The Origin of my Current Project

[rache696]

Yeah, I appreciate all of your comments. I'm going to run through my scripter and count some words, I think "I" and "Was" certainly. I do know that I fall into patterns and they're difficult to break out of. I understand what your comments were pointing at and I'll have to wrap my brain around a solution.

The scene with dad in the study, actually he was supposed to have been the one making the discovery, only shoot, probably right about at the very end when Susan is leaving him, that's when I thought wouldn't it be interesting if dad wasn't the one. So it became a last minute plot change and I did very little rewriting. Just a few sentences and I had a goal, a speed limit of 5k words, largely due to time. That's about three hours of writing and I didn't want to come back to it later.

The dinner scene is a problem for me. I needed a lot better dialogue. I needed it to be much more clever than it was, especially in light of the fact that I'm up to chapter 13 on it now. I'd dearly love to go back, but at the time it was never go to be longer than 1 standalone chapter. I kind of got talked into continuing.

Suspension of belief is a big issue and you guys are right especially about the beginning. It needs 5k words just for character intro I think, taking Susan through dinner, and then the next 5k dedicated to the study scene with much more interplay. The actual BDSM was fine for me, I was happy with the scene itself, but father did yield quickly, too quickly especially when mom let's the cat out of the bag later. And that was a function of my word limit, it needed to progress very quickly for my own purposes, contrary to what the story needs.

So what I learned, is the mother episode should be scrapped (treating this as a standalone) leave dad as a very willing submissive, with his secret yearnings revealed, and just rework the introduction of the characters and find one good thread for dinner. One good theme to tie them all up.

It's interesting. I'm doing another story and already I have 6k words and nothing has happened lol I haven't mentioned what the story is about. So I'm see if I cant apply some of this to that, because I have the room, two characters, and zero plot in that one. I can literally be about anything I want.

So good...I like to talk. Thanks so much for taking the time and posting your comments. I need that stuff a lot.

Best always,
rachael