Do you ever surprise yourself when you write?

I've left the story I was writing, and haven't written anything for two weeks now, it appears its popular enough that I'll add to it, the fact is this is the second story I've co-authored and left and have had to go back three or four chapters to pick up where I've left off. I'm the same with some story's (as gscmar64) I very rarely plan what I'm gonna write in the next chapter, I think that's just the beauty of the CHYOA brand? Maybe? It's definitely 'sculptured' the way I put the chapter together, the need to describe/write/pen/author as much descriptive information and story with the most thought and the least amount of words that you can, Oh and make it enjoyable to the reader as well. I just wish they'd let us write this Erotica stuff when I did English at High School, I don't know I woulda aced it, but damn some of those girls I tried to hit on, and failed woulda seen me in a totally different light.

 

It's easy to let yourself follow the story where it goes.
My writing process works in two ways, for some things I have a few dozen chapters worth of materials with choices an branches already planned out but no time to type it yet.
And then sometimes I add a chapter as an option to give choice to the reader and get caught in it, next thing I know I wrote a dozen chapters in a row because of the way I worded what was going to be a dead end.

 

I admit I'm not organised enough to be able to consciously (Shit, or even unconsciously for that matter!) plan too far ahead other than stories I've sat on for months and written over a long period of time. I take my hat off to anyone who has the ability to knit threads together, awesome really. Actually I think my default reset's to lazy anyway, oh and it tends to reset frequently, hehe.

 

Organised is not the word, it's more of an autonomous thing where a story I started kind of develop itself in my head, it's where chyoa.com is so good, if I had to write a conventional story I would spend hours trying to choose a path. Here I can just write one of them and know that once this one slows down I can pick up another.