Departure From A Path Most Written

[Silver_Arrow]

I have never in the past considered writing anything other than my current story. I got the urge to write something else from a random thought I had while browsing the forums and churned out a short story of around 2.4k words that was a totally different genre and I suppose lacked any real back story. The bulk of it was sexual.

As a writer, did you find a niche or subject you just stick with? or do you wander all over from category to category trying to write different things? I guess people will stick to the sexual acts, kinks, and fetishes that they themselves like, or do you find challenge in writing something you're not familiar with?

I wouldn't say I'm struggling to stay on task, but It felt strange writing something that wasn't my 'main' story. What have been your experiences?

 

[SimonDoom]

For me, it's both. I tend to gravitate toward writing stories on subjects for which I either have a real-life erotic affinity or that I consider especially interesting from a story point of view, but I also like to go completely off the rails and write things that are completely different. I personally find striking the balance between writing what I like and writing what's new to be satisfying.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

I'm always trying to write something different. I a;ways have multiple ideas on the go and the genres and plotlines vary wildly.

 

[StillStunned]

To me, every story is new. My mind is like a kangaroo, hopping around and liable to kick when I'm not paying attention. I have some characters or settings I enjoy returning to, or whose story I feel offers more room for discovery, but mostly ideas sprout faster than I can write, in every footprint of that damned kangaroo.

 

[AG31]

I have never in the past considered writing anything other than my current story. I got the urge to write something else from a random thought I had while browsing the forums and churned out a short story of around 2.4k words that was a totally different genre and I suppose lacked any real back story. The bulk of it was sexual.

Cheers!!! Let us know when it's published. Simple erotica.

As a writer, did you find a niche or subject you just stick with? or do you wander all over from category to category trying to write different things? I guess people will stick to the sexual acts, kinks, and fetishes that they themselves like, or do you find challenge in writing something you're not familiar with?

Yes, I have just stuck to one subject. But having followed this sort of conersation on AH for several years I think most people, at least those who participate in AH and so think of themselves as "authors," like to stretch their writerly wings.

I wouldn't say I'm struggling to stay on task, but It felt strange writing something that wasn't my 'main' story. What have been your experiences?

Nothing to offer here, I'm afraid.

 

[ronde]

As a writer, did you find a niche or subject you just stick with? or do you wander all over from category to category trying to write different things? I guess people will stick to the sexual acts, kinks, and fetishes that they themselves like, or do you find challenge in writing something you're not familiar with?

I have a lot of hobbies and have also had a lot of different jobs. I find myself often asking the question, "What if", about one of my hobbies or jobs, or about my other love, that being history. The result has been that I tend to write about what interests me at the moment rather than trying to write something just because it's different. I wouldn't be comfortable writing about something I know little about even if I did some significant research. It would feel like I was forcing the story and probably read the same way.

 

[Silver_Arrow]

I have a lot of hobbies and have also had a lot of different jobs. I find myself often asking the question, "What if", about one of my hobbies or jobs, or about my other love, that being history. The result has been that I tend to write about what interests me at the moment rather than trying to write something just because it's different. I wouldn't be comfortable writing about something I know little about even if I did some significant research. It would feel like I was forcing the story and probably read the same way.

At what point would it shift from something you knew little about to an interest? Surely, in order to eventually be good at writing something you have have to first... write about it? Like finding a new kink and kind of finding it interesting so you write about it and then realize you're into it?

How does that shift from 'forcing the story' to writing about your interests happen?

 

[Silver_Arrow]

To me, every story is new. My mind is like a kangaroo, hopping around and liable to kick when I'm not paying attention. I have some characters or settings I enjoy returning to, or whose story I feel offers more room for discovery, but mostly ideas sprout faster than I can write, in every footprint of that damned kangaroo.

I guess I'm the opposite, I do day dream a ton but it's nothing I've ever felt compelled to write about. I have a ton of stories in my head sometimes but it's always in passing as the kangaroo hops forward. I'm not sure what it would be like for me if my ideas were all over the place, I may not have even started writing.

 

[StillStunned]

I guess I'm the opposite, I do day dream a ton but it's nothing I've ever felt compelled to write about. I have a ton of stories in my head sometimes but it's always in passing as the kangaroo hops forward. I'm not sure what it would be like for me if my ideas were all over the place, I may not have even started writing.

I have, at this moment, 50 stories in my "WIP" folder, and another 19 that I've abandoned. It's a question of latching on to whichever one excites me most at any given time.

 

[Silver_Arrow]

Cheers!!! Let us know when it's published. Simple erotica.

It was approved yesterday afternoon and is due to be published in tonight's update I believe, judging by the date next to it. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about it and think it's probably not my best writing. Time will tell if others feel the same.

Yes, I have just stuck to one subject. But having followed this sort of conersation on AH for several years I think most people, at least those who participate in AH and so think of themselves as "authors," like to stretch their writerly wings.

I'm not sure I consider myself an author, but maybe one day. Certainly I'm a writer given that I... write. I'd like to think that part of the process in both developing yourself as a writer and becoming an author involves writing things that sometimes differ from your norm? At least as a way to develop and inform what your 'normal' writing may be.

 

[Silver_Arrow]

I have, at this moment, 50 stories in my "WIP" folder, and another 19 that I've abandoned. It's a question of latching on to whichever one excites me most at any given time.

Wow, you must have a mind like steel. I'm not sure I could juggle that many things at one time.

 

[StillStunned]

Wow, you must have a mind like steel. I'm not sure I could juggle that many things at one time.

A steel colander, perhaps. I'm forever opening files and thinking, "I have no recollection of writing this."

 

[Jorunn]

Skipping over the sex parts of stories, there is a comfort level in writing stories set in your favorite universe. This is not unlike a writer who releases, "The Continuing Adventures of Space Gypsies, Part 145". Try sitting down and writing an Aboriginal love story set near Uluru, and you will get bogged down until you do your research. You cannot connect the pieces. Stories outside of my universe come to me totally at random. I'll read something in the news or on Lit, or just look at the world as I do other things. And when an idea comes to mind, I jot it down in Notes on my cell phone. Like planting a seed, some grow, many do not.

Here is an example. I started looking ahead to a Halloween story this year and didn't want to go down the demon, ghost, vampire line. I did a search on This Day in History, October 31st. Lots of garbage. Then I read that Ed Sullivan saw The Beatles at Heathrow on October 31st. I got a great idea from that (Not that I know much about the Beatles!).

 

[TheLobster]

A steel colander, perhaps. I'm forever opening files and thinking, "I have no recollection of writing this."

Gee, now I know the reason you are constantly asking us to solve this problem for you. It’s really just you wondering out loud: “What I Wrote? And Why?”

 

[StillStunned]

Gee, now I know the reason you are constantly asking us to solve this problem for you. It’s really just you wondering out loud: “What I Wrote? And Why?”

One day, I hope to have an answer.

 

[Silver_Arrow]

A steel colander, perhaps. I'm forever opening files and thinking, "I have no recollection of writing this."

This is slightly amusing as Gandalf said the line not 20 minutes ago as I procrastinate from writing.

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

I generally stick to the same categories and kinks that appeal to me, but I have ventured out of my comfort zone from time to time. My first attempt at an Incest/Taboo story turned out to be surprisingly popular even though the category doesn't appeal to me at all.

 

[Silver_Arrow]

I generally stick to the same categories and kinks that appeal to me, but I have ventured out of my comfort zone from time to time. My first attempt at an Incest/Taboo story turned out to be surprisingly popular even though the category doesn't appeal to me at all.

Was there any doubt as you wrote? I guess a more expanded question would be, what did you feel as you wrote something that didn't appeal to you? Did it make the process harder?

There's things I'm into but I'm not sure writing story's about it calls to me.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I have, at this moment, 50 stories in my "WIP" folder, and another 19 that I've abandoned. It's a question of latching on to whichever one excites me most at any given time.

For like the past two months I have been rewriting some layouts I jotted down just before my writing block hit. For here, some fan fiction, some original work.

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

Was there any doubt as you wrote? I guess a more expanded question would be, what did you feel as you wrote something that didn't appeal to you? Did it make the process harder?

There's things I'm into but I'm not sure writing story's about it calls to me.

My initial reluctance was due to a residual sense of "ick" towards Incest/Taboo (which is ironic, because I mostly write nonconsensual stories), but I found it surprisingly easy to write the (consensual) story once I got into the swing of it. On the other hand, I also stuck fairly closely to my primary kink which is breeding/impregnation, so I wasn't venturing too far outside my comfort zone. It was just that the parents of the resulting baby happened to be mother and son.

Being brand new to the category, I also unwittingly avoided a few tropes that I had no idea existed in Incest/Taboo and which the category's regular readers apparently don't like. A bunch of people were excited about the mother's "abundant pussy hair!", for example.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Was there any doubt as you wrote? I guess a more expanded question would be, what did you feel as you wrote something that didn't appeal to you? Did it make the process harder?

There's things I'm into but I'm not sure writing story's about it calls to me.

If it doesn't call to you, then don't waste time at it. Outside of maybe challenging yourself, there's no point in it.

I've done a handfull of catagories in the past, mostly incest, transgender, I finally got to working on that loving wives story I talked about many moons ago.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

So, I haven't published more of my vampire stories because they don't sell as well as my cuckolding ones do.

I'm so ashamed of myself.

No, not really, but I do want to write more in the horror genre.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

So, I haven't published more of my vampire stories because they don't sell as well as my cuckolding ones do.

I'm so ashamed of myself.

No, not really, but I do want to write more in the horror genre.

Cuckholding vampire?

 

[StillStunned]

So, I haven't published more of my vampire stories because they don't sell as well as my cuckolding ones do.

I'm so ashamed of myself.

No, not really, but I do want to write more in the horror genre.

Have you considered combining the genres? "The vampire must return to his crypt before the cuckold crows in the morning!"

 

[ronde]

At what point would it shift from something you knew little about to an interest? Surely, in order to eventually be good at writing something you have have to first... write about it? Like finding a new kink and kind of finding it interesting so you write about it and then realize you're into it?

How does that shift from 'forcing the story' to writing about your interests happen?

I have story topics that shift from something I know little about to an interest all the time. Once it becomes an interest, I do enough research that I have at least a rudimentary understanding of the topic. It's at that point I can begin writing. For instance, I enjoy reading about WWII, not about the brutalities of war, but about what the ordinary people in occupied countries did to survive. I saw that the anniversary of the landings at Anzio was coming up. I'd never studied anything about Anzio and I didn't remember seeing the movie. I did some research and found out it was a very much criticized event as far as the basic plan and the execution of that plan. It was then I started thinking about how the people in and around Anzio must have felt and what they might have done. Then, it became a story.

I would say the worst way to be good at writing anything is to write about it before you understand it. Without an understanding before hand, what you'll write will not be accurate. Anyone who does understand will quickly know you don't know what you're talking about. At best, that will generate a read with no vote and no comment. At worst, it will generate a rating of "1" and maybe a comment.

To want to understand, I have to be interested and there are some topics I have absolutely no interest in exploring. I don't write incest, for instance. I'm not critical of people who like writing about incest or readers who like reading incest stories. The topic just holds no interest for me so I don't attempt to understand the motivations of those who find it interesting.

For me, trying to write about something I don't have an interest in can never change from being forced writing. I can't make the words flow to describe the characters, the scenes, or the actions of the characters that get them to a logical ending. It would come off being stiff and probably boring. The reason I can't is because I don't want to. Life is short enough without torturing myself to write about something I don't understand and don't want to understand.