Warning: Woke as Fuck
Here at Lush Stories, I will do my best not to get political even though there are forum boards for it, I can get political elsewhere. But as a white person who grew up in an interracial family (I have Chinese, African American, and Jewish relatives) in an interracial community (lot of Hispanic and Asians and African Americans), I see things within a majority white society from a perspective many do not. But I'll try keep my woke politics to other social media platforms.
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Keep in mind that the story image format has substantially changed in Lush2. It is now only portrait mode. Images are to be sized to 512 x 800 pixels, but will actually be rendered at half that on screen. They will also be compressed by about 85%, so a very simple, high contrast image is recommended. Even with that, they may show up quite blurry, making type hard to read unless large and bold.
Hi, is 512x800 still the requirement?
I'm working on my first submission. Found a good image on DeviantArt that is creative commons.
The image when resized to 512 wide is shorter than 800 high but that leaves room on a 512x800 canvas to add both the artist credit and the CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 notice, both required for Creative Commons image use.
Is that okay to do? I'm hoping to submit the story with cover image before the end of June. Intellectual property rights are important to me so I have to follow the rules when using a Creative Commons image and would rather they be text on the image file itself, in the resulting top/bottom white margin from fitting it onto a 512x800 image.
I can do bold sans-serif which survives a resize better.
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Unrelated Side Note - "The Once and Future Kink" is a great title, I'm going to have to find it, the book the title parodies was a favorite in my youth.
Everything I write, Erotica or otherwise, always takes new directions as I write it. I think it's because of my ADHD.
It can be a serious problem because sometimes I then have to go back and edit what I already wrote.
Hi, my first reply here 
I'm actually working on several stories at the moment and a recipe. Writing is not my living, it's for pleasure.
Short Story One: Working title is "To Catch A Cougar" - it's a BDSM story that is atypical for me, I generally like/write femdom, but it's a story about a young college kid and his literature tutor who is 20 years older than he is. Before she becomes his tutor, they have history that results in them not liking each other but when he needs a tutor and she shows up, things change and she becomes his submissive.
Short Story Two: Working title is "Sorority Shenanigans" - it's a story about a Sorority house for sexually dominant coeds, it's actually intended to become a audio series that someone who sells erotic audios can record and sell, but I do not have a voice artist in mind yet. The idea is basically a bedtime story, with the first audio being the free teaser and the other audios being sold. The story line is after some parental complaints, the college requires the sorority has to have a "house mother" so their solution is to purchase a submissive woman at a BDSM auction to be their house mother.
Novel: Working title is "Tastes Like Domme Spirit" - it's a novel about a dominatrix vampire, this hopefully will be a book I can sell so I do not want to go into too much detail. It's being carefully typeset in LaTeX (pronounced Lah-Techs) rewording things as necessary to achieve zero hyphenated words.
Recipe: Key Lime Pie - Every good sissy should know how to make a proper Key Lime Pie when their Mistress is having friends over. Not really an erotica, but written with the kink community in mind. I started work on this recipe to deal with writer's block.
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Something about all my erotica stories, I like to have background information about the characters often not found in erotic stories. I like the erotic parts to compliment the story and add depth to the story, but not necessarily be the dominating factor in the story. I also like to work proper consent and negotiation into the story, I don't like "coerced" power exchange, I like to try to find a creative way to make sure it is clear all parties involved have enthusiastic consent.
I do however like to sometimes read coerced fantasy stories (e.g. secretary catches boss embezzling and makes him her bitch), I just don't like to write them, if that makes any sense.
