developing an idea

[StoryGiant]

hi
I'm here to help to develop an ideas that you might have.
Professional that what I have done for the last 12 years, although not erotic.

I like reading and sharing ideas, but please note I am not an editor and can not help your write your story.

If you need help connecting characters, gaining more details, making it more realistic, or just don't know how to string a few random ideas together then maybe I can help.


Tia

 

[HeyAll]

What do you get out of it? Personal satisfaction?

 

[ElectricBlue]

If you need help connecting characters, gaining more details, making it more realistic, or just don't know how to string a few random ideas together then maybe I can help.


Tia

I see you've posted this in other Forums, which is a good idea. I'm not sure you'll find many jokers on AH who have difficulty developing their own ideas .

 

[StoryGiant]

What do you get out of it? Personal satisfaction?

Yes, also I want to practice my written English.

 

[oggbashan]

Yes, also I want to practice my written English.

Posting on another forum didn't work too well. They moved your thread back to the Authors' Hangout.

While you may think you are being helpful with your offer, there are very few people writing on Literotica who are likely to need it. As English is not your native language the task of advising native English speakers about story development seems problematic.

I think, if you want to practise your English, the best way would be to write and submit stories to Literotica. You could post some stories in your native language as well. When we can read what you write, then we can judge for ourselves whether your advice is likely to be helpful. At the moment we have your offer but no way, except your posts, of knowing whether you could deliver useful advice.

The Authors' Hangout often has posts from people offering 'the best' or 'the only' way to write stories. Our response is effectively a yawn. Not again! Someone has found the Holy Grail of story writing. While whatever they advocate works for them; what works for individual authors is very variable. If there was a golden way to write wonderful stories we would all be making money and not posting on a free site.

You have reminded me of a book I owned a couple of decades ago. It was written in Russian and published in 1928 by the USSR official printer. It was a book about how to use tractors on a collective farm. I lent it to one of my Russian speaking friends. She had hysterics over it. It was obvious that the author had never seen and certainly never used a tractor. It was full of platitudes about the Communist Party and working together politically to achieve greater productivity in food production. But the tractor? The author didn't know anything about tractors. Perhaps that's why the book was in perfect condition many decades later.

We don't know what you are capable of doing. At present you could be like the author of that Russian book on tractors.

We just don't know. From past experience of similar offers from others we are sceptical until we see some proof.

 

[NotWise]

There's an entire forum devoted to developing story ideas. It's called "Story Ideas." You don't need to post there and ask for peoples ideas. They're there. All you need to do is comment.

 

[oggbashan]

There's an entire forum devoted to developing story ideas. It's called "Story Ideas." You don't need to post there and ask for peoples ideas. They're there. All you need to do is comment.

And the moderator of that forum moved this thread back to the Authors' Hangout.

 

[sr71plt]

And the moderator of that forum moved this thread back to the Authors' Hangout.

I think I noted not long ago that that moderator has a very narrow view of what goes in Story Ideas and just dumps what doesn't wedge itself into her concept in some other forum. This is an example of that. Story Feeback, for instance, is explicitly for discussion on stories posted to Literotica, but it doesn't bother her to move threads that don't do that there.

 

[NotWise]

And the moderator of that forum moved this thread back to the Authors' Hangout.

Honestly, this thread doesn't need to be in "Story Ideas." The poster just needs to participate in that forum.

 

[sr71plt]

Honestly, this thread doesn't need to be in "Story Ideas." The poster just needs to participate in that forum.

True but another point is that two versions of it don't need to be in AH.

 

[NotWise]

True but another point is that two versions of it don't need to be in AH.

Agreed.

 

[EquinoxRising]

And the moderator of that forum moved this thread back to the Authors' Hangout.

The OP did not write up a story idea. I figured Author's Hangout might have been an okay choice since they're an author offering services.


I am not, however, "responsible" for there being two threads here. *shrugs*

 

[oggbashan]

The OP did not write up a story idea. I figured Author's Hangout might have been an okay choice since they're an author offering services.


I am not, however, "responsible" for there being two threads here. *shrugs*

I don't see anything wrong with your decision to move it out of Story Ideas. My difficulty is with the idea that a non-English speaker seems an unlikely helper for story writing in English, however well-intentioned.

 

[NotWise]

I don't see anything wrong with your decision to move it out of Story Ideas. My difficulty is with the idea that a non-English speaker seems an unlikely helper for story writing in English, however well-intentioned.

How does developing a story line relate to native language? Only English speakers can make up stories?

 

[oggbashan]

How does developing a story line relate to native language? Only English speakers can make up stories?

No. But if you are offering advice it helps if you are advising people who write the same language.

I wouldn't offer advice on how to write stories in Chinese. I can offer general advice that might be appropriate to someone who writes in Chinese, but not how to develop characterisation. That requires detailed language skills.

 

[EquinoxRising]

You seem to think of the AH as a garbage dump where you also throw your own rubbish and filth.

That's not true. It seemed the most likely board at the time since she said she was an author.

Also http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1466742 was already here, and you knew that. What's the purpose of this?

No, I didn't know that.

 

[8letters]

hi
I'm here to help to develop an ideas that you might have.
Professional that what I have done for the last 12 years, although not erotic.

I like reading and sharing ideas, but please note I am not an editor and can not help your write your story.

If you need help connecting characters, gaining more details, making it more realistic, or just don't know how to string a few random ideas together then maybe I can help.

I make extensive use of my beta-readers while I'm writing a story and if you want to do the same for an author, you need to tell us much more about yourself - what categories you like, what type of story appeals to you, what locations you can provide background on, what kinks you have personal experience with, etc.

 

[oggbashan]

True but another point is that two versions of it don't need to be in AH.

That is just an anomaly. The OP took the suggestion that somewhere else might be appropriate. The moderator of Story Ideas didn't think that forum was right so sent the new thread here. I agree that Story Ideas isn't right for this, but I don't think the AH is right either. It doesn't really matter.

We cannot delete threads. All we can do is ignore them and watch them fall off the front page.

 

[EquinoxRising]

That is just an anomaly. The OP took the suggestion that somewhere else might be appropriate. The moderator of Story Ideas didn't think that forum was right so sent the new thread here. I agree that Story Ideas isn't right for this, but I don't think the AH is right either. It doesn't really matter.

We cannot delete threads. All we can do is ignore them and watch them fall off the front page.

Well, the AH Mod can delete or remove threads if Pilot's panties are in a twist.

 

[lovecraft68]

That is just an anomaly. The OP took the suggestion that somewhere else might be appropriate. The moderator of Story Ideas didn't think that forum was right so sent the new thread here. I agree that Story Ideas isn't right for this, but I don't think the AH is right either. It doesn't really matter.

We cannot delete threads. All we can do is ignore them and watch them fall off the front page.

She has one-or had one-in the general board and I think someone suggested she try here.

 

[sr71plt]

Well, the AH Mod can delete or remove threads if Pilot's panties are in a twist.

You're the one jerking users around. The post has something to do with story ideas. There's nothing but anal retentiveness that makes you need to dump it into a another forum.

 

[sunandshadow]

Wow, what negative responses to this concept. Currently at a roleplaying forum I belong to there are GMs begging for feedback on their roleplaying campaign story ideas...

 

[sr71plt]

Should someone want to connect with the OP, they can.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Wow, what negative responses to this concept. Currently at a roleplaying forum I belong to there are GMs begging for feedback on their roleplaying campaign story ideas...

AH is a writer's forum, with the vocal populace here blessed with an abundance of ideas of their own.

Role players might be a different audience.

 

[sunandshadow]

AH is a writer's forum, with the vocal populace here blessed with an abundance of ideas of their own.

Role players might be a different audience.

GMs typically are writers. Many of them write short stories, video scripts, or non-fiction articles in addition to roleplaying campaigns. If I look at a third forum where comic script writers hang out, they too are asking for feedback on their graphic novel concepts and outlines. Or, if we look at people who write for TV or AAA video games, they typically have group brainstorming sessions. Honestly I think it's only people from a 'traditional' writing/publishing background that don't like to develop ideas in a more social way. Possibly because novel and short story writing tends to attract a lot of introverts, while extroverts get pulled to other types of writing.