Jerkers vs. Masterpieces

[DeMont]

Good morning dear colleagues,
An intriguing (well to me anyway) question came to me as I was reading some material here. Do you prefer writing "Jerkers" i.e. very short, straight down to business, wam-bam thank you ma'am stories or do you prefer something with more substance and , dare I say "body" to flow from your keyboards?

When you sit down to compose, from an idea, is your focus mainly on the story or the sex knowing what audience and venue you're writing for?
Respectfully, always,
D.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Good morning dear colleagues,
An intriguing (well to me anyway) question came to me as I was reading some material here. Do you prefer writing "Jerkers" i.e. very short, straight down to business, wam-bam thank you ma'am stories or do you prefer something with more substance and , dare I say "body" to flow from your keyboards?

When you sit down to compose, from an idea, is your focus mainly on the story or the sex knowing what audience and venue you're writing for?
Respectfully, always,
D.

Both. Although, to be fair, a couple of stories I thought might be strokers turned out to be fairly typical EB, where slow burn intimacy and mood were there equally as much as the sex. I always get there in the end.

 

[StillStunned]

All my stories are masterpieces!

More seriously, sometimes a story is about sex, and the setup. Sometimes it's a story that has sex. Sometimes there isn't even any sex.

One of the great things about Lit is that you can write almost anything, so why limit your choices?

 

[Erozetta]

Both. Current WIP is an exceptionally long slow-burn stroker. (If that's not a thing, it will be soon.)

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Personally, I find writing sex scenes tedious, boring, and unchallenging. I've done them, and likely will again at some point, but I would rather leave the graphic details to the imagination of the readers.

One of my current works has a lot of implied sex in it. The readers will be taken right to the edge and left to hear pieces about what happened afterwards, or to imagine the events in their minds. I intend to get their arousal stoked, but not fully aflame.

It will be an "edging" masterpiece.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I keep trying to write simple jerkers, and they insist on expanding into novellas with intricate (often too intricate) plots and distinct characters experiencing personal growth. It’s kinda frustrating

 

[Infernalcock]

My goal, which I'm always striving towards and always fall short of, is to write a really good story. Like, you know, with a proper plot and some tension and a defined beginning, middle and end, which could survive without the sex. But also teeming with disgusting, unbridled debauchery throughout.

I'll keep trying

 

[Voboy]

I'm the same way in my stories as I am in real life: the sex is useless without the feelz.

So I don't want to read (nor write) stories in which I don't give a shit about the characters. If I don't care about them, then why should I care that they're fucking?

 

[crookedletter]

Both. Current WIP is an exceptionally long slow-burn stroker. (If that's not a thing, it will be soon.)

An edger, perhaps?

For me, if what I'm writing is erotica then sex is probably the point. The climax is going to be... a climax. I'm going to have fun writing it and draw it out and try to make it intense. And if someone's looking for a certain kind of enjoyment in their reading then they'll be able to find it there.

But they might have to wait for a bit. As Voboy said the payoff is a better payoff if you know the characters, if there's some tension to be relieved.

I don't skimp on trying to write well and trying to write good characters just because they're gonna get messy in the end.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

There is a time and a place for both. For me it largely depends on the inspiration for the story.

 

[lovecraft68]

For a long time I couldn't write a stroker, then I found a way to trick my muse (or my writing OCD or whatever it is) and can do simple leans ins to a sex scene.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Both. Current WIP is an exceptionally long slow-burn stroker. (If that's not a thing, it will be soon.)

You’re like the Miles Davis of Lit, inventing Smut Fusion.

 

[Mrman69]

Good morning dear colleagues,
An intriguing (well to me anyway) question came to me as I was reading some material here. Do you prefer writing "Jerkers" i.e. very short, straight down to business, wam-bam thank you ma'am stories or do you prefer something with more substance and , dare I say "body" to flow from your keyboards?

When you sit down to compose, from an idea, is your focus mainly on the story or the sex knowing what audience and venue you're writing for?
Respectfully, always,
D.

The sex is my focus. Ten pages of background is sinful. You want that? Write romance novels. It’s like when I was a kid and the porn industry tried to have “plots” besides housewife fucks milkman, plumber pool boy landscaper.

 

[StillStunned]

The sex is my focus. Ten pages of background is sinful. You want that? Write romance novels. It’s like when I was a kid and the porn industry tried to have “plots” besides housewife fucks milkman, plumber pool boy landscaper.

I must have missed that cherry stones count when I was a kid: "Milkman, plumber, pool boy, gardener." The female equivalent would probably be something like "Milf, sister, co-ed, nurse."

 

[MelissaBaby]

The sex is my focus. Ten pages of background is sinful. You want that? Write romance novels. It’s like when I was a kid and the porn industry tried to have “plots” besides housewife fucks milkman, plumber pool boy landscaper.

Maybe watching porno movies as a kid is why you have that attitude now.

 

[Statius]

When I wrote I became bored with strokers so when I did write one the sex became extreme and absurd, and sometimes humorous as I made myself laugh while writing. Whenever I did write a stroker the story and characters were always light and funny, nothing serious. Whenever I tried to write a story with a deeper character or story line, writing the sex scene became tedious; like I had no middle ground.

 

[Mrman69]

Maybe watching porno movies as a kid is why you have that attitude now.

Maybe. But more likely what the owner of Screw magazine told his photographers during a shoot; “People pay to see naked women showing off their bodies. They don’t want to see fuzzy images of what looks like it might be a pussy..”

 

[AndyJacker]

I like stories that develop somewhat slowly, but I prefer ones that are not over two pages in length. First person perspectives are top of my list, as part of my excitement is reliving the action in my mind.

 

[Mrman69]

I like stories that develop somewhat slowly, but I prefer ones that are not over two pages in length. First person perspectives are top of my list, as part of my excitement is reliving the action in my mind.

And your hand?

 

[AndyJacker]

And your hand?

It sure helps!

 

[MelissaBaby]

Maybe. But more likely what the owner of Screw magazine told his photographers during a shoot; “People pay to see naked women showing off their bodies. They don’t want to see fuzzy images of what looks like it might be a pussy..”

Well, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Mine is that I have been here for more than eight years, have 77 published works, over 1,200 followers, an average rating 0f 4.80+ and six contest awards, so I'm not real keen on the notion that my stories don't belong here.

 

[Statius]

I am kind of curious how you developed a story slowly but only in 2 pages. For me that's a super fast narrative, almost no dialogue (which is fine, I have one of those), next to no character development or situation development.

 

[TheRedLantern]

I have struggled with the OP's question, as well. I try to challenge myself to come up with stories wherein the characters' problems can be solved by liberal applications of the type of sex I'm thinking of writing, but without it feeling creepy to me. It's fun to try and be creative with my setting and characters and prose to drive the narrative where I want it to go.

It’s like when I was a kid and the porn industry tried to have “plots” besides housewife fucks milkman, plumber pool boy landscaper.

writes in notebook: Plot Idea: Honey Housewife has threesome with Dan Milkman (pronounced Milk-mun) and Bob Plumber-Poolboy-Landscaper The Third. On a boat.

Masterpiece potential!

 

[SimonDoom]

The world is better off with both. There's no need to choose.

 

[MelissaBaby]

The world is better off with both. There's no need to choose.

We can all work together. The faster a reader gets their nut to a stroke story, the more time they have to read something more substantial.