plotwork 2

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[mcfbridge]

Plot is everything

To me, plot is everything. Unless you have good characters and a good story, nothing can be erotic. Just describing sex acts to me is boring. What makes it interesting is when you get wrapped up in the story and feel like you know the characters.

 

[Boxlicker101]

To me, plot is everything. Unless you have good characters and a good story, nothing can be erotic. Just describing sex acts to me is boring. What makes it interesting is when you get wrapped up in the story and feel like you know the characters.

To me it's just the opposite, at least most of the time. No plot at all, except for a very brief explanations as to how these two or three or more characters happen to be in bed together. Then, a graphic description of the various sex acts they do with each other, and how everrybody has fun.

On those few stories where I do have a rudimentary plot, I think it out in advance, and work it in between the sex.

 

[sr71plt]

A story idea is still just stewing in my mind until the higher-level arc of a plot, with the plot resolution/theme/hook, is formulated. This can all be very sketchy except for the plot resolution--or at least what I think it will be until/unless a better one comes along in the process. For a short story, my mind has generally worked it out before I'm conscious it has other than that higher-level arc and the plot resolution. But sometimes all I have is the image/flash of an idea that established I wanted to write a story based on that. So, when I have time to write it, I just sit down and start writing and it all comes together--even if what I thought I was going to write changes somewhat in the process. Often, though, I won't sit down to write until I have at least the first sentence in my mind as well.

For novel-length works, I start off with the same grounding as for short stories, but I usually will sketch out what I want to have happen in the first five chapters or so. After getting into the writing, I'll sketch out more chapters, although generally those first five chapters spin out to sometimes twice that many while I'm writing. I almost always have what I want to have happen in the last chapter in my mind too.

I'll also do an initial significant character list, but modify it as I go along.

I never, never, though, outline the work in detail before writing it, and I never, never make detailed character charts. After I get started, the characters/stories take off on their own. They've almost always stayed on point and come up with twists and turns and resolutions that are at least as good as the ones I began with.

About the only time the characters/plot have run away from me as yet was when my first erotic story popped out (essentially the first chapter of "House on Park," posted here at Lit.) I was writing a mainstream murder mystery novel, and the scene got out of hand sexwise. I let it go, chopped that out as essentially my first erotica short story opener, and then finished off the scene as intended without the sex.

 

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[cloudy]

What I'm working on now started out as a character I really liked in need of a plot.

After I let it sit in my mind for awhile, the story she was involved in let itself be known. Then I started writing.

 

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[slyc_willie]

I often start with a scene, or group of related scenes, that have come to mind. It could just be a snippet of dialogue, or certain actions of characters. I can then deduce what's going on based on the impressions I get from those scenes, and the plot sort of molds itself.

 

[hmmnmm]

gotta go with the floppily plotted method

Or just plain old flops.



conflict or the fucking with various opposing shades isn't a bad way to ponder.

Sometimes it's pretty bad.

You just never know. So you try all kinds.

Oops...

 

[cloudy]

Yeah, a cloudy story!

That's what I tend to do. I'm really a character driven writer.

It's a long'un, but hopefully worth the wait.