Repeating Scenes

[dr_mabeuse]

Do you ever find yourself repeating scenes or locations in your stories, even when you don't intend to? I seem to have a real penchant for expensive restaurants, dilapidated industrial parks, and limosines. On the other hand, I never do sex outside.

---dr.M.

 

[oggbashan]

Yes.

I try hard to stop myself from doing it but the same scenarios keep coming back.

It doesn't help that I am writing several series of stories about the same group of characters. 'Her flat', 'her bedroom', 'his bedroom' are always the same.

It is stalling work on all the series while I attempt to vary the scenes.

Og

 

[Omni]

I had to make story board of all my stories and list things because I suddenly realized that I kept repeating themes/places.

When I did that I nearly cringed at some of the repeats and frequencies I had done.


No more bound to the bed

No more sex in watery conditions. (why I've never even done this, must be why I keep writing them shower, stream, pond, tub, hot tub>>ect)

I have an entire list, but I won't bore us with it. But, I did then sit down and write another list of all the different places I could think of to have sex in semi-exciting settings. (it was tough and a short list.)

Now I suddenly see that I have list mania! (to add to my list)


Omni

 

[dr_mabeuse]

It’s not all bad. I took a good look at my repeating scenes trying to understand why I was always drawn to those scenarios and discovered some themes that are apparently important to me.

I do a lot of scenes in nice venues—restaurants or theaters or other public spaces—because I like the natural tension that comes from showing the private person in a public place: the contradiction between the two parts of a person. I have scenes in warehouses and abandoned factories because I like the contrast of the sensuality with the rawness and threat of industrial settings. I think hot sex always has an alement of threat to it.

I think you can get an idea of what you’re trying to ‘say’ by looking at the scenes you keep on returning to.

---dr.M.

 

[pop_54]

Do you ever find yourself repeating scenes or locations in your stories, even when you don't intend to? I seem to have a real penchant for expensive restaurants, dilapidated industrial parks, and limosines. On the other hand, I never do sex outside.

---dr.M.

All the time mate, like you I try to dream up new locations, but wind up in the old one's in the end. I base some of my crap on real life experiences and anecdotal info from friends, it always seems to wind up in the same scenario in real life, so I suppose fuck it who are we to argue.

Unlike you however I do like it in the park, not at this time of year though, three inches hard in this frosty weather.

 

[CharleyH]

Do you ever find yourself repeating scenes or locations in your stories, even when you don't intend to? I seem to have a real penchant for expensive restaurants, dilapidated industrial parks, and limosines. On the other hand, I never do sex outside.

---dr.M.

Well - hm - not so much scenes as character - since first person is almost my thing . . . and words - how to decribe a wet pussy without using the word wet, and a hard cock without using the word hard. Trying to keep class without going into the whole trailor lingo . . .unless a character sleeps with one . . . but then again - I would never sleep with a Jerry Springer guest . . . so . . . yep can't get away from the god damn upbringing and culture I was raised in.

I have a thing for tall, dark haired, models and actresses. I can't talk about food without giving up the fine dining aspect of my life, and can't give up music I listen to and brand names. AS for mise-en-scene and locale - absolutely try to change them everytime . . . but who am I? Some chick with my own theory about what I enjoy.

EDIT: Forgot to say - write what you know. Hm - are writers fetishists in their words? - a half though that I will work through and post a question on - unless Doc - you post it first? LOL - like here.

EDIT AGIAN: almost forgot to say write what turns you on. If it doesn't turn you on - well? HOW the hell will it turn anyone else on?

OK - finished my edits now.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Every scene is different, but every scene's the same. I think everyone will fall back on a familiar scene occasionally. Eventually you get to the point where a new idea for a scene becomes the focus of an entire story.

I have the advantage of writing description heavy prose. So familiar scenes don't seem so familiar because they setting is so different, but the scene is really the same. There are only so many places and so many ways to have sex. When you have done the bedroom, kitchen, living room, dining room, kids bedroom, guest bedroom, patio, garage, nurshery, atic and basment you have pretty much used up the house.

Throw in the hotel room, office, broom closet, elevator, bank vault, maintainanace corridor, roof and stair well and you have basically done in work too.

Unless you are into exotic locales in the great outdoors you will find yourself back in the bedroom, kitchen, living room, etc.

Characters, decor, mood and action can change the flavor, but in the end you will end up repeating a scene if you write enough stories.

In the end i don't think it will hurt you, unless you are a serial repeater. Even that won't hurt unless people read a lot of your works. My early stories featured redheads and never blondes. My readership let me know that and I changed it up. I think your feedback will let you know if you have encountered a problem with repeating anything.

-Colly

 

[CharleyH]

Every scene is different, but every scene's the same. I think everyone will fall back on a familiar scene occasionally. Eventually you get to the point where a new idea for a scene becomes the focus of an entire story.

I have the advantage of writing description heavy prose. So familiar scenes don't seem so familiar because they setting is so different, but the scene is really the same. There are only so many places and so many ways to have sex. When you have done the bedroom, kitchen, living room, dining room, kids bedroom, guest bedroom, patio, garage, nurshery, atic and basment you have pretty much used up the house.

Throw in the hotel room, office, broom closet, elevator, bank vault, maintainanace corridor, roof and stair well and you have basically done in work too.

Unless you are into exotic locales in the great outdoors you will find yourself back in the bedroom, kitchen, living room, etc.

Characters, decor, mood and action can change the flavor, but in the end you will end up repeating a scene if you write enough stories.

In the end i don't think it will hurt you, unless you are a serial repeater. Even that won't hurt unless people read a lot of your works. My early stories featured redheads and never blondes. My readership let me know that and I changed it up. I think your feedback will let you know if you have encountered a problem with repeating anything.

-Colly

Just a quick correction Colly . . . what we do is always the same, revisiting themes, of course, yet the scene changes and the mise-en-scene changes more. So yes same and different.

 

[SadieRose]

Echoes

People who've read my other stuff (ie, str8 none erotic fic... YES, I DO write none erotic fic, sorry! *L*) have said that there are echoes of certain characters that crop up in different stories. They might not always be the same kind of person but there are things in common; like - there's always a mad one and sensible one and a guy who's out of his head and you shouldn't have any sympathy with but you ultimately do. Simon in my Vampire fic's is a direct offshoot of another character I've written in a fantasy novel years ago, and I didn't even realise it until someone pointed it out to me.

I do like certain atmospheric places and themes though. I like sex on trains and in cars and in dusty, derelict listed buildings (don't ask, I don't know!)

Ray will do it anywhere and with anyone (which is handy) I've set myself a challenge with Habit to get him laid in a certain number of places and under a certain number of circumstances. Beyond that the plot is fluid.

Hooray!

 

[Boxlicker101]

Every scene is different, but every scene's the same. I think everyone will fall back on a familiar scene occasionally. Eventually you get to the point where a new idea for a scene becomes the focus of an entire story.

I have the advantage of writing description heavy prose. So familiar scenes don't seem so familiar because they setting is so different, but the scene is really the same. There are only so many places and so many ways to have sex. When you have done the bedroom, kitchen, living room, dining room, kids bedroom, guest bedroom, patio, garage, nurshery, atic and basment you have pretty much used up the house.

Throw in the hotel room, office, broom closet, elevator, bank vault, maintainanace corridor, roof and stair well and you have basically done in work too.

Unless you are into exotic locales in the great outdoors you will find yourself back in the bedroom, kitchen, living room, etc.

Characters, decor, mood and action can change the flavor, but in the end you will end up repeating a scene if you write enough stories.

In the end i don't think it will hurt you, unless you are a serial repeater. Even that won't hurt unless people read a lot of your works. My early stories featured redheads and never blondes. My readership let me know that and I changed it up. I think your feedback will let you know if you have encountered a problem with repeating anything.

-Colly

What's wrong with the shower or hot tub? What's wrong with skinny dipping or in a cemetery or camping or out in the middle of nowhere or on a boat? The bedroom is still the best place but all yu really need is a fairly flat surface that isn't too hard or jagged.

 

[shereads]

Do you writers find that your loyal readers are disappointed when you stray too far from what they expect?

Musicians take a lot of crap from people who don't want to hear them change. I wondered if maybe you repeat scenes and character types out of an instinct that your audience wants more of what you've given them before.

 

[Guest]

I usually repeat scenes so I can get to the required minimum word count.

 

[SadieRose]

Do you writers find that your loyal readers are disappointed when you stray too far from what they expect?

Musicians take a lot of crap from people who don't want to hear them change. I wondered if maybe you repeat scenes and character types out of an instinct that your audience wants more of what you've given them before.

I wouldn't know since I always write for myself. I'm brutally selfish when it comes to my work. I write what 'I' like and so from time to time themes and imagery rise up over and over in different sources.

One of my readers has said that she would know my style if she had to pick it blind from a line up, which is a compliment. But then she hasn't read any of my erotica

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Do you writers find that your loyal readers are disappointed when you stray too far from what they expect?

Musicians take a lot of crap from people who don't want to hear them change. I wondered if maybe you repeat scenes and character types out of an instinct that your audience wants more of what you've given them before.

I think if I were to post something non lesbian my readers would be upset. I have found however that they are exceedingly lenient with me in trying new themes like Erotic horror, Incest and non conscent as long as the action stays F/F.

In general I try not to repeat scenes, but I count on the descriptive work, characters and plot of a story to keep it from seming rpetitive when I go back to the bed room so to speak

-Colly

 

[McKenna]

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[super_sonikku]

How many different ways can you say two people are having sex?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

How many different ways can you say two people are having sex?

At least as many ways as there are people in the world.

---dr.M.

 

[TheEarl]

I've actually borrowed a large chunk of a scene from one of my erotic stories and put it into a non-erotic one. I needed to do have my character do a similar thing and the mechanism I used in the erotic story was the best way to do it.

Do you think that's a bad thing?

The Earl

 

[Guest]

Do you think that's a bad thing?

Borrowing from yourself? No. I presume it can only give you a sense of pride.

Pear

 

[shereads]

Borrowing from yourself? No. I presume it can only give you a sense of pride.

Pear

What about stealing from yourself, though? Behind your back? What if you "borrow" your own ideas and then take credit for them? What do you have to say to that, missy?

 

[Guest]

What do you have to say to that, missy?

What do you think I am?! I would never go behind my back (I only tried that once, got a pinched nerve).

Call me missy again and I'll take more than the piss out of you, chiquita.

P.

 

[shereads]

What do you think I am?! I would never go behind my back (I only tried that once, got a pinched nerve).

Call me missy again and I'll take more than the piss out of you, chiquita.

P.

Miss Thang? Miss You-All-That-Plus-A-Bag-Of-Chips?

 

[KenJames]

Do you writers find that your loyal readers are disappointed when you stray too far from what they expect?

Musicians take a lot of crap from people who don't want to hear them change. I wondered if maybe you repeat scenes and character types out of an instinct that your audience wants more of what you've given them before.

If I was trying to make money from writing, it would probably be different, but I write because I get story ideas which bug me until they're written. I don't really write for a specific readership, although I'm glad a reasonable number of people enjoy my work.

I've heard from other writers who have readers who get upset when the writer does something different, but my story topics are sufficiently diverse that I don't think my readers have specific expectations.

I reread a lot of my stories recently and was surprised to see how often I repeat themes. I don't do it consciously, those things are just important to me.

 

[Lovepotion69]

I'm not sure if I've repeated myself yet. Don't think I have with places and such, but I feel like I'm repeating the sex itself. Same old thing. But, like we all say; there are only so many ways you can do it...

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Bump (& Grind) for a good thread topic that didn't get enough play the first time 'round.

~lucky