Also, at what point do I just give up on an idea? I wrote a clocpfic years ago that went unfinished because I ended up liking the idea more than just as an Avenue for porn, and last year I managed to write 35,000 words towards fleshing the idea out into something that fits under the T rating, but at some point I gave up, because the scope got way too big for my fly by wire type of writing where I just go with what feels right in the moment.

So last night, I changed plans. I sat down, and summarized the entire plot of what I want the story to be in 5,000 words, and I managed to convert the first few paragraphs into the first two chapters of the story, but I just don't know if it's going to pan out. Even when I have the entire story planned out, which should prevent me from rushing my writing to get to the next plot point, I still feel like it just goes way too fast. Why is it so easy to drag out a sex scene to at minimum 6,000 words, yet anything else, a conversation, a fight, anything, it struggles to hit 600?