Different writing style for erotica?

[Reshbod]

I have found that I will change my writing style if I am writing an erotic or sex story. Most of what I write, whether it is a speech, short story or whatever, it will usually be very humorous. It could be a series of one liners loosely connected, sarcastic, an anecdote or based on an actual event. I find it difficult to write something without injecting some type of humor. However with the few writings I have done in erotica, the stories are often rather dark with ambiguous, rather than happy, endings.

Just curious if other writers, not that I consider myself a writer, have this type of pattern?

 

[Seattle Zack]

I think everyone uses a different voice for different genres ... I know I do. When I write crime fiction, I try to use nothing but dialogue. In my failed attempt at a romance novel, the descriptions filled whole pages.

 

[Why]

I think my style changes with the POV I use, 1st tends to be "short" "sharp" and somewhat biting, usually sarcastic. I use this a lot for short stories, usually Urban Horror.

3rd I either tend to drift into the whimsy, often comic or become so dark I can't see a happy ending.

But with both I have a hate of "too much detail" waffling info dumps are my pet hate.

Always try to work on the idea, you are creating a world your characters live in, they accept everyday things as just that, you don't have to stop and describe everything, even in a fantasy work. Give the reader a break, they do have a brain, they can link what was said or done five pages back with what is happening now, you don't have to rehash the whole thing............ hints are enough. Dive the story forward, never tread water or go to to reverse, that was some good advice I was given when I started this writing game. I try to stick with it................

 

[Icingsugar]

I can't say I do. I seem to write a little differently everytime I pick up a pen (figureatively speaking). And I haven't written enough erotica to find a pattern yet.

On the other hand, I usually don't write stories in english, so I guess I try to experiment with the language a bit more when I write those thingys for Lit.

 

[Jenny _S]

Why has a point. I write humor, sci-fi, sci-fi/humor and erotica. The POV has a lot to do with the style. For instance a third party narrator tends to be rather flat. One of the participants in the action much less so.

In humor, which I like the best, the characters tend to set their own style. The Shika series is rather like MAD TV, while "The Maltes Penis" was strictly D. Hammet/Bogart.

Switching from one style to another isn't really that hard once you get a really good hold one the personalities of the characters themselves.