Do Ideas Actually Turn Into Stories Here?

[usable001]

Have an idea for a story you'd like to see? Post it here!

I like the idea of writing collaboration, but have never had any success writing a story with someone else's input, in practice. Since joining this forum, I've glanced at someone's profile from time to time to see what they have written, and the answer is most often nothing (not that my own catalog on this site is huge). While musing about story ideas can be fun in itself, is anyone actually visiting this forum with the goal of bringing someone else's beginning to completion?

For example, in my file of incomplete ideas, I have a 3,079-word setup for a femdom office story that stalls because I don't feel I (an older man who made other choices over careeer success in his life) can realistically convey the mental conflict of a successful woman seriously considering putting all she has worked for on the line over a potentially career-ending fling, even if that line of thought is a masturbation session in the privacy of her locked office. If I were to hand this over to someone else and let them take the wheel completely, I'd want to feel confident they could do a better job with my story than I could.

Given what I am looking for, am I entirely in the wrong place?

 

[sirhugs]

Finding collaborators here is not easy, but it does happen.
More frequently, authors get help developing ideas that they write themselves, or inspire another writer.
Some writers do pick up ideas here and develop them.
you might find a collaborator more easily on the Author's Hangout.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I don't feel I (an older man who made other choices over careeer sucess in his life) can realistically convey the mental conflict of a successful woman seriously considering putting all she has worked for on the line over a potentially career-ending fling, even if that line of thought is a masturbation session in the privacy of her locked office.

Personally I am not looking to write someone elses ideas. I am looking for that little nugget of an idea, that fits into something I am already planning myself.

But in this case, I think I see your problem. You are too hung up on realism. You are dead right. Anyone who has put a lifetime of effort into their careeer will not risk it to have an office fling. Unless you're at a Coldplay concert, apparently.

But, this is erotica and in such, realism needs take a backseat to fantasy. So I strive only for plausibility. Could something like this happen? Yep. In my world it does.

I save realism for the setting. Give it a try, you might surprise yourself.

 

[ChuckWolf]

For example, in my file of incomplete ideas, I have a 3,079-word setup for a femdom office story that stalls because I don't feel I (an older man who made other choices over careeer sucess in his life) can realistically convey the mental conflict of a successful woman seriously considering putting all she has worked for on the line over a potentially career-ending fling, even if that line of thought is a masturbation session in the privacy of her locked office. If I were to hand this over to someone else and let them take the wheel completely, I'd want to feel confident they could do a better job with my story than I could.

I would say just creatively "make up" what the woman's mindset is regarding the fling or , maybe, better yet, leave it a little intentionally vague and let each reader figure out her motivation(s)?

You could do a little research, maybe base the character's mindset around a real world female professional who may've faced similar challenges in life. Barbara Streisand, Demi Moore, Barbara Corcoran - the Shark Tank lady, etc.

 

[dirk2024]

For example, in my file of incomplete ideas, I have a 3,079-word setup for a femdom office story that stalls because I don't feel I (an older man who made other choices over careeer sucess in his life) can realistically convey the mental conflict of a successful woman seriously considering putting all she has worked for on the line over a potentially career-ending fling, even if that line of thought is a masturbation session in the privacy of her locked office. If I were to hand this over to someone else and let them take the wheel completely, I'd want to feel confident they could do a better job with my story than I could.

Given what I am looking for, am I entirely in the wrong place?

A year ago, I approached a woman here about collaborating because I too didn't feel comfortable writing from that perspective. She essentially told me to suck it up and do it...that was the only way to learn. Now I tell stories from various perspectives (jury is out on how successful I am).

But reading stories has helped me.

 

[AlinaX]

Reading’s the trick.

 

[dirk2024]

Personally I am not looking to write someone elses ideas. I am looking for that little nugget of an idea, that fits into something I am already planning myself.

And this is how I also use this section. Someone has the initial idea and we riff on it. At some point, someone finds the sweet spot that speaks to them. I have found that spot a couple of times and I started something, usually creating characters and a basic plot, maybe a little dialog. Then I put it on my Works in Progress (WIP) folder and get back to the story(ies) I was already working on.

 

[liliput1]

I like the idea of writing collaboration, but have never had any success writing a story with someone else's input, in practice. Since joining this forum, I've glanced at someone's profile from time to time to see what they have written, and the answer is most often nothing (not that my own catalog on this site is huge). While musing about story ideas can be fun in itself, is anyone actually visiting this forum with the goal of bringing someone else's beginning to completion?

For example, in my file of incomplete ideas, I have a 3,079-word setup for a femdom office story that stalls because I don't feel I (an older man who made other choices over careeer sucess in his life) can realistically convey the mental conflict of a successful woman seriously considering putting all she has worked for on the line over a potentially career-ending fling, even if that line of thought is a masturbation session in the privacy of her locked office. If I were to hand this over to someone else and let them take the wheel completely, I'd want to feel confident they could do a better job with my story than I could.

Given what I am looking for, am I entirely in the wrong place?

But there are formulas that can work, and you can read authors that have already tread this ground and gotten accolades for doing so. Great artists steal. Stand on the shoulders of others. But you need your own ideas to pour into the scaffolding otherwise your work is just derivative.

Every situation has a range of reactions that are acceptable, understandable, and common. Those are not the same list; bad reactions are human, and a dime a dozen, but they can be hurtful and spontaneous. You see those here quite frequently in first time scenarios, because the person is out of their comfort zone and experience. They are flying blind. They won’t do the smart thing because they haven’t thought about the consequences yet.

That said I’ve seen a whole lot of these here, with everything from personal assistant to contractor and all the ways to deal with it. One of the latest was promoting the assistant to use her skill sets better, which initially felt like a rejection but it was both good for her career and moved her out of the MC’s chain of command. So that’s just a note in your HR file instead of a whole sheaf of paper. And those sorts of transfers can take time, so there can be teasing and anticipation in that space between “we’re going to fuck” and “we are fucking”.

I’ve seen many flavors of What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas. Orchestrate a convention or a client offsite together and keep the mess 800 miles away from your office. But if you do that too many times the jokes will turn to eyebrow raises. But also sometimes clients or vendors poach employees. And in some industries that makes the employee more valuable from the client or the vendor’s perspective because you have back channels now.

 

[Britva415]

Given what I am looking for, am I entirely in the wrong place?

No, but it still isn't a very good one. People who write already have their own ideas. And collaborators generally work with people who have already written and published their own stuff, and the two have interacted in some way that forms a relationship which "working together" can be added to.

I'm not going to say it doesn't ever happen out of the blue or upon random request, but

 

[Britva415]

I would say just creatively "make up" what the woman's mindset is regarding the fling or , maybe, better yet, leave it a little intentionally vague and let each reader figure out her motivation(s)?

Me too

I'd say that too.

That, exactly.

 

[liliput1]

No, but it still isn't a very good one. People who write already have their own ideas.

I have ADHD, which I promise will be relevant by the end of this post.

One of the better coping mechanisms for that ends up looking a lot like the way people describe meditation. You need to sit back and observe your thoughts, almost as if you're spectating other people. figure out what's going wrong with this person and develop an immediate and a long term strategy to help them. You could think of it like being your own little angel on your shoulder, but I prefer to think of it more like a little coach, because coaches don't moralize, and they'll tell you straight to your face and in front of other people when you're fucking up. I've been doing that since before anyone expected anything of me, and probably eight years before I had a job involving other people. And I'm fairly old now.

The thing is, there are a lot of people who are good at their job who have absolutely no fucking clue why. And a lot of those don't know that they don't know. No introspection at all. And some of them irritatingly try to take things away from other people that they themselves need to do their job, because they don't think they do. But I can name five times when they did.

There's always the group of intellectuals, that parallels the AH here. People who will philosophize and be vulnerable about how they get better at their art, where they panic. They're always outnumbered at least 4-1 by the Get Shit Done crowd, and it can be way higher if management is toxic.

When things go sideways, you can watch these people struggle through a very sticky situation and my little coach persists here while theirs immediately abandons them. They shut down and become reactive animals. So much so that they often can't describe the ordeal afterward in any way that's useful for preventing it happening again. Meanwhile mine is still chattering away offering five ways they're hamstringing themselves in the process, only one of which they might listen to you about.

Which is a long lead-in to say: I don't think people know where their influences are coming from when they're struggling with a scene they can't make work. I don't think you can trust them to tell you because they can't trust themselves. They don't notice that the conversation they read with anthro and Stunned eight weeks ago is working in their subconscious giving them a scenario that's too out of bounds for their story but jiggles loose a different scenario that will work. Or that they stole that scenario from a story they read over a year ago, maybe gender swapped. It's all stuff thrown into a soup and only a gifted palate can pick out the notes.

 

[LupusDei]

Do any idea ever discussed here have turned out into a published story? I believe yes, and would claim there's treads that prove that with links attached later.

However, that's rather rare. Moreover, I would hazard a claim, at least when it comes to someone else taking up a randomly thrown out promt, a vague one-liner of an general idea fares better on average than detailed in-depth setup discussed at length.

Those, rather, may (or not) help the original poster decide how and whether or not to proceed. That should be seen as success of the process too.

And yes, there's a bunch of prolific posters here who haven't published anything (at least under pseudonyms used here). Yes, I'm one of them, I haven't, and probably never will publish any "finished" work on the story side here (reasons for that are diverse), yet I very much like to lurk in this forum (and rarely any other section here) dropping posts often annoying our moderator here for being "too much." And... no, to the best of my knowledge none of those have resulted in any direct "tangible" result that could be linked back.

But that's okay. As much as anything anyone ever do, those posts serve an internal purpose. Hope it would inspire someone or strike a chord, or cast an influence is always there -- every word any human has ever uttered is propaganda and I work on mine -- but that should be seen as a rather a bonus.

 

[TanyaDeVayer]

I sometimes drop ideas here, but I not necessarily write a story. It also can happen I get inspired from the input here and write the story for myself.

 

[usable001]

I have a 3,079-word setup for a femdom office story that stalls because I don't feel I (an older man who made other choices over career success in his life) can realistically convey the mental conflict of a successful woman seriously considering putting all she has worked for on the line over a potentially career-ending fling, even if that line of thought is a masturbation session in the privacy of her locked office.

For what it is worth, I bit the bullet and wrote that problem chapter.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Do any idea ever discussed here have turned out into a published story? I believe yes, and would claim there's treads that prove that with links attached later.

However, that's rather rare. Moreover, I would hazard a claim, at least when it comes to someone else taking up a randomly thrown out promt, a vague one-liner of an general idea fares better on average than detailed in-depth setup discussed at length.

Those, rather, may (or not) help the original poster decide how and whether or not to proceed. That should be seen as success of the process too.

I think that's very accurate. A story is a puzzle. Sometimes when we come up with an idea, it's missing a piece or two. That's what I'm looking for here. Those missing pieces.

 

[Carnevil9]

I have at least two stories on Lit that were entirely inspired by Story Idea threads. Both ideas were so whimsically ludicrous that I just couldn't stop thinking about what fun stories they would make.

 

[Andreas_Kreuz]

I also wrote several stories based on suggestions here. I tremendously enjoyed the exchange with the creators of the idea.

 

[sirhugs]

I have at least two stories on Lit that were entirely inspired by Story Idea threads. Both ideas were so whimsically ludicrous that I just couldn't stop thinking about what fun stories they would make.

AND one of your ideas is responsible for my She-Male Babysitter story.

 

[Andreas_Kreuz]

What I see as advantage of writing to others people ideas, is that I tend to feel freer in my writing.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Well, WRT the basic question, yes. My Film Noir came from a woman with an idea here.