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Unfortunately, after overhearing that whispered conversation, I lost my nerve & didn't dive again. My buddy David told me the next day that several of the girls there had been aware of my swimsuit falling down during the dives. Of course, the chlorinated water would have partially obscured their ...

lovestosplooge wrote: Wed Mar 04, 2026 12:40 pm How old was she?

She can't have been older than 10 but she was quite tall for her age and had a really pretty face.

English isn't my native language and I don't speak it fluently. Is it okay if I post in another language?


You can. Alternatively you can write a story in your native language and then use a translator to switch it into English (running a brief proofreading before posting). Other people have ...

Until recently I usually slept naked.

This may sound like a silly question but I ask it sincerely -- for anyone who sleeps nude: How did it not drive you crazy?

I tried a couple of times in my late teens and early 20s to sleep naked but I couldn't handle it. Whenever I would move in the night ...

I get the annoyance, you read a story you think it's going to be your perfect cup of tea... and instead the author goes another direction or has a quirky unsatisfying ending in your opinion.

However! You got to remember that we all write for ourselves 'mostly', this is not a job and although the ...

The modern obsession with subverting expectations famously destroyed the last two seasons of Game of Thrones and has been a general problem among actual professional writers for many years now. It's going to show up here from time to time as writers chicken out of an ending or event because a ...

NudeBaG wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2026 9:34 pm ....
But a lot of times, we also see ‘what do you think should happen next?’
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Generally that means (with a very small percentage of exceptions) that the story will never be completed

I've had comments say that such and such a scene should have gone differently; that would have made it a different story to what I wanted to write.

I've also had stories that I thought had reached a satisfactory conclusion only for a clamour of what happens next. I once wrote a story where after ...

The modern obsession with subverting expectations famously destroyed the last two seasons of Game of Thrones and has been a general problem among actual professional writers for many years now. It's going to show up here from time to time as writers chicken out of an ending or event because a ...

From my point of view, a well-written story SHOULD lend itself to events and moments being predicted because that displays that the characters and settings involved are well-defined enough for the plot to flow naturally and not require forcing.

And following from that, if there is a subversion ...