Is your story *hot*?

[Chicklet]

How do you keep your stories hot?

I've been looking through my old threads and I saw one where I was asking for advice on making my stories "hotter" - people were telling me there wasn't enough sex to keep my story "hot."

Here's the thing. That was a year ago, and my stories don't have any more sex in them. I haven't improved. But the story around the sex has improved. Now I think that my readers don't feel like they need to skip around from sex scene to sex scene to get a good story...so maybe that's how I made my stories Hotter.

How about you? How do you keep your stories interesting for the reader? Do you try to think of innovative sexual positions, interesting problems for the characters, what?

Chicklet

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I try to spice things up by adding a little extra tension between the characters. Not necessarily negative tension, mind you, but sexually loaded tension.

I've learned a lot about THAT lately...

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

I just use description and lots of it. I write every little detail of what they are doing, seeing, smelling and hearing. Even if it's not the sex parts I add all the little details. Every story is different in that its details are different even if the sex is kinda the same.

Wicked

 

[Jenny _S]

How do you keep your stories hot?

I've been looking through my old threads and I saw one where I was asking for advice on making my stories "hotter" - people were telling me there wasn't enough sex to keep my story "hot."

Here's the thing. That was a year ago, and my stories don't have any more sex in them. I haven't improved. But the story around the sex has improved. Now I think that my readers don't feel like they need to skip around from sex scene to sex scene to get a good story...so maybe that's how I made my stories Hotter.

How about you? How do you keep your stories interesting for the reader? Do you try to think of innovative sexual positions, interesting problems for the characters, what?

Chicklet

Chicklet,
What is the biggest sex organ in the human body? The mind. I have three "Hot" stories and four more that are close. One has actual sex in it.

I leave the mechanics, the humping and grinding, to the mind of the reader just as I do the descriptions of the characters. You'd be amazed how many of them put ME in the lead fem role and themselves in the opposite male role. Seems to work.

 

[MathGirl]

My secret

Originally posted by Chicklet How about you? How do you keep your stories interesting for the reader? Do you try to think of innovative sexual positions, interesting problems for the characters, what?

Dear Chickie,
Sheep.
MG

 

[Icingsugar]

Re: My secret

Dear Chickie,
Sheep.
MG

I was waiting for that.

Anyway... hot. I don't think the actual bumping of uglies is all that arousing by itself. The passion, the drama and the tension preceding it and during the act is what gets me going. A description of a sexual act can be totally bollocks or totally incredible, depending on the situation and the emotional level in which the characters participate. Maybe I'm just a big drama queen, but I'm all for strong, cataclysmic emotions.

To quote my sumbitted but not yet approved story: "...but I was beyond caring now. I was fucking away my grief and my pain. I was fucking to survive."

 

[SlaveMasterUK]

I agree with Jenny. I don't think descriptions of what people are actually doing are what makes a story hot. It's all about feeling. Quite often I read a pretty good story that suddenly loses out bigtime in the sex scene because it's all about "I did this and he did that and then we came."

to me sex is all about builds, quick or slow. Believe it or not it actually takes time to have an orgasm, even a quickie. It starts off low and builds up until it overwhelms the senses. It's this build that really turns me on so I like to describe what my characters are feeling, as their orgasm begins deep inside with tingles in their bellies and flushes across their chests right up to the final moment.

In a lot of stories I read, it feels like it's taking the character 30 seconds to build up to an orgasm. I like to make sure the builds in my stories are described so that the reader can 'feel' the sexual tension rising and rising until it becomes overwhelming. Even when my characters don't come (through their own choice or otherwise) I still write about the build.

Where I'm dealing with more than one character (I love those masturbation scenes...) I tend to stick with the perspective of just one character, so I can write exactly how they're feeling. For their partner, I can show their build by writing what the main character sees - the narrowing of eyes, opening of mouth, clenching or opening or shuddering of legs, so that the reader can 'watch' the character building up to an orgasm. Like in 'real' sex, there are two enjoyable parts - your own pleasure, and watching the pleasure of your partner.

At least I think this works, because I have been told my stories are hot

But your original thread doesn't really ask any of this, does it?

As far as I'm concerned, if a story doesn't 'fit' right, I won't get turned on by the sex. Some of the things I read just seem so far-fetched or daft even before the sex has started that I can't get into it. my mind is always asking for answers, and those have to be satisfied before it can believe the sex is enjoyable, or even happening at all. However a few of those stories had already been labelled with a 'H' so I guess I'm in a minority on that one. But if you think you're writing more 'realistic' stories now then maybe people are getting more drawn in and are 'feeling' the sex more than they were before, hence are finding it a more heated experience.

ax

 

[Guest]

I haven't been that concerned with character development or plot; as I only began writing erotic pieces for Lit. I focused on the erotic. For that I try to think of what arouses me and keeps me aroused.

1. It's always being paid very personal and particular attention.

2. Details (a caress of my cheek, being told I have a gorgeous cunt, an unexpected bite, an unexpected embarrassment, his face transforming as he cums, eyes lighting up)

3. Humor sometimes. It has to be fun. If it is then I often end up laughing during sex, not because something is funny but out of sheer joy at the physical experience.

4. Kissing. I have mouth and lip preferences which I give to my fictional men. How they use them is requisite. Utter turnoff: poor kissers.

not all that hard to please, Perdita

 

[janus40s]

A story sometimes gets its "heat" from the sensual texture. The smell of garlic on his breath or the feel of a leather chair against her bare back or the sound of rain pelting the roof can be a lot hotter than the actual penetration.

Even with the actual sex, there can be sensuality. An ususual shape of an organ entering a mouth or the degree of pressure applied or the taste of an already-dripping member can add to the thrill.

Give the reader a sensation that he/she was not expecting and you will create heat.

 

[MathGirl]

not all that hard to please, Perdita

Good grief, Perdita. Truer words were never spoken.
MG

 

[Guest]

Good grief, Perdita. Truer words were never spoken.

OK, Butt-Brat. You are now officially the tiniest nemesis I've ever had.

I will always out-Harumph you,

Perdita

 

[TheEarl]

I've tried recently to make the sex feel naughty and forbidden for my characters. Well it works for me.

The Earl

 

[Quasimodem]

Dear Chickie,
Sheep.
MG

True.

Next to Canadian Club, Lanolin is a great social lubricant.

 

[oggbashan]

More conversation, less description.

Still luke-warm, though.

Og

 

[Lovepotion69]

I'm too new at writing this stuff, so I can't really say what I do to "hotten" up my stories. I've been working on a story today, and it should be finished by tomorrow. So far it seems ok. A Lit friend read it, and says it's hot, but perhaps it's just his taste.

I guess I try to put in more detail when I write my stories. I'm experimenting with dialogue now, as I'm not very used to it. Hopefully it'll work out ok.

 

[sweet T]

My first and only story.... so far... recieved an "H".
When I wrote the story I tried to write it so you felt the emotions, senses and tastes. I wrote how I would have liked to read the story.. wheww.. if that makes sense..
My next one has been started... but I havent... gotten into the grit of it yet... only 2 starter paragraph.. but I am forming it in my mind..

I like erotic material to make me wet when I read it... and really good material... may make for a good cum...

Damn, did I really say that...

 

[deliciously_naughty]

After over 20 stories, I do occasionally struggle with making the sex scenes unique. Luckily I've been able to write such different stories or have continued former series that I either know the character or can create a new mood based on what the characters are saying.

When I struggle with sex, I tend to put it away for awhile.

 

[ffreak]

The landscape of the mind has far more scenery than:
"Insert tab A into hole B" Issac Asimov

When we use it, we give a better sense of real time, and real sensation, IMHO.

 

[The_Fool]

My sex scenes are starting to to falter and go limp. Must be time to do a little research and evaluation...

 

[jfinn]

How about you? How do you keep your stories interesting for the reader? Do you try to think of innovative sexual positions, interesting problems for the characters, what?
Chicklet

I don't believe I am a very hot writer though I do have my moments. Most of the time though the sex in my stories takes a long time to get there and then a short time to finish. But I do think that I usually manage to make most of the scenes individual in some way.

Weird as it sounds, I almost always write my sex scenes in three separate parts before putting them all together. First comes the the emotions. What am I trying to show here? Is it hot, romantic, funny? Next comes the story. My stuff has lots of story and the sex always has something thing to do with plot to either move it along or consolidate a point. The very last thing I do is the choreography or mechanics of the scene, what gets shoved into where and for how long and how often. After all that I put it back together in reverse order and write it out again. By that time the scene is usually pretty unique to the story or the chapter.

I know it sounds like a lot of work, but I've tried just sitting down and writing it and that ends up taking me longer because I'll get caught up in one direction and then have to go back and add in something to explain an another, which screws up something else... Like I said, I'm weird.

Jayne

 

[openthighs_sarah]

I find that this sentence really helps generate enthusiastic reader mail:

"Fuck my fucking ass, you fucking goddamn fuck."

Then, a little later, I might throw this in:

"Jesus... christ... Don't you ever fucking stop fucking my fucking ass..."

Beats me why it works. There may be a Jungian archetype thing at work. The great thing about it is that, apparently, context doesn't matter.

I'm thinking of trying to trademark that first sentence, the way Fox News tried to trademark "Fair and balanced". It would be fun just to read the news stories about the resulting lawsuits.

 

[Guest]

Do it, Sarah. We can have a fuckass fucking big fuck petition from Litsters supporting your claim.

Our spin: Fuck my fucking ass, you fucking goddamn fuck, and sign this.

Grassroots Perdita

 

[openthighs_sarah]

Thank you, Perdita. Your fucking support will not go unrewarded.

Although I was being perhaps less than helpful earlier, I do think that the word fuck (and even that particular phrase I mentioned) can be extremely erotic sometimes. Some Lit authors are like kids when it comes to profanity -- no appreciation for its proper use. Fuck, in particular, is too wonderful a word to waste, or to devalue from overuse.

Fuck.
love, s

 

[Guest]

Fuck me!

Again, I 'm with you, Sarah. Fuck is one of the best words ever coined. It holds an 'infinite variety' of uses and expression. I now appreciate that as a girl I did not dare use it and rarely heard it. I claimed it when I was ready. It holds a special place in my vocabulary, along with cunt and cock.

Perdita

p.s. Fuck.

 

[MathGirl]

"Fuck my fucking ass, you fucking goddamn fuck."

Then, a little later, I might throw this in:

"Jesus... christ... Don't you ever fucking stop fucking my fucking ass

Dear Sarah,
That sounds like a sex scene from the movie "Scarface."
MG
Ps. As Al Pacino said, "Fuck you, you fucking fucker." Sheer poetry.