need help writing!

[Chickenwingsandsalsa]

I have been on lit for some time and I want to contribute to writing here, but I have no experience in writing or in woman. So, maybe you could help me.
genre's interested in: nonconsent, mind control (you can also suggest).

PM me if interested.


I generally come online on Sunday's.

 

[Carnevil9]

First rule of writing: Do a lot of reading.
Second rule of writing: Do a lot of writing.

Other than that, just use your imagination and try to spin a good yarn. Write something, post it, and heed the feedback you get. (except for the stupid feedback, of which you will get plenty)

Others will come along with more specific advice, but that's the general outline. Good luck!

 

[SamScribble]

As Carnevil says: Read and write. And read and write. And, well ... yep, you guessed it: read and write.

Good luck

 

[Handley_Page]

Just make sure that your spelling is good and your grammar is better than fair.

 

[Ninjasr4real]

I would suggest taking an empathetic approach. Live through the eyes of a woman. Read biographies and diaries of women through their eyes. Interview women and feel their words, don’t stay on the surface.
- $ 0.02

 

[Isabel_Innuende]

Read books about writing and do writing exercises

So, let me just confirm here that you want to become a better writer as well as start writing erotica. Is that correct?

Becoming a better writer

When it comes to being a better writer, there are several things that you can do to improve your skill in that area. They all involve doing a great deal of writing, and getting feedback from others.

1. You could do an online writing course. There are tons of them available, some for very cheap in places like Udemy, and some free at edX.

2. Try some writing exercises at Writers's Challenges and Exercises forum.

3. Read books about writing, which include writing exercises. I suggest Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark. It's not only a really entertaining read. It has loads of examples of great pieces of writing from famous authors, with breakdowns of which tools those writers were employing and why those passages are so great. Then, for every chapter, it gives you a writing exercise based on the Writing Tool in the chapter. It's fun!

There's also a list of great books about writing here.

Understanding Women's Pleasure

You said that you don't have much experience with women. I think this would make it tough for you in some ways to write from a woman's perspective or understand female sexual pleasure, but not necessarily impossible. I would highly recommend that you read some female writers whose stories focus on female characters. You could read Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. LeGuin, Angela Carter, Sarah Waters, Toni Morrison, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith as a start. Sarah Waters is my favorite living erotic novelist. Her novel, Tipping The Velvet, about the struggles of a Victorian-era lesbian, is an incredible story of female sexual desire.

I also highly recommend educating yourself on women's sexual pleasure, not just for your writing, but for your potential relationships with women. I would highly recommend The Savage Lovecast, a sex advice podcast from Dan Savage. He discusses all sorts of sexual topics with his callers, not just female sexual desire, but I think that the way he understands, speaks about and educates in relation to this topic is incredibly enlightening.

Best of luck!

 

[gunhilltrain]

Get a free copy of Grammarly to attach to your browser. It will work when you're in Literotica's preview mode. It can be a bit awkward because sometimes it's a bit slow to get going, and it might need a second pass. I'm not sure of the technical reasons for that. (You probably don't need the paid, premier edition of the program.)

Grammarly helps, but it doesn't replace the human eye for proofreading. Don't rush your story into being submitted. Give it a couple of days or more and go through it again - probably even a third time. It's surprising how many typos can slip through.

You might want to have it in the drafts folder during the proofreading stage. That way the preview mode screen will be available for your use.

 

[Brutal_One]

As most replies which are from authors who have published in Lit the best advice is just to do it. Start writing. If you are totally new to writing I would probably not try and write erotic literature as my first story.

I would first focus on just writing a story and the structure of that so outline (main idea) then plot (what is the tale - beginning, middle and end) then think about the characters.

Once you have all three start writing. As suggested use grammarly (free version) to show you basic grammar and spelling.

Of course submissions to Lit need to be erotic content so before a submission to Lit is possible you need to just ‘learn’ how to write a story first. Once you know that you can think about creating an outline and plot that is erotic.

Pick a category that interests you and read enough stories to understand that category.

May seem a long winded process but it may be better to approach and break it down like this to get to the goal you are talking about in your OP.

Brutal One

 

[gunhilltrain]

About the actual writing - well, there are various ways to handle that. I used to write an outline first, but I've been doing that a lot less recently. Try it at the beginning, anyway.

Depending on how good your memory is, you might want to have a notebook to jot down ideas if you have any at odd moments.

The conventional way is to write from the beginning to the end of a story. Sometimes I can't do that, and I skip over a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole section so I can get back to it later. I usually leave a notation there, something like "Add description of so-and-so's appearance here."

Not sure if this is a good practice or not, but if I can't think of a good opening, I skip it and start with a main bit of plot. Sometimes the opening can be into the middle of a scene, a piece of the plot in effect. I just happen to be looking at Fear if Flying, and it starts out in the middle of her airplane trip to Vienna. Who is she and what's going on is revealed as the next few paragraphs unfold.

P.S. There is a Non-erotic section here. If you write a first story with little or no sex as suggested above, post it there. You will surely get some readers.