Previews Of Coming Attractions.

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

What're you working on?

 

[Aynmair]

What're you working on?

Expanding and fixing my FAWC5 sci-fi story. Exploring where it takes me.

 

[oggbashan]

The ending of Harold Saves Her Husband.

Part 01 was 15,000 words posted July 2006; part 02 5,000 posted November 2013; part 03 and last is 15,000 and counting.

Part 03 should be finished this week.

Harold Plays The Hero, the first story in the series, was posted July 2002!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I spent 2 months thinking about an erotic-political series. The American economy collapses, the dollar is worthless, jobs and cell phones and ATMs go away. Washington grabs the Fort Knox gold, the Pacific Fleet, and the Marines, and flees to Hawaii. But China needs the American market and resources to survive, and takes over most of the American port cities along with our agriculture, energy, and minerals. Mexico and Central America flood the rest of the USA with their wretched refuse. American gals do what they must to survive, most harvest veggies, many work as hospitality hostesses. The writing is finally started.

 

[Sammael Bard]

Working on a Sci-fi story that involves a lot of action in the first part. Had it reviewed by another author who tore it down to ribbons, and now I'm in the process of rebuilding it from scratch.

 

[TxRad]

The bare bones of a story so to speak. The only problem is there are a half dozen versions trying to compete.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Personally I am hoping Kanye West will run against George Clooney for next Pres., win, sort out the ME and help the Bolsheviks build the Third Temple of Solomon, declare himself absolute ruler and king of the world (making it obvious that he is the Anti Christ, of course) and everything hurry up and be damned with it all as soon as possible. I am getting seriously bored with modern propaganda. I must say I do prefer the stuff you get at the Salzburg Festival... Superficially, of course. Yeah, and I did mean the OLD Salzburg Festival. When propaganda was new.

 

[49greg]

I spent 2 months thinking about an erotic-political series. The American economy collapses, the dollar is worthless, jobs and cell phones and ATMs go away. Washington grabs the Fort Knox gold, the Pacific Fleet, and the Marines, and flees to Hawaii. But China needs the American market and resources to survive, and takes over most of the American port cities along with our agriculture, energy, and minerals. Mexico and Central America flood the rest of the USA with their wretched refuse. American gals do what they must to survive, most harvest veggies, many work as hospitality hostesses. The writing is finally started.

How about: Rain continues to not fall in the Southwest and Northern Mexico, rising sea levels flood port cities, Washington floods and is abandoned and the government moves to Hawaii, but land is even more scarce due to rising seal levels so they move back to Fort Knox. The bone dry SW stops immigration from the South and Canada erects a people proof fence across their border with the US, then tries to annex Alaska, who rebel and form their own independent state. The large aquifers are dried out by farmers and big cities, or contaminated by fraking, which also causes a huge earthquake on the New Madrid fault. Fort Knox and all the gold and the government are swallowed into the earth, or buried by erupting lava flows. Water becomes the medium of exchange. China, needing the US Market builds new ports on the West Coast with Huge nuclear powered desalination plants and use water to control the Western Half of the country and a consortium of Britain, Germany and Brazil do the same on the East. American Gals do what they must to survive, most harvest veggies, many work as hospitality hostesses.

Just a thought.

 

[SamScribble]

As so often happens, a couple of characters recently burrowed their way into my mind.

One was William, a post-grad art student who travels down to London to attend a course at Central St Martins. The other was Mrs Hattersley, a bookshop-owning friend of William’s grandmother – who also happens to have a spare room. And that’s about what I had when I started. Of course things have developed a bit since the fingers started tapping. Neither Mrs Hattersley nor her bookshop may be quite what Gran thought they were. And maybe William’s not as green as he at first appears to be.

Stay tuned.

 

[colddiesel]

I spent 2 months thinking about an erotic-political series. The American economy collapses, the dollar is worthless, jobs and cell phones and ATMs go away. Washington grabs the Fort Knox gold, the Pacific Fleet, and the Marines, and flees to Hawaii. But China needs the American market and resources to survive, and takes over most of the American port cities along with our agriculture, energy, and minerals. Mexico and Central America flood the rest of the USA with their wretched refuse. American gals do what they must to survive, most harvest veggies, many work as hospitality hostesses. The writing is finally started.

That sounds like at least 6 books James!

 

[lovecraft68]

I am going to work on.....nothing.

I just finished camp nano where I pushed myself to get 75k done in a month during which my wife underwent major surgery.

I finished because my nerves are shot and I'm going through a bout of insomnia. So my 75k included 4 new e-books so it was productive, but I pushed so hard I am beyond burnt out.

Time for time off to try to reset.

I'm dropping out of survivor because the Nano debacle had me saying over and over "Why am I doing this, what do I have to prove and to who?" I guess the answer is myself because I push 24/7 and that needs to stop.

Think I'll even pass on the Summer loving contest, I was only going to enter for the survivor points and I'm shelving that.

So unless a bunny just grabs me by the throat and won't let go, my plan is to take August off from writing. It's becoming to much like work right now, and I don't want it to be that way.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I am going to work on.....nothing.

I just finished camp nano where I pushed myself to get 75k done in a month during which my wife underwent major surgery.

I finished because my nerves are shot and I'm going through a bout of insomnia. So my 75k included 4 new e-books so it was productive, but I pushed so hard I am beyond burnt out.

Time for time off to try to reset.

I'm dropping out of survivor because the Nano debacle had me saying over and over "Why am I doing this, what do I have to prove and to who?" I guess the answer is myself because I push 24/7 and that needs to stop.

Think I'll even pass on the Summer loving contest, I was only going to enter for the survivor points and I'm shelving that.

So unless a bunny just grabs me by the throat and won't let go, my plan is to take August off from writing. It's becoming to much like work right now, and I don't want it to be that way.

Good idea. You seem burned out.

 

[oggbashan]

I am still working on Part 03 mentioned in post #3 above.

The ending is taking longer than I expected because I keep having to go back to amend earlier pages. I had people in the wrong place at the wrong time to fit the plot.

I shouldn't have had so many secret passages. I'm losing characters in them. The rampaging elephant isn't helping. I had to stop his rampage without hurting him, but only after some women had tunnelled underneath him.

Suspension of disbelief is going to be a real problem.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

I am nothing if not a cut, and slash, and burn kind of writer, so - how about this (and a thief where possible):

"American gals do what they must."

DMmwk.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

I've started a new story that, at least for now, defies categorization. An immigrant couple clinging to the old ways faces a crisis and resorts to extreme measures to solve it. The aftermath is devastating.

 

[oggbashan]

Part 03 of Harold Saves Her Husband has just been submitted. At 23,000+ words and seven Lit pages it is the longest part of the story.

Next year I might resubmit all three parts as a single story.

But 14 Lit pages might deter readers.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Part 03 of Harold Saves Her Husband has just been submitted. At 23,000+ words and seven Lit pages it is the longest part of the story.

Next year I might resubmit all three parts as a single story.

But 14 Lit pages might deter readers.

I'm able to focus for hours if the subject is quality goods, but most of the time I stop reading on the first page.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Er, JBJ, your story is completed. (That is, the story that I have stuck you inside of). Might take me a few hours to double-check it and then post it. And then, the usual time to get listed, I guess.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Er, JBJ, your story is completed. (That is, the story that I have stuck you inside of). Might take me a few hours to double-check it and then post it. And then, the usual time to get listed, I guess.

I better be evil enough!

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

I am smiling here.

You will see...

 

[TE999]

I'm currently working on Part 2 of my Lit posted story 'Death in the Desert'. It's a sci-fi story about female soldiers repelling the invaders of a future America all but destroyed by a devastating Biological attack. Men are most adversely affected, so women take up the duty as soldiers. They kick ass and take no prisoners.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

You're obviously having too much fun, TE999. Everyday being a holiday and that. How are the kick-ass women on us old guys?

 

[49greg]

I am going to work on.....nothing.

I just finished camp nano where I pushed myself to get 75k done in a month during which my wife underwent major surgery.

I finished because my nerves are shot and I'm going through a bout of insomnia. So my 75k included 4 new e-books so it was productive, but I pushed so hard I am beyond burnt out.

Time for time off to try to reset.

I'm dropping out of survivor because the Nano debacle had me saying over and over "Why am I doing this, what do I have to prove and to who?" I guess the answer is myself because I push 24/7 and that needs to stop.

Think I'll even pass on the Summer loving contest, I was only going to enter for the survivor points and I'm shelving that.

So unless a bunny just grabs me by the throat and won't let go, my plan is to take August off from writing. It's becoming to much like work right now, and I don't want it to be that way.

I got way burned out after last November's Nano. I'm still not sure I'll do it ever again.

 

[oggbashan]

I got way burned out after last November's Nano. I'm still not sure I'll do it ever again.

I did it once, to prove that I could.

But I set myself more challenges during that NaNoWriMo - to write the whole 50,000 words, edit them, and get them posted on Literotica before the end of the NaNoWriMo month, allowing for approval delays.

The result was my Flawed Red Silk series of 12chapters.

http://www.literotica.com/s/flawed-red-silk-ch-01

Before NaNoWriMo started I had outlined the plot for a possible 36 chapters. which I expected to cut down to 30 i.e. one chapter for each writing day. There was an obvious flaw in that plan - I couldn't write a chapter a day and get them all posted by the end of the month. After writing, and submitting, the first two chapters I cut the planned chapters down to 18. By the end of chapter 4 the plan was 15 in total. The end result was 12, all submitted and posted on Literotica before the end of the month.

They are still exactly as they were written, flaws and all. There have been no subsequent edits. I prefer to leave them untouched as a reminder that I could do it if I wanted to.

 

[Vanadorn]

The framework for my next multi-chapter is finished (again 5-6 chapters). This time'll be a real life look at 3-ways and betrayal. However, I also have two shorter semi-flash stories that I'll be submitting first.

However what am I really working on? Sadly - work! It's getting in the way of my life.

-V