There's a trick to balanced foreshadowing that is going to take me some time to get the hang of. It's an important, valuable device to use, but I feel like even when I use it in a subtle fashion, it's not enough, and a cliffhanger ending comes off more like a nasty left hook. Too easy to make the reader feel cheated, even when it wasn't meant that way.
Sometimes I feel like I've got some sort of attention deficit problem. I mean, with all the writing I've done over the years, I've only actually written -two- stories, one short and one longish, and that just recently. I've got a follow-up to that in the works, but every time I start on it, my brain flips over to a half-dozen other different ideas I've got running around in my head, stories that have had false starts but haven't gone anywhere, one that is in such desperate need of polishing that it can't rightly be called a story and- oooooooo a pretty butterfly!
*sigh*
I do an insane amount of recreational writing, but that's all it is, really. The only stories I've actually published have been erotica. That's not to say that I wouldn't like to do it someday, if my writing skills improve sufficiently that I wouldn't consider it wasted effort, but for now? Just fun & scribbles.
Remains to be seen whether my writing is as much a turn-on for other people as it is for me, but I've found that even with plot-heavy, sex-light writing, I still get turned on by my own work. Testament to the brain doing as much for the experience as the body, when it's all in my head, I suppose.
We are all to so extent nymphos on here but it is a choosen condition for us, we enjoy it, talking about it, watching it and reading about it. The problem is the lack of control to stop.
