Research link request

[Gary Chambers]

Hi,
I'm a newbie at Literotica. I sent my first submission to the Webmasters the other day and I'm waiting for the result. I have other completed stories ready to go, but meanwhile, I want to continue writing some more. I've been wanting to do a story for some time based on cybersex, but had two problems: 1) had no practical knowledge or experience of it; 2) couldn't figure out what format to write it in.

Now that I've found Literotica chatlines the experience issue is being addressed (demonic grin), but I'm still stumped by the format question. Writing it as a normal short story with narrative and snippets of dialogue seems to a boring project to write and read. An alternative would be to write it like a play, so it's virtually all dialogue. But I'm not sure how editors/Webmasters would take to that. It might work at Literotica where the human dynamics of chat are understood, but if it landed on a desk at a mainstream magazine they'd just look at it and scratch their heads before sending me a f***-you-very-much for your submission slip. So I'm interested to see how others have written fiction about cybersex, and to hear what other writers think about the idea in general.

Maybe it needs to be a nonfiction article? But I imagine that's been done to death, and I'm too mercenary to do what I think might be hackneyed. Besides, at some point the fiction writer must break that barrier and enter the fray, tackle everything in the human experience. It's what we're supposed to do. Art is supposed to reflect life, and cybersex is now a big part of many people's lives.

So any links anyone has to stories about cybersex, good or bad, woud be appreciated, or any thoughts you might like to share.

Gary

 

[MathGirl]

Dear GB,
I write my stuff using WordPad, but I change it to .txt format before submitting. Easy to do and Lit. seems to like it, even if the readers don't.
MG
Ps. Usually three to five days. Up to a week if the grunion are running.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I have never considered the experience worthy of a story, but I would suggest looking in the stories about masturbation. It would seem to me that Cybersex is pretty much masturbation with a slightly better than your average porno aide. Unless you really believe girls put on fishnests and heels before logging into the chat rooms


-Colly

 

[whispering_surrender]

One of my favorite stories written regarding cybersex was written just the way it would come off the Instant Messenger if you were to cut and paste direct from that window. Complete with the catching up and getting to know yous involved in any cyber conversation.

I think any of the methods you described could work depending on how they were treated....

You're always in danger of the blow off submission slip no matter how you write it. Some of the great authors of this century received numerous "slips" before being published.

Best of luck,

Whisper

 

[Wills]

Dear GB

My half penny worth, for what it’s worth is that you have considerable difficulty in representing the true flow of a cybersex
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Dialogue. The problem being that the
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The f***ing link holding up while trying to
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Get it on, unless you are going to do
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .back up here!
It in the form of narrative imagery that .
One can get off to whilst the other .
Is trying to make a connection. .
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. . . .If your not careful one came all the way .
down here waiting for the f***ing link to
come back up and the other one came all the way

Will's

 

[ffreak]

Dang, Collie, you mean to tell me that women don't get all gussied up in those fancy duds they keep telling me about?

The grunion are running? When? Tonight? Gotta get my creel and go see.

Wills, looks like you could do one too - that's great.

-FF (any good story creates it's own form)
ps. GB - write it the way you want to and keep submitting. Frank Herbert tried every publisher of Science Fiction and was turned down by all of them. Then he sent it to a car manual publisher and Chilton got the honor of printing his true first book - and it still ranks in the top all-time sales of SF books. Leon Uris wrote his first book longhand and submitted it that way. The most insulting turn-down he got came from an editor that later had to present him with an award for the same book. If you get it back in the mail, send it to the next place on the list - and if you have to expand the list, do it. Good luck and let us know when you've placed a story so we can all go out and buy a copy.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Try Erotic Letters & Transcripts, that's the category for this sort of stories. Maybe you'll get some ideas?

 

[MathGirl]

Try Erotic Letters & Transcripts,

Dear Svenska,
Gotta watch out for them epistlatory thingies.
MG

 

[ffreak]

Maths, you must have an extremely talented tongue if you can wrap it around a word like epistlatory. Do you also tie knots in cherry stems?

-FF (just teasing dear vocab maven)

 

[MathGirl]

-FF (just teasing dear vocab maven)

Dear f,
I'm reading a book that's described as "epistolary and lipogramic." Interesting.
MG
Ps. The book is "Ella Minnow Pea." Run that through your head a few times.

 

[The_Fool]

I remember cybering in Elizabethan English one time. Damn, did I have a headache. The big one not the little one....

Always Foolish

 

[champagne1982]

Elizabethan.. oh my!!

Katrina the Maven says:
what soft through yon bed curtain cums?

Godfrey the Sly says:
sooth, sweet lover 'tis hard,
ne'er soft on cumming through,
the veil of your sweet curtains.
part the sweet draperies and allow me but a glimpse of thy passion.

Katrina the Maven says:
passion? my swarthy one cum prod me. (would that he would but drill a hole, through the wall and cum hard then,)
the juices of my ripe passion fruit do rain upon my satin.
keep me not waiting

 

[The_Fool]

Re: Elizabethan.. oh my!!

Katrina the Maven says:
what soft through yon bed curtain cums?

Godfrey the Sly says:
sooth, sweet lover 'tis hard,
ne'er soft on cumming through,
the veil of your sweet curtains.
part the sweet draperies and allow me but a glimpse of thy passion.

Katrina the Maven says:
passion? my swarthy one cum prod me. (would that he would but drill a hole, through the wall and cum hard then,)
the juices of my ripe passion fruit do rain upon my satin.
keep me not waiting

Shouldst he or shouldst he not.
Thine glory riseth upon thy chest
two mountains of desire
two peaks of tranquility
one taste is all mine desire, would require.
Oh the suffering this poor fool must take.
Desire figureth largely upon my mind.

Then I catch the glory of thine eyes
and watch thee sweep that large untamed bounty from thy face.
I am consumed.
I am consumed with such need for thee.
Dearest darling offer me respite
Respite for this growing desire...

Hell, I've already got a headache. And it's all your fault, Carrie....

Fool, whose codpiece is always placed slightly askew...

 

[Pure]

There are a number of stories, and a few articles about cybering. The broader topic is 'virtual connections' or 'virtual relationships' or cyber-relationships.

It's also increasingly common for a relationship, cyber or not, to include 'cybering' by IM, computer-voice link, phone, etc.

The search is what Google is for.

A 'story' that was pure dialogue or 'transcript' might not be acceptable as a standard 'short story' porn/erotica piece at literotica.

Not sure why you want to write about something you don't know anything about, but I suppose anything can be researched.

J.

 

[champagne1982]

[. . .] A 'story' that was pure dialogue or 'transcript' might not be acceptable as a standard 'short story' porn/erotica piece at literotica.

Not sure why you want to write about something you don't know anything about, but I suppose anything can be researched.

J.

Pure thang, anything sex is acceptable as a standard 'short story' porn/erotica piece at literotica. Witness: A Touch of Conversation by Penances©.

No one said it had to be good . . .

By the way, I write about lots of somethings I know nothing about. "Imagination is more important than knowledge..." -- Albert Einstein.

 

[Gary Chambers]

Whether I knowest the place and time of cybersex shall deter me not. All sex is a mystery and all its private dicks merely pretenders to orgasms. Mere actors all: those stroking oafs. How they doust feel with their heads up their asses? For if it is ignoblest to cum and press thou pork curtain rod into a drama forgot long afore remembered, then what sense this low born art? Forsooth, the plays the thing, though welcome not in ancient tongues like these. Better to lift thy breasts and sling thy hooks in wanton lust, than ring thou meaty curtains down afore the first act commenceth. Should common thieves and beggars fail to applaud thy efforts, wilst nobler knobs join their depravity? No they shan't...oh bugger it, yes I should do my own research Pure. Have a phone sex date made in cyberspace in about half an hour's time, but I thought before my keyboard gets too sticky I'd see if anyone had a story they'd actually authored. Sorry, no offense intended by the request.

GaryBob2