I hate that people do that. It's the main reason I've stopped writing. I put a lot of effort into my stories involving character development and plot; and nobody gives a fuck.
It just makes me feel that much worse when I catch myself doing it with other people's stories.
I do it only when I doubt, if story is worth reading (i.e. briefly looking in the end to find what is it about).
And I totally agree with Caffiene.
No one's told me one way or the other. I certainly hope they appreciate the effort I make to develop backstory; otherwise I might as well write"the hose...body...stress...pressure...boom."
I always read the entire story top to bottom on the first read. Probably because I'm another sympathetic writer.
I don't always do the whole story on subsequent reads, though.
i read every line of a story. mainly because i'm too stupid to skip around.
I confess I've done this.
It doesn't happen very often. I'm quite interested in plot and story and character development, but sometimes a story just isn't working for me.
Sometimes you can tell how the story's going to go from the first couple of paragraphs. You meet the characters and the protagonist is a nondescript male who exists only as a plot device to carry out the inflation. The first woman introduced is defined more by her bra size than her personality, which is either bitchy or insecure. The characters are one-dimensional and full of cliches.
I have a "three strikes" rule: if the characters do three things that are foolish, inexplicable, and serve only to make the inflation happen regardless of risk to themselves, then I might as well just skip to the section where the inevitable inflation happens. If the author has written characters that don't make sense, then there's no reason to read through the nonsense.
I don't care if people who read my stories skip to the inflation scenes. I think they miss out on a lot by doing so, but that's their choice. Let them get their wank on and move on to the next story. They affect me no more than the countless people who don't read my stories at all.
I've encountered people who firmly believe that plot is pointless in inflation stories. It's pure porn to them and plot is just a pretense, a hurdle to jump to get to the good bits. They have a right to their opinions, but they don't influence how I write. I don't always put a lot of plot in my stories, but when I do I do so with a purpose.
...otherwise I might as well write"the hose...body...stress...pressure...boom."
Hfilled's comment reminds me of Wired Magazine's Six Word Story article. Inflate123 mentioned it in the discussion of the original Prose That Blows contest, and back then I realized that the headline fom the tabloid article in Conspiracy: Peer Pressure qualified: "Party Mishap Turns Co-ed into Living Blimp!"
I wrote a few more, for grins:
Plump with helium, I drift skyward."I'm not full yet, I can --"
Joe squinted upward. "This is bad."
Belly swelled. Dress split. Rachel smiled.
Hiss. "Mmmm." Groan. "Oaaah! Mmmf!" Boom.
Susan's leotard burst. Susan, shortly thereafter.
So you can write inflation stories that consist only of inflation, but they aren't all that interesting.
Sometimes you can tell how the story's going to go from the first couple of paragraphs. You meet the characters and the protagonist is a nondescript male who exists only as a plot device to carry out the inflation. The first woman introduced is defined more by her bra size than her personality, which is either bitchy or insecure. The characters are one-dimensional and full of cliches.I have a "three strikes" rule: if the characters do three things that are foolish, inexplicable, and serve only to make the inflation happen regardless of risk to themselves, then I might as well just skip to the section where the inevitable inflation happens. If the author has written characters that don't make sense, then there's no reason to read through the nonsense.
Excellent. There is no point in reading plot, if there is no sense in it.
Having studied animation and film, it always feels like a copout when people just go straight for the expansion stuff.
It reminds me of when my Dad got 'Gladiator' on DVD...he just went straight to the first battle and then the first arena battle.
Working on "Beach Blanket Blueberry," it did get a bit irritating when people would just say during the first couple pages, 'enough! Let's see some berrygirl!'
Though what really made my eyes bug out was after Tai had become a berry on page 23, and then I put out page 24. And someone said, 'Wait a minute...there's more?'
Some people it seems are conditioned like Pavlov's dogs: they are only used to having their attention span held onto for the start and the end of the expansion.
I can't just do an expansion scene. Even though 'BBB' is the only story I've worked on for over 3 years, it all has to make sense. I did start a second berry story called 'Blueberry Idol,' but shelved it due to 'BBB.' If some thought 'Beach Blanket Blueberry' was plodding, 'Blueberry Idol' is the equivalent of a Japanese film dealing with suppressed emotion and alot of mental mind introspection.
I've got about 5 story concepts, of which one is a great idea, but the problem is, there's no story to attach to that idea. I'm so enamored with the idea that I even started doing Photoshop designs, but until I find something that makes that concept work, it'll just be a stuck art concept.
What's the concept? Perhaps we can help hash out an idea?
It's a difficult one to deal with as a writer.
I wouldn't be offended as a writer if someone skipped to the inflation, when I'm writing a story I often wish I could just skip to the inflation, and when I get to the inflation that's definitely the bit I put the most effort into, because at the end of the day, while I don't want the story to be lacking as a whole, there is a description of inflation which I have put a lot of effort into at the centre and the rest is a vehicle for delivering the reader to that point in a pleasant and timely manner.
I mean let's face it, we aren't a community of 'pure' writers trying to write stories purely to write a good story, we are eroticisits, we live and die by our ability to describe a sensory exprience, specifically an erotic one that appeals to our fetish. We start off with something that turns us on, usually a method by which we want our character(s) to be inflated, sometimes with additional elements as well (such as having a thing for bitchy girls who get their comeuppance) and work back from there.
The description of inflation is the 'money'. It's what people want to read. Our style of writing falls under 'exploitation fiction' (i.e. fiction that 'exploits' a certain theme). The story is just a vehicle for carrying our particular theme (to give an example The Fast and the Furious is exploitation of the theme 'fast cars'). Not all exploitation need be as poorly written as The Fast and the Furious, and often the exploited theme (i.e. the description of inflation) is a work of art in itself. But the design of the story still fits the exploitation mould and we must recognise this.
I guess we could just leave it as a description of the inflation, standing on its own. But we have standards, we have talent that we want to show off, we want to write a real story not just a description. I mean of course the erotic element of the story can be enhanced by a good build up, but we have to accept that sometimes, some people won't have the time or patience for a slow build up, they just want the money. And sometimes, but not always that person is me.
I mostly agree with Luther; from the first couple of paragraphs, I already know if Im gonna skip. Of course, the BEST stories, and by best I mean the ones that are most "porn-y", are the ones where the backstory is just the perfect fit for the inevitable inflation.
Inflation is not just inflation; but the motivations and the things that get you there are AS important as the inflation itself.
So, its not really about a more pornographic view, and a more artistic view; because the most artistic are actually the most pornographic. At least to me.
Its like, if I can get a girl to talk inflation to me, I dont want her to describe it, and thats it. She has to tell me how she gets there, and how she takes care the other girl doesnt run away. Thats backstory, and its part of the whole deal.
EDIT: If I had read carnatic's answer, I wouldnt have needed to write my own haha
Carnatic is back?
I skim certain work, I relish others. I fully expect that the same attention is given to my hack writing. If you're taking yourself so seriously that you are upset that people do that, odds are that the problem lies within your work rather than your readers if your work is not sufficiently gripping or developed to support itself.
I know I'm a hack fetishfic writer. So's everyone else here. If people skim my stuff, whatever. I'm not really writing it for them. I write primarily for myself. I write the stories I want to read. If some folks also manage to get their jollies off in some parts, well, it's not like I'm not either ;)
I blow over useless, stupid, incomprehensible, profane, violent, badly written or badly structured "stories". Especially anything Japanese.
Sometimes I do this, but only because I have fairly specific tastes in terms of what sorts of inflation I enjoy. If I decide that the scenario is to my liking, I start reading again from the beginning. It's pretty ironic, because I know several of my stories go 10 paragraphs or more before the inflation begins. That's just because I like my stories to have very specific and believable causes of inflation, and I wouldn't be that put out if a reader skipped all that exposition.
I'd be mildly put out, because when I write a story, I want it to have a consistent and internal logic (in so far as inflatable humans can go). I feel that it makes for a sexier story (IMO).
I dont do it often; I do it when the writer is bad and theres nothing else interesting, or in tune with my tastes.
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