In Search Of A Female Editor

[Desperado1775]

Would like some assistance in editing a story involving MFF scenario.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

You'll have better chance posting your request in the editor's forum. I also recommend giving a short logline / plot summary of your story and approx how long it is for a better chance at getting the fish to bite. Good luck!

 

[lovecraft68]

Reason they have to be female?

 

[Euphony]

Reason they have to be female?

Because they "want to write a female POV."

Isn't that the schtick?

 

[lovecraft68]

Because they "want to write a female POV."

Isn't that the schtick?

Yes, of course, pure intentions only.

 

[Euphony]

This place is built on a foundation of sharing and caring is it not?
(sweeps non-con loving wives dust under the rug)

 

[onehitwanda]

This place is built on a foundation of sharing and caring is it not?

Like Herpes?

 

[Euphony]

Because I can't help but be somewhat hopeful at heart, if there are male writers out there truly looking for better female representation.

1. Research. Seriously. There's a TON out there. And NO, porn or Cosmo is not going to help.
2. Read a boatload of female writers here. We are flooded with talent if you go looking for it.
3. Stay in that reading/writing headspace for a bit. Stay in your story almost exclusively. If you question this ability, flipping mode in and out isn't your friend.

4. Women are people. Different common lens perhaps (but you should be familiar with different lenses for each of your characters) but you don't have to stick to "write what you know" enlisting help.

It's not like we get tons of "I need Sci Fi specific editing help" all the time and that's writing way further afield than the other 51% of the population you are hopefully living among decently, kindly, and respectfully ever damn day.

 

[NotWise]

Reason they have to be female?

Because he won't get off on being disciplined by a male editor?

 

[Kumquatqueen]

It's not like we get tons of "I need Sci Fi specific editing help" all the time and that's writing way further afield than the other 51% of the population you are hopefully living among decently, kindly, and respectfully ever damn day.

To be fair, we don't seem to get many aliens posting on Lit complaining about being represented badly. Whereas there's definitely some female readers...

 

[EmilyMiller]

Would like some assistance in editing a story involving MFF scenario.

Hi,

I’m female, but have too short an attention span to be an editor. Hell, I get bored re-reading my own work sometimes.

But, I have had the opposite challenge in recent months. First I wrote a Futanari fantasy. There I asked three male Lit friends to give me some feedback on cocks. Then I wrote my first story with a male narrator. There I didn’t ask for upfront help, but I did ask some guys to review the final draft. So I get it. It can feel unnerving.

However, I think I have some observations, based on the experience. In the first story, while I don’t have a cock, I have spent time around them. I do notice some things. I know if I do X to a cock, the reaction is typically Y. Most of what the guys told me was not revelatory, more confirming my hunches based on that.

If it helps, then what becomes the clitoral/urethral nerve bundle in women and the penal nerve bundle in men both start as the same structure in early embryonic development. That doesn’t mean they end up the same way, but they have a common genesis. So if you extrapolate what you feel in your cock to what a woman feels in her clit, it’s a reasonable starting point; not precise as best I understand it, but a guide. Also, assuming you have gone down on a woman, you must have noticed what she liked and didn’t. It’s not like you have no basis.

As to being penetrated, many guys will have played with their asses (or had someone do this to them). If you haven’t, maybe try . Anal and vaginal penetration feel different to me, but there are parallels. In particular, you have a prostate and some of the feelings generated by stimulating that are, as far as I understand, somewhat like what a woman feels. So again you have a guide, albeit imperfect.

Fellatio? Get hold of a vibrator and suck it . See how it feels.

More broadly, writing from a woman’s POV it helps to note that both men and women are H. sapiens. Society likes to tell us how innately different we are, but a lot of that is BS. Of course there are some differences, but you have been round women before. Mother (I hope), sister (maybe), classmates, girlfriends, wife etc. What did you observe about them?

Write your characters as people first and foremost. Then it shouldn’t be too taxing to overlay some gender stuff.

Also, I can’t tell you with any certainty what the experience of another woman is like. All we really have is our own experiences. So it’s not like it impossible to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

Hope that helps and doesn’t sound too much like a lecture.

Em

 

[lovecraft68]

When I was writing my first stories here, I'd also considered asking female input. Somehow, I thought women would better be able to tell me if I'd be doing it all wrong, portraying a woman. Silly me; almost any man on this forum can tell how a woman thinks and feels. Some of them even seem to know better than ...

I never asked, but decided to treat my female characters just as humans, maybe with a little more emotions and thoughts. I like portraying women, more than men, and I normally give them way more depth than their male counterparts. But even after almost seven years, I'm still wondering if I'm getting them right.

First off, yes, I am being cynical, this is the net and this is a porn site.

Next, you're absolutely correct when you point out women can't possibly explain themselves better than they can be mansplained by guys here.

I took your method of women are people and let's go with that and don't act like they're an alien species, and I also had my wife to help because she's always encouraged my smut writing so its not like its a dirty secret I have to keep from her. Do I get it right? If no news is good news I'll go with all these years later no one has ever said I write female POV like a guy writing women.

Having said all that, the OP may have legit writing only motives, but I go back to point one where I see the worst in things like this because over time I've seen a lot of it.

Being a woman on the net is tough. let alone on an erotica site. My daughter helps with rescue dogs and recently on twitter posted a picture of her holding two puppies in her arms with the tweet. "Look at this cute pair!"

The first reply was a guy saying he'd rather see the pair she was teasing in the tank top she was wearing. There was a half dozen variations of that among the relevant replies.

My wife gets hit on...on words with friends. A damn scrabble game with her AV just being a picture of her face. she gets messages all the time "You single? I live in RI too!" I repeat, on a scrabble game.

Let alone my experience from years of volunteering for women's causes.

So yeah, show me a guy, I see the worst. I'd say that was a bad thing....when some of them actually prove me wrong.

 

[lovecraft68]

To be fair, we don't seem to get many aliens posting on Lit complaining

Never been to the Politics board have you?

 

[lovecraft68]

Like Herpes?

The gift that keeps on giving

 

[AwkwardlySet]

You are all so cynical... I bet the guy just wanted some female fashion advice for his story

 

[lovecraft68]

You are all so cynical... I bet the guy just wanted some female fashion advice for his story

And he doesn't think us guys are fashionistas?

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Bah, it's not the same

And he doesn't think us guys are fashionistas?

Bah, it's so not the same. I've learned through (bitter) experience how differently we see clothing. So unless you got some crossdressing advice to share...

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Normally, I'd suggest people asking these questions to contact SusanJillParker; I guess I'm feeling mellow today.

Is that the "Eddie" guy? Sometimes I really feel like I need AH dictionary to keep up... Actually, maybe one of you should write a "Comprehensive Guide to AH abbreviations, dramatic moments and vague references." Now that would be a true 5* material.

 

[lovecraft68]

Is that the "Eddie" guy? Sometimes I really feel like I need AH dictionary to keep up... Actually, maybe one of you should write a "Comprehensive Guide to AH abbreviations, dramatic moments and vague references." Now that would be a true 5* material.

It's Freddie. SJP was one of several pen names. They always have three word combo names. Original was Bostonfictionwriter, but they had to drop that one after the dead baby thread. There were others that they stuck to mostly writing under. SJP showed up claiming to be a female and filling posts with how her father and four brothers raped her and every guy here wanted to do the same etc....

If you wanted to learn how to not write like a woman, that would be a good pick.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

It's Freddie. SJP was one of several pen names. They always have three word combo names. Original was Bostonfictionwriter, but they had to drop that one after the dead baby thread. There were others that they stuck to mostly writing under. SJP showed up claiming to be a female and filling posts with how her father and four brothers raped her and every guy here wanted to do the same etc....

If you wanted to learn how to not write like a woman, that would be a good pick.

These seem like such boring times in comparison. Somebody really needs to step up.

 

[KeithD]

You'll have better chance posting your request in the editor's forum. I also recommend giving a short logline / plot summary of your story and approx how long it is for a better chance at getting the fish to bite. Good luck!

As noted by JackieO. Ask here: https://forum.literotica.com/forums/editors-forum.9/

And those who ask there frequently specify the gender of the editor they think they need.

 

[Euphony]

It's Freddie. SJP was one of several pen names. They always have three word combo names. Original was Bostonfictionwriter, but they had to drop that one after the dead baby thread. There were others that they stuck to mostly writing under. SJP showed up claiming to be a female and filling posts with how her father and four brothers raped her and every guy here wanted to do the same etc....

If you wanted to learn how to not write like a woman, that would be a good pick.

In the recesses of my mind I remember a "Scouries" as a problematic poster but it's been ages.

 

[lovecraft68]

In the recesses of my mind I remember a "Scouries" as a problematic poster but it's been ages.

He was the other half of the dead baby thread that drove off a popular author here, he also started a nasty thread that caused another top author to leave. He ran fake contests and created havoc in many ways. A lot of people feel he was the reason sweeps had to be created

Yet the site never banned him, and only erased the baby thread due to the outcry it caused in the forum.

End of the day I see scouries as being a good example of the character of ownership here.

 

[lovecraft68]

These seem like such boring times in comparison. Somebody really needs to step up.

I do what I can.

Want me to start another scores don't matter thread?

Jokes aside this all happened before they added a mod here, which is why its not the wild west anymore. But the mod wasn't created for scouries and Freddie, it came after the cheating cabal scandal and because the site was tired of people pointing it out. They had more of a problem with people showing the problem, then the problem itself

 

[KeithD]

In the recesses of my mind I remember a "Scouries" as a problematic poster but it's been ages.

Yes, Scouries claimed to be an employee of the Web site, which never wiped out the irritation this led to by simply denying it. Scouries and Freddie worked in tandem occasionally. Freddie, in his female form, still posts to Literotica. His stories have a following here. Scouries most likely is deceased.