The mark of a great Erotica author

[TheMalevolence]

The title says it all, really, what do you guys consider the mark of a truly great literotica author?

I thought about it for a while, came up with a few ideas. The one I settled on is:

"You know you've found a truly great literotica author when you can't tell if they are male or female, but you still enjoy their work." -TheMalevolent

I'll put a few more up here with fancy italics and stuff if anything good comes from you guys. What d'you think? What's the mark of a great erotica author?

 

[Everyday_Man]

Wow, you quoted yourself.

 

[lovecraft68]

If they can provide a story that is equal parts good story, a 'real story' but also deliver the heat because this is an erotica site, if they can give a good mix of both then hat's off to them.

One opinion on your 'mark' I am always confused why author gender matters, but I guess its a personal thing.

 

[lovecraft68]

Wow, you quoted yourself.

I do every time I post that "Persephone" quote in my sig is from one of my novels.

 

[TheMalevolence]

If they can provide a story that is equal parts good story, a 'real story' but also deliver the heat because this is an erotica site, if they can give a good mix of both then hat's off to them.

One opinion on your 'mark' I am always confused why author gender matters, but I guess its a personal thing.

Quoting myself is fun, I feel immortalised.

As for the author gender thing, amateur male authors' stories read suspiciously like porn made for men, and female authors' stories read suspiciously like porn made for women. (Yeah, it exists... Somewhere). I find it very hard to enjoy stories written by newer female authors, and if I wanted to read the shit male newbies churn out, I'd visit the pornhub twitter page.

More experienced authors have all mastered the art of manipulating everyone into liking them

 

[lovecraft68]

Quoting myself is fun, I feel immortalised.

As for the author gender thing, amateur male authors' stories read suspiciously like porn made for men, and female authors' stories read suspiciously like porn made for women. (Yeah, it exists... Somewhere). I find it very hard to enjoy stories written by newer female authors, and if I wanted to read the shit male newbies churn out, I'd visit the pornhub twitter page.

More experienced authors have all mastered the art of manipulating everyone into liking them

Fair enough point. There is plenty of porn for women out there, big biz now. Sites like Orgasmsxxx Passion HD Joy mii Viv Thomas, Pure Mature....I mean ummm....I have heard such things.

The 'porn made for men' is what I consider stroke and its not my thing, but as I said if they can give a good story around some stroky sex, I enjoy it.

I never think too hard on the author genre, again for me it just does not seem to matter.

On the writing side of things I do get a kick out of people who think I'm female especially on a couple of my lesbian stories.

 

[TheMalevolence]

Fair enough point. There is plenty of porn for women out there, big biz now. Sites like Orgasmsxxx Passion HD Joy mii Viv Thomas, Pure Mature....I mean ummm....I have heard such things.

The 'porn made for men' is what I consider stroke and its not my thing, but as I said if they can give a good story around some stroky sex, I enjoy it.

I never think too hard on the author genre, again for me it just does not seem to matter.

On the writing side of things I do get a kick out of people who think I'm female especially on a couple of my lesbian stories.

I've never gotten a straight answer to the question "Do girls get as aroused at male on male porn as 99.6% of straight men do at lesbian porn?"

Not that I've ever asked that... Or anything.

 

[lovecraft68]

I've never gotten a straight answer to the question "Do girls get as aroused at male on male porn as 99.6% of straight men do at lesbian porn?"

Not that I've ever asked that... Or anything.

Going by women I have spoken to or heard talking about the subject a lot of women think two men are a "waste" and not into it. Many will watch two girls and if not into it at least not disgusted by it.

However on lit it seems there are more female GM authors than male at least going by what they say.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I've never gotten a straight answer to the question "Do girls get as aroused at male on male porn as 99.6% of straight men do at lesbian porn?"

Not that I've ever asked that... Or anything.

As far as I can tell, a sizeable majority of the slashfic writers who focus on explicit M/M are female.

 

[sr71plt]

"You know you've found a truly great literotica author when you can't tell if they are male or female, but you still enjoy their work." -TheMalevolent

Nope, think this misses the mark. I don't think that being able to tell the gender of the writer has any controlling effect on how good the content of the story is in terms of being erotic.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

I don't think gender has anything to do with it, for me.

I don't like these terms, but I do think someone is pretty damn good when they can capture the essence of their fetish and convey it to someone who could care less about that Fetish.

For example. Furrybert. Hunted. Do I read NC? No. But I read that one.
If someone can make me stick with a BDSM story and get it and find it over the top hot, they've done something.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't think gender has anything to do with it, for me.

I don't like these terms, but I do think someone is pretty damn good when they can capture the essence of their fetish and convey it to someone who could care less about that Fetish.

For example. Furrybert. Hunted. Do I read NC? No. But I read that one.
If someone can make me stick with a BDSM story and get it and find it over the top hot, they've done something.

Hunted is one of only three or four NC stories I have read here because I hate them for personal reasons. But someone recommended it to me because the NC really does fit the story and it doesn't glorify the NC, its just part of the story, like a regular work of fiction. It deserves the crazy numbers it has.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Words on Skin . . .

Hunted is one of only three or four NC stories I have read here because I hate them for personal reasons. But someone recommended it to me because the NC really does fit the story and it doesn't glorify the NC, its just part of the story, like a regular work of fiction. It deserves the crazy numbers it has.

 

[lovecraft68]

Words on Skin . . .

Epic. Best incest story on this site in my opinion.

Paco fear has a couple of landmark stories in incest. Stolen Kisses was damn good as was Macellen Promises, even though it was in sci fi it was a sis/sis incest story.

He's damn good and its a shame he does not write much here.

Plus when I was brand new and looking for some help he took me under his wing for awhile and helped me out, great guy.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Speaking for myself, I do.

But I don't think it's nearly as common as the other way around.

I've never gotten a straight answer to the question "Do girls get as aroused at male on male porn as 99.6% of straight men do at lesbian porn?"

Not that I've ever asked that... Or anything.

 

[nomoretears00]

Speaking as a M/M author, I can tell you my readership is mostly women. But I focus on romance between my guys, not just the sex.

I do have some gay/bi guys that read me. One of my betas is gay. He keeps me honest when it comes to the sex scenes and other things lol. I also beta read for some of my gay friends. I should also add all I read now is M/M and have for the past five years.

So do women get into two guys? That's a resounding yes lol.

 

[sr71plt]

Speaking as a M/M author, I can tell you my readership is mostly women. But I focus on romance between my guys, not just the sex.

I think most of my M/M readers on Lit. are women too--although, for the most part, I'm writing directly to the active GM demographic--mixing in some romantic with a larger helping of raw lifestyle. I welcome anyone reading me, no matter what gender--up to where they tell me what I should be writing instead.

Of course I've also got more straight stories of different varieties here than most authors here have stories in total, so it isn't all about M/M--and I can tell that the readers of my stories aren't all compartmented on what they'll read and comment on.

 

[AZMotherLover]

Words on Skin . . .

I read it and liked it, but I wouldn't call it great.

The mark of a great erotic author is easy to quantify: Did I get a boner?

 

[LadyVer]

The title says it all, really, what do you guys consider the mark of a truly great literotica author?

I thought about it for a while, came up with a few ideas. The one I settled on is:

"You know you've found a truly great literotica author when you can't tell if they are male or female, but you still enjoy their work." -TheMalevolent

I'll put a few more up here with fancy italics and stuff if anything good comes from you guys. What d'you think? What's the mark of a great erotica author?

Personally, I want to know if a writer is male or female. Usually, I can tell. The bottom line, though, is that it doesn't matter what the gender is for a good story. The mark of a great erotica author is that he/she writes good stories with believable plots and characters. Stroke stories get old after a while.

 

[legerdemer]

If they can provide a story that is equal parts good story, a 'real story' but also deliver the heat because this is an erotica site, if they can give a good mix of both then hat's off to them.

This, with an original plot and vivid, realistic characters I care about it, and high quality writing with sensuous language.

The sex of the author makes no difference, and I don't mind most categories, though I read very little Erotic Horror and Loving Wives. On the other hand, I'm one of the females who gets very hot and bothered by M/M stories - I surprised myself on this and still have no good idea why I find them so hot. F/F stories, in contrast, generally leave me cold - whatever the sex or orientation of the writer.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

lol. At least you're being honest.

I would perhaps quantify that as "good." Great would take a bit more.

I read it and liked it, but I wouldn't call it great.

The mark of a great erotic author is easy to quantify: Did I get a boner?

 

[tanyachrs]

I want something other than sex but I want the something other to contribute to the sex.

 

[emap]

What makes a great author is when you can't stop reading the story. Means everyone has a different 'BEST AUTHOR EVER'.

Most women don't watch gay porn for one simple reason, it's porn. Guys get all hot and bothered watching a cock going in and out of whatever hole is presented, so don't get that. Women like watching passion, so the late night sex movies/shows are popular.

Now when it comes to dude on dude sex stories, women like those because we get to picture it in our head. Usually the images in your own head are better than what you will see in a movie, why erotic stories have been popular since, basically, writing was invented.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Few people read WAR & PEACE but it remains the best for one simple reason most novels fail at: The characters evolve. Ditto Dickens. Ditto Shakespeare. The best biographies do the same, reveal how the subject evolves from experience and contemplation.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm not interested in erotica or catering to erotica fans, entirely because erotica is the depiction of the process folks go thru to get from one place to another as when they first sense the call of the wild in themselves, and later act on it. LIT is entirely 18 year old virgins tho sex germinates about the time we start school. If LIT were a movie LAUREL would start the movie at the intermission.

But erotica is all about permanent change and firsts. By 18 most people are old salts when it comes to sex.

What I do and most of us do is sexual choreography lessons for widows.