How many drafts do you have?

[whowrotethisshit]

How many stories are currently in your drafts? Which ones are the most promising? How old are the oldest?

I'm curious.

 

[whowrotethisshit]

I guess I should post mine.

I have 14 drafts.

My most promising is a humongous story I'm not even close to finishing which I'm calling Rounds. Which is a working title. It's a breeding fetish story. I love it, I think it's charming and warm and it's also my oldest in my drafts file. I was looking at a Making Journal thing I have and I was talking about writing the bulk of it in 2019, but there were kinks (ha) to work out. I work on it in big chunks occasionally. I really enjoy that it's just mine for right now.

Also have two drafts of my Thief story because I'm aiming to finish that damn series this year.

 

[LexxRuthless]

I have 19 stories in various states of progress at the moment. I have another 14 completed or mostly-completed stories in my "Discards" folder -- stories which will never get published on Literotica for a variety of reasons. I have another 23 story ideas which I have in two separate documents, but those are merely 3-5 paragraphs to spell out the basic idea so I won't forget.

In my e-mail I have a dozen or so other ideas I've fleshed out with other readers or writers from the site. I really need to copy those into Word documents before I lose track of them.

 

[HeyAll]

Not sure, but I have a bunch. More than 10. And I also have a bunch of Docs of old stories that need to be re-edited.

 

[SimonDoom]

I have 32 stories, at least, that have been partially drafted but not completed. The oldest goes back about four years. That doesn't count multiple chapters of two unfinished series where I've mapped out or starting writing more than one of the subsequent chapters.

I'm an undisciplined writer, to say the least.

 

[NikiVien]

I have about six,

I've actually just finished one Though it's only short

Now contemplating whether to ask for it to be edited or not . . .

 

[KeithD]

I include only those with something written to them and not yet submitted to a publisher. I have four with the writing at least started, but not completed. One of these is a book I’m pushing to finish that has six of nine chapters written. Pushing it is the reason that I’ve written sections to two other stories but put them on pause. The longest time one has been in draft is the fourth one, which is a coauthored one and has been sitting on my coauthor’s plate for writing of the next section since 8 January 2020. I have seven others written but waiting for review to go into an anthology before submitting to the publisher. I have another 171,000-word anthology close to the end of review before sending to the publisher. And I have one story completed and just waiting for the end of the week to submit to a Web site.

 

[oggbashan]

I posted all mine as oggbashan stew 1-4 - but now?

https://www.literotica.com/s/oggbashan-stew-pt-01

About 15 currently in process, and another 60 just sitting.

 

[RejectReality]

Three open in Wordperfect right now — the current front-burner stories. The next Magic of the Wood, a shorter story set in the same universe, and an RR older man age-difference story.

The Magic of the Wood story has been in there since 2016. The other two are less than a month old since inception.

The next tier is a Darkniciad story about the character my pen name comes from, and chapter 5 of a story set in the same world.

As to the oldest thing still in my active drafts folder that I think will actually see the light of day eventually, that's a Valentine's story as Les where the oldest datable evidence of it ( a cover mock-up ) is from 2011. So a decade. I finally got the setup where I wanted it this year, but didn't feel like writing sex during the critical time right before the contest.

I would say 10 other partially completed pieces will eventually see release. The rest are questionable.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

*counts*

All stories?

Fifty-six.

Ugh.

 

[oggbashan]

Or? How many drafts before a story is finished?

Anything from 3 to 14.

 

[AvroAnsonXIX]

After about three pints I lose count ...

Oh, stories ... Well, hundreds.

And if you kids aren't good I'll publish them all (evil laughter).

 

[SamScribble]

Oh, stories ... Well, hundreds.

And if you kids aren't good I'll publish them all (evil laughter).

You remind me of our fourth form English master, many, many years ago.

When, on a stiflingly-hot afternoon, we were struggling with Milton, Marvell, Gray, and co, 'Bottle' would say: 'Gentlemen, you have a choice. Apply yourselves to what is before you, or I will use what remains of our forty minutes together to read you a selection of my own verse.'

 

[_Lynn_]

How many stories are currently in your drafts? Which ones are the most promising? How old are the oldest?

I'm curious.

I have tons of stories that are either done or close to it. There are others I got bored with and won't ever go back to. If it's not interesting enough for me to complete, I figure it won't hold the readers attention either.

The oldest is from somewhere around 2010.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have a full length novel I've been on and off again for a year
Other than that I have one story I dropped after one chapter and may eventually get back to.
I usually finish what I start because I wait until the idea or desire to write an idea is so strong it reaches have to mode.

 

[TxRad]

I have more unfinished stories than I have published stories.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Four. Two in work, one I'll get back to, and one I probably won't. Plus some old bits I've not deleted yet.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

35 or so. That includes one finished but which will never be published as others have convinced me of its essential evilness. (Yeah, right, here...) Some are almost finished, some have just begun.

 

[SimonDoom]

That includes one finished but which will never be published as others have convinced me of its essential evilness. (Yeah, right, here...) Some are almost finished, some have just begun.

I have trouble imagining you associated with "essential evilness."

But maybe my idea of evilness is different from others'.

 

[ChuckWolf]

I have about 5 and one returned due to it being too short.

 

[MetaBob]

How many stories are currently in your drafts?

Not sure what you mean by "drafts." A "draft" usually means a finished story, just not, you know ... "finished" (first draft, second draft, etc). I have six unfinished novels plus twice as many more short stories and novellas, including 2-3 novels that I'm more or less actively working on. Another six I would consider "drafts," some published here and/or there.

Which ones are the most promising?

Well, my publisher liked the most recent blurb I sent. 25K words "finished" out of what I expect will be 40K, but I don't know since it's not fully drafted yet.

How old are the oldest?

~20 years. I started young.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Only two at the moment - one fanfic chapter nearly done, a SF story that needs more story in it, one early Lit draft that is really only a few paragraphs.

My Idea Bunnies document of things to write has about 30 ideas in it, some have multiple sentences and paragraphs and will need planting out into their own document soon.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Hmm... y'all probably won't believe this, I have over 150 what I call In Process stories or Chapters of Stories.

About a year ago I went through a period of having idea after idea about stories. Fortunately, that has stopped and hopefully I will finish them all before I die, or just post them in the story ideas forum as they are and let someone else rewrite them or finish them.

 

[oggbashan]

Hmm... y'all probably won't believe this, I have over 150 what I call In Process stories or Chapters of Stories.

About a year ago I went through a period of having idea after idea about stories. Fortunately, that has stopped and hopefully I will finish them all before I die, or just post them in the story ideas forum as they are and let someone else rewrite them or finish them.

Or you could do what I did with oggbashan stew 1-4.


They seem to be well received and I'm free of them...

 

[AvroAnsonXIX]

Or just post them in the story ideas forum as they are and let someone else rewrite them or finish them.

What are the thoughts or norms on the ethics of using what is "put out there" in the "story ideas forums." Obviously nobody "owns a trope." It seems that "ideas" and "concepts" would likewise be free. But what about paraphrase or short quotes (up to a few sentances or so). It also seems obvious that if one "rewrote" somebody's partly completed work there would exist joint authorship. Or, editorship if one "just edited?"