Whatcha doin'?

[Ewobbit]

What are you actively writing today, if anything? And what's the hold-up getting it done?

Currently, I have several in a holding pattern that I can't resist working on or tweaking (or maybe "twerking"?), but can't quite seem to finish out.

1.) "Two Dog Nights" - Twisted November/April romance. He's a battle scarred and battle fatigued widower. She's an escapee (not runaway since she's eighteen + one month) from abusive and sexually abusive foster situations. Snowed in together for seven days (Stockholm syndrome anyone?)

Holdup - Way too bogged down in details. She's deaf. He doesn't have electricity(but does have gas and water) ergo no lights. Ergo no "conversation" after dark. Just as an example. Also the emotional baggage. He has to be "safe", giving her the opportunity to be the aggressor.

2.) "Friendly Favor" - He (mid-thirties) is actually after Mom (mid-forties), but she asks him to take daughter (nineteenish) on first date. Daughter is actually somewhat of a savant, graduated HS early and is graduating college and about to move on to MIT for grad school.

Holdup - Again with the baggage. This time, more of trying to hit the right combination of intelligence in other areas while maintaining social ineptness for the daughter. (She ran away, yelling, from the only other person to ask her out on a date.) And then, there is the whole seduction of Mom while daughter is attempting to seduce him (not at the same time, sorry guys).

3.) "Lunch Lady" - A thirtyish, you guessed it, school lunch room worker dealing with "empty nest" is seduced by a recent graduate. Ironically, the graduate is the "legitimate" son of the father of her "illegitimate" son.

Holdup - Mainly, I didn't really want to do this one. But, it keeps cropping up while I'm working on the others. At this rate, it's probably going to end up being done first. Although, I am having some issues with nailing the right "flavor" of the female POV protagonist wrestling with temptation.

4.) "Class Project" - A "nontraditional" student (28) wrestling with sex addiction is required to take a class in human sexuality in order to graduate college. His three other group members are confirmed misandristic lesbian (23), bi party girl (22), and virgin-waiting-for-marriage (21). A final project which has been put off until the last moment is due, and then he will be "safe". But, the fiancée of the virgin cheated on her, sparking a dangerous situation when the bi party girl decides to have some fun and show the virgin what she's been missing.

Holdup - I very much wanted this one to be straight up porn with no fuss and no muss. Particularly after wrestling with the baggage inherent in the others. No such luck.

5.) "Hello World" - At first intended to be an entrant in Golden_Maia's impromptu "Star Wars Month" Sci-Fi contest, this one got away from me. Upon death, a guy donates his body to science. Only, the scientists weren't very interested in the rest of it, just his brain. Is he dead if there is activity in the disembodied brain? Is this heaven? Is this hell?

Holdup - The first stages where he back hacked and took control of the computers went better than I thought. The voyeuristic hacking of phones and computers to peep on people went too well. Scarily too well. That shit is way too easy. </shudder> But, I went off the rails when he took control of an OhMiBod during a Web show and ended up harming the girl (twenty-seven orgasms). And he was building multiple robot bodies! Complete with piston driven vibrators! Two each! That's the point when I went "oh, shit" and stopped for a rethink. First, I didn't figure Laurel would let that squeak past. And second, I didn't like the stalkerish way it was trending towards Erotic Horror. (Think "Terminator" or "Caprica" crossed with a dual-donged "Fuck Machine". )

I've got several others in various plotting and planning stages, including one very weird one for nude day, but those are the ones that have crossed the 100k benchmark. And the ones that are open in a cascade as I pause in working on them to type this...

So, what are you writing on today? And is the only holdup that you can't stay away from the forums o) or something else?

 

[sr71plt]

- "Poison Pen," set in a winery near Cape Town, South Africa, for an "African Tails" short story collection. (A parallel to the Jezabel story in the Bible.)

- "Dear Joanna," set in 1980, including a progression of letters home to the protagonist's fiancee as he travels to South Africa to work as an accountant for a firm growing produce to supply ships going around the Horn of Africa but having just discovered diamond and gold deposits. The further in distance and time from England the protagonist gets the more is interest in the woman he's left in England turns to men he encounters aboard the RMS Dunaottar Castle and in the field in South Africa, also for an "African Tails" short story collection.

- "Determined Faith." During the period Angola was communist, an American Protestant missionary is falsely accused of having sex with an Angolan male convert to neutralize his evangelism and is thrown in jail with the convert--where he winds up having sex with the convert. Also for an "African Tails" short story collection.

- An as-yet-unnamed Dirk Hessian story on New York City under British siege and occupation in the Revolutionary War and of a young man spying for the revolutionaries by having sex with British military officers. This is a third of a trilogy and will be published separately in e-book form, but together in print with the previously published e-books "Colonel's Treasure" and "To the Hessian Hills" under the title "Dirk's American's Founding Collection." This, in turn is volume one in a trilogy of paperbacks of Dirk Hessian books on American history (the two later volumes already finished and waiting for this last novella to be written).

 

[Handley_Page]

Swearing fit to bust at me lack of e-mail support.

 

[Bramblethorn]

A long technical paper. Not very sexy, alas.

 

[lovecraft68]

Finally started the sequel to my Halloween entry Abigail

This one will be a little lighter on the Lesbian erotica but even higher on the violence and gore than the original.

 

[GoldenCojones]

"Chad's Choice" - A little spin off from "Lily Want's a Baby" - Chad, aka Lilly's baby-daddy, finds out Lilly is married and breaks it off only to meet two polar opposites. One a thick, beautiful, over-sexed red-head and the other a sweet, petite, loving brunette. He must choose.

Oh, what's holding me up? Nothing, I'm just a slow-assed writer.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Things are actually going fairly well. I've got a short short story in a literary vein that seems to be coming together and I'm chipping away at my entry for the Nude Day Contest.

 

[coldwater1]

I've got several others in various plotting and planning stages, including one very weird one for nude day, but those are the ones that have crossed the 100k benchmark. And the ones that are open in a cascade as I pause in working on them to type this...

Holy shit. You have 5 stories over 100k in work at once?

Well, I feel pathetic with my one 11k chapter that I am just finishing up. It is chapter 2 of "Virtual Life Experience." I have decided there will be only 3 chapters. I guess long stories aren't my thing.

The holdup? Actually, I think it's done, but I won't post until June 1 in fairness to the other contestant in the aforementioned Golden Maia contest. That and I'm still not completely sure if I'm breaking it at the right place between Chapter 2 and 3. I've created a bit of a cliff hanger.

 

[StrangeTamer]

I'm still working on my first story, it's almost done. I have two scenes left to write and I should pass 20000 words tonight. Its a lesbian love story between a sex goddess and a mortal female who is to become another sex goddess and her introduction to the magical world. I also have two ideas writen out for future adventures with the same characters. I know it's long for a first story but I didn't want to do chapters, I wanted each story to be a complete story. Not really any hold up, I type slow and sometimes I get a lot done in an evening and sometimes its just a sentence or two. Its also sometimes hard to transfer to the keyboard what the voices in my head are telling me to write.

 

[TxRad]

Busy building boats. Rigging one for a customer. Should have it finished in the morning so I'll take it out for a test run. I'll set out my noddles while I try out the outboard, trolling motor, and depth finder. A mess of catfish wouldn't be bad.

Writing wise, I just started a new mainstream novel. I have the first 18k words plus a short outline to my editor to see what she thinks of the idea.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

I've been working on a brother/sister incest piece where they are both grown adults before they start getting it on. I'm enjoying the challenge of them knowing better. I'm nearing 25K and it probably still has another 8-10K to go.

Hold up? Well, two things. 1) Real life keeps getting in the way. 2) The characters. I'm doing my best to keep it grounded, which means I've chased quite a few dead-ends. I really should learn how to outline before I start writing.

 

[sr71plt]

Well, I did get one 6,400-word story written today.

 

[Sammael Bard]

I'm wrapping up the plot of my multiple character driven drivel. Trying to figure out a story from POVs of multiple characters will be a pain in the arse, but I think I can nail this one.

I have written a mighty 1000 words for the Sci Fi story, but it isn't as good as I want it to be. Maybe I'll improvise later on.

Also, my hand has returned to it's normal state. I think I'll be able to type with both my hands from now on.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

HAVE A NICE DAY is the title. So far 25K words are down but 30K is likely what it will be at the end.

In a nutshell, a killer recently paroled from prison is hot on the trail of the first female President. Everyone thinks he wants to kill the President, but his real target is the leader of the woman's Secret Service Protection Team. The Secret Service Leader knows the score, and engineers a lesbian romance with the President to make it hard for the killer to get at her. But he does, right under the noses of the SS guards.

The killer was a rookie cop when the story opens. He gets sexually involved with the wife of a politician. The wife is an exhibitionist.

THE HOLD UP: Its a long effort for me, and I write in shits & farts.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Lakota Johnson - a post apocalyptic story about a group of people trying to survive. 35,000 words in after about five years. The ebb and flow of words comes and goes. I have about 3,000 words written in the past week. Yeah, that slow.

Brotherhood of Janus: Council Business - A continuation of the Janus series. 30,000 words in and haven't written a word in a month.

O'Hara Two to get Dead - Second of a six book series set in Orchard Falls. After 3,000 words...they just dried up two months ago.

 

[ElectricBlue]

A third part to Rope and Veil, Amelia is pregnant.

Conjuring in the back of my mind a third part to my Gift series, also a look at the Floating World, but with the girls who make my coffee every morning in place of the Japanese tea ceremony. 21st century geishas.

Might dig out two yarns which have been parked, one for nearly a year, finish them off.

 

[ColetteJulie]

Without counting what I've started and left behind in the discard file. And thanks again to whoever suggested that, it's a really good idea and I've dipped into it quite a few times. I struggle with titles so I have three that are different called working title 1, 2 and 3. All about 2000 words. I haven't looked at them in weeks because the muse doesn't want to tell me how to proceed with them.

1) At this point in time (so corny) set in the future, when we're done with goggles and virtual reality, we go back to robots. A plague comes by and almost wipes us out. From need comes advance and we learn to grow babies in an egg/incubator. These babies are programmed before they're born to satisfy their partner's needs. The protagonist is a bred woman called Eone, she is bred for her husband Skye. The antagonist is a dude who walks around barefoot in the deserts saying we must go back to the natural way - childbirth. This is seen as a threat to bred humans, bred humans are of a lower caste. +- 15000k

Hold-up - the beginning is there, the second half is there, I am battling with the bridge between her birth and her coming of age.

2) Fantasy story - And the world turned (equally corny)- a group of people living on the outskirts of their civilisation. The rules are changed around there. Men marry men, women marry women. If you break the same sex rule and want to take a wife if you're a man or visa versa, you get killed - slowly and horribly. The protagonists are two young people 18+, a guy and a girl who fall in love. They then have to run for their lives.

Hold-up - it's just the story of guy loving a girl and their conflicting emotions about the rules they were born into. The whole damn thing grew, it became more complicated and now there's a war, and families torn apart and then eventually re-united and it's turned into a dissertation on the question of sexual morality - what is right, what is wrong, what shouldn't be allowed. Word count - way too much verbose about shit.

For Literotica - the P*ssy Express, based on an article I read about the Pony Express. Eight clients, eighty escorts - ten days from Missouri to Sacramento. 4000k, about 5000k to go.

Hold-up - I'm getting over a night of very bad sex. Give me a break.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

I'm working on an Anal story called "Deep Sea Diving."

Very fun. Just trying to find the time, as usual.

 

[legerdemer]

Working on a soft sci fi humorous (I hope) social commentary piece (initially intended for Golden Maia's writing challenge but I doubt I'll be done on her time scale). About 1200 words in.

And continuing a non-human piece for Nude Day, a somewhat unusual, somewhat twisted love story. About 11K words in on this one, but it's in disarray.

By the way, do people (men) still use the expression to "shoot/shot his cuffs" or is this too archaic a concept in these days of mostly T-shirts and polos?

 

[sr71plt]

Got one of mine written yesterday, but today my Muse decided it wanted me to work on a story for an entirely different anthology. This story goes back to 1622 and the massacre at Martin's Hundred.

 

[Serafina1210]

Turning a recent story into a novella--at the stage where the writing is largely done and I start thinking about a cover. I'm thinking of making a first foray into the commercial market.