Continuing story lines....

[The_Darkness]

Why the hell is it so hard to keep concentrating on one story line? Anyone else have this problem? Get started on a series story and then start up about 18 different projects, promising eternally to go back and pick up the next chapter of whatever and you just keep pushing it off?

I swear I have ADD.

 

[English Lady]

I think i've only done one set of stories that go together and there were 2 chapters to that *L*

It was a miracle that i managed to keep my concerntration on the one story of my NaNo Novel really....Godness knows how Idid it.

So yeah -mostly I do short stories gloriously unconnnected from any other because I know i'd loose steam if I tried to do a series

 

[CharleyH]

Why the hell is it so hard to keep concentrating on one story line? Anyone else have this problem? Get started on a series story and then start up about 18 different projects, promising eternally to go back and pick up the next chapter of whatever and you just keep pushing it off?

I swear I have ADD.

Writing anything longer than a short story. I find research can be quite a problem, and it's a wonder how the hell I get anything written. I end up getting so fascinated by something in the research that a new concept is sparked, which needs to be plotted down, which leads to another idea and so on until there are several files. I try to maintain focus on the one I am writing, but then, be it mood or what have you, I switch over to another story, and then end up with a new short story . . . which has obviously sparked another story.

I have WAY too much going on in my mind. Well, either that or I am like you. Better to think you are a fountain of ideas than one who has writers add.

That's how I convince myself anyhow.

 

[Guest]

im a programmer at heart...well atleast thats what my useless degree is ....
anyway...
flow chart!
i swear that's the answer.

 

[impressive]

flow chart!
i swear that's the answer.

IF - THEN - ELSE ...

such is life.

 

[Guest]

IF - THEN - ELSE ...

such is life.

SSSTTTTOOOOOPPP!
sigh... i was doing just fine until you did that, now i have flow charts and c++/java running through my head...oh dear god, what have you begun?!

 

[carsonshepherd]

I'm having that problem now. I want to start something new but I have this series I'm trying to finish FIRST; if I start something new, everything else is history. And I never go back to anything on the back burner. What I need to do I guess, is write the series in one chunk and split them up for submitting, with no lag in between writing each chapter for my mind to wander.

 

[Evil Alpaca]

Except for my early celeb stories, I don't think I can right a single-shot story (well, one.) For me, the "story" part of erotic stories is the thing. I've got to have characters I like and something "real" for them to do. And dialouge! I love dialouge! Once I get a good conversation started in the story, I can write for hours.

I do start/stop a lot of stories, but I also won't ever submit part 1 of something unless part 2 is already written. That's how I know that a story idea has legs . . . if I'm able to complete two complete sections and still be interested myself.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

I've got a bad history with stories that are more than one part. I write too slowly, and don't finish nearly enough stories. The more than one part deal... Well, I've had several e-mails wanting the rest of "A Warrior's Tale" and I've never submitted a third part to "Games." I doubt those that were waiting for W-T-II are still waiting. Probably have long-since forgotten about it, anyway.
To answer the rest of your question, my "in progress" folder for Lit. in Word is abundant, and my "already submitted" one... Five stories...

Q_C

 

[BlackSnake]

Why the hell is it so hard to keep concentrating on one story line? Anyone else have this problem? Get started on a series story and then start up about 18 different projects, promising eternally to go back and pick up the next chapter of whatever and you just keep pushing it off?

I swear I have ADD.

I found that I wrote myself into a corner, giving too much information in the preceeding stories. Drop an open line in the chapter, a fleeting thought, perhaps. It will give you something to go back to. A question that is not answered.

 

[The_Darkness]

I think some of it, atleast with me is that I'm not in the same place mentally now as when I started some of these series. New Mysteries and Moving Day were both started years before they were posted. The sequels were hammered out 12 months ago.

I'm starting to get back into my Hunters story, which will have 13 parts when it's all finished (and yes, there will be a little sex in it by the end, but not much).

I guess I'm not much for the one-shot story. I should try to limit myself to like 3000 words or less, but that's just so damn hard for me to do most of the time.

Details....too many details.....but I'm pretty sure that's why the stories are rated as high as they are for the most part.