bare your story

Does a story come to mind that you’d like to bare?

Yes?! Yay! I can’t wait to read it and share it with our community!

You can submit as many stories as you would like to this project; we welcome and would love it!

I invite and encourage you to submit any story that is bold but delicate and that you are brave enough to share to Naked Candor!

Submission guidelines for Naked Candor

Requirements:

  • Submissions must be about your real life experiences, thoughts, struggles, triumphs and/or philosophy about your human experience.
  • Submissions  must contain a minimum of 300 words and should not exceed 1500 words.
  • Submissions should be candid detailed honest stories that clearly communicate and reveal to readers the emotions and sensations of the situation
  • Anonymous submissions must contain your initials or first name and gender
  • Credited submissions should be accompanied by a brief bio (50 words or less) and website link
  • if your stories contain details about situations with other persons please change their names to respect their privacy and protect the guilty/innocent

Here are some ideas to help spark the stories inside of you…

Prompts:

  • Tell the story of something that scares you and how you wish to overcome it or tell the story of how you overcame a fear
  • Tell the story of what it is like to live with addiction or with someone that suffers from addiction
  • Tell the story about some challenges you face as a parent or share a great experience/joy that came to be because you are a parent
  • Share how pursuing a dream that only you believed in has changed your life and the obstacles you’ve faced while staying on course to making it true
  • Tell the story of what you would do and say if you knew that you had only two days left to live
  • Reveal a sexual secret, fantasy, fear or struggle of yours
  • Write an open letter to *him*, *her* or *them* in which you say everything you wish you could say in real life
  • Share your love, sex or life manifesto with the community
  • Submit a true to life sex story about a sexual first, last or trauma
  • Factually accurate prose about real people and events written in a compelling, vivid manner is welcome but fiction is not

Are you ready to bare your story?

Instructions for sending your stories:

  • Email your stories to: la@sexlovejoy.com
  • Subject: Naked Candor Submission
  • Please send only one post per email