Announcing our "Debauched" Story Competition

27 Dec 2020

Quote by GrushaVashnadze
This competition has, at least, prompted some fascinating discussions on the subject of what "debauched" actually means

Yes indeed. Some varying definitions around dictionary sites provide some leeway in interpretation:

displaying the effect of excessive indulgence in sensual pleasure
corrupted; debased

made weaker or destroyed by bad sexual behaviour, drinking too much alcohol, taking drugs, etc.

characterized by self-indulgence and moral corruption

Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful

Seduced from morality, allegiance, or duty, in order to be corrupt, immoral, and self-indulgent; a state of revelling in the loss of innocence.

Does a good housewife turning "From Halo to Horns" by giving control of her body to a dominant who ravages her anally in a hotel fit any of these descriptions of debauched? Discuss. laughing6

Please browse my digital bookshelf. In this collection, you can find 125 full stories, 10 micro-stories, and 3 poems with the following features:

* 30 Editor's Picks, 82 Recommended Reads.
* 16 competition podium places, 11 other times in the top ten.
* 23 collaborations.
* A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.

27 Dec 2020

Debauchery - an excessive indulgence in alcohol, sex or drugs. Oxford Dictionary of English

alcohol, sex OR drugs Embarassed

Daft definition, ignore it

27 Dec 2020

Quote by GrushaVashnadze
This competition has, at least, prompted some fascinating discussions on the subject of what "debauched" actually means - and whether or not it means the same thing as "filthy"...

Go figure...

You know your Alison series needed to be read in its entirety to see what it was really about. I know you never write just to be filthy ... you always have a much deeper storyline. I wish more had committed to reading Alison til the end to see how truly brilliant that series was. Big Hugs

27 Dec 2020

Quote by WannabeWordsmith

Does a good housewife turning "From Halo to Horns" by giving control of her body to a dominant who ravages her anally in a hotel fit any of these descriptions of debauched? Discuss.

Sure meets some of those definitions. Mind you most of your (and mine too) flash meets those definitions, lol maybe we are all aficionados of debauchery in our writing and this is the most vanilla contest of all.

Mind you I am not sure any characters in this competition have been, "made weaker or destroyed by bad sexual behaviour," they all seemed to be totally into "Indulging in sensual pleasures to a degree perceived (not by them) to be morally harmful." Everyone including a conclave of Cardinals, lol.

I dont envy the judges.

Do check out my latest story:

Festive Flash competition: The Ghost of Christmas Past

And my other stories, including 5 EPs, 24 RR's, and 15 competition top 10's including my pride competition winner: On Oxford Street, This Gay Girl Found Pride While Playing With Balls

29 Dec 2020

Quote by GrushaVashnadze
This competition has, at least, prompted some fascinating discussions on the subject of what "debauched" actually means...

Quote by KimmiBeGood
You know your Alison series needed to be read in its entirety to see what it was really about. I know you never write just to be filthy ... you always have a much deeper storyline. I wish more had committed to reading Alison til the end to see how truly brilliant that series was.

That is very sweet of you, Kimmi. However, why the past tense? Alison Goes to London is alive and well, welcoming new readers all the time. I think it's still the best thing I've ever written here. Please tell your friends!

However - to tie your comment in with the above discussions on this "debauched" competition and what it means... I find it is important for me, in creating, appreciating or judging any work of art (and there's no reason why dirty stories can't be art), to clarify in my own mind the relationship between style and content. "Debauched" is a stylistic instruction: it tells us what sort of images, dialogue and events are likely to appear in the story. But it does not tell us the content, i.e. what the story is wanting to meaningfully say.

There is a lot of emphasis on style in the creative process these days - on Lush as much as elsewhere. That is not intrinsically a bad thing. Many people read stories here to have a damn good wank - and for that purpose, style is everything. Others here are more concerned about literary qualities, e.g. vocabulary, imagery, dialogue - a more respectable set of priorities, to be sure, but also principally about style. As a theatre musician myself, I am used to this: audiences and critics alike like to talk about the performance - the singers, the acting, the sets, the orchestra (style) - as much as or more than what the composer/author was wanting to say about the world in creating this work (content).

However, a really good work of art invites us to go deeper - because it may be trying to tell us things about ourselves, our relationships, the societies we live in, the universe we are part of. This can be as true in smut as in literature, theatre, music, art. Two examples out of many on Lush that I am impressed by are Jaymal's Lusts of the Flesh and curvygalore's Tobias series - very stylistically different from each other, but both with profound thought-provoking content.

But here's the rub - and it ties in with what you say above: a reader or audience member (or even a judge!) can only truly appreciate the quality of a work by getting to the end of it - whether it is a quatrain, or a short story, or a novel. It is a bit like unwrapping a Christmas present: the paper is lovely, and so is the gift tag, but often the box needs to be opened, the contents removed and viewed from several angles, before true appreciation sets in. You're not going to appreciate Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice if you give up before Darcy's first proposal; nor Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades if you leave at the first interval; nor H-G Clouzot's Le salaire de la peur if you give up before Yves Montand gets into his truck. In the Lush context, the style of Curvy's Tobias series is witty and endearing - but once I got to the end of it, I found myself amazed, shocked - and utterly delighted. Similarly, the debauched filth of Jaymal's Lusts of the Flesh makes for a damn good wank (er, a friend told me...), but once I realised where the protagonist had got to by the end of the story, I found myself deeply personally affected.

So, if I find myself in the position of having to assess someone else's work of art (and I do in a professional context, in the music world), then I have a series of choices to make. If I like and am comfortable in the particular style in which the person has composed or performed, then I will feel confident in my first impressions of the quality of its content. But if I am not, then it will take me far longer to feel able to assess that content honestly and competently.

So, to bring this back to debauchery (and who wouldn't want to do that?) - if I start to read a story on Lush and find myself faced with something I find filthy, vulgar or disgusting, then, if I like that particular style of filth, I will probably be very happy. If I don't, then, as a private citizen, I can, without guilt, drop it. But if I have a reason to provide a formal assessment of it, then I am duty-bound to read the whole thing. For only then will I have "unwrapped the present" and be able to assess with integrity the quality of its content.

So, thank you - please do encourage your friends to read Alison. The first three or four chapters may seem like EvilAngel.com-style porn - but that is just the style. The content unwraps itself through the rest of the novel, and is complex and multi-layered - concerning politics, religion, racism, the warping of ideals, mind-control, cognitive dissonance, friendship, and love.

As far as this "debauched" competition goes, it is so exciting to see so many different types of content attaching themselves to stylistic debauchery. I am sorry I have not had the time to read more of the wonderful stories there are! May I just give a shout out for dolphinman's The Frog Prince. Dolphinman's stories are frequently of the type which absolutely demands reading through to the end. His style initially appears gauche and disjointed - but then I realise he's playing with the reader - and by the end, I am floored.

GrushaVashnadze's best stories:

Alison Goes to London (RR) - "love this... fun, and funny, and sexy" (sprite)

The Cursed Cunt (RR) - "holyyyyy sheeeiiit.... Your writing is fucking fantastic" (CarltonStJames)

A Worthless Filthy Fucking Smoking Trash Cunt Whore (RR) - "Brilliantly done. Of course." (naughtyannie)

Snow White and the Seven Dildos (RR) - "Fuck. It's perfect.... honestly genius and so fucking well executed." (VioletVixen)

Metamorphoses (RR) - "so imaginative and entertaining" (saucymh)

And There Came Two Angels to Sodom - "What a deliciously worded story! So juicy, so raunchy" (el_henke)

Fuck-Talk (with VioletVixen) - "Jeez. I feel rendered wordless by how much clever fucking fun this is" (Jaymal)

30 Dec 2020

I haven't written for a very long time. If you read it, I hope it makes sense.

30 Dec 2020

Interesting point on style there, Grusha. I secretly expect that even many (book) published authors who don't have as big a fan base as they could, attribute their lack of following to people "not getting it" or "not persevering" with their style. And it's probably true, to a degree.

Some readers will be on the author's wavelength or willing to get into the groove of the writing and lap it up, while others will just blink, wonder what all the fuss is about and move on. Fifty Shades? Utter, repetitive tosh. But it filled a market need and became a runaway success despite being shoddily written/edited (imo).

In a similar vein, from a stylistic perspective I didn't make it very far through Lord Of The Rings. Yet it's lauded a masterpiece by those that persevered beyond the first 30 pages devoted to each individual hair on Frodo's left foot. For me, I wasn't willing to put in the effort because Tolkien's prescriptive style just grated. Maybe I should have, as I'm clearly in the minority.

Point is, as authors we have this need, this appetite to attract readers but we don't know exactly who will bite and who will swim away when we pen our creations. Clearly expecting universal appeal is unattainable. Even 80-20 is going some. Putting more obstacles up at the start of the story will negatively affect that ratio.

Those stories/writers that attract reader volume are, I expect, comparatively easy reads or fill a market need. I'm not being elitist here (I wish!) and I'm not talking just erotica, but fiction in general, like your Lee Childs and so forth. Hook people with the opening sentence; the opening paragraph. Drag them into the world and then gradually pummel them into your way of thinking as the pages turn by themselves.

Going in all guns blazing with a hard style and then gradually revealing the layers piece by piece is only going to suit some readers. It will likely only reach a niche audience or - in rare cases - an army of fans who, over time, are persuaded by their peers or the media to persevere.

That may be at odds with an author's sensibility - their artistic prowess/licence. There's that James Ellroy anecdote where he was asked to cut over 100 pages from his L.A. Confidential manuscript, and he did so not by removing subplots and story arcs, but by removing unnecessary words throughout. The result was a terse narrative that is very difficult to get into (at least for me). It erected an artificial barrier to entry that may well have cost him legions of new fans out of the gate. Would he have gained more initial fans if the piece had been in its original form before the editor insisted it be chopped? Maybe, if they could stomach the length. Would it have gained such long-term appeal and be made into a stellar movie? Probably not.

Turning to erotica and debauchery in particular, you're bang on. Style over substance is not where the stroker crowd live. I try to craft character-driven stuff because it stretches me as an author to think about motivation and consequences and fear and desire and all that human stuff. My style's not for everyone: I acknowledge that. I could write a story where a hunk wanders past the ajar bathroom door, cute girl sees him, their clothes fall off and they fuck. I'd get far more readers. And if it was brother and sister, more still! But that's not where my interests lie so I try other avenues to engage readers (a much smaller pool, admittedly) by generating heated exchanges that tick my literary checkboxes and, I hope, a few others' in the process.

And, uhhh, putting my latest piece in the Anal category has also helped 'sales' it seems. hiding

I'm still learning. And I'll continue to do so until the day I run out of ideas. I do that by soaking up how the fantastic writers here approach narrative and setup/payoff and all that storytelling guff. I try and fold the best bits into my writing so I can continue to evolve my style, while improving and honing the delivery to make things tighter, tauter and... tantalisinger. laughing6

Competitions are a fabulous opportunity for this because they bring out people's A-game. I owe so much gratitude to the writers on this site - and the site as a whole - for helping me improve what I love doing. So thank you all.

Please browse my digital bookshelf. In this collection, you can find 125 full stories, 10 micro-stories, and 3 poems with the following features:

* 30 Editor's Picks, 82 Recommended Reads.
* 16 competition podium places, 11 other times in the top ten.
* 23 collaborations.
* A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.

30 Dec 2020

Quote by WannabeWordsmith
.. tantalisinger.

*Smiles sweetly*

You're doing that thing again. We've talked about this a1089

30 Dec 2020

Quote by Jen
You're doing that thing again. We've talked about this

That's because I don't have you to edit, add to, and decrapify my forum posts, unlike when you make my writing waaay better on our collabs.

Please browse my digital bookshelf. In this collection, you can find 125 full stories, 10 micro-stories, and 3 poems with the following features:

* 30 Editor's Picks, 82 Recommended Reads.
* 16 competition podium places, 11 other times in the top ten.
* 23 collaborations.
* A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.

30 Dec 2020

I'm not expecting any awards for this, since I submitted it around December 28-29, 2020, but, if you have a free moment, I’d appreciate if you'd give my Debauched competition entry {"Pass the Hat"} a quick read. I think it's fun and funny.

Thanks in advance for your feedback and to everyone in the competition.

📜 🖋️ S e m i t a l e n t e d S c r i b b l e r 🖊️ 📃

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1 Jan 2021

Quote by Saucymh
Debauchery - an excessive indulgence in alcohol, sex or drugs. Oxford Dictionary of English

alcohol, sex OR drugs

Daft definition, ignore it

How about power? Could be political, could be economic, maybe it's on a personal level. I'm trying to make a distinction between power and authority, which is not easy to do. I mean, somebody has to make decisions. Maybe it's how they got there and how they use it that makes a difference.

1 Jan 2021

The competition is officially closed.

Now we await the winners.

Congratulations to everyone that entered.

Happy 2021, everyone!

occasion7

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2 Jan 2021

Quote by CuriousAnnie
Mind you I am not sure any characters in this competition have been, "made weaker or destroyed by bad sexual behaviour," they all seemed to be totally into "Indulging in sensual pleasures to a degree perceived (not by them) to be morally harmful." Everyone including a conclave of Cardinals, lol.

Clearly my understanding of Catholicism is way off if electing Satan as Pope is not a sign of weakness in a cardinal.

Punked competition entry: Punk’s Undead

A very naughty Catholic schoolgirl: Emma (Part 1) (RR) | (Part 2)

Horror: Women Of Dark Desires(RR), Doll Parts (EP), Lo! Baphomet! A Queer Erotic Horror (OS)

A cheeky little micro: Go Fuck Yourself!

2 Jan 2021

Quote by StarBelliedBoy
Clearly my understanding of Catholicism is way off if electing Satan as Pope is not a sign of weakness in a cardinal.

I have studied Catholic doctrine in some detail - and I think it is safe to say that StarBelliedBoy's story is debauched. My 2 cents

...just in case there was any doubt...

GrushaVashnadze's best stories:

Alison Goes to London (RR) - "love this... fun, and funny, and sexy" (sprite)

The Cursed Cunt (RR) - "holyyyyy sheeeiiit.... Your writing is fucking fantastic" (CarltonStJames)

A Worthless Filthy Fucking Smoking Trash Cunt Whore (RR) - "Brilliantly done. Of course." (naughtyannie)

Snow White and the Seven Dildos (RR) - "Fuck. It's perfect.... honestly genius and so fucking well executed." (VioletVixen)

Metamorphoses (RR) - "so imaginative and entertaining" (saucymh)

And There Came Two Angels to Sodom - "What a deliciously worded story! So juicy, so raunchy" (el_henke)

Fuck-Talk (with VioletVixen) - "Jeez. I feel rendered wordless by how much clever fucking fun this is" (Jaymal)

2 Jan 2021

Quote by WannabeWordsmith
Interesting point on style there, Grusha. I secretly expect that even many (book) published authors who don't have as big a fan base as they could, attribute their lack of following to people "not getting it" or "not persevering" with their style. And it's probably true, to a degree.

Some readers will be on the author's wavelength or willing to get into the groove of the writing and lap it up, while others will just blink, wonder what all the fuss is about and move on. Fifty Shades? Utter, repetitive tosh. But it filled a market need and became a runaway success despite being shoddily written/edited (imo).

In a similar vein, from a stylistic perspective I didn't make it very far through Lord Of The Rings. Yet it's lauded a masterpiece by those that persevered beyond the first 30 pages devoted to each individual hair on Frodo's left foot. For me, I wasn't willing to put in the effort because Tolkien's prescriptive style just grated. Maybe I should have, as I'm clearly in the minority.

Point is, as authors we have this need, this appetite to attract readers but we don't know exactly who will bite and who will swim away when we pen our creations. Clearly expecting universal appeal is unattainable. Even 80-20 is going some. Putting more obstacles up at the start of the story will negatively affect that ratio.

Those stories/writers that attract reader volume are, I expect, comparatively easy reads or fill a market need. I'm not being elitist here (I wish!) and I'm not talking just erotica, but fiction in general, like your Lee Childs and so forth. Hook people with the opening sentence; the opening paragraph. Drag them into the world and then gradually pummel them into your way of thinking as the pages turn by themselves.

Going in all guns blazing with a hard style and then gradually revealing the layers piece by piece is only going to suit some readers. It will likely only reach a niche audience or - in rare cases - an army of fans who, over time, are persuaded by their peers or the media to persevere.

That may be at odds with an author's sensibility - their artistic prowess/licence. There's that James Ellroy anecdote where he was asked to cut over 100 pages from his L.A. Confidential manuscript, and he did so not by removing subplots and story arcs, but by removing unnecessary words throughout. The result was a terse narrative that is very difficult to get into (at least for me). It erected an artificial barrier to entry that may well have cost him legions of new fans out of the gate. Would he have gained more initial fans if the piece had been in its original form before the editor insisted it be chopped? Maybe, if they could stomach the length. Would it have gained such long-term appeal and be made into a stellar movie? Probably not.

Turning to erotica and debauchery in particular, you're bang on. Style over substance is not where the stroker crowd live. I try to craft character-driven stuff because it stretches me as an author to think about motivation and consequences and fear and desire and all that human stuff. My style's not for everyone: I acknowledge that. I could write a story where a hunk wanders past the ajar bathroom door, cute girl sees him, their clothes fall off and they fuck. I'd get far more readers. And if it was brother and sister, more still! But that's not where my interests lie so I try other avenues to engage readers (a much smaller pool, admittedly) by generating heated exchanges that tick my literary checkboxes and, I hope, a few others' in the process.

And, uhhh, putting my latest piece in the Anal category has also helped 'sales' it seems.

I'm still learning. And I'll continue to do so until the day I run out of ideas. I do that by soaking up how the fantastic writers here approach narrative and setup/payoff and all that storytelling guff. I try and fold the best bits into my writing so I can continue to evolve my style, while improving and honing the delivery to make things tighter, tauter and... tantalisinger.

Competitions are a fabulous opportunity for this because they bring out people's A-game. I owe so much gratitude to the writers on this site - and the site as a whole - for helping me improve what I love doing. So thank you all.

I can't see a "Superb Post" emoji so the "Good Post" one will have to do.

As for me and competitions, I can never get my shit together in time for the deadline. When I have entered in the past, I've submitted stuff that was already a work in progress, one that only needed tarting up, cutting back to fit the word count. I just can't produce stuff on demand; a kind of residual ODD from my school days, a ghost of a complex that still haunts me from all those years ago

2 Jan 2021

Quote by LucaByDesign

I can't see a "Superb Post" emoji so the "Good Post" one will have to do.

As for me and competitions, I can never get my shit together in time for the deadline. When I have entered in the past, I've submitted stuff that was already a work in progress, one that only needed tarting up, cutting back to fit the word count. I just can't produce stuff on demand; a kind of residual ODD from my school days, a ghost of a complex that still haunts me from all those years ago

Funny, I’m the opposite, I struggle to write anything unless I’ve got a deadline to meet. I’m the same in RL, I like near impossible deadlines and constant pressure. I guess that’s why I teach dontknow

3 Jan 2021

Quote by Saucymh

Funny, I’m the opposite, I struggle to write anything unless I’ve got a deadline to meet. I’m the same in RL, I like near impossible deadlines and constant pressure. I guess that’s why I teach

I am the same, I realized, with some shock, the other day that I had only published competition stories, short (flash micro and poems) and co-written stories in the last two years. And I have approximately 200,000 words on my hard drive of unpublished stuff, some close to final edit, one story has been since 2014 Embarassed

The competitions are a godsend for me finishing stories, though now that I have done 14 in row, I am driven not to break the streak which may become a millstone around my neck.

Do check out my latest story:

Festive Flash competition: The Ghost of Christmas Past

And my other stories, including 5 EPs, 24 RR's, and 15 competition top 10's including my pride competition winner: On Oxford Street, This Gay Girl Found Pride While Playing With Balls

3 Jan 2021

Quote by Saucymh

Funny, I’m the opposite, I struggle to write anything unless I’ve got a deadline to meet. I’m the same in RL, I like near impossible deadlines and constant pressure. I guess that’s why I teach [/quot

That's the beauty of people, Mags: every person unique.

Always great to learn how other writers on here approach things.

I did try to write a story specifically for the horror competition a while ago. Couldn't fit it into the word count, was a year later before any of it saw the light of day. Still not finished the series it has become, have no idea where to take it now that it has stalled.

My worst nightmare would be to be a young upcoming author offered a six-figure advance for a four-book deal based on some fabulous short story of mine that has captured an editor's eye.

What's wrong with that I hear you ask? The problem is, it would be like having a proper job; I'd then have to sit down every day and come up with the goods. They'd soon be asking for their money back.

3 Jan 2021

Quote by CuriousAnnie

I am the same, I realized, with some shock, the other day that I had only published competition stories, short (flash micro and poems) and co-written stories in the last two years. And I have approximately 200,000 words on my hard drive of unpublished stuff, some close to final edit, one story has been since 2014

The competitions are a godsend for me finishing stories, though now that I have done 14 in row, I am driven not to break the streak which may become a millstone around my neck.

Hi, Annie.

Are you saying you have so many stories already on the back burner you can take one and model to fit the competiton's specification?

Have you ever written a competition story from scratch?

3 Jan 2021

Quote by LucaByDesign

Hi, Annie.

Are you saying you have so many stories already on the back burner you can take one and model to fit the competiton's specification?

Have you ever written a competition story from scratch?

This year, many of my competition stories are from scratch, by which I mean they are conceived after I have read the competition theme. But some are built out of stories I have already started.

With my nature story "Zucchini and the art of environmental maintenance," I had been expecting a Valentine theme and had an idea (which I am still writing - about 3000 words done and will test the 10,000 word limit) bubbling around my head. Surprised by the nature theme and so I had to start Zucchini from scratch which was aided by discovering the ecosexual websites on line. With the earlier story "Ice and Icing," the idea had been bumping around in my mind for ages, though it was to be set in summer in the Australian outback and I adapted that to the Winter Wonderland theme. Nothing written before the competition theme was announced, but it was easy to adapt what I had been thinking to the competition theme and much of it was consequently written quite quickly.

Next, my Masturbation story, "Alice" was half written when the competition was announced, it being the first of what I envisaged as a series and I had already started the first three chapters. The Rainbows and Time Travel stories were completely from scratch, though I had expected something like the rainbows theme and had been thinking about the idea of Olympic competition for a few weeks before hand. The Myths and Legends story, "We Women Will Ride" was the completion of a story I had started last year. I had written maybe 1500 words which more or less made the final draft, though the beginning and ending sections occurred to me after reading the competition theme.

Finally my Debauched story "The Temptation of Coffee," the first 600 words were effectively written in first draft standard and the competition theme meshed with an idea I had been working on. So three out of six of this year's competition stories (the micro was also from scratch) have included some text that I had already written. Much of the other words I have written which are stored on my hard drive are in very long stories, 40,000 words in one case (nearly done) and double that in another (60 percent done.) I am not sure these are suitable for Lush and certainly not compressible into the 2,000 to 5,000 word range that applies to competitions.

It is kind of fortunate if a competition theme coincides with an idea I have sketched out or have begun. And I would expect the probability of that occurring to fall through time, I have less ideas on the go now than I did a year ago.

Do check out my latest story:

Festive Flash competition: The Ghost of Christmas Past

And my other stories, including 5 EPs, 24 RR's, and 15 competition top 10's including my pride competition winner: On Oxford Street, This Gay Girl Found Pride While Playing With Balls

3 Jan 2021

Quote by LucaByDesign

Are you saying you have so many stories already on the back burner you can take one and model to fit the competiton's specification?

I have done this before, too. A comp theme happened to fit something I had worked on before or was currently working on so I finished it for the comp.

And then there was one comp, forget which one now, where I was pissed because I had just posted a suitable story shortly before the comp went up.

3 Jan 2021

Quote by LucaByDesign
That's the beauty of people, Mags: every person unique.
Always great to learn how other writers on here approach things.

In my case, I came onto Lush specifically because I had three or four really important stories I wanted to tell, which I have been developing for years. I have now published two of them:

Alison Goes to London

A Worthless Filthy Fucking Smoking Trash Cunt Whore

The others will appear gradually over the next few months, I hope.

As for the competitions - I have written for four of them, for "a bit of fun". I try not to take them too seriously (at least in retrospect!) - though a couple of the stories I have written for comps are now suggesting follow-ups...

GrushaVashnadze's best stories:

Alison Goes to London (RR) - "love this... fun, and funny, and sexy" (sprite)

The Cursed Cunt (RR) - "holyyyyy sheeeiiit.... Your writing is fucking fantastic" (CarltonStJames)

A Worthless Filthy Fucking Smoking Trash Cunt Whore (RR) - "Brilliantly done. Of course." (naughtyannie)

Snow White and the Seven Dildos (RR) - "Fuck. It's perfect.... honestly genius and so fucking well executed." (VioletVixen)

Metamorphoses (RR) - "so imaginative and entertaining" (saucymh)

And There Came Two Angels to Sodom - "What a deliciously worded story! So juicy, so raunchy" (el_henke)

Fuck-Talk (with VioletVixen) - "Jeez. I feel rendered wordless by how much clever fucking fun this is" (Jaymal)

3 Jan 2021

For me, it has been sort of luck to have an idea in my head just at the time that a contest is announced. Or another complete story that has a good theme that would work for the current contest. In any case, I seem to come up with ideas for the contests most of the time. Currently, I have entered thirty-six of the Lush competitions. For some reason the penultimate one, Myths and Legends, I simply could not come up with anything. I was disappointed, but finally just passed. Then I got back in the groove with our Debauched contest. I'm pleased with it.

As I said, this is the 36th contest I have entered. Others are a better judge of whether I should give up and stop trying. I do know that statistically, I have had 14 of my competition entries that ended up with Honorable Mentions. That is pleasing. The best so far is one that made it to 4th place.

As for having stories in the queue in various stages of completion, that is not how my mind works. At present, I have no stories being worked on. When I start a new one I expect it to be finished in short order. That may mean, as in the past 3 months, that I only write for the competitions, or I get into a groove and start turning them our quickly as I have done the last couple of weeks.

Writing is what I do now. That is what I tell myself. And when I write something it is grandly fulfilling, even more so when I get nice comments. That is the icing on the cake.

Big Hugs

4 Jan 2021

I'm putting the shortlist together over the next few days for the judges.

A reminder to those contestants who deliberately try and gain an advantage by voting down other entrants' stories:

I can see who's voted on every story on the site, and which vote they have given out.

I remove all such malicious voting on stories and the people responsible get filed away in my memory banks as conniving bad sports!

5 Jan 2021

Quote by nicola
I'm putting the shortlist together over the next few days for the judges.

A reminder to those contestants who deliberately try and gain an advantage by voting down other entrants' stories:

I can see who's voted on every story on the site, and which vote they have given out.

I remove all such malicious voting on stories and the people responsible get filed away in my memory banks as conniving bad sports!

Those memory banks sound dangerous. Rock on, boss lady.

5 Jan 2021

Quote by nicola
I'm putting the shortlist together over the next few days for the judges.

A reminder to those contestants who deliberately try and gain an advantage by voting down other entrants' stories:

I can see who's voted on every story on the site, and which vote they have given out.

I remove all such malicious voting on stories and the people responsible get filed away in my memory banks as conniving bad sports!

Just wondering, has that kind of thing happened in the past? I mean, $150 is not a huge sum of money. Ah, but there is the glory of winning, even second or third place. But as the Roman emperors knew, "All glory is fleeting." (Remember the final scene in Patton?) Well yeah, he wasn't talking about stories on an erotic lit site, but some people may take it pretty seriously.

5 Jan 2021

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Just wondering, has that kind of thing happened in the past? I mean, $150 is not a huge sum of money. Ah, but there is the glory of winning, even second or third place. But as the Roman emperors knew, "All glory is fleeting." (Remember the final scene in Patton?) Well yeah, he wasn't talking about stories on an erotic lit site, but some people may take it pretty seriously.

Pretty much every time laughing6

5 Jan 2021

Quote by nicola
I'm putting the shortlist together over the next few days for the judges.

A reminder to those contestants who deliberately try and gain an advantage by voting down other entrants' stories:

I can see who's voted on every story on the site, and which vote they have given out.

I remove all such malicious voting on stories and the people responsible get filed away in my memory banks as conniving bad sports!

A truly fitting punishment would be to tell us their names. But that's just my misplaced righteous anger over politics talking.

5 Jan 2021

Quote by nicola
I'm putting the shortlist together over the next few days for the judges.

A reminder to those contestants who deliberately try and gain an advantage by voting down other entrants' stories:

I can see who's voted on every story on the site, and which vote they have given out.

I remove all such malicious voting on stories and the people responsible get filed away in my memory banks as conniving bad sports!

I find it very amusing how for each competition I receive at least one or two downvotes that get changed when Nicola starts going through all of the scores. Honestly, I think it is a grand way for you to show how much you care about maintaining the integrity of the system here, Nic. Big Hugs

6 Jan 2021

Quote by nicola
those contestants who deliberately try and gain an advantage by voting down other entrants' stories

Even without your kind intervention, Nicola, would such subterfuge by contestants actually be worth the trouble? Both of the following comp entries of mine received straight "5" scores (c. 30 or 40 of them each) - and neither made it into the top ten. Apparently, therefore, public scores are of limited relevance, and the judges have other more important criteria. Am I right?

Metamorphoses

And There Came Two Angels to Sodom

GrushaVashnadze's best stories:

Alison Goes to London (RR) - "love this... fun, and funny, and sexy" (sprite)

The Cursed Cunt (RR) - "holyyyyy sheeeiiit.... Your writing is fucking fantastic" (CarltonStJames)

A Worthless Filthy Fucking Smoking Trash Cunt Whore (RR) - "Brilliantly done. Of course." (naughtyannie)

Snow White and the Seven Dildos (RR) - "Fuck. It's perfect.... honestly genius and so fucking well executed." (VioletVixen)

Metamorphoses (RR) - "so imaginative and entertaining" (saucymh)

And There Came Two Angels to Sodom - "What a deliciously worded story! So juicy, so raunchy" (el_henke)

Fuck-Talk (with VioletVixen) - "Jeez. I feel rendered wordless by how much clever fucking fun this is" (Jaymal)

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