The Official Authors' Hangout Valentine's Day 2021 Contest Support Thread

[oggbashan]

The Winter Holidays contest has closed for new entries so I am starting this thread to get people writing:


Valentine's Day
themes: romantic love, Valentine's Day, Cupid, sensuality, etc.
starts: January 21 (Changed to Jan 14th)
closes: February 5
winners announced: February 12

[The real dates have been edited in now Laurel has posted the 2021 Contest dates.]


As usual, this thread is to SUPPORT and ENCOURAGE authors to enter stories in the 2021 Valentine's Day Contest. Get your characters romantic 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.
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[sirhugs]

Excellent.

I have started my story, which may feature Cupid (though 1400 words in, he remains a bit like M.Godot). It seems he might have lost my address.

I have also started a Valentine's Day Contest Story Ideas thread over on that forum, just for fun. Nothing Official about it.

 

[PoisonPen33]

I never want to enter these contests until the Support Thread goes up, and then the plot bunnies come out to play.

Plot - Cupid gets hurt and can't do his job this year, so Jupiter says the other Gods have to fill in for him. Imagine Mars with a "Cupid's Chaingun."

 

[SimonDoom]

We'll see. My track record of getting stories done for contests has been horrible. I have a Valentine/BDSM story I've been working on for two years. I'd like to get it in on time. But we'll see.

 

[KeithD]

I have two written for this.

 

[SisterJezabel]

I have one written that I am going to hide from myself for fear of over editing it!

 

[YDB95]

I have a very rough idea, should do an outline. Maybe this week.

 

[Omenainen]

I have absolutely nothing at all. Valentines’s Day, like Halloween, is something we don’t really do around here. Never say never, though.

 

[Rustyoznail]

I have absolutely nothing at all. Valentines’s Day, like Halloween, is something we don’t really do around here. Never say never, though.

Same here. Do a romance and set it around February 14.

Oh, and make a point that one of the characters doesn't do valentine's day. Probably the guy.

 

[sirhugs]

I have absolutely nothing at all. Valentines’s Day, like Halloween, is something we don’t really do around here. Never say never, though.

Same here. Do a romance and set it around February 14.

Oh, and make a point that one of the characters doesn't do valentine's day. Probably the guy.

and have the girl (woman) bring him chocolates AND roses.

 

[sirhugs]

I have one written that I am going to hide from myself for fear of over editing it!

and if you can't find it later, you can write one about the nurse who lost her Valentine's date...

 

[KeithD]

I now have three ready. I don't bother with direct links to Valentines Day. A Romance is good enough. One I coauthored won first place a couple of years ago with no reference to Valentines Day at all.

One I wrote many years ago with, what I thought were, multiple cute tie-ins to Valentines Day didn't go anywhere at all.

 

[sirhugs]

some threads fo bump in the night- or early morning...

who moved that coffee table? Ouch.

 

[PoisonPen33]

I just sent the outline of my story to my wife, who teaches Greek Mythology and The Odyssey, for her thoughts and feedback. I hope to start writing next week.

And let me just say...wow, the Greek pantheon were absolute DICKS.

 

[TxRad]

Last year I started a story that I thought would end up being a BDSM novel. Earlier tonight, I sat down to add to it and all of a sudden, the ending was there and the story is finished. The perfect ending fell right in my lap. It doesn't happen often but when it does, it shocks me.

One down and lets see what else i can knock out.

 

[NotWise]

I just sent the outline of my story to my wife, who teaches Greek Mythology and The Odyssey, for her thoughts and feedback. I hope to start writing next week.

And let me just say...wow, the Greek pantheon were absolute DICKS.

If they weren't, then there wouldn't be nearly so many stories.

 

[SisterJezabel]

Last year I started a story that I thought would end up being a BDSM novel. Earlier tonight, I sat down to add to it and all of a sudden, the ending was there and the story is finished. The perfect ending fell right in my lap. It doesn't happen often but when it does, it shocks me.

One down and lets see what else i can knock out.

Noice! It's always fun when that happens!

I've gone tropey with the 'pretend boyfriend' for Valentine's Day. I think it's one of the occasions where schmaltz (and not the extra fat on a chicken!) wins out!

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

I should have every reason to get in. In the previous Val’s Day contest, my two entries became my first lasting Red-Hs. To this day these stories have my largest numbers of views and votes, and one has my largest number of comments (all positive). They were never in contention to win, but they got scads more attention than anything I had posted here before. So maybe in some way I can’t fathom, this contest has mojo for me.

But so far I’m drawing a blank, idea-wise. There’s plenty of time, I suppose, and a quarantine winter to reduce distractions. Maybe I can take a story in which I’ve been bogged down for a couple months, and give it some sort of Val’s Day trappings. The result, though, may be that the story will still frustrate me, while adding a layer of anxiety from a personally-imposed deadline.

My track record is such that you need have no fear about ‘supporting’ me in this thread. My best contest finish ever was for this past Nude Day, and that story landed around the middle of the pack (I think).

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

 

[sirhugs]

Noice! It's always fun when that happens!

I've gone tropey with the 'pretend boyfriend' for Valentine's Day. I think it's one of the occasions where schmaltz (and not the extra fat on a chicken!) wins out!

b...bu...but it's the extra fat that makes the sizzle

 

[Rustyoznail]

Ok, so a serious question. I’ve got a story up that was always going to be part 1 of a trilogy. They will be stand alone, not chapters.

Is part 2 acceptable for the competition?

 

[oggbashan]

Ok, so a serious question. I’ve got a story up that was always going to be part 1 of a trilogy. They will be stand alone, not chapters.

Is part 2 acceptable for the competition?

Probably if it isn't listed as Part 2.

 

[KeithD]

Ok, so a serious question. I’ve got a story up that was always going to be part 1 of a trilogy. They will be stand alone, not chapters.

Is part 2 acceptable for the competition?

If it stands alone and the title doesn't identify it as a chapter, it should be fine.
I placed once with a story with a protagonist who had appeared in other stories and that ultimate was published in a chronological formatting of the stories.

 

[Voboy]

Mine's done. Not very romantic, but it's set on VDay. So.

 

[Hypoxia]

I've been cooking a tale these last few days, my writing interrupted by logistical necessities (shopping, cleaning, seeing medics, etc) and the attendant exhaustion (had to drive 100+ miles yesterday because little is local). It's a 'mature' romance of a MILF legal secretary's lust for a smooth-limbed bike courier in post-Nixon San Francisco. I'm at ~15k words now and am maybe nearly halfway through. It would be a good V-Day piece but I don't know if I'll wait that long to post it.

Any other story scrap I pick from my to-do pile will probably go sardonic, as I don't see V-Day as significant except in LIT fantasyland. Here, a good tale might involve dwarf Bolivian triplets. Or tentacles. What's a woman to think when passionate love letters appear in her kitchen sink, laid there by the beast in the city drainage system? At least the dwarves could offer human company. But is that enough? Read it and find out.

 

[PennameWombat]

Maybe a third written, a lost love surprisingly reappears on St. Valentine's Day while a couple of other characters might, or might not, be struck by Cupid's arrows.

Along the way, group sex, public nakedness, bit of light bondage, some pegging...

And a possible attack by a group of terrorists.

It's all fun & games until the hidden nuke goes off or doesn't