Is writing porn easy?

[damppanties]

Recently I enrolled in a creative writing class. The 'big' project, which accounts for 6 credits out of a total of 24, is that I have to write a mix of stories and poems. Well, okay. All is well till I go through the study material and prepare for exams for the other credits. When I sit down to write my 6 stories, I realise that they don't have sex. And they cannot have sex. Some 50 year old, conservative guy is going to read them and I don't want him reading my smut. It might start a stupid controversy.

Well, anyway, my point is that I had to write something non-sexual and I found it was more difficult than I thought. It was certainly doable, but more difficult since I knew I could not fall back on a sex scene. I had to get serious and drive myself. The sex stuff just comes too easily, when compared to it. Have I got into the habit of writing porn?

My question: Do you find that writing porn is easier than writing non-erotic stuff?

 

[Spurious Scribe]

I don't think that writing porn is easier for me, but it is certainly more enjoyable. I think it is all in the genre or kind of writing that you want to do at the time.

For instance, not too long ago when I lost my most beloved best friend, who just happened to be a dog, I was devastated. Another friend, also a dog lover, directed me to a site where those who have lost pets can go and express themselves and more or less write through their grief.

That site was a godsend. Once I went there I just knew that I could pour out my heart and I did just that. The words came so easily that evening. Somehow my subconscious knew the words and I felt so good about it all- the experience, what I had to share, how I wanted to share it. Just everything. Again, it wasn't easy, but it felt good, it felt right. I was doing the kind of writing that I wanted to and needed to at that time.

Writing erotica is similar in that when I write it, I am doing the sort of writing that I want to do and while it isn't necessarily easy for me, I find it very pleasurable and on more than one level.

 

[CharleyH]

Do you find that writing porn is easier than writing non-erotic stuff?

I find writing erotic a bit more challenging than writing non-erotic because when it comes down to it, there are only so many words for pussy, cock and cum. The challenge for me is discovering creative ways to actually say these words over and over and over, and from story to story to story . . . without being completely repetative.

That's not my only take, but my brain is still asleep.

 

[SensualCealy]

Dampy,
I took my first writing course last summer and I too found it much harder to write serious stuff.

We were given topics to write about that I had to keep clean due to the fact that there was a serious age difference through out the class, 17- 60's.

Writing non sexual stories made me feel as if I left something out, however they did give me the satisfaction of being able to show family the stuff I can write. (Id never show my mom my stuff on here! Even when she asks what site I got my stories posted to!)

Now Im thinking about taking another course for writing to help with my grammar and sentence structure, stuff I should have known long ago.

Best to you in your hard work,
Luv ya Cealy

 

[damppanties]

Writing erotica is similar in that when I write it, I am doing the sort of writing that I want to do and while it isn't necessarily easy for me, I find it very pleasurable and on more than one level.

Doesn't it make it easier to write when you want to?


Cealy, Thank you for the best wishes. I have the project almost done.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

For me, writing non porn is now harder than writing porn. However, just like porn I have my comfort zone in non erotic writing. I can write sci-fi, fantasy and historical non erotica with ease, but I would have problems if forced to write in genres I am not comfortable in.

I have never taken any writing courses, but I do remember papers for class being more difficult than they should have simply because I didn't want to do it and had the added pressure of being under definitive time constraints.

-Colly

 

[SensualCealy]

It is much easier to write on the topic of your choice.

However it makes you a better writer if you can write on any topic, at least that is what I was told! lol

I have one story written from the eyes of a toddler from my summer course. Many of the people in the class loved it, and it was a true story taken from my childhood memories growing up in a rural farming community. It was funny, one comment from a younger man was, "No one in their right mind would allow a small child to wonder off on their own, there isnt a place in this day and age that it would be safe, unless this was wrote in the older eras,its irresponsible!"

I guess I grew up in the older eras, Im only 35! lmao
Cealy

 

[Pure]

I think writing passable porn is infinitely easier that other non categorized short story writing, because, in porn, enumeration of sex details counts as storytelling. To a limited extent this applies to romance writing, though there a little more psychology--even if stereotyped.

 

[damppanties]

LOL. Pure, you're saying porn writers are at the end of the writing chain? Below every one else?

 

[SensualCealy]

Dem's fightin' words aren't they Dampy?

lol Cealy

 

[rgraham666]

Oh, write the silly old fart some porn. It may be the only fun he has all year. And controversy can't help but advance your career. Any publicity is good publicity.

So far I haven't found writing erotica any more or less difficult than writing anything else. The really difficult part is what Charley noted. Trying not to make the climax, as it were, repetetive. The act itself is generally pretty simple and not entirely conducive to non-repeating prose.

Cheerist, I'm a wordy bastard!

 

[oggbashan]

I enrolled in a creative writing class last September.

I've told them that I write porn on Literotica but not my nom-de-plume.

I find that writing for the exercises is easier because of the practise I have had on Literotica. Their limit is 400 words. That takes me about half an hour including edit, usually to reduce down to the limit.

The only thing I've found difficult is free, non-rhyming, verse. I cheated. I wrote a 'poem' about writing the exercise - then I gave them "The Garderobe". That brought the class to a full stop. We had to break for coffee early so that they could stop laughing.

I think good porn is more difficult.

Og

Free Verse
I’ll be curt and terse: I hate free verse
My poetry without rhyme a waste of my time
I’ll even be frank; I detest verse that is blank
Unless – this I confess, it isn’t just a mess.
It seems that free verse gets worse and worse
Art that’s unconfined needs a subtle mind
The brain of Homer, or some ancient moaner
Regretting glories past, or reliving a fast.
Poetry requires skill, say what you will
Shape and rhyme, even metre no crime
Yet in this exercise, all must I exorcise
Trying to prove all, to gain tutor’s approval.

 

[KarenAM]

Writing porn is easy. Writing it well is not.

 

[damppanties]

The really difficult part is what Charley noted. Trying not to make the climax, as it were, repetetive. The act itself is generally pretty simple and not entirely conducive to non-repeating prose.

There are ways around writing repetitive sex scenes for the porn writer who wants to learn.


KarenAM, I hear you. What I mean to say is that a non-erotic story needs a plot. A sex story can have the plot A meets B, they fuck, and get away with it. A non-erotic story asks more of you as a writer.


Og, I dislike non-rhyming verse too. Poetry is meant to rhyme.
I have to write one free verse poem in my project.

 

[KarenAM]

This is quite true, damppanties; most stories need a plot. This is why it is so good for erotica writers to write other stuff too. A good story is a good story regardless.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

A lot of the porn "stories" that show up at Lit, aren't. In reality, they're vignettes relating an incident.

In addition to the problem of needing a plot, porn/erotica/smut stories also tend to include sex scenes. Those suckers are always a challenge because they involve action. Anyone who's written a bar fight or combat scene knows how hard they are.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[damppanties]

RF, It's easy for you to say. You're a 'real' author.

 

[Guest]

Writing porn is easy. Writing it well is not.

Quite!

Edited to add: and writing good EROTICA is harder still. There is a distinction - in my opinion, anyway.

It's the same with any genre. Anybody can sit down and write what for them passes as a story, whether anyone else sees it that way is a different matter entirely.

Lou

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I think writing in general is difficult because it involves your heart and soul.

 

[Guest]

For me, writing for Lit. is no different than writing anything I do for my own purpose and pleasure. I suppose it's also why I only have 8 posted stories, and one of them an assignment (the chain story).

Stoke would certainly be easier, and perhaps at the bottom of the smut chain, as someone noted, but that does not appeal to me as a writer, only as a reader.

Perdita

 

[damppanties]

Ok, ok, the question changes.

Is writing passable porn easier than writing passable non-erotic stuff?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

RF, It's easy for you to say. You're a 'real' author.

Oh, I don't know about that, DP. Lot's of folks say my stuff is pretty unreal.

RF

 

[Guest]

Is writing passable porn easier than writing passable non-erotic stuff?

Damp, I think I know what you mean, but it's a dopey question for me. I think it would be difficult for me to write anything deemed passable.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

Ok, ok, the question changes.

Is writing passable porn easier than writing passable non-erotic stuff?

Short answer...

No.

I know many people who write non-erotic fiction, and many often say, "Kudos to you, I tried writing erotica once, and I can't."

A lot of people just can't write about sex; they can't get around certain boundries and taboos set upon themselves, in their own mind.

Lou

 

[damppanties]

Alright. Everybody here has their own standards. According to the standards you measure yourself by, which is easier to write.


Phew! I AM having trouble with this!