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Story Advice Column#1: Sequence of Events
4 years ago
Hey everyone, apologies for no smut or scribbles this week, but I’ll try to make it up by sharing a few tips for anyone looking to get into writing based on my own experiences.
Disclaimer: Don’t consider these a “how-to” or even a “must-do”, more consider if they sound like something you would like to try or feels like a conducive way to go about writing stories. My hope with this little newsletter is that it might help anyone who’s not sure how to write get started, but DO NOT consider this the only source of information.
As with all learning processes, you have to take in multiple sources and it’s a lifelong process. Never stop trying to improve yourself, even when you think you’re good enough to hand out advice like me.
All right, now that that’s out of the way:
Storytelling: The Basics.
Intro: so you want to write about giant furry people, or regular furry people, doing NSFW or SFW stuff. What’s the difference between a furry/fetish story and a regular story safe for the general population?
Answer: there isn’t one. No, really!
But DTF, major publishing house X says no Furries! Obviously Furry fiction is different than regular fiction.
Publishing guidelines aside, stories can be broken down into the same elements across all mediums and interests. The only thing that makes your story a furry story is (wait for it) it has furries in it, is about furries and is posted under the keyword of FURRY! I’ll go into more detail on this in another advice column down the road.
But for now, what should be understood is that you can see and use the same basic elements of Character and Conflict to write about Dongfox and his 80ft schlong knocking down skyscrapers as you would about Space Marine Spiff or Fantasy Hero Harry taking on their respective bad guys.
How does that help me write about Dongfox and his 80ft schlong?
Now that we’ve established that your furry smut is as much a story as your Dad’s military fiction and your sister’s vampire TV shows, we need to ask ourselves the obvious question: what makes a story?
A story, in the crudest sense, is a sequence of events told from a storyteller to an audience. Just like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSNVC9ZkMts. Despite the comedy angle and abrupt ending, every single sequence is a complete story (Okay see one time=Once upon a Time; Okay bye=The End).
In a story something happens, did happen, or is happening (think second-person style RPs) and you are telling someone about it. The events form portions and when read together create a story whether it’s in 3-Act Structure, 5-Act Structure, follows Western or Eastern plotting (yes there is a difference, but that’s another journal).
So how does knowing all this trivia help me get better?
By itself it won’t. Writing is an art, and like all art it has to be practiced and studied. The best way I can think of to write something is to read something, specifically, read that thing you love and want to write. If you want to write about 80ft schlongs on giant foxes, you need to read about giant foxes with 80ft schlongs, find the stuff you enjoy, and then incorporate those elements into your own work.
Isn’t that stealing?
Yes! And now you know the secret to being good at writing. You steal stuff! ideas, descriptions, settings, hell, take whole characters and change their names and places.
I can’t copy Wiener Giants stories! People will recognize his work and his fanbase will rip me a new one!
Don’t copy WeenerGiant’s stories! Never copy! Same with art. Copying=bad Inspiration=good.
Read WeenerGiant, ScrotumSmasher, ToweringTestes and VansDeferrer’s stories. Build your ideas off multiple sources, recombine them in different ways, play around with what if scenarios like how what it would be like for a giant to pass a kidney stone.
Again, copying is wrong, remediation is the history of human creativity.
Okay, okay, I’ll steal! I’ll steal your ideas; how do you like that?
Great! I love it when people get inspired from my work and want to use my ideas there in their own stuff. And so should you. It’s a way of getting more of the stuff I like out there in the world.
I stole your ideas, now what do I with them? I still can’t actually write.
Well, that’s the tricky part, isn’t it? Everyone always has the perfect story in their heads, but when they try to put it down to a paper or word doc., they can’t get it out.
Yeah...and how do you expect me to do that?
As I’ll state for the third time—this journal is only my opinion and life experiences and what works for me. It may not work for you, but if you want to try, then I have HOMEWORK (yes, that’s right, homework) for you. This won’t make you a master storyteller overnight, but it may give you something to start with.
Just give me the homework already and get back to writing smut.
Here it is. Go back and watch the YouTube video I know you didn’t watch the first time to get a basic grasp of cause and effect. Then, reach into that big swirling bin of stolen ideas you have and WRITE OUT YOUR STORY IN 2-5 SENTENCES.
That’s it. That’s your homework a single paragraph. Here, I’ll do mine right now as an example:
One time, Dongfox was smashing up Testicleburg with 80ft schlong and a window washer got stuck up his urethra. It hurt, so Dongfox rubbed the end of his schlong off until he shot the window washer out in his cum. Then Dongfox felt better and smashed the rest of Testicleburg.
There, that’s it. That’s a whole macro rampage furry smut story. Feel free to look it up, I’m sure this plot has been used somewhere, somehow in some other form. And look! I did M/m and cock vore for the first time ever! You’re welcome.
But what about the details? And the dirty goodness? You’re supposed to spend ten thousand words describing how big and thick and veiny that schlong is, and another five thousand on the massive torrent of white seminal fluid and the millions of people who drowned in it! And who is Dongfox? Why does he flatten Testicleburg? Where did his 80ft schlong come from? Was he always a giant?
Those things will be coming up in later journals and will be covered in more homework (yay!).
The important thing for now for anybody actually listening to my unaccredited ass and trying this is that you start thinking in terms of complete stories. You need a sequence of events to tell first and foremost, then worry about how you will tell them.
That’s all for now, stay tuned (if I haven’t scared you off) for more writing tips! Also, feel free to post your story homework in the comment section for critique and feedback!
Disclaimer: Don’t consider these a “how-to” or even a “must-do”, more consider if they sound like something you would like to try or feels like a conducive way to go about writing stories. My hope with this little newsletter is that it might help anyone who’s not sure how to write get started, but DO NOT consider this the only source of information.
As with all learning processes, you have to take in multiple sources and it’s a lifelong process. Never stop trying to improve yourself, even when you think you’re good enough to hand out advice like me.
All right, now that that’s out of the way:
Storytelling: The Basics.
Intro: so you want to write about giant furry people, or regular furry people, doing NSFW or SFW stuff. What’s the difference between a furry/fetish story and a regular story safe for the general population?
Answer: there isn’t one. No, really!
But DTF, major publishing house X says no Furries! Obviously Furry fiction is different than regular fiction.
Publishing guidelines aside, stories can be broken down into the same elements across all mediums and interests. The only thing that makes your story a furry story is (wait for it) it has furries in it, is about furries and is posted under the keyword of FURRY! I’ll go into more detail on this in another advice column down the road.
But for now, what should be understood is that you can see and use the same basic elements of Character and Conflict to write about Dongfox and his 80ft schlong knocking down skyscrapers as you would about Space Marine Spiff or Fantasy Hero Harry taking on their respective bad guys.
How does that help me write about Dongfox and his 80ft schlong?
Now that we’ve established that your furry smut is as much a story as your Dad’s military fiction and your sister’s vampire TV shows, we need to ask ourselves the obvious question: what makes a story?
A story, in the crudest sense, is a sequence of events told from a storyteller to an audience. Just like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSNVC9ZkMts. Despite the comedy angle and abrupt ending, every single sequence is a complete story (Okay see one time=Once upon a Time; Okay bye=The End).
In a story something happens, did happen, or is happening (think second-person style RPs) and you are telling someone about it. The events form portions and when read together create a story whether it’s in 3-Act Structure, 5-Act Structure, follows Western or Eastern plotting (yes there is a difference, but that’s another journal).
So how does knowing all this trivia help me get better?
By itself it won’t. Writing is an art, and like all art it has to be practiced and studied. The best way I can think of to write something is to read something, specifically, read that thing you love and want to write. If you want to write about 80ft schlongs on giant foxes, you need to read about giant foxes with 80ft schlongs, find the stuff you enjoy, and then incorporate those elements into your own work.
Isn’t that stealing?
Yes! And now you know the secret to being good at writing. You steal stuff! ideas, descriptions, settings, hell, take whole characters and change their names and places.
I can’t copy Wiener Giants stories! People will recognize his work and his fanbase will rip me a new one!
Don’t copy WeenerGiant’s stories! Never copy! Same with art. Copying=bad Inspiration=good.
Read WeenerGiant, ScrotumSmasher, ToweringTestes and VansDeferrer’s stories. Build your ideas off multiple sources, recombine them in different ways, play around with what if scenarios like how what it would be like for a giant to pass a kidney stone.
Again, copying is wrong, remediation is the history of human creativity.
Okay, okay, I’ll steal! I’ll steal your ideas; how do you like that?
Great! I love it when people get inspired from my work and want to use my ideas there in their own stuff. And so should you. It’s a way of getting more of the stuff I like out there in the world.
I stole your ideas, now what do I with them? I still can’t actually write.
Well, that’s the tricky part, isn’t it? Everyone always has the perfect story in their heads, but when they try to put it down to a paper or word doc., they can’t get it out.
Yeah...and how do you expect me to do that?
As I’ll state for the third time—this journal is only my opinion and life experiences and what works for me. It may not work for you, but if you want to try, then I have HOMEWORK (yes, that’s right, homework) for you. This won’t make you a master storyteller overnight, but it may give you something to start with.
Just give me the homework already and get back to writing smut.
Here it is. Go back and watch the YouTube video I know you didn’t watch the first time to get a basic grasp of cause and effect. Then, reach into that big swirling bin of stolen ideas you have and WRITE OUT YOUR STORY IN 2-5 SENTENCES.
That’s it. That’s your homework a single paragraph. Here, I’ll do mine right now as an example:
One time, Dongfox was smashing up Testicleburg with 80ft schlong and a window washer got stuck up his urethra. It hurt, so Dongfox rubbed the end of his schlong off until he shot the window washer out in his cum. Then Dongfox felt better and smashed the rest of Testicleburg.
There, that’s it. That’s a whole macro rampage furry smut story. Feel free to look it up, I’m sure this plot has been used somewhere, somehow in some other form. And look! I did M/m and cock vore for the first time ever! You’re welcome.
But what about the details? And the dirty goodness? You’re supposed to spend ten thousand words describing how big and thick and veiny that schlong is, and another five thousand on the massive torrent of white seminal fluid and the millions of people who drowned in it! And who is Dongfox? Why does he flatten Testicleburg? Where did his 80ft schlong come from? Was he always a giant?
Those things will be coming up in later journals and will be covered in more homework (yay!).
The important thing for now for anybody actually listening to my unaccredited ass and trying this is that you start thinking in terms of complete stories. You need a sequence of events to tell first and foremost, then worry about how you will tell them.
That’s all for now, stay tuned (if I haven’t scared you off) for more writing tips! Also, feel free to post your story homework in the comment section for critique and feedback!
Real talk though, a good list of tips! Bound to be useful for someone down the line!
But really now, who is Dongfox?
This is cool. These tips are equal parts funny and informative.
I've been wanting to write a few short stories to go with some of my pictures but writing is not my strong suit, and this is helpful to me.
More importantly, when can we expect to read more about the adventures of Dongfox?^^
You have an excellent talent for writing and teaching people how to write. You helped me immensely during my earliest moments diving into writing. I can envision a regular writing advice column by you as an absolute force for good, and I look forward to more!