"One Night in XXX” Story Event: Official Support Thread

[ElectricBlue]

What do you mean!!!!! That’s wonderful. A train. Mongolia. A foreigner. A beautiful Mongolian girl. True love. Hot sex on the train and in the morning....

Chloe looks for her whip. Write, EB. Write!

You can whip all you like, girl, it ain't a happening thing, not for this deadline, anyway . I've just sent a long email to Yukon explaining why it all unravelled - as is my way, it all got... complicated (which, as you know, in EB world, means far longer than anticipated). I'll copy you in on that.

Meanwhile, I have an appointment with an astronaut and a daemon for the Geek anthology thing, which also must get written (but maybe not in time...)

 

[gunhilltrain]

Mine's dead in the water for this collection - I've lost interest and the deadline is too close.

For those who might have been curious, Dzamin Ude is on the Mongolian side of the Chinese/Mongolian border, where the train passes through. I did the trip in 1984 when Reagan was talking about winning nuclear wars and joking about bombing Moscow, and Chernenko was still tottering about in the Kremlin. Historically fascinating but not very erotic. "Show me your border guard and I'll show you mine" doesn't quite work....

Write it anyway perhaps, at your own pace, and publish it when and if you're ready.

I know, unsolicited advice.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Write it anyway perhaps, at your own pace, and publish it when and if you're ready.

That's probably what will happen, but the location will revert back to One Night on a Slow Moving Train, which was always Plan A. The notion of a defined locale threw a spanner in the works... plus my habit of a story expanding its scope as I go along.

It's happened a couple of times before - if I'm a thousand or so words in (in this case, closer to 3k) and it's struggling, I just bail out. There are probably two hundred words that might be re-used - and they're the erotic bits which could go anywhere .

 

[ChloeTzang]

You can whip all you like, girl, it ain't a happening thing, not for this deadline, anyway . I've just sent a long email to Yukon explaining why it all unravelled - as is my way, it all got... complicated (which, as you know, in EB world, means far longer than anticipated). I'll copy you in on that.

Meanwhile, I have an appointment with an astronaut and a daemon for the Geek anthology thing, which also must get written (but maybe not in time...)

Ah well, ones muse is ones muse and I know what you mean. That’s happened to me too. Never mind. Go for Geek Gold instead and have fun.

 

[overwatcher]

"One Night in XXX" Story Event Entry

Hi, Could I register a story for this event please? 'One night in Penang.' I like the sound of the titles entered so far, look forward to reading them. [Thanks. I have no idea whether I'm filling this out properly or even if this is the right way to enter.] OK pushed go and it worked, nobody died, I hope

 

[ChloeTzang]

Hi, Could I register a story for this event please? 'One night in Penang.' I like the sound of the titles entered so far, look forward to reading them. [Thanks. I have no idea whether I'm filling this out properly or even if this is the right way to enter.] OK pushed go and it worked, nobody died, I hope

One Night in Phuket is just fine and thanks. The first post in this thread has all the instructions like what to put in the notes field and when to submit your story. Just check that and as long as you followed them you’re fine. Any other questions or anything you’re not sure about, just ask right here.

And thx a million for contributing. And your first post too - so welcome to the Authors Hangout. Waltz on over to Tex’s Coffee Shop thread and introduce yourself. It’s a social sort of a place.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm tentatively back in with this event and my story "One Night in Mordor." I've given it a lot of thought and have done some research on fanfiction in this universe and am tentatively OK with the idea. The question is whether I can get my On the Job event story done in time. If so I'm going to give this one a go. I started it and it's just too much fun writing it to drop it.

 

[KeithD]

One Night in Phuket is just fine and thanks. The first post in this thread has all the instructions like what to put in the notes field and when to submit your story. Just check that and as long as you followed them you’re fine. Any other questions or anything you’re not sure about, just ask right here.

And thx a million for contributing. And your first post too - so welcome to the Authors Hangout. Waltz on over to Tex’s Coffee Shop thread and introduce yourself. It’s a social sort of a place.

Penang and Phuket are both very nice, exotic locations (I've had some fun nights in both), but they aren't the same place. Is Overwatcher ultimate getting the slot requested?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Penang and Phuket are both very nice, exotic locations (I've had some fun nights in both), but they aren't the same place. Is Overwatcher ultimate getting the slot request?

Urk. I misread that. I think I need new glasses. One Night in Penang it is. I’ve been there and it was rather nice.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

There are days when I'm excited about "One Night in Dubai". Days when I have ideas and scenes play out in my head and even if I don't have a chance to actually write them down, they're there to be written when I find an opportunity. Those are good days.

Today is not a good day.

Today is one of those days when I think the plot is lame, the action is tepid, and my characters are kind of obnoxious. Even though I have a couple of cool scenes to write, I don't know how to connect them together and all the things I thought were clever are actually kind of contrived. Today I feel like my time would be better spent working on something else, and I should just bow out of this project gracefully. Today is a bad day.

I hope I have a good day again soon. I hope there are more good days than bad days between now and the 21st. I also need some writing days to go along with the good days, and those are hard to find. I'm not giving up.

Not yet.

 

[KeithD]

So sorry. If I found writing agony, I'd be out on the tennis court lickety-split.

 

[yukonnights]

There are days when I'm excited about "One Night in Dubai". Days when I have ideas and scenes play out in my head and even if I don't have a chance to actually write them down, they're there to be written when I find an opportunity. Those are good days.

Today is not a good day.

Today is one of those days when I think the plot is lame, the action is tepid, and my characters are kind of obnoxious. Even though I have a couple of cool scenes to write, I don't know how to connect them together and all the things I thought were clever are actually kind of contrived. Today I feel like my time would be better spent working on something else, and I should just bow out of this project gracefully. Today is a bad day.

I hope I have a good day again soon. I hope there are more good days than bad days between now and the 21st. I also need some writing days to go along with the good days, and those are hard to find. I'm not giving up.

Not yet.

This appears to be a contagion spreading through this event It seems to come and recede but never go away...I hope it isn't a permanent affliction that forever plagues with debilitating indecision

 

[SimonDoom]

There are days when I'm excited about "One Night in Dubai". Days when I have ideas and scenes play out in my head and even if I don't have a chance to actually write them down, they're there to be written when I find an opportunity. Those are good days.

Today is not a good day.

Today is one of those days when I think the plot is lame, the action is tepid, and my characters are kind of obnoxious. Even though I have a couple of cool scenes to write, I don't know how to connect them together and all the things I thought were clever are actually kind of contrived. Today I feel like my time would be better spent working on something else, and I should just bow out of this project gracefully. Today is a bad day.

I hope I have a good day again soon. I hope there are more good days than bad days between now and the 21st. I also need some writing days to go along with the good days, and those are hard to find. I'm not giving up.

Not yet.

I'm sure you will have good days to come. You're too good a writer not to. But you might want to shelve projects that are giving you a hard time and try another one that comes more easily.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I'm sure you will have good days to come. You're too good a writer not to. But you might want to shelve projects that are giving you a hard time and try another one that comes more easily.

I’m with you on that. When it starts to drag your ass, it’s time to park it for a while and do something else.

 

[NotWise]

I’m with you on that. When it starts to drag your ass, it’s time to park it for a while and do something else.

I'm doing that with a couple stories now, but neither of those has a deadline.

Deadlines are big motivators for me, but sometimes it just won't work. I thought "Wolves of Winter" would be good for Valentine's Day, but (as it turned out) maybe Valentine's Day next year.

Loqui, maybe your story needs more than one night.

 

[overwatcher]

Thanks Guys

Urk. I misread that. I think I need new glasses. One Night in Penang it is. I’ve been there and it was rather nice.

Thank You for the accept, Best regards. Overwatcher

 

[ChloeTzang]

I'm doing that with a couple stories now, but neither of those has a deadline.

Deadlines are big motivators for me, but sometimes it just won't work. I thought "Wolves of Winter" would be good for Valentine's Day, but (as it turned out) maybe Valentine's Day next year.

Loqui, maybe your story needs more than one night.

Deadlines totally motivate me. I’m a procrastinator by nature. What cane be done tomorrow waits.... but a deadline gives me a hard focus to shoot for and I always work way better at anything under pressure. So this weekend I am pounding away for the On the Job event and after that it’ll be finishing my One Night stories. Love it.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I’m with you on that. When it starts to drag your ass, it’s time to park it for a while and do something else.

I do not think in a linear manner when I am writing. If I get blocked at one part of the story, I jump to another. Write the ending and work backwards. Just start putting down random dialogue between characters. Go back and read the story or chapter from the start and see if you get momentum from that.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I do not think in a linear manner when I am writing. If I get blocked at one part of the story, I jump to another. Write the ending and work backwards. Just start putting down random dialogue between characters. Go back and read the story or chapter from the start and see if you get momentum from that.

I do that too. I’ll write a chunk and an idea pops into my head and I’ll write another chunk that fits in somewhere else and I’ll move them around. I do usually write the end first tho. Or at least an outline of the end. I like to know how the story will end so I can shoot to get there.

 

[LupusDei]

Status report

It's panic mode!

One Night in Riga | Where undefendable fortresses of love are sold in mind games is brewing high, counting close to 35k words as of today, but the completion estimate slips solidly in 50-60k range now.

Yup, it's growing ungodly huge; I failed to contain myself, and it's basically reinterpretation of a chapter #23 (or so) of an larger unwritten saga. I somehow spend ~9700 words on what's intended just as introduction, containing three significant conversations, two of them on the phone (and a short, rushed masturbation scene) to get to the point where

Leading Ilze to the elevator, I blinked one last greeting to the slowly setting Sun. She had already dipped her toes in the distant sea, searching for oars of her night boat, but it will be half an hour yet until she will bring it up and over the sea-mound. Above, iridescent flames of high altitude cirrus clouds burned in angry red. Far away behind the Sun kissed horizon in the northern Atlantic a new storm was forming. It will be days before her spirit will call me by name, but I already could feel her rage.

16 out of 28(+/-2) predefined scenes are drafted, not all are in order though, none of them contain real sex and I live with well upwards of 10k words worth of unwritten meta-language code of this in my head, so I shouldn't be writing here but there! Especially because I can apparently only output English in up to 2k word chunks at a time, and thus looking at a deadline that threatens to become impossible, given I will need/want an editor or at least beta reads.

Perhaps, I should start looking for some as soon I will declare part two complete, and then jump to finish part four, before seeing how much of part three I can get done. It's barely connected interlude that could be a single sentence, but is scheduled to include the first sex scene of the night.

Then it's also where it all seems futile, that as little of the story there is, if any, is all in extended dialogue tags and I realized I neglected to say a single word about how a girl I just danced with looks like... but it probably should stay that way, actually.

Of course it have no category, and I expect it to be destroyed anywhere. Currently I plan to force it on Romance readers, just because it's how my main character see it, but then he's a teenager sociopath and knows no better, while it even could, but not necessarily should, be rewritten from the female lead point as erotic horror, perhaps. Most of her story stays behind the curtain, however.

Sorry for a brain fart...

 

[gunhilltrain]

It's panic mode!

One Night in Riga | Where undefendable fortresses of love are sold in mind games is brewing high, counting close to 35k words as of today, but the completion estimate slips solidly in 50-60k range now.

Yup, it's growing ungodly huge; I failed to contain myself, and it's basically reinterpretation of a chapter #23 (or so) of an larger unwritten saga. I somehow spend ~9700 words on what's intended just as introduction, containing three significant conversations, two of them on the phone (and a short, rushed masturbation scene) to get to the point where

16 out of 28(+/-2) predefined scenes are drafted, not all are in order though, none of them contain real sex and I live with well upwards of 10k words worth of unwritten meta-language code of this in my head, so I shouldn't be writing here but there! Especially because I can apparently only output English in up to 2k word chunks at a time, and thus looking at a deadline that threatens to become impossible, given I will need/want an editor or at least beta reads.

Perhaps, I should start looking for some as soon I will declare part two complete, and then jump to finish part four, before seeing how much of part three I can get done. It's barely connected interlude that could be a single sentence, but is scheduled to include the first sex scene of the night.

Then it's also where it all seems futile, that as little of the story there is, if any, is all in extended dialogue tags and I realized I neglected to say a single word about how a girl I just danced with looks like... but it probably should stay that way, actually.

Of course it have no category, and I expect it to be destroyed anywhere. Currently I plan to force it on Romance readers, just because it's how my main character see it, but then he's a teenager sociopath and knows no better, while it even could, but not necessarily should, be rewritten from the female lead point as erotic horror, perhaps. Most of her story stays behind the curtain, however.

Sorry for a brain fart...

Some of the projects people have been mentioning here seem to be too ambitious to fit into a contest (unless it's announced a year in advance perhaps!). In any case I think they should still be written.

A "larger unwritten saga" = a novel I suppose. I admit that when I tried one, before I joined Literotica, I couldn't handle it. I had to break out pieces to publish here. I'm going to try it again with some of the unpublished material but it's going to take some time.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I do not think in a linear manner when I am writing. If I get blocked at one part of the story, I jump to another. Write the ending and work backwards. Just start putting down random dialogue between characters. Go back and read the story or chapter from the start and see if you get momentum from that.

I do that too. I’ll write a chunk and an idea pops into my head and I’ll write another chunk that fits in somewhere else and I’ll move them around. I do usually write the end first tho. Or at least an outline of the end. I like to know how the story will end so I can shoot to get there.

Hmm... I don't usually write that way. I start at the beginning and go through to the end. I have thought about a great middle sometimes but, again I start at the beginning and write to the middle part, then let the characters take me to an end.

Most of the time I already know all the parts. It's just sometimes the characters start running away from the curve I have set. That's when I get blocked and have to set it aside for awhile.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I write the same as Melissa and Chloe. OMG is it a woman thing?

Mine is chugging along, but again I'm afraid I'm getting into too much detail and will bore the pants off everyone who attempts to read...

I've toyed with the idea of pulling out of the challenge, but I'll wait to make that call when the time gets closer to the deadline.

 

[KeithD]

Linear. I may have a better understanding of something in the middle or the end than I have about the part I'm currently writing, but I stick with writing in order. What I'm working on now could completely change anything I thought was coming later, and I don't want to box myself in.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

Linear. I may have a better understanding of something in the middle or the end than I have about the part I'm currently writing, but I stick with writing in order. What I'm working on now could completely change anything I thought was coming later, and I don't want to box myself in.

I’m a girl and write linearly.