Self-encouragement

[Neverlander]

A question to my fellow writers: when creating works of erotica do you try to keep a clear head, free of arousal, so that you can concentrate on your craft? Or do you give yourself a hand, so to speak, as you go along, indulging in the voluptuous pleasure you want to inspire in others? In other words, might Masturbation be the tenth Muse?

Put differently:

When one conjures a tale of sweet pleasure
Intended to stir regions nether,
Should cold showers be used
To keep sober the Muse
Or instead tease oneself with a feather?

 

[KeithD]

No, for erotica, I steep myself in arousal while writing the erotic elements. The goal is to bring the reader into the world I am depicting. In the mainstream, I seek to do the same with any emotional segment of a story or even when a character is reasoning out an action to take. I don't write just to have a certain number of words in a file.

 

[davion2308]

Two steps

I write with two steps, then a third.

I'll write the sex scene or the erotic parts while I'm turned on. The words flow, the work comes easily (pun intended), and I like that process.

I'll come back and revise and edit with a critical eye and a sober, straight-laced mood. I read to see if I turn myself on. Most of the time, I like what I wrote but it doesn't arouse me the way other people's writing does. I know others enjoy my work and it turns them on but I get self-conscious about my own sex scenes.

I'll read a story through three or four times and I really got sick of reading my best works, scoring-wise, since I went through them so many times to edit and polish and create the best I could.

To answer your question: Feather first, then a black coffee to follow.

 

[Paul_Chance]

That's pretty much my approach as well.

Write from arousal.
Edit clear-headed.

 

[HeyAll]

I come up with ideas, write, and edit with a clear head.

My pleasure from writing comes from thinking and creating. I treat it like a job. That's what makes it so fun for me. I try to put a lot of thought into my stories, especially the newer ones. I try to break down the characters to make them intersting and have the situations be unique. I take a lot of pride in that.

The only way to do that, for me, is to think clearly.

 

[Neverlander]

To answer your question: Feather first, then a black coffee to follow.

D'accord!

 

[KeithD]

The only way to do that, for me, is to think clearly.

I don't think good writers have to make a choice between being aroused and thinking clearly when they are composing.

 

[yukonnights]

I don't think good writers have to make a choice between being aroused and thinking clearly when they are composing.

For the most part I agree with Kieth. Basically, I'm just describing what I've conjured up in my mind. What I dream up is, by default, something I personally find erotic. The downside of this is that, sometimes I do get too deep in the moving picture in my head — one fun thing leads to another … and often another.

In the story I have in pending right now the person who proof-read it spotted two such lovely scenes that … made no sense . In other words, I was too involved in the "good bits" to keep it tethered to the story already told.

So, I think I have to be at least mentally aroused to write the erotic parts — but I also have to be sure they come off as good as I thought they were at a later read.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Write horny, edit in the morning .

 

[yukonnights]

Write horny, edit in the morning .

And if you get horny again while reading it the morning, submit the stupid thing — 'cause it's pretty dang good just as it is

 

[ElectricBlue]

And if you get horny again while reading it the morning, submit the stupid thing — 'cause it's pretty dang good just as it is

Exactly. Write raw, edit lean, don't scrub the life out of it.

 

[sirhugs]

Write horny, edit in the morning .

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[sirhugs]

Exactly. Write raw, edit lean, don't scrub the life out of it.

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