Do you find it difficult to ...

[impressive]

... move on after writing an intense sex scene?

Unlike my previous (short) stories (all 1 Lit. page), the one I'm working on now is considerably longer & has several sex scenes. I'm finding that it takes me 3-4 days to "recover" from writing a scene before it lets go of me & allows me to move on.

Just curious if that's a common phenomena -- or if it's just me.

 

[TheEarl]

I find it very difficult to carry on with a story at all after a sex scene. Very few of my stories feature more than one sex scene (the only two I can think of off-hand are Faeophobia and Seducing Dawn) and I usually struggle to wrap up a story after the sex has finished. Most of my stories culminate with the sex, not just because the sex tends to be the focal point, but also because I find it difficult to drop back into the 'story at large.'

So, I'm right there with you.

The Earl

 

[rgraham666]

I haven't written much, yet. Only two of my stories have more than one sex scene.

As I recall, I didn't have much trouble continuing the story.

I believe that is because, with the exception of the 'climactic' scene, the others were to establish character. So perhaps the earlier scenes were foreplay, rather than the big bang, and easier to get past.

 

[Guest]

I don't understand having a problem after writing a sex scene. For me it's writing primarily; the content, especially if only a narrative, isn't differentiated from others for me personally.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

I was once dared to write 5 vignettes in a one week period

Hardest thing I ever had to write. By the last story I was drained.

Didn't write anything for months.

 

[TheEarl]

I don't understand having a problem after writing a sex scene. For me it's writing primarily; the content, especially if only a narrative, isn't differentiated from others for me personally.

Perdita

Just had a think about that and come to the conclusion that my problem is with changing mode. My stories proper tend to be event rather than description driven, but when clothes start dropping off, then I tend to go into a bit more detail. Maybe that's why I find it difficult to come back out, I can't find the link between description mode and my normal writing mode.

Is that the case for you Impressive?

The Earl

 

[yui]

All I really write about is the, um, sex. Not much transition in my smut. But I re-write and re-re-write and re-re-re-write, etc... Does that count?

I definitely have difficulty because I tweak…and re-tweak and…

 

[impressive]

Maybe that's why I find it difficult to come back out, I can't find the link between description mode and my normal writing mode.

Is that the case for you Impressive?

Maybe ... but damn, it sure feels to me with this piece that I'm just reeling from living the sex in such minute detail. Just blown away. Gotta catch my breath. Kinda like Dranoel hinted at. It's draining, in a delicious way.

 

[TheEarl]

Maybe ... but damn, it sure feels to me with this piece that I'm just reeling from living the sex in such minute detail. Just blown away. Gotta catch my breath. Kinda like Dranoel hinted at. It's draining, in a delicious way.

Lucky person. Sounds like you've got a good bit of writing going there. Do make sure you tell us when it's done.

The Earl

 

[impressive]

Lucky person. Sounds like you've got a good bit of writing going there. Do make sure you tell us when it's done.

The Earl

It's for Mat's Rainy Day Story Challenge -- the first I've participated in on Lit. (or anywhere else) -- so, if all goes per her notes, it'll be published on October 5th with all the others.

On a similar note -- when a story contains more than one sex scene, do you feel pressure to make each one hotter or wilder or more intense than the previous?

 

[Guest]

It's for Mat's Rainy Day Story Challenge -- the first I've participated in on Lit. (or anywhere else) -- so, if all goes per her notes, it'll be published on October 5th with all the others.

On a similar note -- when a story contains more than one sex scene, do you feel pressure to make each one hotter or wilder or more intense than the previous?

Not so much an attempt to make the sex better than the last but different. I don't want my readers to read the same scene twice. Even between stories. So I try to change different elements, location, positions, foreplay, etc. Hopefully they do turn out a little hotter for some.

 

[TheEarl]

On a similar note -- when a story contains more than one sex scene, do you feel pressure to make each one hotter or wilder or more intense than the previous?

Depends on the story. In SD, I had three scenes and although 2nd was bigger than the first, the third had a completely different feel to it and was a definite crescendo without being bigger or wilder. In Faeophobia, however, I had tons of scenes, all pretty much on a length with each other until the climax, which was bigger and hotter and wilder than all that had come before it. I think the size and hotness should depend on the way the story's going and how you feel each scene should be, rather than comparing them to each other.

Having said that, you do need something reasonably grand to finish on. A fitting climax, if the pun is tolerated.

The Earl

 

[impressive]

Having said that, you do need something reasonably grand to finish on.

Ah, fuck. More pressure.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Often I find myself getting a bit bogged down writing sex scenes. Striving to make them hot as hell, while, at the same time, original and interesting, takes a lot out of me. I always want my stories to move quickly, so when I've spent too much time agonizing over a sex scene, occasionally, I will leave it for awhile and move on with the rest of the plot, then come back to the sex later. Somehow, it's the sex scenes I labor over, the rest of the story seems to fly by. I don't know what this says about my writing or me as a person.


Feast Of The Gods

 

[cloudy]

I seem to put so much of myself into my stories, and I'm usually so damn wrapped up in them, that when I finish, I feel very drained. I usually can't even think about writing anything else for at least a week or so. It's weird - I never expected to feel that way.

And, yeah, usually the hottest sex scene is at the end, so maybe that's why.

 

[TheWriter]

It's not always a chore to move on after writing sex scenes, but if it's one you've been imagining for a while you get really invested, so when that happens to me, I find it really hard to write the scene. And the harder the scene was to write, the more draining it is. Though I only have one story with "multiple" scenes, "2 Days In the Sun" and one of those scenes is really foreplay. But that entire story went really easily for me.

In writing "Obsession" though, I had great difficulty in writing the follow up, because the "sex" scene had become much much longer than I had originally anticipated, but I needed the follow up psychosis. I still think it could have been better.

On the flip side. When writing "Lessons" I couldn't get the beginning of the story, so I started with the sex, and found that much easier. Though this remains one of my least popular stories. So maybe that's not a good idea, hmm.

 

[impressive]

I seem to put so much of myself into my stories, and I'm usually so damn wrapped up in them, that when I finish, I feel very drained. I usually can't even think about writing anything else for at least a week or so. It's weird - I never expected to feel that way.

Yeah - I can relate - only I feel that way about "just" a scene as opposed to the whole story (unless, of course, there is only one scene - which, as many have stated, is usually at the end).

After a few days, I can wrap my mind around the next encounter - and it will then absorb me.

Obsessive preoccupationist,

 

[oggbashan]

Sex scenes?

What are they?

Og

 

[impressive]

Sex scenes?

What are they?

Og

Insert "Tab A" into "Slot B" and shake it all about. (Do the Hokey Pokey ...)

 

[pop_54]

Usually takes about 30 seconds to get over a sex scene, then with cock interest temporarily fulfilled, I move on

On a serious note, I do have a habit of going over sex scenes several times altering and tweaking... can't seem to get away from them sometimes... Then like an idiot I want to start telling the end of the story in as long a drawn out manner as the build up... often re-telling history and loads of silly narrative like that.

But I usually get several paragraphs along and think... 'What are you doing, the story is over, finished, ceased, defuct, no longer... stop it you idiot', and I draw it to a close... Unless of course another bonk is envisaged later... I want long endings, but go for the shorter option.

I did have a problem with last years Nano entry... needing to be 50,000 words plus... and intending to post some of it on Lit... it needed sexual interest to stimulate the average Lit reader without blowing the load early resulting in premature story ending... I got round it by ensuring that none of the characters actually get their end away throughout... all near misses, plenty of innuendo and foreplay... but scared off prior to entry of said rod A into Slot B every time... Well apart from the dog, he gets a few full on leg humps.

 

[English Lady]

I cannot think of one of my stories that contain more than one sex scene....the sex tends to come near the end or is the conclusion to the story more often than not.

I find that after typing out a sex scene I feel blissfully fulfilled for oooh 5 minutes then I am intensley horny and need to do something about that ASAP!

Some of my sex scenes absorb me so much that I forget about everything else aorund me and yes they do leave me feeling somewhat drained. If i have an extra piece to add onto a story after a sex scene it probably will not be written till the next day or possibly even later.


oooh just remembered - my nude day entry had two spereate sex scenes in it...so i do do more than one on occassion!

 

[Guest]

I don't have a problem carrying on writing after the sex scene. I approach writing just like I approach sex - I want it to last and go on for hours. Often it does.

Seriously, sometimes I might have to take a breather for a minute or two, just to get my breath back, but then I'm right back at it again. Am I talking about sex or writing now? Both!

Join in NaNoWriMo, then you'll learn some good writing practice. Honestly, you then have no choice but to keep writing and writing and writing. It worked for me!

Lou

 

[English Lady]

Personally...I quite enjoy having a breather...it's the way I am anyway *L* When I write non-erotic stuff it goes the same way. I guess I just like to take it slow

 

[impressive]

Join in NaNoWriMo, then you'll learn some good writing practice. Honestly, you then have no choice but to keep writing and writing and writing. It worked for me!

Lou

That is just WAY too intimidating for me! I'm still quite new at this. Only a year writing fictional (heh!) erotica. I've got a lot of growing to do before I'm ready to tackle 50,000 words.

Hell, the one I'm working on will probably top out at around 12,000 -- and it's really stretching me. Flash prose is more my speed (although I've been dipping my big toe in the poetry waters, too).

 

[Guest]

That is just WAY too intimidating for me! I'm still quite new at this. Only a year writing fictional (heh!) erotica. I've got a lot of growing to do before I'm ready to tackle 50,000 words.

Hell, the one I'm working on will probably top out at around 12,000 -- and it's really stretching me. Flash prose is more my speed (although I've been dipping my big toe in the poetry waters, too).

You are at where I was at a year ago. Seriously! I then did NaNoWriMo. I dread to think how many words I've written in the past year. Not a day goes by where I don't write at least 3,000 words. Mostly emails and posts here, but, hey! Kidding.

I do write a lot, but I detest editing. I must condition myself to enjoy that laborious part of the writing process. Re-writing dodgy sections of a novel just ain't what I call fun.

Lou