Preferences for Styles of Writing?

[savvy_delusion]

I was just wondering, do certain styles of writing work better or worse for you?

Like, you can write extremely dirty using cunt, dick, fucked, etc. Or you can write without using any of those words, like "made love" and "felt their souls intertwine", etc. Which one works the best? Or erotica can be extremely smooth or kind-of disconnected. I think they all end up telling the story, but what kinds of styles do you like the most?

Thanks!

~mediocre erotica writer yearning to improve

 

[Sean Renaud]

I don't think that the examples you are giving are really different styles of writing so much as different stories. Husbands and wives make love. Lovers feel their souls entertwine. Teenagers have sex. Pornstars and sluts fuck.

The same goes for your other words. Husbands gently bring their lips to their wive's sex. Lovers join bodies to complete the conduit of their electric souls. Teenagers touch dicks and pussies. Pornstars gag on cocks while getting rimmed.

With that in mind I don't prefer either style its a matter of what I'm handling for a story, in a long enough story I've often used both for the appropriate pairings.

 

[Woodchuckbdsm]

I can't write in first person to save my life. Maybe I feel like I would have to be in character. I dunno.

As for word choice...I'm slowly warming up to my own vulgarity.

 

[asian_princess]

I don't think that the examples you are giving are really different styles of writing so much as different stories. Husbands and wives make love. Lovers feel their souls entertwine. Teenagers have sex. Pornstars and sluts fuck.

The same goes for your other words. Husbands gently bring their lips to their wive's sex. Lovers join bodies to complete the conduit of their electric souls. Teenagers touch dicks and pussies. Pornstars gag on cocks while getting rimmed.

With that in mind I don't prefer either style its a matter of what I'm handling for a story, in a long enough story I've often used both for the appropriate pairings.

hands up who's a porn star?!!!!

i think the advice that the language completely depends on the story is spot on...but not so much the other generalisation about what words certain characters might use...i imagine yes, in one story a husband might gently bring his lips to his wife's sex...but in another sotry he's just as capable of fucking her pussy senseless with his dick (ahem...though my personal fav would be the classic "cock")

LOL though imagine what words you would use if it were a couple of married pornstar 18 yr olds...

bu yeah like Sean Renaud said...it all depends on your story, if you're writing about a tender goodbye scene between lovers whose hearts are breaking ver parting...then half way through it the guy yelling "pull my hair you fuckin cum slut"..might not created the desired effect .

and as for what people like best? once you figure it out..let me know. the joy of lit s there's room for all us sexual deviants...

 

[Deadwood]

I agree ith what the other's say...to a point at least. Descriptive language does set what I would call the "tone" of the story. Myself, I seldom use the more vulgar words in my stories even if the story is a bit rough or violent, as that just isn't my writing style.

As for the point of view, I can write in the first person, and of course the third person, but I have a terrible time with the second person point of view. This is uncommon anyway and for some of you that may not know what second person point of view is, that is where everything is descibed using the word "you" alot. such as in "You climb quietly up the stairs, grab her gently about the throat and you silence her scream with your hand."

Personally I don't like this type of story, seldom write them, and if I am reading a literotica story and come across this type of point of view, I go to another story. There is nothing wrong with them per se, It's just a personal distaste for that kind of story.

 

[only_more_so]

I think the first part of style that you should concern yourself with is the perspective the story is told from. Personnally, I can't get into stories that are from the first person interactive style, "I touch you" "you touch me".

There is also normal first person perspective. Then there are the variety of third person perspectives. Personally I prefer either third person omniscient or third person limited omniscent (you know what is going on in the mind of only one person, but you aren't that person).

It is also important to be consistent with the time (something I still have a problem with). Are you retelling something that happened? Going along while it is happening? Flashbacks?

Is the story going to be dialog driven? Is the sex central to the story, or something that happens in the story?

As for the word choice, I think it really just needs to be consistent and appropriate for the part of the story. Two young lovers exploring their bodies wouldn't have throbbing cocks pumping into a leaky love tunnel. But that is really an issue of tone more than style. Certain words have a certain tone, and the tone of the words should match the tone of the story.

 

[Shadow_Kyss]

To each their own

I like dropping the readers into the characters in which I present. But also each situation dictates a different level of vulgarity. Whether its an innocence slowly lost or raw lust... each requires their own level of intensity. I too am slowly becoming comfortable with certain words. Though a few I will never use. I see beauty made from our writings. Our writings turn to pictures in our readers mind... what picture are you wanting them to see???

Kyss

 

[BlackSnake]

I love vulgarity, but I wouldn't call a female a bitch. I'd say, "Suck my dick!" But not "Suck my dick bitch!"

I like my female characters to be nasty, but not disrespected. The same for my male characters, I'd like them to fuck the living shit out of their partner, but not hurt them.

You can use vulgarity to define a character, same as using more romanic terms to define another. You can use both romance and vulgarity to describe the action in your story also.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

All In The Context

I'm with BS, to a point. I tend to use more medical terms, like penis, clitoris, and vagina, with others in the mix. I don't like to be degrading, except where it plays into the personality of the character. I refrain from "Bitch" except in a sequel I'm writing to 'A Ghost From The Past Ch 02' where that fits the character.

In some cases its hard to find a different word. For example, tongue. I like to be descriptive but who wants to read a paragraph about tongue kissing where "tongue" is used repeatedly? So I use "organ" and "tendril" to mix it up.

 

[cloudy]

I think the first part of style that you should concern yourself with is the perspective the story is told from. Personnally, I can't get into stories that are from the first person interactive style, "I touch you" "you touch me".

That's called second person, not first.