This is to all of you very talented authors out there. Are your stories figments of wild imaginations, fantasies, real life experiences or something similiar to one? Also I've tried writing stories before but I have trouble putting my thoughts into words... any suggestions?
Authors and their Imaginations
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Endlessly
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My two stories are fantasies, though I'm writing a series now that's based loosely on experience. All of my poems are based on experiences.. Basically, just try to explain it like the person was in front of you. Tell us what you see. *smile*
Well Young one...where do I begin?
And that's kind of the way my stories start. I usually write from personal experience, but being nearly half a century old that provides plenty of food for thought. Sometimes I begin with a personal experience and alter it to include things I might have wanted to happen. Basically part fact without the fumbling fingers and stuck zippers and part fiction with all the right moves, permissions and activity.
I suggest you read other's writing and find the kinds of stories within which you can see yourself or that you're able to visualize. Take one of the stories you like and use it as a pattern to write your own fantasy or actual account.
But....you have to write, write, write! It may not be great at first, but edit and try again.
I'm quite new at this myself, but will help if I can.
Good luck!
And that's kind of the way my stories start. I usually write from personal experience, but being nearly half a century old that provides plenty of food for thought. Sometimes I begin with a personal experience and alter it to include things I might have wanted to happen. Basically part fact without the fumbling fingers and stuck zippers and part fiction with all the right moves, permissions and activity.
I suggest you read other's writing and find the kinds of stories within which you can see yourself or that you're able to visualize. Take one of the stories you like and use it as a pattern to write your own fantasy or actual account.
But....you have to write, write, write! It may not be great at first, but edit and try again.
I'm quite new at this myself, but will help if I can.
Good luck!
Xander
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My stories and characters is a product of my imagination, and they only live their lives in my mind.
However there are always something that feed the imagination, and thus can be used when I write. It can be everything: A sad looking girl walking on the street. A movie. My wildest sexual experiences. Anything.
When I get an idea for a story, I try to go through it in my mind before I start to write. When I finally try to put words on the thoughts one of two things usually happen.
#1 I hit a wall and can't seem to get it out.
#2 I goes fluently and I can sit in front of the lap top for hours.
I admit that I'm fairly new at writting erotica, and some times has huge difficulties in putting words on the feelings and actions so they appear trust worthy.
In the beginnig I sucked big time. (Some may think I still do)
Until my creative writting teacher gave me a suggestion.
Find something you don't like the thought of. Murder, rape, blood or needles. Then sit down and think of a situations were the thing you don't like appear. Then write about the situation. When you're done don't read it. Wait a few days and then read it.
If you have managed to give yourself a bad taste in the mouth. It's well done.
I don't know if it works for all. But it worked for me.
Hope it helps
[This message has been edited by Xander (edited 01-07-2000).]
However there are always something that feed the imagination, and thus can be used when I write. It can be everything: A sad looking girl walking on the street. A movie. My wildest sexual experiences. Anything.
When I get an idea for a story, I try to go through it in my mind before I start to write. When I finally try to put words on the thoughts one of two things usually happen.
#1 I hit a wall and can't seem to get it out.
#2 I goes fluently and I can sit in front of the lap top for hours.
I admit that I'm fairly new at writting erotica, and some times has huge difficulties in putting words on the feelings and actions so they appear trust worthy.
In the beginnig I sucked big time. (Some may think I still do)
Until my creative writting teacher gave me a suggestion.
Find something you don't like the thought of. Murder, rape, blood or needles. Then sit down and think of a situations were the thing you don't like appear. Then write about the situation. When you're done don't read it. Wait a few days and then read it.
If you have managed to give yourself a bad taste in the mouth. It's well done.
I don't know if it works for all. But it worked for me.
Hope it helps
[This message has been edited by Xander (edited 01-07-2000).]
Flashlight7.5
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Write daily, and re-read your stuff. Have others read it too.
As for ideas, I get all mine from real life. Granted though, most of my erotica writing is fantasy, but it usually has some sprinkles of real life stuff in there (like descriptions of sensations, for example). Keep a notebook handy to write down things you hear or notice. I write down quotes all the time. I've had a single quote turn into a whole story. Clip things from newspapers and magazines, and pitch ideas to your friends. Sometimes, like today for me, your friends will give you an insight to your project that can greatly change the outcome for the better!
As for ideas, I get all mine from real life. Granted though, most of my erotica writing is fantasy, but it usually has some sprinkles of real life stuff in there (like descriptions of sensations, for example). Keep a notebook handy to write down things you hear or notice. I write down quotes all the time. I've had a single quote turn into a whole story. Clip things from newspapers and magazines, and pitch ideas to your friends. Sometimes, like today for me, your friends will give you an insight to your project that can greatly change the outcome for the better!
Try to get 'into' your characters. When I write, I can 'see' the person and 'feel' what they are feeling. If you are writing and you get really 'wet' while writing, you are probably doing something right.
Try to make them have real feelings just like we do. Some of the stories are so shallow and mechanical - he fucked her, she fucked him.
See if you can make them act, and feel like a real person. Get descriptive - "Her full, lush, warm, soft skinned breasts swelled with passion" is much better than "She had big tits".
Read stories and find what turns you on. Use the same technique - not the same words - and go for it. After you finish, read it over a day later, and make changes. Some of mine get reread five or six times, and many small changes are made before I send it out.
That's one of the real joys of the computer - it's so easy to make changes of all kinds. No 'White Out' on the screen!
Try to make them have real feelings just like we do. Some of the stories are so shallow and mechanical - he fucked her, she fucked him.
See if you can make them act, and feel like a real person. Get descriptive - "Her full, lush, warm, soft skinned breasts swelled with passion" is much better than "She had big tits".
Read stories and find what turns you on. Use the same technique - not the same words - and go for it. After you finish, read it over a day later, and make changes. Some of mine get reread five or six times, and many small changes are made before I send it out.
That's one of the real joys of the computer - it's so easy to make changes of all kinds. No 'White Out' on the screen!
Dakota Ryan
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Imagination surely helps to put some of my real life experiances on paper, being old helps to....LOL... well I write what I know and I put it together while I try to go to sleep, I dream it if you will and then write it.I have found that dreams do come true if you try hard enough.
Hullo_nurse
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My stuff is a bit of this & a pinch of that...some from actual life situation, but much more from my imagination and what I have read, watched on tv & in movies, etc. I glean from all these external sources and put then together in a way that appeals to me. I invent places, characters, situations, etc from my mind's eye.
I read my stuff a few times, I read it outloud, then I pass it along to a couple of friends to proof for me.
I read my stuff a few times, I read it outloud, then I pass it along to a couple of friends to proof for me.
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um, though i don't think i'm much of an author i figured i'd just say: i feed off of other people, kind of like a leech i guess. when i talk to friends or people online about sex i listen to their fantasies and real life stories. i don't ever write about my own personal sex life, cause its rather boring. i'm not much of a wild person, and as far as the writing itself goes, try poetry. i wrote poetry for years before i started writing stories, its a lot easier. you don't have to use sentence structure or punctuation, or anything else. there are no real laws to poetry except saying what's on your mind. do that for a little bit and you'll be writing stories before you know it.
anyway, thats it...
anyway, thats it...
Angel
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I've only just submitted 2 stories, and it's my first attempt at actually doing this hehe so I'm not really counting on getting anything up again until I experiment more and develop a style I'm comfortable with, but one of em was from a RL experience, but with some fiction thrown in to reduce the boringness...and one was just a pure romantic thing that I wrote for someone else. LOL. Someday I might throw up a poem I wrote in high school, but it's kinda tame and I donno yet. Anyway most of the stuff I'm messing around with at the moment is stuff thats happened or wish would. Not telling which is which tho if they ever make it up
Bob Peale
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Scarily, everything I've written to date is a product of my very warped and twisted imagination.
I am definitely among the more verbose around here...my stories lean toward the long and involved, rather than a quick slap and tickle.
I try to write what I would want to read.
The most interesting question I get is, "Do you get turned on by your own stories?"
The answer would have to be a qualified yes and no. When I'm in the "zone" creating, I don't even notice the words on the screen. I'm focused on developing the idea. But when I go back to edit, i often get very involved in the story, to the point that I'm pretty far along by the end of the edits
[This message has been edited by Bob Peale (edited 01-29-2000).]
I am definitely among the more verbose around here...my stories lean toward the long and involved, rather than a quick slap and tickle.
I try to write what I would want to read.
The most interesting question I get is, "Do you get turned on by your own stories?"
The answer would have to be a qualified yes and no. When I'm in the "zone" creating, I don't even notice the words on the screen. I'm focused on developing the idea. But when I go back to edit, i often get very involved in the story, to the point that I'm pretty far along by the end of the edits
[This message has been edited by Bob Peale (edited 01-29-2000).]
Hey my two stories are from real life I have a have a guy that loves to experiment as much as I do. This allows me to live out my fantsy I love to write about what we do in a journal so when I am old and gray I can look back and see what a great year I have had. Hoping that the sex will last alot longer though. I think that keeping a journal of my sexual experiencs has been a lot of fun so I thought I would start sharing some of the better nights. So that is how I have started
Keep having fun
Brandy
Keep having fun
Brandy
Some of my characters come from real life.
Today, I saw my favorite hostess in the restaurant, and it hit me, I've used her - or a beautiful lady with her first name, face, and body in one of my stories.
I've also used friends, and lovers as models for stories. Most love being a love/lust object in a story. You might want to ask first though! Or surprise them !
I have one story in the writing stage that is based on a very lovely, friendly, and really sexy manager in another restaurant I frequent. It helps me to use someone like that who I can picture vividly and make them do all sorts of nasty/nice things in my stories.
I can lust for them in a story, as well as real life, and make it seem more real to me, and hopefully my readers.
Tawny T
[This message has been edited by Tawny T (edited 02-11-2000).]
Today, I saw my favorite hostess in the restaurant, and it hit me, I've used her - or a beautiful lady with her first name, face, and body in one of my stories.
I've also used friends, and lovers as models for stories. Most love being a love/lust object in a story. You might want to ask first though! Or surprise them !
I have one story in the writing stage that is based on a very lovely, friendly, and really sexy manager in another restaurant I frequent. It helps me to use someone like that who I can picture vividly and make them do all sorts of nasty/nice things in my stories.
I can lust for them in a story, as well as real life, and make it seem more real to me, and hopefully my readers.
Tawny T
[This message has been edited by Tawny T (edited 02-11-2000).]
Greg Lee Hunt
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Like most authors I have a warped imagination that takes me almost anywhere 'it' wants to go. My imagination is my alter-ego. It has a life of its own. Most of my characters are based on people I know but I project them into plot lines and situations that come out of my own fantasies and experiences.
Kip Carson
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Ooh, I'll never tell. LOL
No, really, most of my stuff is from an overly active imagination.
I have written a few true stories, but most of them are just things that I come up with when I am sitting at the computer.
Kip Carson
No, really, most of my stuff is from an overly active imagination.
I have written a few true stories, but most of them are just things that I come up with when I am sitting at the computer.
Kip Carson
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I wrote "Truth or Dare" basicly out of my mind, one night very late trying to write something 'dirty' for a message board. (and hence, it's a very mediocre story)
I wrote the stranger based on a fantasy that I had and just used my imagination to bring it alive, but still wanted it to have an unreal feel.
I started writing things for me and my boyfriend that were either wild things we could only pretend to do or suggestions for things that could be fun. Then I branched out to other more pure 'fantasy' type things, not specifically for him, but more specifically written to post here.
I've made only about 2 real situation into a story, but I won't say which ones. Plus, I changed them up so they'd make more intereting stories. I think if you write only what happened, your story usually suffers.
I've written stories that have led to similer real life adventures- that's generally a very good thing. Writing and sex life both benefit from a good imagination.
Sometimes they are inspired by events or thoughts or whatever. Like one was inspired by the fact that I was PO'd at my boyfriend. (I think a careful reader could easily pick this one out
) and another I'm working on was inspired by a straight female friend who just happened to look incredibly unbelivably sexy one day (more so than usual, y'know) and another by all the sad lonely poeple on the AH right now.
Also, i get ideas inspired by things I see on tv, funny things people say in posts, and just in general having a really bent view of the world.
How about you?
I wrote the stranger based on a fantasy that I had and just used my imagination to bring it alive, but still wanted it to have an unreal feel.
I started writing things for me and my boyfriend that were either wild things we could only pretend to do or suggestions for things that could be fun. Then I branched out to other more pure 'fantasy' type things, not specifically for him, but more specifically written to post here.
I've made only about 2 real situation into a story, but I won't say which ones. Plus, I changed them up so they'd make more intereting stories. I think if you write only what happened, your story usually suffers.
I've written stories that have led to similer real life adventures- that's generally a very good thing. Writing and sex life both benefit from a good imagination.
Sometimes they are inspired by events or thoughts or whatever. Like one was inspired by the fact that I was PO'd at my boyfriend. (I think a careful reader could easily pick this one out
) and another I'm working on was inspired by a straight female friend who just happened to look incredibly unbelivably sexy one day (more so than usual, y'know) and another by all the sad lonely poeple on the AH right now.Also, i get ideas inspired by things I see on tv, funny things people say in posts, and just in general having a really bent view of the world.
How about you?
BlackShanglan
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Tragically, nearly ever erotic story I've written started as a story I began telling myself in my head as I drifted off to sleep or when ... ah, more actively engaged in solitary pursuits. I'm not sure what's worse - that I post such things for the entire world to see, or that even at such moments I really do go to the trouble of imagining plot lines involving the political, social, and literary milieu of 18th century England.
Close your eyes, dearest, and think of England ... Twickenham, circa 1722 ...
Shanglan
Close your eyes, dearest, and think of England ... Twickenham, circa 1722 ...
Shanglan
