Struggling with sex

[TheEarl]

Need help from the Literotica literati again. I'm currently going through a really weird period of writer's block. As I'm possibly the most inconsistent producer of writing in the world, the block in itself is not strange, but where it is applying itself to. Let me start again, or else I'll have to call Harold in to translate.

I usually get writers block preventing me from writing the story. The sex writing has never been a problem before, I just had no story to write it with. Now however I'm writing stories fluently and I can't write the sex scenes. It's all going pear-shaped. The characters are there, tumbling in bed, and I can't describe it.

I've come to the conclusion that I've exhausted my repertoire of sex scenes. None of my stories are based on former lovers and I think I'm running out of ideas for the sex. Therefore I'm getting very wary of writing the same sex scene for several different stories. This isn't helped by the fact that I'm writing three lesbian stories as we speak which tend to confuse each other. I've got all three to the point of shagging and I can't go any further.

What do you, as esteemed authors do to keep your sex scenes separate from each other? How do you introduce variety, when there's only a limited number of things you can do?

Desperately seeking subjects...

The Earl

 

[Star of Penumbra]

How does one keep all thier sex scenes seperate and interesting?

Beats the hell outta me. I quit writing erotica.

 

[Guest]

We all go through it Earl. You're not obsessing over it, are you? Running out of ideas for sex?--come on, give yourself a break.

Every writer, I suppose, has their own recipe for getting out of rut, and we're are all as different as snowflakes in that regard. Maybe others will post to offer suggegstions. Sometimes, I'll just step away from writing for a bit and get into something completey different for awhile--find whatever "it" is to recharge your batteries. Call it a vacation or a sabatical or whatever. But it is natural and healthy to do this to keep from getting stale.

Got other hobbies? Do you work out? Try reading something very different (and non-sexual) from your usual diet. Do something different for awhile.

Clear away the spider cobwebs at the entrance of the tunnel! There is a massive underground cave of sex stories and ideas waiting for you on the other side. LOL!

 

[deliciously_naughty]

I tend to think in terms of my character...would my character do X? And then I tailor the sex to the character

 

[Weird Harold]

I tend to think in terms of my character...would my character do X? And then I tailor the sex to the character

That's pretty much the same answer as I would suggest.

The act of sex is pretty much the same for everyone, there isn't lot of variety that can be injected into "Tab A into Slot B." The differencs are all in the foreplay and the personal style of the characters. Some characters rush into things, and others take their time; some start at the neck and lick down, and others start at the feet and lick up. Some don't lick at all.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

TheEarl,

You've gotten some good advice. I don't mean to sound like some hi-lit high-brow, but you might try asking yourself why the scene is needed-other than it being expected by most readers.

As Weird Harold said, "The act of sex is pretty much the same for everyone..." What sets one scene off from another is the characters and the circumstances behind the scene. Deliciously naughty's comment was a good one, "I tend to think in terms of my character...would my character do X? And then I tailor the sex to the character."

One other suggestion you might try is writing a steamy "foreplay" scene instead of just another hot and sweaty, grunting and groaning, get-it-on-all-night-long sexscapade. Use some excuse to stop things before the characters can "do the dirty deed". If this helps break your block, you can then either keep it as a separarte scene or add to it and let nature take its course.

Good luck and keep us posted.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[TheEarl]

After my cry of despair yesterday, I went and knocked out a sex scene in just 40 minutes. So hopefully that's that sorted then. The solution, believe it or not, was handcuffs. I restrained one protagonist and let the other work her wiles. It meant that I only had to deal with one set of 'roving hands' (phrase which I think I've used in every story so far), rather than two, which is more complicated. KISS I suppose.

The Earl

PS. RF: Most of my stories do have a bit of variety in motives and some in how it's led up to. But there's only a limited repertoire of Tab A in Slot B (Very well put WH) writing that I could do and I got depressed that you could cut and paste a sex scene from one of my lesbian stories to another and change the names with no-one noticing the difference.