First time I post in the forums!
I was writing when I came up to a part I dreaded to write about. We all have our likings and or annoyances when we write stuff, but I wanted to ask you guys about some necessary struggles in writing.
Whether you write for a kinky audience or for a more general audience, I feel like we, writers, always come with a part of the story where we struggle or dread to write. When I write a kinky story, for instance, I have an idea of the scene or of the kink aspects and angles I want to work on. However, while a story revolving around the sole purpose of detailing a kink can be good (with some incomplete feeling imho), if we want to develop it, we have to construct the world around it further than just the bedroom (or wherever it happens). With this comes greater lengths of involvement, to a point where some parts can get annoying but necessary for the writer to write a coherent and well-built story.
There comes a question I wanted to ask you about:
What is the thing you hate the most to write, but HAVE TO? Is it descriptions, narrations or dialogues? Or perhaps what you find hard is related to a particular type of scene that feels necessary for the progression but a chore to write? Is it the psychological/mental scenes or rather the physical/environment scenes? It could also be as simple as to write any scene that doesn’t involve kinks or - ironically - the scene with the kink itself which is hard to write!
When I come upon writing a scene that just doesn’t do it for me - for instance, a scene where a character is having an argument with another one -, I can spend a few days on this very part trying to write it down. Like, I know how the scene is supposed to START and how it’s supposed to END. However, the middle, the path from point A to point B, is sinuous and sometimes clumsy in the process of writing. Most of the time, I have to reread the part and modify it several times until I’m happy with it (and still).
Sometimes, to avoid losing too much time to this particular case of writer’s block, I skip a scene or chapter ahead and continue with the rest of the story while the part plots further in my subconscious. It happened a few times while in the shower or when I’m up at night to suddenly have an idea to fill in the gaps. Sometimes, it just happens when I open my document another day and I write down what comes to mind until I rework it later. If I really can’t find a way to do it and be happy with the result, rarely, I scrap the idea completely and use another path - which is by far my less favourite method cause it feels like a lazy defeat to me.
So, how are you guys coping with this kind of problem? Do you have struggles with some parts in your stories? I’m not talking about things you don’t write about, but rather a key element to a story you need to add, either for story progression or for a literature/syntax sense.
Feel free to comment and share your thoughts on the subject!
Have a good one!
Bigger / Mickey