Interested In Becoming a writer but...

[TheRavenNTheRose]

Hi all, I'm here because I have a slight delimma, I really would like to write a story to post here to the literotica site but I can't seem to write one that has enough detail. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I'm really good at writing about the sex portion of the story it just seems to lack, other details. If someone could help me out here it would be very much appreciated.

Thx.

 

[cloudy]

Random sexual encounters are a fine way to start, I suppose, but a story needs some conflict, and conflict resolution, as well as characters a reader can come to care about what happens to them.

The best suggestion I can give you is to read, read, read, and then read some more. I don't know of any author who isn't a voracious reader.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Cloudy is right. read everything that fancies you. And then, once ideas start popping into your head, start writing them. Even if they are just random encounters, or only half-ideas of random encounters. Just read, write, read some more, write some more, and then repeat until you have written something you like. And then repeat some more until you have ten things that you like, and repeat some more until you die

 

[Safe_Bet]

It also helps to write out everything you can about your characters (even if you don't use them). Here's a link to a Character Chart to help with that. http://www.eclectics.com/articles/character.html

 

[freshface]

It also helps to write out everything you can about your characters (even if you don't use them). Here's a link to a Character Chart to help with that. http://www.eclectics.com/articles/character.html

Nice link. Thank you.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

Are there any particular writers of erotica that you admire? If so, you might have a look at how they do it and learn from them. Anais Nin is a great starting place. Henry Miller has a nice sense of sexuality in his work, as does Charles Baudelaire. The Marquis de Sade had a fun way of talking about sex and his use of words that describe sex acts are hilarious and sometimes very descriptive. As to the rest, Cloudy's suggestion is in order. Read the greats...and the greats will teach you.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

RAVEN

I agree with Stephen King's assessment of writing. You have to find the groove that works for you or IT aint gonna happen. Your passions will lead you to your groove.

I say 'passions' because I think good writing requires more than one passion to really work. I write excellent sex scenes, I write excellent violence, history is a passion of mine...so is weather...so is medicine...so is the paranormal. And I discovered how to combine all of it writing horror. And my mind generates one story after another.

Examples: Yesterday I wrote 5000 words about a haunting. Today I've written 2500 words about a black man hanged for a murder the trial judge commited, and I'll do another 2500 words of the story this afternoon. Tomorrow I'll write 5000 words about misguided and righteous teens who destroy the grave monuments of Union Civil War soldiers in their town, and unleash ghosts from long ago. Another story involves 30 kiddies who get on the wrong school bus. And another story involves a celebrated art teacher with a genius for childrens portraits. And a story about a dead gay teacher who haunts the family of one of her students.

Find your groove and use your passions in the stories.

 

[Shwenn]

Hi all, I'm here because I have a slight delimma, I really would like to write a story to post here to the literotica site but I can't seem to write one that has enough detail. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I'm really good at writing about the sex portion of the story it just seems to lack, other details. If someone could help me out here it would be very much appreciated.

Thx.

You're good at writing the sex portion. That's the really interesting part, that's why you are good at it.

You need to make the other parts just as interesting to you. If you do that, you will be able to write it just as well.

Create some characters you find really interesting. Put them in situations and relationships that catch your fancy.

I bet it lacks detail because you find it too boring to describe which is the actaul problem. And, trust me, if you find it too boring to describe, your readers will find it too boring to read. So, whatever you do, don't force it.

 

[JackLuis]

Raven Welcome to the Addiction!

Take one of your sex sceans.

Put a Prequle to it ( don't worry if you can't spell it, either).

Describe how the Girl (boy, Man, Woman, Twink?) found herself in the situation.

Describe how the Boy found the Girl.

Put in the sex scean.

Wipe off your keyboard.

Describe how she feels now that she is ( free of her virginity, lost in a world of Lust or ready to divorce her faithless husband,)

put in another Sex scean.

Wipe off the walls.

close with a sunset.

Run spell check and try to correct the grammer and one handed typing errors.

Put it away for four days and read it aloud.

Wipe off the monitor.

Submit it to Literotica and see if anyone cares to comment.

Read Literotica's Top Stories in your selected Catagories.

Wipe off Monitor, keyboard, walls and don't forget the floor.

Join the Authors Hangout and keep reading.

Repeat until you run out of Kleenx or get the hang of it but have fun with it and never let them tell you that you should stop.

 

[Stella_Omega]

It also helps to write out everything you can about your characters (even if you don't use them). Here's a link to a Character Chart to help with that. http://www.eclectics.com/articles/character.html

That's waaaay to much detail for a character, IMO. What does her favorite color have to do with the plot? If the sight of blue busses always makes her think of the lover she lost-- then it's pertinent.

It's very possible to write a story that is nothing but the the sex, and still has some plot. usually, the plot will be in the characters, and the way the encounter changes them. To accomplish this, you do need to think about who your people are. Do they know each other? Do they mistrust each other-- even though they are in the sack together, there's still room for misunderstandings. Your people could realise, in the middle of a blinding fuck, that they actually don't like each other at all. Or, that the both miss and want a third person, who needs to enter into their mutual lives. Or, that anal sex is the best thing in the entire universe. Your protagonist might suddenly learn how to kiss his partner, or eat pussy the way she's always wanted.... There are all kinds of mini-plots possible.

The only rule is that at least one of your characters has to walk out different than when she or he walked in-- that's enough to make things satisfying, right there.

 

[Shwenn]

That's waaaay to much detail for a character, IMO. What does her favorite color have to do with the plot? If the sight of blue busses always makes her think of the lover she lost-- then it's pertinent.

You're not supposed to put that information in the story. You're just supposed to know it.

You are supposed to know far more about your characters than what you reveal.

I've always done this with the characters I write and the ones I've performed in the myriad plays I've done.

I don't know, it may be possible to write a rich interesting character and only know the details you reveal. I wouldn't know. I can't do it that way. But, if you are having trouble giving detail to your characters, it's a great idea to give the charachter a ton of detail and then choose from that what to share with your reader.

 

[freshface]

I don't know, it may be possible to write a rich interesting character and only know the details you reveal. I wouldn't know. I can't do it that way. But, if you are having trouble giving detail to your characters, it's a great idea to give the charachter a ton of detail and then choose from that what to share with your reader.

And if you're having a hard time with the story, thinking through the details might point you in a direction you hadn't thought of before.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I might use a sheet like that for the two or three main characters in a novel, and if I ever get this series off the ground I'm sure a lot more detail would be necessary, or would get filled in during the process.

I think my problem with this method is that the sheer volume of detail would stymie me before I ever got into the writing itself, and for a beginning writer, it would be tempting to put an awful lot of unnecessary detail into exposition, just because you had written it all down on that sheet.

But-- it occurs to me, characterisation is easy for me. If you've got a sheet like that for plots-- I could use it!

 

[JackLuis]

I might use a sheet like that for the two or three main characters in a novel, and if I ever get this series off the ground I'm sure a lot more detail would be necessary, or would get filled in during the process.

I think my problem with this method is that the sheer volume of detail would stymie me before I ever got into the writing itself, and for a beginning writer, it would be tempting to put an awful lot of unnecessary detail into exposition, just because you had written it all down on that sheet.

But-- it occurs to me, characterisation is easy for me. If you've got a sheet like that for plots-- I could use it!

Me too , Oh Me Too!

Plots are the hard part and endings.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

To my way of thinking the character sheets guarantee that characters come across as cartoons. Tolstoy used battalions of people he knew well, to populate his writing. This is what I do.

 

[Weird Harold]

Hi all, I'm here because I have a slight delimma, I really would like to write a story to post here to the literotica site but I can't seem to write one that has enough detail. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I'm really good at writing about the sex portion of the story it just seems to lack, other details. If someone could help me out here it would be very much appreciated.

Thx.

An outline of your story might help.

Start with the basic premise of the story you want to write -- boy meets girl, boy meats girl, boy meats girl again, and again.

Expand each clause of the basic premise into an outline level by adding questions/details:

Boy meets girl
-where
-how
Boy meats girl
-When
-where
-how

etc...

Continue expanding each point of your outline with additional details until you you have exhausted the possibilities for more detail, then edit what you've got into a coherent story.

Don't be afraid of writing too much detail in the "first draft" either; it's easier to delete excess detail to create a second draft than it is to add more detail.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Hi all, I'm here because I have a slight delimma, I really would like to write a story to post here to the literotica site but I can't seem to write one that has enough detail. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I'm really good at writing about the sex portion of the story it just seems to lack, other details. If someone could help me out here it would be very much appreciated.

Thx.

With all the sniffy and basically unhelpful advice, I go with Stella.

A lot of stories here (often good) are simple sexual encounters. The only thing you have to really concentrate on is the friction that gets them into bed.

Guys here seem to quite like personal reactions and a tad of pathos. Across the lines, jumping the broomstick.

If you want some simple advice, go with good sex scenes, make us care about the bodies. She is, what, coming out of an abusive marriage - he is a long term bachelor cos he works 24/7. They meet (somewhere), there is an incident, they end up in her apartment.....

Then post and stick a flag here.

 

[NoJo]

I'm really good at writing about the sex portion of the story it just seems to lack, other details.
Thx.

I think we'd make a good writing team

 

[sxwriter42]

Stephen Sondheim had a great quote, "If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier and it makes me free to say anything I want."

The situation is the key. Who is it? Where are they? How did they get into bed (or the back of the car, or whatever). Give us just enough information to know what's important about who they are.

To repeat what a couple of other folks said, conflict is essential. Make the characters work for it. Whether they are working for love, or getting each other in the sack, or whatever, the situation you need to set up is one that has obstacles to overcome. Then, the sex is the reward--for all of us ; )

 

[Shwenn]

I think my problem with this method is that the sheer volume of detail would stymie me before I ever got into the writing itself, and for a beginning writer, it would be tempting to put an awful lot of unnecessary detail into exposition, just because you had written it all down on that sheet.

Well, I actually started creating characters for theater in High School. I was in every play; you know, I was that girl. You can't use it in your dialogue; that is already written by somebody else. All you can do is know it. So, I guess I am just very accustomed to not using that information explicitly. I never have the urge to use that information just because I know it.

 

[NoJo]

One piece of advice that did NOT work for me: "Write what you know". Most boring porn I ever wrote, unless you get turned on by C++ programming algorithms

 

[Stella_Omega]

One piece of advice that did NOT work for me: "Write what you know". Most boring porn I ever wrote, unless you get turned on by C++ programming algorithms

Ooooh, that's filthy talk!

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Ok here's how to really become a writer.

Drink a lot. rum, bourbon, scotch, doesn't matter but it should be at least 90 proof.

Get naked. I assume you want to write smut, so the best place to start is with yourself.

Watch a lot of porn. Seriously, like 7 or 8 hours straight. And not just girls wiggling around topless. Find the german and russian stuff that has midgets and robots and extreme close ups of the ejaculation form the inside. This will become important to get the descriptions right. If you can describe a woman being pleasured by 7 men and 3 appliances, you can write anything.

Develop a catch phrase, something that is uniquely yours. Use it in EVERYTHING you write, including christmas cards to your mother. Particularly something like "I kiked in her door and camed in her face". My grandmother loved that in her birthday card.

Now write, write write write and write. Post it all, anything over 750 words goes up, no editors, no proof reading just post it. Preferably in Loving Wives, even if its gay.

Drink some more. You may have sobered up by now.

Now you're a writer. repeat as necessary.

BTW I'm mostly full of shit so listen to the real writers. I'm just here to meet chicks.

 

[JackLuis]

Raven Now you know the basics!

Despite my rather strange posting previously.

Just try to write a Beginning that introduces the character and the situation.

Write a middle part that put in a complication.

Write aother part that solves the complication and gets the Main Character Laid, or not.

Write an ending that resolves, or complicates the complication and don't worry about it if the ending isn't Happy Ever After.

Repeat that 50 times.

Try to do it in 2500 to 6000 words and you'll be in good shape on Lit.

But write and write again.
Welcome to the insanity.

 

[lil_elvis]

Or you can write a bunch of crap and stick it in the "Loving Wives" category