Does anyone write stories like this?

[GratefulFred]

Most of the times when I write original humorous stories (the others are usually satires), I just start writing never knowing how the plot is going to work out or how the story will end. I just have a self confidence in my creative ability that I know I'll come up with twists in the plot as the story develops and they seem to come everytime and rather effortlessly.

During my online writing experience I've even had people submit to me ideas at random and I always made something out of it.

My question is, are there other writers that write knowing that the creativity is rather an extension of themselves or do most have a structure they seem to follow?

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

I usually have a general idea of what will develope but mostly I just start with an idea and let it come to me as I go. The twists in a lot of my stories seems to almost write its self in.


Wicked

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I'm currently writing a satire, the first story I've never commited to paper first.
It just writes itself as I go along, so it's totally me coming out of it and I really like that feeling.

It may suck to others who read it, but then again, the few I did give a peek seemed to like it.

I just love that it's freeflowing.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Sometimes my idea is just to free flow sorta.

Linda Virginvagina was a 32 year old prim and proper, and of course virginal, type woman. She had grown up with a father who was a minister and her mother was a nun.
She went to an all girls church school and had lived with "Father father" and "Sister mother" ever since. She decided it was time to get loose and deflowered, so to speak.
She read lots of stories on Lit., especially the ones by Abs. Then she went in search of bliss and orgasms.
Linda was ready to get down and dirty, she seduced a guy at a restuarant and they went to the "No-tel Motel And Auto Parts" out on Route 41.
As the guy lay naked on the bed, spread eagled on his back, with a big pile of shit on top of his nose, he said ..................

"No honey, I said [SIT] on my face."

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Sometimes my idea is just to free flow sorta.

Linda Virginvagina was a 32 year old prim and proper, and of course virginal, type woman. She had grown up with a father who was a minister and her mother was a nun.
She went to an all girls church school and had lived with "Father father" and "Sister mother" ever since. She decided it was time to get loose and deflowered, so to speak.
She read lots of stories on Lit., especially the ones by Abs. Then she went in search of bliss and orgasms.
Linda was ready to get down and dirty, she seduced a guy at a restuarant and they went to the "No-tel Motel And Auto Parts" out on Route 41.
As the guy lay naked on the bed, spread eagled on his back, with a big pile of shit on top of his nose, he said ..................

"No honey, I said [SIT] on my face."

PMSL!!!

 

[Guest]

Hi Gratefulfred,

I seem to recall you posted a similar thread not long ago. I gave quite a full response there, but I can't remember quite what I said! Then again, it could've been something from someone else on a completely different message board. Anyway, deja vu struck.

Enough of my thinking aloud...

I do write that way, with everything, from short short to full length novel. As I was writing my last novel, I had a blast. It felt as if I was reading a novel, while writing it - I didn't have a clue where it was going.

I had a vague notion of the beginning, middle and end of the novel, as I do think it's important to have an idea of where the novel is going and where it should ideally end up. Apart from that I really did feel as if the scenes wrote themselves. That probably sounds daft to those who don't write that way, or who haven't written longer pieces, but that's how it feels when I get in the zone and the words fly from my fingers. Can't beat that feeling!

Lou

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I never have more than a general idea of what I want to do with a story. I let the characters tell it and I just write what they want.

-Colly

 

[MLyons]

Not that I really have anything to show for it yet (it's all being edited right now), but I find that in order to really write a cohesive story that I have to have at least some major events planned out.

My stories so far are very very character driven, and I don't expect that will change. I go with my imagination, and come up with specific action ideas as I write, but often times only about 25% of the ideas I actually come up with and develop to a certain degree make it into the final story. Either they just don't fit, they slow the story down unnecessarily, they're too hard to make believable, or they're just flat out stupid. In that way, I write from my gut, but I revise, edit, revise, and edit, edit and edit again for the purpose of making the story good for a reader to read.

The more I write my own stories, and the more I try to stretch myself into writing the absolute best story that I can, the more I realize that first, and even second drafts (especially if it's a particularly long, multi-chapter story) are absolute nonesense.

I don't speak for others, though. I know I tend to be very verbose, and it takes a lot of effort for me to pare down my writing so that it's effective from a reader's standpoint, and it's amazing what kind of perspective you have on a story after you've really spent a LOT of time with it.

Anyway, to sum up my answer to the question. I let the ideas flow for myself, but because I'm also writing for an audience, I feel it's important to have flash points and an end goal in mind in order to create a really good story. That's my philosophy anyway--again, not that I have anything to show for it yet.

 

[Black Tulip]

Mostly I have a rough idea in my head, but when I start writing sometimes the story goes in another direction.
Writing a story is like having the skeleton in your head, but how the flesh grows on it is an organic process.
The longer the story, the more organic growth. LOL

I edit a lot on the way though. Every time I pick up I read the whole story and add-prune-edit.

 

[GratefulFred]

Parody vs Original

Since 90% of my writings falls into either one of these catagorees, I find that when doing a parody on an existing story I simply go out and warp the dialogue and put my own brand of preversion on the plot.

You can see two such examples "My Big Fat Pornographic Wedding" at...

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=154569

...and "The Incredible Shriking Dude" at...

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=154572

All my non parody original plot stuffing are all written in many stages between long drawn out bong hits.

I'm just glad other writers just know it'll all come together when they set out. Thought for a second I was unique unstructured creative perv. Glad to see I'm not alone.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I love my big fat Pornographic Wedding....lol.

 

[GratefulFred]

Sounds like an offer to me...

Be bi at 7pm...

 

[MaxSebastian]

Sometimes I just run with it - when the stories are fairly simple, sex-centric pieces. I also write plot-driven stories, and I often find I need to work out the general gist of the story before I write it. Sometimes I write out a one-page plan.

Anything too overly elaborate in the planning stages seems to spoil the flow when I come to actually write it for some reason. Oh, and sometimes I plan a story out, then when I'm writing it, I rebel against myself and it goes a completely different way.

There's no real answer, it's whatever you feel comfortable with, the best thing to do is try it different ways. Hey, perhaps even without the bong!