2 story ideas just don't know how and where to start
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Mikro
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First you need to build your character's. Male or female, married or single, happy or not.
Then maybe we can help you with direction. I dont do celeb but old love is quite an easy one to start. Try doing a search and get some ideas from current stories on Lit.
dollflirt said:
First you need to build your character's. Male or female, married or single, happy or not.
Then maybe we can help you with direction. I dont do celeb but old love is quite an easy one to start. Try doing a search and get some ideas from current stories on Lit.
The female character is loosly based on me okay she's more like me but there are a few differences and the old love is based on my ex-boyfriend....they dated during our sophomore year but nothing more than kissing happend (even though they both wanted it to they never brought it up) they were torn apart by lies that friends had told them. She thinks about him often through the years had tried to start relationships with other guys but they weren't him so they never worked out. 6 years later they then run into eachother at a little mini mart and start talking he had a girlfriend at the time and she was single raising a child.... A few days later they see eachother again and exchange numbers they start talking and one thing leads to another and they fall in love again this time much more passionatly than before and work things out and have an amazing life together........(Most of that is true but it didn't end so happily irl) it's kind of a what if story dealing with all the trials and tribulations that come with seeing the guy for the first time in 6 years and them working through the hurt and pain that was caused when they first broke up, he still had a girlfriend when they rekindled the flame and how they deal with that issue (him lieing about it and then realizing that he wants to be with the girl that he'd thought he'd lost 6 years prior) they are still young they are only 22 but they know that this is what they want and all the passion that comes with finding that love can come back even after so long apart....
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I'd check out the Author's Hangout... there are a few GREAT threads on how to write and to write erotica.
Frankly it sounds like you already have a full story there. Definitely go with the happy ending
I think the key will be establishing your characters fully without having the story get way too long. Use LOTS of dialog!
Frankly it sounds like you already have a full story there. Definitely go with the happy ending
I think the key will be establishing your characters fully without having the story get way too long. Use LOTS of dialog!just a suggeston -dollflirt said:
you might want to start with a flashback when they meet again. She is filled with how she felt when he was in her life 6 years age - first love/young love. How did she remember his kiss, embrase, touch - was it a mixure of love, need, fear?
Erotic is not hard, finding the right words without overworking them is hard - at least for me.
Just close your eyes and imagine the feelings and thoughts that would flood into your mind when he came into view in that store.
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plesmone said:
herein lies the issue of public advice. Cause IU would never START right off with the flashback. I'd establish character and POV in the present first, then go to the flashback about the third or fourth paragraph. I agree that connecting the emotional basis is crucial. But you'll lose a lot of readers to the "back" button if you don't have some smut in the first thousand words or so.
finding fresh words? check out the vocabulary builders in the "How To" index on the story side, or Writers Resources.
I agree that letting the story flow like a film in your head is good. my best stories flow that way.
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dollflirt said:
Where you start is a personal choice, predicated on you rability and the techniques you are familiar and comfortable with.
Flash back is a good technique, but if you aren't comfortable with tense and voice issues, it can be frustrating.
the best route to go, espeically if you have a good idea but are unsure of how to get at it, is by introducing your protag. That is easier in first person. Unless your story is time specific, just pick a day in the protags life, any day, and start them off. From there let your idea carry them wherever you need them to be to advance your plot.
There is no wrong or right way to open a story. Q. Tarintino makes a mint opening his in the middle with minor characters
Best of luck
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dollflirt said:
I'm assuming you wish to write a real story and not just a sex scene. The heart of any true story is the resolution of a conflict. My simplest advice would be, start with a person who has an issue and write until the issue is resolved. In the case of the long lost loves reuniting, consider starting when they first meet the second time, something like:
I swallowed upon setting eyes upon him again. (Describe him here if you think you need to) He didn't look so much different, even after ten years. Soon, my mind began to adjust his face, recalling a leaner, younger, softer him. The instant I did, I saw his lips move, in my mind anyway, forming the last words I'd heard from him, "Gina, I'm sorry. I have to go."
Something like that works just fine, I think. We know there was a past relationship, and that she still carries the torch. Hopefully, the reader wants to know more. I would recommend not going into some flashback or history lesson summary just to cover their past relationship or to build their characters. First, you really don't want to answer all the reader's questions right away. Second, one thing old flames are sure to do, eventually, is talk about the past, so they can tell the reader all about what happened- the important parts anyway That's, imo, the easy part.
The hard part is establishing why they can't just fall into one another's arms now that they've met again. It could be as simple as overcoming internal apprehension and taking a chance again or something as complex as both of them being married. Regardless, if there's no obstacle to be oversome, there's no real story.
Hope some of that helps.
Take Care,
Penny
Edited to add: It may be true that some readers will abandon a story if they don't encounter sex in the first [insert arbitrary number] words, however there are quite a few readers who will give up on a story in which the sex happens too soon. I know it's cliche, but there is no way you can please everyone. All you can do is tell the story you want to tell as best you can.
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story ideas.
I love the idea for a long lost 'love' as a story. Like one of the other postings, I don't do celebrities. You could make that up. It all is building up. Do it on Word and edit. Then upload to here.
As far as the first, long lost love? Build up a little...or somewhat.. the backgrounds of the charachters, so we can get a sense of the people involved.
Hope that helps. 
I love the idea for a long lost 'love' as a story. Like one of the other postings, I don't do celebrities. You could make that up. It all is building up. Do it on Word and edit. Then upload to here.
As far as the first, long lost love? Build up a little...or somewhat.. the backgrounds of the charachters, so we can get a sense of the people involved.
Hope that helps.
