How to Write Stories in any Category without Writing What you Know?

[SusanJillParker]

I receive a lot of e-mails and, unless they're nasty or disrespectful, I answer every one of them. I have 15 different e-mail/Literotica accounts and they all have stories attached to them.

The most common questions I receive is how do you write so many stories? Where do you receive the inspiration to write that story? Will you read, edit, review, or rewrite my story?

In ten years, I've written more than 2,000 stories and poems of more than 10 million words that have amassed more than 300 million hits.

I tell them all the same thing. Develop your characters.

I'm more of a novelist than a short story writer. I love writing about people.

I love writing long, slow developing stories. I prefer writing erotica than pornography.

Anything can and will inspire me, an image, a phrase, or even a word.

I routinely write in most categories. It doesn't matter than I've never had anal sex,
am not into bondage, don't have any fetishes, am not gay, lesbian, or a cross dresser. Yet, I can write in all those categories because I take the time to listen to my characters. My characters tell me what to write.

Once I develop my characters, once they turn from one-dimensional to three dimensional, and once they stand up from the page to stand behind my chair and whisper in my ear what next to write is when I hand the keyboard over to them.

With no two stories the same, everyone has a unique story to tell. With no two sexual fantasies quite alike, everyone has a different sexual fantasy. You just need to create your characters well enough for them to speak to you so that they can write their story through you. You just need to create your characters well enough to listen to what they have to say and write that.

It's not enough to describe your character in one sentence. Weave their descriptions throughout the story. Dig deeper. Do they have a scar, a tattoo, a handicap, a nickname, or a certain phrase that they use over and again. Give them a name that means more than just giving them an ordinary name.

Use imagery to make your character fuller. I compare my characters to characters in movies and in books to give the reader more of a visual image. You needn't describe your character completely. It's better than you leave something for the reader to play with in their mind as they're reading your story.

I never stare at a blank page. I only write when inspired. Inspired writing is the best writing. It has taken me years to open my window of inspiration longer than just a few minutes. Now I can open it will and leave it open for hours.

Whenever I get stuck, which is rare, I take my story to bed with me. Just before closing my eyes at night, I think of my story. My brain percolates the story overnight. The next morning, I can't type fast enough.

Now, this technique may not work for you the first few times but trust me, it will work.

I write by reading my story over and over again. Eventually, it grows from a thousand words to five thousand words and to ten thousand words.

I can write a sixty-thousand word novel in three weeks. The rest of the time is spent editing and rewriting it.

I never work on just one story. I have six to twelve stories going at all times. As soon as the inspiration stops for one story, I move to the next story. It's common for me to work on three or four stories a day.

I'm very disciplined. I write every day, seven days a week from 4:30 am until 11:30 am. I take a break for several hours and then answer e-mails.

For every 100 e-mails I answer, I receive one from someone who wants to pay me to write their story. For every 1,000 e-mails, I answer, I receive one from someone who wants me to write a multi-chapter story. For every 10,000 e-mails I answer, I receive one who wants a novel length work.

Good luck with your writing.

 

[SusanJillParker]

When developing characters, it's not enough to give them a name, hair, and eye color. How tall are they? Other than the woman having big tits and the man having a big cock, what body type are they?

I know that this goes against the grain in writing pornography where the story is about sex, sex, and more sex but when writing erotica, dig deeper. Do they have any pets? A cat? A dog? What kind of cat? What kind of dog? What's the cat's name? What's the dog's name?

Do they own a car? Which make and model? What color car? Why year is the car? Do they love their car or hate their car? Why?

I recently wrote a story of an elderly man having sex with his new neighbor, a woman a third his age. He drove a 1976 Chrysler Imperial in pristine condition. That 40-year-old car said a lot about the man without having to waste paragraphs of narration.

What about their friends and family? Are any of them pertinent to your story? If your story is long enough, you may want to not only include them but also name and describe those characters too.

What foods does your character eat and what beverage does he or she drink? Do they go to the gym? Which exercises do they do? Whatever you add will give your character depth. What more you add will flush out the real character behind the name and description.

Does your character have any medical problems and birth issues. Is he or she a twin? Where does he or she fit in the family? Are the parents still together?

Is your character lovable or a monster? Why? Show that don't just tell that. I want to know why your character is like that too. I want to see what you see. I want to feel what you feel. Show me. Only, you can't show the reader your true character until you dig deeper to reveal who he or she is.

 

[Exescort]

Do you find it easier to write in 1st or 3rd person?
I find it easier in 1st, probably due to lack of education. I'm just curious as I've never had an opportunity to ask someone as experienced as you are. Thanks

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

I just write about our life. I know nothing and have only one account and one email address.

As I've been adding, I'm not an author, I'm a pervert scribbling notes.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Do you find it easier to write in 1st or 3rd person?
I find it easier in 1st, probably due to lack of education. I'm just curious as I've never had an opportunity to ask someone as experienced as you are. Thanks

Third person comes naturally to me. Third person gives me more flexibility to write from the eyes of another character without writing in the omniscient voice and stepping in their head too.

Third person allows me to take a step back to distance myself to see what else my character may not see. I prefer third person.

Don't worry about education. Just write. Write what you feel. I started writing because writing gave me peace. A survivor of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, writing is the best therapy I ever had. Yet, even though I've had years of therapy because of all that seven men, six were relatives, did to me, here I am writing erotica on a porn board (lol).

I thought I'd be a better writer by getting my degree in English. I graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern University in Boston with a BS in English with Creative Writing and English Literature minors. Other than term papers, I didn't write a damn thing in college. All I did was read, sometimes as many as two books a day just to keep up with my studies while working full-time.

I discovered and my professors willingly admitted that no teacher can teach you how to write. Either you can or you can't. Either you have it or you don't. Sure, they can teach the mechanics of writing but unless you have the discipline to sit in front of a computer for hours while your friends are having fun, you'll never be a writer.

I developed my discipline from hiding in my room with my bureau pushed up against the door to keep myself safe. Writing poetry came naturally to me because I was sad, lonely, and angry. Yet, I always wanted to write a novel. I read enough of them by the time I entered high school. Only, I hadn't lived enough life to have the experiences that I needed to write about people.

I used to spend hours walking around Boston alone people watching. My favorite streets to watch people was Newbury Street and Commonwealth Avenue. My favorite places to people watch was Faneuil Hall, the Boston Common, and the Public Gardens. I was lucky, there's so much history of great writers, whenever I walked the streets of Boston I could literally feel Hawthorne, Melville, and Emerson walking with me.

 

[SusanJillParker]

I just write about our life. I know nothing and have only one account and one email address.

As I've been adding, I'm not an author, I'm a pervert scribbling notes.

Obviously with all the stories you've already written, you know a great deal about life and about people.

Hey, don't knock being a pervert, some of the greatest writers were perverts (lol).

You may become the next Marquis da Sade (lol).

 

[Exescort]

Thank you so much Susan, your truly an inspiration. I've so often felt inferior. Good luck and again many thanks.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

Thank you Susan. Your tips will help many others I'm sure. My wife has been through only a tiny bit of what you suffered and it bothered her most of her life.
Rape, physical, and mental abuse are terrible and some minds are not strong enough to survive.
Your mind survived and becomes stronger.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Thank you Susan. Your tips will help many others I'm sure. My wife has been through only a tiny bit of what you suffered and it bothered her most of her life.
Rape, physical, and mental abuse are terrible and some minds are not strong enough to survive.
Your mind survived and becomes stronger.

I'm one of the lucky ones. Most victims of abuse turn to alcohol, drugs, or sex or become abusers themselves. Instead, after dropping out of high school and running around with the wrong crowd, I got my life back together by earning my GED and attending night school. It took me 5 years going full-time and attending college through the summers while working full-time but as if the sun lit up a rainbow, I felt so enlightened once I graduated.

Sadly, it wasn't until I graduated that I realized how much I didn't know. I was intent of attending Emerson College to earn my MFA until a professor pulled me aside and told me that unless I wanted to teach, I'd be wasting my time and money. He was right. I just needed to write, not for anyone else but for myself.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Thank you so much Susan, your truly an inspiration. I've so often felt inferior. Good luck and again many thanks.

Read. When you're not writing. Read. Read everything. The more you read the better writer you'll be. Before I was a prolific writer, I was a voracious reader.

 

[Kantarii]

I'm sure I could write a story that's acceptable in any category on Lit. I doubt I would need multiple profiles/accounts to do that. However 90% of the categories are of zero interest to me and aren't feasible to justifiably throw a transvestite character into the mix. However, I tend to draw off elements from other categories and work them into my transgender storylines. Two of the three storylines were feasible to put into the respectable categories, but my main storyline is purely for the transgender category.Kant

 

[intim8]

I tell them all the same thing. Develop your characters.

Yes. Where I'm writing outside my experience, I just try to create real human beings that have quirks and flaws and that want something, and figure out what they would do. Or just start banging away on the keyboard and let them tell me.