I've done that many, many times. Hell, I have 6 stories right this minute waiting to be edited.
But there's something that just doesn't feel right about them and I don't want to go near them until I know I won't feel like scrapping the whole thing.
I've actually redone one of my earlier ones and posted it after I revamped it.
I've also said to hell with it and posted a story anyways and I'm still not happy with it.
I would dearly love to delete it, but something tells me I'll go back at some point and revamp it. (I hope)
Sometimes you can take bits and pieces of a story and incorporate it into another one, so while you may not be happy with it in its current form, maybe you can use the premise or dialogue or sex scene in another story.
Good luck!

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It happens to many of us and I'd imagine it happens often. I have scrapped a story for a single reason or many reasons, more often than not it's because it doesn't feel right. I have 4 stories that are demanding my attention but I can't do it just now, the juices aren't flowing so I'm taking a break. Like TDW said, you can take pieces of a story and fuse it with another... it might help in saving a story and making you feel like you haven't been wasting your time. Good Luck with stories.

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Same here. I have a large file of unfinished works. Some are only a few hundred words and some are basically finished. The problem is that they just don't have the quality I desire from my work. Many time I'll go back and re write them. Other times I'll use bits and pieces and discard the rest. Right now I have 2 that are just waiting for me to find the time to finish.

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I hate double posts..deleted one

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In custody.

I love baseball!!!

for every one i post, 4 don't get posted and usually just get forgotten about :)

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Yeah I have abandoned one. I was on my third story when I found out the second one was rejected. I thought I had followed allo the suggestions from the first one, but apparantly when I get to writing my exuberance takes over and it does not fit the parameters of good grammar or form or whatever. So I just read the stories now and comment. Nothing worse than taking 30 or 40 minutes to write a story and have it rejected.

Totally nothing worse than wasting 30-40 minutes on a story you're not going to publish!

I have about three or four stories which are unfinished, but I will go back and complete them at some point...

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I suspect that you are correct!!

(was it a very special word?)

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Never agonized over a word for that long AFAIK, but sentences and phrases ... oh yeah.

Thanks for all the feedback. It's a bit agonizing because part of me really likes the piece and part of me just doesn't feel it's fully baked yet. There's also a certain amount of "is this really a Lush story?" questioning there. Lots of sex to be sure (3 encounters over a weekend including a first time), but very plotty in places as well though the plotty bits provide the backstory for the characters and why they're having sex. One of the scenes is a bit rushed, too, but that's just a rewrite.

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Oddly enough, I've picked up one of my other "abandoned" stories and am taking another shot at it.

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I've got a few abandoned stories: some subjects you need to be in a certain mood to write about, and if the mood aint there: forget it and come back, a few days, weeks, month even and have another go.. I've had a couple of stories rejected, but although disheartened initially, I followed the moderators advice and resubmitted sucessfully. There's one half written story I keep going back to and can't do anything with though.. so far...

I'm with you man... Throw enough shit against the wall, and eventually some of it is bound to stick!

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The best thing you can do for your fellow,
next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things
to think about, but to wake things up that are in him...
to make him think things for himself - George MacDonald

You're such a tart!!!

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I can go two ways. Sometimes I do as overmykneenow describes - get the whole thing flowing in my head and then write it out. The problem I run into is that what felt brilliant in my head is sometimes hard to get sounding even moderately good on the screen. I also find that these are the stories where I start thinking too much about whos and whys and whatevers and soon I've got a mainstream story with a bit of sex (or the sex gets dropped entirely) instead of erotica. I have a couple non-Lush stories to write that started out as erotica but I decided the plot was more interesting than the sex.

I also sometimes just start writing and let the idea flow out on to the screen. Generally works for shorter, punchier pieces (After The Shower, my latest) that basically just straight-up sex without much plot. Gets the story out faster but often requires more editing and revising later.

Either can lead to a dead end, though I usually end up keeping the basic idea floating around in my head for later use.

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I'm sure I do not know what you're talking about...

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