wet_special
aka "Spesh"
- Joined
- Aug 25, 2010
- Posts
- 1,197
Pages of adjectives. I don't care if the chiffon dress is soft teal or misty turquoise. I don't really care what color it is at all. (This doesn't just apply to erotica.) Ditto the previously mentioned bust sizes and dick lengths, especially if it's monstrous DD 40 this or 11" that. Worst case scenario: a detailed description of a suit.
Bad grammar. Unless you're freaking James Joyce, write according to the language you claim to speak.
Sluts. Women who are extremely promiscuous just about always have serious self-esteem problems or other significant damage. No sane woman opens her legs without pages of internal monologue happening first. If she's willingly doing it on page one, she's a man with boobs, not a woman. I'm not into men.
Backstory in the wrong place. Until I care about a character I don't want to know about her childhood. Little reveals and flashes of insight scattered across a story can be fascinating; an info dump isn't.
Victimization of children, animals, or the mentally enfeebled, or actual incest. If a character doesn't have enough agency to make rational decisions, it's no longer seduction.
This was really well put. :applause: I love reading a woman's internal dialogue too, their perspective is often so different...