What's your favorite part of writing a story?

[djserani]

Or novel, or whatever. Is it coming up with the plot? Description? Research? (Which can be damn fun when it's erotica!) Character creation/development?

For me, I love character creation and development. Sometimes, I just have a vague idea about who a character is, but as I start to write them - they're dialog, their attitudes, that sort of thing, they seem to start demanding more from me. Like they tell ME how they're going to be written. And I love when I've written on and my hubby will read it and say something like "so-and-so is great! Where'd you find him?"

So, what about it?

 

[Miss_Pixie]

I'm Something of an odd duck lol. I write first thing in the morning when I'm still half asleep, so my faveorite part of writing is the mad dash to write my whole description/poem/story section written down before I wake up completely.

It's kinda like raiding a treasure chest before I get caught by angry pirates...

 

[Xelebes]

Going around saying that I write stories.

 

[TxRad]

Turning the characters loose and seeing where they go and who they become.

 

[litfan10]

Turning the characters loose and seeing where they go and who they become.

Shit that is exactly it! I love to come up with a situation then come up with some people who would fit in it and just let them take me where they want to go having a hell of an awesome time on the way for both them and me!

 

[Miss_Pixie]

I wrote a vampire once who became a mix on Anne Bolyn, Blanche from the golden girls, and My Aunt... it was decidedly...strange

 

[Handley_Page]

The set-up: Setting the scene.

 

[Miss_Pixie]

Yeah, describing things is pretty cool.

 

[statsultan]

Finishing.

I think Justice Scalia said it best: "I hate the process of writing. I love having written."

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I enjoy researching what I write so that what I write is accurate. Then I take the information and distill it till I have its essence.

 

[Carnevil9]

I like plotting. I do it while I walk in the evening for my exercise. I roll along down the sidewalk, arms pumping and legs chugging, and my brain plans out all the twists and turns of the story. The visuals of the landscape around me serve as inspiration. This is the act of creation for me. Then I sit down later and type out the details, but that is merely mechanical. Deciding just WHAT is going to happen is the godlike part of the experience.

 

[Weird Harold]

The set-up: Setting the scene.

Getting the punchline right.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

i dunno, i've never written a good story.

 

[sr71plt]

The thrill of discovering how much better my mind had already formulated the story before I began to compose than I realized it had.

 

[_Lynn_]

My favorite part?

Writing a story I know is good, without having doubts, without asking my beta reader for an opinion. Not that it happens often.

 

[nerk]

There's a moment when I realize that I have left all my planning and sketches and whatnot behind and I'm completely lost and way off track. The best part is right after that, when I say "to hell with it" and see where it takes me.

 

[jehoram]

My favorite moment comes after it's all put together, when I read it and find that all the parts work, and that it really will be worth the trouble to have written it. That doesn't always happen.

 

[litfan10]

My favorite moment comes after it's all put together, when I read it and find that all the parts work, and that it really will be worth the trouble to have written it. That doesn't always happen.

I don't know; I enjoyed "Ladies Club" and am glad you wrote it

 

[andy_charles]

Finishing.

I think Justice Scalia said it best: "I hate the process of writing. I love having written."

I like plotting. I do it while I walk in the evening for my exercise. I roll along down the sidewalk, arms pumping and legs chugging, and my brain plans out all the twists and turns of the story. The visuals of the landscape around me serve as inspiration. This is the act of creation for me. Then I sit down later and type out the details, but that is merely mechanical. Deciding just WHAT is going to happen is the godlike part of the experience.

These two quotes sum up for me what I love about writing: creating a story and then finishing it. The writing part of it can sometimes be more trouble than it's worth, lol.

 

[Boota]

Writing the first line.

When I write I know the whole story before I even sit down at the computer. I let things live and breathe with spontaneity, but I always know the end I'm working toward. When I'm comfortable with what I've got in mind I make a few quick notes, a short plan. The book is written, just not on the page yet.

When the opening line comes, then it's real.

 

[jehoram]

I don't know; I enjoyed "Ladies Club" and am glad you wrote it

I'm glad I wrote it, too. That was one of the stories I wasn't sure would work. It really needed the part about Maria's background, to give her some depth.

There'll be three more chapters by and by; one's in the hopper right now.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Never mind.

 

[HeyAll]

The plot, making something that's not just 2 people fucking, but actually something that's much more erotic.

Gettin from X to Y in an incest story is also intersting. Meaning, developing a way that the taboo gets broken.