Starting without an end vision
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lovecraft68
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Go for it. Just start it and as you move along perhaps you will get the vision of the ending. If nothing else great practice and you'll develop your skills.
Thank you. I'll get going. I never written a story before and this idea has been appealing to me more and more. I have my characters, and my starting point, they have backgrounds and I know what's going to happen in the short term, but in their future? I have no idea.
lovecraft68
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If they have been coming to you more and more, than you have met your Muse. Do not deny the Muse they will make you pay.
Get started and it will all fall into place.
Good luck and when you get something done post it to the feedback forum if you want some opinions.
Welcome to the AH by the way.
mynameisben
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Go ahead and start writing it. The worst that can happen is your story will go nowhere. But if you don't get started, that worst that can happen is guaranteed.
sr71plt
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Some write successfully that way, yes. It has its dangers, though--primarily in inviting verbosity that goes nowhere and doesn't serve the plotline. Of course, even those who start with an end goal in mind don't wind up with that ending for their story--and it works out just fine anyway.
Thank you all. I'm really excited by this new venture and I have a real life muse who was my starting inspiration, though it isn't actually about him, I have told him he is my muse. He thinks this whole venture is hilarious and until he's read it I don't think he will truly believe I'm writing. I haven't told my girlfriend yet, since my story isn't lesbian (we're a lesbian couple), I don't think she'll understand.
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PILOT is LOVEBOATS Muse. Theyre like Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
lovecraft68
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No, my muse is not Pilot, my ideas are not stale and formulaic.
And on that note you are getting to be quite the shadow of both of us. Three's a crowd JB
sr71plt
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Which is a good thing. Stay above the snake pit aspects of the forum, and your blood pressure will thank you.
mynameisben
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It's an ongoing lover's tiff. Nothing for you to worry about.
Boxlicker101
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This is the right forum if you are asking for advice on how to continue the story. If you are suggesting a story for somebody else to write, there is a separate forum for that. If you are looking for a co-author, this is the right place, but you may not find one.
By the way, welcome to Literotica and to the Authors' Hangout.
Boxlicker101
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So far as the fueds among individual authors, yes, that describes it. However, if you really need advice,k this is the place for it.
It helps to have an idea as to how the story is going to end, but it isn't really necessary. Sometimes the characters decide for themselves what they want to do, and you are stuck with that. As for my stories, they end up with everybody cumming, so my only task is getting them to that desirable point.
lovecraft68
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Exactly. Pilot and I both replied to your post in a sincere fashion.
JBJ jumped in to muck up shit.
I generally do not need much help and Pilot is wroth with me because I do not accept his omnipotence. That's about it in a nutshell.
And much like your current vision for your story there is no clear end in sight for good ol' SR and myself.
Now, learn your first lesson, do not get drawn in here as a distraction, get to writing that story!
Then you can give your girl friend a big ol' in your face!
Ohhh that could be a plot bunny. Hmmm....
I started a story a year ago, which has gone through seven years of the characters' lives and covered 9 long episodes, and I still don't know when it's going to finish. But I write to please myself. So get going and WRITE! You'll enjoy it. You might even become obsessed with it. That's what's happened to me.
lovecraft68
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This is the thing with a muse. It is possible the story is not meant to be happy. But again that will clarify as you move along. I had two endings in mind for mine. One happy, one tragic, I went right up to the last couple of chapters before I decided.
lovecraft68
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Don't fret your word count. There are people who have stories that are shorter than what you have already written and others that go 10+ Literotica pages.
To answer a question that you may eventually ask, a Lit page is roughly 3700 or so words. So it is not equal to a page on a word doc.
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Notice that PILOTS lips never move when CO-PILOT speaks.
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Use the number of words that it takes to tell the story.
Roughly 6 word pages to a Lit page, is a down and dirty way to figure it.
Very seldom do I have an ending when I get a story idea. Sometimes the Muse will fill it in later or the characters will take you there. Happy writing and welcome to the madhouse of the AH.
Oh and please disregard the guy above me. he says he is a writer but has nothing posted to lit. His normal place around here is a troll. Just stating shit for the fun of it.
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Stella_Omega
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One way to do that is to end on a happy-for-now note.
I've done that-- my two characters realistically had nothing to offer each other beyond a few months of being fuck buddies. I wrote about their meeting and first sex experience. It ended with them agreeing to meet again. That made a satisfying ending, in the context of the one episode...
Don't even worry about that yet! Just write ALL of the words. You can ask for editing help later.
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