Why did you start writing on Literotica specifically?

[EvelynEden]

How did you start writing on Literotica?

Hello, me again! Just popping back to check out a few things and my curious mind got the better of me...

So, why did you start writing on Lit? Maybe you were a long time reader that decided to start writing to fill a void in the market? Maybe you stumbled upon the website via a completely innocent Websearch... or maybe you have a different story to tell, I'm all ears.

Like some idiot from a sitcom, I'm always looking up some hairbrained scheme to make millions. One day I saw an article from some erotic ebook author that talked about making the big bucks writing smut. I was intrigued. Eventually, they asked her how she got into erotica and she said she had started on a website called 'Literotica' that held these great story competitions with fun themes to explore. I was hooked- not on the idea to make millions but the idea of writing for a competition. I LOVE competitions. So I signed up and started writing smut for the first time ever. Funny thing is, I started writing on here about 5 years ago... I have yet to enter a single competition. Go figure

 

[oggbashan]

When I joined in July 2002 I wanted more response than I was getting elsewhere. My first stories posted here were written before, but I started writing for Literotica within days.

 

[OneAuthor]

I've been posting some of my writings at a few other sites since 2016, but none of those sites have as wide of an audience as Literotica. Of course, I'd been reading plenty of stories here for years... and finally thought I had written one that might appeal to some of the readers here. So even though it was (and still is) a work in progress, I began posting chapter of it here to find out if my assessment was correct.

So far, so good.

 

[EvelynEden]

When I joined in July 2002 I wanted more response than I was getting elsewhere. My first stories posted here were written before, but I started writing for Literotica within days.

Ahh I see, that's really interesting! Thanks for sharing

 

[EvelynEden]

I've been posting some of my writings at a few other sites since 2016, but none of those sites have as wide of an audience as Literotica. Of course, I'd been reading plenty of stories here for years... and finally thought I had written one that might appeal to some of the readers here. So even though it was (and still is) a work in progress, I began posting chapter of it here to find out if my assessment was correct.

So far, so good.

That's so great! I'm glad you found success here I hope you continue to post more stories

 

[SimonDoom]

I've written before about why I chose to write erotica, but I chose Literotica because 1) I didn't want to spend lots of time on lots of different sites, and 2) Literotica seemed like the easy choice. It's free, and it has the biggest selection of authors and stories and the biggest reader audience of any site. It has its quirks, but so do all of the other sites, and I've mostly grown accustomed to Lit's quirks.

 

[KeithD]

A Literotica author read my stories elsewhere and suggested I post stories here as well.

 

[EvelynEden]

I've written before about why I chose to write erotica, but I chose Literotica because 1) I didn't want to spend lots of time on lots of different sites, and 2) Literotica seemed like the easy choice. It's free, and it has the biggest selection of authors and stories and the biggest reader audience of any site. It has its quirks, but so do all of the other sites, and I've mostly grown accustomed to Lit's quirks.

Makes sense! Yeah, I agree, Lit's little imperfections are kinda endearing. She's an old gal that has no time for nonsense but a lot of love to give.

 

[EvelynEden]

A Literotica author read my stories elsewhere and suggested I post stories here as well.

Wow! Did you end up keeping in touch with the author? They would have been thrilled to see your success.

 

[KeithD]

Wow! Did you end up keeping in touch with the author? They would have been thrilled to see your success.

We became coauthors here (have even won a themed contest). He's Sabb. We write together as Shabbu. He's now my main erotica publisher in the mainstream too. My first contact with him, though, was an e-mail he sent me, saying our writing styles and genres were similar, and did I know about the Literotica Web site? We lived on exactly the opposite ends of the globe when we started collaborating. Since then, he's moved half a world closer.

 

[SamScribble]

It was easy.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Free.
Big audience.
Format is not impossible.
It appealed to my darker side.
What's not to like?

 

[TxRad]

The first site I posted stories to decided to become a pay site. I pulled all my stories.

A few weeks later a fan from that site e-mailed me about Lit. I've been here ever since.

 

[HeyAll]

I started reading online erotica around when I was in college. I can't remember how I found it.

Anyway, I eventually started reading Lit some time after. I later found Lit's forum which had a section for amature porn, and the only way to view it is by creating an account, so I made up HeyAll.

A few years later, I felt that I had some ideas for stories, so I checked my old account, and sure enough I remembered the password for HeyAll.

Submitted my first story in 2012 and the rest is history.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Hello, me again! Just popping back to check out a few things and my curious mind got the better of me...

So, why did you start writing on Lit? Maybe you were a long time reader that decided to start writing to fill a void in the market? Maybe you stumbled upon the website via a completely innocent Websearch... or maybe you have a different story to tell, I'm all ears.

I wrote a story for a lover, then thought it was worth sharing, so I got their permission. I'd been reading here for maybe a decade before I first posted.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I wanted to write stories here to give back for all of the great stories I have read here.

 

[yukonnights]

I found the site a few years before I became a registered member in 2007. At that time it was the opportunity to interact with other LGBTQ people on a discussion board. As a bisexual, I had been pretty isolated and it was good to see I wasn't alone. The stories were an unexpected bonus — I especially liked the writer who went by the name SR71pilot (now using the KiethD non-de-plume)

Even before I discovered Lit, I'd dabbled with bits of rhyme and some erotic stories on paper for quite awhile before deciding to try to write some here. It was so easy, and what a great place to store my kinky secrets — plus — people even seemed to like them So, for me, it's strictly a pass-time. The opportunity to associate with actual authors is as important to me as having a place to park my smut. (I don't claim to know much about what I'm doing as far as being a writer goes — just flying by intuition and whatever education stuck on my way through life.)

 

[ElectricBlue]

I went looking for decent erotica on-line back in 2014, found Literotica and started reading. And realised very quickly that most of the content was absolute junk, but there were some very, very good writers with some real intelligence shining through. And a few turned me on, a lot.

But it was mostly the junksters that made me think, "Surely I can do better than that?" So I started small, writing short pieces based on personal experiences or fantasies. I then wrote a long shaggy dog Erotic Horror story around the same time my mother was dying. Presumably combining light with dark and sex with death, and spending more time with my older sister than I had since she left home at eighteen and left the country when she was 21, set something running. I wrote two incest stories in homage to my sister, but left it at that. I'm not ready for Freud.

I then wrote a very personal, autobiographical piece, the last chapter of which, I am pleased to say, is one of my consistently highest scoring chapters - eviscerating my heart on a table seemed to touch many people. That series taught me the adage: anchor every story with something utterly true and people will suspend disbelief forever - provided you dot your Is and cross your Ts. Spelling and grammar do help, even if it's Australian.

I then challenged myself to do a truly stupid thing: write about something I knew nothing at all about, and wrote the first chapter of Rope and Veil, about a strong woman with a broken back and the able-bodied man who fell in love with her. The response to that one astonished me - erotica with a social conscience, a sexual voice for folk with disabilities? That's powerful stuff, not to be taken lightly - an erotica writer with some social responsibility? (And no, Simon, I'm not going back to change the tenses ).

That's when I thought, "Yeah, I can write." I'd found my style, my recurrent themes, the chutzpah to write whatever I wanted to write, and the balls to go away and do it. An erotic take on the Arthurian myth, for example, that's pretty gutsy; but it's not on my bucket list, not any more.

So I keep on writing whatever I want, just the way I want to, and slowly all of my worlds are joining up. Alexandra from In the Library has just stepped into The Floating World, and Jillian from The Hyacinth House has gone there too. In ten years I suspect it will make some kind of solipsistic sense (EB world) and all you guys will just reside within it. And with luck, I'll still sit back from time to time and say, "Wow. Did I just write that?"

Do I read much on Literotica now? Not much. Most of it's still junk. I've just added my layer to the pile.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

I chose Literotica because I was already a reader. I had been reading stories here for several years before I started writing.

The decision to write derived primarily from my interest in exhibitionism. My earliest stories were mostly true accounts of my real life adventures. After a short time I decided to try my hand at pure fiction and the rest is history.

 

[Touch_type]

I reviewed a few sites when I took an interest in reading erotica. Lit's by far the easiest to access and I enjoyed the breadth and quality of stories here. When I started writing it was the obvious choice. Of course I was not aware of the dark pools of hatred lurking in the LW section ...

 

[JamesMiehoff]

I started reading Internet porn on Usenet. I toyed with the idea of writing for a long time and then one weekend in a fit of absurdity I wrote three stories and published them on Usenet.

I got one comment and was addicted. When I realized that Usenet really was dead, I googled for 'self published pornography' or something similar and Literotica came up.

So I published a few that had been previously posted to Usenet and I was astonished to see thousands of views and a couple of comments. So I found a dark corner to squat in and sink down roots.

James

 

[RejectReality]

I had been writing "Danica" for my wife for some time, and she kept pushing me to share it with others.

The top results when searching for written erotica back then were all Lit or asstr, and I was not impressed with the latter, so Lit it was. Still took me quite some time to sign up and finally begin posting.

 

[gordo12]

I've been a reader here almost since the beginning of Lit. I read so many stories that, as someone else said, were junk. Or they had a great story going and then took a left turn into la la land. A total turnoff.

Then there were the mistakes, you, your, yore, there, their, they're, and so on. Endless stuff like that where basic English didn't exist.

I've been to other sites. The stories tend to be short, simplistic and poorly done. I know a few authors from here post elsewhere and they're a ray of sunshine in a swamp.

Maybe it's loyalty from being here so long, but I think Lit is miles ahead of other story posting sites. Not so much in the functionality and options they give the authors, but the sheer volume and diversity of viewers, voters and commenters.

It allows me to experiment and get a flood of feedback.

 

[Hypoxia]

My lit'ry background sees songwriting and propaganda (for free) and software and tech writing (for pay). I'd glanced at inconsistent usenet pr0n over the years and finally stumbled on LIT. After a couple months reading compelling tales with lousy orthography and obvious weaknesses I thought, "I can write better than THAT!" and so I did. Does that last bit sound familiar? Now I beg the medicated voices in my head to force me back to fictioneering.

 

[Misshotndeep]

I honestly have never written a story on here. I always found it intimidating. I actually just wrote my first erotic scene in years on an ignored post. Been here almost a decade. Kinda funny that.