Announcing our "Quick And Risqué Sex" Story Competition

2 Aug 2021

Quote by LakeShoreLimited

Sometimes it's easier to work from the bottom up rather than cutting from the top down. That may be a little hard to explain. Say you have the general idea of what you're going to do. Then, as you approach say 700 or 800, you know you've got to wrap up soon. You may have to leave out certain events or dialogue that you had originally considered. It may be better to have never written them in the first place rather than going back later and trying to decide what to edit out

Smart strategy, Lakeshore. My issue with this one is that it has WAY more plot than I usually write. So I started the story, and when I saw it was going long I jumped forward to the ending, because I KNEW that had to be there. Then I went in and back-filled in all the sex (not a euphemism). I’m still cutting, but it’s gonna be tight (also not a euphemism). Have another 100 to go.

Thanks for responding.

Tintinnabulation - first place (Free Spirit)
Comet Q - second place (Quick and Risqué Sex)
Amnesia - third place (Le Noir Erotique)

3 Aug 2021

Quote by Ensorceled

Smart strategy, Lakeshore. My issue with this one is that it has WAY more plot than I usually write. So I started the story, and when I saw it was going long I jumped forward to the ending, because I KNEW that had to be there. Then I went in and back-filled in all the sex (not a euphemism). I’m still cutting, but it’s gonna be tight (also not a euphemism). Have another 100 to go.

Thanks for responding.

It's possible that if you have that much plot, then maybe you should write it as you wish and not put it in the competition. It's up to you. You still have nearly a month to think of something else for the comp. It's nice to be in a competition - lots of attention for one thing - but maybe this story deserves 1,500 words or whatever. I was lucky in that I immediately thought of something and wrote it in a day with maybe 975 words.

3 Aug 2021

Quote by Ensorceled

Smart strategy, Lakeshore. My issue with this one is that it has WAY more plot than I usually write. So I started the story, and when I saw it was going long I jumped forward to the ending, because I KNEW that had to be there. Then I went in and back-filled in all the sex (not a euphemism). I’m still cutting, but it’s gonna be tight (also not a euphemism). Have another 100 to go.

Thanks for responding.

You can cut 100. Just take it sentence by sentence, examining importance of each word. I like a tight story (without fluff) sometimes and wanna read yours, especially if you have a thick plot stuffed in a tight space (see what I did there? pigtail smile

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3 Aug 2021

Quote by seeker4
I knew where my story was going so I just wrote that. Came it at just over 1000, so I started cutting non-essentials like adverbs and rewriting some bits in less verbose ways.

That is my usual approach, almost word for word. And it worked for the 4th attempt, which made it into the comp. The other 3 ideas were like LakeShoreLimited said: too much plot for the tiny word count, so I'm saving those and going to turn them into slightly longer works to give them breathing room.

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3 Aug 2021

Forgot to quote you. "That is my usual approach, almost word for word. And it worked for the 4th attempt, which made it into the comp. The other 3 ideas were like LakeShoreLimited said: too much plot for the tiny word count, so I'm saving those and going to turn them into slightly longer works to give them breathing room."

I was fortunate in that I never went over 1,000. There were some bits of dialogue that I considered but I never wrote them. One would have been the guy boasting about his knowledge of trains, but I could see that wasn't going to fit. I managed to summarize it in the last paragraph, and that seemed good enough.

"Proud and Kinky" allowed 2,500, which gives a lot more more leeway. One thousand words is pretty tough.

3 Aug 2021

Quote by KimmiBeGood

You can cut 100. Just take it sentence by sentence, examining importance of each word. I like a tight story (without fluff) sometimes and wanna read yours, especially if you have a thick plot stuffed in a tight space (see what I did there? )

I’m down to 1056. I'm on this like, um, cheese on crackers.

EDIT: 1010. Goddammit.

EDIT: 999 words. I get to add one!

Tintinnabulation - first place (Free Spirit)
Comet Q - second place (Quick and Risqué Sex)
Amnesia - third place (Le Noir Erotique)

3 Aug 2021

Quote by LakeShoreLimited

It's possible that if you have that much plot, then maybe you should write it as you wish and not put it in the competition.

Yeah, I have gone down this road before. I have at least two stories on here that were "alternate" comp entries that I didn't use in the comp but still wrote and posted. In one case, the "alternate" is probably the one I should have entered but whatever. That comp is like 4 years in the past or something like that now.

Quote by WannaBeWordsmith
The other 3 ideas were like LakeShoreLimited said: too much plot for the tiny word count,

I have one of those now cooling its heels in my "Unfinished Drafts" folder. Might still go back to it someday. Would have been harder to keep it to 1000 than the one I used.

3 Aug 2021

Quote by seeker4

I have one of those now cooling its heels in my "Unfinished Drafts" folder. Might still go back to it someday. Would have been harder to keep it to 1000 than the one I used.

I didn't get involved with comps until six months ago. Isn't 1,000 words on the low side? Or have there been others before like that?

3 Aug 2021

Quote by LakeShoreLimited

I didn't get involved with comps until six months ago. Isn't 1,000 words on the low side? Or have there been others before like that?

I think there have been flash comps before but can't think of one offhand. I don't enter every comp on here. We actually had a micro comp last year when they started the category (100 words).

Stories Space had a couple flash comps last year (the Summer Word Bank competition was 500 words max and one of the anniversary competitions was 1012 words).

3 Aug 2021

Quote by seeker4
I have at least two stories on here that were "alternate" comp entries that I didn't use in the comp but still wrote and posted

Yeah, this has happened to me on more than one occasion too. Lots of stories start out as fantastic ideas in my head to fit a competition theme, but when I get them on-screen they lose their sparkle or don't work out how I envisage. So I ice them and start again. Then maybe come back to them months/years later and give them a proper story treatment.

This time around, with the tiny word count, I managed to churn out a few, which was a nice situation to be in. I had intended to extend the others for later publication, but I actually had another crack at the first of them - Chasing Daydreams - which I very very very nearly entered into the comp, and managed to cut more out so it fit in Flash. Woooo.

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3 Aug 2021

Hey, a mod question: I just posted my story, but there's a typo, and in the last line! Can I just go in and change it? I know that cool normally, but don't know about comps.

Tintinnabulation - first place (Free Spirit)
Comet Q - second place (Quick and Risqué Sex)
Amnesia - third place (Le Noir Erotique)

4 Aug 2021

Quote by Ensorceled
Hey, a mod question: I just posted my story, but there's a typo, and in the last line! Can I just go in and change it? I know that cool normally, but don't know about comps.

I think if you just do it was a normal edit, and then tell the mod what it is - like one word or something - they will approve it quite quickly. They already give priority to comp entries it seems.

4 Aug 2021

Quote by LakeShoreLimited

I think if you just do it was a normal edit, and then tell the mod what it is - like one word or something - they will approve it quite quickly. They already give priority to comp entries it seems.

I'm scared. smile

It's so weird, it's "Iean" instead of "lean." I can't even figure out how it did that.

Tintinnabulation - first place (Free Spirit)
Comet Q - second place (Quick and Risqué Sex)
Amnesia - third place (Le Noir Erotique)

4 Aug 2021

I am so excited bc this is my very first comp entry!! EEK!! cheerleader

I really just wrote it as a challenge to myself to write something in <1000 words (I tend to have diarrhea of the keyboard LOL), but then the GODDESS told me I had to enter so I did!

And I have had so much fun reading all of the entries too!! Can wait to keep reading the rest

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4 Aug 2021

Quote by Ensorceled
It's so weird, it's "Iean" instead of "lean." I can't even figure out how it did that.

Hehe. Typos are fine to fix, comp or not. Since you mentioned it, I just went in and fixed it for you. Your check is in the post silly

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4 Aug 2021

Quote by Ensorceled

I'm scared.

It's so weird, it's "Iean" instead of "lean." I can't even figure out how it did that.

Typos creep in. I've read old stories of mine, and I have "finders" instead of fingers in one. Lush approves corrections pretty quickly. On another site, it takes a week to ten days; edits go to the back of the list. If it's a couple of years old, and it's like one word, I don't bother over there.

Grammarly helps catch misspellings. The Word spell checker, in the stage before that, helps too. But if the word is spelled correctly but it's the wrong word, then it may be missed by both programs. Careful proofreading is important, so don't rush it, but I've found there is a limit to how many times I can reread the same material. It reminds me of what Brian De Palma said about editing his own movies. He had to look at the same scenes over and over until he couldn't stand seeing them again, and he would lose track of what he had originally intended. So give yourself a couple of days before going back to proofread a story again.

4 Aug 2021

Quote by WannabeWordsmith

Hehe. Typos are fine to fix, comp or not. Since you mentioned it, I just went in and fixed it for you. Your check is in the post

Dude, thank you, thank you, thank you! It was REALLY bugging me.

Tintinnabulation - first place (Free Spirit)
Comet Q - second place (Quick and Risqué Sex)
Amnesia - third place (Le Noir Erotique)

4 Aug 2021

Quote by LakeShoreLimited

Typos creep in. I've read old stories of mine, and I have "finders" instead of fingers in one. Lush approves corrections pretty quickly. On another site, it takes a week to ten days; edits go to the back of the list. If it's a couple of years old, and it's like one word, I don't bother over there.

Grammarly helps catch misspellings. The Word spell checker, in the stage before that, helps too. But if the word is spelled correctly but it's the wrong word, then it may be missed by both programs. Careful proofreading is important, so don't rush it, but I've found there is a limit to how many times I can reread the same material. It reminds me of what Brian De Palma said about editing his own movies. He had to look at the same scenes over and over until he couldn't stand seeing them again, and he would lose track of what he had originally intended. So give yourself a couple of days before going back to proofread a story again.

I'm a bad speller, and I'm a bad typer, and I'm not very detail-oriented. The Word spell checker helps some, but it's a real blind spot for me. For me reading it over and over and over is the best solution, and even that doesn't always work.

Tintinnabulation - first place (Free Spirit)
Comet Q - second place (Quick and Risqué Sex)
Amnesia - third place (Le Noir Erotique)

4 Aug 2021

Quote by Ensorceled

I'm a bad speller, and I'm a bad typer, and I'm not very detail-oriented. The Word spell checker helps some, but it's a real blind spot for me. For me reading it over and over and over is the best solution, and even that doesn't always work.

Grammarly helps as an extra layer between Word and your own proofing. I'm not a very good speller or typist either. I hate to think of what I did using an electric typewriter when I was in college (1973-77). Back then the second draft usually had to be final one. I still handed in papers with corrections added with a pen.

5 Aug 2021

QUESTION:

For comps ... is it okay to develop a published microfiction into a full story and submit in competitions or is that considered a no-no like submitting a story based on a published series?

I've been meaning to ask...

5 Aug 2021

Quote by KimmiBeGood
QUESTION:

For comps ... is it okay to develop a published microfiction into a full story and submit in competitions or is that considered a no-no like submitting a story based on a published series?

I've been meaning to ask...

I'll have to let one of the moderators answer that. I assume you mean for the next competition.

There are a lot of train stories in this one, which is not surprising. The latest one is in New Zealand, Waiouru being a military base in that country. I suppose one could be set in the back seat of a long-distance bus. Maybe I should write one just for the hell of it. It could be based on a Greyhound trip I took years ago.

6 Aug 2021

I just submitted my first contest entry! Yay! I hope it makes it by the moderators. It should. It's a sacrilegious comedy with a very sweet ending. It's called 'Broken Vows Broken Lovers'. Look for it in your grocer's freezer section in a few days.

7 Aug 2021

Quote by Koba17
I just submitted my first contest entry! Yay! I hope it makes it by the moderators. It should. It's a sacrilegious comedy with a very sweet ending. It's called 'Broken Vows Broken Lovers'. Look for it in your grocer's freezer section in a few days.

They approve comp entries pretty fast here.

I really am writing the Greyhound bus story. It's not going in the comp, obviously - so I'm giving it the number of words I think necessary - but it is in the spirit of the comp. I have some other things to post first, so look for it in about a month.

7 Aug 2021

Quote by Ensorceled

I'm a bad speller, and I'm a bad typer, and I'm not very detail-oriented. The Word spell checker helps some, but it's a real blind spot for me. For me reading it over and over and over is the best solution, and even that doesn't always work.

I listen to mine back with a text to speech program. There is one built into Adobe PDF. I'm the worlds worst for repeating words or missing words out. It really helps me. Another good free voice in MS Edge. Just save your work as web page and open it with Edge. Plenty of voices to chose from.

Be nice to each other

7 Aug 2021

Quote by verity100
I listen to mine back with a text to speech program. There is one built into Adobe PDF. I'm the worlds worst for repeating words or missing words out. It really helps me. Another good free voice in MS Edge. Just save your work as web page and open it with Edge. Plenty of voices to chose from.

That’s a really good idea, I might borrow that. Typos are the bane is my life too, there’s always one that wriggles through the net.

I’ve started reading some the competition entries and I’m blown away by how good they are.

7 Aug 2021

Quote by Saucymh

That’s a really good idea, I might borrow that. Typos are the bane is my life too, there’s always one that wriggles through the net.

I’ve started reading some the competition entries and I’m blown away by how good they are.

This is a link to one of my stories that I checked with a text to speak program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kfe9L-dQRs

Be nice to each other

10 Aug 2021

So I used default text-to-speech voices in Microsoft to read my entry back to me.

Microsoft's American Zira seemed flat and uninteresting. She made the naughty bits of my story sound like she was reciting a grocery list.

Microsoft's American David sounded way too much like a constipated robot.

Microsoft's British Hazel was hilariously schoolmarmish (and not in a kinky role-play kind of way).

So I bit the bullet and spent some cash on two commercial voices.

CereVoice's American Isabella had more human feeling, but it didn't seem quite right.

Finally I installed …

CereVoice’s Scottish Heather.

Yowza. Embarassed

I don't know what it is about the burr or the brogue (forgive me, UK readers, I know how ignorant I sound now), but something about a woman rolling those vowels and blending those pronunciations really does it for me.

And, again, I know there are a bunch of people in the UK right now who think I've just lost my goddamned mind. This works for me, though.

I wish I could have uploaded Heather's audio of the story along with the text, but it's one or the other, not both. dontknow

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10 Aug 2021

Quote by Caramel_Infidel
I don't know what it is about the burr or the brogue (forgive me, UK readers, I know how ignorant I sound now), but something about a woman rolling those vowels and blending those pronunciations really does it for me.

https://i.imgur.com/NYVdGQO.mp4

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17 Aug 2021

92 - yes, ninety-two - entries so far, including ones waiting in our moderation queue. Phew. This is a scorching competition, and there's still a dozen days left for anyone who hasn't yet put keyboard to screen. I've read most of them and demand more. More!

Please keep your shining examples of quick 'n risqué erotica coming...

Please browse my digital bookshelf. In this collection, you can find 116 full stories, 10 micro-stories, and 2 poems with the following features:

* 29 Editor's Picks, 75 Recommended Reads.
* 15 competition podium places, 11 other times in the top ten.
* 21 collaborations.
* A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.

17 Aug 2021

There’s an impressively long list of entries now 😊