How to get the damned thing started...

[Demos Straxus]

I have a plethora of erotic story ideas..but I can't seem to translate them well onto the page I get about 3 paragraphs done, and then I just stall. Any ideas to help me focus?

 

[impressive]

Speak them into a recorder, then transcribe. Submit as audio stories, even, if desired.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Is the content at your stall point the same?

For instance, are you cramping up right when the clothes begin coming off?

~lucky

 

[TheEarl]

One of two things might help:

1) Sit down and lock your door. Put all books, magazines, televisions, games, etc away and switch off the internet. Sit down and insist that you're going to write; don't allow yourself to do anything else.

Or,

2) Work out where your story's gonna go. Not the entire thing, but work out exactly what you want to convery in the first couple of pages so that you know exactly where you want to go.

They tend to work for me.

The Earl

 

[dr_mabeuse]

It really depends on how and why you're getting stuck. Are you losing your way and getting distracted? Or does your style turn you off? Are you trying to be too good for a first draft?

Try writing the good parts first, the parts that made you want to write the story in the first place.

Try minimizing everything that stands between the start of the story and the good part.

Write crap. It's a lot easier to edit crap into shape than it is to get it perfect the first time. The need to be perfect from the start has paralyzed many a writer.

Write the story in outline form with topic sentences. Then go back and fill in the detail.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I agree on the outline idea. Once you have a better idea of where it's going to go, it will be easier to draft.

 

[Liar]

Don't sweat it. Don't try to make it good, or even try to make it make sense. Just get something out. Now and then, and more often the more I did it, I found that that made the right words come again.

 

[Weird Harold]

I have a plethora of erotic story ideas..but I can't seem to translate them well onto the page I get about 3 paragraphs done, and then I just stall. Any ideas to help me focus?

Try outlining the story first.

It doesn't need to be a formal outline, just sentence or two describing a series of scenes.

Once you have the story outlined, youcan go back and edit the descriptions of each scene into a full-fledged scene.

First iteration Example:

Boy meets girl.

Boy drools over her cleavage -- literally.

Girl laughs it off.

Boy offers to assist her clean-up.

Clean-up leads to shower scene.

Shower scene leads to bedroom.

Caught in host's bedroom!

Menage a Trois develops.

Caught again by other guests.

Orgy ensues.

Second iteration Example:

Boy meets girl.
.boy is Dave, nerd and clutz
.Girl is Jane, cheerleader and school social icon

Boy drools over her cleavage -- literally.
.A couple of beers and an unexpected encounter in the hallway.

Girl laughs it off.
."I've heard a lot of guys drool over my bust, but you're the first to actualay do it.

Boy offers to assist her clean-up.
.Embarassment plus dutch courage = blurted offer to lick it up.

Clean-up leads to shower scene.
.Jane declines tongue bath but accepts offer to run blouse through the dryer while she showers.
.Dutch courage leads Dave to offer to scrub her back, too. Jane accepts.
.Shower reveals Dave's hidden "talent" -- he can lick his eybrows; and other things.

Shower scene leads to bedroom.
.An aroused Jane drags Dave to bed for more licking -- mutual licking this time
.Dave reveals more hidden talents -- he's a better lover than Jane has ever encountered before.

Caught in host's bedroom!
.Hostess, Dawn is attracted by Jane's moans of passion.

Menage a Trois develops.
.Dawn watches Jane through two orgasms then joins in without asking.

Caught again by other guests.
.Dan, Dawn's husband joins in, accompanied by guests, George and Gina.

Orgy ensues.
.Dan, Dawn, George and Gina are revealed as swingers looking to recruit Jane into their circle.
.Dave's hidden talents generate offer for him to join swinger's circle, too.

Keep adding information to each scene with each revison of your outline until yo've got all of the detail you need, then polish it into a story by converting the "telling" into "showing."

The examples I used are entirely off-the-cuff, but would easily turn into a 3,500 word story with a few more details added. A little effort and expansion could turn them into the start of a novellete or even form the basis for a complete novel if desired.

 

[Demos Straxus]

Thanks for the advice guys

 

[kendo1]

Sometimes it may be easier to change mediums.

Pen and paper are great for scribbling down ideas fast as they come to you.
Score through what you don't like, jot something else down.
At least you can go back and see what you have scored through.

Try Notepad for headings, notes, good bits that you need to get down while they're fresh.

 

[BlackSnake]

I start with some action that is central to the story. The first sentence of my next story begins:

“Calvin, what are you doing in here?” Tracy clinched and pulled on her covers, but was unable to keep the full grown man from getting into her bed.

 

[BlackSnake]

Thanks for the advice guys

How about just start writing...called free writing, I think.