The Official Author's Hangout Summer Lovin' Contest Support Thread

[TxRad]

Welcome to the one and only Official Author's Hangout Summer Lovin' Contest Support Thread.

Beware of fake contests

 

[estragon]

Two teenage girls even!! lol

I had my eldest March 1994, when I was just a couple months shy of my 21st birthday, then 7mths and 6 days later gave birth to my second daughter in October 1994 and I was 21 then. My son was born March 1999 when I was just shy of my 26th birthday.

I'm happy I had them at the ages I did, but there were disadvantages too. I wouldn't trade the timeline for the world though.

I remember when our two girls were teenagers. Yikes! Love-hate at its finest. Now they're great, all grown-up, working...but I wish they were little again.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Two teenage girls even!! lol

I had my eldest March 1994, when I was just a couple months shy of my 21st birthday, then 7mths and 6 days later gave birth to my second daughter in October 1994 and I was 21 then. My son was born March 1999 when I was just shy of my 26th birthday.

I'm happy I had them at the ages I did, but there were disadvantages too. I wouldn't trade the timeline for the world though.

I've never heard of two babies born to the same mother so close together. I am 11 months older than my brother, which is close, but not compared to your daughters.

 

[SandraMustard]

First, let me say I'm glad everything has worked out normally for your premie.

I could have been in a similar situation because we operated under the assumption that while nursing, I wouldn't ovulate. I didn't restart my birth control pills for about 6 months with my first. Same with my second daughter four years later. But she was colicky and didn't nurse consistently. When I visited my Gyn for a Rx, she said I couldn't take the pill. She suspected and a test confirmed, I was pregnant. Our son was born just under 15 months after his sister. I never took another pill because Jack had the big snip a week after he (son) was born.

 

[scouries]

NEWBIE ALERT

Many of you may have noticed (unfortunately) that LITEROTICA'S most infamous hater and racist is up and about this morning spewing his slander and bigotry. Yes the dumbest texan is in the house!

LITEROTICA'S #1 racist...

For the real facts on scouries and the great work he’s doing to help improve the site, please check out these threads:

The SCOURIES reader – for both fans and serious scholars…

Literotica’s All-time ‘Most Votes Received’ List

For information and support of the real A.I.R. contest, please go here:

the Authors’ Hangout LITEROTICA/A.I.R. 2012-2015 Themed Contests Support Thread…

or its predecessor:

Congrats to the ASSOCIATION of INDEPENDENT READERS “Special Contest” AWARD WINNERS

Thank you…and why not use this weekend thinking about ways LAUREL could improve the Themed Contest system. I know no one wants a repeat of the "least read story winning" fiasco...

... and have a great summer weekend...​

 

[TxRad]

Poor scouries, there's nothing like the truth to put his teeth on edge.

For instance:

His "List" of Most vote received and Most views are fake lists made up to associate himself with the good writers on Lit. The list leaves off writers he hates and writers who write in categories he hates.

The only A.I.R. Contest is to see if scouries head explodes. He and only he make up his fake association.

His fake contest, which he wins almost every time he get off his dead ass and really enters something, is his way of trying to bring the contests, the AH, and Literotica down. He has never won a real contest of any sort and it is everyone's fault but his.

As for his Award winners, no one has won anything. It is all fake.

I think that about covers it. Keep bringing it up and I'll keep tell the truth. Guess who will win in the end.

 

[estragon]

I thought my sister and I were close in age, 19 months, but that's nothin' around here. Good going, guys!

Meantime, I see Saxon_Stonedyke has an entry coming up for Summer Lovin'. Nothing like stopping for a cold drink on a hot summer day.

How's everybody else doing?

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

How's everybody else doing?

Insanely hot (in the temperature sense), but really looking forward to all the things I'm planning on making with fresh tomatoes this weekend.

Oh, was that question about the contest?

If so, then I'm struggling through the middle part of my story, which is always the hardest for me to write.

 

[SandraMustard]

I've always claimed it was difficult for me to be creative. If I didn't have a lot of erotic experiences in real life, I wouldn't write at all.

I have a plot bunny but it's acting more like a gerbil, hiding under a pile of paper scraps. *sigh*

 

[TxRad]

I've always claimed it was difficult for me to be creative. If I didn't have a lot of erotic experiences in real life, I wouldn't write at all.

I have a plot bunny but it's acting more like a gerbil, hiding under a pile of paper scraps. *sigh*

Be very careful around those kind of plot bunnies. They sometimes have a tendency to bite your arm off up to the elbow when you least expect it.

 

[YDB95]

After switching gears as I explained earlier, I got a couple of Word-pages (probably a third of a Lit page) of my new story, but then I went back to work on the one I had originally planned for the Summer contest. I've now hit a lull in that one, so it's back to the Summer one. It will probably be pretty short, so one good afternoon's writing might actually be enough.

 

[TxRad]

A Sunday morning bump

 

[estragon]

DG Hear, MFG, mentioned that he might have an entry, but it's early times yet. Ilmonamour has written a lovely romance, one that just builds. Looking forward to more from the first team at Lit.

 

[HeyAll]

There was a discussion in the previous contest thread about erotica vs porn, and Anne Rice recently weighed in on it.

"I think erotica is a nice word for pornography and erotica is an accurate word," she said. "It means you're putting it in writing, and in my case, you're not using vulgar four letter words, you're using the King's English to the best of your ability... But it is pornography -- it's meant for sexual pleasure."

And her thoughts on the growth of erotica:

"I think people are much more open and frank about enjoying this kind of fiction because they feel empowered," she commented. "Back in 1983, the feminist movement was really just getting going and women very much wanted to be politically correct. They did not want to be thought of as people who enjoyed rape fantasies and there was a lot of negative feeling among some feminists against [erotica and romance] books, but that's not the way it is now. I mean, women have enjoyed equal rights for decades now and I think they are much more open and honest about wanting to enjoy all kinds of things. Powerful people have always enjoyed the fantasy of being passive."

http://www.cbc.ca/books/2012/07/anne-rice-on-the-resurgence-of-erotica.html


I've only skimmed through some of her erotic books and they look fantastic, I'd love to read them some day. And her vampire books are brilliant.

 

[bashfullyshameless]

I've only skimmed through some of her erotic books and they look fantastic, I'd love to read them some day. And her vampire books are brilliant.

I say this with all the caveats of "She's a world-famous published author of genre-defining stuff, and I'm just a dude mashing his fingers on a keyboard and putting it up on the internet," BUT...

...once upon a time, a girlfriend laid me out on her bed, put a copy of Anne Rice's "erotic" Sleeping Beauty story in my hands, and start going down on me. I mean, that's a guy's porn dream, right? Watch (or read, if you're into reading) porn while on the receiving end of a blowjob?

Yeah. Turns out, Anne Rice's writing is an amazingly effective way to ruin perfectly good oral sex. Awful, awful book. I felt terrible for the female protagonist, the guy made me feel terrible about being a male, and I had to make my then-girlfriend stop because I was very quickly feeling awful about sex in general.

 

[_Lynn_]

I have one story out for a read that should fit the criteria for the contest. It will be interesting to see the comments when I get it back.

 

[bashfullyshameless]

So for Summer Lovin', I'm thinking maybe "Medieval-style tournament in post-apocalyptic Seattle" with, you know, some sexual content (though not as a tournament event or anything).

Have to decide how serious I am about this. Well, about writing it, anyway. Hrm.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

I've only skimmed through some of her erotic books and they look fantastic, I'd love to read them some day. And her vampire books are brilliant.

Heh. I'm pretty sure the Beauty books were my first exposure to anything remotely pornographic, and certainly my first exposure to anything that wasn't "vanilla" (though God I hate that word). I went to a boarding school, and someone (I can't remember who) snagged them from a relative's bookshelf one winter break and brought them back to read that January. Those puppies got passed up and down the hallway for the rest of the year, though without any discussion about the content.

I get why people mock them (and I literally lol'd today when I picked one up in Costco, flipped to a random page, and began reading), but they were immensely helpful in making me feel normal (or as normal as someone in high school can feel).

For that, Anne Rice will forever have my thanks.

 

[PennLady]

I get why people mock them (and I literally lol'd today when I picked one up in Costco, flipped to a random page, and began reading), but they were immensely helpful in making me feel normal (or as normal as someone in high school can feel).

For that, Anne Rice will forever have my thanks.

It's funny -- I read stuff like this and my experiences in school at various levels was so different. I guess I was introverted, though not shy, and took myself out of the loop. Or something like that.

 

[Saxon Stonedyke]

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[TxRad]

I can only hope that my entry does half as well here as is did with the Lady it was written for.

Sometimes, the lady in question is all that really matters.

 

[bashfullyshameless]

I can only hope that my entry does half as well here as is did with the Lady it was written for.

"But let me assure you, this, like any other story worth telling, is all about a girl."
--opening (and best) line from "Spider-Man"

 

[PennLady]

Would very much like to work on my story. Time is hard to find but worse, I think, is that I'm sort of out of sync with it. I've put it aside for so long for other things that it's hard to get back into the mindset and rhythm... Sigh.

 

[bashfullyshameless]

Would very much like to work on my story. Time is hard to find but worse, I think, is that I'm sort of out of sync with it. I've put it aside for so long for other things that it's hard to get back into the mindset and rhythm... Sigh.

I hear you. The girlfriend and I moved into our new place last week, and spent all of last week unpacking, which still isn't done yet. Now I have my own room to write in, where I can shut the door and shut out all distractions. Yet somehow I just can't get into the swing of it.

 

[SweetPrettyAss]

I have't posted here for a long time. I hope I can remember how to do it for the next cotest.