[Fonk]

It sounds like a weird question – or at least one that's open to someone replying "With a pen" 😉 – but how do the writers amongst you put a story together? There are two reasons for me asking. One is simple curiosity, of course! The second is that I think I do it in a weird way.

Y'see, I don't really plan things out: I just have ideas of where I'm gonna start and where I want to go, and perhaps a few points I want to pick up in between… kinda like crossing a stream using stepping stones. Then I just sit down and write stuff to fill in the gaps. My writing technique was informed by http://www.nanowrimo.org, which is why I do it that way. 🙂

So… how do you write? 😉

[Debido-San]

^_^; suprisingly (because of the fact that I have episodes of most of my stories) I write the same way…except I don't know where to start…

I have things in the middle, and a vague ending point, but never a planned beginning! I guess that's why I don't write as often as I should…

I love letting my imagination take me as I go along though!

[Cowprobe]

I tend to micromanage my writing.

Sometimes the story comes out in one organic whole.

Other times I get a neat tagline and then try to build a concept around it. Certian scenes start to form and it becomes a matter of trying to link them together in a legible form.

Got a couple stories started and only one finished so I can appreciate when a person's able to wrap things up satisfactorily.

[gblock01]

I write "Stream of Comsciousness" from begining to end. Basically, what I think, I write down. That's also why I tend to go into a lot of visual details. It's because, as I'm writing, I'm seeing the images of what's happening in my mind's eye. Usually, what I write down initially is what I actually present, but soemtimes I go back and smooth out a few things in the story.

[The_Pimp_NeonBlack]

I's start with a seed, a basic idea and meditate upon it until an outline emerges. Characters, situation, plot, a beginning and an end and then Is' work on all points in between.
There is no true formula to my's style, mere madnes is enough. Tales can be written in a single sitting or they can be wound out gradually, whenever inspiration strikes.
Never question, never analyse and all shall be well.
At least, that is what works best for I.
Peace
The Pimp NeonBlack

[AlexG]

I know that I've answered this sort of thing in the past, but what the hey, since you asked . . .  😎

Rather then creating a formal outline or somesuch, I follow a fairly simple formula of having the basic scenario of the storyline already pre-in mind, usually strongest portion dealing with A) the intro/beginning set-up, B) the high point in the middle and C) the resolution at the end.  This is not to say that I have it completely covered – especially in-between points A, B and C.  Often, since its an evolutionary process I have spontaneous elements that come into it later on as the story develops along the way, with the personalities of the characters driving the process along.  Conversely, its not uncommon for me to go back as I polish and proof only to discover that in my haste to get it all down that I forgot to spell out some detail that remained in my head and never made it to the screen.   😉

Research – historical, archaeological, mythological, whatever – is also very important.  Not so much in mass data, (Really, do you want to go into four or five pages about creating a suit of medieval armor?  Well, if you're a member of the SCA, maybe you would . . . but not I.   😀  ) but as spice to give your environment a depth of illusionary plausibility so as to gain a suspension of disbelief by the reader.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Mark Newman]

I write plots by feel and polish my writing with my mind.

The strories develop from my fantasies, without logic or inhibition, without a clear sense of where it's going. 

But because of who I am, it also has to make a certain kind of sense, so I go back, change words, add scenes, sense when a character is missing or is superfluous. 

Then my heart (or another organ) takes over again and fleshes out the story line with fantasy and inspiration.

Back and forth, back and forth.  Until it's done.

[demonic]

I tend to write a basic outline of a story with lots of places where i can expand on (like a short story) I then add pages to the gaps. I then read and re read them untill i am happy with them…..then i find that someone else has had a simler idea and scrap the whole thing!

I have thousands of short storys (about a page or two) where i have a basic begining to set the seen then a middle where they get there abilitys then an end of which i leave well open so that it can be expanded on

[Prophet Tenebrae]

The only real way to describe my writing is seat of the pants.

Almost all of my stories – porn and otherwise – have evolved from the concept of a single character and/or scene.

I'll have that scene/idea/character in mind and then I'll sit down and write – at very variable pace. The main problem with this is that I'm essentially facilitating things as I go along and ultimately I seldom have an end-point in mind.

Still, I'm fairly good at it… it's basically writing by "feel".

[Vollar-Tile]

I'd been thinking about this for awhile…

Mainly, I just listen to music, and try to picture really cool scenes to go along with it; usually fighting and action scenes of somesort. Then I try to write centered around making those scenes happen, and build everything up from there.

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