Monkey Mind returns and momentum issues.

[PrevertOne]

So I'm bouncing all over stories again. I'd hoped to finish Erica The Edited but the momentum has ground to a halt. I seem to have some drive on another story I've been working the past several years. It's an implausible concoction involving a college coed, a mercenary/freelance spy, a mad scientist, and a slew of international criminals and terrorists. It won't be posted for awhile, that is if the momentum doesn't last. I have another string I've been chasing. It started out as a tentacle story. I was getting nowhere though. Then I thought, I have other ideas for various monster sex themes, why not make short stories out of them and bundle them together. It might work. Working on a slimegirl variation, and a story about a nymph. Plus plus unfinished stories left dangling for years.

Other stories, still in rough draft, I'm writing:

An Alice In Wonderland themed story, only "Alice" is male.

A story involving a woman, a mercenary, and orcs.

Several different stories set on beaches, involving anything from mind control to tentacle monsters to gambling debts. The type seen on this site often but I hope to put original spins on them.

It's how it goes I guess. Work on something while there's momentum, move to something else when it stops, hope it lasts 'til it's finished.

Frustrated rant's over; back to writing.

 

[LeandraNyx]

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[lovecraft68]

When the "natural momentum" that a new story usually ignites dies out, I find that it's best to just brute force your way through the next x number of words until it returns.

I do the same thing. I'll do the fake it till I make it method and what always happens is within a few paragraphs momentum kicks back in.

Then I go back and fix the crap I just wrote.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I do the same thing. I'll do the fake it till I make it method and what always happens is within a few paragraphs momentum kicks back in.

Yes, this ^^^. I had a major plot scene to get through, and neither I nor my characters were quite ready for it. So they had a quiet, slower paced interlude, their own little moment together, which naturally flowed into the bigger action. I've found it happen a few times now, and never let it worry me. The slow in flow always seems to reveal something by way of plot or personality.

I tell you, some days the folk in my head just have a bad day, like we all do. They always come back on flow. Haven't failed me yet.