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SureWhyNot88

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I have been writing my first couple of erotica stories/scenes and i have noticed one thing, when i sit down and do it all at once it doesnt feel as good as when i do it in parts. however if i do it in parts it feels more exhausting. i enjoy this a lot more than i thought i would and i kind of want to re-write my first scene now even though it hasnt even been up for a full week i am just wondering if most people spread out their work or if it just comes all at once, no pun intended.
 
I'd avoid revising and republishing stories that you've posted, especially since it's only been up a week.

Direct that energy to your next story and make that one better.

As to writing pace, it write in fits and spurts when I feel like it.
 
I sometimes am on a role and get out over a thousand words in one sitting. (That's a lot for me). But those frantically written parts often need the most revising and going back and expanding bits and adding in details. More often I write slower, and get a few hundred words done, kind of going back and forth between writing and revising as I go. Sometimes after a big chunk I'll stop and go, I'd better let that sit awhile and look it over again later after my mind has had a chance to digest it a bit.
 
I sometimes am on a role and get out over a thousand words in one sitting. (That's a lot for me). But those frantically written parts often need the most revising and going back and expanding bits and adding in details. More often I write slower, and get a few hundred words done, kind of going back and forth between writing and revising as I go. Sometimes after a big chunk I'll stop and go, I'd better let that sit awhile and look it over again later after my mind has had a chance to digest it a bit.
I seem to have a cadence of getting a thousand or so words down and then revising. Then every 5 thousand or so, going back over just the last 5k. Then (in longer pieces) every 10k or so going back and reading from the beginning.

Em
 
Leave that first story as is. It will be a reminder of how things were when you started. I go back to my early stories and cringe. Writing is a learning process.

Typing with two fingers and a thumb slows my overall speed down, which slows my brain down so I can keep up. As they have synced over the years, my writing has improved as far as word choices, spelling errors, and general screw ups. A few lines or paragraphs happen. Three or four thousand word spurts happen also. Your muse will guide you.

Having the story fully in mind or at least the part you are working on will help speed things up.

Welcome to the madhouse and keep writing, that is the best way to learn.
 
Interesting question. I'm wildly inconsistent and undisciplined as a writer. It takes me a long time to write most of my stories. I've been working for years on some stories.

I like it best when I get on a roll and the words flow as the hours pass. That's when it's the most fun, and that's the process that has resulted in some of my best writing. I find it hard to do it in a stop and start way, because the engine is cold every time I restart the ignition.
 
I can't help you with most of your dilemma because you are doing something that I advocate against, which is posting any part of your story before the whole thing is complete. Be patient and don't give up control of your work by posting too soon. Instant gratification frequently comes with consequences.

As far as writing itself goes, it always comes in spurts and sputters. Sometimes it's waning inspiration for the current story, sometimes it's pausing for research, and sometimes there is no stopping the flow and thousands of words seem to fall out of the sky for me.
 
I have been writing my first couple of erotica stories/scenes and i have noticed one thing, when i sit down and do it all at once it doesnt feel as good as when i do it in parts. however if i do it in parts it feels more exhausting. i enjoy this a lot more than i thought i would and i kind of want to re-write my first scene now even though it hasnt even been up for a full week i am just wondering if most people spread out their work or if it just comes all at once, no pun intended.
If you've already published your first story, consider it a learning experience and leave it alone. Watch the votes and comments so you'll have some idea if you hit home with readers.

I absolutely agree with BobbyBrandt about publishing parts of a story before the whole thing is written. You'll inevitably realize half way through the next part that you should have written something differently in one of the earlier chapters. Fixing that will end up being a never ending circle of frustration and in the end, the different parts probably will still seem disjointed. Finish the whole thing and then publish the chapters in sequence.

I write every day and my output varies from 0 typed words and a bunch of my own words of frustration to a few thousand depending how much I get into the plot and characters. Don't worry about how much you write at a time. Just right until you get to someplace that seems right to stop, and pick it up the next day.
 
I like it best when I get on a roll and the words flow as the hours pass. That's when it's the most fun, and that's the process that has resulted in some of my best writing. I find it hard to do it in a stop and start way, because the engine is cold every time I restart the ignition.
I'm this way for sure!
 
The story flows and I get more done when I sit down to write. It's the sex scenes that bog me down. I love them when they are done, but writing them is a chore.
 
The story flows and I get more done when I sit down to write. It's the sex scenes that bog me down. I love them when they are done, but writing them is a chore.

Same - to the nth degree.

I can write and write and revise all day....deliberately avoiding writing the sex scenes. I abhor writing them - which is not TOO ironic, but the story itself flows so well, it almost feels (sometimes) as though sex is an interruption. Ridiculous, but I'm also a very scattered writer, and while finding time and space for characters to fuck is a chore, it IS rather necessary. An echo (mostly) of real life.

I find that if I write only part of a story, I am seized by another idea and I often don't make it back to the graveyard of partially finished stories, so I tend to write until my hands cramp in an effort to finish a draft at least. Thankfully my efforts are not 10 pages long, which makes it easier to call it done.

Not sure if this happens to anyone else, but I wake up at 2am most mornings (puppies to take out) and when I get back to bed, the ENTIRE freaking story I've been pondering unfolds in my brain and I scramble to remember even half of it when I actually get out of bed. Were it not for three large dogs and a husband occupying the bed, all of whom would awaken if I tried to get out again, I'd hie myself to the compter and frantically try to get at least the gist down on paper.
 
The story flows and I get more done when I sit down to write. It's the sex scenes that bog me down. I love them when they are done, but writing them is a chore.
The funny part is that for me the sex scene isnt a chore but if i start one i wont be able to stop writing it till i know it is completely done and that can take hours of my time and sometimes i dont have hours.
 
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