My last mental hurdle

[Rob_Royale]

When I started writing near three years ago now, there were things I felt I wasn't going to dabble in. And over time, after being immersed in the world of erotica, one by one they have all been thoroughly dabbled in, if not jumped and splashed about in like a golden retriever in a mud puddle.

Yesterday, I submitted my biggest 'no way' subject, mom/son incest. I tried when I first started, but due to my own troubled childhood, it was impossible to divorce the woman I was creating on the 'paper' from the woman who raised me, in my mind. I couldn't write the word 'mom' without thinking of her.

But strangely enough, I was able to read momcest without difficulty, because I only saw the woman the writer described. It's a weird dichotomy, but there it is. Anyway, after realizing that my latest series could and should go there, I found I was able to create the mom without thinking of my own. A giant mental hurdle overcome for me, and I'm quite happy about it.

 

[Voboy]

So often, I've had Lit friends assume that what I write here reflects something about my own past, my own present, my own proclivities. I've struggled sometimes to explain that that's not always the case: usually (if not always), I divorce myself as a person from myself as a writer, and from the things I'm describing on the screen/page.

I've always found that easy to do. I'm glad you've been able to.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Yea, one of my characters is Punjabi and she is the first person narrator. I've had a couple of guys in chat over the years message me thinking that I was Punjabi because they thought that the story was either real or assumed that I self-insert. Obviously they didn't read my other stories with female lead characters who were white trash, English, black-Asian or ginger (although a couple of those probably weren't published yet at the time).

 

[TheLobster]

Yesterday, I submitted my biggest 'no way' subject, mom/son incest.

Imma go ahead and ask the question that I'm sure is on everyone's mind right now.

Was there a lap or backseat involved?

 

[SimonDoom]

When I started writing near three years ago now, there were things I felt I wasn't going to dabble in. And over time, after being immersed in the world of erotica, one by one they have all been thoroughly dabbled in, then jumped and splashed about in like a golden retriever in a mud puddle.

Yesterday, I submitted my biggest 'no way' subject, mom/son incest. I tried when I first started, but due to my own troubled childhood, it was impossible to divorce the woman I was creating on the 'paper' from the woman who raised me, in my mind. I couldn't write the word 'mom' without thinking of her.

But strangely enough, I was able to read momcest without difficulty, because I only saw the woman the writer described. It's a weird dichotomy, but there it is. Anyway, after realizing that my latest series could and should go there, I found I was able to create the mom without thinking of my own. I giant mental hurdle overcome for me, and I'm quite happy about it.

Welcome to the other side of the River Eroticon. Once you cross, there is no turning back.

 

[StillStunned]

My biggest hurdles have been about style, not subject matter. 1P present tense was one, 2P another. In both cases I wrote a subject matter that wasn't something I'd ever have considered writing otherwise (1P present: blackmail, transgender; 2P: mother-child, unconscious participant). To imitate a 19th century style I wrote a Gothic vampire tale. I wrote an open-ended magical realism encounter to practise a lyrical style. I created a grimdark setting to try my hand at an unlikable protagonist.

This is what makes Lit so great. You can try out new things and find an immediate audience. Beyond the site's very basic rules, there's no-one to tell you you can't.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Imma go ahead and ask the question that I'm sure is on everyone's mind right now.

Was there a lap or backseat involved?

A boat.

 

[TheLobster]

A boat.

I'm sure it rocked!

 

[StillStunned]

A boat.

Judging by your horns, you probably meant to type "goat", right?

 

[Comshaw]

My last mental hurdle​

(snip)

The problem is when you get to a certain time in life and you're old and fat, hurdles of any kind (even mental) can't be cleared and I end up on my face. The solution? I go around.



Comshaw

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Went there this week with Date With Mom.

Wrote out fairly well.

Favorites are piling up quick, even of the rating isn't.

 

[TheRedChamber]

For what it's worth, I attempted an incest story early in my Lit career and the experience of trying to write the actual sex convinced me that it wasn't something I was going to attempt again, no matter how many views and how creative a plot I could come up with. Like you, I'm able to read what other people have written. After beta-reading for @mrs_mackenzie recently, I've been tossing around attempting an Auntcest story, but not sure that I actually will or that she won't morph into mum's best friend instead.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

^^^ The mechanics of the story are the same. Wife, girlfriend, sister, aunt, mother get interchanged. Use names instead of roles.

"Maybe you should call me Cheryl now."

"OK Mom ... er Cheryl"

The physical parts and interactions are the same.

My wife felt so good.

My Mom felt so good.


Now if it's a mental block, that's fine, no problem. I held off for a long time until just the last couple of stories. Mom was in the room, maybe involved with another partner, maybe there was a lot of touchy feely contact but no penetration. The Charlie series does that.


Date With Mom blew the doors off that.

I've been tossing around attempting an Auntcest story, but not sure that I actually will or that she won't morph into mum's best friend instead.

Upcoming entry for Summer Lovin' goes there to an extreme where Aunt is almost Mom's Twin sister.


And then there's Aunt Nancy.

 

[TheRedChamber]

^^^ The mechanics of the story are the same. Wife, girlfriend, sister, aunt, mother get interchanged. Use names instead of roles.

"Maybe you should call me Cheryl now."

"OK Mom ... er Cheryl"

The physical parts and interactions are the same.

My wife felt so good.

My Mom felt so good.

There's a quote I can't quite find by a old-time rock and roller (it may have been Little Richard) about how Gospel music and rock-and-roll are the same, you just change the word 'Lord' for the word 'Baby' all the way through.

In practice, though, and I only wrote Sibcest, I found it impossible to write as if they weren't brother and sister and suspect that 'difference' was what most readers would have come for.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

There's a quote I can't quite find by a old-time rock and roller (it may have been Little Richard) about how Gospel music and rock-and-roll are the same, you just change the word 'Lord' for the word 'Baby' all the way through.

I used to tell my parents (who listened to country music) that the difference between pop lyrics and country lyrics is that the pop singer is 'so lonely' and the country singer is 'so lonesome'. Of course in the years since then the quality of the lyrics in both genres has declined, but country shockingly so. The lyrics in modern country songs are generally appalling. No other genre of music talks down to the lowest common denominator like country, often completely devoid of any metaphor whatsoever.