Below is my Smut Marathon round 7 submission. I did okay this round. If it were up to the judges, I would almost be out of the running…they didn’t really like it. In fact, I think I was 5 or 6 from the bottom in points this round. The public vote was a bit different.…
Here is the full text of my Smut Marathon round #6 entry. I had to cut a lot of it to get to the required 650 words (I have posted that version at the bottom). The Fortune Cookie (title in Smut Marathon was “Your Fortune Awaits”) From outside, the restaurant looked inauspicious: brick, painted glossy…
I’m doing my feedback for round six of the Smut Marathon a little differently, just to provide a window into how I go about choosing. Read-through #1: My first read-through is about seeing what jumps out at me. I read quickly, just letting the characters and plots and descriptions wash over me. This is an…
Yours This one is short and powerful. Cutting, from the male perspective…which is not something I’ve seen a whole lot of. Brilliant writing, from Violet Fawkes of Fire and Honey. I have gone back and read this story several times, but finally had to cut myself off (pun sort of intended) because it slayed me…
With the latest release of Smut Marathon stories to review, I figure I have put off my promised “constructive feedback” post for long enough. Since it is what I do on a regular basis at work, writing a post like this feels a bit like writing an educational manual, but I’ll try to keep it…
