Dunno about y'all but I used to cheat in those Choose Your Own Adventure books that you used to get by sending off tokens from the back of Weetabix boxes.

I'd read up to a choice and stick my finger on the page as a bookmark, then skip ahead to each option and read. If it resulted in the character coming to a grisly demise, I'd jump back to the branch point and try a different path.

More efficient than starting again from scratch!

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Thank you for this. I was scratching my head trying to figure it out.

It's not just you, it's not very intuitive. And it does have quirks, for example if the URL contains spaces then it borks everything. Or if you use "paste as plain text" by mistake, then it obliterates the highlighted text.

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Experience is a must to write credible erotica, in my humble opinion.

Dammit. Knew I was doing something wrong in my stories. That explains it.

We used to have a multi-ending feature, but it was so under-utilised that it got dropped when the site was redesigned. No idea what happened to the few stories that did use it.

Depending how long the story is, you could maybe split it at the branch point. And at the cliffhanger ending of the main part, offer a "choose your own adventure" style option:

If you think Peter should jump into the ravine, read "My Killer Story - Alternate Ending 1"

If you think Peter should run back to the main road, read "My Killer Story - Alternate Ending 2"

...

Then, submit each ending in quick succession and link them as a series so they're collected together and clearly signposted in the title that they're alternate endings. Or seek a willing mod who will allow you to submit all the parts at once so they can all be locked and approved in one sitting.

In the Author Note of each ending, clarify this further by informing people that it's a continuation of the main part and they should read that first, just in case someone lands on the ending directly from a search engine.

The difficulty here would be that the individual endings are all "chapter 2" of the same story and must therefore abide by the rules of being a decent enough length (ideally 1k+ words) on their own merit. If your endings are all really short, that wouldn't work.

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I have a two part story about an island I wrote a few weeks ago but it needs the third part to be complete

Competiton entries have to be standalone stories. If the story is previously published in any form, or is a continuation of an already-published work, it is not admissable in the competition.

But as long as it's not actually been published, you can carry on writing it and submit it as a single piece, as long as it meets the brief and is entirely under the word limit.

A quick one that I threw together after finding the incredible naughty cover pic that screamed "write a story, write a story!"

So I did. And Whore is the result.

The action is quite rough and raw - necessarily - so if you prefer fluffy erotica, look elsewhere. But otherwise, please dive into the dirty world of deepthroating and submission. It's only 1K words long, so if you have five minutes, please give it a whirl. I value all feedback.

Have fun.

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I'm not sure if the link above will still be correct once the edits are approved.

The final URL remains the same after publication. The story is just pulled temporarily off the site while the changes are being moderated. All sorted for you now. An excellent story.

struts in proudly

160 inches.

squints at the scale on the ruler

Dammit. Millimetres.

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So, we're off to the 19th century and the history of scientific discovery is about to be rewritten

Sounds intriguing ...

For better or worse, I've thrown my slightly warped humour into the ring for this competition. The opening line kinda sets the tone, and if you think being thrown at someone's feet on a tropical island makes instant sparks fly, you've never read one of my stories before, haha.

Hopefully this one makes you smile, as well as aroused...

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/outdoor/lets-get-off

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Nightcafe

Trawling their Community Guidelines I can't figure out if every image you create (or prompt you use) goes through some sort of filter that will immediately be flagged to the Automoderator or a human moderator, or if every image automatically goes into the public domain after creation. Or can you make your own private gallery of Lush-style covers and download them, without sharing them with the community or being clobbered by the NSFW rules?

Almost all the current crop of online image generators require a monthly plan or token purchase. :ikejoe71 above, I don't wish to do either for the same reasons: because I don't use the tools often enough to warrant a monthly outlay, and the tokens concept is unworkable. I might go through ten or twenty iterations of a prompt to get exactly what I want and the first bunch of things it creates are garbage or have prawn fingers or whatever, so it's a waste.

I'd be interested in a tool (and a suitable non-pro engine) that allows me to dip in every so often, write a prompt to create an NSFW style Lush cover image, download it for use, and not care about sharing it with the Nightcafe (or any other) community.

Is that possible?

There's no 'best' as such because the various services constantly evolve to make more off the back of this commercial AI wave. I used to favour sexy.ai, for example, but now they not only watermark images (and charge for removal), they require sign-up and/or tokens/payment to do anything half decent.

Once you have an actual image, creating the cover is easy in the Lush cover designer tool. Or you can use your own offline program like Photoshop or (my preferred) Affinity Photo. Or an online service like Canva with a canvas set to the recommended dimensions of Lush cover art (currently 768x1200px).

Although they're much of a muchness in terms of structure (tease + relief, in some form or other) if you've read some or all of my Pink series featuring teen tease Molly, I'm curious which chapter you liked best:

• Pink - Chapter 1 (The Meet)

• Pink - Chapter 2 (The Shave)

• Pink - Chapter 3 (The Shorts)

• Pink - Chapter 4 (The Car)

• Pink - Chapter 5 (The Toy)

• Pink - Chapter 6 (The Lesson)

• Pink - Chapter 7 (The Fallout)

I'm asking because I'm considering (and only considering at this stage: it might come to nothing) writing an additional chapter from Molly's perspective. Or maybe I'll write an addendum to the series about her exploits at uni and refer back to the most popular chapter. Not sure yet.

Please cast your vote in the poll below and, if you would like to say why you enjoyed a particular chapter over another, please also reply below so I can gauge how to pitch the potential story.

Thank you in advance.

Yeah, we should split off the AI image talk to a spearate thread. Good call.

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What is the site policy on character age?

All references to anything of a sexual or arousal nature must occur to characters 16 years or older. No exceptions.

Pigtails.

Yes, a superbly hot piece of writing and well deserved of the award. If you've not checked it out, do so. Have a bucket of ice handy for afterwards.

Now it's complete, I thought I'd pimp my teen series Pink, which sees the permanently horny and teasing girlfriend of a man's son piling on the sexual pressure to get what she wants.

Fans of intense teasing and seduction stories will enjoy the way this temptress wraps everyone around her finger and taunts the poor dad to the limit of his resolve... and beyond, as he fights to resist her charms.

• Pink - Chapter 1 (The Meet)

• Pink - Chapter 2 (The Shave)

• Pink - Chapter 3 (The Shorts)

• Pink - Chapter 4 (The Car)

• Pink - Chapter 5 (The Toy)

• Pink - Chapter 6 (The Lesson)

• Pink - Chapter 7 (The Fallout)

All chapters received a Recommended Read award, for which I'm insanely proud, and the series has been getting a fabulous number of Likes, Favourites and comments. Each chapter is only around 4k words, so if you've yet to dive in, there's no excuse not to lose yourself in her terribly tempting ways.

Hope you like it.

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You're old enough to remember some of the gaudy nightmares that passed for "design" in the nineties web, right?

Geocities, ftw 🤣

Edit: I loved playing with the geocities-izer before it disappeared, taking honest to goodness modern sites and making them gaudy monstrosities full of scrolling text and garish colours. Fun!

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lesbians don't romp. we saunter and occasionally bounce.

Noted. Mine's now a lesbian saunter and occasional bounce on the Isle of Fistaria.

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I am assuming you can make up Islands as well. Shoot DC and Marvel do it all the time 🤷🏾‍♂️.

Absolutely. Mine's a lesbian romp set on the Isle of Vibratium. 🤣

I'm one vote shy of 69 on Pink Part 6. If anyone would like to do the honours, it would be most appreciated 😎

Part 7, the finale, is in the queue awaiting someone to have time to moderate it. I hope you enjoy it and it's a fitting send-off to the series.

Thank you to everyone who has followed along from the start, and for anyone just joining who wants to binge read, welcome to the ride.

Edit: and Part 7 is released. Hope you enjoy.

Jen has a good eye for style. Pretty sure she picked the image.

As you know, the abundance of red on this site is a long-standing bugbear of mine. Some complementary accents would do wonders for the site and its usability.

Thank you for your kind comments on the banner. I'll pass those along and maybe when the dev team have more time to devote back to our corner of cyberspace, we can convince them to widen the colour palette a little 😎

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Italics, unless it’s in the first person, then there is no need.

This also works, and I've done it this way in the past if it's clear the thoughts are thoughts (which most of the time they would be if it's written well).

As I mentioned above, as long as it's consistent and clear to people consuming your content, use any convention you wish. If it's not clear, mods will return it and ask for clarity.

I've used italics exclusively in my latest series to represent thoughts, and I prefer it as a device to indicate them, as long as it's made clear that's what they are on first usage. In first person, it's fairly obvious so it may not even need tagging as such. Depends how clever you are at introducing them.

I've also seen double quotes for direct speech and single quotes for thoughts. That also works, as long as it's consistent, although it can be less clear if the story is read quickly: apostrophes are easy to miss if a story is exciting.

The key is consistency. End of the day, you want readers to consume your work as effortlessly as possible, so any convention you use to help them do that is welcome.

I'm beavering away on the finale to my Pink series. I decided that 7 was a good number of chapters, so I brought things to a dramatic point in Chapter 6 and am now figuring out how to end it on a satisfactory note. It's gonna be a hot one!

Pink - Part 4 sees Molly upping her game another notch and teasing poor Andrew crazy. It's gaining a favourable response from readers.

Hot on its heels, the fifth chapter takes her behaviour to another level while he's at work.

The poor protagonist not only has to contend with Molly's incessant seduction, he's also having to balance his wife's response to it.

I hope this series continues to deliver. Part 6 is half written. I'm just deciding where to take it next before I commit to it.

It's just started doing the same for me and I popped in here to see if anyone else was experiencing the same 😞

Might be out of disk space or something. I'll alert the dev team. Thanks for the report.

Just finished Pink Part 3 for anyone who's following the exploits of teen temptress Molly. Part 4 is in the works...