How many stories do you have on the go?

[OpenMouth]

I have maybe 4 or 5 on the go at any one time

 

[Seadog777]

I have maybe 4 or 5 on the go at any one time, plus a taboo one in my email account which isn't intended for publication (but could be, theoretically... ).

I wish my writing was a transferable skill, but my vivid prose seems to be exclusively linked with masturbation. Not much use for a short story competition in a local paper.

I have 12 stories that are not finished as of right now.

1 of them, I've been stuck on since last year.

 

[TxRad]

How about over three hundred?

 

[Rob_Royale]

Only been doing this for six months now and I started out at one at a time but that was when the stories were already compete in my head, just needing to be typed out. Now that the initial deluge of stories is over and I'm having to develop new ones, I have about four going at a time. I find I'm getting to a point with some where I find myself thinking, "This isn't working, it's needs to be redone." So I back burner it until I've got it figured out. Meanwhile, I jump on another.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I have maybe 4 or 5 on the go at any one time, plus a taboo one in my email account which isn't intended for publication (but could be, theoretically... ).

I wish my writing was a transferable skill, but my vivid prose seems to be exclusively linked with masturbation. Not much use for a short story competition in a local paper.

I have 14 stories in my draft folder, but some of those are no more than two-line or one paragraph ideas that I captured so I didn’t forget them.

At present I have:

1. My On The Job story - finished but will do one more review before submitting
2. My Geek Pride story - probably 50-60% finished, but still quite a lot of work left
3. A female-centric version of Just Do As I Say - about 40 - 50% and struggling with it if I’m honest
4. A new quasi-autobiographical story - probably at about 30%
5. Next chapter of Coffee with Dylan - 10%
6. Next chapter of The Kiss - about the same, maybe a bit less

So six. I think that’s a bit high for me. Normally more like three or four.

Em

 

[comegently]

Just one right now. A sequel to my most recent published story

 

[KeithD]

I almost always write my stories consecutively. I might list them, but not begin writing them until I've finished the one before. At the moment, I have five in various forms of write, though. This usually happens when the ideas are coming fast and furiously. If I can get the opening written I can go back to others and not loose the plot of intent on the newly occurring one. That happened to me this morning. I woke up with two new ideas. I've listed one, with a sentence of the premise, and first thing this afternoon when I got to the computer, I wrote an 800-word opening for the other. This wasn't how I intended to start my day. I have two stories needing review.

 

[NoTalentHack]

 

[tenyari]

Yeah I have an absurd number of unfinished stories. Some have several hundred thousand words before I've managed to write myself into a corner and realize the entire thing needed a rewrite... some are just a few paragraphs or pages.

 

[Zootonius]

Interesting to see how many stories others have. The most I've had was three. And with one of those recently published, it's down to two. And of those, one is an active series while the other is a sappy lesbian love story that I don't think I've ever push out. (unless I consume too much alcohol one evening)

But I do have a few stories squirreled away in my head, replete with the whole story arch. When I get to them, it will mostly be deciding how many orgasms occur in each sex scene.

 

[NotWise]

Three I can think of: the one I'll publish next, my Mickey Spillane entry (about 1/4 done), and a synopsis that I have to rethink because it's too dark. I think there's a scrap or two of other stories that I'll probably delete when I find them again.

 

[ElectricBlue]

One active in work; one on the short term back-burner (I was enthusiastic about this one, but it's dragging on a bit, and might be losing its way); a Mickey Spillane thing started, and a follow-on from the first Geek anthology about 8k in. It's been that way for several years now, which is not like me at all. Well, obviously it is, but it's not stalled so much as not moving (since I know exactly where it's going). But then, every story in the last three years has been a side project for something else, so I don't let it bother me.

 

[ChloeTzang]

OMG. Let's see, I'm actively working on 8 right now.

For Literotica, right now all 4 on the go but JP11 is the immediate priority
Jeong Park 11 - chapter installment
Timeo Artifices et Membra Virilia Denudens - novel length (Geek Day)
Business As Usual - novel length (Hammered story event)
Mosquito Repellent - short story (Summer Lovin')

For publisher(s) - actively writing on one and plotting two, and just restarted a 4th
The Final Night - Shanghai Trilogy 3 (novel, ETA end of June)
A Roman one (novel, ETA this year asap)
Insertion Force (novel, December)
The Flames of Samhain (ongoing)

I have way more on my "To Do" list but these are the ones I am actively working on. I have a series mapped out to follow on from "Insertion Force," a novel set in Ukraine, half a dozen of my Lit stories I want to expand into full length novels, and about two dozen novels mapped out, some of them partly written, some just outlined, some a cover and a concept.

 

[SimonDoom]

I have about 40 unfinished stories at one stage of development or another. Some are quite far along. I've tinkered with several over the last few months, and others are on the shelf for the time being.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Good, another chance to talk about ourselves; always a pleasure!

I have one going up on another site tomorrow, and I one that is almost completed for Lit in early April. That leaves Geek Pride in production. The latter is going to spin off a couple of sequels I think by June or July.. Other ideas are floating around, including some non-fiction. I have a couple of series on other sites left hanging, and I think I can finish them at some point.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I have about 40 unfinished stories at one stage of development or another. Some are quite far along. I've tinkered with several over the last few months, and others are on the shelf for the time being.

That reminds me, I have a three-part series (so far) and a two-part one I never published because they didn't seem to be working. That had to be a couple of years ago. Maybe I can do something eventually with the second one.

 

[Paul_Chance]

My work in progress folder has three or four at any given time. (I don't count the note taking stage as "going".) I find that is about all I can manage without them starting to blend together.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I have 12 stories that are not finished as of right now.

1 of them, I've been stuck on since last year.

Sometimes the stuck ones become unstuck, but it may take a long time. It can't be forced, it just happens.

 

[oneagainst]

Zero. Finally. Finished the last scene today. A curious feeling, having it all queued up in the pipeline ready to publish out to November but nothing more to add.

Time for something new.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

I have maybe 4 or 5 on the go at any one time, plus a taboo one in my email account which isn't intended for publication (but could be, theoretically... ).

I wish my writing was a transferable skill, but my vivid prose seems to be exclusively linked with masturbation. Not much use for a short story competition in a local paper.

1 story but all the chapters.

I don’t like having multiple stories outstanding but I’ll bounce forward through different parts of it.

 

[Seadog777]

Sometimes the stuck ones become unstuck, but it may take a long time. It can't be forced, it just happens.

I know the ending I want, but for some reason I can't get there in my head.
Its baffling me

 

[gunhilltrain]

I know the ending I want, but for some reason I can't get there in my head.
Its baffling me

That happens most often in a series. The story reaches a certain chapter, and then what? Like life itself, things just go on, basically plotless. Readers will ask, "what happens next?" I won't know. Maybe a year will pass, and then an inspiration may strike.

I know some people plan it all out first, but I usually don't have the patience for that.

 

[Seadog777]

That happens most often in a series. The story reaches a certain chapter, and then what? Like life itself, things just go on, basically plotless. Readers will ask, "then what?" I don't know. Maybe a year will pass, and then an inspiration may strike.

I know some people plan it all out first, but I usually don't have the patience for that.

I'm hoping that it'll come to me.
I'm just not the most patient man on earth so it's chapping my ass

 

[gunhilltrain]

You liked it before I even had a chance to finish it! It's like pushing the buttons on Jeopardy. "What is Catalonia, Alex?" "Ah no. John, Jane, want to respond?"

 

[gunhilltrain]

I'm hoping that it'll come to me.
I'm just not the most patient man on earth so it's chapping my ass

Aren't you the one who will attack all the dumbasses in New York? You need a Zen-like sense of calm. "Just be the subway train," or whatever they espouse.