What I Wrote and Why: the support thread

[AchtungNight]

I’m not the kind of person out to inflict harm on myself or others, more like I get so disappointed and bored with life sometimes I don’t care how things turn out. This is why I once walked across a railroad bridge late at night without checking the train schedule and why I used to drive recklessly. It’s also why I started writing adult fiction. [sigh] Maybe if I can get in the right mood again, I will contribute to this event. Lately I’ve been bored and bereft of ideas, but we’ll see.

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

My wife worked as a therapist for a long time. She has some real horror stories about what people do to themselves due to self loathing. Cutting is what people commonly think of but there's even worse ways to practice self-destruction. My late teens and early twenties were testament to my having a death wish, and somehow being fortunate enough to survive my own attempts to end myself (in non suicidal ways) until I managed to get my shit together...to some degree.

Drinking oneself to death seems to be the most common way of expressing dissatisfaction with life in my family.

 

[StillStunned]

I hate to bring this thread back on track, but...

Laurel has confirmed that WIWAW 2024 stories will be held back for publication until the event begins.

Now get back to your navel-gazing and writing, you lot! We want to know why!

 

[FreyaGersemi]

It looks like 16 July to 31 August to submit. I'll be saving mine until 16 July

The event starts on 16 July, so feel free to submit earlier! It will be held and not published until 16 July.

 

[lovecraft68]

Sometimes I look back and do wonder why I wrote something, and not in the positive sense.

 

[OffNSFW]

I just started mine and I've got about 1600 words down. 2000 if you count a couple pull quotes that I'm using to tie it to previous stories. I'm still not sure it's got legs. We'll see what I think tomorrow.

My idea may not fit in with what everyone else is doing, but I think it technically fits the brief. I want to talk about my life as a queer bisexual man and how my stories are both portrayals of my feelings and a sort of quiet advocacy for myself and people like me. Our dignity, our safety, our right to sexual self-expression. And I'm centering it around two of my most popular stories, "Dear Straight Men" and "Dear Straight Men 2."

 

[MyBareTorso]

This is not my usual thing, but I'll give it a crack and see what I come up with...nice idea for a challenge!

 

[TheLobster]

Sometimes I look back and do wonder why I wrote something, and not in the positive sense.

Ah yes, the "What I Wrote?! And Why?" version of the challenge.

 

[lovecraft68]

Ah yes, the "What I Wrote?! And Why?" version of the challenge.

It could be a spin off challenge the "What the fuck was I thinking?"

 

[AlexFourways]

Trolls will probably come, but after my bit of angst the other day, Fuck Them! OK if they are motivated enough then from the challenge they may head to your other stories but if we give them enough targets they won't be bothered to do so.
I'm only hoping I get more comments than the normal 0 to 2!

 

[AlexFourways]

I have just submitted three very different, er, submissions. My Literotica Journey. The Delight is in the Detail?. and Writing the Quiet Man. I'll be on holiday when the challenge is on, but I don't expect much in terms or reads or ratings and won't be able to fret!
Good luck to all!

 

[AchtungNight]

Good luck to all participants in this. I’ve decided it’s not worth doing. What did I write? All my stories. Why? I was bored, knew I was capable of writing each story, and thought writing it would be fun. Mixed success. There, finished. And nowhere near the site’s minimum words standards. [shrug] I don’t think anyone wants further details.

 

[Publius68]

I really love this idea. I may, if I have time, do more than one entry. I have things I want to say, to explain why I do certain things. I also have questions about whether things I try are working.

 

[StillStunned]

I really love this idea. I may, if I have time, do more than one entry. I have things I want to say, to explain why I do certain things. I also have questions about whether things I try are working.

Good luck, glad to have you on board!

 

[OffNSFW]

It probably needs a polish, but I have a draft. If there's any challenge in editing it, it's that it's not really a narrative and kind of winds between different subjects and styles. We'll see how it turns out.

Then it's right onto reworking my abandoned holiday story for the summer lovin' contest... which might be easier, since it was originally abandoned from last year's summer lovin'.

 

[OffNSFW]

Should we include a special story tag? And if so, what? WIWAW? WIWAW 2024?

 

[StillStunned]

Should we include a special story tag? And if so, what? WIWAW? WIWAW 2024?

For ease of searching, "WIWAW 2024" would probably be most precise, but I imagine that WIWAW would work just as well.

 

[OffNSFW]

For ease of searching, "WIWAW 2024" would probably be most precise, but I imagine that WIWAW would work just as well.

Cool, thanks. I'm submitting mine soon. Getting started as soon as possible on that weird transition between being super invested in something, then forgetting about it almost completely while I get super invested in something else.

 

[StillStunned]

Cool, thanks. I'm submitting mine soon. Getting started as soon as possible on that weird transition between being super invested in something, then forgetting about it almost completely while I get super invested in something else.

You can avoid that by being super invested in half a dozen things at once. It's good to keep the adrenaline flowing!

 

[AlexFourways]

For ease of searching, "WIWAW 2024" would probably be most precise, but I imagine that WIWAW would work just as well.

I'm glad it's that, 'cause it's What I Wrote. And Why? 'cause I based it on other comps and challenges!

 

[AlexFourways]

I have just submitted three very different, er, submissions. My Literotica Journey. The Delight is in the Detail?. and Writing the Quiet Man. I'll be on holiday when the challenge is on, but I don't expect much in terms or reads or ratings and won't be able to fret!
Good luck to all!

Now all shown in [ Pending ] as [ New ] so set to go!

 

[StillStunned]

Less than two weeks to go!

I'm a bit ashamed to admit it, but I only began writing mine yesterday. I'll be discussing my thoughts behind "Too Cold Not to Fuck" and its sequels.

If I have enough time, I'd love to do one on "The Countesses of Tannensdal" as well.

 

[LingeringAfterthought]

As a closeted erotica writer masquerading as a productive member of society, I find this entire event to be horrifyingly irresponsible, intimately and personally exhibitionistic, and quite possibly irresistible.

 

[StillStunned]

As a closeted erotica writer masquerading as a productive member of society, I find this entire event to be horrifyingly irresponsible, intimately and personally exhibitionistic, and quite possibly irresistible.

One of us, one of us!

 

[Areala-chan]

Just got my submission in. We'll see if anyone cares once it goes live, but this was too interesting not to try at least once.