Help write a story for me...

[CO_hippie6250]

Hi,

My husband & I just had an amazing night for sex. I would love to put it into words, but that's where I come up short. If anyone has time to help or is just interested please let me know!

Thank you

 

[ozrod]

Hi hippie,

Good to see you posting again. Which part of it are you having a problem with? Is it actually transferring the experience to words, or something more. Feel free to PM me, and we'll see what we can do. I'm on my way to work, so will only have phone access for a few hours.

Oz

Hi,

My husband & I just had an amazing night for sex. I would love to put it into words, but that's where I come up short. If anyone has time to help or is just interested please let me know!

Thank you

 

[sr71plt]

If you can put it in satisfactory words for someone else to write, you should be able to put it in your own words. Try concentrating on the emotions of what was happening at least as much as the mechanics.

 

[KlaytonFrost]

I'm sure it would be better (and hotter) for your partner if it came from you rather than someone else. Why not give it a go. If you think it's no good after you've written it, you'll at least have an outline to pass on to someone else to edit instead of asking them to start from scratch.

 

[hoo_hoo_boo]

Hi,

My husband & I just had an amazing night for sex. I would love to put it into words, but that's where I come up short. If anyone has time to help or is just interested please let me know!

Thank you

You know, it takes time to write a good story. It can be broken down into steps.The first step is to write out the plan of the story. You'll have to do that what ever you do. Then you start to write it, flesh out the details. To get an accurate representation of what happened you'll have to do that. After that I keep going to the story to see where I can improve it- adding things and removing other things. Then it is about editing and some one else can do that perhaps but if you put the story away for a month or two and then read it you'll see for your self what needs to be changed. I think that to keep your experience as your own the story should be your own too. If some one else does the story it will no longer be yours- they will use the wrong words and give it an entirely different colour.
Take your time and in recreating your enjoyment- enjoy.

 

[sr71plt]

You know, it takes time to write a good story. It can be broken down into steps.The first step is to write out the plan of the story. You'll have to do that what ever you do.

My goodness, who ever told you that?

I don't think I've ever done that with a story.

 

[hoo_hoo_boo]

My goodness, who ever told you that?

I don't think I've ever done that with a story.

Ha ha- you are funny- My goodness, how are they going to communicate their story if they don't? And, if they give it a go then it should be easier for them to get help if they have something to show. I've assumed no voice recording or video of course.

 

[sr71plt]

I think you have your "yous" mixed up then--because no one has to write out a plan first to write a story. (You have "you" both writing a plan and writing the story.)

Let's see a show of hands on who here does that.

Me first. Not me.

 

[hoo_hoo_boo]

I think you have your "yous" mixed up then--because no one has to write out a plan first to write a story. (You have "you" both writing a plan and writing the story.)

Let's see a show of hands on who here does that.

Me first. Not me.

You want them to stick a pencil up their bum and lap dance? That's far too complicated for me.

 

[JKendallDane]

Plan?

What's a 'plan' ?

Hell...I'm doing good if I have a few notes at the bottom of the screen to remind of something I want to add later!

I figure if my fingers are gonna be moving on a keyboard, I want them DOING something more than thinking about an idea. Some of the best plot twists come out of nowhere and tend to not fit into 'a plan' most of the time.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Ha ha- you are funny- My goodness, how are they going to communicate their story if they don't? And, if they give it a go then it should be easier for them to get help if they have something to show. I've assumed no voice recording or video of course.

I have outlined or written down a plan for very few of my stories and only for the more complex plots. Usually, I say this knowing I have fifty or so unfinished stories sitting on my hard drive, I usually just start typing already having the story, characters and plot fixed in my head.

If you tell your kids, friends, relatives a story about what happened you while you were in France last week, you sure as hell don't write out a plan, do you?

Stories, should be spontaneous, unless you are doing a piece that will require research. And research isn't a plan, it's things you need to know in order to make your story believable.

 

[hoo_hoo_boo]

Plan?

What's a 'plan' ?

Hell...I'm doing good if I have a few notes at the bottom of the screen to remind of something I want to add later!

I figure if my fingers are gonna be moving on a keyboard, I want them DOING something more than thinking about an idea. Some of the best plot twists come out of nowhere and tend to not fit into 'a plan' most of the time.

Whether it's written or not most good stories are planned. If you look at the context of this perhaps you would agree that a plan would be very useful. She is asking some one to write HER story- not some one elses. Why not suggest that a plan would be good and then she can write from that and if she needs help she can ask you for it and you will know what the story is about and be able to help- unless you have developed synchronous lap dancing.....

 

[sheablue]

I write down notes or quick thoughts, sometimes, if I'm thinking about a story before I get a chance to sit down and write it. But I never outline. Neil Gaiman never outlines, and if that works for him, it can work for me, too.

You don't need a plan to write a story. I suppose it can be helpful if you're not sure where it's going and that makes you feel uncomfortable. I like to not know where it's going. I like to be surprised by my own writing.

Last year I decided to do NaNo at the last minute. I started with a basic premise, sat down, and started typing furiously, for a month. I only wrote 26,000 words, unfortunately, but the Kidlets and I were all sick that month, so I was pretty proud of what I accomplished. And when I go back and read it, it doesn't totally suck.

Sometimes you have to just sit down and WRITE. Which is what I should be doing now with my Halloween story ...

 

[horrorotica]

A sex scene is not a story, it's like saying a porn scene is a movie. Humbug to that.

 

[SamScribble]

After almost fifty years of writing stuff that other people pay for, I have to say that the 'plan' idea is usually a recipe for disaster. Formulaic crap is formulaic crap. By all means, start with an idea - but then let it develop and see where it takes you. And remember that craft wins out in the end. If you ain't got craft, you ain't a writer.

 

[hoo_hoo_boo]

After almost fifty years of writing stuff that other people pay for, I have to say that the 'plan' idea is usually a recipe for disaster. Formulaic crap is formulaic crap. By all means, start with an idea - but then let it develop and see where it takes you. And remember that craft wins out in the end. If you ain't got craft, you ain't a writer.

Who says it's formulaic? I read here and find so much directionless meandering that really is formulaic. It's formulaic to write incest for example. It provides cheap thrills. There are many who couldn't throw a story together without incest. It's painful to read. Outcest would be a massive challenge.

It's like r rated movies- the biggest criticism of them is inadequate or no plot. There's nothing to be proud of in having an inadequate plot. Whether its written down or retained in the head it is still a plan. If the plot is simple then it's easy not to write it down. I always know the ending when I start. I always scratch it out on paper before I start because if I can't finish it in one sitting I can come back and finish it and it might take hundreds of sittings. There is always room for embellishment along the way. Having a plan allows the writer the space to write with out having later retractions or contradictions. Doesn't no plan restrict you to short stories and cameos?

You write your way- it's ok- it's not my problem.

A lot of stories have blunders- some of the best do. Plans don't help in all instances. William Golding's book, "Lord of the Flies" for instance- it was obviously planned but had a massive problem. In spite of its problem it is succinct and has content because of the plan it was written to.

That's what I was taught. It is about craft.

I think too that if some one is asking for help then some plan has to be communicated. That was the point.

 

[horrorotica]

pantsers hate plans but don't realise that they (the good ones anyway) instinctively follow a structure when they write. It's the age old argument in writing: pantsing V planning blah blah boring boring boring. The best thing for any writer to do is figure out what works best for you, and do that. Be damned to the rest.

If you want to say that your way is the best way, then realise it's only the best way for you.

 

[StrangeLife]

That's what I was taught. It is about craft.

Hey! Please don't ruin my illusions of being an artist!

I don't want to be a craftsman - the artists are the ones who always get the hot promiscuous girls. Therefore I declare writing to be art.

 

[GradeACdnBeef]

I think you have your "yous" mixed up then--because no one has to write out a plan first to write a story. (You have "you" both writing a plan and writing the story.)

Let's see a show of hands on who here does that.

Me first. Not me.

Hot couple meets a college girl. There. Now I have my outline.

If you can put it in satisfactory words for someone else to write, you should be able to put it in your own words. Try concentrating on the emotions of what was happening at least as much as the mechanics.

I agree. While it seems a simple enough request to have someone write a story for you, it rarely works out that way. From the writers perspective (creative, not investigative) writing something that actually happened to someone, and for them, puts you in a situation where the requestor wants to edit your work, tell you what to say, and tell you 'I wouldn't say that'. I tried it. I sent the first 500 words to the woman who had requested it and she told me exactly that. Plus she said that the narrative didn't sound like the way she'd write.

My suggestion? Write it and have one of us edit it for you. I'm sure you'll do far better than you imagine. You may even end up loving to write.

 

[hoo_hoo_boo]

pantsers hate plans but don't realise that they (the good ones anyway) instinctively follow a structure when they write. It's the age old argument in writing: pantsing V planning blah blah boring boring boring. The best thing for any writer to do is figure out what works best for you, and do that. Be damned to the rest.

If you want to say that your way is the best way, then realise it's only the best way for you.

I agree- Love the sanity. Thank you.

 

[hoo_hoo_boo]

Hey! Please don't ruin my illusions of being an artist!

I don't want to be a craftsman - the artists are the ones who always get the hot promiscuous girls. Therefore I declare writing to be art.

Okl- Love the tangent- I'll take it. Thank you.

 

[hoo_hoo_boo]

Hot couple meets a college girl. There. Now I have my outline.



I agree. While it seems a simple enough request to have someone write a story for you, it rarely works out that way. From the writers perspective (creative, not investigative) writing something that actually happened to someone, and for them, puts you in a situation where the requestor wants to edit your work, tell you what to say, and tell you 'I wouldn't say that'. I tried it. I sent the first 500 words to the woman who had requested it and she told me exactly that. Plus she said that the narrative didn't sound like the way she'd write.

My suggestion? Write it and have one of us edit it for you. I'm sure you'll do far better than you imagine. You may even end up loving to write.

If that works... great.

My guess is that you got a plan when you tried it. Really, the more input from the person whose experience it is the better.

 

[horrorotica]

Hot couple meets a college girl. There. Now I have my outline

Not an outline, more a premise and an under developed one at that.