I only started writing this year and I’m not very good at it. I really have no idea what I’m doing. Unbelievably, some of my stories do quite well. For what it’s worth, I start with a picture. I look up royalty free pictures on Google until one speaks to me.
For example, my latest story features a pretty lady being undressed by a man. I tried to imagine how that came about. When I have a rough idea I write the last paragraph, the punch line. Next I write the opening paragraph, and then fill in all the gaps working backwards from the punch line.
As I’m not a very good writer I also like to keep them short. I don’t like to use swear words. I believe I’ve only ever used the “F” word twice in over fifty stories. This may be the reason I get quite a lot of one and two star votes. Thankfully most are three, four or five. Three and above is good for me.
My highest scoring story had over one hundred and forty votes, and that only had one “F” word in it. Again I wrote that story in the same way, picture first and so on and so on. All I know is it works for me. Basically, it's all about the picture for me.