Sit down, shut up, and write a story

[Chicklet]

Is there anyone else out there who sometimes just has to sit down and write a story from beginning to end? A lot of times when I'm writing a story that means a lot to me, that has a lot of me inside it, that a lot of thought went in to, I get frustrated because I want to finish it. That's when I open a new file and start a new story just to finish it. One hour later I have a story which isn't the best, but it makes me feel so good to have something to submit.

I think I've started a thread like this before but honestly I've started so damned many threads I can't remember.

If you'd like, post links to your stress-relief stories, and then to the stories you were relieving stress for.

-Chicklet

 

[Svenskaflicka]

*looks at her 5 started-but-not-yet-finished stories*

 

[TheEarl]

Damn straight. I always find that's sometimes the best way to work through writer's block - not going to an unfinished story and confronting the same old plot block, but just sitting down and hammering out something.

The Earl

 

[Icingsugar]

No way. It never works for me. A writing project for me is just that - a project. I'd set up a sceduled weekly meeting, open a bank account and set up a homepage for every damn ongoing story I wrote. But then I'd have no time to write the stories instead.

If I did something like you did, the result would not be a story that 'isn't the best'.

It would be a story that downright sucked.

Do you have stories written that fast here in Lit? I wanna see how a stunt like that turns out.

 

[MercyMia]

What about this variation?

Sit down, shut up, write a story...and two weeks later, you emerge from your study, smelly as hell, skinny as a rail, thirsty as the desert, but with a masterpiece in hand.

My ideal way to write is straight through. Unfortunately, there are so many real life interventions, interruptions, commercial breaks.

I have a closet full of unfinished stories and poems.

 

[champagne1982]

No way. It never works for me. A writing project for me is just that - a project. I'd set up a sceduled weekly meeting, open a bank account and set up a homepage for every damn ongoing story I wrote. But then I'd have no time to write the stories instead.

If I did something like you did, the result would not be a story that 'isn't the best'.

It would be a story that downright sucked.

Do you have stories written that fast here in Lit? I wanna see how a stunt like that turns out.

Hello Icing, Almost all of my stories are written within one day of their conception. No stunt, it's just what I do, granted, none of my stories are terribly complicated or very long.

 

[LorriLove]

hiya

looks at my one unfinished story, ummm!! no i don't think it relieves anything actually

 

[deliciously_naughty]

Do you have stories written that fast here in Lit? I wanna see how a stunt like that turns out.

The majority of my work is like that. I get inspired, sit down, and write it start to finish. I'll spell check it, and then I'll either submit it then and there or wait until the next morning, reread it and then submit it. There are a few that got more attention or time, but not many.

The results have varied, but the stories that aren't that good are more often the ones where I'm trying to go somewhere new or uncomfortable for me.

 

[raphy]

All of my short stories are one-sitting stories.. I just get into the flow and can't stop typing. I never plan them out, and rarely know what the plot is going to be like before hand. I'm as excited as the reader to know what happens next.

Maybe one day I'll submit some - They're not erotica though, so we'll see..

 

[MathGirl]

No problemo

Do you have stories written that fast here in Lit? I wanna see how a stunt like that turns out.

Dear Ice,
I suggest you read the complete collection of DurtGurl stories. None of them took much time to write, and it shows.
http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=209212
Enjoy,
MG, Amanuensis to DG
Ps. "Me and Mom" is especially quick to read because it was written very fast.

 

[Chicklet]

Do you have stories written that fast here in Lit? I wanna see how a stunt like that turns out.

Okay. I *do* write quality stuff sometimes. End Game, A Short Demonstration, Summertime Blues...those are ones I stress over, sit down and take weeks to finish. But while I'm writing them if I don't produce *something* then I feel like I'm never going to get finished. So I put my current work aside, write some drivel, and get back to work when I feel like it. Here're some links to my short efforts.

A Little Harmless Pleasure - 1 hour - needed to get *something* out to cure a writers block.

Anticipation - 1 hour - needed to spit out a story to read - third attempt I finally wrote one.

April's Bed - 2 hours - I just couldn't get a conclusion going for "Ice Queen" (title ready for change) and needed to boost my own ego.

Hope - 1/2 hour

Passion in the Workplace - 20 minutes max. Just had to get something down.

Those are the ones I can remember doing fast. A surprising number of them have "H"'s next to them - hope for instance has been on the toplist in the BDSM section since it was posted. Weird.

 

[oggbashan]

I wrote White Scut and Donna for the then new Erotic Horror category at one sitting, each in less than an hour including editing.

White Scut was my only rejected story. I was a few words short of the minimum.

My normal speed is months. When I'm "on song" I can produce a dozen or so A4 pages in a session but that is only a small part of a typical Og story.

Og

 

[Chicklet]

What does "scut" mean?

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Re: No problemo

Ps. "Me and Mom" is especially quick to read because it was written very fast.

If that is the one I read, I understand why you wrote it fast...

 

[Lovepotion69]

I'd never be able to do a story in one sitting I think. No wait, that's probably not true. If they're really short I'd be able to do it. Looking at Chicklet's links, I'd say I can write about the same lenght in equally short time. It'd suck, but hey, I would at lest get something written and posted in one day.

I have about five stories started now. Think majority of them are stuck on 800 words. Perhaps I should just try writing something in one sitting, just for a try, and see how it turns out? Nothing long I'd imagine though.
Ok, that's it. I'll do that tomorrow. Finally found something to do with all that excess energy...hehe

 

[oggbashan]

What does "scut" mean?

The raised tail of a rabbit.

Og

 

[flawed_ethics]

I've only written one story in a single sitting that I felt comfortable in submitting. As it turns out, the story sucked major donkey balls. Since I'm not much of a writer, I need to refine my text a number of times just to get an editor to look at it. I can devote large chunks of time to a story if the fancy strikes.

I'm actually compelled to write a quick story right now having read cookiejar's latest, but it depends on how long I'm online tonight.