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Done. Pucker up, missy, lol xx
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ChrissieLecker
Over 90 days ago
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I've just viewed it again. Fingers crossed you'll be celebrating another new badge by bed time xx
My nearest story has about 11,000 to go. I'm not holding my breath for a badge just yet lol
Probably not by bedtime, but before the weekend may be realistic
Thank you
Oh, why not give yours a little push to at least get it close to the 20,000 mark? It's a wonderfully romantic story with sizzling sapphic sex (do I get brownie points for the alliteration?), a perfect, sexy bedtime reading.
https://www.lushstories.com/stories/lesbian/a-bath-to-remember.aspx
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Only a hundred to go, already two thirds of the way in three days! You're great!
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I'm still working on and off on Cordelia's Feet 9 and the mystery story, 'A Stranger in our Bed', but now I've also started three other storylines that didn't want to let me go (blame it on the plot bunnies): 'The Cheating Game', a story about a flirting game that gets out of hand, 'The Things We Do For Holidays', where a high school senior does an awsome lot to be able to afford going on holidays with her friends, and 'Ticket Girls - Raving Horny', a trip back in time to the "good old days" of techno raves, danced-through nights and uninhibited carnality.
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There's also often moisture that has settled over the night and evaporates in the first sun. Small dynamic air movements stir up more moisture that the sun could warm up, so there's a small drop in temperature. The moisture then can also attribute to a perceived chill as it sets on skin and evaporates again, taking body warmth with it.
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I gave it another read because its so good. Plus Im really hoping for a wet kiss ;)
Thank you! Ask and you shall receive! As wet as you want it
Already got more than fifty views since I started this thread. I love you all
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At the moment my favourite three authors are:
MamaScribe with the "Bun also rises" series.
Bipeep with the "Rebirth of Andrew Bishop" series.
Goodhusband with the "Awakenings" series.
Stormdog100 with the "Glamour shots" series.
Echelon with the "Cade and Eve" series.
*counts using my fingers... then re-counts once more...* I'm tempted to send in the Spanish Inquisition
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I wouldn't call myself cultured. I've got an ability to remember bits and pieces (or even get curious about them) that others don't see at the first glance, sometimes I'm even a bit O/C about finding more of these tidbits, but I'm also woefully ignorant at other, more obvious things. Yes, Hemingway had a fascination for brutality that's sometimes quite off-putting. That he was unwilling to learn correct grammar should make him a red rag (to keep with the bull fight motive) for every story verifier at Lush *giggles*
I used to spend a lot of time in the local bookshop of our neighboring town, killing time while waiting for my connecting bus in my teenage years, where I used to pester the personell. That's where I got introduced to the Pillars, one of the few noteworthy English books a small German bookshop used to have (thanks to the Lawrence of Arabia movie), and told the story about the stolen first draft and the ruinous publishing costs of the subscribers' edition. My English wasn't up to par back then, but once I had a solid footing, it was one of the first important books I read. The first paragraph of the first chapter is one of the best book openings I've ever read.
I used to spend a lot of time in the local bookshop of our neighboring town, killing time while waiting for my connecting bus in my teenage years, where I used to pester the personell. That's where I got introduced to the Pillars, one of the few noteworthy English books a small German bookshop used to have (thanks to the Lawrence of Arabia movie), and told the story about the stolen first draft and the ruinous publishing costs of the subscribers' edition. My English wasn't up to par back then, but once I had a solid footing, it was one of the first important books I read. The first paragraph of the first chapter is one of the best book openings I've ever read.
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Chrissie I adore your ramblings. I think I will try some of this for sure.
"Now please excuse me, as I’ve got a story to write about a punk girl who owns Louboutin heels and a Hemingway first print. I’m still not completely ruling out hippopotami."
Well I love Louboutin heels and I've read everything Hemingway ever wrote (twice).......but it should correctly read "a Hemingway FIRST EDITION"?? Not a first print?
My pride and joy is a first edition of "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom". I would love to have a set of David Roberts' "The Holy Land" but a bit out of my reach and also deserves to be in a museum where it can be properly cared for. I do have the original lithographs including "The Approach of the Simoon". I put that print into one of my stories.
Ooops. Sometimes I have to plead ignorance as a non-native speaker of this beautiful language. Article amended, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed my article.
I've read quite a bit from Hemingway, but probably far from everything. I have to be in the right mood to appreciate his sometimes gritty and unadorned prose.
You're not talking about a subscribers' edition of the Pillars though, are you?
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For me you're already famous in the top order! Anyway, just gave it a view.... I'm not selfish and intensely eager for gratification as Kate isbut I hope you'll keep this extra favor in mind next time we connect here
Oh, thank you! *swoons* You know, I keep glancing at your beautiful av and knowing exactly where to put my... favor
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Well I gave it a view......then I read it......then I logged out.....so I could give it another view.....haha....you are a fame whore, but you deserve your silly badge......I'm sure you'll hop about when you finally get it (yes I did too
Thank you! I can't deny that whorish part in me, can I?
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I've just given it a view. I'll cash in my bribe for doing so later. What was that you said about bum cheeks and kisses???
Thank you! For you, I'll make them extra long and extra wet
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Seeing that Clum's and Dirty_D's thread had been so successful:
My story Rachel's Panties is less than 300 views away from being famous, and I'm such a sucker for badges
https://www.lushstories.com/stories/spanking/rachels-panties.aspx
Please help me get it into the hall of fame by giving it a (or another) read.
As an incentive, I'll start writing a story featuring my "muse" from my article on writer's block once Rachel's Panties has 30,000 views:
Alternatively, I can offer booze, cookies or a sloppy, wet kiss on your bum cheek
My story Rachel's Panties is less than 300 views away from being famous, and I'm such a sucker for badges
https://www.lushstories.com/stories/spanking/rachels-panties.aspx
Please help me get it into the hall of fame by giving it a (or another) read.
As an incentive, I'll start writing a story featuring my "muse" from my article on writer's block once Rachel's Panties has 30,000 views:
The muse is a little punk, a frail thing with neon colored hair held together by these silver gum wrappers, a crazy bitch who wears dirty blue jeans with holes in tandem with Louboutin heels, who turns off the alarm clock with a well-placed arrow and who uses her original Hemingway first print to prop up the old table on which she fucks the neighbor while she smokes weed. You’ll not impress her with a neat writing room and a lovely cup of tea.
Alternatively, I can offer booze, cookies or a sloppy, wet kiss on your bum cheek
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As for my WIP, I'm kind of flailing right now. Three stories and none really progressing. I've got two teachers keeping each other warm on a snow day (which we get plenty of here in my part of Canada), a first time/coming of age story (hopefully different from Chuck's), and two couples rebooting their relationships with some impromptu swinging.
All three sound intriguing
And your post gives me the perfect excuse for a little plug: have you seen my attempt at a written cure for writer's block? https://www.lushstories.com/forum/yaf_postst41215_Of-Flighty-Muses-Stampeding-Hippopotami-And-Going-Creatively-Crazy.aspx
In addition to my ongoing series (Erin, Bunnie and Miles High Sluts have been completed, Cordy is on its way and I'm getting all ideas for the last three parts of Mix Up sorted), I've started a complicated little story about a strange, beautiful young woman who unexpectedly turns up in a married couple's bed and turns their world on its head. I may have to ask nicola for a new category once that one's finished, as I've no idea where it would fit in.
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A dangerous hook up with a wild MILF.
Get writing!
I love reading about dangerous women! 
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The time spent with those we love or have grown close to will forever be too short. Sometimes, we see the footsteps they left in the sand of our lives, and when we consciously walk in them once more, they don't fade. If we do that, we can feel that those who touch our heart never really leave us.
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I have always used the OED as well. Anyone who loves language owes it to themselves to drink straight from the fountain, as it were. And I couldn't agree more that Google is not the best way to confirm style/mechanics questions. The information is often in conflict, and sometimes just totally out of left field.
I just go by the books and style guides I use for teaching this material and also when I'm editing for ebook publishers. If you look at your two versions of the sentence - brown vs leather sofa - the grammatical function of brown and leather is the same. The only possible function either word is performing is to modify sofa. And yes, Hereford would be an adjective in that context.
The OED is amazing, and will give you the entire etymology of a given word, but it's still a dictionary and not a grammar guide.
I don't want anybody to be intimidated by this thread. To me, it's really interesting to be able to dig into such details, even with the risk that things I thought I knew may be wrong. Call it a crazy part of me that needs to understand things to their very core.
It seems that the topic of whether leather is an adjective is one that divides the world ;) I found this grammar help on noun modifiers which also includes "leather":
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/adjectives/noun-modifiers
Websters curiously lists "leather" and "iron" as adjectives, but not "metal". It seems I'll need to do some heavy digging into that topic to be really sure about it one way or the other.
dpw: it's no different with German. Half the terms they used when I was in school aren't common anymore; instead, I constantly discover new ones. While that may be a little disconcerting from time to time, I also find that it tends to tidy up with all the "exception lists" that used to make up big parts of my books. Language science used to be a somewhat wooly thing celebrated behind closed doors by a caste of illuminated professors who used to declare things they didn't like as simply non-existent, and that only started to change with computers and the internet towards the turn of the millenium.
Nowadays, they can't simply ignore parts of indogermanic, gaelic or roman roots, and the overlaps between languages and ethymology of their functional parts has apparently made it necessary to create new terms that are valid for almost any language. So, while the English language itself hasn't really changed much, the view on it has. Different terms are used to describe word classes, lexical parts and semantic elements, and only a select part of the population (speak: students of the language) are really able to navigate between old and new view.
For me, discussions like this are a huge learning experience. My school English only started with 5th grade and I had rather poor teachers for a few years. Almost everything that goes beyond pure vocabulary, simple relative clauses and tenses is self taught through reading, movies and the internet. So while I may instinctually do most things right, knowing why I do them and learning to explain that to others is never boring for me.
tiddlywink: thank you for starting this thread, even if it's going off on a tangent. The text you quoted on your profile is most definitely from a poem - which means it is in fact both. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam
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Could we have the combined word count of our stories displayed in the statistics box?
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I do not intent to write about this, just a couple of questions about the arc...
Vampires and ghosts are technically dead, right? If someone writes about a human having sex with a vampire/ghost, is that considered necrophilia?
No. While Vampires died, their bodies are no longer dead. Necrophilia always involves a dead body. Ghosts don't have a body, so they're okay too.
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If a vampire was turned at a young age (under 16) but has existed for 100+ years, is that considered underage?
Yes. All characters must have both the physiological and psychological age.
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Werewolves/were-creatures are part animal, is that considered ?
Only if they have sex in their transformed form.
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Alien-human sex? What is that considered?
Totally okay if the aliens are reasonably homanoid.
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I know there's been a thread for that years ago, but I'm really curious. I'm also adding a little poll.
For me, I was googling for a story I recalled reading and tried to find again. I didn't find that one but found a lot more
For me, I was googling for a story I recalled reading and tried to find again. I didn't find that one but found a lot more
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I won't pretend I know the ins and outs of the English language (I don't!), but I did look at the websters dictionary, which defined it as an adjective. I think you might have a firmer grasp on the details, but I'm an extremely basic English kind of girl.
Hm. Time to upgrade my dictionary then, as it knows it only as a noun and verb. I stand corrected.
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I haven't read this entire, shockingly spirited thread about grammar (wow!) but my leather couch agrees that it's an adjective. :P
Sorry to object here. It's an attributive noun or noun adjunct, not an adjective. You can't say "my couch is leather" like you could with a true adjective, let's say, "my couch is soft." It can't be separated from the noun it modifies, and it doesn't want a comma after a preceding adjective.
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Surely leather is an adjective, it describes the furniture.
As regards 'one by one', I'd say it would be at the beginning of the sentence followed by a comma.
"leather" is a noun. "leathery" is its adjective.
"one by one" is a modifier that, depending on how you look at it, further refines either the verb (describes how they stopped by) or the whole of the image described in the sentence, so its both semantically and syntactically correct position would either be next to the verb or at the very end. It could only have its natural position at the beginning of the sentence if it modified the subject, which it doesn't. That you'd (correctly) put a comma after it means that you'd stick in a flag that says, "Non-standard structure here, beware!"
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Oh, I just noticed the date....I'm hopeless....
lol. It was probably the Fnords that made you respond. I'd be wary...
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Here's how brave I am, I'll show you the actual sentence. Maybe the mods can tell me no in advance.
Well I would put a comma after 'cramped' and another between 'supervisor's' and 'supervisor's office', also one after 'unused'. I'd also put one before and after 'one by one'.
'Maintained his cool' and 'held his composure' are the same thing, one of them is superfluous. And I would seperate the sentences.
I'll probably get shot down for this
Consider yourself at least partially shot down ;)
Two rules of thumb: only put a comma between consecutive adjectives if you could change their order without impacting the meaning. Posessive determiners are never followed by a comma.
The comma between "cramped" and "workmanlike" is a bit of a gray area and depends on how fixed of an expression you see in "workmanlike efficiency". There's no question about the "supervisor's", see above. The one after "unused" is a no go, as "unused" is the adjective and "leather furniture" the noun. The commas around "one by one" are optional. Without commas, the expression takes the place of a plain adverb, whereas the commas turn it into something of an afterthought (proclaiming that it had originally been at the end of the sentence and moved forward.)
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Despite my healthy nearly vegetarian diet, and all the exercise I can manage, I haven't been able to loose more than ten pounds of the weight I've gain in the last 14 years. Not because I am lazy, but because my body just doesn't work properly anymore, because my hormones and metabolism are screwed up...all because I was trying to do the responsible thing at 18 years old.
That's one of the big and seriously hushed-up problems of modern times. Pull out the small print sheet from ten drugs of your choice and see how many of them list "weight gain" as a side issue. They unfortunately fail to add "permanent", or people would throw them far and wide. A lot of heavily overweight people whom I know had treatments with psychotropic drugs, hormone pills, neuroleptics or interferon. Some of these treatments are unavoidable and life saving. Others could be replaced by intensive psychological treatment, but that would be costly and you'd be hard pressed to find a health insurance that pays for it. Some need a lot of research, so doctors can finally stop subscribing drugs on a trial-and-error basis and check beforehand which hormonal changes their treatment may case.
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There are so many types of wine, and what I prefer at any given time depends on a lot of factors. I can enjoy a strong Shiraz from Australia just as much as a flowery St. Laurent from Austria. I adore good Riesling from the Rhineland -- there's no other wine that makes you feel like bathing in the fullness of ripe grapes like this one -- but there are so many others that I also enjoy. I love light whites with a hint of lemony acid in the summer and sweet late vintage on freezing winter days. There's nothing like the spice of Muscatel to get you into Christmas spirits, and what better choice could you have for a night of flirting than a glass of heavy, sensual Chardonnay? Bordeaux, while often overrated, has some brilliant wines from which you sip and sit in wonder while, over minutes, your tongue goes on a journey through all kinds of beautiful aromas, though those are usually ones that need to breathe for half a day or they taste like mildewy cardboard, and I hardly find the patience.
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You could even break the comma before 'but' rule in some instances, for a better effect. For example:
"Billy always had trouble fighting his drug addiction. He was always seeking the next thrill. He just kept consuming more and more. He tried to stop but couldn't."
Here, the effect that I'm trying to provide is to throw a succession of quick 'punch lines' one after the other. Adding a comma (or a pause) just before 'but' in the last sentence would just break the overall flow of it. Again, this is exactly how I would have wanted it to be pronounced verbally; the omission of the comma is just there to reflect that.
Ah, but this is a wholly different school of fish. "But couldn't" is not an independent clause. There's one rule of thumb that applies almost universally:
Never separate a subject from its verb.
The subject (He) belongs to both the first clause (tried to stop) and the second clause (but couldn't). Look at the comma as an unnecessary hurdle for the second verb to reach its subject.