I want to write erotica

[Eroticfan2019]

I'm a passionate fan of the stories on literotica it's my go to site to find a spicy story to get off too. However, I am someone who has also always wanted to tell my own stories. But, I struggle with writing them down.

It's weird cause I have so many ideas in my head but have a hard time writing them down. Something a friend of mine noted in high school cause I also want to tell non erotic stories.

I apologize if this post is incoherent, but that is where my head space is at.

 

[alohadave]

Pick an idea and write it out. You can do it.

 

[Eroticfan2019]

Well I did write one today, and I loosely based it off a porn video with Star Nine and Dixie Comet, but removed all the non consensual elements and there is no sex. You said pick an idea, but I have so many ideas in my head and picking the right one is tough for me.

 

[ElliottEden]

Writing is work and a skill. Like any skill you sort of suck at the beginning and (hopefully!) get better.

I find that what helps for me is take an idea and write it into a sentence. Add a couple of paragraphs fleshing the idea out. That often times helps with figuring out how many characters, their gender, age etc. Get a feel for the location - someone's apartment, or home, or place of work, or bar, or...

Then list out the characters. Names, relationship to the others in a story, age, physical characteristics (blonde, long hair, tall or short etc.). With this you can answer to yourself the essentials - who, what, when, where and why.

Then from there go into the story. Find a good editor for the first couple of go arounds - that helps! There are also a very good part of the site that provides writer resources - check it out. Grammar AND grammer are important as well.

 

[DarkSollat]

Just start writing, and accept that your first won't necessery be good or long. Look at your favorite author and determine what you like the most about them, and try to do something similar. Then, continue writing.

If you have troubles with choosing idea, maybe start with... them all. I mean, write a drabble for each and see what feels the most right. Drabble is a very short scene (classic drablle is exactly 100 words long), which can set you in the mood nicely.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Well I did write one today, and I loosely based it off a porn video with Star Nine and Dixie Comet, but removed all the non consensual elements and there is no sex. You said pick an idea, but I have so many ideas in my head and picking the right one is tough for me.

My own preference is not to use a porn video for inspiration, because they are usually so trite and unbelievable. But if it works for you . . .

Using still photographs found online is sometimes a good way to pick a character's appearance, usually a female one. The actual personality of the person is usually far different, although the original photos are pretty vague on that point.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Just start writing, and accept that your first won't necessery be good or long. Look at your favorite author and determine what you like the most about them, and try to do something similar. Then, continue writing.

If you have troubles with choosing idea, maybe start with... them all. I mean, write a drabble for each and see what feels the most right. Drabble is a very short scene (classic drablle is exactly 100 words long), which can set you in the mood nicely.

No, don't pick another Lit author. Do it your own way. As per William Faulkner, do read "regular" published authors - and let's face it, they can be pretty explicit themselves. Short stories or novels work equally well, I'd say. Their influences will likely be below your level of consciousness.

 

[NewOldGuy77]

No, don't pick another Lit author. Do it your own way. As per William Faulkner, do read "regular" published authors - and let's face it, they can be pretty explicit themselves. Short stories or novels work equally well, I'd say. Their influences will likely be below your level of consciousness.

Don Winslow’s crime novels have been an inspiration for me.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Don Winslow’s crime novels have been an inspiration for me.

Maybe I've overstated that. There is a huge amount of stuff on this site. I put it that way because he's just starting out. Also, I did say to read non-Lit materials, which can be pretty steamy in their own way.

P.S. I could look this up, but is Don Winslow on this site? I guess not, but I've never heard of him.

 

[NewOldGuy77]

Maybe I've overstated that. There is a huge amount of stuff on this site. I put it that way because he's just starting out. Also, I did say to read non-Lit materials, which can be pretty steamy in their own way.

P.S. I could look this up, but is Don Winslow on this site? I guess not, but I've never heard of him.

No, he’s a major writer. Check out “California Fire and Life” or “The Winter Of Frankie Machine.”

 

[TarnishedPenny]

First off, welcome to the club! We all (less those poor, chained individuals scribbling to pay rent) have that itch. It’s why we’re here.

The point above WRT writing being a learned skill is spot on. I’m sure Michelangelo started with stick figures and Mozart played off-key at first. What was the old line, ‘Dance like nobody’s watching’? That’s the spirit. You’re going to make mistakes, lots of them. Accept that, but try to learn from them.

If you’ve got a headful of ideas, sit back and seize on just one. You can go back to the others later. Then think about why it appeals to you, what in particular makes it interesting. Then write - just write down what you’ve been thinking. Ignore rough edges and spelling and grammar and plot - just write. Then go back and start improving, making it flow better, etc.

Or maybe you could just start writing out all your ideas - a list of plot bunnies. Get a whole bunch down and then go back and select one. The process is the same.

Of considerable help is a beta reader or editor. There’s a volunteer editor section here.

Good luck!

 

[LupusDei]

Using still photographs found online is sometimes a good way to pick a character's appearance,

I prefer still photography to videos in how I enjoy porn generally, exactly because it leaves a lot of space for interpretation and own narrative.

Find a photograp that's candid, or staged in a way that allows for suppressing disbelief of it not being staged, and pay attention to the background, the setting, the pose, the emotional state. Far more to those details then the physical qualities of the model herself, although having a deep sympathy to her helps.

Now try to imagine how we get there. Not why the photographer chose to stage this scene, although there's certainly a story in that too, but how the scene could have occurred "naturally" as a moment of life, however improbable. Who's the girl is? Who is watching her, from our viewpoint? Why? Why she's at this location? Why she's in some state of undress? What happened in the minutes before? How the scene will evolve from here? Why? What could have motivated her to participate in the events you just imagined?

Naturally, at first there's huge cloud of possibilities, but each answer will narrow a path until it collapses to a story that makes sense (or totally doesn't, but who cares). Don't be shy to explore radical possibilities, then tone those down. You will want to anchor some of your existing scenes, scenarios to the image, use the image(s) to detail a case of that ideal scene. Some would fit better than others, naturally. You likely liked and selected that image because it does fit some subset of those. So, why you like this image? It's a story in own right.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I prefer still photography to videos in how I enjoy porn generally, exactly because it leaves a lot of space for interpretation and own narrative.

Find a photograp that's candid, or staged in a way that allows for suppressing disbelief of it not being staged, and pay attention to the background, the setting, the pose, the emotional state. Far more to those details then the physical qualities of the model herself, although having a deep sympathy to her helps.

Now try to imagine how we get there. Not why the photographer chose to stage this scene, although there's certainly a story in that too, but how the scene could have occurred "naturally" as a moment of life, however improbable. Who's the girl is? Who is watching her, from our viewpoint? Why? Why she's at this location? Why she's in some state of undress? What happened in the minutes before? How the scene will evolve from here? Why? What could have motivated her to participate in the events you just imagined?

Naturally, at first there's huge cloud of possibilities, but each answer will narrow a path until it collapses to a story that makes sense (or totally doesn't, but who cares). Don't be shy to explore radical possibilities, then tone those down. You will want to anchor some of your existing scenes, scenarios to the image, use the image(s) to detail a case of that ideal scene. Some would fit better than others, naturally. You likely liked and selected that image because it does fit some subset of those. So, why you like this image? It's a story in own right.

I get your point. Yes, we all look at porn, but - I don't know, don't overdo it. Or overdo it if you wish to.

You have a complicated explanation there, and I don't think I've ever consciously gone through all of those steps. Sometimes I pick someone much later (after publishing), and sometimes never. Usually they are not candid shots. And they may not be "girls," but who is to say when that age ends? I usually have plots that have little or nothing to do with the photos. It definitely helps to get clothing ideas, although one can also directly find, say, fashion photography from the 1950's or so.

I think I'm trying to say that the photos are usually a supplement, not (usually) the main inspiration.

 

[LupusDei]

I get your point. Yes, we all look at porn, but - I don't know, don't overdo it. Or overdo it if you wish to.

You have a complicated explanation there, and I don't think I've ever consciously gone through all of those steps. Sometimes I pick someone much later (after publishing), and sometimes never. Usually they are not candid shots. And they may not be "girls," but who is to say when that age ends? I usually have plots that have little or nothing to do with the photos. It definitely helps to get clothing ideas, although one can also directly find, say, fashion photography from the 1950's or so.

I think I'm trying to say that the photos are usually a supplement, not (usually) the main inspiration.

I suspect you're misunderstanding me in several ways here. As it so often happens, you apparently assumed your specific way of thinking is the only.

And yes, at least by my native language norms "girl" is pretty much any woman that isn't significantly older than myself, or is considered as sexual interest completely disconnected from age. There could be over a century old girl, if I find her that attractive.

However, well, I do have quite specific tastes in porn that could be generally characterized as rather softcore, but indeed, it has a strong theme that mostly consists of completely naked rather young women in at least somewhat surprising scenery, and the implied story in those images is what I look after far more than anything else.

So, building on that exp, I offered a way to use image(s) to anchor a certain story idea out of the chaotic cloud of scenes in one's head.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I suspect you're misunderstanding me in several ways here. As it so often happens, you apparently assumed your specific way of thinking is the only.

And yes, at least by my native language norms "girl" is pretty much any woman that isn't significantly older than myself, or is considered as sexual interest completely disconnected from age. There could be over a century old girl, if I find her that attractive.

However, well, I do have quite specific tastes in porn that could be generally characterized as rather softcore, but indeed, it has a strong theme that mostly consists of completely naked rather young women in at least somewhat surprising scenery, and the implied story in those images is what I look after far more than anything else.

So, building on that exp, I offered a way to use image(s) to anchor a certain story idea out of the chaotic cloud of scenes in one's head.

Sorry, as usual, I just dash off these posts and I don't put a lot of thought into them. It's a message board, not a Ph'D thesis. The whole "girl" thing; I do remember people (women) using the term "high school women," although I haven't heard it recently. I really don't care that much one way or the other.

I also don't care that much what people think or do about porn. I thought I was being tongue-in-cheek, but maybe that doesn't translate very well either. I admit, I've been spending way too much time on these forums recently instead of writing, my original point of being here. I also should mop my kitchen floor and clean my bathroom, which I've been neglecting. (All of that is true while also being tongue-in-cheek, right?)

 

[Wordsworth]

I'm a passionate fan of the stories on literotica it's my go to site to find a spicy story to get off too. However, I am someone who has also always wanted to tell my own stories. But, I struggle with writing them down.

It's weird cause I have so many ideas in my head but have a hard time writing them down. Something a friend of mine noted in high school cause I also want to tell non erotic stories.

I apologize if this post is incoherent, but that is where my head space is at.

Speaking to myself as well, just write. Anything. Scribble an idea. Start a story. Start another. Don't be concerned with the end result.

 

[RoperTrace]

Speaking to myself as well, just write. Anything. Scribble an idea. Start a story. Start another. Don't be concerned with the end result.

To the OP, maybe look at getting started writing by answering questions from an interviewer.
i.e. Me: What is your top or favorite idea?
You: It's about a girl I had a crush on in college/at work/in the Army/etc.
Me: What was her name? What did she look like?
You: Sally, she was kind of tall, had flaming red hair, and .. . . . . .
Me: Did you ever take her on a date? If so, where did you go?
You: (an so forth)
So now you've focused on one idea, one person(or more), and have a start to a story, more or less. I'm over simplifying, but I know this can be difficult to get started. Or maybe you're way past this stage.