What are we all writing right now?

I also have multiple stories at various stages, as many as 14 (most being recent, some going back years). I'm starting to feel bad about that, as I'm thinking that I need to quit messing around and bring one or two of them to a complete first draft. The one that's closest and that I'm most interested in right now is an erotic horror tale set in the 14th century. However, that's also taking the most research and work to make it at least halfway decent, even if only for a first complete draft.
 
Ohhh @EmilyMiller has returned. Darn it, we forgot to organise the welcome back party.

Oh, dear god, @EmilyMiller is back. That means @onehitwanda will be out of control, the double entendres in this place will multiply like randy mice, the lesbians will be happy, and the straight dudes like me who get off on happy hot lesbian talk will chime in with their bad puns and cringy limericks. And Lovecraft will be there to disapprove of the whole damn thing.
 
Oh, dear god, @EmilyMiller is back. That means @onehitwanda will be out of control, the double entendres in this place will multiply like randy mice, the lesbians will be happy, and the straight dudes like me who get off on happy hot lesbian talk will chime in with their bad puns and cringy limericks. And Lovecraft will be there to disapprove of the whole damn thing.
I’m a serious grown up woman, Simon. Unlike certain authors of lesbian erotica, whose name might rhyme with blonder.
 
I’m a serious grown up woman, Simon. Unlike certain authors of lesbian erotica, whose name might rhyme with blonder.
I know you are. My remark isn't meant as a reflection on you but on the perpetual ridiculousness of this place, which gives me great satisfaction and makes me shake my head in bemusement at the same time.
 
Oh, dear god, @EmilyMiller is back. That means @onehitwanda will be out of control, the double entendres in this place will multiply like randy mice, the lesbians will be happy, and the straight dudes like me who get off on happy hot lesbian talk will chime in with their bad puns and cringy limericks. And Lovecraft will be there to disapprove of the whole damn thing.
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Sorry, Em, I couldn't help myself. 😁

Welcome back.
 
I'm taking a break from my WIPs to write a short story that my SO thinks is weirder than any of my stories about tentacles. I'm hoping it'll break up the blockage with the WIPs though and let me get back to one of them. Ya know, instead of having to add a fourth WIP to the list.
 
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Sorry, Em, I couldn't help myself. 😁

Welcome back.
Only just saw that…



Reluctantly, I held out my hand. "You can't see my wings."

"Yeah, I can, Obi-Wan," Penny replied, now even more puzzled.

'What the actual fuck?' I thought.

"Lily is not an angel," I intoned.

"So, you're what? A fairy? A fae? A good witch? And why do you refer to yourself in the third person?"

Shit, was I malfunctioning? Experimentally, I pointed a finger at a bottle of water on the room's coffee table. A bolt of blue lightning flashed out, a puff of steam rose, and there was a smell of vaporized plastic. Hmm... that was working fine, and I'd also managed to discharge a little excess Divine Grace.

"Whoa! You're like, Palpatine," exclaimed Penny.

"Hopefully more Rey," I replied somewhat ruefully.
 
My first story is largely auto-biographical and I have more I want to pursue there but I've kind of hit a wall and started working on an alt-history "If the South had won" modern slavery tale. My heroine, Liberty, is the daughter of an escaped slave who wrote a revered book on the evils of slavery and his personal story really ridicules his clownishly dissolute former owner and owner's son who was once a childhood friend, (and likely brother). Liberty has been a worldwide celebrity and the darling of anti-slavery activists since infancy.

But a nuclear exchange in the Middle East, almost simultaneous to the rise of fracking, has propelled the backward and barely solvent Old Confederacy to global economic pre-eminence. And following the death of her father Liberty's step-mother arranges for her to fall into the clutches of her first cousin and, under Confederate law, legal owner.

Has this been done?
 
I have a Summer Lovin’ idea, I have written about 1,000 words. And now I’m stuck. But I’m used to letting my subconscious work on the story while I busy myself with something else. It will be fine.
 
And, as I’m here. About 90% of the way to a complete draft of my first novel. Currently just over 79,000 words written. Scary as fuck, TBH. Reactions to the 15,000 words of Part I have been positive so far. So wish me luck!
Novels are hard. so much to keep track of. Mine topped out at about 97,000 words and approx. 3k got cut out of that before publication. It took me three years, off and on... meaning it took me a year longer to write than it was available for purchase. It was published in 2012 and by time we hit 2014, the publisher was gone. I'm now searching for a new publisher for it.
 
Novels are hard. so much to keep track of. Mine topped out at about 97,000 words and approx. 3k got cut out of that before publication. It took me three years, off and on... meaning it took me a year longer to write than it was available for purchase. It was published in 2012 and by time we hit 2014, the publisher was gone. I'm now searching for a new publisher for it.
I have no ambitions to publish commercially, it’s mostly as a) I had an idea I couldn’t let go and b) I wanted to see if I could actually write that long of a story coherently and sustaining interest. I’ve been writing it for about eight months, but with long tracts of time when I left it to one side and did other stuff.
 
I see this this thread get bumped all the time, and I finally have something new and exciting to share.

I'm working on a homo erotic story about Pro Wrestling. Except in this world, Pro Wrestling is not only REAL, it's the number one sport in the world. It's in the Olympics, there's competing wrestling leagues around the globe, and in America 'Alpha Dog Wrestling' is the number one league where all the toughest guys wanna compete.

I thought of the concept when I was thinking how funny it'd be if instead of Wins/Loses there was Tops/Bottoms, and when a guy Tops/Wins, he claims his victory by topping his opponent and giving them their Bottom in the center of the ring in front of thousands of screaming fans.

The story will follow Timmy, a little dweeb working on his associates degree for physical health, and he trains at Suplex Academy and gets a shot in ADW after the interwebs demand diversity and forcing Alpha Dog officials to higher small guys as well as start a female league. So will he be the ultimate underdog? Pulling out amazing victories, and shocking the crowd? Or will he go on to rack up the most Bottoms in ADW history? And be crowned the worst wrestling of all time?

I don't know yet, but I'm pretty sure Timmy's gonna win no matter if it's on record or in his heart.
 
My latest went live on the 2nd, and so far is doing well. The title is "Lisa and Mr. And Mrs. Jones." The original title was "Mr. And Mrs. Jones, We Got A Thing, Goin' On." But that was too long for Literotica.*

https://www.literotica.com/s/lisa-and-mr-and-mrs-jones

*Too good of a straightline to pass up!:

That's what she said.

I bet they don't hear that very often around this place.

That's the sort of thing you never hear, down at the Man Hole Club.

Oh, and here's Lisa, the MC of the story. It would have been included in the story, but I had not yet discovered the program that let me generate this image.
 

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Too many things…

  1. Finishing my novel
  2. A high school-based story (yeah prompted by that thread), but with a difference
  3. A possible short Coleoidphila sequel / crossover
  4. My Dark Fairytales story (which is just an outline at present)
 
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