What do you include that readers probably don't notice?

[Writer61]

And here's the "readers probably don't notice" bit: it's a reference to "Prince Caspian" by CS Lewis, where a stone bridge that's built across a river shackles the god of that river.

CS Lewis … yeurgh.

 

[RIPAphrodite]

I always have at least one scene of a guy naked and he has the most absolutely amazing ass…real firm checks that you could bounce a quarter off of

 

[StillStunned]

CS Lewis … yeurgh.

Value judgments aside, the scene has stuck with me all these decades as a particularly strong image of the struggle between nature and civilisation.

 

[RIPAphrodite]

If I have an asshole in my story, they are always eating an apple

 

[Rob_Royale]

Well I dropped some Stephen King Easter eggs in my Halloween entry, but no ones called me on them yet.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I dropped a Bronze Radio Return reference in my story and no one noticed ...

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Bunch of stuff in the Shoes that really shouldn't be too obscure.

 

[HordHolm]

I've stuffed my Penny Dreadful stories with so many easter eggs that I'm starting to get chocolate poisoning - I have easter eggs from the Flashman stories, from Fawlty Towers, from Shakespeare... And nobody ever seems to notice *sigh*...

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I've stuffed my Penny Dreadful stories with so many easter eggs that I'm starting to get chocolate poisoning - I have easter eggs from the Flashman stories, from Fawlty Towers, from Shakespeare... And nobody ever seems to notice *sigh*...

Que?

 

[summer_reine]

The first name of the two main characters in my mechanic story were very carefully chosen. The reason is subtle but I hope it will become less so in the next few chapters. There is another less subtle reference but I'm having a difficult time working in the reason (after a major reworking of the story) so it may simply be quirky.

 

[HordHolm]

Que?

Yep. I have a doctor moaning about wanting sausages after his breakfast is delayed - from Fawlty Towers, The Kipper and the Corpse.

 

[summer_reine]

Alice and Lewis.

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

I am constantly dropping song lyrics and movie quotes throughout my stories.

I am pretty sure all of the girls who end up kissing girls get a taste of cherry chapstick, for instance. I’ve done Chuck Berry, Beach Boys, Snoop and Dre and a variety of others; I hope folks catch them.

 

[Trionyx]

In The First Time Ever I… the name of the FMC’s overbearing and controlling German father was Mr. Eisenherz, translated Ironheart.

 

[YmaOHyd]

I don't think it's worth noticing, but the Irish pub in part two of What's Left of Me is Lannigan's, the final bar in the "Dublin City Pub Crawl" by the Irish Rovers. Chances are pretty good that Kitty McGee's, the first bar in the sequence, will feature later.

 

[Belegon]

"Alexa! Stimulator. Stop. Video. Stop."

The image of the cum-covered girl vanished and the arm packed itself away. I heard its cleaning cycle start.

"Alexa! Lights off."

I snuggled down. The stimulator did its job, clinically, efficiently. But it had been months now with nothing twixt my legs that wasn't run on electricity. I closed my eyes and surrendered to sleep.

— Coleoidphilia

Emily

as a huge Kaylee, fan I enjoyed that. I'm pretty sure I have referenced the "special hell" in at least one story.

 

[Belegon]

I often use songs on the radio or other pop culture references to try and set a time reference in a story. it at least works to eliminate a time. If I mention Nirvana playing on the radio, it's not 1983 for example.

 

[glynndah]

Song lyrics from the 70s. They're playing in the background or a character's dialogue includes them.

 

[stickygirl]

I've included snippets of Jane Austen and Dylan Thomas. In Goalposts is the line
"The young girls lay bedded soft, the room still with hushed breaths. An untidy foot lay careless outside the covers and would be cold later. "
and the original
"Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glow-worms down the aisles of the organplaying wood."
Mostly I include these things for my own amusement so they're not breadcrumbs.

 

[OffNSFW]

I wrote a story called "Gift Givers" for the most recent holiday contest that was a pretty direct riff on O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi." I'm not sure anyone got it, especially a commenter who said they quit during the first scene and complained that they don't come to erotica for scenes where things go wrong.

Fuck it, you know? I had a good time writing it, and I think it's good. That's what matters.

I reckon classic literary/art references are generally a hard sell on Literotica.

 

[glynndah]

I wrote a story called "Gift Givers" for the most recent holiday contest that was a pretty direct riff on O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi." I'm not sure anyone got it, especially a commenter who said they quit during the first scene and complained that they don't come to erotica for scenes where things go wrong.

Fuck it, you know? I had a good time writing it, and I think it's good. That's what matters.

I reckon classic literary/art references are generally a hard sell on Literotica.

Oh, I don't know. One of my most highly rated stories is "Six Characters in Search of Erotica", a direct reference to Pirandello.

 

[friendlyoldman]

If I'm writing about a meetup, I often use my editors nickname for the guy I'm meeting. Just a wink to thank him for his work.

 

[PapaRomantic]

I've included "Murray's Supper Club" in two of my stories, but nobody has mentioned that in the comments.

I case you're wondering, Murray's is home to a great steak and a live country band on weekends for dancing.

 

[Erozetta]

The story I'm writing now has a recipe hidden in it.

 

[StillStunned]

The story I'm writing now has a recipe hidden in it.

A nice change from all those recipes that begin with the cook's life story and personal philosophy, with a side trek about an incident when they adopted their first puppy.