Question for the Authors

[CoastalWyldman]

How long were you writing before you got your first story posted here?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I started writing in around 1999 or 200, and I think my first story was posted in 2004. So about four or five years.

And I'm still working on that first story. It sucks so bad it will never be released

 

[kromen]

Since the 80's. I first posted around 2004.

 

[sr71plt]

Some forty years.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

I've been writing for a long time, but I only forayed into erotic fiction about two years ago, which is when I first published a story here. Now, my first ebook is out. So, all in all, I'm a happy lass just now.

 

[PoppingTom]

I'm an absolute beginner.....I began story writing by posting here.

 

[ChristopherDB]

I started writing short stories as far back as my early teens in the late 70's, then dropped out of it for a long time until I started coming up with ideas for mainstream fiction back in the early 90's and produced some decent short stories. Continued writing ever since then.

Regarding erotica, while I've always liked it, I haven't written much just because I thought the market for selling it was rather limited. I did however write some erotic stories over the last decade, mostly femdom, just for the entertainment of myself and the few friends that review my stories.

I came across this web site just a month or two ago and seeing a potential outlet for others to enjoy my work I've submitted a few stories, with more to be submitted later. So far everything I've submitted has been posted but I'm not claiming that my work is fantastic, but I think if you've been writing for a long time you naturally get better.

Just a quick flashback to the late 70's, a friend of mine at that time also wrote short stories. We'd often share our work with each other and that led to a bit of one-upmanship and probably helped both of us regarding developing plots and characters. We were both Star Wars fans, also Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers, so most of our stuff was sci-fi adventures.

One story of mine in particular was about a Han Solo type dude that escaped the authorities only to crash his ship on a planet where women ruled. He was promptly captured, tortured, and enslaved. My friend thought that was cool and worked a similar plot into part of one of his stories. In retrospect it is kind of cool that I was exploring that femdom genre way back then. I think Princess Ardala from Buck Rogers was the inspiraton.

It's a shame that all those stories we wrote are long gone, though I suppose I could always write a new sci-fi femdom story based on what I remember... Stay tuned.

Christopher

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Writing for money? About 10 years before I joined Lit and posted my first story.
Writing for the sake of writing? Since I could hold a pencil.

 

[oggbashan]

Writing fiction?

My first published story was 54 years ago. Then there was a gap until the late 1960s.

Writing non-fiction?

My first openly published book was 35 years ago. Before that my non-fiction was classified.

How long have I been writing? About 60 years.

Og

 

[cloudy]

I published a children's book when I was thirteen, and I'd been writing for years before that.

 

[jomar]

A few days for fiction - posted here.

A bunch of years for non-creative technical reports.

 

[Katyusha]

Hmmm...probably two or three years.

 

[TE999]

I began writing stories around age 10...emulating my favorite sci-fi and fantasy writers...they never went beyond my notebooks. I wrote for the high school newspaper...wrote reports in the military...wrote term papers in college and some gawd-awful poetry for the campus poetry magazine...spent 35 years writing reports, publications, studies, etc. for planning and economic development consulting projects...posted my first story on Lit in August of 2006...57 stories later I'm still posting...although not as frequently as before.

 

[MichaelWest]

I have written professionally, i.e. been paid to tell stories, since 1996. But that hasn't been erotic, albeit it might have had some fictional spin. My first publicly posted erotic story was in 2001 I think, it was done for a friend based on her fantasy. I did nothing else but draft and note making until last year when I posted here. I took up writing because I found I was a lousy painter and could not create the images I saw, so now I describe them instead. I am now writing creatively again as I finally quit my old profession and ceased giving my creative mind to the time vampires. I look forward to actually being as good at it as I was for the other stuff I once crafted.

 

[DG Hear]

My first story on Lit was the first story I ever wrote. It was denied twice for various reasons. It was about three weeks before finally getting excepted. In fact my second story got posted before my first one due to the rejections.

Guess that's why I've always needed editors. Old and not the best writer. I'll always be an amature, but that's fine with me. I'll write as long as it's still fun. A good pasttime for me.

I did write two songs in 1990-91.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I started writing when I was very young, no more than ten years old. I stopped when I was in my teens and didn't start again until Dec. 2002, which would have been close to fifty years. The first dirty sdtories I wrote then are posted here.

As long as your stories don't break any of the rules, which are easy to follow, they will be posted.

 

[Frank Noir]

How long were you writing before you got your first story posted here?

Hmmm... I could say more than twenty years.
I wrote my first porn stories as a teenager back in the seventies - and I can see my first Literotica story is dated 2003.
But seriously, back in my teen years I just wrote a few stories of masturbation fodder for myself and then stopped. I only took up porn writing again in the late nineties, when I got hold of a laptop. So five years of writing porn before posting is probably more like it...

 

[Stella_Omega]

Seems like we are a group of congenital writers!

Same with me-- I had an idea for a "chapter book" at age eight. I wrote my first explicit sex age fifteen-- and revised it a few years later after I had actually had sex.
I deleted my stories from lit in a fit of pique a couple years back, but some of the stories I once had posted here were based on things I had written back in 1974. But the story that caused me to find lit-- was all new.

 

[Darkniciad]

Dabbled with writing even in elementary school ( about classic movie monsters ) A little bit of dark sci-fi fantasy later on, up until trying to write fantasy tales in the early 90's once I was out of school and working graveyard shift. That story never got far because I couldn't write dialogue that sounded natural -- and I knew it. Graveyard shift + socially backward + small town = not much talking to people to base it on.

Starts of erotica were writing backstory for major npc enemies for my PnP role playing game -- again in the mid 90's. Almost all of them had dark sexual overtones, although few had any really explicit scenes. I rewrote one of those into my story Harvest of Blood.

That changed in the latter half of the decade when I started writing ( really bad ) porn. I've even spoofed one of them in my LST3K series.

I only got halfway decent at it around 98-99 when I met the perfect inspiration in the form of my Babydoll. Almost everything was written for her, and it opened the wellspring.

I've had the urge to write forever, even though I only developed a love for reading a couple of years after High School. I can count the number of books that I read up until that point ( of my own free will ) on the fingers of one hand, and those were all non-fiction.

 

[Handley_Page]

I 'learned' how to write when I got my first personal computer (a Dragon 32). The advent of a Word Processor (text editor?) was a wholesale revolution; my parents did not think I could write anything other than post or special cards. Suddenly they got pages of random 'junk' as a letter!

I wrote my own scripts for a local Radio programme, technical documents and quotations, etc..

I like writing. Pity I cannot seem to thread a story together properly: But I'm working on that.

 

[_Lynn_]

For a year I wrote poems/blurbs/thoughts. Then I wrote a story and posted it a few months later. No, story is wrong. It's words put together to make a scene and not done well at all. That first one was posted three years ago this month. Never wrote or even thought about it before that.

 

[The_Fool]

Last Thursday...

 

[fifty5]

My first complete story was published here as soon as I wrote it (after the interval about which The Question is always asked).

Before that (4 decades or more) I was convinced I could write if I could only think of a plot.

It took me those decades to realise that if I could think of a scenario that got me off, then maybe it was good enough for others to read and enjoy.

If I could think out a bigger plot, maybe I could get published...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Story writing is easy: someone wants something, obstacles exist every step of the way, everything she knows to do fails and a crisis occurs; in the crisis is the resolution to her desire. The problem for most writers is knowing how to extract a resolution from the crisis.

In real life the crisis happens and you lose your car or your house or your girl or your job or whatever; readers do not want more of what they already have, they want the heroine to prevail in some clever way...like Brer Rabbit.

So you hatch the clever 'save' and aim your storyline at the clever idea.

 

[OnlyByMoonlight]

since I learned my alphabet. Seriously I tried to write my first book when I was four. So that means I've been writing for about 17-18 years now. I posted my first story here... like 3 years ago.