Things You Especially Enjoyed Writing About In Specific Stories

[RetroFan]

Have you written a story and especially enjoyed writing about something specific within it more than the erotic aspects?

Recently I wrote a fetish series called 'My Best Friend's Crazy Fat Sister' which contains four main characters who each correspond to the four personality types - Sean (Melancholic), Zoe (Sanguine), Adam (Phlegmatic) and Emily (Choleric). I enjoyed this challenge, but especially loved writing the scenes where the female characters have PMS and the male characters earn their wrath.

In another story I wrote set in the 1950s called 'Pretty Paula's Poodle Skirts' I loved writing the scenes where the titular character's father tries (and fails) to use expressions teenagers use. He talks about things being 'squared', 'swelled' and 'rock or roll music'.

What are some of your experiences?

 

[tomlitilia]

I recently wrote a story about a business woman submitting to her secretary. In order to emphasize that she's strong and brilliant outside of her sexual submission, I included a story arc where she takes down a CEO who tries to belittle her through a series of master suppression techniques. I found writing that quite rewarding.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

Have you written a story and especially enjoyed writing about something specific within it more than the erotic aspects?

My second story, Dancing Naked in the Rain, is set on the Appalachian Trail. I haven't actually been on the AT in many (too many) years, and had to do a lot of research about the distances between various stops and the amenities available at each. It has changed a lot since my last trip and I enjoyed using Google Image search to revisit places I had known, and seeing how they had changed.

 

[NotWise]

Have you written a story and especially enjoyed writing about something specific within it more than the erotic aspects?

I think most of my stories have something other than erotic scenes that I enjoyed writing.

In the 2nd and 3rd parts of "A Valentine's Day Mess," the two main characters relate stories to each other that they dredge from an inherited memory that they share. They were orphaned fairly young and the stories start with their parents' life in El Salvador and work back in time.

Part 3 contains two stories. One is placed on a ranch in El Salvador near the beginning of the 19th century. The second is placed in central Spain and Las Palmas (Canary Islands) and starts about 1542. Both stories have "bodice ripper" qualities and conflicted characters. They took a lot of work to write, but they were fun.

As a bonus they have sex, too.

 

[rjordan]

Have you written a story and especially enjoyed writing about something specific within it more than the erotic aspects?

I like every aspect of a story EXCEPT the sex and erotic aspects. Erotic parts are OK to write if I'm in the mood and the characters are up for it.

The sex scenes are boring as shit to write and equally as boring to read. I do what I can to minimize having to write sex scenes.

As a reader, I nearly always skip over the sex parts in a compelling story with good characters so I can stay in the story. It's surprising how seldom graphic sex scenes actually move the story forward. Other than making the point that they fuck, it rarely adds anything substantive.

I love sex, the intimacy of it and spontaneity. But I'd rather read a do-it-yourself plumbing manual than a sex scene--at least I'd learn something.

The aspect I especially enjoy is writing dialog between two characters that have unexpected chemistry. I think it's as unexpected with characters as it is with two real people. You can't just write chemistry--it happens. I guess in writing it happens in the writer's head without conscious deliberation. The two just click, and the dialog flows.

It doesn't happen in every story, but when it does, it's the most beautiful thing in writing to me.

rj

 

[SimonDoom]

I would say "no", so far, because in the stories I've written for this site to date (14 stories total) everything I've written in the stories was meant to be part of the "erotic" aspect, even if was not part of a sex scene as such.

In response to what rjordan wrote, above, I would say that I have greatly enjoyed writing the sex scenes, because it was something I'd never done until I started writing stories for this site, and I think it represents a fun challenge to write, but I agree with rjordan that sex scenes written by others often are the least erotic and interesting element of a story. The key to good erotica is the buildup: putting interesting characters in erotic situations, and seeing what happens. The sex often reads like little more than a bridge from the buildup to the conclusion. When it's well done, it can be very enjoyable, but it's the characters and the situation that make an erotic story really enjoyable.

 

[CyranoJ]

Don't see the point in writing erotic stories if sex scenes bore you, personally. Certainly if the sex is interrupting a more interesting story rather than being part of it, that would be a problem.

Sex scenes are some of my favourite things to write if they work well. The sex scenes in "Strange Hunger" and "Heart Like a Lion" are my personal favourite examples from what I have on here. Both also have some of my fave story content of my efforts on Lit, especially the former in which one of the protagonist's choices wound up "surprising" me. (The illusion of having a character channelling in from outside is one of the most fun things about writing fiction for me.)

 

[Bramblethorn]

Just about every story I've written. I always try to include something that I find interesting, whether it's the history of religious art as a way of disguising porn, or fin-de-siecle authors' obsession with yellow, or mind-control wasps, or directed graph theory.

...although I guess those things are related to the erotica aspects, since for me brains are a big part of sex appeal.

 

[sunandshadow]

I always enjoy writing about nonhuman worldbuilding or biology. Writing that imitates a video game interface can be fun too. (Probably some of you aren't familiar with them, but there's a recent new subgenre of writing called LitRPG where the story is usually set within a highly realistic virtual reality game. TVtropes also has a page on the trope Video Game Interface.)

 

[ChloeTzang]

I love writing both the erotic / sex parts of my stories and the other filler stuff between the sex scenes. I can't say that I enjoy writing the non- sex more than the sex, I enjoy both but there's a few of my stories where I thought the filler was just as interesting to write and I really enjoyed it. Cases in point ...

All the biker culture and bits and pieces about Harley's, making leather jackets and motorcycle riding in my Chinese Takeout series. When honest to god one percenters email me to compliment me on getting it right, that's such a buzz.

The whole Shanghai Girl outlook on life in Strawberry chapter 4. When Chinese girls email you about a story about a Chinese girl on a site like LIT .... what can you say. I love writing all those little contrasts and clashes between Chinese and American culture and outlook on life.

then there's the Tae Kwon Do and dim sum stuff in Hayley's Party as well as a whole lot of Triad stuff I'm researching for new chapters. And mods for Ford Mustangs for another story. Yep, it's all fun, but I do love writing the sex as well. That's why I write here.

 

[sr71plt]

I've brought artwork (within the context of the story) into the erotic elements of stories in various ways and have enjoyed doing so.

 

[KenNicottii]

For my story “Trailing Along” I had to delve into all aspects of horse ownership to make sure a knowledgeable reader wouldn’t be taken out of the story by some minor detail I got wrong.

I was fortunate to find a volunteer editor who was a horse owner, but she only completed the first 20% of the story before going AWOL. I was on my own at that point, but the Internet has endless websites, blogs, forums, and videos to fill the gap: barn layouts, feeding routines, saddle types, grooming methods, horse personalities and health issues—you name it. You wouldn’t believe how many YouTube videos are out there of precocious tween girls in braces explaining to the camera how they groom their horses and shovel the poop out of the stalls.

It took me months to research all the details, but it was fun. By that time I had a good handle on the two characters, and the sex scenes pretty much wrote themselves. (My regular editor, LadyVer, was able to whip the manuscript into shape as the Winter Holidays contest deadline approached.)

I even drove out to the area where the story was set to make sure I had all the location details down. It was nice to receive a complementary comment from someone who used to live out in that rural part of Southern California.

 

[oggbashan]

I enjoyed writing about pirates in the Authors' Hangout Chain - The Worst Chain Story Ever. Pirates appear at the bottom of the first page.

https://www.literotica.com/s/the-worst-chain-story-ever-ch-01

It was and is still the worst chain story. Some parts were never written; most didn't follow on from the earlier parts; and some parts have now been lost. But we enjoyed poking fun at our worst writing faults.

An extract so you don't have to read all of it:

There were GOOD pirates (Hurrah! Wave Jolly Roger) who fought the Spanish enemy (Boo!) and BAD pirates (Boo!) who robbed, raped (but this word was NEVER explained) and pillaged until they met the GOOD pirates (Hurrah! Wave Jolly Roger) or the BRITISH NAVY (Three Cheers! and wave Union Jack) and were sunk (with all hands) to the watery grave they deserved.

 

[Hypoxia]

My favorites were those hanging around in my head for years or decades. Doing necessary research and finally putting them into words was immensely satisfying, helped in both cases by beta-readers. The background of the The Botanists real-life tale found me around 40 years before writing. My first mental snaps of Bride of Kong popped into view 15 years before. Both took quite awhile to write, with a fair amount of research. Research is fun. Easier than writing, too.

Others of my faves are just the opposite, inspired little pieces I pumped-out in no time. Were they bad because they were too easy? Nope. When you're hot, you're hot!

 

[rjordan]

An extract so you don't have to read all of it:

There were GOOD pirates (Hurrah! Wave Jolly Roger) who fought the Spanish enemy (Boo!) and BAD pirates (Boo!) who robbed, raped (but this word was NEVER explained) and pillaged until they met the GOOD pirates (Hurrah! Wave Jolly Roger) or the BRITISH NAVY (Three Cheers! and wave Union Jack) and were sunk (with all hands) to the watery grave they deserved.

Good Lord! Is that extract the Best of the Worst or the Worst of the Worst?

rj

 

[sr71plt]

For my story “Trailing Along” I had to delve into all aspects of horse ownership to make sure a knowledgeable reader wouldn’t be taken out of the story by some minor detail I got wrong.

You remind me that I had a lot of fun researching and a writing a story where the submissive was trained to sexual positions through use of the elements of dressage competition.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Good Lord! Is that extract the Best of the Worst or the Worst of the Worst?

rj

Lol. You took the thought right out of my mind. That was baaaaad, Ogg. But it could have been worked on to un-prove it.

 

[oggbashan]

Good Lord! Is that extract the Best of the Worst or the Worst of the Worst?

rj

Lol. You took the thought right out of my mind. That was baaaaad, Ogg. But it could have been worked on to un-prove it.

At the time the members of the Authors' Hangout were reluctant to expose their deliberately bad writing to public scrutiny. I undertook to write the first chapter of The Worst Chain Story Ever.

After reading it, some potential contributors decided they couldn't write worse than me.

However, my chapter 01 has attracted a few high votes and some reasonable comments over the years.

It's less than 2 Lit pages. You can read it and shudder:

https://www.literotica.com/s/the-worst-chain-story-ever-ch-01

A longer extract from page 2:

"Yes, John. They are the fur mittens that are a copy of the fur mittens that Hiawatha gave to Minnehaha in the stories:

From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the Northland, From the land of the Ojibways, From the land of the Dacotahs, From the mountains, moors and fenlands Where the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, Feeds among the reeds and rushes.

As you know, John, they were written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who didn't write about the fur mittens of Minnehaha given by Hiawatha made from beaver trapped from the lodges beside the great shining waters and made only from the rare and elusive split beaver the sight of which raises man's spirit to commune with whatever a raised man's spirit communes with.

These mittens are reversible, as were Minnehaha's, had Hiawatha given her beaver mittens, which he didn't but if he had:

She could wear them with the fur side inside, She could wear them with the skin side outside: She could wear them with the skin side inside, She could wear them with the fur side outside: She could turn them from the inside to the outside; She could turn them from the outside to the inside. She could wear them with the warm side inside, She could wear them with the warm side outside: She could wear them with the cold side inside, She could wear them with the cold side outside,

But she didn't because Henry Wadsworth Longfellow didn't write about the fur mittens that Hiawatha gave to Minnehaha but some other poet, who was not very kind to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow but whose name I can't remember, did.

 

[rjordan]

At the time the members of the Authors' Hangout were reluctant to expose their deliberately bad writing to public scrutiny. I undertook to write the first chapter of The Worst Chain Story Ever.

After reading it, some potential contributors decided they couldn't write worse than me.

I can see where potential contributors would be intimidated. Also interesting that a writer who can tell a complete story in 50 words can reverse the process like a beaver mitten to say virtually nothing in 5000 words.

You the man, Og.

rj

 

[HisArpy]

I like writing silly things into stories. For instance I have a manuscript out right now for reading and editing that has a scene in it where the protagonist goes to the doctor. He has all kinds of candy suckers. Green ones fix anything but she might have something really contagious; so he brought a spare. You can't bite them, it ruins the medicine. *crunch!* Goner for sure... And so on.

I have a new story being flowcharted for the plot where the main characters both have a boot fetish. Still need to write that one.

I also like writing romantic stuff. Things like when one lover pushes the hair out of the face of their partner, the looks they give each other, the breathy comments, the obvious love they have, tender touches, goose pimples.

I remember all of these things well after I finish writing the tale.

When I write the sex stuff it's a challenge because I try not to write in the classic porn style. I like my erotica to be classy, not crappy so I rarely use words like cum. Sometimes I will, but very rarely. I also try not to use phrases like "he was pumping her ass like a plumber with a toilet plunger." Crass is not my style.

Humor, love and a bit of the unexpected. That's what I try to achieve. Sometimes I succeed.