The Writing of Longer Fic!

[lightofdaye]

So as I mentioned in my 2013 Retrospective. A lot of what I wrote last year was drabbles and flash fic. The longest I think was Smutty claus fic at about 6K and I think in the end alot of my work follows the same basic formula. Simple set up > banging > punchline denouncement. And in the case of drabbles a lot of the first and last bits go by the board. Even the longer fics, the result is mainly longer set up. but still of the simple 'x likes y and finds out y likes x too and bedtime ensues'.

Now I have done longer fic before. 16K of it for my first smutty claus way back in 2011. And even ongoing fics. Though they were more or less the same formula repeated for each chapter.

I did have a point when I started writing this, I am sure. Anyway, I have seen other people in the friends list come up with 12K or 20K pieces for things were i would end up with maybe 1 or 3. So I'm just wondering however to people manage it? Does it take a lot of planning? How does one

Especially I was thinking of UST and slow burning use of it. (for no particular reason, tamlane) how does one right a long fic with UST without action happening? I mean on one level that sounds like my formula but with drawn out lead to up to when a pair actually does it. But I guess what I wonder is how to make it interesting? How does writing longer fic even work? I seem to forgetton.

Thoughts?

Comments

[lightofdaye]

IDEK, my characters just sort of like each other in an uncontrollable lust sort of way? which i guess is the inconceivable fantasy element for me?

Or for drabbles any ust can be implied to have happened and been over with already. like in james/dominiques summertime fic. Where its obvious there has been tension and refusals and badgering for sex but it all happen before the fic.

I sort of get what you're saying in theory. but how much that do you preplan? like the situation and specific obstacles. or do you just start writing and suddenly you have 5k or something?

[tamlane.livejournal.com]

do you just start writing and suddenly you have 5k or something?

LOL. Um, no. I wish.

Yeah, I plan out the scenes. I don't have to worry about obstacles because if I'm writing longer fic, it's probably going to be incest. So the obstacle is the taboo.

But you have to understand that UST is hotter to me than sex. Fooling around is hotter than sex. Not quite having sex is hotter than sex. Wanting to have sex is hotter than sex. The longer that's drawn out, the more I like it. It's not what everyone wants in a longer fic. And I've read plenty of long fics that were sex scene after sex scene, and those work, too, as long as the stakes are continually raised.

ETA: I'm talking strictly about erotica here because I wouldn't have a clue how to write a fic with an actual plot.

[lightofdaye]

heh. Well It may be just be me being paranoid but i'm sure the same sort of scene in other people's hands end up way longer. Yeah incest is the big obstacle alright.

But you have to understand that UST is hotter to me than sex
Gosh really? ;-P That may be why I'm asking. Planning ahead like. That said to me the thing about UST that eventually its going to be resolved right? there's a lot or will they/won't they, and they get interrupted and what not. But in the end, its there to make the actually end sex scene or the more potent for what they've had to get through for it.

I mean UST is hotter to you than sex. But you do still right the resolution and sex. Yo don't right often write lots of ust and then an opening ending.

: I'm talking strictly about erotica here because I wouldn't have a clue how to write a fic with an actual plot.
right with you there. *g* not written none-porn fic for ages.

[tamlane.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think most readers feel cheated if the tension isn't resolved in a manner worthy of the buildup. The higher you raise the stakes, the more you've gotta deliver when it comes to the Big Scene. And that's something I always struggle with. As you know. ;)