Writing stories in your head at the wrong times.

[dream_yahoozie]

I'm not sure how to title this thread.

But does anyone else come up with story ideas in their heads to write down later at times when it's inappropriate?

Like I'm at work, and I'm envisioning a scene in something I want to create later at home. Or it's to extend a piece I've been stuck on/writers block and the words come to me while I'm driving somewhere.

Is that a me thing or does that happen to anyone else?

 

[ICantLeafYou]

I've had stories come to me while riding the bus, have to open the notes app on my phone and hurriedly write down the lines coming to me.

 

[NotWise]

Can't speak for everyone, but that happens to me.

 

[dream_yahoozie]

Just feels like I'm being a perv around normal people. Like if they could see inside my head, it's all dicks and pussies.

I am a perv, but my coworkers don't know that

 

[NuclearFairy]

Quite often yeah. If they're a strong enough thought they'll stick around till I can get to 'em.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Just feels like I'm being a perv around normal people. Like if they could see inside my head, it's all dicks and pussies.

I am a perv, but my coworkers don't know that

We're all pervs here.

Except maybe that guy, over there, singing in the teapot.

 

[dream_yahoozie]

We're all pervs here.

Except maybe that guy, over there, singing in the teapot.

Wow, thats so weird. And strangely erotic.

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[WCSGarland]

Wow, thats so weird. And strangely erotic.

Achievement Unlocked: 10G New Kink Unlocked

That guy, over there, singing in the teapot sounds erotic? Well, okay, I'm not one to kink-shame.

 

[dream_yahoozie]

That guy, over there, singing in the teapot sounds erotic? Well, okay, I'm not one to kink-shame.

I was trying to make a funny

 

[RetroFan]

I had a similar experience a few years ago when I was writing the story 'Tonya, Tiffany & the Twins', a slacker/surfer dude comedy similar to movies like this popular circa 1987-1994 and accordingly set in 1989.

Before work one morning I wrote a scene in which the grumpy, long-suffering husband/father goes to New York for work, and gets into a fight with a clown (a literal clown running late for a party booking) over a cab, the bad-tempered and abrasive clown pushing the angry father out the way and calling him a 'Goddamn fucking asshole,' before riding away in the cab.

On my way to work the scene kept playing in my head like a movie, and I just could not stop myself laughing, people looked at me like I was crazy.

 

[WCSGarland]

and I wasn't? thanks for puncturing my ego.

 

[dream_yahoozie]

and I wasn't? thanks for puncturing my ego.

It made me LOL out loud

 

[WCSGarland]

Anyway, in response your original post... happens to me all the time. Sometimes I remember what the thought was later long enough to write it down. Sometimes, not. I always figure if it lasts long enough to remember it later, it's worth pursuing.

 

[Bloodandglitter]

I have story ideas pop into my head all the time. A lot of them are at work. I carry a notebook with me so I can jot them down

 

[dream_yahoozie]

Phew. I'm relieved I'm not the only perv here

 

[WCSGarland]

Oddly enough, just today I was thinking about writing a story about a fellow masturbating in his pants and riding home with his wife uncomfortable with the sticky feeling in his underwear.

 

[dirk2024]

Quite often. Sometimes at night after I've gone to bed. Sometimes when I am in the kitchen and cooking. After forgetting many of them, I now text the ideas, sometimes full sentences, to my email.

 

[dirk2024]

Phew. I'm relieved I'm not the only perv here

You're in good company.

 

[SimonDoom]

Happens to me all the time.

Erotic story ideas are like hard-ons. They rise at the most inconvenient times.

 

[SimonDoom]

Phew. I'm relieved I'm not the only perv here

You're not even remotely alone.

If my work colleagues could see what's in my head I'd quickly be terminated for creating a hostile work environment.

 

[WCSGarland]

You're not even remotely alone.

If my work colleagues could see what's in my head I'd quickly be terminated for creating a hostile work environment.

Indeed.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I've had stories come to me while riding the bus, have to open the notes app on my phone and hurriedly write down the lines coming to me.

I've had the same experience, except at work.

--Annie

 

[WCSGarland]

I've had the same experience, except at work.

--Annie

The only problem with having that experience at work is the inability of concentrating on the work you need to get done at that moment. If you're in a meeting... it's not convenient to write your ideas in a notes app on the phone. Argh.

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

My primary job is technical so not much story work gets done there, but my part-time job is manual labor for the exercise and the extra cash. Many of my stories get their start and often a lot of plot development there, but many others are already forgotten by the time I get somewhere I can write them down!

 

[SadieGirl06]

My fantasy will
Never be as good as reality