Do You Punt?

[NOIRTRASH]

5 years is my maximum investment with a story. I spent a week or so writing the story and 5 years getting the end right. And it wasn't rocket science. The end was pretty simple.

I spent a day creating the right name for a lingerie shop in my present project. What I created is right, and I found nothing like it online. My creation is clever, and that's what I aimed for.

 

[Nezhul]

good job! Take a candy.

 

[ElectricBlue]

5 years is my maximum investment with a story.

Five years?! Who has that much time to spend on a single story, except maybe Joseph Heller?

Gotta lift the productivity rate, mate, if you want to get all those stories written!

 

[lovecraft68]

If I don't have the entire thing locked into my head I don't start it. I get a lot of ideas that could work, but if I don't 'feel it' I skip it and eventually the whole thing does appear.

I guess my muse works in a rotation I see ideas and am like...nope, no, hot, but not now, hell no, maybe, WTF is wrong with me and....hmm yes!

 

[Nezhul]

If I don't have the entire thing locked into my head I don't start it. I get a lot of ideas that could work, but if I don't 'feel it' I skip it and eventually the whole thing does appear.

I guess my muse works in a rotation I see ideas and am like...nope, no, hot, but not now, hell no, maybe, WTF is wrong with me and....hmm yes!

I do the same now. I've made a mistake several times where I started a story, written half of it, knew how it ended, but then didn't know how to connect the ending with what I have written already without it being redundant.

Now I make a plan of the chapters, the basic structure of events, and when I feel like I got something good - only then do I start writing. In the process I may change a few things, but at least I know that whatever happens - I know how to get from start to finish and not get stuck.

 

[oggbashan]

Five years?! Who has that much time to spend on a single story, except maybe Joseph Heller?

Gotta lift the productivity rate, mate, if you want to get all those stories written!

Five years?

I can take longer than that.

But it's not five years on one story. It's five (or ten, or fifteen) years before a particular story gets finished. In the meantime I have completed and posted many more.

My extreme is my first attempt at erotica: Andreas. I started it in the mid 1980s, writing with WordStar 1512 on an IBM XT with 5.25 floppies. I still have the last draft in my 'incomplete' folder. Andreas has been pending for over 30 years.

But I have used some of the parts of Andreas as inspirations for many other posted stories over the years.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Five years?! Who has that much time to spend on a single story, except maybe Joseph Heller?

Gotta lift the productivity rate, mate, if you want to get all those stories written!

It was one story, dear.

But wrong is wrong. Do it right.