Writerly Confessions

[ShelbyDawn57]

Why stop at 750????
In for a penny.... As it were.
Dive in head first.
Oops, that didn't look right.
LOL

Yeah, head usually comes first.

 

[Cagivagurl]

Yeah, head usually comes first.

Are you sure?

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Are you sure?

Well, to be completely transparent, the kissing and fondling come first, then the head. When he’s all hot and bothered, then he can fuck me.

 

[Cagivagurl]

Well, to be completely transparent, the kissing and fondling come first, then the head. When he’s all hot and bothered, then he can fuck me.

Oh sorry.
I thought we were talking different heads.
LOL

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Oh sorry.
I thought we were talking different heads.
LOL

 

[Djmac1031]

I have started two separate series and not finished them.

Yeah I'm guilty of that with three of my earliest series.

In my defense, I was a newb. An absolute rookie who wrote some short little sex stories then got so excited by the response that I attempted to carry them on.

Of course I had no PLAN. And certainly no outline. And so they languish unfinished.

I probably break some rule somewhere involving paragraph length. Some have noted I tend to write very short paragraphs sometimes.

Okay, more than some times. .

 

[Rob_Royale]

I tried to write a short stroker, which is hard for me because I love character building and setting/situation creation.
So I wasn't happy with the story, but I submitted it anyway and that is my sin. The response was rather meh and it sits steadily at 4.48 , so achingly close to the H. Stick to what you do best, the experience has taught me.

 

[Djmac1031]

I tried to write a short stroker, which is hard for me because I love character building and setting/situation creation.
So I wasn't happy with the story, but I submitted it anyway and that is my sin. The response was rather meh and it sits steadily at 4.48 , so achingly close to the H. Stick to what you do best, the experience has taught me.

Don't beat yourself up too badly. 4.48 is a good score.

And there's certainly a market here for strokers short on plot or character development and long on sex. But not too long lol.

 

[TxRad]

4.48 equals 89.6%. Not bad at all.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

4.48 equals 89.6%. Not bad at all.

That also means that 1 (the lowest score possible) is 20%.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Don't beat yourself up too badly. 4.48 is a good score.

And there's certainly a market here for strokers short on plot or character development and long on sex. But not too long lol.

Thanks. You're right and the score doesn't bother me. But I wasn't happy with it before I hit submit. Even if the score was higher, it wouldn't change my mind.

 

[Djmac1031]

Thanks. You're right and the score doesn't bother me. But I wasn't happy with it before I hit submit. Even if the score was higher, it wouldn't change my mind.

Well that's obviously different. I've had a similar experience, a story I didn't feel quite up to snuff but still performed well enough.

Striving to improve is always a good thing.

 

[MyBareTorso]

In my stories here, and my writing elsewhere, I have never experienced writer's block.

 

[Djmac1031]

In my stories here, and my writing elsewhere, I have never experienced writer's block.

I'm not generally superstitious, but that sounds like tempting The Fates to me.

 

[Rob_Royale]

In my stories here, and my writing elsewhere, I have never experienced writer's block.

Me too. Lots of ideas floating around in the very matter.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I have never completed writing a series before I started posting it.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I have four dozen stories in progress and absolutely no clue which one I'll work on next or how any of them end.

 

[CockSparrow]

I think I have broken pretty much every rule we were taught in Mrs A's English class. And yet, when my first book was published, she was one of the first at the launch to ask me to autograph her copy. She had by then retired from teaching.

 

[TxRad]

I have four dozen stories in progress and absolutely no clue which one I'll work on next or how any of them end.

I have over three hundred like that.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I have over three hundred like that.

Yikes! That would drive me into an anxiety attack I think.

 

[EmilyMiller]

BandAid ripped. 750 word Gay Male story submitted. Not too heavy. Kinda romantic and hopefully sweet. We’ll see. Apart from the very end, I’m sure you could substitute a woman for the narrator. Maybe that’s the point.

Emily

 

[HeyAll]

For every single story I used AI (Bard) as lead researcher. I now write with more details -- in terms of careers or events like weddings -- than I otherwise would have known using traditional searches.

 

[MyBareTorso]

I'm not generally superstitious, but that sounds like tempting The Fates to me.

Bring it on!

 

[samhasstories]

I confess to not revising as much as I know I should. I just... don't like to. It's a tough balance between getting my work to be as good as it could be, and actually continuing to enjoy the process - which is much of the point, if not all of it. In general that balance is skewed toward just charging forward with more writing at the cost of improving what I've written.

 

[StillStunned]

I always extol the importance of doing a Read Aloud as the final check before submitting. I do it with my professional editing proofreading. I couldn't imagine not doing it.

But I hate it. I hate it with a passion. Even if I catch half a dozen typos and find awkward sentences or repeated words, I resent the time and effort it takes.

It feels like a negative part of the writing process, instead of something positive.