Bored with Erotica....

[Rumple Foreskin]

raphy,

Good luck with the story. I think you're on the right track, write-wise, that is.

It surprised the hell out of me to discover I was fairly good at romance. The nice thing about that category is that, almost by definition, the sex and the story need to be related. Also, in romance, you can spend more time with the lover's minds than their groins.

Of course, the reality is most sex is routine. I've got a hunch that for most of us, many of our "greatest" sexual experiences were more situational than physical. The first time ever or with a certain lover, a surprise 'zipless" fuck, a fantasy fulfilled, a particular place or situation (office party, back seat of a car while on a double date, etc.

Anyway, I wish you luck and I hope you let shereads write some sex scenes for you. It'd be an act of mercy since she's coming down here to the Bible belt to be with her mother.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Wills]

I sympathise Raphy. Why not aim solely at the eroticism, let the reader fill the detail. We all do that as a matter of course when we read, you just need to direct them.

I am only writing on Challenge Club at the moment and pissing off one or two people because I am leaving out the 'actual sex' but still putting in enough for people to 'join the dots'. (See pg 17 CC)

It is a significant challenge to you as a writer to retain the overall eroticism without describing the sex. I have read enough of your other stuff to know that you are capable of achieving emotional/psycholigical tension without burdening yourself with writing the detail. It does get repetitive.

Will's

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I think most of my stories here are about the sex. They're about people discovering things about themselves through their responses in sexual situations, or about the sexual implications of seemingly non-sexual scenarios. Certainly the climax in almost all of my stories coincides with the actual sexual climax.

I agree with Shereads. It sounds like you've set up an assignment for yourself something like the "Survivor" contest where you have to write a sexual smorgasbord whether you want to or not. Personally, if I found myself in your position, I'd go with the story and forget the sex, rather than force my characters into gratuitous scenes.

---dr.M.

 

[CharleyH]

It's a weird thing, writing erotica, ain't it? A few weeks ago, I sketched out chapter outlines for my cross-category lit story, Assigned Risk. It has a fairly complex plot that stretches across 20 or so chapters, each chapter slotting into a different lit category.

So I get bored writing it.

Aaargh

I LOVE complexity. And why not go in a different direction with the sex scene? Stretch yourself in a new way? Would be happy to take a look and give you a few words to instigate something exciting for your brain to write . . . well I love a challenge, and being curious now, love a mystery. The offer is here, Raphy. I'd love to get a peak!

CH

 

[pop_54]

Oh, I totally agree. I still find myself getting turned on when I write the build up to sex. The dialogue between the characters, the interaction. That's still all good stuff.

But.. Do you really think lit readers would allow me to write all that and then say "and then they had mind blowing sex" *grins*

Same as Raphy lad, I enjoy teasing up to the act so much more than trying to describe tab A grinding into slot B. I put many paragraphs into the flirting, teasing, and foreplay, pages even, but then comes the horrid time to end all this fun by shoving it up her and shaking it about for 5 minutes until it's sick, and that's about as far as I can bring myself to go with the sex act in a story sometimes, 5 minutes.

As others have said, if you don't feel this particular tale should be sullied with filthy sex acts, don't do it, write it with just minor erotic content and risk being damned by the red necks.

There's isn't a single visual sex act in the whole of my NaNo blurb, it's all innuendo and close calls, 60,000 words of it But I had fun with the innuendo and foreplay to nowhere.

 

[CharleyH]

Same as Raphy lad, I enjoy teasing up to the act so much more than trying to describe tab A grinding into slot B. I put many paragraphs into the flirting, teasing, and foreplay, pages even, but then comes the horrid time to end all this fun by shoving it up her and shaking it about for 5 minutes until it's sick, and that's about as far as I can bring myself to go with the sex act in a story sometimes, 5 minutes.

As others have said, if you don't feel this particular tale should be sullied with filthy sex acts, don't do it, write it with just minor erotic content and risk being damned by the red necks.

There's isn't a single visual sex act in the whole of my NaNo blurb, it's all innuendo and close calls, 60,000 words of it But I had fun with the innuendo and foreplay to nowhere.

Pops - you are such a fucking tease! shaking for five minutes until it's sick - OMG!

 

[Icingsugar]

I'm right there Raph. Writing yet more intercourse just isn't fun after a while.

What you need is one clipbook of different mechanics, a Kama Sutra of written sex scenes that you can just cut and paste from. Your readers would not notice the difference.

I have three eotic stories that all are constructed basically the same way. Character development, setup, plot evolving around attraction, _________ , and a short roundup. Isert "coitus". The other three are quite easy to vary, and keep interresting. But fucking is fucking - much more fun to do than to talk or write about.

Or maybe I should smoke some oregano and try to bitchslap the poet inside of me into action. I've read some very good poems here on Lit and elsewhere that descrives the act in nw and very interresting ways. Of course, those ways could be a bit vauge for the general erotica reader.

 

[SlickTony]

I want to write the story. It's a good story. But goddamn, I wish I didn't have to write the sex scenes, they're just getting in the way of me advancing my plot.

I've seen some sex scenes written by mainstream authors which would have benefitted by having someone else write them.

I can't imagine getting bored of writing sex scenes; I hope it never happens to me. Well, people have complained that one had to, well, wade through lots of detail about other stuff in my stories to get to the "good stuff," but I have this need to wrap the good stuff up in characterization and history etc. so maybe it never will.

 

[Sshafer]

bored with ercotia

I've had the same problem from time to time. Why don't you try writing something for the non-erotic catagory. Like a who done it set on a large estate in the middle of no were. The old man who is rich gather's his famliy. But put a twist to it as each person arrives he tell's the reader the back ground and dirty little secrets that each one has. Everyone is just waiting for for the old man to kick off so they can get his money and screw the others out of their's. But some one in the house gives the old man a helping hand into the here after. For another twist take a poll after three or four chapters to see who the readers think who did it. I find this cleans the old cobwebs and gives me a clean slate for writing ercotic story's and you don't lose any of readers because this catagory is on this sight. It's just an idea.

 

[raphy]

I think most of my stories here are about the sex. They're about people discovering things about themselves through their responses in sexual situations, or about the sexual implications of seemingly non-sexual scenarios. Certainly the climax in almost all of my stories coincides with the actual sexual climax.

I agree with Shereads. It sounds like you've set up an assignment for yourself something like the "Survivor" contest where you have to write a sexual smorgasbord whether you want to or not. Personally, if I found myself in your position, I'd go with the story and forget the sex, rather than force my characters into gratuitous scenes.

---dr.M.

I think that's the problem, dr M. The sex in each chapter isn't gratuitous - In 90% of the chapters, it has a reason for being there. The sex isn't gratuitous. Describing the act of copulation 23 times in a row, however, is getting somewhat boring

 

[raphy]

What you need is one clipbook of different mechanics, a Kama Sutra of written sex scenes that you can just cut and paste from. Your readers would not notice the difference.

LOL, I'm close to that point, iceman .. Whisper's gonna come to my rescue and fill in the blanks for me though, we had a talk about it earlier tonight. She's a huge fan of my plot and my characters and doesn't want to see me not write this one.

 

[raphy]

As others have said, if you don't feel this particular tale should be sullied with filthy sex acts, don't do it, write it with just minor erotic content and risk being damned by the red necks.

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to put a decent amount of desciptive copulation into each chapter, simply so they fit into the right categories, hehe

I'm glad you feel the same way though pops

 

[whispering_surrender]

LOL, I'm close to that point, iceman .. Whisper's gonna come to my rescue and fill in the blanks for me though, we had a talk about it earlier tonight. She's a huge fan of my plot and my characters and doesn't want to see me not write this one.

Pardon me, I need to go iron my Wonder Woman costume.... *scampers off*

Whisp

 

[raphy]

Pardon me, I need to go iron my Wonder Woman costume.... *scampers off*

Whisp

Don't bother ironing it. You put that on in front of me and it's comin' right off again, wench.