Over the last several years, I've posted over 200 stories here. In the main, they seem to have been well-received. Writing my stories is a self-indulgent pleasure. However, I'm starting to think that I've already posted too many and that it may be time to stop simply based on the numbers. Thoughts?
Time to Quit?
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NotWise
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What's wrong with having 200 stories here? There are several people on this forum with more. Maybe you should catch up!
Justabaldguy70
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If writing makes you happy man, keep doing it. Happiness should never be taken away.
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I don't think that's a valid reason to quit. If you feel you can't write anymore, if you having nothing more to say, then yeah, go ahead and quit.
But if you have more stories to tell, and you still find it a "pleasure" to write, then keep writing until there aren't any stories left in you, with no consideration as to how many you ultimately produce.
Paul_Chance
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I'd agree - story count is no reason to quit. As long as it still brings you a thrill, keep going.
RoperTrace
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Maybe you just need a rest, wait until something prompts you to write again. Ernest Hemingway thought he was finished writing, and then he wrote, The Old Man and the Sea. Okay, so none of us are Hemingway, but give it time. We've all been where you are in some way.
SouthernCrossfire
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As long as you have new story ideas you can (and wish) explore, the number of stories written so far is meaningless.
geronimo_appleby
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don't be a lightweight...
Perhaps it is time to take a break, and look thru all the stories you've put up here for others to enjoy? Think a little while?
Any stories still languishing in your "Ideas" folder that always deserved your full attention? Or a story that you 'just missed the mark' on and wish that you had done a better job on? Older characters that need a bigger stage to really stretch out and grow on?
Or perhaps there is a longer story still in you? One that you never attempted because you were concentrating so much on 'numbers'?
Give that a thought?
gunhilltrain
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You can mix it up with some non-erotic stories; there is a section for that. I have one story in there so far. Lit also takes non-fiction in Reviews and Essays. They are pretty open-minded about topics there except I think they frown on hard political materials. I just published an essay there about a wild and bizarre (by today's standards) college newspaper where I was once a staff member.
Surely you've seen or done something in your real life that you would like to write about.
Surely you've seen or done something in your real life that you would like to write about.
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I think that some writers do ‘retire’. They do reach a point in their lives when they feel they have said everything that they wanted to say. But I have never heard of a writer stopping because he or she had written 50 or 100 or 200 or 500 works of prose or poetry. And only you know if you still have things that you want to say. What the rest of us say is pretty irrelevant.
Good luck.
Good luck.
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I'm on 48 and struggling to think I can get to 50 at the minute, but I'm determined to get there.
As a friend of mine says on age, 'It is a number, not a physical barrier.'
As a friend of mine says on age, 'It is a number, not a physical barrier.'
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Johann Sebastian Bach is known to have written over 1,100 musical pieces. Think how poor we would be if he’d stopped at 250.
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I've almost made it to 200, not quite there yet but I have about 120 in my In Process folder that need to be dealt with, so I'll get there some day. I just hope it's before I die. 
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Candidly, I do not understand posts like this. No one is getting paid here and everyone is writing and posting their stories for their own reasons -- whatever those might be.
What I do not understand is: Why does this have to be a declarative statement? This isn't a job that you quit or retire from. Why not pause? Take a break. I use to play tennis competitively and I paused, took a break. I paused 35 years ago, but who knows? Maybe I'll play again this weekend if the feeling strikes me. Maybe not.
I believe life is lived in the gray. It is not black or white. Pause...
What I do not understand is: Why does this have to be a declarative statement? This isn't a job that you quit or retire from. Why not pause? Take a break. I use to play tennis competitively and I paused, took a break. I paused 35 years ago, but who knows? Maybe I'll play again this weekend if the feeling strikes me. Maybe not.
I believe life is lived in the gray. It is not black or white. Pause...
I can't retire. If I did, I'd have to put all my plot bunnies out to pasture and the world is not ready for that herd to run loose among the general population of the world.
TxRad,
Since we live in the same state - when you are ready for all of your plot bunnies to have a new home - I've got plenty of room!
Plus, they could still honestly say to themselves - "Born and Raised!" - unlike some recent transplants that keep coming in from all different directions!
Don't fence me in!
TxRad
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TxRad,
Since we live in the same state - when you are ready for all of your plot bunnies to have a new home - I've got plenty of room!
Plus, they could still honestly say to themselves - "Born and Raised!" - unlike some recent transplants that keep coming in from all different directions!
Don't fence me in!
Be careful what you wish for. I have well over 300 unfinished stories in one form or another. They range from a few under 1k words up to one around 56k. And then there are the chaptered stories unfinished and the novels. A great big candy store for a writer.
Check out my posted stories and see if you want to be in my will.
I forgot to add the Picture story file that has 66 stories in it with the pictures that inspired them.
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oggbashan
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TxRad,
Since we live in the same state - when you are ready for all of your plot bunnies to have a new home - I've got plenty of room!
Plus, they could still honestly say to themselves - "Born and Raised!" - unlike some recent transplants that keep coming in from all different directions!
Don't fence me in!
Or you could look at my oggbashan stew - a host of incomplete stories.
Since posting them I now have as many again waiting completion.
Allen_X_Miller
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I only have five stories up (and a bunch more I may or not post some day) but I often think about quitting. But then I ask myself: Why give up all the money and nice comments from trolls and incels?
But seriously, writing for Literotica is it's own reward and as long as there's a reasonable amount of positive feedback I'll keep writing, but only when the mood and inspiration strikes. When I have a story line I can get lost in and my hormones are at the right balance, writing a story is a blast. On the other hand, if my mental state is not just right, there's no point in forcing it.
But seriously, writing for Literotica is it's own reward and as long as there's a reasonable amount of positive feedback I'll keep writing, but only when the mood and inspiration strikes. When I have a story line I can get lost in and my hormones are at the right balance, writing a story is a blast. On the other hand, if my mental state is not just right, there's no point in forcing it.
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