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

[Statius]

OK. I think in my reimagining and rewrite of my story, I'm at a point where I can almost begin the actual story telling. 1st person stream of consciousness (forthwith known as SOC) is not easy, not that I thought it would be. 425 words so far and a few more sentences and I'll start the story telling; jumping right in with the first sex scene. The SOC won't stop with that though. Thinking a 'slow walk' out of it from here though, eventually getting into a more or less straight forward 1st person with maybe a few ramblings into SOC here and there.

Just as a side note SOC requires a great deal of careful sentence crafting, hence my word count fluctuations and repeatedly deleting sentences, even 2 entire paragraphs, but as of right now I'm happy with what I got; think it's really good. Probably change my mind tomorrow though.

Peace

 

[Statius]

19 words tonight!

Also, writing multiple people in a scene is hard. I think it works best if you have one focal character and have the other people tag in and out as wanted/needed.

My method as well.

 

[Djmac1031]

Actually, FINALLY finished mine tonight!

Its gonna need some editing and I am awaiting some feedback from my proofreaders on the finale, but overall its done and I'm pretty happy with it.

 

[Statius]

Actually, FINALLY finished mine tonight!

Its gonna need some editing and I am awaiting some feedback from my proofreaders on the finale, but overall its done and I'm pretty happy with it.

Congrats!

 

[StillStunned]

I swear I'm gonna finish it. I swear I'm gonna finish it. I swear I'm gonna finish it.

 

[StillStunned]

I finished chapter 4 out of 9, so this one's moving along really, really well. It's a delicate kind of story, so it could all come crashing down in the later chapters. We'll see. But it's solid now and I don't have anything started that I don't know how I'm going to resolve, so this one's got momentum and I just need to keep up with it.

Although I say this about every story I work on that gets this far, this time I'm super serial when I say that this is, by far, my favorite story that I've ever worked on.

 

[StillStunned]

What?! Me? Sarcastic? Never! Support and motivation. Trying to make @StillStunned proud!

 

[StillStunned]

Actually, FINALLY finished mine tonight!

Its gonna need some editing and I am awaiting some feedback from my proofreaders on the finale, but overall its done and I'm pretty happy with it.

(Because, you know, fingers worn to the nub from writing...)

 

[knowhergne]

I've gotten through like 1k words tonight after weeks of absolutely nothing and still going. If I can do it anyone can

 

[StillStunned]

I've gotten through like 1k words tonight after weeks of absolutely nothing and still going. If I can do it anyone can

 

[designatedvictim]

Post-final check-in.

Submitted it late Saturday night with a minor edit update early morning yesterday (Sunday), current status:

View attachment 2592661

That was pretty quick. Scheduled to appear tomorrow morning.

It went up last night... 1500+ views, so far, 5 favorites, 19 reading lists.

First vote was...

Drumroll, please!

A 1*!

That'll leave a mark.

 

[Djmac1031]

First vote was...

Drumroll, please!

A 1*!

Maybe they just thought your story was Number 1.

 

[StillStunned]

Ouch!

 

[designatedvictim]

Ouch!

Yeah.

I know it's a troll, but early 1s suppress views.

I'll live.

 

[StillStunned]

Yeah.

I know it's a troll, but early 1s suppress views.

I'll live.

I just wrote a snippet about it in the Writing Exercise from the other day: Death of the Author.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

First vote was...

Drumroll, please!

A 1*!

I've had stories (yes, plural) where the first 2 or 3 votes are all 1s.

 

[StillStunned]

I managed about 300 words yesterday, but I'm just not feeling it. It's not going where I want it to go, so it's not going at all.

Perhaps I need to take a step back and mess around with something that I don't need to finish right away. (It doesn't help that work isn't leaving me with much energy at the moment. Although I'm happy to be earning money in the current AI-diseased climate, of course.)

 

[Djmac1031]

(It doesn't help that work isn't leaving me with much energy at the moment.

I can certainly relate; Ive had a lot of work related stress and its certainly a distraction from writing.

Hopefully you find a way through it.

 

[designatedvictim]

I managed about 300 words yesterday, but I'm just not feeling it. It's not going where I want it to go, so it's not going at all.

"Not feeling it" sums up much of my last month, or so.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Submitting one I've been sitting on tonight, for Pink Orchid, and hopefully having that done and pending will let me focus on this one. Finally.

 

[knowhergne]

I managed about 300 words yesterday, but I'm just not feeling it. It's not going where I want it to go, so it's not going at all.

Perhaps I need to take a step back and mess around with something that I don't need to finish right away. (It doesn't help that work isn't leaving me with much energy at the moment. Although I'm happy to be earning money in the current AI-diseased climate, of course.)

I was doing so well, I hit like 1000, which is not at all a brag as I've gone over this first part in my head SO many times, yet I'm just not getting it done

 

[StillStunned]

I was doing so well, I hit like 1000, which is not at all a brag as I've gone over this first part in my head SO many times, yet I'm just not getting it done

 

[knowhergne]

I'll get there, its in my head, but for some reason I see it more visually which is not usually how I operate so I'll struggle to come up with the correct words so it makes sense. Two of the people I know so the dialogue is important to me, no one else would give a shit lol

 

[NuclearFairy]

I'll get there, its in my head, but for some reason I see it more visually which is not usually how I operate so I'll struggle to come up with the correct words so it makes sense. Two of the people I know so the dialogue is important to me, no one else would give a shit lol

That's how I usually operate, and yeah translating those images into words can be hard. It's rewarding though just take it five words at a time.

 

[Djmac1031]

Did a "final" edit on my new story.

It's not perfect. There's still a couple of parts that feel clunky, and a little repetitive. Even after multiple edits.

But at some point I gotta call it "good enough" and let it go, right?

Right?