What are we all writing right now?

[TheWritingGroup]

writing this post, saying my stories are in pending!

For more than a week or so?

 

[VerbalAbuse]

For more than a week or so?

the longest in pending yes.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

And you've read this?
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/story-pending-for-more-than-72-hours-please-read.1638228/

 

[StillStunned]

Before this gets out of hand: there are plenty of other threads for discussing approval times, people, let's not clutter up this thread. This is a positive place.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Working on a Valentine's Day stand-alone sequel to my romantic series. Hopefully I can make it stand alone enough to qualify for the contest.

 

[Duleigh]

My last four stories went through pending just like the old days - 48 hours to publish... except for one. It was sent back... I forgot to attach the story .doc file. (I've only done this 137 times, it takes some getting used to) 2 contest stories and 2 series entries went through fine in the past 30 days.

Currently writing:
Stormwatch Chapter 12 - romance series
Gods Save the Queen Book 3, Part 1 - Romantacy novel (We need a romantacy category)
Alan Scarlett Why Robot? - Hard Scifi (Pun intended)
750 word story x3
Possible Valentines story.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Got the negative stuff done, but it ran longer than expected as it always does. Thought I'd have ~200 words to write, then the sex; turned into 2000 and the sex hasn't started. But the follow-up bad decisions should go quick, and the big dramatic speech moment has a theme that's developed organically, I think, out of what I wrote this evening. Sssssssssso hopefully the content of this chapter can be closed tomorrow

Working on a Valentine's Day stand-alone sequel to my romantic series. Hopefully I can make it stand alone enough to qualify for the contest.

Normally I don't work on two projects simultaneously, but today I got ~2300 words of the Valentine's story finished, though I still don't know anything beyond the characters and setting. I've also added 1900 and counting to the other story, with a little more negative stuff and the sex, which is annoying to write when the MC is high on a substance that dramatically increases perception. Still think the followup bad decisions will go very fast -- no more than 300 words -- and the big dramatic speech will.. occur? At some point? The key is getting through this damn sex scene alive. It's been a productive day.

 

[millamomud]

Currently working on Roma Aeterna, an alternate-history world where the Roman Empire never fell but evolved into a matriarchal technocracy. It’s part historical speculation, part character-driven drama, exploring faith, order, and desire in a society that worships light instead of gods. The project’s in a slow burn worldbuilding phase right now, but I’m moving toward more intimate, emotional narratives within that framework. I’ll start with a few short stories that reveal different facets of the world before I'll be diving into the larger arc. Or not, who knows.

Had to take a break for another story, that has been burning inside of me.

I'm trying a noir like peace about a young woman who arrives at an older man's apartment and asks to become his submissive. The story is told from the dominant’s perspective and deliberately avoids a rescue arc or romantic redemption. BDSM functions less as erotic spectacle and more as a language for containment, avoidance, and responsibility. Over time, the apparent stability reveals cracks, as the past she never speaks about begins to surface.

 

[ICantLeafYou]

I binge-watched Heated Rivalry last night and immediately had an idea for a multi-chapter fanfic about it. I haven't written for a new-to-me fandom in over a decade and it terrifies me. But fuck you, Ilya, you're stuck in my brain like you need to be stuck inside of Shane. The muses are jabbing at my frontal lobe with a pitchfork.

I have an outline page with ideas for each chapter and a few lines of the first chapter done.

 

[APilgrimSquare]

1. Follow-up to Bosom Buddies
2. Follow-up to Aunt Theresa’s Revenge
3. April Fools 2026 entry

I’m still playing with Valentine’s Day contest ideas, but I’m not really in the mood to write romance. And without romance, the Valentine’s Day theming feels so tacked-on.

 

[SerenaSteeleMonroe]

Not writing, exactly, plotting a story that's by request.

 

[SmilingLez]

I tend to write several prose at once. A pic in the lgbtqa forum triggered my dark academia kink so I had to stop what I was doing, working on my 1950s Paris free verse with a Movable Feast as inspiration, to create a dark academia inspired free verse

 

[old_prof]

Mixed news on my writing front. My reader got back to me about the NYE party story I've been fighting with. Knew something was wrong with it and she identified the problem for me. It will take some time to fix, although I think (hope?) that it is fixable.

On the positive side, I did a lot of background work on my next story, Oh Sweetie, an LS story intended for the Valentine's Day contest. I have not yet completely wrapped my head around the story, but I'm hopeful it flow quickly when I do. I made tremendous progress getting there last night, though, so I'm feeling good about it.

 

[THBGato]

I've been doing some work on "Happiness", which is I story I first conceived in March 2024. It's being a bit of a pig though, probably because I've built it up in my head so much.

The inciting incident for the story is one of my characters being interviewed by another on Radio 4, while the main protagonist listens. I have now at least written the transcript of the interview, which is something.

 

[StrentWriter]

I’m about a third of the way through my sequel. It hasn’t stopped writing itself. It’s not good, it’s occasionally funny, it feels more dark and erotic than youthful erotic, but…it’s writing. Peta is getting a turn at being the sole main character. And I’m enjoying that.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I’m working on a non-erotic story about a young woman who begs the blessings of the goddess Bastet to meet out justice to the men who killed her mother and best friend.

 

[YmaOHyd]

I've also added 1900 and counting to the other story, with a little more negative stuff and the sex, which is annoying to write when the MC is high on a substance that dramatically increases perception. Still think the followup bad decisions will go very fast -- no more than 300 words -- and the big dramatic speech will.. occur? At some point? The key is getting through this damn sex scene alive.

Second chapter is in the can. I need to decide where to put the chapter break as there's three places it can go. I'm leaning towards keeping it where it is, but that means the chapters are 14,000 and 21,000 words long, and it'd be nice to shift that to something more like 16,500 and 18,500. Chapter 3 needs more meat on its bones before it can be done, but I also think I need to engage in a wholesale darling-slaughter here; I'm going to try rewriting most of it to condense what I have and add a bit more action and a little less "here are a lot of people" workplace orientation, even if it actually is a workplace orientation scene.

Valentine's story is in a weird place because the plot makes sense to me, but relies on events in the past. I can either do something very flashback-heavy that steps on the toes of my series or I can have the characters talk about these past events, but I don't think they'll hit right. So I need to poke at it some more before I really commit.

 

[redgarters]

Still have some work to do on my V-Day entry after great comments from @THBGato , @EmilyMiller and @HelenL . Good beta readers can not be underestimated!
I was going to use Christmas to continue writing Walking Through Fire, the 2nd half of The Woman in the Spare Room, but a new plot bunny popped out of the Shrubbery of Unwritten Stories and kept jumping on my head, so now I'm nose deep in a late coming out story involving a lesbian awakening, a dramatic breakup, and a possibly autistic MC (absolutely unintended, she just appeared that way on the page). Again, I've gotten myself in trouble (@EmilyMiller I might need your eyes on this one so I don't fuck it up).

Edit: I've just realised this story could be perfect for @Omenainen 's Pink-Orchid event.

 

[redgarters]

On the positive side, I did a lot of background work on my next story, Oh Sweetie, an LS story intended for the Valentine's Day contest.

Looking forward to reading that one.

The inciting incident for the story is one of my characters being interviewed by another on Radio 4, while the main protagonist listens.

That sounds so interesting as a plot setup. I can imagine it's not easy to pull off.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Again, I've gotten myself in trouble (@EmilyMiller I might need your eyes on this one so I don't fuck it up).

Happy to help, hun

 

[Bazzle]

I am expanding one of my @EmilyMiller 750 word stories. To see if using more words make it readable.

 

[THBGato]

So now I'm nose deep in a late coming out story involving a lesbian awakening, a dramatic breakup, and a possibly autistic MC (absolutely unintended, she just appeared that way on the page).

Please can I beta read?

 

[designatedvictim]

Second chapter is in the can. I need to decide where to put the chapter break as there's three places it can go. I'm leaning towards keeping it where it is, but that means the chapters are 14,000 and 21,000 words long, and it'd be nice to shift that to something more like 16,500 and 18,500.

If it makes you feel any better, my recent 20,000-word light foray into T/I just ticked over 40K-words and I still need to do polishing on a couple of the sex scenes.

For reference:
I've mentioned this piece in other threads over the last month or so.
Recent college grad has a couple months open between end of internship and start of full-time job, accepts older sister's invitation to visit her in US Southwest. Only finds out sister and roommate are nudists once he gets there.

(Bolding is to help people like LC68 see the word clearly, unlike the last time I mentioned this. )

 

[redgarters]

Please can I beta read?

Oh, very welcome to, You always make my stories better

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Was having a conversation with @SamanthaBehgs about how best to describe characters, and I'm trying a really dumb framing device, where the FMC (in the story) reads a passage from a book where the FMC (of the book) describes how the MMC (of the book) looks, because it's how the FMC (in the story) thinks the MMC (in the story) looks too, at least superficially. The MMC (in the story) makes fun of how over-the-top the author of the book describes the MMC (of the book). It's fun to write, but it's a challenge to switch sentence to sentence from 1P present to 1P past when going from quoting the fake book to the characters offering commentary on it. It's also a nice change from having a non-described male character or shoehorning in a mirror scene or doing a bunch of indirect description.

I absolutely adore this solution