What are we all writing right now?

[MajorRewrite]

I’m writing a musical.

 

[Duleigh]

Im still working on part 3 of my Angels & Demons Saga, the fantasy universe created by and shared with @EmilyMiller

4.7k words in and I feel like I'm just getting started. This may wind up being the longest thing I've ever written.

The process has been slow. I feel like Andy Dufresne, slowly chipping my way out of Shawshank one pocket full of gravel at a time.

For me, 4.7k words IS just getting started. I like exposition.

 

[Djmac1031]

For me, 4.7k words IS just getting started. I like exposition.

When I first started here I thought 3K words was a fucking novel .

Most of my stories are still very short. Two, maybe three pages. If I'm feeling adventurous they've stretched as far as six or seven I think.

This could easily eclipse that. If I can pull it off.

 

[BgDaddy33]

In the ongoing efforts to relieve the tedium of the endless AI-related discussions, let's talk about our ongoing projects. What have you got in your Drafts folder?

I'll go first:
- A gritty sci-fi western about a bandit and a bounty hunter on a mining planet (working title: Clever Fox and Tombstone Eyes)
- E/V: two mature women talk on the phone as they ogle the young gardener (A Shared Experience)
- A Regency story in the style of Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen about a party that isn't quite as innocent as it seems (Mrs Danbury's Party)
- I/T: two girls disagree about whether the brother of one of them has the largest cock they've seen (My Sister Loses A Bet)
- Also I/T: another instalment in my "Too Cold Not to Fuck" series (Too Late Not to Fuck)
- Mind control: an office worker finds an experimental thought control device (The Office Fuck-Up)
- A novel-length story about my sword & sorcery characters Avilia and Sligh
- A dark fantasy story about a demon hunter and his apprentice, set in Germany during the Thirty Years' War
- And a few files that are little more than story titles: Happily Orgy After, News Girl Nance, The Night Became Her Lover

You have all of that in the mental hopper? Damn, I'm impressed and jealous. *smiling*

I have been working on a new story for the past few weeks. "A late middle aged man tired of his lot in life hits the road."
At the heart it will be a May/December story with side meetups along the way. No working title yet.
Where I did a short series before, for this one I think I will post it all together. Maybe.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

When I first started here I thought 3K words was a fucking novel .

Most of my stories are still very short. Two, maybe three pages. If I'm feeling adventurous they've stretched as far as six or seven I think.

This could easily eclipse that. If I can pull it off.

You got this. My longest is 13 pages, I think. Just write until the story tells you it's done.

 

[StillStunned]

You have all of that in the mental hopper? Damn, I'm impressed and jealous. *smiling*

I've finished and published one of them in the meantime. Of course I've also found a large project that I'd forgotten about, and started on a series of short vignettes.

But I doubt I'm the only one here with a lengthy list of works in progress.

 

[BgDaddy33]

When I first started here I thought 3K words was a fucking novel .

Most of my stories are still very short. Two, maybe three pages. If I'm feeling adventurous they've stretched as far as six or seven I think.

Haha! I felt the same while I wrote the "Keeping Her Job" series. I am learning that my writing style tends to be succinct and to the point and I struggled to stretch them out. Taking a more relaxed approach on this one. I am 12K words in so far and I'd say I have less than a third of the story told in scattered clusters that will need to be filled in and arranged.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I've finished and published one of them in the meantime. Of course I've also found a large project that I'd forgotten about, and started on a series of short vignettes.

But I doubt I'm the only one here with a lengthy list of works in progress.

Four dozen and counting. So, what dud I do this morning? I started a brand new one.

 

[SamBomb]

Nothing. I submitted a story, a week later I was told it was too AI or something. So i edited it and re-submitted it on the 26th. All my motivation to write is gone, who knows if I can even publish here anymore? If this gets rejected again, I don't know...

 

[StillStunned]

Four dozen and counting. So, what dud I do this morning? I started a brand new one.

Last night I decided to have another go at the big project I just unearthed. Was really happy with what I'd written. Lots of hot sex, and a bit of story sprinkled in between. Loads of potential.

And this afternoon I opened Word and began writing a completely unrelated vignette.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Last night I decided to have another go at the big project I just unearthed. Was really happy with what I'd written. Lots of hot sex, and a bit of story sprinkled in between. Loads of potential.

And this afternoon I opened Word and began writing a completely unrelated vignette.

It's like getting that song stuck in your head.

 

[Duleigh]

When I first started here I thought 3K words was a fucking novel .

Most of my stories are still very short. Two, maybe three pages. If I'm feeling adventurous they've stretched as far as six or seven I think.

This could easily eclipse that. If I can pull it off.

My latest story just went up. When I clicked "submit" it felt tiny to me. Only 17k words, then I looked at it when it posted, only 5 pages. It should come as a shock to my regular readers.

 

[Djmac1031]

My latest story just went up. When I clicked "submit" it felt tiny to me. Only 17k words, then I looked at it when it posted, only 5 pages. It should come as a shock to my regular readers.

I still have to laugh at some of my earliest stories where I apologized in Author's notes for "taking too long" to get to the "good stuff." Meanwhile the story wasn't even a full two pages.

 

[karina_jayde]

I continue to bounce around between projects. Right now I'm about 15,000 words deep into my fantasy adventure story about a cursed thief who teams up with a group of horny lesbian warrior-nuns.

 

[Duleigh]

I continue to bounce around between projects. Right now I'm about 15,000 words deep into my fantasy adventure story about a cursed thief who teams up with a group of horny lesbian warrior-nuns.

Add a dragon or two and I'm there!

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

Just submitted a DD/bg short erotic story for publication

 

[karina_jayde]

Add a dragon or two and I'm there!

Lol, I was struggling to figure out what sort of threat was going to be occupying the creepy temple where the story's climax takes place...so maybe it'll be a dragon after all!

 

[oneagainst]

Just got to 100k on the next project, time to start fleshing out the [sex battle] reminder tags... first stage going live tomorrow. First time I've released the start of something without having the entire thing fully written and at least on readthrough #2. Anyway, back to [sex battle]

 

[Devinter]

I'm looking forward to reading this!

The dark carnival is proving tricky. I'm happy with the way it opens, and the characters, but the ending isn't quite landing. I've written a draft for two different routes and I don't particularly like either of them. Thinking about just scrapping the entire second half and picking a different direction with it. Something a little bit less traumatic than the poor MC getting snatched by a demon into a separate realm of eternally getting ploughed by its gigantic phallus. Erotic Horror is much harder than I expected. The horror part is easy enough - but the erotic? Not so much.

 

[StillStunned]

Erotic Horror is much harder than I expected. The horror part is easy enough - but the erotic? Not so much.

Lots of breathing, touching, skin on skin, whispering in ears. It should be up close and slow. Tap into a primal desire.

Have you ever read Sheridan Le Fanu's short story Carmilla? It's been a while (measured in decades) but I remember it being very sexy in a repressed, Victorian way. It was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula, and managed to combine horror and eroticism very well.

 

[Bamagan]

The dark carnival is proving tricky. I'm happy with the way it opens, and the characters, but the ending isn't quite landing. I've written a draft for two different routes and I don't particularly like either of them. Thinking about just scrapping the entire second half and picking a different direction with it. Something a little bit less traumatic than the poor MC getting snatched by a demon into a separate realm of eternally getting ploughed by its gigantic phallus. Erotic Horror is much harder than I expected. The horror part is easy enough - but the erotic? Not so much.

Maybe instead of sending her to some hell dimension, he just makes it so she has to go through her day to day life with that constant ploughing, but no one else can perceive the cause of her situation, just that she's always got a freshly fucked aura about her, and attracts certain types of attention because of it. As a kicker, the only time she's free of her demonic dildo curse is when she's getting the real thing from someone.

 

[onehitwanda]

Maybe instead of sending her to some hell dimension, he just makes it so she has to go through her day to day life with that constant ploughing, but no one else can perceive the cause of her situation, just that she's always got a freshly fucked aura about her, and attracts certain types of attention because of it. As a kicker, the only time she's free of her demonic dildo curse is when she's getting the real thing from someone.

or rather than that, have her spend a quarter of her day in that breathless three seconds of pre-orgasm... but nothing she does will get her over that lip.

The frustration would drive me up the wall, and she'd be flushed and her eyes would be dilated and it would probably cause her no end of irritation.

 

[Devinter]

Lots of breathing, touching, skin on skin, whispering in ears. It should be up close and slow. Tap into a primal desire.

Have you ever read Sheridan Le Fanu's short story Carmilla? It's been a while (measured in decades) but I remember it being very sexy in a repressed, Victorian way. It was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula, and managed to combine horror and eroticism very well.

I have indeed read Carmilla. That sort of "dangerously sexy" isn't really the kind of turn the story took, but perhaps if I backtrack a sufficient amount, it could still work.

Maybe instead of sending her to some hell dimension, he just makes it so she has to go through her day to day life with that constant ploughing, but no one else can perceive the cause of her situation, just that she's always got a freshly fucked aura about her, and attracts certain types of attention because of it. As a kicker, the only time she's free of her demonic dildo curse is when she's getting the real thing from someone.

Honestly, this is not a bad idea, and could potentially work. I I do go down this route, or something inspired by it, please allow me to include the description of "freshly fucked aura about her" in the finished work. That's a killer line.

or rather than that, have her spend a quarter of her day in that breathless three seconds of pre-orgasm... but nothing she does will get her over that lip.

The frustration would drive me up the wall, and she'd be flushed and her eyes would be dilated and it would probably cause her no end of irritation.

That's kind of how the first version went. She was never able to orgasm. Constant pleasure, no relief. But I felt like it was missing something.

 

[Bamagan]

Honestly, this is not a bad idea, and could potentially work. I I do go down this route, or something inspired by it, please allow me to include the description of "freshly fucked aura about her" in the finished work. That's a killer line.

Go ahead, I doubt I'm the first person to use that phrase. I make no claim to it.

Although I might be the only one who has it as a tramp stamp.

 

[onehitwanda]

But I felt like it was missing something.

yeah. It's called "la petite mort" and we girls love it.