Have a couple of questions

[Tech_Director]

I'm currently writing the third part of a story and as usual, I get thoroughly involved in it as I'm writing - Moreso with this one because it's mostly true.

What I want to know is whether the rest of you find yourselves holding your breath when writing some of the more intense parts or am I just an anomaly?

Oh, and speaking of my other writing, have any of your characters ever done something different than what you intended while writing just because it felt right as you typed it out?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I write cinematic scenes, and if the scene doesn't 'work' I dump it.

I change all the time, because better ideas come along all the time.

 

[litfan10]

I'm currently writing the third part of a story and as usual, I get thoroughly involved in it as I'm writing - Moreso with this one because it's mostly true.

What I want to know is whether the rest of you find yourselves holding your breath when writing some of the more intense parts or am I just an anomaly?

Oh, and speaking of my other writing, have any of your characters ever done something different than what you intended while writing just because it felt right as you typed it out?

Hey Tech Director.

It doesn't happen to me often enough but I love when I get hooked by what I'm writing and I'm more of a reader with typing hands. Definitely some holding of breath. Enjoy the feeling - that's why we write.

As for your other question I've had the opposite happen where I get a loud voice in my head going "No, no, no, no." I've learned to stop and listen and look over what I'm doing and wait for the character to tell me what s/he does want to do. Invariably s/he does, and it is far better and truer than where I was going with the scene.

Very happy writing to you

 

[jomar]

Oh, and speaking of my other writing, have any of your characters ever done something different than what you intended while writing just because it felt right as you typed it out?

Hell yeah, my first story took a surprising turn, not that it felt right, it's just what happened.

 

[sr71plt]

No and yes.

 

[SamScribble]

I don't think that I ever know what my characters are going to do until they do it. The stuff I write for Lit, I write because I want to find out what happens.

 

[Hypoxia]

I have plans. My characters laugh at such plan and do what they want. The only time I have trouble is when they don't tell me what they're doing. Then I'm stuck. I miss the voices in my head.

 

[Black_and_White_Writer]

I'm currently writing the third part of a story and as usual, I get thoroughly involved in it as I'm writing - Moreso with this one because it's mostly true.

What I want to know is whether the rest of you find yourselves holding your breath when writing some of the more intense parts or am I just an anomaly?

Oh, and speaking of my other writing, have any of your characters ever done something different than what you intended while writing just because it felt right as you typed it out?

Oh yes. Some characters have taken a real "right-turn" so to speak... it's fun too most times. I think if you don't hold your breath or get excited, or aroused when writing no one else will.

I know a young lady who writes erotica and takes longer than she says she should – simply because she's known to stop and have a 'play-break'.

Lucky lady

 

[ElectricBlue]

Many of my characters regularly show they have minds of their own, and my job is just to write down what they are doing. My narrators regularly steal my women, too, and as the author, I wonder if I'll ever get them back!

 

[GriffyD_Boy]

I'm currently writing the third part of a story and as usual, I get thoroughly involved in it as I'm writing - Moreso with this one because it's mostly true.

What I want to know is whether the rest of you find yourselves holding your breath when writing some of the more intense parts or am I just an anomaly?

Oh, and speaking of my other writing, have any of your characters ever done something different than what you intended while writing just because it felt right as you typed it out?

I can't say I've ever held my breath while writing, but as for characters doing stuff different than what I intended-- all too often. It's one of the joys of writing.

 

[robertreams]

We've talked about this before. My characters almost always wind up doing their own thing. Not too long ago I created this beautiful young character. One chapter later he threw himself in Lake Michigan, trying to leave my story before he even got going. I had to invent a whole other character to save him.

I have discovered that if one creates real (true to life) characters, they will act stupidly, irrationally, just like real people.

I can't hold my breath because I have severe COPD, but I often find myself holding my cock.

 

[Tech_Director]

We've talked about this before. My characters almost always wind up doing their own thing. Not too long ago I created this beautiful young character. One chapter later he threw himself in Lake Michigan, trying to leave my story before he even got going. I had to invent a whole other character to save him.

I have discovered that if one creates real (true to life) characters, they will act stupidly, irrationally, just like real people.

I can't hold my breath because I have severe COPD, but I often find myself holding my cock.

Laughing REALLY hard here in real time even as I type this.

That's not exactly what I was expecting but seriously, I have found myself sitting down to write what I THOUGHT was going to be a chapter about say...one character killing another (historical military fiction) and by the time I'm done either the one originally doing the killing is dead or the one that was supposed to be dead is somehow still alive. I don't know, maybe it's some kind of possession that makes my fingers compose other words on the keyboard. LOL

 

[Tech_Director]

By The Way

I just would like to say a big thank you for everyone that has come in here and taken the time to reply and comment. You have helped me grow a little and learn more.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I started one, actually finished after the surprise turn. After that I hated where it had gone, so I never posted it and it sits on my hard drive waiting for me to change it.

That was over a year ago.

 

[Tech_Director]

I started one, actually finished after the surprise turn. After that I hated where it had gone, so I never posted it and it sits on my hard drive waiting for me to change it.

That was over a year ago.

I can empathize. Something similar happened to me.

 

[CyranoJ]

What I want to know is whether the rest of you find yourselves holding your breath when writing some of the more intense parts or am I just an anomaly?

In a way, those parts are the worst for me because they always wind up being the clumsy bits that I have to cut or very seriously prune. On the other hand they typically provide the impetus to actually finishing a story, whether they actually wind up in the story or not, so I guess they have their uses.

 

[NaokoSmith]

As I write, I do get very excited and involved. I do my first draft by hand, so I sometimes realise my fingers are cramped I've got so into the writing. I feel so nervous, I know that the idea I have in my head is not going to come (ho ho!) out on the page quite how I imagined it. I always worry it's not going to be near enough to the perfection I envisaged. Occasionally I write something better than I had originally imagined, that's a great feeling.

I am quite directive about my stories. As a feminist I'm usually taking some (stupid) storyline and giving it a twist, so characters have to be good submissives. However like a good Domme, I try to give them what they really want - not what they imagine they want. Sometimes when I read something back later, I think: 'oh I know where that bit came from, well I didn't expect that experience to inform my writing this story like that.'