"One Night in XXX” Story Event: Official Support Thread

[KeithD]

Some of the projects people have been mentioning here seem to be too ambitious to fit into a contest (unless it's announced a year in advance perhaps!). In any case I think they should still be written.

I think of this as a personal challenge writing exercise, not as a contest--not as a competition with anyone else. In a contest, I'd want pretty strict parameters set and for those painting outside those lines, which put all writers within the same bounds, to be penalized for doing so. Not so with a personal challenge writing exercise.

 

[SimonDoom]

I write the same as Melissa and Chloe. OMG is it a woman thing?

Mine is chugging along, but again I'm afraid I'm getting into too much detail and will bore the pants off everyone who attempts to read...

I've toyed with the idea of pulling out of the challenge, but I'll wait to make that call when the time gets closer to the deadline.

Nope. I'm a dude. This is the way I write. I'll jump to a different part of the story if I suddenly get an inspiration, write it, and then jump back. I almost always write the last page before I write the middle. I'm a visual thinker. I get pictures in my head of scenes and I need to write them down.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I always blame it on how my brain works.
If I think of something, it might be gone in five minutes, so I have to write it as soon as it's in my head.

And sometimes I'll have a dream and think, that should be a story, so I'll write what I remember from my dream and then go back and flesh it out adding more to the beginning and end.

 

[SimonDoom]

Some of the projects people have been mentioning here seem to be too ambitious to fit into a contest (unless it's announced a year in advance perhaps!). In any case I think they should still be written.

A "larger unwritten saga" = a novel I suppose. I admit that when I tried one, before I joined Literotica, I couldn't handle it. I had to break out pieces to publish here. I'm going to try it again with some of the unpublished material but it's going to take some time.

Fortunately, this isn't a problem for me. My story is based on a very discrete and time-limited event. Which isn't to say I'll finish it in time. There's an excellent chance I won't.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I'm currently writing the end, and the beginning is finished, unless I decide to go back and add or change anything.

The middle is probably 75% finished.

Sometimes I feel like this is a scatterbrained way to write, but it's what works for me I suppose.

 

[gordo12]

And mine just keeps circling the drain asking to get flushed. I have other stories capturing my imagination and this one...

 

[Kethandra]

Woo hoooo that’s great. Really looking forward to seeing and reading all these.

Alright. I’m in. I saw this and wrote down 6k words in the last two days. It’s been awhile since I’ve been able to finish a litE story, so thanks for this, Chloe. [And for the PM a while back, I will respond separately]

One Night in Akron

And even if it is the “Rubber Capital of the World” I think all the sex is going to be condom-free.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I’m a girl and write linearly.

Linear male, me. This practice of writing an ending first, and jumping back and forth, bits here, bits there, would do my head completely in. I could never do it - I've had plot shifts arrive out of the blue between the first sentence of a paragraph and the last! Characters, likewise, just arrive, demanding to be written. Nothing I write is pre-ordained, any plots emerge as I go along. If I block on a big thing, which is rare, I usually have a side-project running in parallel which I'll jump to - but only ever one other project at a time.

This story event though, it just wasn't going clickety clack (even though the train wheels were). I might use a couple of paragraphs somewhere else - they're the foundation of the story I will write, one day, but it's autobiographical and I see I'm still circling around her slowly. But at least I got to write that sentence down, so there's the plus.

 

[Hypoxia]

My stories manifest in various ways. Some are complete flashes. Some are play-it-out exercises. Some are start-at-the-end-and-work-back. And some are beat-an-idea-to-death. But almost everything starts as a framework that I flesh-out as needed.

Oy, the deadlines. I have, what, 3 days to concoct ONE NIGHT ON THE JOB, and a week for ONE NIGHT IN BISBEE, and a bit longer for the geek thing, right? And the Nude Day contest. But I'll leave on a long non-writing journey just before Easter so they all must be done by then.

I call upon my muses to torture me into activity. [I'm only slightly masochistic.]

 

[NotWise]

Alright. I’m in. I saw this and wrote down 6k words in the last two days. It’s been awhile since I’ve been able to finish a litE story, so thanks for this, Chloe. [And for the PM a while back, I will respond separately]

One Night in Akron

And even if it is the “Rubber Capital of the World” I think all the sex is going to be condom-free.

Welcome aboard! And welcome back to writing for Lit.

The "One Night in XXX" seems like a pretty simple task. I wonder if people who've had trouble with it were concentrating on location, and devised stories that wouldn't fit comfortably into one night.

 

[storyteller19]

One night in Raccoon City

I’m joining in with “One Night in Raccoon City”

 

[ChloeTzang]

Woo hooo. More stories. Great!

 

[Kethandra]

Non-linear writing

Coming late to the party, I am generally a non-linear writer, but not by choice. Most of my stories are not strictly chronological, with at least one ‘flashback scene.’

I’ll have a scene that needs to be written down. Now. Usually it’s the incident/conversation that directly leads to the main action (and may include that action). But it can be an ending, a set up, or a specific sex act.
Then there needs to be background - what got us to here.
Then the new version of the main action, since the characters have spoken up and informed me I was wrong.
Then the conclusion/ending. Though sometimes the end will come to me early in the middle of writing the initial catalyzing scene, and I’ll have to drop that to commit the the end to ‘ink.’ Though of course I know the end will change, because there will be parts of it that no longer work because...non-linearity.
Add more conversation, as that’s how I usually show character and relationships build.
Usually the background needs an opener then. A hook to drag the reader deeper in.
Then multiple reads to make sure this mess actually has the appearance of linear writing.

I have outlined entire stories first, then written them following that, but even with an outline I tend to jump around as the muse offers up a scene fragment to use as a springboard to something not in the outline.

In spite of this, my early training is hovering in the background, shaking its head, and making sure I am aware that there needs to be three parts, intro, meat, and conclusion with climax and falling action; and that Chekov’s guns must be fired eventually.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Woo hooo. More stories. Great!

I'm expecting to finish mine off today. The hubs is too busy sulking about Michigan State losing in the tourney to bother me.

 

[OnnaDare]

I've given up!

Hi everyone!

I'm letting you know that I've finally given up on retrieving my Lit account - "Onnadare," after about eleventy thousand failed resets, email, p.m.'s, etc. I got a new account, so I will be posting in this challenge with my new account as "Beautiful Zelda!" Thank you for all the tips/support/answers to my questions concerning this!

I can't wait to post! - "One Night in 13th Century Belarus." So, I'm still in, story is completed!

Fingers crossed all goes well. And if it doesn't, I'll probably be back asking questions about the new Lit Control panel, lol.

So here's another question. Does anyone else have two or more accounts? Can you merge the two?

Onna/Zelda

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Hi everyone!

I'm letting you know that I've finally given up on retrieving my Lit account - "Onnadare," after about eleventy thousand failed resets, email, p.m.'s, etc. I got a new account, so I will be posting in this challenge with my new account as "Beautiful Zelda!" Thank you for all the tips/support/answers to my questions concerning this!

I can't wait to post! - "One Night in 13th Century Belarus." So, I'm still in, story is completed!

Fingers crossed all goes well. And if it doesn't, I'll probably be back asking questions about the new Lit Control panel, lol.

So here's another question. Does anyone else have two or more accounts? Can you merge the two?

Onna/Zelda

I have two accounts, but I don't want to merge them. The reason I made the other one was so I could post completely different types of stories.

You could try messaging Laurel, or Manu and see if they could merge them for you? You probably have already tried them though.

 

[Kethandra]

Hi everyone!

I'm letting you know that I've finally given up on retrieving my Lit account - "Onnadare," after about eleventy thousand failed resets, email, p.m.'s, etc. I got a new account, so I will be posting in this challenge with my new account as "Beautiful Zelda!" Thank you for all the tips/support/answers to my questions concerning this!

I can't wait to post! - "One Night in 13th Century Belarus." So, I'm still in, story is completed!


Onna/Zelda

1. Bummer. That sucks.
2. Beautiful Zelda? Like the Bonzo Dog Band song?
3. 1 Nite in 13th C Belarus - I like it: almost back to when the Rus were really the Rus.

 

[NotWise]

2. Beautiful Zelda? Like the Bonzo Dog Band song?

Or the remarkable Zelda Fitzgerald?

 

[Hypoxia]

2. Beautiful Zelda? Like the Bonzo Dog Band song?

The memorable Rolling Stone headline after Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band canceled a USA tour:

BONZO DOG RUNS, FUCKS ITSELF​

I don't recall a Zelda song by Bonzo Dog but I'm old. I remember Zelda Gilroy. She's political, really. And with a little research I find Zelda, Kentucky; Zelda, the wild turkey in Battery Park, Manhattan; and two typhoons Zeldas. There *should* be a Zelda cheese, too. TANJ.

ObTopic: I've still not written ONE NIGHT IN BISBEE. I blame my silent muses.

 

[Kethandra]

The memorable Rolling Stone headline after Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band canceled a USA tour:

BONZO DOG RUNS, FUCKS ITSELF​

I don't recall a Zelda song by Bonzo Dog but I'm old. I remember Zelda Gilroy. She's political, really. And with a little research I find Zelda, Kentucky; Zelda, the wild turkey in Battery Park, Manhattan; and two typhoons Zeldas. There *should* be a Zelda cheese, too. TANJ.

ObTopic: I've still not written ONE NIGHT IN BISBEE. I blame my silent muses.

Here’s a link to the song. The video content is unrelated, entirely likely to be copyright infringement, strangely fitting, and brings back fond memories too.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/vide...&sigb=120etermo&sigt=1140u1t2a&sigi=12oouf4bb

 

[Thefireflies]

I have written a draft called One Night in Sydney Cove. Maybe I could call it One Night in The Rocks. Either way, it's set in the very early days of Sydney, Australia. If I have the time for a proper edit/proof read, I’ll submit it for the event.

 

[OnnaDare]

Yes yes yes and YES!

To all that noticed my new name "Beautiful Zelda," is a Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band song!

I love this band - have since I was 8 years old and my hippie brother gave me one of their albums for my birthday. I even flew to Edinburgh in 2006 to see them on their 40th anniversary tour.

Best $3500 I ever spent!

I LOVE THE BONZO'S - R.I.P. Viv Stanshall

 

[Hypoxia]

I LOVE THE BONZO'S - R.I.P. Viv Stanshall

Look out, there's a monster coming.

 

[NotWise]

To all that noticed my new name "Beautiful Zelda," is a Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band song!

I love this band - have since I was 8 years old and my hippie brother gave me one of their albums for my birthday. I even flew to Edinburgh in 2006 to see them on their 40th anniversary tour.

Best $3500 I ever spent!

I LOVE THE BONZO'S - R.I.P. Viv Stanshall

Oh, well. I hoped that some writer here might channel Zelda Fitzgerald, and I could read Zelda's thoughts as the fabulous flapper spiraled into insanity.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I just want to thank Chloe for starting this challenge. Writing the most recent chapters of Mary and Alvin has been an emotional roller coaster, and whenever it started to feel too heavy for me, I escaped into my One Night tale for a while.

Chloe