Do you love every story you write equally?

[Emotica]

Obviously you need to add that secret ingredient, love, to really bring your story to life, but if your works are your children, do you have a secret favorite?

I absolutely do. My favorite ongoing novel gets the least views, maybe because it isn't complete, maybe because it's mostly SFW, but it's the one I have the most fun writing. I generally make my other stories 20-30k words, but I'm willing to write millions of words for my main work.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

Obviously you need to add that secret ingredient, love, to really bring your story to life, but if your works are your children, do you have a secret favorite?

I absolutely do. My favorite ongoing novel gets the least views, maybe because it isn't complete, maybe because it's mostly SFW, but it's the one I have the most fun writing. I generally make my other stories 20-30k words, but I'm willing to write millions of words for my main work.

The choice is easy as one is a fanfic and the other my og~.

 

[GwynLordofTinder]

Y'all are writing more than one story?

 

[Emotica]

The choice is easy as one is a fanfic and the other my og~.

I've seen people willing to die for their fanfic, but I'll assume you mean the original

Y'all are writing more than one story?

Okay, To be fair, this is easy to say if you have 175k on your one "horny" story that seems to be three books put together Congrats. I was gonna say that I don't have enough desire to write something so horny for so long, but then I saw your $65/month Patreon. I honestly thought people would get bored of something explicitly NSFW after a while, that they'd always be chasing the next dragon, but you're proof that I was wrong. If I was making nearly a month's income off one work, I probably wouldn't write anything else either. Good job.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

No. Some stories are great ideas but are horrible in practice. Many story ideas that I've rushed off to write have died after the 30th page due to poor implementation and planning. The few times it has produced something, I have loved writing it and enjoyed it to the end. Though editing is another story.

 

[Emotica]

No. Some stories are great ideas but are horrible in practice. Many story ideas that I've rushed off to write have died after the 30th page due to poor implementation and planning. The few times it has produced something, I have loved writing it and enjoyed it to the end. Though editing is another story.

That's why I always outline. Even if I start off winging it, I typically outline so I see if the story has anywhere to really land. I wrote 35 chapters once, completely winging it, and then decided to never make that mistake again.

 

[MC-Stories]

Y'all are writing more than one story?

I've written 4 so far, Blood of The Were-Raptor Hero is my 5th.

Obviously you need to add that secret ingredient, love, to really bring your story to life, but if your works are your children, do you have a secret favorite?

I absolutely do. My favorite ongoing novel gets the least views, maybe because it isn't complete, maybe because it's mostly SFW, but it's the one I have the most fun writing. I generally make my other stories 20-30k words, but I'm willing to write millions of words for my main work.

Beast Heroes: Roxy's Rebirth is my fav, but i do love all of my stories!

 

[Arakun10809]

Yes--the complete ones at least. The discarded drafts...
Actually, they have magical seals around them for a reason; I don't want them getting out.
> SHIVERS

 

[Emotica]

Yes--the complete ones at least. The discarded drafts...
Actually, they have magical seals around them for a reason; I don't want them getting out.
> SHIVERS

Remember to put something in your will so when you pass, your grandchildren are either obligated to carry on your legacy, or sacrifice your drafts to the nearest volcano. Either one works.

 

[Arakun10809]

Remember to put something in your will so when you pass, your grandchildren are either obligated to carry on your legacy, or sacrifice your drafts to the nearest volcano. Either one works.

Well, if I did throw them in the volcano, they unleash the most cursed thing all of the realms...!

CRINGE

 

[Eldoria]

The answer is yes, but I have different priorities. I prioritize the main series because it's the center of the story's universe.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I don't even love all my CHARACTERS equally... And some of the ones I really like I do nasty stuff to... so, maybe it's better that way...

 

[TheKillingAlice]

Obviously you need to add that secret ingredient, love, to really bring your story to life, but if your works are your children, do you have a secret favorite?

I absolutely do. My favorite ongoing novel gets the least views, maybe because it isn't complete, maybe because it's mostly SFW, but it's the one I have the most fun writing. I generally make my other stories 20-30k words, but I'm willing to write millions of words for my main work.

Oh boy, I play favorites like no other. I'm not ashamed of it. At the core, as soon as I get into a story that way lying around, I always get hyped up - if I didn't like the stories I write, I wouldn't bother with them in the first place, let alone write them down.

But the most destructive fact about this is that the one story that I cared not enough about to want to keep my hand on it, since I'm a control freak, was the one I thought was fine to offer up to some small publishing houses and it really got the bid back then. To polish a turd, they even said they would keep it the way it was (they did general editing, like polishing all the lines, but they didn't change a single thing in the story; not a single sentence was changed at the core, just shortened or tweaked in wording). But I gave so little of a fuck though.
I know I sound like an ass when I say this, because of course I still loved the story, since I sat down to write it, but... that's, like, your least favoured child got married off first and the ones you held to a standard are just sitting around, growing a beard. Sure, I could have send in more of them, not only to one or two publishing houses, but I didn't give it more of a try for that one either.
I just dislike the thought of someone changing things in the stories most dear to me, so yeah, there's that. I can't comprehend it to this day, and it's been around 10 years.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

That's why I always outline. Even if I start off winging it, I typically outline so I see if the story has anywhere to really land. I wrote 35 chapters once, completely winging it, and then decided to never make that mistake again.

35? Heh... don't check out my stories on Pocket FM then... Have a vague general shape in mind but then, with one I keep adding in little "beats" to make it feel more like a game world (and pad the word count, too), with the overall story just looming in the background (should wrap up around chapter 200, but that's about 90 chapters away). With the other... well, it was planned as three major story arcs (two roughly 100 chapters long each as initially planned, the other has just two or three sentences planned so far), and a fourth one (the one I'm working on, where the story actually hit chapter 100) wound up inserting itself because the transition between the first and second would have felt to abrupt without it. Now one strength this one has over the others, though, is that it draws from almost 50 years of gaming, and two of the initial three (plus the newly inserted) plots were for planned campaigns back in the 80s and 90s - but even then, I had mostly just a rough template to follow...
Strange Awakening had ... well, nothing planned out in advance, until I hit chapter five, then had a bunch of rough ideas... 45 chapters are finished with 42 posted...

 

[LeilaniOtter]

Of course not.
No one should ever feel like that, because if they did, they don't improve or expand their horizons, or challenge their skills.
You shouldn't like everything you write, and you shouldn't like writing everything you write.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Of course not.
No one should ever feel like that, because if they did, they don't improve or expand their horizons, or challenge their skills.
You shouldn't like everything you write, and you shouldn't like writing everything you write.

I remember hearing some of the speeches given at the death of "the last true journalism professor in the United States" - the one that stood out was: "I will always remember the advice he gave me about bias - 'When you finish [an article], re-read it. If you agree with every single word there, that is bias - it is now an opinion piece and should go to Editorial. Otherwise, it's an article. Congratulations.'"

 

[LeilaniOtter]

I remember hearing some of the speeches given at the death of "the last true journalism professor in the United States" - the one that stood out was: "I will always remember the advice he gave me about bias - 'When you finish [an article], re-read it. If you agree with every single word there, that is bias - it is now an opinion piece and should go to Editorial. Otherwise, it's an article. Congratulations.'"

You can use the same tactic for a story, I imagine. I'm not just not quite sure how that would go.