Blog to display one category/omit that category

The first part of my question has essentially been answered with this: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-to-display-blog-page-with-one-category

But what I now want to know is how do I set up my main blog to omit that category?

Basically I’m trying to have two blogs: ‘Stories’ and.. one containing everything else. ‘Stories’ won’t show the other categories and the main blog won’t show ‘Stories’.

The code I’m using is below:

get_header();

if ( is_page() ) {
$paged = get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts( 'post_type=post&paged=' . $paged );
}

?>
<div id="main" class="site site-with-sidebar">
<div id="content" class="site-content"><?php

    if ( have_posts() ) :

        while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
            /**
             * Include the Post-Format-specific template for the content.
             */
            get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );

        endwhile;

        if ( $wp_query->max_num_pages > 1 ) :
            fluxus_content_paging();
        endif;

    else :

        get_template_part( 'no-results', 'index' );

    endif; ?>
</div>

<?php get_sidebar( 'blog' ); ?>