The now fully official Author’s Hangout Halloween 2025 competition support thread

[ChloeTzang]

Yeah - it has high views, but low ratings. No idea why. Then so much around here is .

TBH, it seems that a Gay Male story places more often than not. I know nothing much about the category, but perhaps the regular trolls are less prevalent.

KeithD used to do pretty well with Gay Male - not sure who else has, but yeah, it can work

 

[EmilyMiller]

KeithD used to do pretty well with Gay Male - not sure who else has, but yeah, it can work

I just keep seeing the category on the winners podium.

 

[TheRedLantern]

write a LONG story (with hot sex of course) and submit it 5 minutes before the deadline

I'm from the future, and I can tell you that this will be the title of Chloe's first book on writing.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I'm from the future, and I can tell you that this will be the title of Chloe's first book on writing.

LOL Story of my life. This is the first competition since forever where I've submitted a story and it's NOT 5 minutes before the deadline. Amazing!

 

[MegaTank]

I'm currently writing my first Halloween story, hoping I can get it done without relying on last-minute panic for once. It's a ghost based story, looking at NH category as things are.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I'm currently writing my first Halloween story, hoping I can get it done without relying on last-minute panic for once. It's a ghost based story, looking at NH category as things are.

Good luck

 

[WittyUserName]

Good luck

Would nonhuman be better for a ghost story? It mentions ghosts, but I always thought it was more geared toward sex with ghosts. My story has a haunting, but all sex is among the living. That's why I was leaning toward Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Would nonhuman be better for a ghost story? It mentions ghosts, but I always thought it was more geared toward sex with ghosts. My story has a haunting, but all sex is among the living. That's why I was leaning toward Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

I never quite get non-hunman. My space tentacle porn goes in SciFi & Fantasy. As do my panoply of varyious angelic and demonic characters.

 

[iwatchus]

Would nonhuman be better for a ghost story? It mentions ghosts, but I always thought it was more geared toward sex with ghosts. My story has a haunting, but all sex is among the living. That's why I was leaning toward Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

If you have sex involving non humans, put it in non-human. Otherwise, I wouldn't. As happenstance has it, I've been reading a lot of nonhuman recently.

 

[StrangeLife]

Would nonhuman be better for a ghost story? It mentions ghosts, but I always thought it was more geared toward sex with ghosts. My story has a haunting, but all sex is among the living. That's why I was leaning toward Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

I've used "nonhuman" for werevolves and vampires. But only when they were part of the main cast.

However if your ghosts are just monsters, but not actually characters in the story, then I'd probably choose a different category...

 

[ChloeTzang]

I'm currently writing my first Halloween story, hoping I can get it done without relying on last-minute panic for once. It's a ghost based story, looking at NH category as things are.

Last minute panic is a huge incentive to finish, believe me. It's amazing how inspired you can get with 6 hours to go LOL

 

[ChloeTzang]

I never quite get non-hunman. My space tentacle porn goes in SciFi & Fantasy. As do my panoply of varyious angelic and demonic characters.

LOL I put my SPace Tentacle story in First Time (well, it was, she was a virgin) and it was iin the Top 20 Hal of Fame for First Time for quite a while with no adverse reaction to it being there rather than sci-fi

Literotica readers are, I find, quite tolerant outside of LW

 

[MillieDynamite]

I'm working on a Rube Goldberg Contraption story for a contest on another site. Not sure I can put it up here for Halloween or anything else, but I might try.

 

[WittyUserName]

If you have sex involving non humans, put it in non-human. Otherwise, I wouldn't. As happenstance has it, I've been reading a lot of nonhuman recently.

That's what I figured, thanks!

 

[TheLobster]

LOL I put my SPace Tentacle story in First Time (well, it was, she was a virgin)

Was the human a virgin as well?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Speaking of Rube Goldberg Contraptions, overly complicated machines that feature unreleated motions, and ill-defined connections to acheive simple task, my favorite one.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Was the human a virgin as well?

I'll have you know Ziggy's a Heptapod Space Marine, a Tentacle Leader in the Spider-Killers (the heptapid equivalent of the Chinese Hegemony's Marines Space Dragons Special Forces no less, and very definitely male, while Stardust Wong is the epitomization of 5000 years of Chinese genetic selection for both female beauty and intelligence, and OF COURSE a virgin - the Chinese Hegemony expects no less from unmarried females and the penalties are severe.....

"Nobody ever contemplated that a human female would even consider having sex with a heptapod," Peoples Morality Commissioner Liu commented, and the way he eyed me, he was thinking an example should be made, and that I was it.

"No-one, under any circumstances, will make an example of my daughter," Dad said, rather coldly, and he was obviously thinking the same thing as I was.

"I report to the Peoples Morality Bureau," Commissioner Liu said, equally coldly, glaring at my Dad, and I swallowed rather sickly. "And pre-marital sex is under our purview. Pre-marital sex with aliens will be under our purview soon," he added. "As soon as we can update and backdate the regulations."

"There will be no backdating," my Dad said, and his voice could've frozen helium on Pluto.

 

[TheLobster]

I'll have you know Ziggy's a Heptapod Space Marine, a Tentacle Leader in the Spider-Killers (the heptapid equivalent of the Chinese Hegemony's Marines Space Dragons Special Forces no less, and very definitely male, (...)

I would of course never endeavor to misgender the estemeed Ziggy. It's just that 'tentacle' is feminine in my native oral appendage and so I couldn't resist

 

[ChloeTzang]

I would of course never endeavor to misgender the estemeed Ziggy. It's just that 'tentacle' is feminine in my native oral appendage and so I couldn't resist

You know, when I wrote that story I spent an entire day reading up on octopus sex - it's both weird and fascinating

 

[WittyUserName]

Well, I submitted my entry. "The Brinkerhoff Royal" is pending in the Sci-Fi & Fantasy category. I hope I get a posting date soon!

 

[EmilyMiller]

Well, I submitted my entry. "The Brinkerhoff Royal" is pending in the Sci-Fi & Fantasy category. I hope I get a posting date soon!

Good luck

 

[WittyUserName]

Good luck

Thanks, you too!

 

[Voboy]

I dont think I've ever seen a story in Anal win, for example.

Maybe this time, a winning entry will slide in. Through the backdoor, like.

 

[MrStill]

I have "The Curse of Whatphor" in pending. It's a gothic sex horror. But since it's a transcription of a dream, I take no responsibility for it. I changed nothing, scared that the curse would extend to me...

 

[EmilyMiller]

Maybe this time, a winning entry will slide in. Through the backdoor, like.

It could be very tight at the end.