Thanks DKP :)

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Just wanted to drop a quick note of thanks here to DKP, who has been leaving numerous anonymous comments on my stories at Lit.  This is about the only way I can respond, so here it is 🙂

There’s a possibility of continuing pretty much any of my stories, but there has to be a story to it.  Just more sex won’t do the trick to get me excited enough to continue.

Well…  I might do a “just more sex” continuation of something, but it wouldn’t end up posted to Lit, it would end up on my “hot shorts” section here on the website.

Anyway, thanks much, and hope you’ll still be here when my muse comes back from this unannounced vacation.

Imagine it’s obvious…

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I imagine it’s obvious, but I’m in a bit of a slump.  That story I was working on petered out on me, as did a couple of other ideas for the Halloween contest.

I’m fiddling with one for the Winter Holidays contest at Lit now, but we’ll see what happens.

I get in these ruts sometimes, and it takes me a while to pull out of them.

For Lush readers, there’s a Thanksgiving story up from my archives called “Thricegiving” ( as Les Lumens ) and another Les Thanksgiving-themed story called “Center Piece” going in the queue tonight.

Finally got something moving

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Had an idea yesterday that appears to have pulled me out of a funk I’ve been in.  I’d almost 1k words in, and it’s flowing nicely.

This is a story for the Literotica Halloween contest, and I suspect it will be done in a couple of days at the most.  As usual, I’ll hold off and submit it to post on Friday morning, because that’s when I get the most reads.

Now with that out of the way =P

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Yeah, if you read any of that, you see what happens when someone has an agenda.

Anyway, that idea I had for the Lush Autumn Equinox contest just wasn’t working.  I tried coming at it from several angles, but something was always wrong.  Mostly, I didn’t like how the premise reflected badly upon Wicca – even though I had it in my head to stress that the people professing as practitioners were posers at best.

I have a couple of ideas for the Lit Halloween contest, though.  We’ll see how those pan out.  One would be group sex, while the other would be MILF.

More once I see how the ideas are congealing.

Addressing comment about Lush

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Someone left a comment today about Lush, pointing to a blog complaining about the site.

I have read the complaints, and I’m afraid I don’t see the discrimination.

As a webmaster, you have to make difficult choices.  I ban pretty much the entire Russian Federation, Ukraine, China, and umpteen other places because the hits from those locations are so overwhelmingly spam that it’s not worth checking them.  Instead, my ban message indicates that one can contact me through one of the story sites ( Lush, Lit, or SOL ) and I will manually allow the user, if anyone from those locations ever does show up on the site.

I’m not discriminating.  I’m protecting my site.  From the descriptions provided ( even within the blog complaining about Lush ) I see the exact same thing.

Users from India are provided the means to submit stories, and I have little doubt that once an original story has been approved, the user would probably be given the same access as anyone else.  The country ban is a firewall that protects the site from having to deal with a problem that was consuming time and resources better spent on improving the site and approving stories.

As someone who has maintained an internet presence since the late 90s, I fully understand Lush’s position.

I can also see how someone who wanted to submit an original story in good faith would feel offended.  I don’t begrudge them that emotion, but I’m not going to support an anti-Lush campaign on that basis.

Closer to Sunny Daze

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Long, annoying day at work yesterday.  I managed to finish the first cold read of “Sunny Daze” between last night and this morning, but it still needs to run through the three-step process of my first-pass edit before I send it off to my editor.

That other idea I had for the Autumn Equinox contest started feeling a little exploitative and creepy to me as I wrote it, so I ended up dropping it.  It may still work if I change Dawn’s personality and background, but I’m going to have to think about it.  Doing that will also change how some other elements in the story will have to work.