That one teasing scene...

[lovecraft68]

Not a scene where someone is teasing, but the instance where your muse has handed you some random scene-could be sexual, could be anything-and its not a casual meh, but a real attention grabbing "Ohhh, I like it!"

But that's it. There's nothing else but this quick staccato flash of a series of verbal exchanges or action, or sex, or whatever, but no story around it, and for some reason nothing you try to come up with to get to that scene has the same grab or feel, so the scene remains just that.

I've had this damn scene flitting about my head for well over a year. I've tried figuring out where it can fit, with no success. I have tried saying fuck you, and ignoring it, but it keeps coming back. I tried blunt force trauma of just sitting down and fiorcing myself to write something to properly lead into it, and again zero acceptable results.

Its like some kind of muse glitch and this is the only time its ever happened to me. I feel like the scene is a crush on someone I know I can't have, or seeing someone else get the promotion you wanted. It's a stinging defeat that pisses me off, but leaves me wondering how I can have something so vivid in my mind, and can't get anything to match it.

I haven't been writing as long as some here, but its been fifteen years, over 200 e-books, 146 stories here, a few erotic horror novels in print, and some of that was a struggle at times, but one I always overcame.

This thing is a damn cocktease of a story is all I can say.

Anything similar happen to you? If so, did you ultimately figure it out?

 

[StillStunned]

I had one: a female adventurer tossing a sleazebag rival into a pit with a tentacled demon. It resulted in my five-part series The Rivals, and those two are probably my favourite characters.

 

[_Lynn_]

Although I'm sure there are more, I have two that stay in my head. I've tried adding to them but nothing fits. I wrote the first one in 2012.

 

[AchtungNight]

A lot of my stories start with such a scene that interests me. Then I write out how it happens. And what happens afterwards if it seems important too.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Not a scene where someone is teasing, but the instance where your muse has handed you some random scene-could be sexual, could be anything-and its not a casual meh, but a real attention grabbing "Ohhh, I like it!"

I have sorority pledge scene idea that I find terribly hot yet every time that I imagine plotting it out it seems contrived. It involves a sweet reluctant girl having to perform a sex act in front of the sorority sisters as one final haze. Every time that I try work it out it either comes off as either tacky-porny or rapey. I just can't get it to work. I've had this idea for probably five years.

 

[AlexBailey]

Anything similar happen to you? If so, did you ultimately figure it out?

Yeah. The issue is that I was born with XY chromosomes and I haven’t been able to rectify that.

 

[intim8]

I've tried figuring out where it can fit, with no success.

Poetry

 

[madelinemasoch]

I’ve had countless images I can’t place into a story quite yet. A shot from behind of a girl lounging on a red chaise seat flipping her light brown lioness mane behind her head, a voluptuous tan brunette naked and dropping a set of chains down on the bed beside me, a saucy redhead wearing black and crimson lingerie with a bush sticking out of the thong piece sitting on her hands between two men, and on and on

 

[Erozetta]

I have an opening scene I want to use but haven't been able to because it's going to be a very emotional scene to write and I haven't been up to it.

But it's been crystal clear in my mind for well over a decade.

 

[VallesMarineris]

Anything similar happen to you? If so, did you ultimately figure it out?

I burned a couple ideas on Em's Weird ideas for stories thread, and then another on 90sguy's writing exercise.

To quote Mao: let a thousand flowers bloom.

Or bridge (the card game) advice: if you make every contract, you're bidding too low.

I use the same philosophy at work: if they use all of my ideas then I'm not pushing the envelope hard enough.

So I just put down my ideas, write the pieces of scenes that appear in my mind, and let them do whatever they need to do and stop by once in a while to see how they're doing. You want to have more ideas/scenes/characters/whatever than stories from them. That's the natural order of things. You def don't want to have it the other way around.

 

[THBGato]

There's a particular song ("look at me" by Caroline Martin - you've never heard of her, but she was nearly the next PJ Harvey and had five John Peel sessions). It keeps calling to me to write a song about it. But despite Caroline being in a relationship with a woman at the time, in my head I keep picturing a young, slender black man singing this. Maybe my muse is telling me I need to try GM story?

 

[gunhilltrain]

@Lovecraft, I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what you mean. That changed story I mentioned elsewhere was sort of a tease, in which the guy doesn't get the girl. (She's a part-time prostitute as well as a fellow student.) So my critic said the story came right up to the verge, and then backs down. He seemed right, so I changed it so it does become an unconventional romance.

That's as close as I can get to understanding what you mean. It was very downbeat, then the new version was sort of upbeat.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

That's what my muse does. Gives me an image. I've got to figure out the story. Dozy bint.

 

[lovecraft68]

@Lovecraft, I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what you mean. That changed story I mentioned elsewhere was sort of a tease, in which the guy doesn't get the girl. (She's a part-time prostitute as well as a fellow student.) So my critic said the story came right up to the verge, and then backs down. He seemed right, so I changed it so it does become an unconventional romance.

That's as close as I can get to understanding what you mean. It was very downbeat, then the new version was sort of upbeat.

What I mean is I keep getting hit with this vivid seen of a character in my mind. I know the character, she features in my erotic horror series. I know her background and everything about her. But in this image she's in some backwoods rural type hick bar, and some trouble ensues with a couple of drunken jack ass locals, and she ends up killing them and...

That's it. I don't have a hint of why she was there, why it was concerning to her she kills these clowns as its what she does for a living, and really nothing else. Its like watching a four minute clip from some show that's posted to you tube and you don't know the context around it, just watch the clip.

I've yet-for some reason-been able to put anything around this scene even though I have used the character multiple times in the past, its just strange.

 

[Bazzle]

What I mean is I keep getting hit with this vivid seen of a character in my mind. I know the character, she features in my erotic horror series. I know her background and everything about her. But in this image she's in some backwoods rural type hick bar, and some trouble ensues with a couple of drunken jack ass locals, and she ends up killing them and...

That's it. I don't have a hint of why she was there, why it was concerning to her she kills these clowns as its what she does for a living, and really nothing else. Its like watching a four minute clip from some show that's posted to you tube and you don't know the context around it, just watch the clip.

I've yet-for some reason-been able to put anything around this scene even though I have used the character multiple times in the past, its just strange.

Oooh

Put it down. Look at her fingers? Are the nails clean or covered in mud/blood? Are they agricultural or has she got chipped nail varnish - recently done but now broken?

Her feet does she still have shoes?

Is she replying in her head throwing the knife into the brackish lake she has just run past as she slides down the tree trunk breathing heavily. As she hears someone calling her name through the mist that has lowered over the trees in the last few minutes.



Bazzle stop... you've watched far too much Nordic noir - never go into the misty Woods at night and definitely don't park in the dark underground multi story carpark.

 

[AlexBailey]

What I mean is I keep getting hit with this vivid seen of a character in my mind. I know the character, she features in my erotic horror series. I know her background and everything about her. But in this image she's in some backwoods rural type hick bar, and some trouble ensues with a couple of drunken jack ass locals, and she ends up killing them and...

That's it. I don't have a hint of why she was there, why it was concerning to her she kills these clowns as its what she does for a living, and really nothing else. Its like watching a four minute clip from some show that's posted to you tube and you don't know the context around it, just watch the clip.

I've yet-for some reason-been able to put anything around this scene even though I have used the character multiple times in the past, its just strange.

That reminds me of what happened to a couple of girlfriends on a road trip. They were visiting remote hot springs and got approached by a guy who tried to force himself on them. My GF pulled a gun and got themselves out of the situation, they had to hike back out to the trailhead, thinking he wasn’t far behind the whole time. They debated whether they were going to disable the guy’s vehicle. They decided not to but they were very nervous about running into him again later on their trip.

I could see them stopping at a local place and being confronted by that same guy….

Throw in a few more bad choices and it could be a good drama.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Just write the scene down to get it out of your head, that works for me.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I've had this idea floating around about a chivk into diaper play that I have nothing to do with, for a while now.

I also had this scene in my head a few years ago where a guy went to rescue his girl and after stopping at a gas station or truck stop, she broke up with him and walked away leaving him by his van because it had to do with him. Never thought of any context about it.

 

[lovecraft68]

Just write the scene down to get it out of your head, that works for me.

Might have to. Maybe I can write it as a flashback and incorporate it into a bigger story.

 

[orangecurious]

I have scenes in drafts, some never get further, some end up as part of another story.

Two recent ones merged and fitted well together... oddly, they were both opening scenes, one now follows on - the first the story 'intro', the second scene the story setting.

I often look at the drafts ideas and don't even remember writing them

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Might have to. Maybe I can write it as a flashback and incorporate it into a bigger story.

I have a few homeless scenes written or typed down. At some point I'm going to release them all as Pieces.

 

[gunhilltrain]

@lovecraft68: What does she do for a living that allows her to kill people? Is it legal or part of some criminal activity? Also, how much did they threatened her that she needed to use deadly force? It is a situation where she's going to wait around to talk to law enforcement or does she have to make a fast getaway? It has to fit into whatever you've previously written about her.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I have sorority pledge scene idea that I find terribly hot yet every time that I imagine plotting it out it seems contrived. It involves a sweet reluctant girl having to perform a sex act in front of the sorority sisters as one final haze. Every time that I try work it out it either comes off as either tacky-porny or rapey. I just can't get it to work. I've had this idea for probably five years.

Does she have to perform the sex act on another sorority sister, do they recruit some guy for this purpose? The former sounds more likely, but I went to a commuter school where I was not exposed to various fraternity/sorority scenes.

 

[lovecraft68]

@lovecraft68: What does she do for a living that allows her to kill people? Is it legal or part of some criminal activity? Also, how much did they threatened her that she needed to use deadly force? It is a situation where she's going to wait around to talk to law enforcement or does she have to make a fast getaway? It has to fit into whatever you've previously written about her.

Her story is she was abused badly by her father, ended up with her uncle, excelled at sports, martial arts and firearms as her uncle-and father-were cops and she wanted to be one. At seventeen she runs into her father at a funeral, goes to visit him at his hotel and kills him in gory fashion.

Was heading to be tried as an adult when a military connection her uncle had spoke to someone in the Government and they offered her a way out. They faked her suicide and she died to the world and joined a black ops group. Served the US for years before they left her for dead when she was captured in Iran. She was broken out by another group of elite killers and is now a gun for hire. Series of fake ids and credentials but everything about her true identity no longer exsists, if she leaves a print the database shows one of her alias.

In the scene she does everything she can not to fight because the US Gov can't know she's still alive or they'll try to fix that. But she ends up having to fight, and her training from day one is you don't fight to subdue, you leave no one alive....so what I get friom the scene is she's there for some random reason and killing a couple of shit heads in view of several people who of course are filming it could lead to her going viral and being seen and....

Sort of trails off. Her back story I gave is told in a novel called Dark Genesis which I pulled to revamp her and another character. She re-debuted in a novel called Hand of Fate, and a lot of her past is revealed in trial By Fire. She will ultimately in book five "Fire and Ice" become the lover of a powerful witch who is at war with both the mafia and a cult of Brujeria.

This is why I tell people I work with to never ask what I'm thinking about when I look like I'm in a fog.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have a few homeless scenes written or typed down. At some point I'm going to release them all as Pieces.

I have a folder on my PC called "Remnants"