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Kimikimidoll

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There are two extreme types to this:
First is your 'quickie' type of erotica: an immediate and familiar setup, adjective/verb laden paragraphs, more or less guessable story progression.
The other has a slow buildup, and usually a small scene at the end. There's some plot, or some other event going on in the background. It's almost like a tease.
I've seen good and bad examples of both types. And both serve their purpose, depending on what you need. Funnily enough, I prefer reading the first type but I can only write the second type.
Which type do you prefer (in either reading or writing). Would you rate a story well even if it had very minimal erotic content?
 
Kimikimidoll said:
There are two extreme types to this:
First is your 'quickie' type of erotica: an immediate and familiar setup, adjective/verb laden paragraphs, more or less guessable story progression.
The other has a slow buildup, and usually a small scene at the end. There's some plot, or some other event going on in the background. It's almost like a tease.
I've seen good and bad examples of both types. And both serve their purpose, depending on what you need. Funnily enough, I prefer reading the first type but I can only write the second type.
Which type do you prefer (in either reading or writing). Would you rate a story well even if it had very minimal erotic content?
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Love the build up. Like foreplay.
 
Kimikimidoll said:
There are two extreme types to this:
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There are more ways serve potatoes than mash you know...

One is how explicit your depiction is, whether you leave a lot to the reader's imagination (which assumes that your reader has at least some experience and knows what you are talking about), or if you describe every single stroke and how it affects both or all protagonists (which assumes either that your reader has little or no experience her-/himself or that you consider your writing to be to erotica what the music of James Last is to dancing).

Another is whether you're doing a sort of single one-night stand where the sex is the be- and end-it-all of your story where the how and why they ended up in bed really doesn't matter, or if you're actually trying to tell a story about one or more characters which includes some sort of progression where there are more occasions of people having sex than just once.

I am not certain that I understood your question based upon the limited definitions you provided.
 
NicoleZ said:
There are more ways serve potatoes than mash you know...

One is how explicit your depiction is, whether you leave a lot to the reader's imagination (which assumes that your reader has at least some experience and knows what you are talking about), or if you describe every single stroke and how it affects both or all protagonists (which assumes either that your reader has little or no experience her-/himself or that you consider your writing to be to erotica what the music of James Last is to dancing).

Another is whether you're doing a sort of single one-night stand where the sex is the be- and end-it-all of your story where the how and why they ended up in bed really doesn't matter, or if you're actually trying to tell a story about one or more characters which includes some sort of progression where there are more occasions of people having sex than just once.

I am not certain that I understood your question based upon the limited definitions you provided.
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It's obviously a spectrum, I just pointed out the two ends. You got the idea, actually. Which do you prefer/write?
 
I definitely prefer to read short, fetish-y stories. I will only read long ones if asked or I know the writer.

I mostly write longer ones but I've had fun with so-called strokers. Short, and nearly plot-free. In fact that's become a new challenge. How much can I extract or condense and still have something that works. Im enjoying it.


Kimikimidoll said:
It's obviously a spectrum, I just pointed out the two ends. You got the idea, actually. Which do you prefer/write?
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Reading or writing, I'm all over the place. At either end, writing can go fast or slow. I had a 1-LIT-pager take months and a 5-pager done in a day. Similar with reading -- I judge by quality, not quantity. Like a storyline, erotic content can be fast and snappy or slow, repetitive, tedious. My main criterion isn't length but surprise and involvement.
 
I hope I'm not too unusual, but fear I might be: I neither read nor write stroke fiction because I don't find it erotic. Nor do I find stories that culminate in sex that erotic either -- So basically nothing on that "spectrum" does it for me.

I guess I'm fetishistic or something, but power exchange and other mind games are the only thing that gets me off. Both as a reader and writer.
 
Well then. Since I am old and just like my current "title" says, really experienced, as well as being an incurable, soppy romantic at heart, I prefer depth and subtlety in my reading which is what I attempt to provide in my writing. To put it bluntly, crude, carnal fucking graphically depicted moves me as much as watching the equally soulless mating flight of bluebottles.

That is not to say that I do not find such short stories amusing, especially where their author has managed to capture and transfer the soulless emptiness of the bluebottles' fucking perfectly in the portrayal of her or his characters. :)
 
I prefer to read and write longer build up stories.
I have one that will never be posted here because I'm on chapter 18 and there is no sex yet!
 
Kimikimidoll said:
There are two extreme types to this:
First is your 'quickie' type of erotica: an immediate and familiar setup, adjective/verb laden paragraphs, more or less guessable story progression.
The other has a slow buildup, and usually a small scene at the end. There's some plot, or some other event going on in the background. It's almost like a tease.
I've seen good and bad examples of both types. And both serve their purpose, depending on what you need. Funnily enough, I prefer reading the first type but I can only write the second type.
Which type do you prefer (in either reading or writing). Would you rate a story well even if it had very minimal erotic content?
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Both reading and writing, I like stories with a lot of plot and characterisation, preferably where the sex is part of the bigger story and not just tacked on. That often means "slow buildup and sex at the end" but it doesn't have to. Sometimes the sex is at the middle, or even at the beginning, and the story is partly about what happens afterwards.

(or people have sex more than once)
 
My more recent stories are definitely slow burn, getting there in the end. I rarely read pure stroke, and sure as hell don't know how to write it. My slow burn seems to work for some folk, and gets results....
 
I follow the great masters of writing. John O'Hara, Truman Capote, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings et al wrote brief sexual scenes that usually include a dramatic jolt or an odd twist as happens in real life. Like when the wife is stopped by the police for DUI and offers sex to escape arrest. The cop agrees, and they get caught by the husband. The wife then cries rape, and the cop goes to prison. Or the AAA guy seduced by the stranded motorist.

Based on my experiences plenty of women enjoy quickies when risk of discovery is high.
 
Wow, I'm some crass lowbrow then.. I like reading quickies. I appreciate a well written story, but when I read erotica, I need the tingly feeling down there right now, damnit! Lol.
That's why I wonder how people are able to read/follow long stories. There's a lot between one scene and the next. I like conversation, or some kind of action. Expositions and descriptions bore me (in erotica, only in erotica, btw)
And ironically, I write the kind of writing I myself would never read.
After hearing all your opinions, I feel better about including a chapter without any overt sexual scene.
 
I prefer to read and write erotica with some type of build up with things going on in the background because it helps to make stories believable. If I were interested in just the sex scene, I would just watch porn, but why do that when I could just have sex? đź‘ đź‘ đź‘ Kant
 
Don't forget "crude" and "carnal." And welcome to the club! I'll buy you a drink at the Lowbrow Lounge.


Kimikimidoll said:
Wow, I'm some crass lowbrow then.. I like reading quickies. I appreciate a well written story, but when I read erotica, I need the tingly feeling down there right now, damnit! Lol.
That's why I wonder how people are able to read/follow long stories. There's a lot between one scene and the next. I like conversation, or some kind of action. Expositions and descriptions bore me (in erotica, only in erotica, btw)
And ironically, I write the kind of writing I myself would never read.
After hearing all your opinions, I feel better about including a chapter without any overt sexual scene.
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I only read certain categories but within those I find basically two types of stories... strokers and the more plot driven erotic stories. Like you, I have found some good and bad of both types. When I rate them I take into consideration which type I'm rating. It takes talent to write a really good short stroker just as it does to write a longer plot driven story. Longer stories require an interesting plot hold my attention. I read literotica for erotic stories, not Modern Romance.
 
I don't read much of anything here. In what I write, I try to include both a plot and sex that I consider to be hot--with varying proportions (unless I'm posting something intended to be nonerotic, which I, on rare occasion, have done--more often than not around Christmas). I don't obsess over the question of the balance of content; it's different in each story. Long live variety.
 
NoJo said:
See, now that's sexy.
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Society has conditioned me to behave. I even automatically cover my mouth when I laugh too hard.
Otherwise I'd just be going, "You have big dick? Me like fuck, now now now!"
But the magazines I read tell me guys don't like that :/ (they want refined sugar or something)
 
Kimikimidoll said:
Society has conditioned me to behave. I even automatically cover my mouth when I laugh too hard.
Otherwise I'd just be going, "You have big dick? Me like fuck, now now now!"
But the magazines I read tell me guys don't like that :/ (they want refined sugar or something)
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You have the mouth of a Bangkok Ladyboy. And I say that as a complement.
 
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