To Plot or Not to Plot...

[Yachirobi]

Writers, do you plot out your stories or do you make them up as you go along? If you write things other than MG or fetish stories, do you approach them differently than the work you post here?

[CelticMuscle]

Originally Posted by Yachirobi

Writers, do you plot out your stories or do you make them up as you go along? If you write things other than MG or fetish stories, do you approach them differently than the work you post here?

Start with a basic premise and make it up as I go along, usually. Nope, pretty much the same for most things.

[falseyedee]

i get an idea and sometimes i know where i want it to go, and sometimes i don't. when i'm not writing mg stories, i usually have more figured out about the direction and plot. while character and plot are important for mg stories, i find it is the descriptions of the growth, muscle and strength that play a bigger role in fetish writing than in the other things i write.

[FuzzyKB]

Originally Posted by Yachirobi

Writers, do you plot out your stories or do you make them up as you go along? If you write things other than MG or fetish stories, do you approach them differently than the work you post here?

There is no single rule that applies here. If you are going to write a "short" which I would consider less than 10 pages, you are basically building your story around a single transformation and or sex act. If you are going to transform multiple individuals and want to bring your readers into a different world you must be more exacting.

Are you going to build your story around the feelings: (wanted, unwanted, surprised, horrified, terrified, shocked, erotic, etc.) of the character being transformed, or are there going to be other characters as part of your plot witnessing the transformation and what are their reactions. What are the feelings of the viewers of the transformation?

Wordshop usually goes with a basic scenario and then makes a storyboard of the entire thing in the form of notes. From that point details are roughed in and then polished. This is how a screenwriter usually works out a script and it is how a cartoon or 3D movie is constructed and or animated. It allows polishing the script and fixing the rough spots.

Wordshop works and may at any given point have written storyboards floating around for numerous different stories. They may sit for a year before they are analyzed for viability and before they become an object of scrutiny to see if there is real merit in an idea. If something hits the brain and may have potential, make the notes before that idea is lost and then you can go back and analyze later.

[Semigloss]

It's always best to write a story from start to finish, using the subtleties that you may not have expected in the early part of the story to determine the ending. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't have a plot in advance. It would be strange to start writing a story with no idea of where it could go or how it could be good.

You should just have one rough idea for the plot when you begin, and then feel free to heavily modify it or even replace it entirely as you are writing. Just because you have a plot in advance does not mean that you aren't also making it up as you go along.

[dodoria21]

whenever I start a short story, it's pretty much on the spot and it comes to me as I go. if it becomes a multi-part story, I make it up as I go along but at one point I begin to plot the whole thing out. It helps to just get my ideas down on paper. Even if I don't follow the outline, I remember the different things I want to accomplish in whatever story I am doing.

I only wrote one short mg story here, so I don't know if I will approach that genre differently or not. we'll see