How you got started?

[Butterfly]

Just a question to whatever author wants to answer. How did you get started writing erotic stories? Did you write other books or are you beginners and just want to try? Thanks.

 

[SpecialK]

How did I get started? Hmmmn....

The first erotic story I wrote (Happy Birthday, Baby) was written as a gift for a friend (which explains why it is in 2nd person narrative). He was a good friend from a chat room and since I'm not into cybersex but I did want to turn him on I wrote the story. (Most cybersex seems to me the worst attempt at two people writing erotica, ever invented! And so many people are so lousy at it! It's so phony I can't even stand it! Ugh!)

I have always been turned on by the written word more than anything visual. It's less of an overt way to turn a person on. It requires more effort from the reader and I like that.

I have never really thought I was able to write short stories. I wrote a novel when I was in high school (looking back on it now it is just horrible!) and I have always been literarily minded.

I'm a bit surprised I ended up with a story as short as "Quiver" since I'm usually very wordy.

I can ramble with a pen or keyboard keys. Yet IRL (in real life) I'm rather quiet and shy.

K

[This message has been edited by SpecialK (edited 12-04-1999).]

 

[Katerina Val-Kyrie]

Hi there Butterfly. I am a beginner at writing erotica as well. I have always loved to write, but have never really gone anywhere with it. This past summer I wrote some poetry, first ones ever. I have done 5 now, and they are very deep. I like to write with feeling, and I show expression very well. I have submitted on in erotic poetry called The Kiss...

About erotica... One day a url was sent to me in icq. It was a site full of stories from amateur writers. Since I do love to write, I thought to myself...Hey, wonder if I can do this? I found some stories I read, did nothing at all for me, and I wanted to see if I could do better. I feel if a reader can get lost within a story and truly feel, then the writer has accomplished something very rare. To share the gift of feeling with someone else, and make them feel, gives a writer great satisfaction. Writing can be a great venture, it's a great way to release your fantasies and share them with others.

If you ever would like to read my work, they are found under Kateria Val-Kyrie in the author section or Romance...The Fantasy and The Cabin. I have also just submitted Dezerae Remembers Sequel To The Cabin. Should be up soon! Kat

 

[Katerina Val-Kyrie]

Sorry about the typos..... Katerina

 

[Laurel]

Here's a BB thread you may find helpful:
http://www.literotica.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000024.html

 

[Katerina Val-Kyrie]

Thought I should mention the site sent to me in icq was not literotica. This site is great! Kat

 

[Butterfly]

Thanks to everyone who has answered so far. Interesting, and Laurel thanks for the site to the other similar discussion. Helped a lot! Neat to see how the other authors got started, how they feel when they write and what motivates them.

 

[Guest]

Interesting subject and good question. I started making up poems as a grade schooler then used my ability to seduce girls with my notes and letters as puberty necessitated. Finally, while an Air Force Combat Controller, I bought a cheap used typewriter and wrote my first fiction story that same day. Since, I've written three books, a dozen or so chapbooks, who knows how many short stories and poems, and still enjoy writing. If you sell something, it's a wonderful compliment. But, just sharing pleasure with others is also a very redeaming reward! MikeandJanTales

 

[Hullo_nurse]

I thought I had answered this question or one similar to it before, here is the answer I gave then:

"After reading all that the experienced writers had to say, let me tell you as a new writer what I do. Usually it is a fantasy of mine that I have thought about & I just start writing. I really don't think too far ahead about plots & the like, but my stories only average 25-35K. I usually just go with what cums to mind & figure if it gets me hot it will probably get someone else hot. Spell check is a must & I will admit that the last thing I sent, which hasn't gotten posted yet,
wasn't spchecked, ooops. I forgot I was in such a rush to get it done that night. I think all my stories have been written over a
couple of days, up to a week. But, once I get into the scene sometimes I just can't stop until it is done. Like the last story. I had
7K done for about 5 days & then all of a sudden the rest came to me in one sitting, and the end just sort of happened the way it did. I didn't know I was going there until I had written it. Amazing, the way a writer's mind works. Well, I guess I have rambled on far too long, but what I think I am trying to say is that each of us has a unique way of getting the job done...find your way & go with it!! Good luck!"

What I can add to that now is that now I can bang out a story in a matter of hours. Also, not everything I write about is a fantasy of mine anymore. Some of the ideas have cum fro you, the other people of the BB's, and from my strange mind. I have also learned to ask others to preview my stories just in case something really doesn't flow. But to get started, go with what you know. Whire about an experience you have had. Change the names and whatnot, but tell a wild-n-crazy tale of your younger or current days. Then you can go to fantasies you have, then you can move on from there. If you enjoy what you write someone else is bound to.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I still amazed that I've even written an erotic story. I wrote my first because I couldn't find any I liked (back in the ancient days when Literotica only had a handful of stories). So, essentially, I wrote it for myself.

I still write for me. I wrote another series with more exposition and plot because that's what I wanted to try. And now I've got a short story or two out there because I wanted to see if I could build tension in less than ten pages.

I don't think of this as my best work, I do write other things where I'm more disciplined, but I have found that writing erotica allows me the chance to "play", freeing up my mind, clearing the cerebral palette, and gives me a chance to work out my writing muscles.

 

[Butterfly]

Thanks to everyone who has answered here I appreciate it. Just interesting to hear how everyone made the decision to write erotica. I've wanted to give it a shot and now I'm going to do a little with the reunion story. So hopefully that will help me get my confidence up and put my thoughts down on paper and get something posted. Thanks again for all your answers to this post.

 

[Shintani]

Hey, write what you like...that's how I got started. And if you get fan feedback, that kinda tells you what you're doing right and wrong, and go from there. Of course, having an overactive imagination helps too!

 

[Butterfly]

Thanks Shintani I guess I don't have to worry about that, I've always been told that I have an overactive imagination so I guess I should do okay.

[This message has been edited by butterfly (edited 12-16-1999).]

 

[Mrhappy]

Well Butterfly,
I can't really say I'm a writer of erotic stories although I've just sent Laurel my first submission. It's called 'Three in Tennessee' and if Laurel doesn't delete it, oops...I mean lose it(we know Laurel would never do anything like that!), it should show up sometime soon.
As to how I got started...It really began here on the BB. I found that I could get long-winded(that doesn't mean good), and I felt a sort of mental release as Dixon Carter Lee mentioned above. I led a pretty bizarre childhood and I've found that it helps me, in a sort of therapeutic way, to work through some of the shit that happened to me growing up.
The strange thing is that I've heard how people get all screwed up over some of their early sexual experiences. Me, on the other hand enjoyed them all (well, most of them). Re-writing these past experiences has allowed me to view them from an adult perspective and I've achieved a peace and understanding about them. Plus I get turned on all over again!
I have a bunch stashed and will bring them out after I've gotten some feedback on how my writing may be improved.
Good luck and just jump on in.

 

[Guest]

I wrote my first erotic story for myself, and the following two when I decided to make a hobby of getting a certain young man I care for-- who happens to live on the other side of the country-- hot and bothered. The erotic poetry I write? Well, when I sit down to write an erotic story, I know it's going to turn out erotic-- it's not necessarily the same with my poetry. I just have this urge to express something within me at times, and sometimes, it's erotic, and it's almost always nostalgic (one reason I am a BIG fan of Jennifer O. Kinney). It's odd. I'm glad people like the poems I've submitted-- I nearly didn't send them in for fear they weren't "erotic" enough. Write what you feel the need to write; it's the only way to go about it. *smile*

 

[Guest]

HI Butterfly! I got started, as did some who have responded before me, by reading stories in Literotica, or other sites, and thinking "Ya know, I bet I could do that!" I had never writted any erotica, unless you count a couple of steamy love letters. But I figured 12 years of catholic school had given me the solid vocabulaty, grammatical expertise, and sexual frustration that virtually guaranteed success in this new endeavor.

My first submission to Literotica, "Fair Game" is an idea I've had for years. I always thought it would make a great porno film. But as I had neither the time, the money, nor the connections to pull off such a venture, I had resigned it to the unfulfilled fantasy shelf. Thanks to Laurel and company, I've found a medium, a playground in which these once idle, lascivious diversions can take flight. Let's hear it for the internet! WhooHoo!

Side note: "Hi Cheryl!" ;-}

Bye Butterfly!

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, I never took typing in those 12 years; hence "vocabulaty"".

 

[Butterfly]

Thanks Ludo and all before all your posts have helped me immensely! I'm actually enjoying writing this chapter for the reunion and I have some more ideas I want to do...so reading and talking on the BB has helped me gain confidence and courage to give it a try..again...thanks to all who have posted here!

 

[StraightRazor]

Well, I write everything else. I love to tell stories. I write thrillers, fantasy, crime, realism, and poetry. I use a lot of romance/sex apeal anyway. So erotica was only a step further for me. Just surround everything around the sex scene, and it's erotica.
Oh, and the fact that I was a cyber-satyr helped, too

 

[Tawny T]

I started writing erotic stories mostly because I thought the ones I read weren't all that great. I knew I could write better ones. I usually write about girl/girl, something near and dear to my heart. I wrote over 30 (anonymously) to one very large circulation magazine and had them all published, over a period of several years.

I found Literotica and started back writing Erotica again. I love writing sexually stimulating stories, and really get into the characters and stories. Sometimes I get really wet and excited just writing them. I can't type fast enough! "Pumped up" is the expression, I believe.

I have to admit masturbating while reading several over again, after I wrote them, they excited me so much. Go figure!

So maybe I'm writing them for myself?? Having them published is an aphrodisiac for me, I guess. If others get off on them too, all the better.

If writing them gives pleasure to yourself and others, what more could you ask? Money??? How CRASS!!!

 

[Butterfly]

Thank you all so much for answering my post. Now that I have written a chapter for the reunion, I enjoyed it so much I'm working on submitting a full story to them soon. You were all a big help and comfort to me and thank you so much! And your right Tawny T if you enjoy, and others enjoy reading and getting off to it what more would we want....

 

[BarondeSade]

Just a test...

:rolleyes

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I had fantasies I wanted to "concretize" in some fashion - by putting them on paper. Part of my work for many years has been writing of a very different type. That experience added to some natural talent to make me a skilled wordsmith. Certain developments in my personal life gave me the leisure and the desire to follow through. Posting stories here on Lit, and then being active on the boards here, has changed the rhythms of my life.

 

[Guest]

Check the date, Roxy.

Someone is recycling some very old threads.

 

[DeeZire]

I'm afraid I write for the wrong reasons. For me, it's an escape to another reality, much like reading is, except I get to control the action. It's a way to reminisce on the adventures of my youth, but also to make them better, to do all the things I was too inhibitied to do in real life. It's a way to explore the sister I never had, the teacher I had the hots for, the hippie-chick who preferred organic vegetables for sex partners.
But then, like Laurel said in the other thread link posted above, you have to go back and see how the story scans for the reader, since the reader wasn't there and doesn't know all the juicy details. You have to explain to the reader what the carrot tasted like after it was in the hippie-chicks sweet cunt. (It tasted like a carrot dipped in warm vanilla ice cream! Yum!)
Knowing how to type helps. Being a pervert also helps. I have both of these bases covered.