JayLikestoRead
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Absolutely, but more often when I've fine-tuning something I've already written before I post.
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I'll never forget the time a college lit teacher said, with scorn, something to the effect that Hemingway writes with his penis. Everyone laughed and seemed to dismiss him based on that. It's only later in life that I realized: what the hell is wrong with that?
I do get off on my stories (writing and reading them). They are so blatantly and shamelessly "written with my penis" that my wife is left with an almost insurmountable editing job with each new story.
Then there was the constipated mathematician who worked it out with a pencil....there used to be an expression when if something was good for you or increased your sexual abilities, they'd say, "It puts lead in your pencil."
But when I re-read something I've written a while ago, I do find myself aroused. It's the distance between the creation and the re-reading that makes it fresh again, as if it's somebody else telling the story and not me.
My attitude is...whether I am actually in the process of writing a one-off story or a new chapter for a series, or re-reading them months or years later...if it doesn't give me a bone, make me happily smile, or make me cry, then I missed somewhere.
To me, being an author is all about creating some type of emotional response with the readers and that does include creating a case of the hornies. And I am my main test subject.
If it doesn't put the wowzers in MY trousers, that doesn't mean it won't for someone else,
"Wowzers in my trousers?" Haven't heard that one before. But I like it, particularly if you say it like Elmer Fudd.
In that case, the only reward would be monetary, and I don't write erotica for money. If I did, that would be different.
My purposes in writing them down are to create a permanent record so I can recall them in the future and to provide enjoyment to a few like-minded readers.
If I can successfully gloss over the problem spots I would want to re-write, I usually find that rereading that fantasy is quite arousing again.
I write for me, and edit for readers
I write for me, and edit for readers
I think it would be difficult for any Literotica author to write a story that was of no interest to them, either sexually or non-sexually.
For example, I dislike BDSM and fat fetish stories so therefore would never write a story about a New York businessman who has normal, missionary-position sex with his slim, conservative, patrician wife; but secretly enjoys seeing his 350 pound mistress who along with her equally large friend indulge his tastes for BDSM, such as the two women chaining him up on a leash and making him eat dog food out of a bowl on the floor.