Describe a Lit author’s style

[Euphony]

You're a monster.

Or a bear.

Could be a bear.

 

[Omenainen]

You guys are outing me! This is supposed to be an anonymous site! Momma bear will be so grumpy if she finds out what I’ve been up to.

 

[SimonDoom]

Or a bear.

Could be a bear.

Cocaine bear?

 

[Bramblethorn]

You guys are outing me! This is supposed to be an anonymous site! Momma bear will be so grumpy if she finds out what I’ve been up to.

Best not to eat her porridge.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I don't hate it but I get plenty of similar physicality in other areas of life so maybe it just hits different.

I love the internal coloring though. Food these days looks so far removed (faked) from the natural world, it touches some innate feeling in my being. A return to being more integrated into the natural world.

I DON'T love the occasional parasitic worm infestation though. Apparently I like soft core real nature.

Not a fan of cymothoids, I'm guessing?

(obligatory warning: if you google that you will see pictures of the kind that make me say "Fascinating!")

 

[onehitwanda]

obligatory warning: if you google that you will see pictures of the kind that make me say "Fascinating!"

Wanda: "how bad could it be?"

Also Wanda: "Eeuw eeuw eeuw eeuw!"

Also Wanda: "I hate you so much right now."

 

[Emilymcplugger]

You know I can’t believe we’ve gone from talking about authors we love to fish-gutting.

Usually we always stay right on track with a theme. I am shocked.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Wanda: "how bad could it be?"

Also Wanda: "Eeuw eeuw eeuw eeuw!"

Also Wanda: "I hate you so much right now."

I'm with you, Wanda. Bramble should be banned from using biological/critter words!

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'm with you, Wanda. Bramble should be banned from using biological/critter words!

I put a warning on it and everything!

 

[ElectricBlue]

I put a warning on it and everything!

You did, but you know what we're like!

It's like the tag system, we're meant to mind read little Johnny, and provide tags for what he doesn't like. It's no different.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm gonna go with Spector Dugan, particularly his Group stuff. Poly at the Poly is a fucking masterclass in effortless tone shifting, going between sexy shenanigans, gutwrenching realizations, intense foreboding, and silly fun. What I love the most is that he gives notions of who his characters are with very little actual direct language used, but when he does, it's illuminating. In PatP, there are three female characters and three male characters, and each of them is very different down to the way they have sex and what it means to them. I'm not going to look up the line, because I'm lazy, but there's a part where an older man, half of one of the couples, is gently nudging the group towards swapping, and his cologne is described as “having a hint of woodsmoke, like the scent of a forest fire;” I was so pissed that I didn't write it.

I want to chime in here about Spector Dugan. One of the things I like most about his stories is that they are a lot of fun. I tend to like erotic stories that are somewhat light-hearted or have a comic edge. "Use Your Sisters Instead" is a brilliant example of this type of story. It has a completely nutty premise, but the author somehow pulls it off with panache. The story obviously doesn't take itself too seriously, but the tone is handled so well and so consistently that the reader can quickly settle into the story and suspend disbelief and get carried along by the wild incestuous narrative. I enjoy these kinds of erotic stories when they are pulled off well. That story, by the way, published in 2018, has become one of the most popular and most favorited in Literotica history.

 

[Euphony]

Not a fan of cymothoids, I'm guessing?

(obligatory warning: if you google that you will see pictures of the kind that make me say "Fascinating!")

Tongue tied. Parasitically.

 

[SimonDoom]

In thinking about the question for this thread, I asked myself, as I've asked myself many times, "Whose prose style at Literotica do I enjoy the most?" The question is a bit different from asking whose stories I like most, because I often like stories even if I don't think the prose is first-rate, and also because if the prose is good enough I can enjoy a story even if the subject matter isn't at the top of my preferred-erotica subject matter list. I admire authors whose use of words, apart from subject matter, makes my ears perk up and my brain take notice.

I think Amory Parks and Vix_Giovanni have nice styles, but they haven't written anything for a while.

I can't say I have a number one favorite, because I change my mind too much to be able to put together lists like that, but if you enjoy erotic stories for their style I'd recommend stories by Onehitwanda.

Here's the beginning of her Romance story Archangel (https://www.literotica.com/s/archangel-2):

I don't know where Ceridwen came from. I think she's a melange of the tired city girls you see every day on the London commute.

Our city is hard and jagged, and those of us lucky enough to have someone should be glad; too many people here are alone.

There's nothing showy or unusual about the word choice, with the possible exception of the word "melange." The language is spare. But in two paragraphs and three sentences, in a graceful and grammatically faultless collection of words, you get:

1. The desire to know who Ceridwen is-- a question that leads you to want to read more.
2. The setting. Not just the place, but the impression it gives. "Hard and jagged" is a nonobvious way to describe a city, but there's a clear emotional impression conveyed by it.
3. Nice phrasing: "tired city girls you see every day on the London commute." You don't have to have any experience with the London commute. You know exactly what she's talking about. You can picture this person she is talking about.
4. A tone of unsatisfied longing, which as a reader you want to see satisfied. Another thing that makes you want to read more.
5. Artful use of punctuation, which is unusual-- I like that semicolon.
6. There's almost no repetition. The word "of" appears twice, and the word "is" appears twice if you count the contraction "she's." The author has a good feel for how to keep bringing in new words and not repeat herself.

I'm not the only one who felt this way. The story has a 4.86 rating and the comments are very favorable, and readers seem to enjoy her writing style a lot.

From what I've read of Onehitwanda's other stories, the quality of the prose is consistently high. More than just "correct"; it's artful. Her stories are worth checking out even if your personal kinks aren't the same as hers.

 

[XerXesXu]

Here's the beginning of her Romance story Archangel (https://www.literotica.com/s/archangel-2):

'I don't know where Ceridwen came from. I think she's a melange of the tired city girls you see every day on the London commute.

Our city is hard and jagged, and those of us lucky enough to have someone should be glad; too many people here are alone.'

That's an author's note. The story begins with the next line.

 

[lc69hunter]

I pick JuanaSalsa https://literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=6001535

She has an huge range of varied stories posted on lit but my favourite is

https://www.literotica.com/s/blood-and-fire-2

I love the consistent delivery of passionate prose and meaningful character development. All her characters are warts and all real people, readable, relatable and I haven't been disappointed yet.

She is a poet, even in her prose. A lot of her stories are not necessarily my cup of tea, but damn, she is a joy to read

 

[gunhilltrain]

If I could suck my own cock, I'd never leave the house.

Hah, that was somebody else's joke once. Not George Carlin, right?

 

[Djmac1031]

Hah, that was somebody else's joke once. Not George Carlin, right?

Oh I'm sure someone said it before me. But I don't remember who.

 

[YDB95]

Hah, that was somebody else's joke once. Not George Carlin, right?

I believe Steve Martin once said if he were a woman he'd spend all his time playing with his own boobs, could that be what you're thinking of?

 

[gunhilltrain]

I believe Steve Martin once said if he were a woman he'd spend all his time playing with his own boobs, could that be what you're thinking of?

No, I've never heard that one. I'm sure I heard the cock joke that dj mentioned from some professional comic. Like many such jokes, it's likely been used by several people. Maybe if I do an on-line search, I might find something.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

I've read things by most of the commenters here who publish stories. But say I like this one best, you should read that writer, or someones style is this, that, and the other, I don't feel competent to reveal their style of writing to others. I have a few favorites, I have some I can't get through their stories, and others I have enjoyed but aren't passionate about. I can't even say what my style is, other than it's going to be interracial (probably involving cuckoldry) or horror.

On the other subject of this thread, in order to suck ones own cock, one must have one!