Writer's Block

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Eureka!
I think I finished the draft of my never ending story.
Not sure that I'm happy with the ending.Not only because I had to choose between three posibilities, but also because it seems a bit rushed. Also a tad bit of a loose end.

But I think that's true of many of my endings, which in the past has led to what started out as freestanding tales extending into a series. Don't think that I have the stamina to do that with these characters though. And at this stage, don't see wat more I have to say. The loose end could lead to some sex, but I think that I would fid writing those scenes to be mechanical and uninteresting. Or maybe because of my health, I just dont want to create to another long project, and ought to be content to try adding 3 more shorter pieces to get to my goal of 200 (before I die, though right now, none of the things fighting to kill me are winning so much as to make death imminent, just always on my mind, because, seriously, the next doctor appointment in a few weeks could always change that).

 

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Just submitted the long story. Just under 20K words. Headed for Novels and Novellas, since it has a little bit of everything (well, no incest, no tentacle monsters, no crossdressing - okay, maybe not everything*).

Already about 3500 words into the next one, which is quite different from the long one, and seems to be pouring out of me just like a good whiskey pours into me.

* hmmm... I wonder if I can come up with a story that combines all those categories...

 

[StrentWriter]

Just submitted the long story. Just under 20K words. Headed for Novels and Novellas, since it has a little bit of everything (well, no incest, no tentacle monsters, no crossdressing - okay, maybe not everything*).

Already about 3500 words into the next one, which is quite different from the long one, and seems to be pouring out of me just like a good whiskey pours into me.

* hmmm... I wonder if I can come up with a story that combines all those categories...

Congratulations!

 

[anthrodisiac]

I finally snapped my near-two-month publishing drought and hit submit yesterday on my latest chapter! Kinda back in the groove of things, I think, so hopefully it won't be so long between this and the next one

 

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Let me tell everyone who is blocked - I understand, I know the feeling, I have been there.

But the tremendous feeling when you finally submit makes forcing your way through the block all worth it.

 

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and the publishing took place ... now to see how it does. It is over twenty years since I submitted to the Novels and novellas category, so both uncertain and curious about how it will do. In addition, the sprawling tale contains such a wide variety of kinks, becauuse I wanted to keep it fresh as it went on. and on. and on.

The newest WIP is already 5000 words long. Threatens to be another lengthy saga. Hope that it keeps flowing out of me steadily. If not, I'll be back to fretting...

 

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hoping I'm just stalled, not blocked, but it's been a week.

Wrote two entire stories since my last post here. One is pending publication for May 2.

But now I'm busy and distracted by obessing about approaching my 200th story submission (I'm not including my poems in the count).

Considering holding the other WIP to submit as number 200, since it is novella length (almost 20K words), builds on previous stories that are well eceived, and covers a variety of kinks common to my writing. It is even a bit meta, since the MC is a Literotica writer.

The pending story is number 198.

My block is deciding what to do for story number 199. If you are curious, you can follow my journey here.

 

[anthrodisiac]

I don't have writer's block so much as writer's molasses. Progress is progress, but I hate only having a few hundred words at a time. It's infuriating for someone so used to banging out a lot more in one sitting.

 

[Husky_Embrace]

I don't have writer's block so much as writer's molasses. Progress is progress, but I hate only having a few hundred words at a time. It's infuriating for someone so used to banging out a lot more in one sitting.

I have the same. I can crank out more than a few hundred words, but it takes a long time. The time I have is fractured and few. 50 minutes on the train to work. 50 minutes back. That is, if I have nothing else to do, like arranging the new internet contract or something. A moment when the baby's asleep and I have no chores. Or ultimately, take some time out of my already fractured sleep to write some.

And I've started another story. I've just counted, that means there's 13 stories in development, and about 5 in limbo whether I'll continue them.

Every time I'm thinking "and now you'll just work on one story," and it works for a bit. I have enough ideas and materials. And then the kood strikes like yesterday, finding some theme in nothing at all and I started to write it.

Too many ideas, too little time, too slow writing. That last part I can amend by investing in a travel keyboard and an e-ink pad l. I've been writing on my phone to slow me down intentionally, because I used to want to skip the fluff "in between" the main parts, and that wasn't good. Now I think I don't need that anymore. The other two will always build I'm afraid.

 

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The Black Cloud Ch. 2 is now published. On the first few votes, has an excellent reception, though no comments yet. Must continue to remind myself that I wrote this one for myself.

Will that unblock me? Fear not, but. Number 200 is out there (by which i mean "in here ) somewhere.

 

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As mentioned over in Story Ideas, the way that I chose to try to unblock myself was to randomly choose one of the ideas mentioned in the thread there. It happened to be the "silent auction" one, a very loose follow up on my Locked in the Closet fetish story (but quite different from that one at the same time). Now over 1300 words in, so hoping it takes...