Hello! I am a longtime lurker of the Group Sex/Celebs categories (my own username pays tribute to Tx Tall Tales, who writes the most emotionally connected, if unrealistic, Group characters) only recently experimenting with putting out my own stories to fill a gap that I wanted to read but was surprisingly not being written despite Literotica's diversity of authors (who, it seems, mainly want to bone their moms/siblings). One of them recently reached the 12-mth toplist of my category, so I was pretty happy to see that. Links are below but this is more about the process of writing than any form of self promotion.
Things I have learned so far.
- It is hard to generate conflict and plot in literotica, REALLY hard to make sex either a setting or an event to move the plot forward/backward as naturally as say a dinner at a restaurant or an unexpected phone call. So much of the storytelling we are exposed to simply cuts when it gets to the good bits, and I find myself constantly walking the fine line between cutting (to let the imagination do a better job than I can) and telling (to challenge myself to make sex a storytelling device).
- I hate taking editorial advice. Smut has always been intensely personal to me; it's my fantasy, why am I letting someone else run the show? but the one time I've done it has been both painful and helpful to me and I wound up actually following that advice in subsequent chapters (I hate rewriting; a good part of this is because Literotica's re-editing experience is so terrible).
- I think novice writers with a coding background like myself tend to err on the side of describing everything. We treat writing fiction very much like object oriented programming; initialize_character() cannot be called with blank parameters since defaults aren't defined, hence every detail must be mentioned no matter how irrelevant to the story. The common symptom you are familiar with is talking about height and measurements; but this malady extends to far less quantitative elements of characterization as well - do I really need to know what a character is wearing in intimate detail? For the GPUs of our mind, it is absolutely necessary so that precise rendering of what the author had in mind can be achieved in the reader's. But that is often a dull jumble of words and not at all reflective of the multilayered processing that goes on in reality (especially for guys, whose entire top level fashion vocabulary is often monosyllabic: "that's a NICE dress" "she was wearing a HOT top"). And really, isn't it better to provide a canvas just barely sketched out enough for READERS to plug in their own assumptions of the missing details? I am still learning to walk this line.
txfan
-- links --
(straight, vanilla as can be group sex)
https://www.literotica.com/s/baywatch-secrets-stacys-show
https://www.literotica.com/s/baywatch-secrets-ch-02-brandes-beauty
https://www.literotica.com/s/baywatch-secrets-ch-03-mirandas-movie
(4th just posted and coming out soon)
Things I have learned so far.
- It is hard to generate conflict and plot in literotica, REALLY hard to make sex either a setting or an event to move the plot forward/backward as naturally as say a dinner at a restaurant or an unexpected phone call. So much of the storytelling we are exposed to simply cuts when it gets to the good bits, and I find myself constantly walking the fine line between cutting (to let the imagination do a better job than I can) and telling (to challenge myself to make sex a storytelling device).
- I hate taking editorial advice. Smut has always been intensely personal to me; it's my fantasy, why am I letting someone else run the show? but the one time I've done it has been both painful and helpful to me and I wound up actually following that advice in subsequent chapters (I hate rewriting; a good part of this is because Literotica's re-editing experience is so terrible).
- I think novice writers with a coding background like myself tend to err on the side of describing everything. We treat writing fiction very much like object oriented programming; initialize_character() cannot be called with blank parameters since defaults aren't defined, hence every detail must be mentioned no matter how irrelevant to the story. The common symptom you are familiar with is talking about height and measurements; but this malady extends to far less quantitative elements of characterization as well - do I really need to know what a character is wearing in intimate detail? For the GPUs of our mind, it is absolutely necessary so that precise rendering of what the author had in mind can be achieved in the reader's. But that is often a dull jumble of words and not at all reflective of the multilayered processing that goes on in reality (especially for guys, whose entire top level fashion vocabulary is often monosyllabic: "that's a NICE dress" "she was wearing a HOT top"). And really, isn't it better to provide a canvas just barely sketched out enough for READERS to plug in their own assumptions of the missing details? I am still learning to walk this line.
txfan
-- links --
(straight, vanilla as can be group sex)
https://www.literotica.com/s/baywatch-secrets-stacys-show
https://www.literotica.com/s/baywatch-secrets-ch-02-brandes-beauty
https://www.literotica.com/s/baywatch-secrets-ch-03-mirandas-movie
(4th just posted and coming out soon)
