I just want to be a cabinetmaker though

[its Leslie]

I hope this is taken in the spirit I am writing it in today.

Has anyone else noticed what seems to be happening to me at least?

No I don't think my writing is perfection personified, nor even currently sellable I suppose. But I have noticed that with my first three submissions it has been comically easy for me to produce.

What I am saying is, I am a cabinetmaker (well actually I was supposed to be a cabinetmaker but a disability has made me unable to pursue it professionally). I have been visiting Literotica for no more than 4 weeks now.
In that time I have produced three portions of an on going story that has all my chat friends on here pleased.
The writing seems suspiciously easy for me. Or at least I suspect it is easy for me. If I did nothing else I could write all day and not slow down it would seem.

Not a problem I suppose, just an unexpected result more or less. Certainly wasn't expected when I first joined Literotica. I did not expect I would be producing erotic fiction that any would give any manner of positive comment on that's for sure.

Hell I first came here looking for casual chatting. Hoping to find people that wouldnt get indignant that I sit around the place bare assed and usually have my hand on an erection (with or without anyone elses assistance eh). Its comical that I get a greater maturity and a more intellectual chat here in the Literotica chat room. Yes I actually just called the people here mature and intelligent, sure doesnt say much for the world outside of Literotica eh hehe.

So that is it basically. Just wondering if any others have been surprised at how much they enjoy and how much they can produce in the way of erotic fiction. Certainly never expected my writing skills to be used to write this sort of literature that's for sure.

Yes I write for fun, no I dont need to get any money out of this. Sure I would like to become slightly more well off financially. I would like to earn a living where I work bare assed masturbating while getting inspired heheh (heck of a working environment eh).

But I am supposed to be a cabinetmaker heheheh.

 

[jon.hayworth]

Hi ITS LESLIE,

I would suspect one of two things is happening.

Either you are a highly talented fiction writer, who being disabled has found an outlet for your creativity, which before you expressed through the medium of wood and or supressed by concentrating on your work.

Or alternatively the story you are at present working on has long been lurking within you.

You will know which when you have completed the present work or maybe a couple more and have to set yourself a task to complete a work.

It might be of interest to join the Survivor Challenge as that involves writing in all the genres or as many as you can.

Good luck with the writing and keep it going - incedently I too am disabled.

jon

 

[CHEWEY]

A cabinet maker!

Hi Les, I am like you surprised at how easy it is to write. I also am disabled and i often wonder if i was still working if i would have pursued my writing. I got started when I read a somewhat less than desirable story and decided i would see if i could do It. I really enjoyed writing and have done it most of my life. Some days they come real easy, others i fight for everything i write. Keep up the good work and Isn't it nice there is a place for us to sit around bareassed, with our hands on---wait a minute, I don't have a place to get an erection Maybe More would let me use his!

 

[Whispersecret]

I'm glad that you're having a great time. I find that writing is very rewarding. Like you I find that writing can come easily. However, for me, it's often difficult. And always, always, it's hard work.

Keep in mind that friends aren't always the most objective audience. It takes a special type of relationship for a friend to feel comfortable dishing out frank criticism.

 

[MysteryWriter]

welcome to the insane world of writers

I always thought I could write but I didn't know. It had been twenty-five years since I did any. Two things happened at the same time to start me writing. I began having flashbacks and my daughter became a teenager. I couldn't sleep, so I wrote. I say I write to stay sane. There is way too much truth in that simple statement.

I remember a professor I had twenty five years ago who said to me, "The way for you to write Charlie is to tell me the story. Just do it on paper instead of with words." That is how I write now. I don't think I am going to be critically acclaimed in my lifetime or anyone else's. I am not going to sell anything because I quit trying after about twenty rejections. What I am going to do is keep telling my stories as long as one person wants to hear them. When no one wants to hear them, I will still tell them but to the keyboard not the people.

When I began the words just flowed from me. I never knew, nor do I now know, how good or bad the words are. I just write the story as it works its way through my mind. I am amazed at the different reactions to my stories, some people love them, some people hate them. In the end they serve their purpose. I still write instead of going quietly insane.

Each time I hear a critic pan my work, I am reminded of two things I saw writers on TV say. When I am told by someone, who is "A Professional Writer", that I should try sleeping agian, I remember a famous author on a sunday morning talk show saying, "Writing is similiar to another thing. First you do it for fun, then you do it for a few friends, then you do it for money, and this makes you a what?"

The second story happened on a night time talk show several years ago. Mickey Spillane was on with a few book critics. He said, "I wrote me last book in a week." One fo them replied, "Yes I read it. I would say it reads like it." To which Spillane answered, Yes but it has already sold a million copies."

The point is I guess that it doesn't matter if the publisher or the editors like what you write, or even the critics. I think if you have a few friends or a few fans you have enough reason to write. If in the end, you write just because you are compelled to write that is fine too. I expect the only person you really have to please is yourself.

Now don't take this too seriously because I have sever concerns about my sanity tonight. I am writing this instead of sleeping again.

 

[Axeltheswede]

Want to be a cabinetmaker

I have to agree with jon.hayworth. You had the story in your mind for a while and/or you are a very talented writer. The only to tell if the first part is true is to see what you can do after your multi-part current effort

We all approach the creative process with different ideas. Your assessment of 'easy' and mine are probably not the same. For what it's worth, I have built some pretty good cabinets, that didn't seem too hard.