Do you sometimes write texts that are not meant to be read?

I have a self-insert crossover that exists only for my own amusement.

i recently wrote the epilogue to the verse all my stories take place in.

the world ends, a lore character appears, eldritch abominations shatner it up, theres a lot of instant scene changes and incoherent flashbacks (shown as the present instead of being actual flashbacks) and yeah. a few questions are answered in that incomprehensible mess.

but hey, it finally got that lore character out of my head so i can focus on the more important part of my stories

eldritch abominations shatner it up

Please! Pleaseplease! ... Tellmethis... isn't a typo!.

This... would be... The MOST. Incrediblethingever.

EDIT: Fixed my wording and emphasis.

edited 27th Aug '11 8:46:52 PM by TheEarthSheep

it wasnt a typo.

it was, sadly, just a joke.

they dont shatner it up. they dont really speak and just scream.

that being said, when i was writing it, i kept imagining them speaking like shatner. i dont know why

edited 27th Aug '11 8:41:37 PM by Tarsen

All the time. See, I have a crazy-active imagination and when I create major characters, I don't just create a single persona; my mind goes all the way and conjures an entire person. Once I give life to these people, they do not die. So all these snippets of things that happen before, between and after the events of the story pop into my head. They're all canonical — none of these interactions would even occur to me if it did not fit the story or characters — they just don't fit comfortably within the restrictions set by the timeline and the story as a whole (by which I mean they are usually irrelevant to the main plot). But they often harass me until I write them down, so I am forced to do so.

Yes.

Sometimes I think the majority of things I write aren't meant for general consumption. They're just there for fun.

I've had ideas that I never bothered to convert into text, and I've written texts not knowing whether they would be accepted, but once I've made the effort of writing a full text, I always try to find a home for it. The only enjoyment I get from writing comes from knowing that other people liked my stories.

(Of course, I've written a few texts that got a negative enough reaction that I pretend they don't exist . . .)

edited 28th Aug '11 3:21:08 PM by feotakahari

If I truly did not want it to be read, I would not take the risk of committing it to paper or to bytes.

So far, however, I have not even had such a story in my head.

I've written a semi-self-referential short story about a writer suffering from writer's block. Rather perversely, it was a rant about how I hated the fact that I seemingly couldn't write anything good at the time.

Shortly after that I wrote my "Arcadian Athens" story. While I did show that one to people, I probably shouldn't have in retrospect.

All the time. Hell, I'll usually crank out something roughly 200-600 words in length that doesn't have much of a certain aspect (plot, scenery, characterization, etc.) just to be creative. I'll usually keep it around, possibly using something in it for something else later on.

Porn that happens off screen. I mean, you have characters that are together, they have sex, they're in your head 24/7, it happens.

Yes.

It's called smut.