I need help with writing a story.
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buckminster39 (imported)
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I need help with writing a story.
I have several stories that I have been thinking of writing, but I have little or no talent for writing. I need someone with an open mind that is good at polishing turds. Need to find out things like how would we correspond? so that we can trade ideas. and other things that I have yet to think of.
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Re: I need help with writing a story.
buckminster39 (imported) wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:59 pm I have several stories that I have been thinking of writing, but I have little or no talent for writing. I need someone with an open mind that is good at polishing turds. Need to find out things like how would we correspond? so that we can trade ideas. and other things that I have yet to think of.
Hi Bucky,
My advice is to write the story all by yourself, leave that story for a few weeks and get busy on other stories. Then go back to your first story and clean it up. Repeat with subsequent stories. Do not be afraid to cut, hack and change things. Even completely rewrite from scratch.
Writing is much more a skill than it is art and skills can be learnt. Words and punctuation marks are tools as much as, say, a screwdriver or a wrench. Do give it a try; you'll be a better person for doing so. And a better writer too.
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Re: I need help with writing a story.
My advice is to just write what turns you on, to just basically write one-handed. To sit naked and write and take breaks for jerking off, but not to cum. Re-write as much as you feel the need for. Polish come from practice and can't be rushed. If you worry too much about polish you'll never get the necessary practice. Take the plunge. Readers here at the archive are generally positive. The general response you get it just silence unless you've really hit a hot nerve. The lack of response doesn't indicate criticism of your polish so much as that you just didn't happen to hit something that was super hot for people.
This is assuming you're writing for sexual reasons, of course.
This is assuming you're writing for sexual reasons, of course.
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Re: I need help with writing a story.
One idea a friend shared with me years ago is the "divide and conquere method". It has really helped me in writing:
Start with the beginning and end of your story. Write a short summary of each.
Looking at both of these, figure out what would happen in the middle. Write a short summary of this. If you are totally lost, write down the events that need to happen to get from the beginning of your story to the end of it.
Now, figure out what would happen between the beginning and middle. Then between the middle and end. Write a short summary of each. Again if you are unsure, look at the events you put in the middle and place some between beginning and middle, and the rest between middle and end.
You now have 5 major points to write from (beginning, beginning-middle, middle, middle-end, end). Write some ideas for what happens between each of these points. If you want to keep your story short, just expand each point into a paragraph and you are done.
If you are still having trouble, make more points between each of these 5. If needed, you can keep creating points between points, until each point contains only one event to write about.
Start with the beginning and end of your story. Write a short summary of each.
Looking at both of these, figure out what would happen in the middle. Write a short summary of this. If you are totally lost, write down the events that need to happen to get from the beginning of your story to the end of it.
Now, figure out what would happen between the beginning and middle. Then between the middle and end. Write a short summary of each. Again if you are unsure, look at the events you put in the middle and place some between beginning and middle, and the rest between middle and end.
You now have 5 major points to write from (beginning, beginning-middle, middle, middle-end, end). Write some ideas for what happens between each of these points. If you want to keep your story short, just expand each point into a paragraph and you are done.
If you are still having trouble, make more points between each of these 5. If needed, you can keep creating points between points, until each point contains only one event to write about.
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Re: I need help with writing a story.
The keys to good writing, as I learned it in my college Creative Writing class, is basically as follows:
1. Use a lot of concrete specific details to describe things. Calling a car "fast" is a general unspecific detail. Talking about the time in your past that you saw that exact car rocket off the start line, tires squealing, leaving a smoking trail of rubber tread marks behind it, is a concrete and specific detail. Use specific events, very detailed images, metaphors and similes where appropriate, and in general things that bring the events alive for the character rather than just standing back and describing things.
2. Show, don't tell. Rather than just describing that something is happening, really get into the details of it.
3. Use the senses. How is the character feeling? What kinds of sights, sounds, smells, and physical sensations are being produced?
4. Use lots of action verbs to talk about what things are doing rather than getting too watered down with adjectives and adverbs.
Really, the key is just to be a good observer. Study how real people talk, how things act and feel in the real world, learn how to describe what you're feeling with vivid detail, and then put those tricks to use to describe the scenes that you are imagining in your head that are getting you turned on. Sometimes one strong image is enough to sustain a whole story if you can get the audience to really see and feel what's happening.
1. Use a lot of concrete specific details to describe things. Calling a car "fast" is a general unspecific detail. Talking about the time in your past that you saw that exact car rocket off the start line, tires squealing, leaving a smoking trail of rubber tread marks behind it, is a concrete and specific detail. Use specific events, very detailed images, metaphors and similes where appropriate, and in general things that bring the events alive for the character rather than just standing back and describing things.
2. Show, don't tell. Rather than just describing that something is happening, really get into the details of it.
3. Use the senses. How is the character feeling? What kinds of sights, sounds, smells, and physical sensations are being produced?
4. Use lots of action verbs to talk about what things are doing rather than getting too watered down with adjectives and adverbs.
Really, the key is just to be a good observer. Study how real people talk, how things act and feel in the real world, learn how to describe what you're feeling with vivid detail, and then put those tricks to use to describe the scenes that you are imagining in your head that are getting you turned on. Sometimes one strong image is enough to sustain a whole story if you can get the audience to really see and feel what's happening.
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Re: I need help with writing a story.
There's some really good advice in the postings above. However, I'd like to add another tip.
A key difference between an entertaining story and a news account is development of the characters. I like a story where I can get inside heads of the principal characters. What motivates them? What do they love and hate and fear? What gets their blood pumping? Why do they act as they do? Simply cataloging what happens, no matter how vividly the action is described, doesn't draw me in if the characters seem devoid of personality.
A key way to achieve this sort of intimacy with a character is to tell the story from the character's perspective. Rather than relating the story as a disinterested observer, tell the reader what the character is thinking and feeling. This may mean writing as if the character were the one writing the story--"I felt as if...."--but you can also write in third person--"He felt as if...." In either case, the story is usually most compelling if it concentrates on the thoughts emotions of only the principal character. Some intimacy is lost if the author knows all the thoughts of ALL the characters.
Of course, every rule has exceptions, but if you're just getting started with writing, this may help.
Sandi
A key difference between an entertaining story and a news account is development of the characters. I like a story where I can get inside heads of the principal characters. What motivates them? What do they love and hate and fear? What gets their blood pumping? Why do they act as they do? Simply cataloging what happens, no matter how vividly the action is described, doesn't draw me in if the characters seem devoid of personality.
A key way to achieve this sort of intimacy with a character is to tell the story from the character's perspective. Rather than relating the story as a disinterested observer, tell the reader what the character is thinking and feeling. This may mean writing as if the character were the one writing the story--"I felt as if...."--but you can also write in third person--"He felt as if...." In either case, the story is usually most compelling if it concentrates on the thoughts emotions of only the principal character. Some intimacy is lost if the author knows all the thoughts of ALL the characters.
Of course, every rule has exceptions, but if you're just getting started with writing, this may help.
Sandi
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Re: I need help with writing a story.
I know you posted quite a while ago, Buck, but if you still have notes/ideas you'd like someone to go over, I'd be happy to. This also goes for anyone else who has ideas or scenes but is having trouble realising it into a full story--if I don't message you back it's because I'm not quite sure I can get or send messages on the forum, so feel free to email me at stemdectristar at gmail.com.