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Offline Lord Naughtius

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on: April 18, 2015, 06:46:16 PM
I just recently rediscovered writing by hand again. I've been writing my stories exclusively on a computer so I don't leave a paper trail. But now I find writing by hand makes getting the storyline out easier. With the weather warning up where I am I want to write and enjoy the weather. Of course for certain stories I don't want people reading over my shoulder. I don't have a back yard or balcony.

Has anyone tried writing outdoors?


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Reply #1 on: April 18, 2015, 08:05:57 PM
I do from time to time. Lately I've been camping a lot. By a lot I mean I just came back this morning from my 4th camping trip in 2 weeks! While it's impractical when backpacking to take the laptop (and my handwriting is so bad that I'd qualify for a medical degree by my signature alone), I still an sit back and imagine what I have for characters and what I want them to do. Sometimes random bits of inspiration hits or I see something that would be fun to include in a story (or even become it's own). In those cases I either text myself a short synopsis or even dictated myself a note on my cell. Keep in mind, where I camp there usually isn't any sort of cell phone service so these are just notes for me. :)

I can't explain why my hand-writing has gotten so bad when it used to be decent in school.

Btw, Hammocks are awesome places to write!

The trouble with reality is the lack of background music!

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Reply #2 on: April 18, 2015, 09:28:01 PM
I've mentioned this several times here on KB, I had started writing erotic stories when I was eighteen. I have like a dozen looseleaf binders stuffed with all kinds of themes.
I'd started surfing the web in 2008, and started finding a lot of erotic stories I liked. But I found I couldn't post stories on those sites. KB was the first site I found I could do that and in 2010 I pretty much stopped writing stories on paper and posted them right to KB.
I found the transition changed the way I wrote. I used to write stories that ran ten, fifteen, even twenty looseleaf pages long, both sides. And many I didn't finish. Posting directly to the internet I learned to shorten my stories greatly AND complete all of them.
Another thing I learned - and this is in line with your original post - is that if I now write out my story on paper first, I lose interest in posting it on here after. I lose the original motivation. So no more writing on paper.
As far as writing outdoors goes...

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Reply #3 on: April 18, 2015, 09:43:11 PM
Quote from: GEMINIGUY on April 18, 2015, 09:28:01 PM
I've mentioned this several times here on KB, I had started writing erotic stories when I was eighteen. I have like a dozen looseleaf binders stuffed with all kinds of themes.
I'd started surfing the web in 2008, and started finding a lot of erotic stories I liked. But I found I couldn't post stories on those sites. KB was the first site I found I could do that and in 2010 I pretty much stopped writing stories on paper and posted them right to KB.
I found the transition changed the way I wrote. I used to write stories that ran ten, fifteen, even twenty looseleaf pages long, both sides. And many I didn't finish. Posting directly to the internet I learned to shorten my stories greatly AND complete all of them.
Another thing I learned - and this is in line with your original post - is that if I now write out my story on paper first, I lose interest in posting it on here after. I lose the original motivation. So no more writing on paper.
As far as writing outdoors goes...

Interestingly enough I have the exact opposite problem. Writing on computer leaves me with too many ideas to get down. I tend to rush. My stories also tend to be shorter but I feel I could have done more with the storyline or characters.


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Reply #4 on: April 18, 2015, 10:26:35 PM
Interesting! I find I tend to have lots of ideas myself, and a lot of my stories "write themselves".
I don't tend to outline my stories in advance. I'll have a title, most likely the story code, a brief idea for the story or idea for a scene in a story, and maybe an photo I found during a Google Image Search that inspired the story.
As soon as I start writing, the stories flows out of me effortlessly [most of the time]. I feel like Thad Beaumont in Stephen King's The Dark Half channeling George Stark. My inner writer is no psycho, lol, but he is a perv. ;-)
I never know going in how long a story will be. I tend to worry it'll be too short. But sometimes I find a story will go on a lot longer than i'd have expected it to, but in a "good" way... :P
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Reply #5 on: April 19, 2015, 01:27:08 AM
All you need is a pad of paper, a pencil and an eraser.
Free write to your hearts content (about anything).
The nice thing about the pencil is that an eraser can fix something for you.
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PS: I've kept a diary since I was 12 years old, I'm sure with what's in it there are at least a few stories about growing up.
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Reply #6 on: April 19, 2015, 01:53:03 AM
Someone didn't read the original post. Hint: Phtlc and Watcher's biggest fan. ;-)

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Reply #7 on: April 19, 2015, 02:13:33 AM
Quote from: GEMINIGUY on April 19, 2015, 01:53:03 AM
Someone didn't read the original post. Hint: Phtlc and Watcher's biggest fan. ;-)

WTH are you talking about.??
The original post was started by LN.
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Reply #8 on: April 19, 2015, 03:01:30 AM
Quote from: Elizabeth on April 19, 2015, 01:27:08 AM
All you need is a pad of paper, a pencil and an eraser.
Free write to your hearts content (about anything).
The nice thing about the pencil is that an eraser can fix something for you.
 :D

Love,
Liz

PS: I've kept a diary since I was 12 years old, I'm sure with what's in it there are at least a few stories about growing up.
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Hi Elizabeth.  The act of writing is not waht I have problems with.  It's the possibility of someone reading over my shoulder in a public place and see I'm writing a sex story.

I'd like to be able to write erotica in public and not worry about trouble like that.


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Reply #9 on: April 19, 2015, 03:21:54 AM
Told you, Liz. :P

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Reply #10 on: April 19, 2015, 10:31:43 AM
I often write whilst I am on train journeys... always with pen/pencil and notepad... I find writing in pencil makes it more difficult for peering eyes to read whatever I have on paper. I always try to find a quiet seat but that's not always possible... Of course, if it's obvious that someone is reading your work then a simple...'what do you think of it so far?' should embarrass them enough to make them look away...

Good luck outdoors anyway...

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Reply #11 on: April 19, 2015, 02:18:25 PM
Quote from: GEMINIGUY on April 19, 2015, 03:21:54 AM
Told you, Liz. :P

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Reply #12 on: April 21, 2015, 09:21:40 PM
Choose places that you can't be overlooked, a park bench, the seat in the corner of a coffee shop and if someone is peering over your shoulder tell them to jog on and not be so nosey.


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Reply #13 on: September 16, 2015, 04:03:50 AM
I basically loathe writing by hand. I have a "blank page phobia" that can be crippling. It's far easier for me to get a story going if I can at least START without looking at the writing surface until it's got a few sentences on it by just looking away or at the keyboard.

So no, I almost never write outside.


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