Looking for a writer for a custom erotic story (free request)

[Bamagan]

Do I owe the same courtesy to a guy who rolls down his car window and propositions me?

That depends. How much did he pay for the car?

 

[Bamagan]

Thank you for doing what none of us longtimers have bothered to do.

Instead we reverted to toilet humour. I'd feel a flush of embarrassemt if I wasn't so pooped.

(But seriously, well done. We should have been kinder to the OP. @Spitfires I for one apologise for not addressing your request more seriously before driving it off the rails.)

Hey, now, I tried to let this Spitefire person down gently before all the butt stuff happened!
Still, I'd be completely unsurprised if the proposed story they want turned out to be one that couldn't be published here for one reason or another.

 

[MelissaBaby]

That depends. How much did he pay for the car?

It's probably his Mom's car.

 

[Gamblnluck]

Here is the logic or NON-LOGIC of what you are asking. You want to hire, basically for nothing an author to write a story using your ideas and characters. You have not given any real idea other than than.
What I'd suggest is you contact directly an author whose stories you like. In the genre you are thinking about. Talk to him/her about stories in general and his in particular and see if he is willing to do a collaboration.

 

[Bamagan]

It's probably his Mom's car.

Then clearly, she's the one who gets the 'courtesy' head.

 

[stickygirl]

Then clearly, she's the one who gets the 'courtesy' head.

Is his mom in the car too because that’s another forum

 

[BellaBestia]

Real life writers with even a modicum of talent are not the same as AI, you can’t just give them a couple of half baked ideas and expect a well written story for free. You’ve must have already tried that and received back something craptacular hence your phishing here.

 

[Voboy]

Here is the logic or NON-LOGIC of what you are asking. You want to hire, basically for nothing an author to write a story using your ideas and characters. You have not given any real idea other than than.
What I'd suggest is you contact directly an author whose stories you like. In the genre you are thinking about. Talk to him/her about stories in general and his in particular and see if he is willing to do a collaboration.

Well, no. He's not looking to hire; that implies an exchange of money in return for a desired and valued service. He's offering to talk up the writer on Twitter, it seems. He's explicitly NOT looking to hire.

No thanks. Lol.

Your prescription is a better one: dude should be reading stories, finding things he likes, and contacting the writers. HE is the one who should be begging. Instead (not sure whether anyone noticed, or read that far), he has the temerity to demand "a bit about your writing style and experience."

No, moron. My "writing style and experience" are all over this damn site. Go do your own homework.

 

[Bamagan]

Is his mom in the car too because that’s another forum

This being Lit, yes. Also in his lap.

 

[Gamblnluck]

He's explicitly NOT looking to hire.

That's what I meant by hire for nothing.
I did do a sort of a collaboration once. The person gave me a basic idea and input along the way. She wanted the MC to basically destroy the other, but without a viable reason for the plot, I was not going to do that. She was not as happy with the end result as she could have been. The story was 'Jasmine Patel', a 42K word story that got me a 4.1 score.
I'll take suggestions for a story from friends but will not do something like that again.

 

[Britva415]

What I'd suggest is you contact directly an author whose stories you like

fgs no

 

[Gamblnluck]

fgs no

Why are you such an ass you would deny somebody help? I have at least two authors (presently) that contacted me in exactly that manner. They had ideas for a story. Had no idea how to begin.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Free request: While I can't offer monetary compensation, I'm happy to provide feedback or help promote your work on platforms where appropriate, if that helps!

This is what's known in the biz as "working for exposure". As in:



If you don't believe our work is worth paying for, how are you going to convince somebody else to pay for it?

The most likely consequence of accepting "exposure" in lieu of pay is getting more offers to work without pay, which is not an attractive deal. If I'm writing for free it's going to be on one of my own projects.

 

[Britva415]

Why are you such an ass you would deny somebody help? I have at least two authors (presently) that contacted me in exactly that manner. They had ideas for a story. Had no idea how to begin.

Invite them to contact you, then. Don’t invite them into other people’s DMs with these requests. THAT’S what’s asinine.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Hi everyone, I hope you all are doing well.

I am reaching out because I'm looking for a writer who would be interested in crafting a custom erotic story based on a few character names and ideas that I will provide. I'm open to a variety of themes and settings, but I'm particularly looking for someone who is willing to create something unique based on my concept.

What I'm looking for:
Story length: medium length story (around 4000-5000 words), but flexible
Content: I have specific character names, a rough plot and themes (which I will provide once I connect with the author)
Tone: I'm open to a variety of tones and genres (romantic, sensual, intense)
Free request: While I can't offer monetary compensation, I'm happy to provide feedback or help promote your work on platforms where appropriate, if that helps! If you're new to writing erotica or just want to practice and have fun, this could be a good opportunity to flex your creative muscles.

What I'll provide:
Character names and descriptions
Relationship between a few characters
Some themes and kinks

If you are interested, pls reply or send me a private message with a bit about your writing style and experience. If you have any questions, pls feel free to ask!

Looking forward to hearing from the amazing community of writers at Literotica! Thanks in advance for considering my request and happy writing to all!

Best regards,
Spitfires

This.....Frances nailed this one (as below).

In general, if you want someone else to write a story for you, you pay for it. I'm working on one, off and one, in $100 installments, and all up it's likely to come in at around $5k. It's very specific to the requestor's tastes, and it's tough work. I have so much of my own stuff to write that it's a real challenge to even try and fit it in. Lucky for me or him) the the guy is very very patient, and has his fingers eternally crossed that at some point I may finish. I have another, with a published author, that I'm supposed to co-write and that's taking a long time to get off the ground - and that will pay based on sales - it's with a name author, which will generate sales, and a name publisher with a large reader base - and still I am procrastinating.

I write the odd short stories for anthologies and get paid $100 a pop for those - and that is WAY less than I should ask, but hey, anthologies get you a bit of exposure on Amazon so why not.

Seriously, no-one will write what you're asking for for free. As for flexing creative muscles, without being rude, if you're not willing to pay (and 4-5k words is a couple of days full time writing, plus lead in time, and post-draft editing - say a week, and I write like a maniac when I'm flying), you;re looking at a bare bones minimiun of $1-2k for the time invested. And THAT is El Cheapo.

My suggestions is, write it yourself. Or get an AI and do the AI thing and then edit it to suit your tastes. Much as I hate the idea of AI writers. LOL

To attempt to answer your question and also explain some of the reaction…

You have misread the room to a degree that makes me almost think it’s intentional trolling. But I will give you the benefit of the doubt.

I’ve been writing a few years and I think you are misunderstanding a few things. First about writers:

1. Most writers have a work in progress folder full of things they want the time to finish
2. They probably have a list of ideas jotted down somewhere too
3. They are probably in the middle of writing one or more stories which they find compelling and can’t devote enough time to
4. Many of us are also helping other writers by beta reading or editing or proof reading their stuff
5. We are busy

Why would anyone drop all that and jump on your suggestion? Which gets me to the second set of misconceptions, which are about your ideas. I’ll be blunt:

1. It’s highly doubtful that your plot ideas and characters are very good - it takes lots of experience to come up with good plots and convincing characters
2. But maybe I’m wrong and you have a one in a million idea, but it’s just an idea
3. Turning your ideas into even a short story takes time and effort, why would anyone do that?
4. If your ideas aren’t compelling enough to you for you to put in the time to write them, why would anyone else?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Why are you such an ass you would deny somebody help? I have at least two authors (presently) that contacted me in exactly that manner. They had ideas for a story. Had no idea how to begin.

Well if someone actually wanted to write their own, there'd be a stack of suggestions, such as find a story you like and use that as the basis for your own. Or go take creative writing classes. Or do what the rest of us do, start writing, and invest 10 years in getting to where you're okay.

As it is, my suggestion to the dude is use an AI to do it for him. Or her.

My other suggestions are a bit ruder and mostly involve eff's LOL but I'm far to polite for that. And I do admire the OP's optimism. A positive outlook on life is a good thing!

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Free request: While I can't offer monetary compensation, I'm happy to provide feedback or help promote your work on platforms where appropriate, if that helps! If you're new to writing erotica or just want to practice and have fun, this could be a good opportunity to flex your creative muscles.

Uh, I'm sorry, but I can't pay my bills with feedback and work promotions, I've been offered this type of compensation many times, be it as a musician to perform, as an artist to draw, as a photographer to take pictures, even as a teacher for tutoring and private lessons. Money, rather than feedback and exposure, is the commodity I take for my labor, so I'll politely decline.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

I think the disconnect with these kinds of things is that non-writers think that the idea is the hard part.
Ideas are easy, turning them into a good story is hard.

It's like handing a seamstress a bolt of cloth and expecting her to make you a dress for free.
Anyone can buy cloth, the talent comes later.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I think the disconnect with these kinds of things is that non-writers think that the idea is the hard part.
Ideas are easy, turning them into a good story is hard.

I'm only partly joking when I say that I write as a way to get rid of excess ideas so I can get some peace and quiet.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I'm only partly joking when I say that I write as a way to get rid of excess ideas so I can get some peace and quiet.

Oh yeah, 100%. I have a spreadsheet of story ideas begging and pleading for me to write them, and there's just not enough time to 10% of them. It's no joke...I get ya.

 

[onehitwanda]

I'm only partly joking when I say that I write as a way to get rid of excess ideas so I can get some peace and quiet.

My brother from another mother.

 

[femmeappeal]

I realize I have an odd sense of humor, but what's funny to me is that the cheeky diversion illuminated what I find strangest about such a request.... You want someone to write a custom story, and you don't start with what genre or subject matter you're seeking?!

I mean, to my mind the only way you can get a smart writer to do anything for free, is to make it a challenge they'd personally enjoy -to seek writers who would actually want to write what you want to read. Holding back details so vitally important is a consent of creativity nightmare to me. And I know whereof I speak.

The one time I took a job writing custom erotica for an individual, I did complete the first story and thank him for his business, but I declined to continue writing the entire series because I realized that the only thing he wanted was to continue having the main character, an assassin, kill men by strangling them with her thighs while wearing pantyhose. Nothing else I added to the story, to give it more depth and complexity, interested him at all. Any variety I added (like an occasional pair of stockings) was rejected. He didn't just want this to be her signature move (as his original job post implied) he wanted it to be all that she did, ever. That soured the whole experience for me, both because I didn't like his simplistic take on the material and because I wasn't even writing to a kink or storyline that I enjoyed. And when I backed out of writing more, I had to scrape that dude off of me - really wouldn't take "Go away" for an answer. It was frustrating and really made me question if I'd ever write erotica on commission again - and I did have specific aspirations in that direction, at the time.

But a short while later I read Anais Nin's Letter to the Collector and I felt such a sense of relief. People like their "Collector" are free to be into whatever they are into, but I know that there are very good reasons that such mechanized view of sex is off-putting for me. And I know I am the only person who requires more creative nourishment than that.
https://lettersofnote.com/2012/06/29/sex-does-not-thrive-on-monotony/

 

[filthytrancendence]

https://lettersofnote.com/2012/06/29/sex-does-not-thrive-on-monotony/

This is really, really beautiful. I've had similar thoughts before reading your post and this letter, and that's more or less the reason I can't envision myself writing commission stuff like this. Because it seems to me the kind of person that's willing to commission something is very likely to be the kind of person that's got this extremely narrow view of sex. I admire your ambitions in that direction.

Here's something I posted a while back that reminded me a lot of this:

I have a half-cocked pet theory about sexuality and aging. There's roughly two paths a person can take. If you're secretive and repressed, the older you get, the more deeply ingrained your hyper-specific sexual preferences become. Weather it's because you never truly experience those fantasies, or because the few times you do are the only times you feel deep sexual satisfaction, they just get deeper and more focused. And your sexuality narrows to the point that it ends up excluding your own ability to enjoy sex most of the time, unless you are very rich or privileged in some other way.

On the other hand, if you open and brave, you will find that the range of sexuality you have the capacity to authentically enjoy broadens as well. You will surprise yourself with new things that were never arousing before. You will find yourself attracted to people that your younger self would have written off.

Obviously that's not scientific or anything. But it's been true for me over the course of my life, and I've seen many things that lead me to believe it is true for other people as well. But the distinction between the two is at a very high level. Are you willing to be open with others about your sexuality, even when they might not get it? Or are you going to close it down tight and only ever share it with someone you are all but certain will definitely accept it? And are you willing to make life decisions based on how people react to your authentic self? Or do you want the comfort of a life where you don't really ever have to show your authentic self?

 

[femmeappeal]

This is really, really beautiful. I've had similar thoughts before reading your post and this letter, and that's more or less the reason I can't envision myself writing commission stuff like this. Because it seems to me the kind of person that's willing to commission something is very likely to be the kind of person that's got this extremely narrow view of sex. I admire your ambitions in that direction.

Here's something I posted a while back that reminded me a lot of this:

Excellent theory, and backed up by more research than you might think. That lack of healthy access to our personal sexual curiosities has definitely been tied to unhealthy fixations on them. And when shame has been attached to anything we find sexually alluring, it can be really hard to break out of that fixation/shame cycle.

I had to put that ambition aside a few years ago, when I had to have major spinal surgery and sitting up to a non-mobile keyboard got a lot more challenging (unless I could drop hard money on a zero-grav workstation). But my son and sister have been helping me rig up a DIY solution that's been making it a lot easier to do certain things in just the last week - including writing, research, and even gaming with others - a nice change from the isolation that's . So, while I'm still fighting to prove to the government how utterly dependent I am on others right now, I'm weighing more options than I'd been able to before.

Either way, I'll never again take a gig just writing for a normal punter who wants custom jerk-off materials. I'd set my sights a bit higher - like writing for professional producers and directors, or possibly finishing the feature-length crossover script that's been rattling around my head for a very long time. Impoverished as my situation has left me, I'd need a lot more motivation than a paycheck now.

 

[Omenainen]

Either way, I'll never again take a gig just writing for a normal punter who wants custom jerk-off materials. I'd set my sights a bit higher - like writing for professional producers and directors, or possibly finishing the feature-length crossover script that's been rattling around my head for a very long time. Impoverished as my situation has left me, I'd need a lot more motivation than a paycheck now.

But, but, this guy is offering exposure! It’s so vital because us authors have no access to social media ourselves. We are chained to the basement wall, next to Lit servers, and are only allowed to visit this site. AH actually stands for Angsty Howling.

(I’m sorry for your troubles, hope things get better soon health-wise, or at least that you’ll get the gear set up.)