What are some of your writing philosophies?

Discussion in 'Authors' Hangout' started by Jinraider, Jun 15, 2022.

  1. JohnTitor45

    JohnTitor45 Experienced

    Time Travel and Time Theft are two completely different things as far as I can tell. I'm just concerned about it interfering with my mission. If Dickman is also a time traveler, that could complicate things.
     
  2. CurvyLinesEverywhere

    CurvyLinesEverywhere Really Experienced

    If you can travel by car, you can steal a car.
     
  3. JohnTitor45

    JohnTitor45 Experienced

    So, Dickman stole a time machine?
     
  4. gene.sis

    gene.sis CHYOA Guru

    What's wrong with
    Make some sex and add a story to it.

    Don't you like hearing a story while getting it on? ^^
     
  5. CurvyLinesEverywhere

    CurvyLinesEverywhere Really Experienced

    I'll answer your question, if you can explain what happens in the third act of any of the movies on this list.
     
  6. CurvyLinesEverywhere

    CurvyLinesEverywhere Really Experienced

    Don't put words in my mouth. At best, I'm saying he had the Means to Steal Time.
     
  7. JohnTitor45

    JohnTitor45 Experienced

    I don't understand what that means.
     
  8. CurvyLinesEverywhere

    CurvyLinesEverywhere Really Experienced

    Never mind, it was funnier in my head.

    I regret my part in creating this timeline.
     
  9. gene.sis

    gene.sis CHYOA Guru

    As I haven't seen any of them, I couldn't even tell you anything from the first or second act. So that's a rather pointless exercise.
     
  10. CurvyLinesEverywhere

    CurvyLinesEverywhere Really Experienced

    The pointlessness is my point. They're literally being marketed in that blogpost as makeout movies. They're an example of what happens when you write sex and then staple a weak excuse for a story onto the side of it. If you had seen them, flipping channels or browsing through netflix or whatever, you wouldn't remember it, because they did nothing memorable. The entire purpose of the third act is to kill time while half the audience makes out with the other half. Do slightly better than this. That's all I'm asking. Make porn that's better-written than Hollywood-produced excuses for rich kids to dry hump in public.
     
  11. gene.sis

    gene.sis CHYOA Guru

    Oh... we're talking about writing stories again...
     
  12. Yabusa

    Yabusa Experienced

    Here's my advice:

    Write what interests you in the moment you want to write. Don't feel like you have to write things that don't interest you. Write what's fun to you, even if it is weird or doesn't really make sense--don't even really need to explain it, unless you find the explanations fun too (like I do).

    After I had been writing here for a little while, it felt like some of my readers wanted some very specific things, with activities or tone or characters or whatever. I tried going along with some of those requests, wasn't really happy with the results or how it seemed to contradict what I wanted my characters to be in exchange for something that a handful of people thought would be sexier, but in the end, those are my least-liked chapters usually. Since it wasn't my best work and I didn't put my all into it, it didn't resonate with nearly anybody other than the requestor. In the end, I found that as long as I stuck with my specific interests even if they flew in the face of convention for the kinks I wrote, I found an audience that enjoyed what I was doing anyway.

    Overall, it's a free site and most of us are spending our own time to write these chapters, so what you write should be what you want to write, even if it's not perfect and even if it's not what others are asking for that don't align with what you're looking for yourself.