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| Submission Guide We want good stories with compelling characters driven by exciting sex scenes. Think of what turns you on, focus on that, and then put it in high gear. If someone gets to a climatic moment of your story and decides it’s time for a bathroom break or a trip to the kitchen for a snack, your story needs more work and more heat. Try to remember why it’s called erotica. It’s not mysterious. Your story should fit into one of the categories listed on the Lusty Library site and be labeled correctly. The Lusty Library staff maintains the right to change a story genre label when it is appropriate. By submitting work you assert that you have read and accept the Submission Agreement. We’re not literary snobs, but we, like everyone else, want to read stories that meet a baseline of writing standards. We don’t want anyone to get so turned off by glaring language errors that they cannot get turned on. What would be the point? So, we’re briefly delving into technicalities to give you some common turn offs and helpful hints for avoiding them. Stories must be at least 500 words. That’s about one single spaced typed page. Spelling. This is a big one, so be mindful of it. There is probably no surer way to have your work rejected either by our visitors or us. A good rule of thumb: use a spell checker, but don't depend on it. It will sometimes turn "making hay" into "making hey" and we don't want that! If necessary, resort to old fashioned dependable means: use a dictionary. Please note that we don't accept stories that contain "text-speak" ("LOL," "OMG," "2" instead of "too," and that sort of thing). That sort of language is fine as shorthand in text messaging and chat rooms, but it doesn't make for good reading in a story. Grammar. Good grammar simply makes your story clearer; bad grammar or bad writing just confuses people. This means writing in complete sentences and using punctuation to break your sentences correctly. A comma might seem like a tiny detail, but it can completely change your meaning for the reader. There are a ton of writing references available on the Internet. Do a word and phrase search as “fiction”+"common grammatical errors" and you"ll get plenty of advice on how to avoid the usual pitfalls. Flow. Read your story out loud before submitting it. If you feel a hiccup or an awkward moment, go back to it and see if you can make it flow better. Break up your text blocks. One long flow of words is tiresome to readers, even in books, but especially on the computer. Share. If you dare, get another pair of eyes to proofread your work. Content. A word about content -- the Lusty Library encourages SEX POSITIVE stories! In our lusty minds and hearts, that means sex that is consensual between two or more adults (as in, 18+ years of age). We do not accept stories with the following themes: bestiality, pedophilia, incest, or sex that is forced. Stories of this nature will be automatically rejected. Lusty Library is a website dedicated to quality erotica writing. To help you in your writing endeavors, we have created a Writer's Resources section. Please consult this section before, during, and after writing your story. For the inexperienced as well as the seasoned writer, we provide links to the Internet's best writing guides on everything from grammar to how to create original characters and riveting dialogue. Generally, we do not edit stories for extensive grammar and/or content problems. We accept stories as they are. If we need to reject a story for content problems, we do so with comments. Submission Agreement By submitting a story to the Lusty Library, you agree that you are at least 18 years of age and that such content is legal in your community, and that the work is your own. In publishing here, you, the writer, retain full copyright to your works. Lusty Library does, however, retain the right to use your story in the event of a compilation anthology for the site, in the event of audio recordings as a positive feature for the site, and to possibly use excerpts of your work to advertise the site, e.g. via newsletter or MySpace. We do not own your story once you publish it here, but you are simply granting us the right to use it. Ownership and copyrights still belong to the writer. |
