What have I done!?

[Tomh1966]

Ever have a story idea and it just rockets upward? normally I get a beginning and end and struggle to fill the middle.

I started one Saturday. I know the beginning. The middle. The end. Hell most of it is already outlined with quite a few scene notes.

And I realize its thirty five to seventy thousand words and I have five down.

What have I done!?

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

You've begun an incredible journey of creation and discovery into a previously undiscovered world. Have fun.

 

[SerenaSteeleMonroe]

Get some good treats, keep drinking coffee (piping hot), and pound on those keys, sir or ma'am, he/she them/they. Did I cover all the possibilities?

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

Ever have a story idea and it just rockets upward? normally I get a beginning and end and struggle to fill the middle.

I started one Saturday. I know the beginning. The middle. The end. Hell most of it is already outlined with quite a few scene notes.

And I realize its thirty five to seventy thousand words and I have five down.

What have I done!?

Wow! You're pot-committed with 5k. Gotta see it to the end!

 

[TheWritingGroup]

What have I done!?

Well? Oh, wait, that's the answer to "How have I done?"

-Annie

 

[Tomh1966]

Wrote 3K words in 3 hours and its full of typos because my brain is going faster than i can type. I usually get stuck in the middle.

i have a dozen middle scene ideas.

Still gonna take quite a while. L O N G ass story.

 

[Norogaster]

In Literotica, story writes you.

 

[lovecraft68]

In Literotica, story writes you.

I've said this here in the past, and maybe people think I'm kidding, but my superstitious routine is to every time I write, do what I did the first time I wrote a story. I put my fingers on the keys, close my eyes and say "Tell me a story" and I've always felt that's what happens, I'm being told the story I'm telling and in real time.

 

[lovecraft68]

Get some good treats, keep drinking coffee (piping hot), and pound on those keys, sir or ma'am, he/she them/they. Did I cover all the possibilities?

JD and beef jerky.

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

Ever have a story idea and it just rockets upward? normally I get a beginning and end and struggle to fill the middle.

I started one Saturday. I know the beginning. The middle. The end. Hell most of it is already outlined with quite a few scene notes.

And I realize its thirty five to seventy thousand words and I have five down.

What have I done!?

Welcome to my world.

Have fun getting it all out on the screen!

 

[SerenaSteeleMonroe]

I write bullet outlines, identifying the beginning and ending points and leaving the middle until last. I leave space for the middle and determine every point between the start and finish. But once I start writing, I can take left turns, and I have to figure out the new route when I do.

 

[SerenaSteeleMonroe]

JD and beef jerky.

That'll work.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Ever have a story idea and it just rockets upward? normally I get a beginning and end and struggle to fill the middle.

I started one Saturday. I know the beginning. The middle. The end. Hell most of it is already outlined with quite a few scene notes.

And I realize its thirty five to seventy thousand words and I have five down.

What have I done!?

Do you think this will work as chapters or do you want to publish the full story at one time? My preferences may be different from yours. My longest stand-alone story is about 11,000 words.

 

[Cagivagurl]

Ever have a story idea and it just rockets upward? normally I get a beginning and end and struggle to fill the middle.

I started one Saturday. I know the beginning. The middle. The end. Hell most of it is already outlined with quite a few scene notes.

And I realize its thirty five to seventy thousand words and I have five down.

What have I done!?

Personally, I'm struggling to see the problem????
You're writing, you're obviously enjoying yourself...
A story is as long as it needs to be... So long as you're having fun, let it run it's course...
Longer stories are enjoyed on this site...

Cagivagurl

 

[Rob_Royale]

Ever have a story idea and it just rockets upward? normally I get a beginning and end and struggle to fill the middle.

I started one Saturday. I know the beginning. The middle. The end. Hell most of it is already outlined with quite a few scene notes.

And I realize its thirty five to seventy thousand words and I have five down.

What have I done!?

I'm right there with you. I started a gentle femdom story where a young man will be sexually trained and practiced for nine months, before he can find a woman to court and marry. I'm 16k words into it and just finished the first week. It's definitely going to end up a series, but I'm still going have to shorten up the length of his servitude just to keep it from getting dull.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I asked that very same question when I finished NaNoWriMo last year. It was supposed to be a bottle episode. It ended up exploding into epic fantasy territory due to how huge it became.

Whatever, OP. Don Draper said that life moves in one direction: forward. Jeff Somers from the Writer's Digest paraphrased it into novels move in one direction: forward. Keep on drilling and sculpting that story!

Wrote 3K words in 3 hours and its full of typos because my brain is going faster than i can type. I usually get stuck in the middle.

This is pretty much me telling this to myself too, because I even make a lot of mistakes when I handwrite: embrace the typos. Ghostwriter has the Hemingway Mode feature that disables any way to delete whatever you've written so you keep moving forward. Perfectionism hurts with that thing on, but it leads to finishing a work faster than with that thing off. Trust the process. Things only start to look good when they are five minutes from being done.

I've said this here in the past, and maybe people think I'm kidding, but my superstitious routine is to every time I write, do what I did the first time I wrote a story. I put my fingers on the keys, close my eyes and say "Tell me a story" and I've always felt that's what happens, I'm being told the story I'm telling and in real time.

This is me when I body double, so instead of closing my eyes, I watch the stream and think to myself "tell me a story."

 

[TheLobster]

Ghostwriter has the Hemingway Mode feature that disables any way to delete whatever you've written so you keep moving forward.

GW is my main writing app and I didn’t know that. I should try it, though I’m pretty sure I’d end up with a draft full of [delete last 2 words] markers.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

GW is my main writing app and I didn’t know that. I should try it, though I’m pretty sure I’d end up with a draft full of [delete last 2 words] markers.

 

[ShamBaLa]

Wrote 3K words in 3 hours and its full of typos because my brain is going faster than i can type. I usually get stuck in the middle.

i have a dozen middle scene ideas.

Still gonna take quite a while. L O N G ass story.

Forget the typos. I run the same way. Get it out. Then work from the bottom up correcting spelling. Down side is you find sentences with words so badly mangled you have to read the sentences before it to remember the context.
Then reread from top down. That's where the tweaking happens. Better adjectives. More provocative dialog.
Are you happy doing this? Writing? Score one for you!