Recommended Reading for Beginner Author

[Kantarii]

Anything you write would have to be better than a children's book called "See Spot Run".... Haha
Kant

 

[Carnal_Flower]

This is one I stumbled on recently by a first time writer in Sci Fi

https://www.literotica.com/s/stretching-your-luck

Its far from vanilla. Wonderfully written though. Fun and easy to read.

What I liked most is the author clearly had a very specific kink he wanted to convey and he just went to town. I love that. Very entertaining even though I don't share the kink at all. But he communicated it nonetheless.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Anything you write would have to be better than a children's book called "See Spot Run".... Haha
Kant

Be sure to read my hit, SALLY AND JANE LOVE DICK ALOT, SOMETIMES MUFF.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

THE SCORCHED FACE
by Dashiell Hammett

Black Mask Magazine 1925

I'm no Dashiell Hammett fan but this novella is a keeper.

The Continental Detective Agency is hired to find two rich missing flappers of the San Francisco region. The girls are sisters.

By the end of its 40 pages many rich women are missing. Many are suicides.

Its all an erotic swamp.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Lawrence Block says read the best-sellers of the writers you like most, youll absorb the magic.

 

[sr71plt]

You might also learn out to use punctuation.

 

[lovecraft68]

You might also learn out to use punctuation.

Oh, the irony

 

[sr71plt]

Yep, that's funny, although that's not punctuation. It's a disconnect between brain and hand. I'm prone to that--as you are to backbiting and hate and JBJ is in trying to get attention and posters to come out and play with him.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Don't make me post a vid of my Inner PILOT the micro Darth Vader

 

[sr71plt]

OK, I won't.

 

[Ezrollin]

Write within your comfort zone. Some or maybe many here only read certain categories. Also, some value story over sex and some value sex over the story. The story is what holds my interest and I hope for some titillating sex along the way.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yep, that's funny, although that's not punctuation. It's a disconnect between brain and hand. I'm prone to that--as you are to backbiting and hate and JBJ is in trying to get attention and posters to come out and play with him.

Oh, just sit back and laugh at yourself for once. Auto correct screws everyone up so bad these days, no one really notices much.

 

[sr71plt]

Oh, just sit back and laugh at yourself for once.

I did. You apparently didn't bother to read what you quoted. Just give it up and go attack someone else--you have a long list of those you hector.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Write within your comfort zone. Some or maybe many here only read certain categories. Also, some value story over sex and some value sex over the story. The story is what holds my interest and I hope for some titillating sex along the way.

Or write outside your comfort zone and push your writing that way. I'm kind of doing that in the Loving Wives category and it has (pushed me...). Got to try another category I'm not so comfortable with next....

 

[oggbashan]

Try reading some of the How-To section in the Stories.

There is some good advice there (and some useless advice too!).

 

[_Lynn_]

Take it or leave it opinion time.

I go for the best writers first. And all of the top writers have winners and losers when it comes to the quality of their writing. And few experts agree on who writes the best. So I ask myself, WHATS THE ONE BOOK I'D WANT WITH ME IN HELL? Prolly GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens. Or THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Hemingway, A LIGHT IN AUGUST by Faulkner, SOUTH MOON UNDER by Marjorie Rawlings, IBERIA by James Michener. I look for masters who salute my writing prejudices of no adjectives, no adverbs, no passive verbs.

As for porn: Lawrence Block wrote tons of porn in his 20s. He plowed every field, and hadda 6th sense about where to best touch your particular sickness.

Then you gotta explore new paths. And I mean pristine trails. I'm writing a tale about a woman who runs therapy groups with damaged women. But there are few novels that depict group psychotherapy. I know the subject well but groups aren't interesting. So I hadda find a way to make group therapy interesting. And I did. I suspect the tale is new to LIT.

I wrote a novel (back in 2007) on that topic.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I wrote a novel (back in 2007) on that topic.

Great minds! But I suspect your book doesn't include ice picks You don't strike me as violent.

 

[_Lynn_]

Great minds! But I suspect your book doesn't include ice picks You don't strike me as violent.

No ice picks. No violence. Weekly group therapy meetings. I don't remember the exact word count, but I think it's around 80,000.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

No ice picks. No violence. Weekly group therapy meetings. I don't remember the exact word count, but I think it's around 80,000.

I did my internship at a rape crisis center. Homosexual rapes.

 

[_Lynn_]

I did my internship at a rape crisis center. Homosexual rapes.

Rape (although not homosexual rape) is a subject I'm familiar with.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Rape (although not homosexual rape) is a subject I'm familiar with.

What I collided with were guys picked up by women, drugged, and handed over to gays, who then dumped the nude guy at a public spot.

 

[_Lynn_]

What I collided with were guys picked up by women, drugged, and handed over to gays, who then dumped the nude guy at a public spot.

Nice people.

 

[Hypoxia]

Try reading some of the How-To section in the Stories.

There is some good advice there (and some useless advice too!).

We need a LIT Maxwell's Daemon to separate the hot from the cold.

@OP: I'll repeat the common advice -- Write how you feel. Gain your own voice. Maybe start by imitating other voices, then hack and twist them into your own manic cackle. Learn at the feet of the masters. Then wander off.

As a beginning self-taught guitarist many decades ago, I should probably have been locked in a soundproofed closet for the first couple of years. A beginning author is similar. Write and write and write, but keep that first stuff in private folders and only share your masterpieces with folks you don't care for. When you feel ready to expose your verbiage here on LIT, solicit a beta reader. Other eyes can really help.

If your writing prompts you to masturbate, you're doing something right.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I did my internship at a rape crisis center. Homosexual rapes.

And I thought working in an ER was tough. Kudos to you for that one. Couldn't do that, I find the emotional stuff in ER tough enough to handle. But I have to admire anyone who can work in a rape crisis center.

 

[sr71plt]

And I thought working in an ER was tough. Kudos to you for that one. Couldn't do that, I find the emotional stuff in ER tough enough to handle. But I have to admire anyone who can work in a rape crisis center.

The difference probably was that you actually did it. NOIRTRASH has a new CV every week to share here.