Getting back into writing after a long.....

[SEVERUSMAX]

....as in over a year....break from it. Working on another chapter to the Pact, first. Any suggestions or requests for next story to be resumed or continued, or new stories to be started?

 

[jeninflorida]

....as in over a year....break from it. Working on another chapter to the Pact, first. Any suggestions or requests for next story to be resumed or continued, or new stories to be started?

so what is your plan? do you outline a idea before you start to write?

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

so what is your plan? do you outline a idea before you start to write?

I have a vague concept, but in the past I tried to plan it all out ahead, when I was being my usual control freak self. That didn't work out, so I've decided to let the characters behave as they wish....it will hopefully seem less forced and stilted, more natural. I'm basically rethinking a number of past methods that can be improved upon.

 

[wishfulthinking]

I feel your pain. I've just submitted a story, which is the first I've written in over 14 months, and the uncertainty after posting it was pretty crushing. I'm not sure what will inspire you to get you writing mpore. For me, it was a writerly blurt (as in, it came out of nowhere, and that may be in for a little while).

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I feel your pain. I've just submitted a story, which is the first I've written in over 14 months, and the uncertainty after posting it was pretty crushing. I'm not sure what will inspire you to get you writing mpore. For me, it was a writerly blurt (as in, it came out of nowhere, and that may be in for a little while).

It's just that I miss it, and my fingers feel the urge to press the keys, my mind gets a million ideas for stories. I just have to pick one to go with first.

 

[mikey2much]

good luck

I am like you in respect that I wait sometimes two years or more between stories. But the stories are always there circling in my mind. I think of them when I am driving or sewing. By the time I get around to putting them on paper, I know where they are going.

 

[wishfulthinking]

It's just that I miss it, and my fingers feel the urge to press the keys, my mind gets a million ideas for stories. I just have to pick one to go with first.

Ok, this may be giving you a bad habit. But I type them up, save them so I can find them 6-12 months or whenever later, and type a little bit on each here and there, depending on my mood at the time as to what I feel like writing. I think if they are written down, they can be fleshed out or not. I don't think I could not write them down, which is mostly dot points to start with. (or maybe everyone does that, and I'm not sharing bad habits, people just get stories finished faster than me!).

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Thanks for the input, folks.

 

[jeninflorida]

I have a vague concept, but in the past I tried to plan it all out ahead, when I was being my usual control freak self. That didn't work out, so I've decided to let the characters behave as they wish....it will hopefully seem less forced and stilted, more natural. I'm basically rethinking a number of past methods that can be improved upon.

I’m having issues with the plot and if the story opens up with a big enough bang to capture the reader’s attention. If that wasn’t enough, now I’m questioning what I’ve written. In my story I have a couple that goes to a strip club for the first time, its 9 pages long before any action heats up.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I dont have those problems cuz I know what a story is and what a plot is. That said, stories dont fall outta the blue like pigeon shit but if you get out and watch tv and read ideas will hatch in your noodle.

Remember, sex is like anything else...it makes the story better but it aint the story. The story is the problem, and the trail of breadcrumbs you drop from the problem to the resolution.

 

[redzinger]

I like it when you're writing what you thought was a planned scene, and you suddenly have the inspiration to go off on a tangent.

I find if I'm in a certain mood, this happens more often. Almost out of control.

 

[jeninflorida]

I dont have those problems cuz I know what a story is and what a plot is. That said, stories dont fall outta the blue like pigeon shit but if you get out and watch tv and read ideas will hatch in your noodle.

Remember, sex is like anything else...it makes the story better but it aint the story. The story is the problem, and the trail of breadcrumbs you drop from the problem to the resolution.

ah well good for you! now, if it was that easy, well everyone here on literotica would be crafting fiction like Laurell K. Hamilton

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

It's just that I miss it, and my fingers feel the urge to press the keys, my mind gets a million ideas for stories. I just have to pick one to go with first.

My fingers felt the same thing. I had a story idea in my head, refusing to acknowledge it and when I did I was finally getting ideas again. This is the second time this has happened to me, so hopefully I've learned my lesson, no matter the genre/topic/situation if it wants to be written it's a story that has to be told.

Good luck to getting the fire going again and getting it out there.