how long have you been writing stories on here?

batter

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just out of curiosity, i have come across some stories on here by a few of you whose names i have recognized from the BB..like KillerMuffin and Outlaw, but as a rookie contributor, i was wondering how long some of you have been writing your stories for. and what makes a good story? is it the descriptions of the acts themselves, is it the conversations that take place?
i have a three parter going but while i dont compare to the experienced writers, i hope i will do better as time goes on.
 
First, the easy question. I've been writing erotica since I discovered the site, in February of 2000.

Now, the hard question. What makes a good story? No one quality makes a good story. It's a combination of many things. Personally, a story should demonstrate the author's ability to wield the English language competently, even poetically. I like well-developed characters. I detest cliche, which is blatant in erotic fiction. I respond to the author's ability to create pictures in my mind. I appreciate good pacing.
 
I have been on Literotica only about 2 weeks, but I came here a year ago when I was very shy and posted stories under two different names.

What makes a good story? Well, for me, it is the story in it, not really the sex. In fact, I think a story can be intensely erotic with nos sex at all.

I write different kinds of erotica, as there are many different kinds. Sometimes (when I get lucky) I manage to pull off writing a story with an intriguing plot as well as sexual scenes. Other times I just write porn because writing porn is easy.
 
I've been here since Jul, 2000 and posted, well submitted my first story a few days later. Posted in August.

A good erotic story, to me, is one about the relationship between the people, not a story about sex. Everything in the story furthers the relationship, the words themselves, the adjective/adverb words/phrases, the action taking place, even the sex. I call this plot and character development. Why do I find it better? Because a story about sex is static, dull, and repetitive. You can only fuck so many ways before it gets old. A story about people is always different. Two different sets of people do the same position but it affects them two different ways. There is feelings, motivations, and a depth or wealth of character that sex stories miss.

My advice to you would be to start with the characters and make them three dimensional. Give them lives, personalities, feelings, weaknesses, strengths, motivations. Even if it's only, "My character Bob is just like my cousin Marvin, without the stupid expression." Writing it down helps if the story is particularly long. You don't have to. Even though you're writing a story that is essentially sex, don't forget the characters are people, or your audience will. Bad character development is like watching a really bad porn where they try to act and fail miserably.

Another thing, mind your grammar and spelling like the ever wonderful WhisperSecret said. Important stuff. The words are the trees in the story "forest." People click back if they can't see the forest for the trees. If your mechanics are presentable (perfect isn't necessary *wincing*) then your words won't get in the way of your story.

Ahem.

"She went down the store and bought some condoms, KY, and a cucumber. The cashier, a gorgeous hunk she'd never seen before, froze after he picked up both the cucumber and the KY at the same time. Their eyes met briefly, then dropped to the condoms on the counter. She smiled shyly up at him."

or you could butcher it

"At the store shopping for some stuf and she bought some stff like condoms and stuff. The cahsier guy is a hunk and she never saw him beofre." Oh that's just too painful.

Watch the connotations of words too. You can use different words to evoke different feelings in the reader. "Myra perched on the stool." "Myra heaved herself onto the stool." "Myra eased herself slowly up onto the stool." "Myra huddled on the stool." She's doing the same thing in all the sentences.
 
About 1 month.

A good story is one that you enjoyed writing for your own pleasure. Sometimes it might have a lot of sex, other times more character development, sometimes a lot of conversation, sometimes all action. If you enjoyed writing it, then it was good :)
 
KillerMuffin said:
"Myra perched on the stool." "Myra heaved herself onto the stool." "Myra eased herself slowly up onto the stool." "Myra huddled on the stool."

Oh my what a busy stool!

Hmm, let's see...I've been on Literotica back when it was still on an Etch-A-Sketch!

Seriously, I don't really remember when I first posted, but I think it's been at least two or three years (yeah, I know, you'd never know from my number of posts on the BB!).

For me, a good story is one that takes the time to make you care about the characters. I don't necessarily need to know that they're lactose intolerant, but I'd like to know more than, "Jack had a hard on the size of Nebraska and needed relief."

I love twists in stories, and I have to second KM about grammar and spelling; if you butcher the language, I'll gurantee that I'll never get through the story. Although I'm much harder on spelling than grammar...everybody has a spellchecker.


Peace,
Bob
 
great answers posted.
thanks for the insight.
i have enjoyed doing my story, in fact, i am just finishing the 3rd part today before i submit it, but i found it easy to write it down because it is an actual event. my next quest will be to try and use my imagination as far as story line and characters go. that will be a test in itself..
again, thank you for the insight.
 
I would suggest you use an editor before you submit it, if you're feeling less than confident about your writing skills. There is always room for improvement. True experiences are easier to write about, but are actually harder to turn into a good story. You leave out the things without realizing it, because it never occurs to you that the reader doesn't already know them.
 
I've been posted on four sites now--three of them erotic sites and one is a genre forum site. I probably have twenty plus stories scatter over the web since 1999 and four novels--two finished and two in various forms of completion.

The novel is a trick that takes some time to work out, but it's a very satisfying form of work in the end.

I love how the little notifier off to the side has somehow restored my hymen back to intact! That's cute.
 
To my mild astonishment, I find I've been around these parts since July 2000. It doesn't seem that long!

I think my first tale (Suzi) first reached the world in October 2000, although submitted some time earlier - remember the pre-script days? I had been writing for some time before that but it was only on discovering Literotica that I found the incentive to actually submit my efforts for public scrutiny. Thankfully, most of the response has been favourable.

Writing is now sidelined until the summer due to a total lack of free time. Oh, woe!
 
Well over two years, way back in '99. I have my stories dated, - sob, with no year date! I started sending them when Lirerotica was a very small site.

All the dates on my stories off the board say nothing earlier than June 00, but that can't be right. They changed the system about them and they got that date put on them. I know that's true as I won the Best Lesbian Story award for '99.

What mades a good story? It has to be well written, have a good plot, and some good sex, with some really hot characters in it. Good visualization of the characters helps. She was "a real babe with nice tits" won't hack it!

I find myself going back once in a while, and adding a little more sex, as a story may be top heavy with plot, and though the readers enjoy that, this is after all, an erotic site. They expect SEX! I try to give that to them too. A balance of the two. I try to put a little "stinger" (as one reader called it) at the end, to leave a nice lift in the readers mind, and maybe a chuckle too!

Write the best you can, edit the hell out of it, and go over, and over, and over for typos and "misteaks." I still miss some no matter how many times I proof a story. Other top writers here report the same thing!
 
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