How/Why did you start writing

[togitc]

Origins are always interesting, even the boring ones. Come on, it'll be fun. Why/How did you start writing? Erotic, non-erotic, poetry, or anything else you can think of.

My origins.

Non-erotic:
I wrote before I knew how to write. I would scribble on a sheet of paper and make my parents read it. It only got worse once I learned my letters, I would put every letter I know on a page and put a period at the end. I can still remember explaining that with a period at the end it was a sentance to my mother. When I post a story I still feel like that little kid holding out a piece of construction paper and waiting nervously for any sort of reaction.

Erotic:
The first story I wrote was just to write one. I read them so many times that I thought I could do it. I was wrong.
My 'real' beginning was when I was writing what I thought was going to be my first book and I came to a kiss. I realized I had never written a kiss before. I wanted it to be wonderful, why couldn't I write it? So I started with passion, then lust, and then love. Haven't gone back to non-erotic since.

Poetry:
I have to thank a noisey mother and lousy hiding places. I would write journals about what I thought and dreams and my mother would find my journal, read it, and then wait for me to come home to talk to me about it. I started ripping up my journals after three pages and it felt terrible. To stop the destruction of my inner-most thoughts I started writing in code.
My english teacher caught me writing an entry during class, she thought it was a note. She read it, liked it, and moved me to advanced placement classes.

That is all I can think of at the moment.

Come on, tell me yours.

 

[Stella_Omega]

At maybe eight years old, I dreamt of a pair of little boats, out on the night time sea. They had red and blue lights, which we could see from the shore, They were our fathers, coming home. Our? yes...
I woke up, and tried to write it down as a novel... I got completely bogged down, however, in the technical aspects of book-making; folding signatures, stitching, binding etc. I still do some book-binding, once in a while!

And I've never written a non-erotic story yet.

I started writing erotica at an age which is illegal to mention. It was hardcore, even then- "Petey and Yuri" began to come into form all the way back then. I wrote bondage and rough sex a LOT.
I wrote as obsessively then as I do now, and I taught myself a sort of bastardised Greek alphabet in order to keep my writing from my schoolmates' eyes. I also wrote with REALLY bad handwriting, for the same reason. I would write on one side of the pages of a spiral notebook, and then turn it over and write my way back on the other side of each page.
I lost fifteen years of journals in a basement flood. I miss them. They were childish, but- I had some damn good ideas!

 

[elsol]

I have a black/white view of the world... worse than just about anyone I've ever met (yes, even Amicus).

In the tenth grade, an English teacher divided an entire quarter to creative writing.

I got an A in my first attempt.

*ElSol, here are some crayons... the world is your walls.*

Erotic:

College... started reading it and said; hey this would be a fun way to learn how to write better.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[Stella_Omega]

*ElSol, here are some crayons... the world is your walls.*

ElSol. that's just beautiful, man.

Erotic:

College... started reading it and said; hey this would be a fun way to learn how to write better.

I had once a boyfriend who was illiterate; I got him reading by giving him porn, it held his attention quite well!

 

[English Lady]

I wrote before i could even write, my drawings would be stories, ot just drawings *grins* I have always loved english, loved words and so writing has come easily to me.

I won a poetry competition at 8 years old, and have written poetry since, most of it is spiritual in nature as when I get touched by my God, it seems to flow out of me in poetic words. I love poetry, and write some whenever i get the inspiration.

creative writing started in school, I loved creating stories and my teachers were always blown away by my imagination.

erotica -I started writing this not long after meeting my now hubby(about 8 years ago), he introduced me to eritic stories and then one night i had an erotic dream, I HAD to write it down, it wouldn't stop bugging me, and well I've been writing mostly erotica since.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

How/Why did you start writing

Either:

A. The devil made me do it,

or

B. Mental lapse.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I've always enjoyed writing but rarely ever did unless I was assigned a project. Then I found myself at a crossroad in life. Stuck in a marriage gone stale and faced with the question of my sexuality and burdened by the fear of breathing a word of it to anyone, I was ready to explode. I don't remember exactly what prompted me to open a blank word document one day, but three weeks of near sleepless nights, sore nailbeds, back and neck later and I had completed a novel. It felt so good to purge the feelings raging inside me that I promptly wrote another novel, this one longer than the first. Short stories for Lit came next, because not getting any action and coming to terms with being a lesbian makes for a seriously horny woman. One day I hope to publish some of my work, but it'll have to wait until I'm out of school. I miss writing.

~lucky

 

[mack_the_knife]

My wife likes me to tell her stories. Either I simply told them to her or we played role-playing games. However, it was hard working adult themes into the games smoothly, without interrupting the flow of the game, so I started simply penning stories based upon some of the characters from the game. I've gamemastered RPG's since I was 9 or so. When I was 11 I ran my dad and his friends in their first D&D game (bunch of GI's including a female soldier I had a hella crush on).

Sharesh, Harlen, Hyandai, Wendy, and a few others are direct translations of rpg characters.

She encouraged me to post a couple of them for public consumption, and after a few months, I aquesced.

Now, my daughters want me to read my stories to them, so I will have to now branch out into non-erotic themes as well (or censor on the fly as I read them to the girls). "Why do they kiss so much, daddy?"

 

[woodnymph_O]

Well writing in general
I got into endless trouble in grade school for daydreaming.Then in the 5th grade i was doing it again and got called to the teachers desk. I assumed i was going to get the usual lecture and call to my mother for a conference, but she gave me a notebook and pen, and told me with an immagination so good that it kept me from paying attention half the day, I needed to share what was in my head. So I started to write the daydreams, and she made my writing my grade. You have to love a good teacher.

erotica
one of my favorite authors of romance said to. She said the only way to stop cracking up at yourself when writing a love scene was to go further and write erotica. Once you could write that with a straight face you would be fine. True words and here I am.

 

[AppleBiter]

I've just always loved it. I'm with EL in that I started making up stories with drawings before I ever started writing. Creative writing assignments in school were always my favorite and when I found I had a penchant for English, all the better.

I started writing poetry in my early teens. I found it so freeing when I discovered free-verse for the first time. Poetry always allowed me (and still does) to express something hidden and to lay myself bare before the world, but to do it behind the protective mask of metaphor and innuendo. I love that.

I didn't start writing erotica until very, very recently. That is, unless you count all the steamy love letters my husband and I used to write to each other in high school. Those were pretty damned erotic. *Remembers fondly* Anyhow, I thought I would try a new genre as I've mostly stuck to horror or other forms of non-erotic fiction. (When I'm not having to write a college paper.) I'm brand new at writing erotica, really, and it's a fun kind of experiment for me. Maybe I'll blossom, maybe not. I'm just enjoying the ride. But, I think my true talent will always lie in other forms of non-fiction. I suppose that remains to be seen.

AppleBiter

 

[cloudy]

Seems like I've always been writing. As soon as I realized that I could string words together, and tell a story that was completely mine, I ran with it.

Through college, and in the career years after that, it sort of fell by the wayside, and to be honest, I'd forgotten all about it. Then, when I quit working to stay home with my youngest, I complained to my mother about being bored, and she said "Write again." I love her.

Writing erotica? Well, an ex-boyfriend and I were in a VERY long distance relationship (the states and Denmark), and in the 3 or 4 months that would pass before we saw each other again, we would right steamy emails. He told me I ought to write erotica, and here I am - although I'm still not sure how good I am at it.

*shrugs*

At least I'm writing.

 

[Alex756]

I've written stories as long as I can remeber. My first 'book' was summer before kindergarten. I knew a few words and used pictures for the rest like " saw a "

Since then I've written and written, started a BAD star trek novel in 4th grade. Had been writing horse stories since 3rd. Published my first horror story in 11th grade? or was it 10th? Did creative writing for speech competition. Wrote more essays than imaginable to pay for school. Won the regional VFW voice of democracy speach contest 3 years in a row-- so I learned audience manipulation at an easrly age, Basically I became a writing whore at a young age to pay for school.

I wrote some game modules for various gamming systems, unfortuantly I picked companies who were in financial straits and never got published that way, only got some up front money. Spent alot of time in the 90s GMing games and at Cons. Ran online games for a while.

I don't technically write 'erotica' I don't think. I write stories with characters who happen to be horny Everything I've writen I could dim the lights before the sex got intense and not lose story.

After spending some time writing kids stuff, I am getting back to my horror roots. I think I have a much better understanding of characters now than I did when I was last published, so I'm going to see how things develope and start doing some regional ghost stories after NaNo this year and see if I can crack into the local market

~Alex

 

[BustyJ]

I write from my r/l experiences, sexual and other wise. Most of my stories are based on what has really happened to me. I enjoy writing always have, just didn't have the outlet to let anyone else read my stories. Thru Lit it has given me this opportunity.

 

[cymry]

As others have mentioned, I started writing very young...mostly "poems" and "books", but have always had a thing for any form of art (painting, sculpture, scetching, etc.). I did anything and everything that had to do with writing, art, or expression in school...art classes, music, choir, dance, contests, competitions, book reports, art shows, journalism, public speaking, drama...you name it. Just as long as I could CREATE something.
Got my first poem published in fifth grade and have had several more plus a few short stories in print since then. Won my first art competition with a still life in oils in seventh grade. Studied classical piano for ten years and was a member of a guild for five. Wrote a play as a junior and the local drama club performed it to a full house for a month.
Instead of pursuing what I've always loved to do (writing and art) in college, I got a degree in computer science, go figure. Have always been facinated with art and expression and to this day have never used that degree. I'm a pastry chef and professional icing artist. It's not exactly what I've always dreamed of but I can create and get paid at the same time.
Erotica has never really been a focus, just a part of the whole experience of writing.

 

[oggbashan]

I started writing in primary school (pre 11) and some of my writings were published in the school's magazine fortunately no longer available.

At age 11 I had two items published in the school magazine. One was a travel feature and the other was fantasy. Both are now on the internet.

I wrote reports in my early career and developed up to writing answers to Parliamentary Questions and draft Acts of Parliament. I wrote text books, handbooks, training manuals, software manuals etc. My list of academic publications covers 3 A4 pages for just the titles.

I restarted writing fiction when I retired the second time. I wasn't convinced that the stories were any good. They weren't.

Then I started touring Yahoo's adult groups and found 'erotica'. Most of the stories I found on the groups convinced me that I could do as well if not better. So I started writing for those Yahoo groups, mainly 'facesitting' because those were the groups I had found first.

I had some feedback of the two word - 'Good story' type and that was it until I discovered Literotica. I posted some of my existing stories and lurked to see the results. The votes were few. PCs didn't exist and feedback was very rare but came with at least a complete sentence and sometimes several if anonymous was really pissed off.

Reading other people's stories helped me to develop my own. All the stories I have ever posted on Lit are still there. Some of them need to be deleted or at least have a major edit.

I like to be different. I try to have a unique twist in my stories and also attempt to deal with weird fetishes. I am still working on the South Indian women's hairy and sweaty armpit fetish story. It has reached 2,000 words but is unconvincing.

I like entering the themed competitions because it brings my work to many more readers even if some of them back away shaking their heads.

More stories will come soon...

Og

 

[LadyCibelle]

Like everybody else, before me, has mentionned I started writing young. Mainly poetry and only for my benefit. I never thought anyone would have any interest in my writing until a friend of mine convinced me to post some of my poems here and see what people would think.

I've been lucky enough that nobody ripped me to shreds and most people have been nice enough to give constructive criticism, even when they completely hated something I had written.

Then 2 months ago a story started bugging me. It wouldn't leave me and kept me from sleeping until I had to write it or lose my sanity. I thought, well I was convinced that would be it, unfortunately I've just discovered it's not. Last night I was kept awake because an idea was brewing in my mind and today in less than an hour I had a 1200 words essay in front of me.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Poetry:
I have to thank a noisey mother and lousy hiding places. I would write journals about what I thought and dreams and my mother would find my journal, read it, and then wait for me to come home to talk to me about it. I started ripping up my journals after three pages and it felt terrible. To stop the destruction of my inner-most thoughts I started writing in code.
My english teacher caught me writing an entry during class, she thought it was a note. She read it, liked it, and moved me to advanced placement classes.

Ooh, I love this one. Do you have any examples? (and what they really meant?)

 

[sweetnpetite]

How/Why did you start writing

Either:

A. The devil made me do it,

or

B. Mental lapse.

Rumple Foreskin

With that av, i keep thinking you're cantdog.:O

 

[impressive]

I started writing precisely 26 months ago -- for Lit. I had fantasies in my head which were aching for release. Before that, I'd no urge whatsoever to write. However, I did always kick ass on writing assignments in school.

So, I began with erotica (pure stroke). Somewhere along the line I decided a plot would be nice every once in a while. Last fall, I added poetry. Last year's Winter Holiday contest was my first attempt at non-erotic fiction (and this year's will be my second).

I am SO TOTALLY a novice at this stuff ... but I'm a quick study.

 

[sweetnpetite]

I've always written, for as long as I remember- and usually always books (well, ok- 1st pages, and first chapters right?)

Anyway, I could never seem to finish anything unless it was an assignment (and then not always, and they always ran longer than required- like way longer) or if it was a sex story. They just seem to beg to be finished.

So I started writing sex scenes now and then but they were my 'dirty little secret' until I met my current boyfriend and I somehow got up the nerve to write one for him. At first all my stories to him (and there were tons, but I think probably half got lost in THE BIG FIGHT) where fantasies for the two of us, and they featured characters similer to us, but usually with names different but close to ours. It was great foreplay, and he started writing them to me too. Mine, I think were dirtier, pure smut, and his I found touching they were so filled with love and appreciation (not overtly like all flowery or anything, but you could just feel and sence it about the characters) even the rough stories (I think that's how we got into BDSM, we'd write a fantasy and then we do something similer) had this wonderful tenderness.

Anyway, back to me. He eventually found this site and showed me and I started posting. The early stories were mostly for him, but later I began to branch out to writing for a wider audience or writing more for myself. I thought maybe eventually I would form some good habits (of actually completing my work- still a major fault of mine) as well as breaking some of my fears of being two this or two that in my 'straight writing' and eventually be able to write other stuff and finish it too. NOw I tend to get more relationship or non-erotic ideas, but I still manly finish the sex stories.

My problem is that I have a short story temperment and book ideas. If I have to put it down and finish it later, there's a good chance I'll never complete it.

I wrote my first complete long work last year for nano and posted it under the name Amy Sweet here on lit (It's in my sigline) With little more than spell check for editing, it's got an H and made it's way to Lit's top list. Even though i think it needs a lot of work, I'm still quite proud.

 

[janiexx]

I have always written from an early age, diaries, travelogues, stories.

But it was only meeting someone on the net who introduced me to Literotica, that I started writing erotic fiction.

We would write to each other long into the night and share our fantasies - the inspiration for "Written Just For You".

I love writing and always will - need to get it all out! And I love reading all the stories written by other authors.

janiexx

 

[Recidiva]

The word hyperlexic was created for me. I remember having my brother and mother teach me letters on the blackboard, I remember my first orange and yellow flowered reading lamp at three. I remember reading to my kindergarten class.

I always saw or thought or felt things that others didn't, I knew to keep my mouth shut but not my mind.

Reading and writing are my balance, my little grip on this world. The world doesn't have much grip on me other than that. When things are out of my reach this is where I regain my grasp, like a newborn finding something to grip and just holding onto that.

Since eroticism has to do with intimacy and that's all I've ever written about, it probably started when I had my little finger gripped around that bit of chalk and I started connecting everything to everything else.

This is my romance with thoughts, with presences, with ideas that dance within my reach, but just far enough away that I can see their faces when they aren't mine.

 

[Ferawyn]

When I post a story I still feel like that little kid holding out a piece of construction paper and waiting nervously for any sort of reaction.

That sounds familiar.

I've always had a 'vivid imagination' as a child. My mother is fond of relating a story of me entertaining a whole classroom of 4 year olds with a story for half an hour, all the while holding the book upside-down in my lap and never once turning the page... Apart from that I've always been an excellent straight faced liar.

I didn't start writing anything down though, until I played a text adventure game called Zork. At that point I had learned some basic programming and set out to write my own version. The game never worked (obviously, I was 9 or 10 years old), but I did manage to gather a whole binder full of background story, dozens and dozens of locations, room descriptions, characters, the whole lot.

After that I wrote a few scraps of stories, but mostly I've been reading a lot, until I found out about DND and other roleplaying games. I've been an avid roleplayer and DM since the age of 15 or 16, I think. Around the same time I also started reading pornographic stories downloaded from BBS'es. (Which were smaller and lasted longer than pictures. )

Then came the internet and chatting, which turned into online roleplaying, and soon cybering. Most of my current stories, both erotic and non-erotic have their roots in roleplaying. Characters that I feel never quite worked out in a campaign get a story of their own. Cyber sessions that break off halfway, or that show more promise than the other side can fulfill. Etc..

 

[Mari J]

When I was 15, I was hanging around the magazine rack and happened to see True Confessions. I started reading it and had two thoughts:

1. This is really stupid.

2. I could do that.

The rest is history.

 

[sweetnpetite]

When I was 15, I was hanging around the magazine rack and happened to see True Confessions. I started reading it and had two thoughts:

1. This is really stupid.

2. I could do that.

The rest is history.

so have you written for that magazine?