How did you get into writing smut?

[bottom_bi_boy]

For a long time I have had interest in writing one, I'm quite new to it, so I wondered how y'all started.
Did you have experience with writing before that or erotica is how you began?

 

[THBGato]

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...-and-what-do-you-get-out-of-it.1636305/unread

You might be interested in this thread then. X

 

[Kumquatqueen]

For a long time I have had interest in writing one, I'm quite new to it, so I wondered how y'all started.
Did you have experience with writing before that or erotica is how you began?

Once upon a time, when the young gods walked the earth and the smartphone hadn't been invented, and reading lights didn't yet exist on coaches (long-distance buses), doodling on a notepad in the gloom was the only way to pass the time on my way to or from my partner who lived over two hours away.

I started writing. Since then I've written the odd bit of non-porn and my day job is based on writing, but quite bluntly, the porn gets the most audience and kudos.

 

[iwatchus]

I had not written any fiction for fifty years when I wrote my first story for here. The sex was fairly tame. I know others were already accomplished writers. Everyone has their own path. Write what you are feeling. This is mostly a supportive group, but we do have our squabbles. Read the guidelines before you submit.

Good luck.

 

[AchtungNight]

In my case, I had read thrillers and romance novels with detailed sex scenes since my teenage years and written short stories since childhood. I first wrote fanfics in the late nineties. In early 2006, I was bored and decided to try writing erotic stories. My first inspiration came from the Vanity Fair cover Scarlett Johansson & Keira Knightley did that February. In the years since, I’ve picked up my keyboard whenever I’ve been in the right mood with the right inspiration. I’ve done fanfic and original work.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I was reading a story here on Lit and after a while realized the writing was dreadful. "I could do better that this!" I thought to myself. With 40 years of sexual fantasies in my brain I decided to give it a try. Three years and 46 stories ago now.

 

[VallesMarineris]

I've always been writing, since I was a kid. Always sci-fi. I actually wrote a sci-fi play in first grade that was performed.

I wote two novels and got an agent for one, but nothing came of it. I wrote some mainstream literature and got a few stories published in literary magazines. I did writing conferences and got lots of praise, but no contracts.

I gave up after a while. I'm good at science as well as sci-fi, and high tech pays much, much better. But I always had the itch.

During the pandemic I got the itch even stronger, maybe to compensate for my long distance lover that I was unable to connect with. So I started writing erotica. One thing led to another and here we are.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

For a long time I have had interest in writing one, I'm quite new to it, so I wondered how y'all started.
Did you have experience with writing before that or erotica is how you began?

Erotica drew me, but I never answered the call. What I'm saying by this is that erotic elements were part of my work before I switched to erotica, but I never decided to write erotica because I was under the bad impression that 50 Shades of Gray and a lot of bad erotica left on me. I only wrote one story back in the early 10s that could be considered erotica, but that was it.

I had a bit of an identity crisis first because I always wanted to write, but didn't know what. I switched constantly between fantasy, urban fantasy, and crime, until I sat down seriously and went with Cyberpunk because it was the subject that drew me the most. That's how I started: with Cyberpunk. Eventually I branched out to Fantasy-Cyberpunk (Shadowrun, anyone?), Police Procedurals, and Neon-noir.

I started writing erotica for my ex-girlfriend at the time of 2019. Later on I started reading other eroticas aside from the bad erotica that I mentioned, and it's hard for me to see myself writing something other than this. Found Literotica a year later after writing, and she encouraged to publish some of my work here. Two series, which are now deleted, one because... I don't know. It has its charm, but I think I can do better. The other one because I had no idea how to carry it on. This has been my bane.