So what do you do when

[fgarvb1]

you start writing a story and you get well over one thousand words down and your still in the introduction and not one mention of sex or the sex act?

Write a fucking novel?


I know. I had to set it up. After all, at least I can't jump into a story with murder, time travel, hunting, divorce along with the normal horniness with out a intro.

At lest its fun to write.

 

[BlackSnake]

Why can't you skip the intro and jump right in the middle of the action scene? I'm not one of the better writers, but I like bombs exploiding in the first sentence. Let the characters tell the reader what/how they see/hear/feel/taste.

Then again I like action, action/adventure, action/comedy, and romatic comedies with action.

 

[destinie21]

YOu have a number of choices. You could do like I did in one of my own stories and just post it with all the background (this is one of my highest rated stories incedently. Some readers seem to like a logical sequence of events. I'm one of them. I don't like when it's hi I'm ... oh I'm.... Then unexplained fucking. ) The Bitch ch1

Or you could start in the middle of the story or the "present" and let the characters take us back to the beginning in which case you could lead with a sex scence and prehaps have the character go into the backstory to explain how they got to this point

My Girl this story goes over at five years of backstory and while it's not rated that high the feed back has been great.

 

[BlackSnake]

Hey, when the bomb goes off there's a who/what/when/where/how come

 

[CWatson]

Hey, some people don't mind a leisurely build-up. The story I get the most feedback for, and is highest rated, takes until basically the last page to get "the action" started. So it's okay to use thousands of words setting up. The thing you're NOT allowed to do is bore the readers. ...But that's true of ANY story. My point is, don't confuse lack of sex with boredom.

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

I agree with CWatson. One of my highest rated stories also is very long and the sex comes late in the story.
Tell your story and build up to the sex, write it to please yourself not the masses.
Maybe you can think of it this way...everything before the sex is foreplay and how can you have really good sex without foreplay?


Wicked

 

[BardsLady]

I definately agree with the rest of the crew here. Dont worry about jumping into the sex immediately.

Introductions basicaly defines the whole story. It builds up the tension and gives depth to the personalities that you are writing about.


The time to worry about anything is when your Muse decides to take you for a little ride in the opposite direction of where you want your story to go.


BardsLady

 

[fgarvb1]

Thanks for the replies!

Indeed I did start the story which I decided to call SPHERE OF DESIRE in what could be present day.
Then I took it back a couple of years, explaining how it all came about inserting time travel device via dead man from the future wearing clothing from well before even the nineteenth century.

Then adding in the main getting caught home when he wasn't and couldn't be there.

This monkey could go in any direction at any time, forever.

I'm tempted to polish up my part and pass it around just to see what would happen. That would be a hoot!
In six months or a year I'll finish it.

 

[oggbashan]

you start writing a story and you get well over one thousand words down and your still in the introduction and not one mention of sex or the sex act?

Only one thousand words? That's fast if you get to the sex in the next five hundred. Perhaps that's why I don't get votes. No one has the stamina to get to the end.

Og

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Advice on what works is always good for making you feel better. Let the story write itself. IF it takes 300,000 words, sobeit. It happens, and the tale will want to be told on its own terms.

 

[BardsLady]

Nicely put, QC.

Have you ever wanted a story to go one way, yet it seems to take on a life of it's own and drag you in an entirely different direction?

What do you think?

BardsLady

 

[Dirty Slut]

I do that all the time...

Have you ever wanted a story to go one way, yet it seems to take on a life of it's own and drag you in an entirely different direction?

Drives me nuts sometimes. Oh, and a thousand word intro is hardly wordy as far as foreplay is concerned.

DS

 

[DVS]

Re: I do that all the time...

Drives me nuts sometimes. Oh, and a thousand word intro is hardly wordy as far as foreplay is concerned.

DS

I was kind of thinking the same thing. 1,000 words isn't that much. But, you probably should be getting to the sex pretty soon, if it is in certain catagories like maybe Non-consent, Anal, BDSM, or Incest.

It all depends on your group of readers. Some people really do come here to read sex stories. But, not all of them come to read it in the very first of the story. If the story is good, most will wait for the sex.

And, some will always skip the intro and look for the first sex scene, too.

 

[fgarvb1]

Interesting comments.

I didn't start out with any plot in mind it just went that way.

I did notice that all kinds of events and situations could be inserted or woven into this thing or far that matter it could go on forever. This is quite different from other things I've written here and there.

I smell several chapters here.

 

[BardsLady]

I'm the same way some of the time, Fgarvb1. I sit down at my computer to write with no ready plotline lurking in my back brain and soon it's just flowing onto my text file.

Other times, I have to wait and let a single ide lurk and percolate in my brain before letting it loose to run rampant around the storyline.

But still, either way, there's no set idea when I start out. Sometimes I'll decide that I want the story to run one way. Instead, the story decides to do a 360 just to confuse me, then it wanders down a whole different path.

But I think that's the fun of actually writing. You dont know what you're going to write until it gets onto paper/text file/whatever.

I've gone back over my stuff and have actually gone, "Gods! You mean I WROTE that? Wow!"

BardsLady

 

[Quasimodem]

. . . . Instead, the story decides to do a 360 just to confuse me . . . .

You mean, like 360 degrees?

That means it spins completely around and keeps going the same way.

 

[BardsLady]

*chuckles*

I mean it spins around in circles in one spot for a bit, then runs off down the path again until it gets to a spot in the storyline and takes the completely opposite side of where I want it to go. Just to mess with me.

BardsLady

 

[MathGirl]

You mean, like 360 degrees?

Dear Quaz,
I had a problem with that when I first started flying an airplane. Never could seem to get anywhere except in one direction, and it was a bitch getting home.
MG

 

[TheEarl]

The last time that happened I decided to turn it into a non-erotic short story. It then turned into a non-erotic novella and is showing signs of transforming into a non-erotic novel. And there's still been no hint of sex yet.

Why won't the words stop!

The Earl

 

[BardsLady]

*grins at TheEarl*

Ah the side effects of having a very powerful Muse/Alter Ego. Ya gotta love em, but you just sometimes wish they'd quit talking for a while to give your fingers a break.

BardsLady