Arousing the Reader

[dr_mabeuse]

In another thread, Diane marie wrote:

"The truth is, I really get off on thinking one of my stories may have sexually aroused one of my readers. This is just so awful, but I can just see some guy reading one of my stories with his hand wrapped around his little dickie! Maybe that says loads about me."

Now, I like hearing that people liked my stories, but I LOVE hearing that a story I wrote made someone masturbate or run off and have sex. This goes so far beyond the usual kind of authorial satisfaction I get as a writer that I think it's an actual fetish.

My best stuff is written when I have the actual image of the woman in my mind (I do a lot of stuff by request) so I can picture how she would act and react, and so, to me, it's a lot like I make love to her in fantasy. If she tells me that the story aroused her, then I almost feel like I've made long distance love to her.

So: do I need help or do other people feel this way about their writing?

---dr.M.

 

[Madame Manga]

I remember getting a letter from a woman who told me that she had read one of my stories off the screen to her boyfriend while he was fixing her VCR, and that when he finished what he was doing, he tackled her off the computer chair and nailed her right there on the floor. ;-)

Then he told her he had come over to break up with her because he was having an affair with his boss. So it was a wash, perhaps.

I can't say I write to get letters like that. They make me laugh and I appreciate them, but I enjoy letters that talk about writerly issues just as much, if not more so. Those can open great discussions and friendships. If someone tells me he or she achieved orgasm by means of something I wrote...well, what can I say other than, "I'm happy for you, dear"? ;-)

Your mileage may vary, of course!

MM

 

[wildsweetone]

hmm i haven't actually ever written a story with the total intention of ensuring a reader 'gets off' from it. there's a challenge.

hmm considering a couple of my feedbacks though... maybe i should put in a warning at the beginning that the reader might like to take a complete physical before reading the story...

what would you recommend dr.?

(i cannot believe i'm actually considering writing a pure intent jack-off piece rofl)

 

[BigTexan]

I can't recall ever getting any "I came to your story" feedback. I think if I did, it would make me smile, but not give me any greater thrill than to hear that my story made them cry or laugh or get angry or ...

If I can ellicit any emotion with my writing then I think I'm writing well and I'm happy with that.

BigTexan

 

[MissTaken]

If a story evokes any reaction from the reader, it seems that you have done a great job writing it.

In the case where the reader becomes aroused or "whacks off," your imagery and story line must have been well crafted and hit a chord.

I do take it as a compliment when someone finds themself aroused by my writings.

I do not write to "get people off, " though.

 

[TheEarl]

i have written one story simply as a "jerk-off" story. It was crap. Forced and appalling. It's still on Lit if you want to read (are you the same kind of person that watches car accidents?) One Cup Of Coffee.

Have actually written another Cheap N' Nasty story since, but there was still some actual writing skill in that one, so it wasn't a bad story. Just slightly more direct.

The best compliment I've got was of writing a story and having people clamouring for the seuqel because they want to know what happens to the characters next. If you can get the readers into a story, it doesn't matter how cheap, or how nasty, or what you've written it for. They're involved in a story, rather than a slightly less imaginative masturbation session. If I can do that, then I feel quite proud of myself.

The Earl

 

[gauchecritic]

Looks like I joined this writing scene for entirely the wrong reasons, either that or the "I came harder than I ever did before" responses I get are from people who don't give a damn about style only content.

Personally I believe that people who care only for content watch video rather than immersing themselves in the written word.

That is to say, they (have to) use their imagination as well as their eyes and therefore a specific cognitive function which demands a particular level of writing ability/style/skill over and above their own predispositions for whatever context.

I suppose what I'm beating around the bush at is; the point implicit in 'jack off' versus 'literacy' is that the former is less well written than the latter. Which is not the case. The former users less syllables per word than the latter also not true and that the 'superiority' of the latter precludes a wank, definitely untrue.

Or have I got hold of the wrong end of the stick/rod/length.

Gauche

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!

Okay. I guess I'm the only one on the site who specifically intends for his male readers to get hard and his female readers to get wet. I do intend that, and I'm not one bit ashamed.

What's so damned shameful about trying to arouse a reader. This is erotica isn't it? What reaction do you look for? A bemused smirk? A raised eyebrow?

What's so shameful about writing to arouse? Because it's supposedly easy? I don't think so. At least, I haven't seen very much decent stuff. If horror lit is supposed to scare us, and mysteries to befuddle us, why shouldn't porn excite us?

And WSO: you've never written a stroker? How can you be an erotic writer and never have done the basic excercise?

Let me tell you people, it's easy to deal with characters: just try making organs interesting! There's a literary challenge!

So come on, show me how easy it is. Let's see your best stroke stuff. Come on, ya bunch o' babies! Show me what ya got!

---dr.M.

 

[TheEarl]

Dr M: Check this out then - a stroker with some semblence of literary merit.

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=67954

And one without: http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=43857

The former will do more for you than the latter. Yes I do think that stories here (apart from non-erotic obviously) should arouse, but I don't think that that should be their sole raison d'etre.

Admittedly, when I want to get off, I don't usually use Lit and I definitely don't go for the more high-brow stories. Write for who you will; it's your niche.

The Earl

 

[TaffyJ]

Arousal is a must for me.

I'm certainly no great writer, so I would pity the poor fool who liked my stuff solely on merit. I want to write a good story to go along with the erotic element, but I consider the eroticism a more important factor.

If ten percent of my feedback indicates I turned someone on, I'm satisfied.

Dr M, that's probably the safest sex imaginable, but I know what you mean. I like the av.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Earl

I think maybe we have different definitions of what a "stroke story" is. To me, it means a piece of writing whose sole intent to sexually arouse the reader. As such, neither story did much for me.

I'm maybe a bit older and probably a lot more jaded than a lot of readers here, but a story's got to do a lot more than just tell me that two people fucked to get me at all excited. The second story had a very interesting premise and was well done, but again, the sex scenes were very flat to me.

I don't know exactly what it is that makes a story sexy. For me, it has to paint a vivid picture. I have to be able to picture what's going on. and the more it can draw me in--the richer the detail, the more sensual the imagery--usually the sexier I find it. But it has to have a lot more than that too.

The emotions have to clearly portrayed, either displayed through action or by description. The imagery has to be striking but not distracting. The language has to be very rich and lush, so that even in reading it to oneself the words have a certain sensuality that works with the action. In the best stroke stuff, even the sentence structure and rhythms reflect the action and excitement and move lin parallel with the characters. And then all this has to be put together with no distractions, nothing to call attention to the author's cleverness or his skill.

Anyhow, that's what I'vbe noticed about what really turns me on. I'm sure the list is far from complete.

---dr.M.

 

[Quasimodem]

NEVER clean your mouse ball again*

. . . I do take it as a compliment when someone finds themself aroused by my writings . . .

Having known guys who find themselves 'aroused' by glancing at a mail order catalogue girdle illustration, I doubt that I would care too much.

*About the title: It was the title from a piece of SPAM that got through my IP's spam-blocker. Is this some kinky new fetish on which I've been missing out?

 

[Guest]

Best compliment in the world.

Sure...each of us enjoys hearing that someone liked the story we've written. How they liked, even appreciated the character development, the imagination...even the sex scenes. I know I do...and don't get me wrong, knowing that, hearing that tells me I'm improving.

BUT..........

I 'still' love the occasional feedback that says simply:

"Damn...that made me horny...I must have cum five times!"

Sorta like a five star review maybe?

I remain,

 

[Couture]

The stories I write are 'stroke' stories. The are written specifically to get the reader off. I don't have any problem at all admitting that.



Some stories make people laugh. Some make people cry.
I hope to make em cum so hard they almost die.

 

[wildsweetone]

Re: Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!

And WSO: you've never written a stroker? How can you be an erotic writer and never have done the basic excercise?

Let me tell you people, it's easy to deal with characters: just try making organs interesting! There's a literary challenge!

So come on, show me how easy it is. Let's see your best stroke stuff. Come on, ya bunch o' babies! Show me what ya got!

---dr.M.

i said 'hmm i haven't actually ever written a story with the total intention of ensuring a reader 'gets off' from it. there's a challenge.

it's true. i've not written one for Literotica. the stories i've written that are published here were just written for fun... apart from Tonight's the Night... that came from Ray Dario's challenge a while back but i didn't write it with the explicit intention to make people get off on it... the intention was to write about oral sex.

what category do you prefer to read in dr.?

 

[wildsweetone]

Re: NEVER clean your mouse ball again*

*About the title: It was the title from a piece of SPAM that got through my IP's spam-blocker. Is this some kinky new fetish on which I've been missing out?

...maybe the instigator of the spam knows more than he/she should...

 

[jon.hayworth]

Personally I wonder what people are doing writing sex stories, if they don't intend their readers to get aroused.

I yake it as a compliment when a reader tells me that my creation got them horny, made them cum, whatever. I watched the girlfriend of a friend of mine (I do have one or two ) - he's another Lit author.

We were talking about writing - cracking problems with one of his stories - and his gf was reading the paper copies of my stories sitting in my rocking chair. When I looked a second time I realised she was masturbating as she read. Great I got a # of cums rating on each story.

MY POINT IS IT BOOSTED MY EGO NO END TO WITNESS THE EFFECT OF MY WRITING ON A READER

jon

 

[wildsweetone]

Personally I wonder what people are doing writing sex stories, if they don't intend their readers to get aroused.

oh... so authors are not meant to be writing stories about sex UNLESS they intend for the readers to get aroused???

hmm does that go for travel writers too? they write travel stories ONLY SO that their readers go travelling?

 

[jon.hayworth]

Do travel writers intend their readers to travel? -

Ummmm well maybe they at least expect their work to stimulate their readers - even the armchair travellers!

And editors have been known to give stories arousal ratings in graphic terms

jon

for my editor

 

[cherrylips_au]

oh... so authors are not meant to be writing stories about sex UNLESS they intend for the readers to get aroused???

hmm does that go for travel writers too? they write travel stories ONLY SO that their readers go travelling?

If sex is the main idea behind the story then the reader would hopefully become aroused by it.

Sex stories have other intentions, maybe to teach the reader something or make them stop and think.

If you are writing an erotic story well I think you would be hoping to achieve arousal in someone reading it.

It's the same of every category, humour to tickle someones funny bone, travel to entice the reader even if only in their mind.

This may not be their only functions but I would think important ones.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Re: Re: Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!

i said 'hmm i haven't actually ever written a story with the total intention of ensuring a reader 'gets off' from it. there's a challenge.

it's true. i've not written one for Literotica. the stories i've written that are published here were just written for fun... apart from Tonight's the Night... that came from Ray Dario's challenge a while back but i didn't write it with the explicit intention to make people get off on it... the intention was to write about oral sex.

what category do you prefer to read in dr.?

Perhaps I mispoke slightly. I don't sit down with the specific intent to make guys cream their jeans (in the language of the trade), but...well...maybe I do actually. I don't know.

But I do know that my ultimate goal would be to write a story so good that it would make people orgasm from just from reading. That would be something.

And, WSO, I write for fun too. And I think sex is the most fun you can have (without laughing).

What category? Oh, anything but incest, bestiality, scat, or rape. I'm partial to mild BDSM, reluctant sex (where a person resists at first but soon becomes a willing participant), people being overwhelmed by passion, transcendent lust, things like that. I find loving sex between partners to be kind of boring. There's got to be some transformation in the characters ("Oh Rodney! You've made me feel like a woman at last!")

---dr.M.

 

[wildsweetone]

Re: Re: Re: Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!

And, WSO, I write for fun too. And I think sex is the most fun you can have (without laughing).
---dr.M.

actually, try it while you're laughing one day. it's incredible.

okay give me a month and i'll see if i can squeeze in the time to write something specifically designed to arouse.

odd how i already figure the reactions to it will turn out... but what the heck, i need the practise



hmm one more question... do you have a hobby? i figure as it's specific to a person of your calibre that i may as well add a touch of realism in there if i can figure out how to do it

 

[Diane Marie]

Sex stories have other intentions, maybe to teach the reader something or make them stop and think.

cherrylips_au, almost all of my stories are of a type that I hope my audience stops and thinks. But they are still erotic, I do hope for a response to that part of my story.

dr_mabeuse, I do so like an honest man!

 

[gauchecritic]

Stop with the stroking already

actually, try it while you're laughing one day. it's incredible.

Even better somehow get your girlfriend to cough all the way through the penetration part. I guarantee at least a mild cardiac infarction.

Gauche

 

[gauchecritic]

* for girlfriend read partner/lover/spouse etc etc

Gauche