Does anyone else experience this frustration?

[Astrotrain]

Me too. Almost a year ago I wrote four chapters of my first story all together, then I had a health crisis so I had to take a break. I've got three chapters to go but I can't seem to get back into it. I got a pretty good reception to what I've written so far, but people have probably lost interest by now.

 

[StillStunned]

One of those worked well for me - the one with Ellie spying on her neighbors and then a guy grabs her from behind. It took a few weeks to write, but Ellie became Ellen Resnick, an adjunct professor of English at Hofstra University, Long Island and the guy was Josh Marcus, the nineteen-year-old son of the two neighbors. It turned out that their kinks aligned with each other quite well. Ellen narrated the whole thing, and she could be rather amusing at times.

Several other people have turned their snippets into complete stories as well. I have a bunch in my WIP folder with thousands of words written, just waiting for me to find the energy to finish them. "Demon Under My Bed", at least six from "Fairy Tales", the Jack and Jill one, "A Kink You Don't Have".

 

[gunhilltrain]

Several other people have turned their snippets into complete stories as well. I have a bunch in my WIP folder with thousands of words written, just waiting for me to find the energy to finish them. "Demon Under My Bed", at least six from "Fairy Tales", the Jack and Jill one, "A Kink You Don't Have".

A lot of people here don't realize that you can have a pretty good stand-alone story with only about 6,000 to 8,000 words. Maybe a sequel idea will pop up later, maybe not.

Serials can be difficult because they can seem open-ended with no discernible ending. I've got one another site that I haven't touched in well over a year. I'm tempted to just come up with a final chapter that doesn't seem too arbitrary and just end it already. But that is hardly a priority.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I've actually mentioned that a dozen or more times before.

You mentioned this once before. I guess the best way to deal with it is jot down the new ideas so you don't forget them, then get back to them later. Each "idea" file can be used for the story itself later.

If you have dozens of unfinished stories - I'm not sure how you wish to pick one to work on. Do it randomly, perhaps? Or find the one that's most intriguing? It would take me months, maybe years to finish that many stories but, hey, it's not like I have much else to occupy my time.

 

[Boobytrap73]

I just published my first story in about six months. I had ideas but I just didn't have the time to develop them.

 

[Jemeralddragoon]

Then stop writing.

How about fuck off?

 

[Jemeralddragoon]

Me too. Almost a year ago I wrote four chapters of my first story all together, then I had a health crisis so I had to take a break. I've got three chapters to go but I can't seem to get back into it. I got a pretty good reception to what I've written so far, but people have probably lost interest by now.

See, I worry about that too, that people will lose interest by the time I finally get around to doing it. I think we both need to just do it, ya know? Because while our writing is for everyone, more than anything, it's for us. We gotta get them out there so we can at least be proud that we accomplished what we set out to do.

 

[MrHereWriting]

How about fuck off?

Let's see....

The issue is that's all I've been doing FOR MONTHS. All I do is play video games and watch tv and do housework outside of my actual job. Every time I think it's time to sit down and write something, I just stare at a blank page for hours. Months on end!

If you have a better idea than "Stop writing" then go ahead and start writing, otherwise you're just complaining and this isn't a self-help group. People have given you suggestions and you've shut them down. Either make a conscious choice to write or stop writing.

Edit: You've already stopped writing, now you need to admit it to yourself.

 

[Jemeralddragoon]

Let's see....



If you have a better idea than "Stop writing" then go ahead and start writing, otherwise you're just complaining and this isn't a self-help group. People have given you suggestions and you've shut them down. Either make a conscious choice to write or stop writing.

Edit: You've already stopped writing, now you need to admit it to yourself.

How have I shut them down? I have thanked multiple people for their advice, liked/loved multiple responses and offered my own solutions to people struggling the same way. Did you even read the fucking thread or are you just an asshole? Fuck off and mind your own business if you have nothing useful to say.

 

[ElectricBlue]

How have I shut them down? I have thanked multiple people for their advice, liked/loved multiple responses and offered my own solutions to people struggling the same way. Did you even read the fucking thread or are you just an asshole? Fuck off and mind your own business if you have nothing useful to say.

No need for this. It doesn't make a good first impression.

 

[Jemeralddragoon]

No need for this. It doesn't make a good first impression.

Did I ask? There was no need for him to be a douche first.

 

[MrHereWriting]

How have I shut them down? I have thanked multiple people for their advice, liked/loved multiple responses and offered my own solutions to people struggling the same way. Did you even read the fucking thread or are you just an asshole? Fuck off and mind your own business if you have nothing useful to say.

Are you reading your responses? Your negativity says much more than you thanking someone for saying something interesting.

From what I can tell, you only want to talk about yourself and the moment someone (me) says "Alright, talking about you isn't getting you anywhere, get to writing or don't," your true nature comes out.

The answer is simple: Start writing or continue whining, your choice. I think you like being the center of attention more than you like writing, especially since you don't want to write anymore.

I have almost no drive to actually write. It sucks because I've garnered a wonderful amount of followers in such a small amount of time with very few stories. Those same stories have gotten amazing reception and I feel really happy about my writing. Yet, I struggle to actually work on the stories I need to finish. What really sucks is that I know exactly how I want these stories to go, but when it comes time to sit down and actually write, I either don't want to do it or I get so caught up in the minutiae because I feel the story isn't following an organic path and I just get so damn frustrated. Not at writing, just at myself. Does anyone else get where I'm coming from?

My muse left me years ago after my mom died and I've just been writing on fumes. I love writing, but I feel like I have no reason to anymore. That's why I finally took the plunge to submit my adult stories because I hoped it would give me the push to keep writing if people liked my stories.

The issue is that everything is work to me and I despise having to do any form of work. I used to really enjoy writing and it wasn't "work" by any means, but it's just so hard to feel the drive to do it anymore.

The issue is that's all I've been doing FOR MONTHS. All I do is play video games and watch tv and do housework outside of my actual job. Every time I think it's time to sit down and write something, I just stare at a blank page for hours. Months on end!

But that's the issue. I am driven to write this. I started this story years ago and I've been slowly working on it over time, making changes to the story and planning out where it's going. It's all planned out and I know exactly where it's going to go, but nothing I write feels like it's going to organically reach that conclusion and it all feels forced now.

The plot is part of the problem. The story was planned out a certain way, but when I got to the most important scene in the first chapter, I found that I had 2 characters to choose from to participate and the story worked great no matter who I chose. So I went with the new choice instead of the original planned choice because it made the story feel much more organic and realistic, but now I have to write around that change when I had already wrote about 13 pages that followed the original plan. I put myself in this situation and now I have to deal with it.

I wrote all of the stories I currently have posted years ago. I slowly refined them over time before I felt comfortable enough to post them. Even the one I'm struggling with now I wrote like 3 years ago but then abandoned it because I just didn't feel like writing. But now I have posted stuff and now I HAVE to finish this otherwise I'll be even more disappointed in myself.

I often sit on one sentence until it's perfect. It's maddening but I can't move on until it's done.

Originally I had 3 chapters planned out. Chapter 1 is done and out. Chapter 2 is the one I have to completely rework and Chapter 3 should still follow the original plan. There might be a fourth chapter but it all depends on how Chapter 3 works out once (if) I ever get to it.

When I was a teenager, music helped me belt out writing. I wrote an entire 150-page novel in high school and an unfinished sequel novel that was only half done and twice the length of the original. I really do need to just make a new playlist and start vibing. Thank you for your condolences. I lost my mom during my final year of high school and that's when I lost all my passion for writing. I came back to college after dropping out and have been taking nothing but English classes to get back into writing. It's still hard to find the desire to write (outside of imagining the stories I could write) but it has helped me to improve my writing. Heck, I wrote an entire One-Act play AND had it performed/performed in it at my college!

You keep repeating yourself: You have no desire to write despite the solutions people are giving you. And what you did isn't what you're doing so your past isn't helping your present. If you want to get mad that I'm pointing out the obvious to you, that's your problem, and it's also your problem that you'd rather fixate on not wanting to write rather than fix why you're not writing.