by
0nlyEditing
on Sep 1, 2017
How To
A Brief Conversation:
As both a writer and an editor, I have found that the most common reason for stories being rejected is due to improper formatting of conversations. If you follow the rules set out here, I can't guarantee that your story will be accepted, but it won't be rejected for conversation errors. I strongly recommend the essay How To Make Charac...
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by
Tx Tall Tales
on Dec 10, 2019
How To
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Your readers are precious. Help them
My first foray into the How-to category. Some notes on making your stories more 'readable' and therefore, more enjoyable.
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Let's face it. The readers here on Literotica have a lot to choose from. If they have any issues with your story, it's easy enough to drop...
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by
OmegaZone
on Sep 1, 2017
How To
Fiendish Guide to Punctuation V1.3
This guide is intended to provide a basic but complete, or at least I hope to make it complete over time, guide to punctuation in the English language. It will be primarily targeted at authors who write fictional stories using the standard story style. It will include subsections pointing out the differences in US, UK and...
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by
madengineer3
on Aug 30, 2017
Humor & Satire
Let me tell you about how I am going to vote in the next election. I'll also tell you why you should join me in backing the new progressive leader and his people.
Our nation has been in a severe economic recession. It is as severe as any that could be remembered by most living men. We have the worst economic situation that can be found almost anywhere. We h...
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by
WFEATHER
on Sep 15, 2017
Non-Erotic
Admittedly, I was rather late getting into the "dating game." It was just after Christmas Break of my senior year of high school when I had finally fallen in love with someone – a tall, glamorous beauty with a silky voice, eyes as deep as the oceans, and skin as white as virgin snow: Claire Mangelson.
Suddenly, I realized that, for the first time in my lif...
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by
grgy56
on Jun 25, 2019
Romance
"Shannon" rehearsals for Meredith and Gereon were going well and opening was getting closer and closer. Both of the star actors were still busy with hyping the show. Sometimes together and sometimes on their own. At their other job at Tony's, the two had become closer and closer although there was still no sex between them. Meredith stuck by her rule of not...
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by
A_Bierce
on Oct 7, 2019
Loving Wives
Tribar Mews meanders just shy of two furlongs south of the High Street; about half-way down it doglegs to the right. A few doors in on the left lies The Mitred Abbess, the local for the neighbourhood working classes. Hard by the end, still on the left, sits The Slap and Tickle, magnet for fun-loving uni students from the surrounding boroughs. These two publi...
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by
English Lady
on Sep 14, 2017
How To
Are you completely sick of forking out a small fortune every Valentines Day buying over priced flowers, cards and chocolates? I know it drives me crazy how a day which has been designed for lovers has become so expensive and commercialised!
Do you want to give your lover something special and personal this year or something sweet and sexy? Yes we all want...
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by
Bodington
on Jul 27, 2020
Novels and Novellas
In the new year, when Diana returned to school for her second semester of her sophomore year at the school of nursing at the University of Michigan, she no longer had a lab partnership with Makayla Brown, who had become her best friend at school during the first semester. They were, though, able to maintain a weekly mid-week lunch date at the school's cafete...
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by
Bodington
on Sep 14, 2020
Novels and Novellas
Diana was due in January, and during the applicable ultra sound appointment, she learned that her baby was female, and ergo a half sister to Laura who would be three and a half years older. She quipped to Dr McCord, "It's a good thing we agreed to an amicable visitation schedule so that our daughter will have some female influence in developing into a woman....
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