My Ideas Don't Make Sense

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I think'em up, I type'em out, I post'em, people read'em.

But they don't make sense. They're not practical. They would never happen.

Not doing scifi or world building or historical fantasy.

Just improbable smut.

Families don't bang each other and go to parties offering their offspring. Moms don't go to college parties and do stripteases. Siblings don't shack up as couples.

 

[Bamagan]

I think'em up, I type'em out, I post'em, people read'em.

But they don't make sense. They're not practical. They would never happen.

Not doing scifi or world building or historical fantasy.

Just improbable smut.

Families don't bang each other and go to parties offering their offspring. Moms don't go to college parties and do stripteases. Siblings don't shack up as couples.

So? Evidence suggests people gobble that up. Look how many Fast & Furious movies they made. Or basically any action-adventure flick.
On a side note, they really missed a golden opportunity when they didn't make Fast 10: Your Seatbelts.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

So? Evidence suggests people gobble that up. Look how many Fast & Furious movies they made. Or basically any action-adventure flick.
On a side note, they really missed a golden opportunity when they didn't make Fast 10: Your Seatbelts.

Ouch...

 

[alohadave]

I think'em up, I type'em out, I post'em, people read'em.

But they don't make sense. They're not practical. They would never happen.

Not doing scifi or world building or historical fantasy.

Just improbable smut.

Families don't bang each other and go to parties offering their offspring. Moms don't go to college parties and do stripteases. Siblings don't shack up as couples.

You don't need to write realistic, you just need to write what satisfies you and your readers.

Sometimes you just need something silly to get off to. There is no shame in that.

 

[TheLobster]

I think'em up, I type'em out, I post'em, people read'em.

But they don't make sense. They're not practical. They would never happen.

Bet they’re still better love stories than Twilight.

 

[Nynah]

Contemporary erotic stories don't need to be practical, they just need to reach a certain level of plausible.

The question is, even if your stories are improbable, people read them by your own admission, so why do they have to make sense?

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I think'em up, I type'em out, I post'em, people read'em.

But they don't make sense. They're not practical. They would never happen.

Not doing scifi or world building or historical fantasy.

Just improbable smut.

Families don't bang each other and go to parties offering their offspring. Moms don't go to college parties and do stripteases. Siblings don't shack up as couples.

I write stories with love and support and happy endings in T/CD. I write stories where the tech exists to change gender at the DNA level. Realism isn’t required. Just write a good story with engaging characters, even if it’s only a 5k wanker.

 

[MrHereWriting]

So? Evidence suggests people gobble that up. Look how many Fast & Furious movies they made. Or basically any action-adventure flick.
On a side note, they really missed a golden opportunity when they didn't make Fast 10: Your Seatbelts.

Fast & the Furious isn't Marvel; you can't fake reality.

 

[PrimalDual]

You don't need to write realistic, you just need to write what satisfies you and your readers.

What satisfies me doesn't satisfy my readers. (Or reach very many of them, for that matter.) Oh well.

 

[crookedletter]

Not doing scifi or world building or historical fantasy.

Just improbable smut.

I guess I'd question what the difference is, really. Sci fi/fantasy asks readers to suspend their disbelief when confronted with story elements that don't fit the real world. Whether it's time travel or interdimensional tentacled gods or brothers and sisters fooling around without consequences. It's fantasy. It's fun. It doesn't have to have robots or dragons to be speculative. Call it an alternate universe.

 

[FrancesScott]

But they don't make sense. They're not practical. They would never happen.

There are at least three types of stories:

1. Erotic literature - these are stories with a actual plot, and actual characters, with actual motivations. The sex might be a part of the plot, or used to emphasize character traits. Or it could be wholly ancillary to it (think James Bond). The plot itself might be sex-driven, or the sex is ancillary, but the story is not just about sex. It might be about personal growth, or a murder mystery, or a detective novel, or a summer vacation... Erotic literature is something that differs from non-pornographic literature only in including (or alluding to) explicit sex, as opposed to what it felt like to wake up next to your new lover the next morning. If you removed - or skipped over - the sex, you still have a story.
2. Sex stories - these are ones where sex is the whole point, the sex is most often described in detail. There may be a plot holding the whole thing together, but its main purpose is to get to the next sex scene. These can still have real characters, with real motivations. But if you remove the sex, it leaves a big hole (gaping fetish anyone?).
3. Strokers - no real plot, just fun-focused and lots of gratuitous fucking with minimal set-up and rather cardboard characters.

For 1 it’s imperative that things kinda make sense, at least in universe (even if supernatural or SciFi). For 2 there is more freedom, and things can be kinda implausible. For 3 you are in Cole Porterland - anything goes.

 

[Melody_Lightdraft2]

I think'em up, I type'em out, I post'em, people read'em.

But they don't make sense. They're not practical. They would never happen.

Not doing scifi or world building or historical fantasy.

Just improbable smut.

Families don't bang each other and go to parties offering their offspring. Moms don't go to college parties and do stripteases. Siblings don't shack up as couples.

That's why I prefer Erotic Fantasy, my world, my rules.

 

[Fatdog25]

Families don't bang each other and go to parties offering their offspring. Moms don't go to college parties and do stripteases. Siblings don't shack up as couples.

A lack of evidence is not proof.

Just sayin'

 

[Baztrachian]

Families don't bang each other and go to parties offering their offspring. Moms don't go to college parties and do stripteases. Siblings don't shack up as couples.

I hate to break it to you but this and a lot of other really wild shit really does happen in this world.

Sorry.

 

[Baztrachian]

Strokers - no real plot, just fun-focused and lots of gratuitous fucking with minimal set-up and rather cardboard characters.

A proper or plausible setting can help with the 'cardboard'.

Example: https://www.literotica.com/s/date-n-go-dawn-swipes-right

 

[MelissaBaby]

Verisimilitude.

Verisimilitude is the most important concept any author of fiction should wrap their heads around. The term is derived from Latin for "the appearance of being true".

Nothing in fiction needs to make sense or be realistic in the real world. It only needs to fit into the "truthiness" of its own universe. That universe might be just like ours, or wildly fantastic. If the author maintains verisimilitude, the reader will accept it.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think'em up, I type'em out, I post'em, people read'em.

But they don't make sense. They're not practical. They would never happen.

Not doing scifi or world building or historical fantasy.

Just improbable smut.

Families don't bang each other and go to parties offering their offspring. Moms don't go to college parties and do stripteases. Siblings don't shack up as couples.

Most erotica is improbable. Some authors try to bend it into some form of plausibility, some just let it fly and embrace porn absurdity.

As long as you have fun with it is all that matters.

 

[Voboy]

Verisimilitude.

Verisimilitude is the most important concept any author of fiction should wrap their heads around. The term is derived from Latin for "the appearance of being true".

Nothing in fiction needs to make sense or be realistic in the real world. It only needs to fit into the "truthiness" of its own universe. That universe might be just like ours, or wildly fantastic. If the author maintains verisimilitude, the reader will accept it.

This.

It doesn't have to make sense. But it should feel consistent.

 

[Britva415]

Most erotica is improbable

To a lot of people, hooking up at all is improbable, so, even plausible erotica is going to seem implausible.

 

[Writer61]

Looking at a porn site recently I was astonished by how many well-known actresses have step-sons that they feel the need to have sex with. And the poor kids don't seem to notice the presence of cameras!

I fear for the youth of today.

 

[StillStunned]

I guess I'd question what the difference is, really. Sci fi/fantasy asks readers to suspend their disbelief when confronted with story elements that don't fit the real world. Whether it's time travel or interdimensional tentacled gods or brothers and sisters fooling around without consequences. It's fantasy. It's fun. It doesn't have to have robots or dragons to be speculative. Call it an alternate universe.

I agree with this. Every genre has premises you have to be willing to accept. Whether it's interstellar travel and aliens in sci-fi, or magic and primordial evil in fantasy, or happily ever after in romance, or crossing the desert and somehow end up in the settlement where your father was shot by the woman who stole your horse at the start of your journey, or a complete lack of common sense in horror, or venturing out from the wilderness for the very first time and killing the man who killed your father and subsequently running separately into two of your uncles in chivalric romance (the Percival stories, if anyone was wondering), or blundering from clue to clue until you identify the man your client hired you to find in detective stories...

In erotica the premise is just that situations will arise where people have sex. The trick for the writer is to make it as easy as possible for the reader to suspend their disbelief.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I think'em up, I type'em out, I post'em, people read'em.

But they don't make sense. They're not practical. They would never happen.

Not doing scifi or world building or historical fantasy.

Just improbable smut.

Families don't bang each other and go to parties offering their offspring. Moms don't go to college parties and do stripteases. Siblings don't shack up as couples.

Is that bad?

 

[lovecraft68]

Looking at a porn site recently I was astonished by how many well-known actresses have step-sons that they feel the need to have sex with. And the poor kids don't seem to notice the presence of cameras!

I fear for the youth of today.

That's as bad as all those wives bringing guys over to fuck in front of their husbands and somehow they always end up going viral.

 

[lovecraft68]

Fast & the Furious isn't Marvel; you can't fake reality.

Every time that series is mentioned someone loses an IQ point.

 

[lc69hunter]

That's as bad as all those wives bringing guys over to fuck in front of their husbands and somehow they always end up going viral.

The difference is that is more true than the anons and trolls would have you believe