The Official Author's Hangout Halloween Contest Support Thread

[TxRad]

Welcome to the: The Official Author's Hangout Halloween Contest Support Thread.

We're off and running but you still have plenty of time to enter so get to writing.

Just remember to beware of fake contests.

 

[sun_sea_sky]

Contest analysis - Halloween Contest 2012

Good evening. The iconoclasts tell me that there are 36 stories in the competition to date, with an average score of 3.96 from an average of 88 votes. Stories had an average of 6,537 views, an average of 3 favorites, and an average of 3 comments. The average ratio of votes to views is 1.11%. The average number of pages is 2.5, with the longest story being 6 pages.

So far there have been a total of 2,472 votes, 235,356 views, 111 favorites and 113 comments.

The standard deviation of scores (from the average of 3.96) is 0.60 and the standard deviation of votes (from the average of 88) is 122. The median score is 3.90, the median number of votes is 37 and the median number of pages is 2. The top 25% of scores are 4.39 or above and the bottom 25% of scores are 3.47 or below.

Categories entered (alphabetic order)

• Anal (1 story)
• BDSM (1 story)
• Erotic Couplings (1 story)
• Erotic Horror (7 stories)
• Exhibitionist & Voyeur (1 story)
• Fetish (1 story)
• Gay Male (3 stories)
• Group Sex (3 stories)
• Incest/Taboo (3 stories)
• Interracial Love (1 story)
• Lesbian Sex (1 story)
• Non-Erotic (1 story)
• NonConsent/Reluctance (4 stories)
• NonHuman (3 stories)
• Romance (4 stories)
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy (1 story)

Views by category

• Incest/Taboo: 79,961 (34.0%)
• NonConsent/Reluctance: 32,650 (13.9%)
• Group Sex: 19,934 (8.5%)
• Erotic Couplings: 17,233 (7.3%)
• Gay Male: 15,975 (6.8%)
• Romance: 15,429 (6.6%)
• Exhibitionist & Voyeur: 11,276 (4.8%)
• BDSM: 10,594 (4.5%)
• Interracial Love: 9,949 (4.2%)
• Erotic Horror: 8,059 (3.4%)
• Lesbian Sex: 7,124 (3.0%)
• NonHuman: 3,369 (1.4%)
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2,068 (0.9%)
• Fetish: 1,735 (0.7%)
• Non-Erotic: 0 (0.0%)
• Anal: 0 (0.0%)

Comments by category

• Incest/Taboo: 31 (27.4%)
• Romance: 25 (22.1%)
• Gay Male: 11 (9.7%)
• Erotic Couplings: 10 (8.8%)
• Erotic Horror: 7 (6.2%)
• NonHuman: 7 (6.2%)
• NonConsent/Reluctance: 7 (6.2%)
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 5 (4.4%)
• BDSM: 5 (4.4%)
• Lesbian Sex: 3 (2.7%)
• Anal: 1 (0.9%)
• Interracial Love: 1 (0.9%)
• Fetish: 0 (0.0%)
• Group Sex: 0 (0.0%)
• Exhibitionist & Voyeur: 0 (0.0%)
• Non-Erotic: 0 (0.0%)

Favorites by category

• Incest/Taboo: 52 (46.8%)
• Romance: 25 (22.5%)
• Erotic Couplings: 9 (8.1%)
• Group Sex: 8 (7.2%)
• Gay Male: 5 (4.5%)
• NonConsent/Reluctance: 4 (3.6%)
• Lesbian Sex: 2 (1.8%)
• NonHuman: 2 (1.8%)
• Erotic Horror: 1 (0.9%)
• Interracial Love: 1 (0.9%)
• Exhibitionist & Voyeur: 1 (0.9%)
• BDSM: 1 (0.9%)
• Fetish: 0 (0.0%)
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 0 (0.0%)
• Anal: 0 (0.0%)
• Non-Erotic: 0 (0.0%)

Votes by category

• Incest/Taboo: 837 (33.9%)
• Romance: 506 (20.5%)
• NonConsent/Reluctance: 209 (8.5%)
• Erotic Couplings: 167 (6.8%)
• Exhibitionist & Voyeur: 143 (5.8%)
• BDSM: 110 (4.4%)
• Interracial Love: 105 (4.2%)
• Gay Male: 92 (3.7%)
• Group Sex: 86 (3.5%)
• Lesbian Sex: 82 (3.3%)
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 46 (1.9%)
• Erotic Horror: 42 (1.7%)
• NonHuman: 39 (1.6%)
• Fetish: 8 (0.3%)
• Anal: 0 (0.0%)
• Non-Erotic: 0 (0.0%)

Average scores by category

• Fetish: 4.67
• Erotic Couplings: 4.65
• Exhibitionist & Voyeur: 4.51
• Romance: 4.34
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 4.15
• Lesbian Sex: 4.15
• Group Sex: 3.96
• Gay Male: 3.81
• NonConsent/Reluctance: 3.53
• Interracial Love: 3.29
• Incest/Taboo: 2.77
• BDSM: 2.31
• Erotic Horror: 2.24
• NonHuman: 1.42
• Anal: 0.00
• Non-Erotic: 0.00

Hotness by category

• Exhibitionist & Voyeur: 100%
• Erotic Couplings: 100%
• Romance: 50%
• Incest/Taboo: 33%

Authors entered so far are:

boneams, botox, Bourguit, Brandie69, ChloeCallie, CianPerrel (8), Dream_Operator, ejls, Goldeniangel, HawthorneVixen, KeithD, LaRascasse, Legman173, MSTarot (2), nicecthulhu, NymphWriter, runningonblade, SaucyEroticProductions, sr71plt, sweet_lusciousdesire, TE999, The_Technician, The_Unicorn, tiggerlilly, Tx Tall Tales, wantsomefun1951, YDB95 (2)

Disclaimer

Because of the way this site works these figures will not be totally up-to-date. For a given story the score shown on:

• The category page
• The author's page
• The toplists page

can all be different.

Also it appears that various pages update at different times of the day, sometimes quite infrequently.

Please do not PM me asking for more detailed information. I do not wish to skew contest results by giving a target for voting manipulation.

Contest page: Halloween Contest 2012

 

[nicecthulhu]

I would assume it's the percentage of stories in each category that have a score at or above 4.50.

And thank you Brandie69 for having a brain that works while mine has trouble shifting out of reverse. I think I get dumber every year. I'll go ask my wife what she thinks about that...

 

[Brandie69]

And thank you Brandie69 for having a brain that works while mine has trouble shifting out of reverse. I think I get dumber every year. I'll go ask my wife what she thinks about that...

It is nothing. In fact, I need to ask sun_sea_sky (who should really be writing a contest entry, don't you think?) whether some of the statistics in his or her posts are totals or averages. I will assume, until corrected otherwise, that anything that doesn't say "average" is a grand total.

Not that I want to discourage you from asking your wife about your brain, mind you

B

 

[nicecthulhu]

Just a question, because I have another plot and I was figuring on setting it aside for a year, but it's jostling around in my subconscious.
I've got a story which will probably go in nonhuman and has sex in it, but I have serious trouble believing anyone is going to find it sexy. It's almost humour, but not quite. The best way to describe it is erotic whimsy...well, erotic whimsy as written by Cthulhu perhaps.

So is it worth my while to write it up and toss it in to that witch's brew?
Does anyone think there would be some readers who might like a 'read' like that?

 

[scouries]

http://www.thejerusalemconnection.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/antisemitism.jpg
why?????

The following is post # 1024 on the a.i.r. contest support thread. He also posted exactly the same thing in posts #1001, 1004, 1008, 1010, 1012, 1015 and 1022. The same post EIGHT times on the same page? He's now up to 221 times posting the same thing (unless I’ve missed a few). Mind you this isn't a record for him.

are these three enabling hate in AHland? Why?

Why would our tiger lily threadmistress stand with the hate-mongerers? Simple jealousy? I guess the a.i.r. thread has been making hers look bad...

post #1024 on the A.I.R. Contest Support Thread. Let's all look at our AHland racists posts. We're prepared to expose him for what he is...sad really...

ugly racist

[SIZE="+4"]THIS IS THE FAKE CONTEST THREAD
[/SIZE]
http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff327/michchick98/made-up-fucktard2.jpg

 

[YDB95]

Bump, and accept no substitutes!

 

[drteetho]

Still plugging away on my story. It's definitely taking shape, I think it will be good, but it still seems like I have a ways to go to finish. *Sigh*...

Quick question... some of the lead-up action in my story takes place before Halloween. Definitely the bulk of the story (and, ahem, the interesting parts) happen on Halloween, but I want to set the scene a certain way so I felt it necessary to write some parts before Halloween itself. I presume this is OK but any suggestions or feedback you'd be so kind to give me on that would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[damppanties]

Just a question, because I have another plot and I was figuring on setting it aside for a year, but it's jostling around in my subconscious.
I've got a story which will probably go in nonhuman and has sex in it, but I have serious trouble believing anyone is going to find it sexy. It's almost humour, but not quite. The best way to describe it is erotic whimsy...well, erotic whimsy as written by Cthulhu perhaps.

So is it worth my while to write it up and toss it in to that witch's brew?
Does anyone think there would be some readers who might like a 'read' like that?

If you want to submit it to Lit at some point anyway, I would say a contest is the best possible place to expose it to as many readers as you can. Erotic whimsy definitely gets readers -- I have a storyline* that could be characterized as that. I'm kind of surprised I got as many readers for it (it's in a non-human category) than I got for, say, my letters & transcripts story.

*Elf Pleasure if interested.

 

[sun_sea_sky]

It is nothing. In fact, I need to ask sun_sea_sky (who should really be writing a contest entry, don't you think?) whether some of the statistics in his or her posts are totals or averages.

Correct again Brandie69. Unless qualified as "average", "median" or "percentage" the figures will be grand totals (for the category, if a category is specified).

The figures may well be somewhat lower than you, as an author, will see because the author's own page updates much faster than the toplists page, where some of the figures come from.*

As for my own entry, I have a plot and partly-written story, but (and I don't want to whine here) my hand hurts from carpal tunnel syndrome. I'm trying to give it a bit of a break. There are around 19 days to go yet, so I'll see if I can get something in, in that time.


* : is that bad grammar?

 

[Brandie69]

Correct again Brandie69. Unless qualified as "average", "median" or "percentage" the figures will be grand totals (for the category, if a category is specified).

The figures may well be somewhat lower than you, as an author, will see because the author's own page updates much faster than the toplists page, where some of the figures come from.*

As for my own entry, I have a plot and partly-written story, but (and I don't want to whine here) my hand hurts from carpal tunnel syndrome. I'm trying to give it a bit of a break. There are around 19 days to go yet, so I'll see if I can get something in, in that time.


* : is that bad grammar?

A bit of a run-on, perhaps, but that was as fine a preposition as you'll find to end a sentence with.

 

[sun_sea_sky]

A bit of a run-on, perhaps, but that was as fine a preposition as you'll find to end a sentence with.

Lol.

I love it when the message is in the medium.

Or maybe, the message in the medium is.

 

[Ironiclaconic]

Just had my story accepted - Shell Game. But for some reason the powers that be switched the category from erotic couplings to group sex even though there isn't any, you know, group sex in it.

I am a little concerned that the story is going to get tanked in the votes due to bad categorization. Anyone have any tips on how I can get that fixed quickly?

 

[YDB95]

When in doubt, ask Laurel.

 

[TxRad]

When in doubt, ask Laurel.

And send it as a PM. E-mail don't work. Too much spam.

 

[Ironiclaconic]

Ah, thanks. I haven't used PMs here before and forgot they existed.

 

[TxRad]

Ah, thanks. I haven't used PMs here before and forgot they existed.

Be sure and add a link to the story to the message. It will speed things up.

 

[FallingToFly]

I have officially scrapped both of the ideas I came into this with.

Now I'm bouncing another idea off the wall and going with that.

 

[TxRad]

I have officially scrapped both of the ideas I came into this with.

Now I'm bouncing another idea off the wall and going with that.

After i bounce a plot bunny off the wall, they usually just sit there and give me that WTF look.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Just submitted my entry for review. Decided to post in "First Time." It's short, trite and, I hope, fun. I'm sure I won't win or place, but I at least I'll earn a participation ribbon for my wall. With that and three bucks, I believe I can get a latte at Starbucks. Woot!

 

[estragon]

SSS, my apologies in advance, but a grammar junkie like I am can't resist: "The figures may well be somewhat lower than you, as an author, will see because the author's own page updates much faster than the toplists page, where some of the figures come from.*"

Try this: The figures may well be somewhat lower than you, as an author, will see because the author's own page updates much faster than the toplists page, whence come some of the figures.*

*How's that for over-edited?

 

[Brandie69]

SSS, my apologies in advance, but a grammar junkie like I am can't resist: "The figures may well be somewhat lower than you, as an author, will see because the author's own page updates much faster than the toplists page, where some of the figures come from.*"

Try this: The figures may well be somewhat lower than you, as an author, will see because the author's own page updates much faster than the toplists page, whence come some of the figures.*

*How's that for over-edited?

Some of my figures come from the toplists page. For this reason, they may be somewhat lower than those reported to authors on their "view submissions" page, as the latter are updated more frequently than the former are.

 

[bienheureuse]

which category?

Long-time reader, brand-new author, contest virgin...

I have a story that could go into Non-consent/Reluctance or First Time. It's not solidly either, but the only other category that *might* work is Erotic Couplings.

I guess what I'd like to know is whether one of those categories is preferable in a contest, for some reason that I'm not aware of...

And, whether there are tropes and themes that I should edit toward in order to make the story "a better fit" in the correct category? For example, the character's virginity is fairly incidental to the plot, and I could write it out altogether if I had to; ergo, there isn't a big deflowering element. Will First Time fans dress me down for not being true to the category?

Or... am I overthinking this?

 

[sun_sea_sky]

Personally, if I read a First Time story I would expect the deflowering to be fairly central to it. If whatever-happens is pretty non-consensual then Non-consent is probably the way to go, otherwise just stick it into Erotic Couplings (maybe with a warning about some elements of reluctance at the start).

In the previous competition, Erotic Couplings had the second-most number of views (after Incest), namely 14%. First-Time had 3% and Non-Consent had 1.3%, if that helps you decide.

 

[sun_sea_sky]

SSS, my apologies in advance, but a grammar junkie like I am can't resist:

Thanks Estragon and Brandie69 for your advice. I asked for it, I know.

Perhaps I should edit it to:

The figures may be wrong, for various reasons.