Er…ditto!Fun is overrated. "Art is long, and Time is fleeting," and there are those who possess the rare gift of profundity and lyricism, yet opt for a superficial pursuit of fun. Sigh.
Are your stories making a comeback too?Fun is overrated. "Art is long, and Time is fleeting," and there are those who possess the rare gift of profundity and lyricism, yet opt for a superficial pursuit of fun. Sigh.
Most of my stories are fairly simple, and I certainly "feel it" when I go a little more longer and involved and/or complex...those are usually the more satisfying in the end to write, but it can be difficult getting there sometimes...So I have 24 stories published here (plus one “cheat sheet”) but most of them have fallen into one of the following categories:
But now, I’m writing the sequel to Coleoidphilia. It still has two main (and one supporting) characters, but it’s longer (just topped 13k words and a lot to still write), has a non-sex element to the plot, and I’m spending (for me) an inordinate amount of time on:
- Semi-autobiographical - where it kinda writes itself and the most complex thing is deciding whether to combine different events into one and (if so) how to link them
- Pure fantasy - sex romps, based on experience of course, but low on plot or character development
- More serious, but simple, short stories - ones which are more character-driven and/or have some point to make, but which still involve just two main protagonists and focus only on their characters and typically a short slice of time
I didn’t have to worry about much of that in my previous work. But I guess that’s what most of you guys grapple with all the time. I’m late to the party, I know. But kudos to you. This is hard
- Continuity
- Character motivation - why did they do A / why did they behave like B
- In-world consistency
- Time - have enough days passed in-world for X to have happened (and what else happened in that time)?
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Em
We write what we write.So I have 24 stories published here (plus one “cheat sheet”) but most of them have fallen into one of the following categories:
But now, I’m writing the sequel to Coleoidphilia. It still has two main (and one supporting) characters, but it’s longer (just topped 13k words and a lot to still write), has a non-sex element to the plot, and I’m spending (for me) an inordinate amount of time on:
- Semi-autobiographical - where it kinda writes itself and the most complex thing is deciding whether to combine different events into one and (if so) how to link them
- Pure fantasy - sex romps, based on experience of course, but low on plot or character development
- More serious, but simple, short stories - ones which are more character-driven and/or have some point to make, but which still involve just two main protagonists and focus only on their characters and typically a short slice of time
I didn’t have to worry about much of that in my previous work. But I guess that’s what most of you guys grapple with all the time. I’m late to the party, I know. But kudos to you. This is hard
- Continuity
- Character motivation - why did they do A / why did they behave like B
- In-world consistency
- Time - have enough days passed in-world for X to have happened (and what else happened in that time)?
Em
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