openthighs_sarah
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This is just for fun, and mostly for selfish reasons -- like everyone else, I love to be turned on by a great story. I'm a writer, too, but I'm posting this as a reader. And a lot of this has probably been written before, in one form or another, and I'm sure other writers (and readers) won't agree with me on everything (or maybe anything), but so it goes... To paraphrase the closing line of the Messiah's Handbook: "Everything in this list may be wrong." Not only that, but I don't follow all these rules, so with that in mind, and in no particular order...
1. Believe what you're writing. If you don't believe it's happening or that it could happen, I won't believe it, either. So on some level, there has to be at least a ghost of a chance that you would do whatever it is you're writing about -- whether it's fucking another man, another woman, a dog, your sister, being gang-raped or sodomized or whatever. If you didn't want to do it in the first place, why write about it? And even if I don't share the fantasy, I'll respond to the fact that it turns you on, and that you're writing as much for yourself as for me (or anyone else).
2. Don't rush, but don't stall. Every story has an appropriate pace, but with erotica I think it's even more important. This goes hand-in-hand with "believability" -- if the story doesn't have a realistic pace, it's too obvious that it's all a fabrication. I don't want to read the Cliff's Notes version of "Lady Chatterly's Lover", I want the real thing -- maybe only a few pages, but a few pages with meat around their bones. Things can happen quickly in the story if they would happen quickly in real life... Always wait a few days after you've finished writing your story, then go back and read it from start to finish. Maybe you spent a hour working on a single paragraph, but remember that I'll finish that paragraph in fifteen seconds, and I might not stop and admire it before I go on to the next one...
3. Make me believe it. I don't have to believe it when it's over, but I have to believe it while I'm reading. If I start looking at the little black lines on the page (or on the screen), that means I've stopped seeing anything else. Maybe 90% of the people reading your story just want a quick fix, like a stolen kiss in the dark; I'm part of the 10% that wants the whole torrid affair, and when it's over I want to be left shaking and sweating and remembering it with a smile. And anything is believable if you find the right voice -- just don't play me for a sucker. Make the effort and I'll go along happily for the ride.
4. There's an old saying that "God is in the details." So is a great orgasm. It's probably true that most people use their imagination to fill in the details when they're reading erotica, but if you supply enough details of your own -- odd, unexpected details, not just bust measurements and cock sizes -- then I'll be inside your imagination instead of my own, and I'll appreciate it later when I'm flushed and delirious and soaking wet in my chair. Don't just make me feel "something" -- make me feel exactly what you want me to feel. Tell me what I should be noticing, what will hold my attention, what will distract me as I'm imagining all the things that are happening to both of us... Don't just push your girlfriend's thighs open while she's asleep, and then fuck her in the ass -- tell me how your cock swells up and takes her ass with it, how her little hole looks as you slip inside of her, what sounds she makes as she wakes up to find you filling her up... or how his cock tastes as it first parts your lips, what's going through your head as he thrusts inside of you... "The essence of every picture is the frame."
5. Take risks. Shocking me (even if it backfires a little) is far better than playing it safe and showing me exactly what I expect every time.
6. When you get into the meat of the story, don't hold back. Maybe you were conservative and shy when the story started, but I want you to lose yourself once things get going, because I want to lose myself, too. In fact, I want to think that this isn't how you normally act, that you've been pushed beyond the limits and now you could do or say anything...
7. Have fun. Same principle as number 1, above. If you have a good time writing it, and if it makes you come at the same time, I'll probably have fun reading it. And in the best of all worlds, it'll make me come too.
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~sarah
1. Believe what you're writing. If you don't believe it's happening or that it could happen, I won't believe it, either. So on some level, there has to be at least a ghost of a chance that you would do whatever it is you're writing about -- whether it's fucking another man, another woman, a dog, your sister, being gang-raped or sodomized or whatever. If you didn't want to do it in the first place, why write about it? And even if I don't share the fantasy, I'll respond to the fact that it turns you on, and that you're writing as much for yourself as for me (or anyone else).
2. Don't rush, but don't stall. Every story has an appropriate pace, but with erotica I think it's even more important. This goes hand-in-hand with "believability" -- if the story doesn't have a realistic pace, it's too obvious that it's all a fabrication. I don't want to read the Cliff's Notes version of "Lady Chatterly's Lover", I want the real thing -- maybe only a few pages, but a few pages with meat around their bones. Things can happen quickly in the story if they would happen quickly in real life... Always wait a few days after you've finished writing your story, then go back and read it from start to finish. Maybe you spent a hour working on a single paragraph, but remember that I'll finish that paragraph in fifteen seconds, and I might not stop and admire it before I go on to the next one...
3. Make me believe it. I don't have to believe it when it's over, but I have to believe it while I'm reading. If I start looking at the little black lines on the page (or on the screen), that means I've stopped seeing anything else. Maybe 90% of the people reading your story just want a quick fix, like a stolen kiss in the dark; I'm part of the 10% that wants the whole torrid affair, and when it's over I want to be left shaking and sweating and remembering it with a smile. And anything is believable if you find the right voice -- just don't play me for a sucker. Make the effort and I'll go along happily for the ride.
4. There's an old saying that "God is in the details." So is a great orgasm. It's probably true that most people use their imagination to fill in the details when they're reading erotica, but if you supply enough details of your own -- odd, unexpected details, not just bust measurements and cock sizes -- then I'll be inside your imagination instead of my own, and I'll appreciate it later when I'm flushed and delirious and soaking wet in my chair. Don't just make me feel "something" -- make me feel exactly what you want me to feel. Tell me what I should be noticing, what will hold my attention, what will distract me as I'm imagining all the things that are happening to both of us... Don't just push your girlfriend's thighs open while she's asleep, and then fuck her in the ass -- tell me how your cock swells up and takes her ass with it, how her little hole looks as you slip inside of her, what sounds she makes as she wakes up to find you filling her up... or how his cock tastes as it first parts your lips, what's going through your head as he thrusts inside of you... "The essence of every picture is the frame."
5. Take risks. Shocking me (even if it backfires a little) is far better than playing it safe and showing me exactly what I expect every time.
6. When you get into the meat of the story, don't hold back. Maybe you were conservative and shy when the story started, but I want you to lose yourself once things get going, because I want to lose myself, too. In fact, I want to think that this isn't how you normally act, that you've been pushed beyond the limits and now you could do or say anything...
7. Have fun. Same principle as number 1, above. If you have a good time writing it, and if it makes you come at the same time, I'll probably have fun reading it. And in the best of all worlds, it'll make me come too.
,)
~sarah
