second story is an incest story. That's always a crowd pleaser. I may post an exhibitionist/voyeur as my third story. It's a hot one. I have one in Anal, another in Bondage, and a good one in Celebrity. I'm still working on my Erotic Coupling story. That seems to be a story looking for an ending. The Erotic Horror story is pretty good, if I write so myself. I really like the story that I wrote for the Novel category. It's about, what else, a dog. The Toys & Mastubation story is a cute one, too. I'm saving the best for last, a Mature story.

Good luck to everyone in the contest. That's my dog, Ralph, when he was a puppy. I'm a bit nervous about the Loving Wives category, as all my entries in that category are opposite of what readers want to read. They prefer reading about real loving wives and I prefer writing about no so loving wives, cheating wives and bitchy wives. The loving wives read more like a romance story, whereas the not so loving wives stories have more tension. What do you think? Retribution? Oh, oh.

Uhm, if he accidentally, kind of, kills her for cheating on him with a man 20 years younger than he is, would that be considered...retribution (lol)? And don't come back!

Hey, Scabbies, if you don't have an Earth Day story to discuss, hit the bricks. This is an Earth Day thread, not an extension for your lunacy. Now beat it! Scram. Leave. Get lost. Get the Hell out of here! And don't come back or I'll have Big Louie kick your ass. "Big Louie, show this bum the door."
Do you believe that guy coming in her like that and shitting all over the thread? Look at the mess he made with all these graphics. Does anyone have a mop? You know, to be honest, I thought he'd be bigger. That Scabbies guy is just a little guy, isn't he? And he's wicked old, too. If he's a day, he's 75-years-old. No wonder why he has all these pictures of naked broads. He can't get any of his own.


Just a thought. I don't want to tell you what to do but... Perhaps, if you let the story sit for a while, allow it to percolate and go back to it, this time, next year, you'd have a better story. Yeah, that's what I'd do, if I were you. I wouldn't submit the story, until next year. You know, come to think of it, if everyone followed my advice, I'd have a better shot of winning a contest. "Shit! Did I just write what I was thinking?" Actually, even though I was teasing, I was serious, too. Whenever I get stuck on a story, I put it aside. Generally, I work on a least a dozen stories at a time, so I'm always getting stuck on one of them. Yet, if I'm intent on finishing a story and can't feel what's next, I think about it, just before I go to bed and just before I fall asleep. While sleeping my brain works on the outcome. When I awaken the next morning, I'm able to start fresh and finish the part that gave me so much trouble. It's weird, but that always works for me. Sometimes, just going for a walk or a drive is enough to clear your head. Good luck. Just a thought... Sometimes, when I'm stuck like that, it's because I haven't fully developed my character and I'm trying to put words in her or his mouth or make them do things they ordinarily wouldn't do. Maybe you should look to see what you created to see if you are being true to them. For me, the best part of writing is when the character grabs the keyboard from my hand and tells their own story. That's when the writing is really inspired.

You see? Voila! 800 words! Just from your posts on this thread...
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[SuperHeroRalph]

Scram Scabbies!

Hey, Scabbies, I just took a shit, do you wanna wipe my ass, too?

Thank you for monitoring all my posts. Unfortunately, you have me confused with PrincessAirHead. I don't write 750 word stories, nor do I only write incest stories, as you do.

My stories average 6,000 words. Actually, come to think of it many of my forum posts, such as this one are longer than PrincessErin's stories. As a point of information, 3 of my stories in the upcoming Earth Day Contest are more than 11,000 words, one is 9,000 words, another is 8,000 words, and the rest are in the 5,000 words category.

So, why are you here? Is your job on this site just to stir up shit and just to cause trouble? No one likes you, not even your mother. I talked to her on the phone the other day and she asked if I could help you. I said if he's been insane for 75-years of his life, he's not going to change now.

Granted, I'm always entertained by your graphics, that is, until you write something and show everyone how twisted you are. Do you ever write anything that's not nonsense?

Are you off your medication, again? Is that it? Is it as simple as that? Take your medication, Scabbies. Listen to your doctor. Listen to your 97-year-old mother.

Now, if you're not here for help with your Earth Day story about Mommy, I Groaned, It's Earth Day, or Daddy, I Whispered, It's Earth Day, then why are you here?

I've already had Big Louie show you to the door once, but if you show up again, uninvited, then the next time we'll see you will be in the trunk of Louie's Cadillac crying like a girlie man, before we fit you for cement shoes. Capiche?

Now, you have your three fantasy threads going on at Story Feedback. Go back there and live out your fantasy. Have fun posting the shit you post. I like the graphics, I really do, even if they are stolen and you post them without permission to use them. There's no reason for you to come here and post more shit, too. You're stinking up the place. When did you shower last? You're starting to look a bit like Howard Hughs with the Kleenex boxes and long hair and fingernails.

Oh, by the way, don't forget to read, vote, and comment on my Earth Day contest stories. I'd appreciate it if you favored my stories and made me your favorite author, as well. I can always use another fan.

Take care. Take your medication and stop acting so crazy. No one likes a crazy, old man, unless he has money coming out the wazoo.

Now go away. Go. Just leave. The door is that way. Out! Beat it! Scram. Leave! Get lost! Hit the road!

 

[Guest]

look boss - I found another potential little r contest story...

Here’s another potential EARTH DAY/SURVIVOR story from our intrepid male nurse. This ones about 900 words – from posts he made on another thread:

How to Whine and Steal Stories
An unedited How-To category story about jealousy, poor grammar and survivalism …
Another 750+ word Survivor and Earth Day Contest Entry from little ralphie

http://listphobia.com/wp-content/uploads/Beastiality-Costume.jpg
author ralphie celebrating another stolen story


For those of you who didn't get the Official Survivor 2011 rules, allow me to read you the one rule that this post is about. In Rule #16 and I realize your rules only go up to #15, but you're going to have to trust me on this, and I quote, "Should the moderator suddenly disappear, the contest is over and whatever scores are posted at her last posting, officially ends the contest and whoever has the highest score wins."

Wow! I know. I couldn't believe it either. I won the Survivor contest with a lousy 129 points. Who would have figured? It was hard, but I'm glad it's over. Certainly, I felt as if I've survived something, kind of, not really, a little bit. I mean, even though I wrote less then 3 dozen stories in this contest, to be honest, it felt as if I wrote 300 stories. I'm spent. I'm drained. Actually, I'm glad this contest is over because I'm not sure if I could have competed anymore. Other than these nonsensical posts, I don't think I could have written another thing. That reminds me, I have to write that ransom note.

To all those who participated and who tried unsuccessfully to participate in the 2011 Survivor Contest, good luck next year, losers. I'd like to thank my mother for giving birth to me and my second grade teacher, Miss Crimmons for instilling in me the ability to write, when she had me write on the blackboard, 500 times, that I will never flash my penis to Sally.

Hmm, now what? I guess I should get ready for the Earth Day contest. Yep, don't know what else to do, now that the 2011 Survivor Contest is over and I won. I wonder who came in 2nd place. Maybe Boxlicker. I dunno. I don't really care. All kidding aside, does anyone know where Crimson Maiden is, not that I really care where she is or what she's doing, only in how her sudden absence, disappearance relates to the Survivor Contest?

Does anyone know if she's returning? Does anyone know if she's still moderating this contest? She hasn't made a post in a month. Does anyone know if she was arrested for drunking driving, or for flashing her panties in public, and/or for drunken driving and flashing her panties in public? Why do I feel that I'm writing to myself? There's no one here. I could walk around naked, dance naked actually (Eww), and no one would know. I could write graffiti.

BOSTONFICTIONWRITER, my dear friend, should have won the 2007 and 2008 Survivor Contest but was cheated out of winning. Andtheend, my other dear friend, should have won the 2010 Survivor contest, but was cheated out of that by a writer, who was allowed to write anything and post it anywhere. Hmm, I like this graffitti thing. Maybe I'll do one on the other side of the room, but in red.

Wow! I rather like that. It looks almost like an accent wall. I better get out of here before someone calls the police. Wait, being that I'm an IDIOT and Andtheend, as well as CarBuffStuff, PositiveThinker, and WmForrester, they're going to think that I wrote this. Shit. What to do, what to do? Oh, I know. PrincessErin. Wait, just to make sure. Let me double check.

"Hello? Crimson Maiden? Are you here? Hello?" See?

I, an IDIOT, CarBuffStuff, WmForrester, PositiveThinker, 6th place Survivor Contest finisher in 2009, Andtheend, 2nd place finisher in 2010, and now SuperHeroRalph, we all, hereby volunteer to moderate this contest, unless, of course, someone else wants to moderate it. I dare say, being the anal accountant that I am, I certainly can maintain a few scorecards, the overall leader board, and a little immunity thread. You should see some of my Excel spreadsheets. They'd make your eyes glaze over.

Not to blow my own horn, but having stolen nearly 900 stories and 100 poems, more than 6 million words that have amassed more than 30 million hits, I've proven myself as a Literotica devotee. Without doubt, the six of us, me the IDIOT, Andtheend, CarBuffStuff, PositiveThinker, WmForrester, and now SuperHeroRalph, on the top ten list of modest writers are six of the best (lol).

Anyway, the point remains, making me the Survivor Contest moderator is better than having no moderator at all. Isn't it? C'mon, seriously, this is nuts. What the Hell kind of contest is this?
Please don't message me, Erin. If I must read another one of our crazy PM messages, I'm going to kill myself. Actually, I've been making my daily post to this thread. If I say so myself, by all those opening this thread to read, I've been very entertaining. "Thank you, Erin, that was very kind of you to say that I'm the best writer on Literotica. Wow. Have you been drinking again? Skipped your twilight medication?"

George is still at Yankee Stadium surrounded by all those women in panties. Did you miss the boat? I didn't want to go this year. I went the last four years. Listen, if you run down the dock, jump in the water, I think you can still catch up to the boat. Here, hold these heavy concrete slabs. Trust me, they float, kind of, not realy, not at all. Good luck.

I'll probably give this one a "3" when it appears..​

 

[Darkniciad]

*Groan*

Such a good thing to be in an unmoderated forum

Meanwhile, in the sane world:

Starting gun isn't far away now. I'm around 4500 words into mine, and it's finally flowing the way I want it to. If I can manage to squeeze out a little quiet time, I might actually be done by the beginning of the contest.

 

[PrincessErin]

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[BOSTONFICTIONWRITER]

I'm 4700 words into my story. I'm doing something different which I hope will help my lack of detail in many of my previous stories.
As I write if there is a section ahead of the story I want to write about I just write in bold letters whats supposed to go in that section. Then I can go back later and add information.
Right now my characters do not want to have sex so this might turn into a romance and/or non erotic story.

p.s. got to love the trolls fighting with each other.. it's amusing

"The trolls" PrincessAirHead?

You must be referring to Scouries and I, the real writers here, not trolls.

If there is a troll here, it is you for shitting on 20 of my 30 Valentine Day contest stories.

If there's a troll here, it's you pretending to be a writer, when your nomal story is 750-1,000 words written only to score a point for the Survivor Contest.

I'm gratified that you're doing something different. Does that mean that, after 4 years, you're finally going to write your first real story, one that has a beginning, a middle, and an ending with character development, plot, tension, dialogue, and a real sex scene? Is that what you mean by doing something different, PrincessAirHead?

Before you call real writers trolls, go look at my body of work and then look at what Scouries has done. Where is your story on the top 250 lists? I looked and I didn't see any of your stories. Now why is that?

How many hits/reads do you have? I dare say that I wrote more words for the Valentine Contest then you wrote in all of 2009.

Listen, AirHead, just because you're a dumb fuck, you assume we are all dumb fucks. We're not. Many of us are very educated. Many of us have advanced degrees. We don't have to pretend that we're teachers because we are. Now, there's nothing wrong with being a lunch mother, but when you espouse yourself as being an English teacher, then you leave me scratching my head, while being thankful that I never had a teacher like you.

You've been writing here since 2008 and if I pick any of your stories, including your alt, Bakeboss, and even your new stories, they all read the same. Have you not grown as a writer? Have you not learned anything? With all those abbreviated stories you write, have you, not once, wished that you could write a real story?

Now go ahead. Do that to my BOSTONFICTIONWRITER stories that I wrote in 2007 and 2008 and compare them to my PositiveThinker stories that I wrote in 2009. Then, compare those stories to the stories that I wrote in 2010, as Andtheend, before comparing my stories to the stories that I'm writing now as SuperHeroRalph.

Vastly improved. Even though I participate in the Survivor Contest, I don't write for the Survivor Contest. I write to improve my skills and I've never written the little shitty stories that you call stories.

I'm here to develop my skills as a writer. You're here to win $500. That's the real difference between us. Moreover, I thought you had put everyone on ignore? Liar!

Good luck to you in fulfilling your dream, but before you call real writers trolls, look in the mirror, Sweetie.

 

[LunaEroticaMystica]

4200 here. I submitted my pitch blurb for ~Enlightened By Darkness~ to the publisher. I have a month to wait to see if they show interest. So nervous and excited! Now, back to one of my favorite days of the year.

Did anyone get outside last night to see the full Supermoon? At sunset it was a gorgeous bright orange, like a tangerine dream!

HAPPY VERNAL EQUINOX/SPRING everyone (and autumnal for those in the southern hemisphere)!!! (well, technically in a couple of ours).

 

[MarlowBunny]

4200 here. I submitted my pitch blurb for ~Enlightened By Darkness~ to the publisher. I have a month to wait to see if they show interest. So nervous and excited! Now, back to one of my favorite days of the year.

Did anyone get outside last night to see the full Supermoon? At sunset it was a gorgeous bright orange, like a tangerine dream!

HAPPY VERNAL EQUINOX/SPRING everyone (and autumnal for those in the southern hemisphere)!!! (well, technically in a couple of ours).

My wife and I enjoyed the moon from our front porch. She photographed it, and the experience produced an opportunity for me to buy her a better telephoto It is very difficult to buy gifts that she will like, so an offhand request like the one last night is special occasion gold. Now I just have to research and make sure I buy the right thing.

Good luck on your pitch.

 

[LunaEroticaMystica]

Oh MarlowBunny, that's great! I'm sure you will do fine in the research and the choosing for her. What a lucky lady to have such a thoughtful hubby like you! I wished I were a better photographer (on top of having the right photo equipment) or had access to the telescope in storage. Not that I needed it, but would have been a nice opportunity to see deeper.

Thank you.

 

[silkstockingslover]

This has been the hardest story concept to start...but in teh end I think I have a decent story...

How long is a good word count...I like to write 20 ( 7000 words) pages (in word) give or take...although some of my stories are over 60 pages and some are as short as 7ish.

Anyways, intrerested in what people do with such an odd theme...

Also, being rather new to the discussions...I have two questions:
1. How do some of you write so many stories (it takes me two weeks to get a decent one done...between work , kids and husband)...although decent is subject to discussion.
2. Why is there such bitterness here...just skimming this topic there sure seems to be a lot of tension.

Anyways, good luck to all...

 

[PrincessErin]

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[Darkniciad]

2. Why is there such bitterness here...just skimming this topic there sure seems to be a lot of tension.

Best bet is to either mentally or physically ( with the ignore feature ) ignore certain people. Doubt you'll have much trouble making out who.

There's a long-standing tradition of certain people coming into the contest threads for the sole purpose of spewing bile about the contests and attacking the winners. It used to happen after the results were announced, but our trolls have decided to be overachievers and start spitting venom before the contest even starts, now.

As to the rest, long stories tend to have higher scores, but you trade the number of readers and votes for that. It can be a struggle to reach the 25 to qualify unless you really capture the reader with the first few paragraphs, before they get to the bottom and see how many page numbers are down there.

Stories of 2-3 Lit pages ( your average length is in this range ) tend to perform the best on all fronts, but it's category dependant, as well. Some categories get more views and votes, while others get better scores.

How long it takes varies. My muse likes to take long vacations without so much as sending me a postcard while she suns her buns on some exotic beach somewhere. I tend to stress a lot on stories that are actually stories, and those take a while.

I write in three pen names, and the two I list in my sig are usually those plotted stories. My third pen name is for goofing around, and usually involves shorter stories that are geared to do one thing -- get people into the bedroom. I usually knock those out quickly once I get an idea. It's not at all uncommon for me to finish one of those in 24-48 hours once I start writing, though I've probably been mulling over variations of the basic idea for quite some time before.

This contest is a tough theme. Good luck to you