How long has a story run you?

[pocketrocket]

It started with a story situation nearly 25 years ago--a girl is hung by her armpits on the top of a wall. Ten years later I worked the method into a short story, which did well here. I worked a couple of other ideas into stories, then let them sit another ten years.

The most recent round began when I decided to tie the stories together, into a long piece. The result was a novel length story. It ended with the guy proposing, the girl texting her best friend--then pulling the battery out of the phone--followed by their first sex. So far, so good. I won an award, Huzzah. But...

I had to do the next day, then the engagement. I decided to make things short by having the wedding in his back yard the next week. Silly me. Two more novel length stories, making a trilogy. Now they are married and getting on a plane to jJoin the Mile High Club. It's a good ending.

Or a beginning. Their honeymoon in Hawaii becomes a vacation from Hell, fourth novel length story. Finally, after two years, I can think of something else to write about. I love the characters I met, but I want to write about someone else for a while. Rereading it all, at least my craft has improved

So, it has been two years, or 25, depending on perspective. How long has one story grabbed you?

 

[jomar]

Ya got me beat. A few years and pending...

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I had a story that started in 1962 to the present day. Forty years or so. Took a year to finish.

I had several other stories that went back to the '70s and '80s, then came forward from there to the present. These took even longer to finish.

I have also written stories that starter out in the present and then went back to the '60s, only to come forward to the present. Time travel is a wonderful thing. These also took a while to write...about a year or so.

 

[Hypoxia]

XYZ Bomber Journal emerged about 20 years ago and was rewritten and posted a few months ago but I wouldn't say that it really simmered the whole time. Bride of Kong started as a screenplay treatment about 15 years ago, festered inconclusively for quite a while, then emerged almost full-blown a year back. The vast majority of my fiction has sprouted in the last 15 months; the only pieces I've been stewing over for years are my old songs, most of which I haven't posted in the Poetry sections here. Just as well.

 

[RejectReality]

The characters in my fantasy world as Darkniciad have been around since the mid 80s, so pushing 30 years. There are certainly stories yet unwritten that will cross over that 30 year mark at my current rate of production

 

[oggbashan]

My first erotic story, fatally flawed, with a hero called Andreas was started in reporters' notebooks in the early 1980s and eventually typed on to a computer running C/PM and Ferranti wordprocessor software.

It was originally stored on a 5.25 360k floppy. I started wordprocessing it in 1986 but I have lost the original versions. One or two early versions might still be on 5.25 floppies in my loft, but without re-assembling and booting an ancient computer that runs 5.25 floppies they are lost. I still have a drastically cut and revised version on my hard drive now but it is beyond salvage as a story.

My first reasonable erotic stories were started in 1990 using an IBM XT running WordStar 1512 and updated to an AT running WordStar 2000+. Those files are still readable because I saved them as WordStar and .txt. Those early stories remain unposted.

My first usable story was 'The Bridesmaids' Revenge' posted on Lit in July 2002, along with several other stories already written. 'The Bridesmaids' Revenge' was started about 1995 and the final version was completed about 2000. It needs, but will never get, substantial revision and editing. I prefer to leave it alone as a historic relic, even if I am tempted to continue to use those characters in their continuing series. The recent adventures of those people has been in the Harold in India series - started in 2002 and finished in August 2014.

I posted several other stories on Literotica in July 2002 but even if they preceded 'The Bridesmaids' Revenge' by a few days on Lit, they were written years or months later than 'The Bridesmaids' Revenge'.

 

[GoldenCojones]

A couple of days

After that I get the urge to write and can't resist

 

[pocketrocket]

This is definitely the place for irresistible urges.

How long has one story been the only thing you could write about?

J

 

[Hypoxia]

Hmmm, if I think of this as a contest for "who has the longest hang-fire", then I can rewrite some old songs of mine into stories that have "run me" since 1968. One describes lovemaking in a garden before boarding a colonization starship. Another, in a Salty Dog chord progression, portrays a rather degenerate family. Others are songs of fugitives and wanderers. Okay, I claim the prize. There's a prize, right?

How long has one story been the only thing you could write about?

A few days, and only if I guilt-trip myself into a mindset of "I *MUST* finish this!" It's not the story itself that obsesses me, but the completion of it, so I can move on. Ah, but I no longer set myself deadlines. When it's done, it's done. What a relief!

 

[robertreams]

I began writing my novel in 1967. I had approximately 200 pages written by 1970, at which time i lost all my belongings n a tragedy. Starting over, three marriages four kids, eight jobs, two careers, I am now on page 320, My aim is to publish by father's day. What does that make it 47 years?

 

[Handley_Page]

It started with a story situation nearly 25 years ago--

So, it has been two years, or 25, depending on perspective. How long has one story grabbed you?

I have one about the same age that I simply cannot finish properly.

 

[oggbashan]

This is definitely the place for irresistible urges.

How long has one story been the only thing you could write about?

J

That only happens when I'm in full flow on a particular story. Normally that would be two or three days at longest.

My 2003 NaNoWriMo challenge Flawed Red Silk was longer. I had set myself the NaNo target of 30,000 words and added my own objective of 'Edited and Posted on Literotica before the end of the NaNoWriMo month'.

I achieved that target but I wrote nothing except Flawed Red Silk during that month. The twelve chapters are stories linked by red silk panties with a beginning and an end - so it was really twelve stories, not twelve chapters.

When I am writing, and real life often gets in the way to cause long gaps, I tend to have at least three or four stories in progress at one time.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I had a story that started in 1962 to the present day. Forty years or so. Took a year to finish.

I had several other stories that went back to the '70s and '80s, then came forward from there to the present. These took even longer to finish.

I have also written stories that starter out in the present and then went back to the '60s, only to come forward to the present. Time travel is a wonderful thing. These also took a while to write...about a year or so.

Then there is a series...The John Abernathy Adventures...six stories about the life and times of John. All six books have the exact same main characters. It took me a long time to finish...6 years or so. Check out my website, the non-erotic one.

 

[49greg]

I've got a non-erotic Sci-fi story that I started back in the late seventies. Originally it was pen on paper. It's gone through half a dozen word processors and still only has about a thousand words, including the outline, and now it's on my hard drive and a flash drive in .odt format.

I look it over every so often and more times than not I put it away and let it ferment a bit more. I doubt I'll ever finish it but who knows.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I've just finished a short based on elements that have been rattling around in my head for almost 20 years, although I only started trying to write it about 12 months ago.

 

[PervOtaku]

After I got my first story written and posted and decided to keep going and write other stories, I started having ideas from years ago percolate back up. Things that at the time I never really intended to do anything with and therefore hadn't thought out to any meaningful extent. One of them wasn't even a set-up for an erotica story, but when I realized I could take the concept, "just add porn", and actually develop it, story ideas instantly started flowing. Another concept didn't even have any characters or story behind it, just a situation and a line of dialogue, and it's inspired another full story that I have in the planning stages.

It's a little weird, I never considered myself as a writer, but after "losing my cherry" so to speak on a story that couldn't be anything other than erotica, I have found myself becoming an erotica writer. All of my ideas either originate from a specific sexual fetish, or don't go anywhere until I hang them onto a framework of sex scenes.