I have an amazing imagination. Some times it intervenes at the worst time. I get bored easily and it rescues me. I see phrase or a word, even hear a song and my imagination just takes off. The sex, I just feel it. I've either experienced or felt a portion of it. Sometimes my horny mind imagines it in a dream and the dream can be so real. Where ever it comes from, I have to put it in words and hope my audience gets the sense of it.
Once upon a time there was............
no matter what kind of story I'm writing---in my wild & sordid life I've probably done something similar so I base the start on my experience.
That is actually a very good question, and I think every author is different in their writing styles. I am not the average writer with a nice organized train of thought. I don't know where my story goes until the words spill onto the page. No plot line to start with, just write what comes to mind for the most part. This is not the preferred writing method for most (me included), but it seems to be where I get some of the best stories I have written.
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That is a good question actually, It guess depends on the mood you're in, way your feeling, and the time you want to spend in writing. The stories too. It may take me maybe 2 or 3 days write just 1 chapter alone. Not because I want it to be perfect, but for the readers to understand the story, plot, character development. Also, how they could identify with the character. Some say I have a good mind for writing. But I don't see it. I write just for fun and pass time. I am no ace author or one in real life. I find it fun writing. The truth is I never did like writing at all when I was in high school. When I came here to lush maybe 3/4 years ago. I tried it once just to experiment see how my story would turn out. Seemed to be pretty good I started to like it then. When I do write I am either listening to music to keep my frame of mind, could be either oldies 80's, 90's, country, Mostly older country. I still make mistakes in writing to smallest ones. The damn commas I usually try to figure out where they should go, but I end up putting them in the wrong place. Maybe it's habit or writing quirk. Also, I worry about 2 things the damn tenses and word limit when posting. I know I've been told it's 10,000 words on here. But I don't want readers getting to bored, Mostly it's the male readers I find. No offence..
My writing process is weird, I'll just admit it. I've had a pretty interesting life. I've been in the telecommunications industry, law enforcement, been a truck driver, along with myriad other sucky short term gigs. "I ain't seen it all, son- but I have seen a fair piece of it." I live a great amount of my time inside my own skull. I visualize things internally, sometimes to a dangerous degree. I literally once walked into a 4 story brick building because I didn't notice it was there- the images in my minds completely obscured it. The building didn't notice me either, I bounced off of it and landed on my ass. I will be immersed in thought, perhaps a memory of an actual event and I'll stop dead and think "That was kind of interesting. I wonder if anyone else might think so too." Then the wheels start to turn, I think of how to set it up, bring the senses into play, how did it feel, smell, taste...what were the emotions involved? Just drag out my mental junk drawer, spill it all out on the floor and start to make a hopefully recognizable 'thing' from the pieces. I care about the pace and flow of the story, and as is true of our mutual interest (sex), foreplay is crucial. Many times I'll hum along for a thousand words before anyone gets hot and bothered, and sometimes sex is peripheral to other themes I want to explore. I spend most of my 'story development' far away from a keyboard, so when the time comes to put it down, it usually comes together quickly. I may rewrite a turn of phrase, change the structure of a paragraph, work on the character's dialogue, but the framework is already set. There's a reason I write: it's that small boy inside of me still that runs into the room, grabs the hand of the closest adult and yells "Come look what I made!"
I'm no expert but usually I just start with that something that is meaningful to me (a particular scene, moment, feeling or line, say for example how the character looked in a stream of light or the facial expression it had at a specific point in time) something that has me fixating, something I really want to get just right. Then I start painting it with words, an interior dialogue, like I'm having a conversation with someone and I'm trying to let that person in on the secret; it helps me put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard these days) and once I have that "scene" I just build on it naturally, it kind of flows, I give it a setting, create a backstory or the chain reaction. But everyone has a unique and personal way of doing it, the trick is to find what works for you.
