How to finish writing stories that turn you on

[tfrah]

Like the title says, any advice for advancing a story that hits all your kinky spots?

Keep getting distracted by my imagination so much so that I get stuck and end up going round in circles trying to complete a scene and never getting further then the opening scene. It's not like I haven't finished anything but it can take forever since if I'm in the right mood to write its so hard not getting carried away and when I do I'm no longer feel the same motivation to write anything erotic..!

 

[sr71plt]

I don't have any trouble writing the story when I'm turned on. I have more trouble when it isn't turning me on or I have to slog through some necessary stuff to write before I get to the turn-on part.

 

[tfrah]

I guess that's equally true and equally a problem. I don't ever think about writing anything erotic unless I'm at least at little turned on already which means most of the time I'm not even bothering to try.

 

[oggbashan]

The original idea might be *interesting* but by the time I've written it, edited it, rewritten it, edited it again...

The *interest* has gone long ago.

 

[LeandraNyx]

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[tfrah]

Until you haven't touched it in a month or so and go back to read it, lol.

Even worse.. if its been a month then I usually end up just rewriting the last paragraph I've written, just looping round and round until I end up getting off on exactly the same point as I had a month earlier, with not a sentence nor even a single new word added!

I'm sure once I get past these first few stories - which are pretty much personal fantasies spelled out loud - and I start to branch out into new genres and try for storytellling for stories sake, I guess then I'll have a lot less trouble getting to the point since it won't be quite so, well close to home if you know what I mean

 

[Hypoxia]

If your story doesn't excite you, why bother writing it?

For trouble finishing an exciting story, fantasize more.

For fun, visualize the most unlikely but torrid ending.

 

[oggbashan]

If your story doesn't excite you, why bother writing it?

For trouble finishing an exciting story, fantasize more.

For fun, visualize the most unlikely but torrid ending.

A potential story can excite me, without turning me on. The act of creation is exciting in itself.

For fun? Wind up the Loving Wives fans.

 

[ElectricBlue]

... since if I'm in the right mood to write its so hard not getting carried away and when I do I'm no longer feel the same motivation to write anything erotic..!

Practice denial.

Turn yourself on but don't get "distracted" - keep your fingers on the keyboard no matter how hard or wet you get, and keep on typing. That way, the reward is far greater - not only do you get a better...outcome; in the end, you also get a story.

Let me guess, millennial? See, instant gratification never really satisfies - you gotta work for it!

Patience, grasshopper.

As the great Jim Morrison once said (admittedly, not the best role model for denial), "keep your eye on the road, your hands upon the wheel."

See, what you've got is Roadhouse Blues. What you need is blue ball blues...

 

[PuckIt]

I really could not say just how many times I've started in on an idea that had me throbbing and oozing precum on my keyboard... and then after about a week, I'm gritting my teeth just to "come on, just one more freaking paragraph".

And then I file it. And wait for a week.

And then I pull it out and read over it.

And wonder why the hell I thought the idea was sexy in the first place.

 

[oggbashan]

Until you haven't touched it in a month or so and go back to read it, lol.

Some of mine have been 'pending completion' for more than 15 years. From time to time I go back to those drafts and wonder if I actually wrote them.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

Any story I'm invested in enough to get off to, I'm invested in enough to finish... eventually. I get into love or hate relationships with my characters and I want to know how it ends up for them. Orgasms, sex scenes in general, are just the punctuation marks - usually exclamation marks but occasionally question marks. There's usually more to write after a ! or a ? (though sometimes it's fun to end on a ?)

So far I've only finished about 3 stories here - the rest will someday get additional chapters, time willing. The problem is getting stories to end. In the three I can think of that I don't plan to extend, one was a short little throwaway without characters deep enough to explore further, and in the other two, a major character dies at the end.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

Any story I'm invested in enough to get off to, I'm invested in enough to finish... eventually. I get into love or hate relationships with my characters and I want to know how it ends up for them. Orgasms, sex scenes in general, are just the punctuation marks - usually exclamation marks but occasionally question marks. There's usually more to write after a ! or a ? (though sometimes it's fun to end on a ?)

So far I've only finished about 3 stories here - the rest will someday get additional chapters, time willing. The problem is getting stories to end. In the three I can think of that I don't plan to extend, one was a short little throwaway without characters deep enough to explore further, and in the other two, a major character dies at the end.

 

[slave_]

"The End" ?

Yeah, I know, I am being dopey.

 

[49greg]

The original idea might be *interesting* but by the time I've written it, edited it, rewritten it, edited it again...

The *interest* has gone long ago.

Exactly.

 

[tfrah]

Practice denial.

Turn yourself on but don't get "distracted" - keep your fingers on the keyboard no matter how hard or wet you get, and keep on typing. That way, the reward is far greater - not only do you get a better...outcome; in the end, you also get a story.

Let me guess, millennial? See, instant gratification never really satisfies - you gotta work for it!

Patience, grasshopper.

As the great Jim Morrison once said (admittedly, not the best role model for denial), "keep your eye on the road, your hands upon the wheel."

See, what you've got is Roadhouse Blues. What you need is blue ball blues...

Great advice.. afraid I'm a bit too long in the tooth to be considered a millennial but theres no doubt I have trouble staying focused and get easily distracted. Keeping focused on typing does seem to help a little bit but I've also found if I avoid getting bogged down in trying to perfect a scene or a sentance and just skip ahead to try and sketch out more of the story helps a lot. Like just keep moving, keep writing without worrying about getting ever word right first time round...

 

[ElectricBlue]

Great advice.. afraid I'm a bit too long in the tooth to be considered a millennial but theres no doubt I have trouble staying focused and get easily distracted. Keeping focused on typing does seem to help a little bit but I've also found if I avoid getting bogged down in trying to perfect a scene or a sentance and just skip ahead to try and sketch out more of the story helps a lot. Like just keep moving, keep writing without worrying about getting ever word right first time round...

Try writing without too much edit and correction as you go along - then, before your next writing session, go back over the previous session. You'll see errors much faster; also, you'll be doing a continuity and flow check, so the next session joins together seamlessly. Some folk here seem to scrub and edit text for days - for me, that kills it stone dead from over work. Keep it raw and glittering, not dull and lifeless.

 

[patdown]

I tend to skip around on points in a story so in order to connect one part of the goings on to the next I find myself rereading the first part and it can be distracting. But almost all the ideas I get for a story are out of sequence, sometimes a part of one story doesn't fit that well but t does in anther story, which creates those distractions.

I would say just write what you can take care of yourself and then try to get back to the work.