Do you picture a specific pornstar/star when you write?

[Arngrim]

A lot of pornstars are little girls, running from abusive situations. They start by dancing in nudie bars and then graduate to adult films. They don't have to do that kind of work, they can always starve to death.

I fail to see what this has to do with what I said or the topic at hand.

Also, do you have a citation for your claim? Seems like a generalization or stereotype to me.

 

[Hypoxia]

Better to visualize pr0nstars than Perry Hotter characters.

I visualize people with whom I have socialized. In person, not remote, not virtual. I have not socialized with pr0nstars. Yet. Maybe I've hung with the wrong crowd.

Hmmm, that raises related questions. If we write best when we write of what we know and have experienced, would those with careers in pr0n (on either side of the camera) or prostitution do well at writing sex? Are any worthy LIT authors former pr0nsters?

 

[NotWise]

I fail to see what this has to do with what I said or the topic at hand.

Also, do you have a citation for your claim? Seems like a generalization or stereotype to me.

Going back through the thread, it looks like this is the only thing you said:

Pornstars aren't all who they are cracked up to be, honestly.

Your comment has been edited, but as of now, that's all you said. You didn't add enough to the conversation to complain about someone else continuing it.

 

[CharlieB4]

All in my head

When I use an image of a woman I still fill her (no pun intended with my own personality. I agree that a few seconds of porn wont make a very fleshed out character so I take the details and use them while filling in the blanks with my own heart.

It's funny that most of the time you have the characters created in your head and then at times other "real" characters slowly takes over, like a dream where you know it is someone you know but she or he still looks like someone else.

You have a great smile Jill, would love to write a short story about the fictional you.

I sometimes use people I know or movie/TV stars in my head when I'm writing dialogue. it helps me to get the words right when the "real" people speak. The actual person depends on the character. For a male who is indecisive, Hugh Grant, Steve Carell. Kevin Spacey/Frank Underwood for a domineering sarcastic one.
In writing this I realized the women in my stories are generally amalgams of women I know or know of. The only time I've had one even resemble a fictional character is when I had one dress up like "Daisy Duke" from the Dukes of Hazzard.

 

[LairOfTheCougar]

Maybe not porn "stars" per se, but sometimes I will picture a particular lady as a model for what a character looks like, or sort of the archetype I am going for. Not always, but sometimes.

 

[Rozalin_0123]

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[sr71plt]

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Thought you left in a huff. Or was it a Buick?

 

[NOIRTRASH]

A lot of pornstars are little girls, running from abusive situations. They start by dancing in nudie bars and then graduate to adult films. They don't have to do that kind of work, they can always starve to death.

Naaaah. I spent a career and more around girls, and sex work appeals to girls who wanna get thru life on their backs. They like sex, they like the easy money, and they hate hard toil.

 

[GforGraham]

Don't know any porn stars, every time I tried watching porn video the crap acting got too much, or is that too little. Always thought the girls looked like they were trying to pass a big shit instead of enjoying the sex. All that scrunching of faces and screaming, while the guys go to sleep.
Now don't get me started on those horrid balloons they plonk on their chests.

 

[JackStrange]

Yes.... though not always stars or porn....

Latest story, To Nail Doris, was written with a particular person in mind, a woman in her late 40s. (Read the story, you'll understand.) I found a not-very-pornographic nude of a tall woman in her late 40s, with red hair..... great inspiration... for sizes and colors and fantasies.....