The official Authors' Hangout Nude Day 2020 contest Support Thread

[oggbashan]

I have started this early because some of us are confined at home and some find Nude Day a difficult contest to enter.

National Nude Day (July 14)
themes: public nudity, exhibitionism, etc.
starts: June 17
closes: July 8
winners announced: July 15

As usual, this thread is to SUPPORT and ENCOURAGE authors to enter stories in the 2020 Nude Day Contest. Get your characters naked, aroused and sexy.

There is an advantage to entering stories in one of Literotica's themed contests, apart from the possibility of winning, and that is that your story gets far more exposure and attention than it would normally do.

Some of that attention might be unwelcome, some abusive, but some could be appreciative and helpful.

Wait for Laurel's notice of the start of the contest as a sticky at the top of the Authors' Hangout before submitting and follow the instructions in that thread.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

One of the few silver linings in this kidneystone of a year is your being back in the saddle again, Ogg. Thanks.

 

[Voboy]

Woohoo!

So hard to find a good topic for this one. I think I've got one this year, though.

 

[TxRad]

I have 8 started but... Yeah, I need to finish at least one.

Maybe when I'm feeling better.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I can think of a few scenes to write on this theme, but can't think of a story to go with them.

Public exhibitionism isn't my thing, and I'm guessing a nude interlude in any other type of story would be considered a swizz by the readers?

 

[Voboy]

I can think of a few scenes to write on this theme, but can't think of a story to go with them.

Public exhibitionism isn't my thing, and I'm guessing a nude interlude in any other type of story would be considered a swizz by the readers?

I always find this a difficult theme to write about believably.

Writing about it? Easy. Writing about it realistically? That's a tall order for me.

But yes, generally a mere internude won't do it. The plot needs to hinge, in some way, on nudity.

 

[RejectReality]

The angle that's always been easiest for me is new/reluctant but curious nudists interacting with people they're attracted to, who are already in the lifestyle — in a setting away from areas where they could get cited for indecent exposure. With women, I often have them recapturing some of their youthful exhibitionism from college or something.

A nugget of plausibility here, a thread there, and the whole thing will hang together in the possible, if unlikely territory where it all works, and a not insignificant portion of all erotica resides anyway.

My "one rung higher on the ladder than 'is there another way I can pay for this pizza?' bar." LOL

I don't personally have anything for this one yet, because I'm trying to clear my plate. I have a lot of irons in the fire, and I'd like to make some progress on a few of them now that my muse wandered back from wherever she was on vacation for the last few months.

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

I might enter this one. I have two stories I already started. One went to sex really fast, the other hasn't yet, but I only wrote a few paragraphs.

I gotta get going on them.

 

[KeithD]

I have one ready for this, but I can't remember the plotline. Wrote it before Christmas. I'll have to go and take a look at it. The last couple of contests I written something ahead and then at about the last minute submissions were open, I've thought of something else, whipped it up, and submitted it--and it's done better than what I wrote before the contest.

 

[Rustyoznail]

I can think of a few scenes to write on this theme, but can't think of a story to go with them.

Public exhibitionism isn't my thing, and I'm guessing a nude interlude in any other type of story would be considered a swizz by the readers?

I haven't any ideas for this year, but last year my characters wound up nude in a convertible, then being pulled over by the Police. The guy was left standing on the side of the road waving at traffic while the female Police officer talked to the girl.

It's an uncle / niece story that Laurel put in I/T, and has been well received.

As long as there is public nudity somewhere, all should be good.

 

[AlinaX]

Yay! I love this contest. Just need to think of something to write...

 

[SolarRay]

Love this one too. I'm with RejectReality on the general approach re: illustrating excitement around sexual curiosity and the thrill of exposure. I've got something a little different this time -- a first time lesbian period piece, freshly back from a beta reader.
Can't wait to see what everyone chooses to do. Best of luck to you all!

 

[oggbashan]

Naked bump.

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

I’m surprised that those who have posted here so far haven’t proposed anything about what makes this year so much different than other years. Nude Day during a lockdown? People setting up an I’ll-show-you-mine event via Zoom? Out in public, socially distanced voyeurs with binoculars? (Actually, from six feet away one can probably see sufficient detail of an entire nude human.) Recent reports on the spread of the virus suggest that more waves of infection could happen, and keep folks socially distant through the summer. If nobody else will run with that, maybe I will.

https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=5116173&page=submissions

 

[KeithD]

I'm not motivated--at least yet--to include the pandemic in my erotica writing.

 

[AlinaX]

I've written a couple that reference the lockdown, but [not] for Nude Day.

 

[TxRad]

Plot bunny for a good home.

Take the prostitute window idea from Amsterdam and add the pandemic. You can look but ya can't touch. Voyeur and exhibitionist heaven, so to speak.

I have several hundred more in different sizes and shapes.

 

[YDB95]

I'm just pretending the pandemic hasn't happened in my story. Who needs realism in erotica anyway?

 

[AlinaX]

Realism? Like a vampire pissed off because all the humans are staying home in the evenings?

 

[TxRad]

The Prez says that sunlight and heat cures the virus. So everyone needs to spend several hours a day naked in the front yard.

You can't make up the facts and have them come out this way.

 

[KeithD]

The Prez says that sunlight and heat cures the virus. So everyone needs to spend several hours a day naked in the front yard.

Drinking 100-proof vodka to disinfect your insides.

 

[TxRad]

Drinking 100-proof vodka to disinfect your insides.

That beats the hell out of Lysol.

 

[RejectReality]

I've written two pandemic related stories that both clock in at about 2500 words, so they won't go up here unless it's part of an anthology somewhere down the road. The short stuff just don't get enough love to be worth the formatting effort individually.

Can't just package them together, either. One has a romantic bent about an essential worker forced to isolate in his workshop/man cave away from his fiancee who has risk factors. The other is pure porn that starts out with a silly pseudo spycraft exchange of a sealed NES cart for a 24-pack of toilet paper held back and hidden by an employee when the truck arrived.

Severe tone clash.

Plus, I barely got that TP story out before the worst of the shortage had passed. We're in an awkward phase where it's no longer topical, and not yet been long enough to do a couple of quick tweaks for "remember when".

I haven't even assigned any of my no-brain-necessary time at work to mulling over Nude Day yet. That time is all still being taken up by some stories that were stalled for several months, and are moving again. I might miss this one purely because off-topic stories are monopolizing my time.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm just pretending the pandemic hasn't happened in my story. Who needs realism in erotica anyway?

I think the last thing people need is to find themselves reading about this ordeal in an erotica story. This is a time where people really need escapism from 24/7 new coverage, and more importantly their own stressful reality or worrying/coping with it.

 

[RejectReality]

Epidemic and apocalyptic fiction in all forms of media has been through the roof. So people want it, whether it's good for them or not.

That silly one I was talking about earlier is about 20% higher on votes and comments than average for a similar story in the same category. It's also vastly outperforming stories in the same category of about the same length and sex to setup ratio.

That being said, I think the hunger is for takes that push into the realm of obvious fantasy over realistic depictions. The romantic one which has a lot more realistic take on the current situation in the setup, where they find a way to reclaim a feeling of intimacy despite physical separation in the end isn't doing nearly as well. Those who have finished it have given glowing reviews, but there just aren't nearly as many of them.

It hits too close to home, where the other is more or less a send-up from the get-go.