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Coming Tuesday, March 17th from the minds of Burning Down The House, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, and Welcome to the New World: an exciting new story event:
Highway Song
Here's more from organizer blackrandl1958:
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Action, adventure, romance, all improved by sexy interludes, and even more exciting, road trips! Maybe trains, ships, or flying the very friendly skies. Automobiles with the mysteries of the back seat explored, or stopping for the night at a romantic location. It's all there in our annual St. Patrick's Day event. This one is called "Highway Song," named in honor of the song by Blackfoot.
If you like a sexy road trip, with danger, romance and adventure along the way, we offer you these stories.
Thank you to the wonderful readers, without whom we would be writing for the audience of ourselves. We also thank Literotica for hosting our stories, and Laurel, who is always so helpful and kind as we put these events together. We hope you enjoy our stories.
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Participating authors include:
1. Ahazura
34. Woodmanone
This event is an Invitational, which means it is not open to submissions. If you're interested in participating in an open author challenge - or want to find out more about them - please see this thread.
And a special thank-you to blackrandl1958 for the above text - for arranging this very special day and a HUGE thank-you to all participating authors!
So mark Tuesday, March 17th on your calendar for Highway Song!
- COMMENTS
Anonymousabout 4 years agoto see that some of the very fine authors, who are amongst my favorites, were unable to participate. Hopefully, next time. Thanks Randi for all the great work you do on this site.
Harddaysknightabout 4 years agoburied in the depths of LW. Perhaps it could be moved to romance or even anal, in honor of the commenters who dislike the concept of an invitation.
Anonymousabout 4 years ago....because I meet none of blackrandi1958’s criteria. And I fully support her stand and her standards. Y’all whiners need to grow up.
But under any circumstances, I should not be invited for a lot of other reasons. The biggest, is that I am not a contributor. And even if I were, I would not expect to be included because I had contributed a story or two, or even 50. They need to rank well and draw a considerable following.
Besides, if it were my party, I’d be somewhat discriminating about who I’d invite...wouldn’t you?
And further, I’d not likely invite all the same folks every time. Variety makes for better social interaction.
That all said, if your feelings are hurt because you aren’t one of the cool people or whatever your perception of the slight may be....don’t whine.....DO something positive about it! Find out what the audience likes and write stories like that.
Too many contributors want to take ownership of the audience mindshare. Sorry, won’t ever happen. This is one of the most democratic places on earth.
If you write what you like and don’t find a strongly positive response, oh well. You can’t hold others hostage to your preferences. And you might think you’ve written the Next Great Story, but if it rates below a 4, the audience clearly does not agree. And since audience acceptance IS EVERYTHING in the literary world, you need to suck it up and do it better and different until you understand and produce what others like.
One well known contributor here (whom I particularly appreciate) states categorically that his writing is more for his own healing and catharsis than for any audience appreciation. In short, he doesn’t give a flying turd about public opinion. That’s his right. It happens that his stories and style appeal to a modest portion of the audience and so he has a following. He hasn’t contributed in some time, and I for one wish he would, but he will or won’t as his needs dictate.
I hope to become a contributor in the not too distant future, but I doubt that I will ever get an invitation to one of these. For the next while I work under a set strict security restrictions, so cannot register as an identifiable member.
So, until I hang up my clearance, die or retire, I remain part of the great (as in large), hated juggernaut audience block known as Anonymous.
But I still LOVE blackrandi1958’s invitationals!
sbrooks103xabout 4 years agoGood one stev2244! For that matter, there's nothing to stop a writer from writing a story on the event theme, and submitting it around the time of the event.
On HDK's party analogy, when people have friends over for a party, do they leave the door open for anyone passing to join?
Harddaysknightabout 4 years agothat I love these invitationals, those who participate, those who read and comment and especially those who bitch and moan. I addressed this obvious lack or social comprehension in a brilliant short story titled "It's My Party" ( https://www.literotica.com/beta/s/its-my-party-4 )
By definition, an invitation is "a written or verbal request inviting someone to go somewhere or to do something". Randi is having a literary party and invited people she wished to have attend. When anonymous has a party, he can invite whomever he wants. The obvious difference is people clamor to wrangle an invitation to Randi's hoedown. Anonymous would have difficulty getting quality writers to attend his fandango.
The mystery is not why Randi invited people she wanted to participate. The mystery is why so many anonymous readers cannot understand the meaning of the word invitation. If someone was forced to admit a person to an event, it would not be an invitation. Surely you can see that, but apparently not.
I do look forward to these events and the discussion leading up to them. The solution to not receiving an invite is to start writing quality stories and become known as a skilled writer and/or story teller. If you really had any passion on this subject, you would go through all of the hard work and spend all the time Randi does to make it work. No one else on Literotica has, or will, devote the time, talent and energy to do what Randi does. It's much easier to stand on the sidelines and complain. How's that working out for you so far? Thanks so much, Randi!
