How do you approach writing? Your style?

[flavortang]

I barely started writing erotic fiction about a year and a half ago. I'm writing my second story now. The first was maybe 35,000 words or 85 pages and this current story is 50,000+ or 125 pages.

I've written screenplays and when I do I am extremely structured in how I approach it. Nothing is spontaneous, yet when I write erotic fiction, everything is spontaneous. I don't plan anything.

How do you write? If you write in various mediums, do your styles change? And where do you get your source material from? The news, movies, personal experiences, personal fantasies?

 

[English Lady]

I barely started writing erotic fiction about a year and a half ago. I'm writing my second story now. The first was maybe 35,000 words or 85 pages and this current story is 50,000+ or 125 pages.

I've written screenplays and when I do I am extremely structured in how I approach it. Nothing is spontaneous, yet when I write erotic fiction, everything is spontaneous. I don't plan anything.

How do you write? If you write in various mediums, do your styles change? And where do you get your source material from? The news, movies, personal experiences, personal fantasies?

I get my inspiration from all over. Real life occurances, TV programmes,dreams, fantasies and such. I always put alot of me into a story, there's always alot of my experience in amongst even the most fantastical story lines.

As to how I write, I get a flick of inspiration and I write. I may have a vague idea of a beginning, middle and an end, but my story will go in whatever direction the story dictates -I don't plan everything down to the nth degree.

 

[drksideofthemoon]

I get my inspiration from all over. Real life occurances, TV programmes,dreams, fantasies and such. I always put alot of me into a story, there's always alot of my experience in amongst even the most fantastical story lines.

As to how I write, I get a flick of inspiration and I write. I may have a vague idea of a beginning, middle and an end, but my story will go in whatever direction the story dictates -I don't plan everything down to the nth degree.

I write pretty much the same way. There is very little planning in my work, I let the characters take the story where they want to go.

 

[flavortang]

Same here. In my screenplays, my dialogue is lame and mostly plot-drive, lol, whereas in erotic fiction I tend to write 'real people' dialogue. Don't know why.

 

[christabelll]

It does depend on what I am writing...
But...
It starts with a word, or a phrase... Something that begins a cascade of imagery...
if I am on the computer I can mostly capture it... my writing is incomprehensible if I have to write it with pen or pencil... (I can't write fast enough to get it all)
Poetry is word streams... consciousness streams... though I do have a favorite technique for getting the juices going if I am bored LOL...
Stories....
Pretty much the same thing... a word or thought or phrase... sometimes its a "flavor" of a scene... Again it comes as it will. I try not to direct it until it runs out.. then I go back and restructure it... organize and clean up... In my story Transformation through subjugation... that was a purely off the cuff write. Literally from the moment it popped into my head to the moment it was submitted was less than 48 hours.
Under the Willow, was a little story I wrote for a dear friend... a lover I missed... It took me oh about three hours to craft it... another 4 hours to edit and add to it... another couple of hours having it edited and then submitted...
A Slippery Silent Night.... Hmmmmmm..... I'll never tell... except that it was written in all of an hour.... the editing and streamling took about 4 hours....
Perchance to Dream - this started out very simply... took oh 2 hours to write, the original (ten pages). 35 pages with interruptions and coming back to it. The extensive rewrites took about 60 hours over two months over all, and had several changes until it was submittable in my opinion... 30 pages. I had some wonderful help doing it too. It is the most extensively changed and rewritten piece I have to date. and I have several, many, stories, books, poems etc that I have written over the years.

So for me its like I find a stream and I recreate it as best I can as quickly as I can writing on the puter.

Only very rarely do I use an outline or predetermine its destination... For me... its all about the ride......Hehehe..... there are of course elements of me in all my stuff... else it wouldn't be mine.... but the line between fantasy and reality is one I will never reveal hehehehe

 

[flavortang]

I love the variety of that, in different mediums of writing. It's fun to be precise and structured with one medium, then to spice things up, be spontaneous with another.

I think all my erotic writings come primarily from fantasies. The problem with that is that most people have similar fantasies so it's tough to write erotica that way without it coming off as cliched. lol

 

[Nasha]

With my porny fiction, I tend to derive the core sexual/emotional dynamics from my fantasies, but the plot and themes are usually constructed as a way of exploring human/socio/political issues that preoccupy me.

I've never yet borrowed a plot or story element from a real-life event, but I think that would be a fabulous way to explore a story and characters that most likely I'd never come up with on my own. I'm seriously toying with the idea of doing something like this for my next writing endeavor.

As for structure, I usually have a vague notion of the main story arc in mind when I begin, and I often meticulously map out each scene in my head before I write it. But, once I start tapping away on the keys, the story often does what it wants, regardless of my intentions (whereas with academic writing, after the outline stage the only maleability seems to be which words I choose to express my pre-determined ideas).

 

[museofdragon]

With my erotica, it usually starts with a fantasy. Then comes the creation of the characters that will work best within it.

With my professional work, i start with detailed character work. If I don't know who my characters are, how can I know how they will react to whatever situation my diabolical mind will put them in.

 

[flavortang]

With my erotica, it usually starts with a fantasy. Then comes the creation of the characters that will work best within it.

With my professional work, i start with detailed character work. If I don't know who my characters are, how can I know how they will react to whatever situation my diabolical mind will put them in.

Same here. I usually start with character types and in my mind I already know how they'd react to situations. It makes writing scenes so much easier.

 

[S-Des]

I always start with an idea that is complete (if not simplistic). I flesh it out in my head for a while, then start writing with some key points in mind. Most of the rest is spontaneous, often adding entire sections that were unplanned just because it seemed like the right thing to do. I enjoy the unpredictablility of it and really need to get back to it soon.

 

[flavortang]

I always start with an idea that is complete (if not simplistic). I flesh it out in my head for a while, then start writing with some key points in mind. Most of the rest is spontaneous, often adding entire sections that were unplanned just because it seemed like the right thing to do. I enjoy the unpredictablility of it and really need to get back to it soon.

Hmm, it's strange how similarly we all write. lol