The Official Author's Hangout Halloween Contest Support Thread

[lovecraft68]

So another Halloween on the way and another spate of...... Mistaken identity stories.

Its been discussed many times that erotica fans love and embrace their cliches and Halloween/ mistaken identity is a fun plot bunny, especially in incest.

But to me, (so stress this is my opinion here) I can't even read them anymore.

Way overdone in every category from the sister wearing the costume the girlfriend was supposed to be wearing to three guys fucking the girl they thought was the class slut, but was really the "good girl"

I just can't anymore.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

So another Halloween on the way and another spate of...... Mistaken identity stories.

Its been discussed many times that erotica fans love and embrace their cliches and Halloween/ mistaken identity is a fun plot bunny, especially in incest.

But to me, (so stress this is my opinion here) I can't even read them anymore.

Way overdone in every category from the sister wearing the costume the girlfriend was supposed to be wearing to three guys fucking the girl they thought was the class slut, but was really the "good girl"

I just can't anymore.

I think halloween is the easiest contest entry. Because it is the one where you can go all kinds of nonhuman. It basically just has to have some kind of movie monster or demon in it and you're good.

I don't want to write about the holiday.

I want to write about the half-incubi boy that was bound into a human form by a tattoo that lost it's effectiveness on all hallows eve on his eighteenth birthday, causing him to sprout wings and horns and forcing him to live off of the life energy of humans.

 

[sr71plt]

I think halloween is the easiest contest entry. Because it is the one where you can go all kinds of nonhuman. It basically just has to have some kind of movie monster or demon in it and you're good.

Some of us don't find doing nonhuman all that easy or inviting (just now finishing up a 45,000-word vampire book for release at Halloween, and it's been a chore).

I haven't looked at my intended entry for a while, but I know that it somehow is Horror, so that will fit well enough as long as the intent of entering is only to get the preferential posting.

I think the Christmas contest is easiest for me--I already have five stories banked for this year's contest.

 

[PennLady]

I think halloween is the easiest contest entry. Because it is the one where you can go all kinds of nonhuman. It basically just has to have some kind of movie monster or demon in it and you're good.

You can do other things, too. The first Halloween story I did involved hockey, ghosts and Montreal. I used Halloween night as sort of the key to some things, but no trick-or-treating, no costumes and such.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

You can do other things, too. The first Halloween story I did involved hockey, ghosts and Montreal. I used Halloween night as sort of the key to some things, but no trick-or-treating, no costumes and such.

Yup. Halloween has a lot of freedom to it. A lot more than christmas, I would think.

What are your five stories about SR?

 

[TxRad]

How about a 400 year old warlock for one and a first date at a costume party for the second. No mistaken identity, just good old raunchy fun.

 

[topace]

So it's a little over a month and a half to Samhain, eh?

Maybe I'll have a story by then, after all it didn't take me long to write the first chapter of my Rayshipping story "Training the Guardian".

 

[PennLady]

I of course had an idea that disappeared almost as fast as I thought of it. Rats. Well, not sure I have time anyway.

 

[sr71plt]

What are your five stories about SR?

Christmas. (Was this a trick question? )

Yes, they are all GM--a mix of humor and romance.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Christmas. (Was this a trick question? )

Yes, they are all GM--a mix of humor and romance.

Wasn't a trick question. I was honestly curious.

If you asked me what I plan on doing for my christmas story, I could tell you that it's a romance about a lonely man who meets a nurse after attempting suicide on christmas eve.

There. When you say five christmas stories, I was wondering how you were going to mix it up.

 

[sr71plt]

Wasn't a trick question. I was honestly curious.

If you asked me what I plan on doing for my christmas story, I could tell you that it's a romance about a lonely man who meets a nurse after attempting suicide on christmas eve.

There. When you say five christmas stories, I was wondering how you were going to mix it up.

And if you can read wheat, now you know. Here's a brief rundown from the anthology they'll be in:

In “Oh Christmas Tree!” a young man is dragged to a Christmas tree farm by his girlfriend only to find not only that the man in charge of sales was someone he wanted to keep entirely separate from his girlfriend, but he was someone the young man had naively thought he wanted to forget. The light-hearted “Passing at Christmas” is a tongue-in-cheek play on the English gentry caste system by use of a bodily function misunderstanding. The romance, “Christmas Confessional,” has a young man in agony over leaving his lover for Christmas while resisting telling his father of his preferences. In “The Christmas Cruise Present,” a young man is sent on a Christmas season gay males-only party cruise to Bermuda to loosen him up and win him over to his rich benefactor, without him realizing it is—aggressively so—a gay males-only cruise. In “A Fire Spotter’s Christmas,” a young ranger, trying to escape tragedy, volunteers for Christmas duty on an isolated watch tower on a California mountain. He thinks he has retreated to be alone at Christmas, and discovers that isn’t what he really wants—nor is that what he gets.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

And if you can read wheat, now you know. Here's a brief rundown from the anthology they'll be in:

In “Oh Christmas Tree!” a young man is dragged to a Christmas tree farm by his girlfriend only to find not only that the man in charge of sales was someone he wanted to keep entirely separate from his girlfriend, but he was someone the young man had naively thought he wanted to forget. The light-hearted “Passing at Christmas” is a tongue-in-cheek play on the English gentry caste system by use of a bodily function misunderstanding. The romance, “Christmas Confessional,” has a young man in agony over leaving his lover for Christmas while resisting telling his father of his preferences. In “The Christmas Cruise Present,” a young man is sent on a Christmas season gay males-only party cruise to Bermuda to loosen him up and win him over to his rich benefactor, without him realizing it is—aggressively so—a gay males-only cruise. In “A Fire Spotter’s Christmas,” a young ranger, trying to escape tragedy, volunteers for Christmas duty on an isolated watch tower on a California mountain. He thinks he has retreated to be alone at Christmas, and discovers that isn’t what he really wants—nor is that what he gets.

Alrighty then.

 

[FallingToFly]

I think I might do two stories.

One about a spider, and one BDSM based one with a spider concept. I hate spiders. This should prove to be an interesting write.

 

[MatthewVett]

I think I might do two stories.

One about a spider, and one BDSM based one with a spider concept. I hate spiders. This should prove to be an interesting write.

Man, everyone is anti-spider. Look at this little guy! (Warning: spider picture) http://img.xcitefun.net/users/2010/02/149734,xcitefun-cute-spider-1.jpg Isn't he just the cutest thing ever?

I guess I'm the weird one. I always seem attracted to things other people dislike. Maybe I should do a spider romance story...

 

[damppanties]

Man, everyone is anti-spider. Look at this little guy! (Warning: spider picture) http://img.xcitefun.net/users/2010/02/149734,xcitefun-cute-spider-1.jpg Isn't he just the cutest thing ever?

That's kind of cute in an ET way.

 

[FallingToFly]

I have a scar on my face from a wolf spider. It cured me of my ambivalence towards them, permanently.

Oh. ooooooooh.

I have a plot bunny!!!! *scribbles feverishly*

Spider snuff porn in the offing!

 

[damppanties]

FTF, you're totally inspiring me to write about the horror tentacle sex story I had conceived of earlier. Hmmm.

 

[FallingToFly]

DO IT!!! I love tentacle porn.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Man, everyone is anti-spider. Look at this little guy! (Warning: spider picture) http://img.xcitefun.net/users/2010/02/149734,xcitefun-cute-spider-1.jpg Isn't he just the cutest thing ever?

I guess I'm the weird one. I always seem attracted to things other people dislike. Maybe I should do a spider romance story...

Pixar just needs to make a movie about that little fucker and spiders wont have to worry about their reputations anymore.

 

[RjThoughts]

The spider I saw for a few years, when I drove my car...

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2448/3708944037_662d7f1f9a_z.jpg

 

[FallingToFly]

OKay, first roadblock hit- one of my spider stories has an element of truth to it, as in it's something that really did happen to me. Should I

A) stick to the facts- which would make the narrator 32 today
B) age up the character to be 18 at the catalyst point - making the narrator 34
C) make up a fictional Hurricane for the catalyst set-up and make the character younger

I can't make the character too young (18-22, say) because I need the story to maintain a certain level of "tired of this crap" which I don't think a really young character would feel- but I also know that as the characters get older, the readers tend to be nastier.

 

[sr71plt]

Do what you want with it and submit it as fiction. We all (at least I do) put elements from our real life into our stories.

 

[FallingToFly]

My instinct is to go with A. Hopefully it won't get tossed as underage- the catalyst for the story is something that happened when the narrator was 16, the action takes place present day.

 

[lovecraft68]

My instinct is to go with A. Hopefully it won't get tossed as underage- the catalyst for the story is something that happened when the narrator was 16, the action takes place present day.

That's a coin flip depending on how early you reference the age. First couple of paragraphs may get you tossed, further into the story it will probably get through.

B would be the safest route, but I understand that the GP's of wanting to write the story you want to write can outweigh safe.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think halloween is the easiest contest entry. Because it is the one where you can go all kinds of nonhuman. It basically just has to have some kind of movie monster or demon in it and you're good.

I don't want to write about the holiday.

I want to write about the half-incubi boy that was bound into a human form by a tattoo that lost it's effectiveness on all hallows eve on his eighteenth birthday, causing him to sprout wings and horns and forcing him to live off of the life energy of humans.

Interesting concept, my daughter once wrote a horror story about a guy who could create living tattoos on people and 24 hour hours after they got them the tattoo would come to life and kill them or wreak other havoc.

She based the main tattoo on the Paul Booth version of Pan on my arm. It was pretty good she won a contest with it.