"I'm going to finish my damn story!": a support thread

[StillStunned]

Okay, hit publish! Somehow, I thought editing would make it shorter, but it went from 22k to 23k, so who the hell knows what's going on.

Very, very different type of story than I'm used to writing. No idea how this is going to be received, but I'm glad I finished it. Even though I went for cutesy rom-com, it still ended up being slightly dark and very cerebral. To be fair, it's not THAT dark, but it's dealing with anxiety, the pressures of masking, and being presentable to normies, so dark-adjacent.

But it's done! So... yay, me.

 

[StillStunned]

I've finished the first version of my story! Added 1.1k words this morning to get the party to the end and hopefully a satisfying conclusion. I'll spend the afternoon editing, and then it can be submitted.

 

[Statius]

Okay, hit publish! Somehow, I thought editing would make it shorter, but it went from 22k to 23k, so who the hell knows what's going on.

Very, very different type of story than I'm used to writing. No idea how this is going to be received, but I'm glad I finished it. Even though I went for cutesy rom-com, it still ended up being slightly dark and very cerebral. To be fair, it's not THAT dark, but it's dealing with anxiety, the pressures of masking, and being presentable to normies, so dark-adjacent.

But it's done! So... yay, me.

Congratulations!

 

[Statius]

I've finished the first version of my story! Added 1.1k words this morning to get the party to the end and hopefully a satisfying conclusion. I'll spend the afternoon editing, and then it can be submitted.

Celebration https://share.google/fEjvUkFcI4x3FZ8xr

 

[StillStunned]

I've finished the first version of my story! Added 1.1k words this morning to get the party to the end and hopefully a satisfying conclusion. I'll spend the afternoon editing, and then it can be submitted.

 

[StillStunned]

Time to take a break from writing, I think. Just a couple of days, then on with "My Wife the Witch" for @Omenainen's Pink Orchid event.

 

[Statius]

Time to take a break from writing, I think. Just a couple of days, then on with "My Wife the Witch" for @Omenainen's Pink Orchid event.

Oooh a witchy craft story! Fun. And yes, you must call it witchy craft; it's funnier and more fun. I insist (says the guy procrastinating his own story - in my defense real life is getting in the way ATM).

 

[anthrodisiac]

Hey! Valentine's Day story is published now! Exciting! Also scary, because I'm a lot less certain how it'll be received than my other stuff.

Also cranked out a 750-word story for that contest. It's a lot more like my old stuff (pre-erotica... prerotica?), weird, kinda dark humor (someone explodes), which is very different than the more muted, introspective, cerebral pieces I've been doing for almost everything I've posted here. I rarely make myself laugh when I write something, there's one line that sends me into a giggle fit every time I read it, without fail.

God, I missed this.

 

[StillStunned]

Hey! Valentine's Day story is published now! Exciting! Also scary, because I'm a lot less certain how it'll be received than my other stuff.

Also cranked out a 750-word story for that contest. It's a lot more like my old stuff (pre-erotica... prerotica?), weird, kinda dark humor (someone explodes), which is very different than the more muted, introspective, cerebral pieces I've been doing for almost everything I've posted here. I rarely make myself laugh when I write something, there's one line that sends me into a giggle fit every time I read it, without fail.

God, I missed this.