I'm on a roll!

[The_inspector_and_the_fish]

I seem to have hit this little streak of creativity and wow it feels good! Ideas seem to coming left and right and they're getting down on the page easily. I've cranked out three stories in less than a week and well advanced on a fourth. And since I've started saving drafts in Google drive I can work on them on my phone any time I have a spare 5 mins!

I'm sure it won't last, but I'm enjoying it while it does! Hope this is ok to post here - just wanted to share with some folks who might get it

 

[mrs_mackenzie]

My spare five minutes to write seem to always be getting fewer and further between... But it is a great feeling when you really get some words down on the page.

 

[Comshaw]

I seem to have hit this little streak of creativity and wow it feels good! Ideas seem to coming left and right and they're getting down on the page easily. I've cranked out three stories in less than a week and well advanced on a fourth. And since I've started saving drafts in Google drive I can work on them on my phone any time I have a spare 5 mins!

I'm sure it won't last, but I'm enjoying it while it does! Hope this is ok to post here - just wanted to share with some folks who might get it

Cool! But don't let the dry spots bother you too much. Pound them out while you can.

I've been meaning to ask those who do it, how the heck does anyone write on a phone? My callused fingertips and sausage fingers don't allow for such a tiny keyboard. How can you do that???


Comshaw

 

[PennyThompson]

My callused fingertips and sausage fingers don't allow for such a tiny keyboard. How can you do that???

Smaller softer fingers, and practice
I don't write long-form on my phone, but I do some of my editing and a lot of my forum posting from it!
You can also do voice-to-text, though... probably not on this subject matter in mixed company

 

[NuclearFairy]

I've been meaning to ask those who do it, how the heck does anyone write on a phone? My callused fingertips and sausage fingers don't allow for such a tiny keyboard. How can you do that???

With care and practice. I'm so glad that I don't have to anymore though.

 

[The_inspector_and_the_fish]

Cool! But don't let the dry spots bother you too much. Pound them out while you can.

I've been meaning to ask those who do it, how the heck does anyone write on a phone? My callused fingertips and sausage fingers don't allow for such a tiny keyboard. How can you do that???


Comshaw

Ha ha like @PennyThompson said, small nimble fingers! I initially thought it would really slow me down on a phone but surprisingly not.

 

[Rob_Royale]

It's a good feeling, isn't it.

 

[PennyThompson]

It's a good feeling, isn't it.

Are we still talking about small nimble fingers?

 

[Comshaw]

Are we still talking about small nimble fingers?

I think they are, but my mind went to something else. This is a porn site after all! Even callused sausage fingers are good for something!

Comshaw

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

I seem to have hit this little streak of creativity and wow it feels good! Ideas seem to coming left and right and they're getting down on the page easily.

Jealous

 

[Voboy]

Just wrote a story in three days and then finished another one that had been stalled for a couple of weeks.

Yay me.

 

[Voboy]

Just wrote a story in three days and then finished another one that had been stalled for a couple of weeks.

Yay me.

Update: starting a new one today, too.

Been awhile since I was this productive. I wonder if what I'm writing is any good...

 

[gunhilltrain]

My spare five minutes to write seem to always be getting fewer and further between... But it is a great feeling when you really get some words down on the page.

The editing and proofreading stages take up more time, I think. But they've got to be done. I'm always struck by how much is wrong in the first draft. Not just mistakes in punctuation, but errors in continuity.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Another one with dinky wee fingers here. Or thumbs, rather, which is what I use for typing - the phone rests on the third finger of my left hand, leaning on the first two fingers, and then I can tap away with my thumbs without having to move anything more than an inch. It's about as quick as speech but more accurate. Except about a year ago, Google decided to stop recognising hyphenated words as two words for spellchecking purposes, which is a right pain. The suggested correct words make it all feasible.

I managed to spew out a short Valentine's story but now I'm back to a longer piece hopefully for Pink Orchid, though I've already published the start and end of the story as last year's PO and Summer stories - so that's the low-level sex stories done (meet and get to shag, followed by eventual realisation of love) - this is the filth in between... I think I've got the continuity OK, but tbh I live in hope of readers dedicated enough to spot the continuity errors the Kumquatverse already has. Something about posting dirty stories seems to distract them...

 

[Belegon]

Just wrote a story in three days and then finished another one that had been stalled for a couple of weeks.

Yay me.

Yay you! I just found another forgotten WIP that I'm going to finish. It's one of those hybrids where I was taking a scene from my real life and mixing it about... I switched out my female lead with a persona based on one of our old Litizens who I was lucky enough to spend some "real space" time with. She wasn't the woman doing the things described in the story, which I will be uploading to Lit when I finish it. The working title, which I'll probably just go ahead and keep, is Party Favors.

 

[StillStunned]

The editing and proofreading stages take up more time, I think. But they've got to be done. I'm always struck by how much is wrong in the first draft. Not just mistakes in punctuation, but errors in continuity.

I absolutely love the editing stage. Seeing the story come together as a cohesive whole, adding foreshadowing and call-backs, polishing the sentences and paragraphs. Knowing that the hard graft is done, and everything I'm doing now is making the story as good as I possibly can.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I absolutely love the editing stage ...

Did you once mention being a professional editor?

-Annie

 

[StillStunned]

Did you once mention being a professional editor?

-Annie

I did. I enjoy editing my own work much, much more than I enjoy editing other people's.

 

[FidelityBoss]

I seem to have hit this little streak of creativity and wow it feels good! Ideas seem to coming left and right and they're getting down on the page easily. I've cranked out three stories in less than a week and well advanced on a fourth. And since I've started saving drafts in Google drive I can work on them on my phone any time I have a spare 5 mins!

I'm sure it won't last, but I'm enjoying it while it does! Hope this is ok to post here - just wanted to share with some folks who might get it

That's actually interesting, so what lead to your sudden streak of creativity? Let's know it will work for us as well

 

[The_inspector_and_the_fish]

That's actually interesting, so what lead to your sudden streak of creativity? Let's know it will work for us as well

Ha ha! Being on a week's holiday definitely helped I think. Also, weirdly, I sometimes get more ideas when I have a spell of insomnia, which I have been having. Maybe it's all the hours lying in bed that let me mind wander to interesting places! Plus I think I just got lucky and came up with an interesting premise that let me spin off a few new ideas.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm happy to hear that. I wish I were. I've hit a lull since the publication of my last story on December 10. I've been meaning to write the follow up to it, and then write two other stories I've mapped out and that I'm eager to do, but I haven't made myself do it.

 

[FidelityBoss]

Ha ha! Being on a week's holiday definitely helped I think. Also, weirdly, I sometimes get more ideas when I have a spell of insomnia, which I have been having. Maybe it's all the hours lying in bed that let me mind wander to interesting places! Plus I think I just got lucky and came up with an interesting premise that let me spin off a few new ideas.

Funny how that works! Sometimes the best ideas come when you’re just lying there, unable to sleep. Sounds like the perfect mix of relaxation, inspiration, and a bit of luck, hope the creativity keeps flowing!