Suggestion for a new Lit competition.

[Scotsman69]

Hello all. I've been posting stories on Lit for over three years, but I have no interest in entering current Lit competitions. Not because I don't think I'm good enough, but because basically I'm not at all competitive about my writing.

But here's a competition that I WOULD enter.

It goes something like this:

Write the most original description you can of the act of sex.

Lit clichees disallowed. Has to be ORIGINAL. New forms of language, new uses of words, extensive recourse to your thesaurus essential.

Would anybody else like to see such a competition? For my money, it would certainly sort the sheep from the lambs. One competition that every serious Lit author would find challenging.

Thoughts please? Who knows, if enough support is expressed here, maybe Laurel and Manu would take the idea seriously...

 

[Stella_Omega]

I wouldn't enter it. A description of the sex act isn't erotic by itself, in my opinion. An imaginative context for the sex-- that's worth something.

 

[Scotsman69]

The context AND the sex, Stella. It can't happen without context...

 

[Stella_Omega]

The context AND the sex, Stella. It can't happen without context...

Sure it can. But it might not hit my buttons without it...

Except tentacles. Tentacles need no context.

 

[Fyrewing]

That's because tentacles are awesome enough to be their own context!

 

[lovecraft68]

Hello all. I've been posting stories on Lit for over three years, but I have no interest in entering current Lit competitions. Not because I don't think I'm good enough, but because basically I'm not at all competitive about my writing.

But here's a competition that I WOULD enter.

It goes something like this:

Write the most original description you can of the act of sex.

Lit clichees disallowed. Has to be ORIGINAL. New forms of language, new uses of words, extensive recourse to your thesaurus essential.

Would anybody else like to see such a competition? For my money, it would certainly sort the sheep from the lambs. One competition that every serious Lit author would find challenging.

Thoughts please? Who knows, if enough support is expressed here, maybe Laurel and Manu would take the idea seriously...

Problem is it is fun to be creative but readers of erotica want their cheap dirty thrills they don't see the old standards of throbbing cock and dripping pussy they get confused. Sometimes the old tricks are the best there are certain expectations by the readership. Porn without certain buzz words is like going to see a band that was relevant years ago yet all they play is their new stuff that no one likes-Eagles please take note- know what I mean?

So Stella how does one describe tentacles erotically? Are they rigid? Slimy? I was just letting my seven foot boa crawl around on me and I was really trying to think if there was anything sexual there and I was coming up dry.

 

[Stella_Omega]

the things that are sexy about a boa constrictor;

The head, first of all. Of course it's phallic-- but so intelligent-seeming. Boas have horse-shaped heads. You can imagine that there are real thoughts behind that brow.

The shimmering skin, with that silken sliding texture. The unbelievably dense muscles under it, the suppleness of movement. You want to wrap your thighs around it and ride away...

Not that I've thought about snakes all that much *cough*

So, tentacles.

Think; Gripping strength, manipulative flexibility, inhuman motivation, insatiable curiosity...

Tentacles can be written slimy, or warm and dry, plant-like, animal-based, natural, demonic, friendly and loving, malicious, uncaring at all. Tentacles can be lonely, or hungry, or instinct-driven.

An ability to manipulate any protruding organ or digit as well-- or hold all those flailing limbs in an immovable grip while the creature explores any orifice it might encounter, or manipulate anything that... protrudes. For any reason.

Human orgasms might be the intent, or the critter might be wholly unconcerned by the noises-- and liquids-- its toy emits.

Depends on what you want to do with 'em.

 

[Scotsman69]

Hmmm... not a lot of support for the idea so far...

Looks like I'll just have to try such a story myself, see where it goes.

Hello all. I've been posting stories on Lit for over three years, but I have no interest in entering current Lit competitions. Not because I don't think I'm good enough, but because basically I'm not at all competitive about my writing.

But here's a competition that I WOULD enter.

It goes something like this:

Write the most original description you can of the act of sex.

Lit clichees disallowed. Has to be ORIGINAL. New forms of language, new uses of words, extensive recourse to your thesaurus essential.

Would anybody else like to see such a competition? For my money, it would certainly sort the sheep from the lambs. One competition that every serious Lit author would find challenging.

Thoughts please? Who knows, if enough support is expressed here, maybe Laurel and Manu would take the idea seriously...

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Problem is it is fun to be creative but readers of erotica want their cheap dirty thrills they don't see the old standards of throbbing cock and dripping pussy they get confused. Sometimes the old tricks are the best there are certain expectations by the readership. Porn without certain buzz words is like going to see a band that was relevant years ago yet all they play is their new stuff that no one likes-Eagles please take note- know what I mean?

So Stella how does one describe tentacles erotically? Are they rigid? Slimy? I was just letting my seven foot boa crawl around on me and I was really trying to think if there was anything sexual there and I was coming up dry.

Dry?

Boa??

http://mysticmedusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Nastassja-Kinski-snake.jpg

 

[PennLady]

Problem is it is fun to be creative but readers of erotica want their cheap dirty thrills they don't see the old standards of throbbing cock and dripping pussy they get confused. Sometimes the old tricks are the best there are certain expectations by the readership. Porn without certain buzz words is like going to see a band that was relevant years ago yet all they play is their new stuff that no one likes-Eagles please take note- know what I mean?

To start a completely unrelated tangent to the thread I have to say -- to a point, so what about the readers? Why should an author, or a musician, turn out the same old stuff all the time? It would get boring.

 

[Scotsman69]

Precisely the point of my thread.

You up for the challenge, PennLady?

To start a completely unrelated tangent to the thread I have to say -- to a point, so what about the readers? Why should an author, or a musician, turn out the same old stuff all the time? It would get boring.

 

[lovecraft68]

To start a completely unrelated tangent to the thread I have to say -- to a point, so what about the readers? Why should an author, or a musician, turn out the same old stuff all the time? It would get boring.

Not at all but you can't completely leave out the standards. Throw some other things in by all means but certain buzzwords have a Pavlov's dog effect on some of these people.

Trust me I am all for someone using some new descriptions because I could use some myself. "Pussy" is my default and my favorite. I never use the C-word and honestly I admit to laughing out loud sometimes when I write things like "her hot little box" or some fun alliteration like Sara's slippery slit.

So if you have some creative ones do tell.

 

[michchick98]

Problem is it is fun to be creative but readers of erotica want their cheap dirty thrills they don't see the old standards of throbbing cock and dripping pussy they get confused. Sometimes the old tricks are the best there are certain expectations by the readership. Porn without certain buzz words is like going to see a band that was relevant years ago yet all they play is their new stuff that no one likes-Eagles please take note- know what I mean?

So Stella how does one describe tentacles erotically? Are they rigid? Slimy? I was just letting my seven foot boa crawl around on me and I was really trying to think if there was anything sexual there and I was coming up dry.

I have to agree. The usual stand-bys are the best. I've read some rather flowery erotica and frankly, it's laughable. Can't remember any of it off hand, but it was quite humorous at the time.

I honestly think if there were to be a contest like this, the trolls would have a field day...more so than they already do.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have to agree. The usual stand-bys are the best. I've read some rather flowery erotica and frankly, it's laughable. Can't remember any of it off hand, but it was quite humorous at the time.

I honestly think if there were to be a contest like this, the trolls would have a field day...more so than they already do.

Hey I just had an idea! We make the contest for the trolls as well! If we the authors have to come up with new more creative writing and descriptions so do they!

The trolls will have to find more eloquent ways to tell us that we suck, or we're sick or that we're the worst writers ever!

 

[Stella_Omega]

Hey I just had an idea! We make the contest for the trolls as well! If we the authors have to come up with new more creative writing and descriptions so do they!

The trolls will have to find more eloquent ways to tell us that we suck, or we're sick or that we're the worst writers ever!

I can be pretty eloquent when I'm laughing at purple prose.

 

[PennLady]

Not at all but you can't completely leave out the standards. Throw some other things in by all means but certain buzzwords have a Pavlov's dog effect on some of these people.

Well mostly I was just thinking about music, and how a friend of mine was a big David Bowie fan, and at one point, Bowie refused to do any songs from before whatever year or phase of his career. Which no doubt disappointed some people.

As for me, well I can't say I try anything innovative with my sex scenes or the words in them. I probably go more for the emotional context, as Stella mentioned, although not with tentacles.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Someone just gave me context, for a really deeply perverse sex scene that I want to write... We're talking rough sex in the hog wallow, bondage and caning, piss and even a bit of scat...

And a very lovely, sweet, happy-making context for it all. Who'da thunk?

 

[lovecraft68]

Well mostly I was just thinking about music, and how a friend of mine was a big David Bowie fan, and at one point, Bowie refused to do any songs from before whatever year or phase of his career. Which no doubt disappointed some people.

As for me, well I can't say I try anything innovative with my sex scenes or the words in them. I probably go more for the emotional context, as Stella mentioned, although not with tentacles.

Oh sorry. For once i was staying on topic

As for music irt depends on the band and the times. You take my wife's fav. Bon Jovi. Big in the 80's but has consistently turned out new stuff that is fairly decent. He never went away so to speak.

But take let's say a hair band like Skid Row we go and see them and they start talking about their "new Album" look just play Youth gone wild okay? Most of the time you see an older group it's for nostalgia and the new stuff just kind of sucks.

I mentioned the Eagles cause I saw them twice the first time was Hell freezes over and it was one of the best shows i ever saw. Saw them too years ago and it was five new songs in a row and typical Henley political crap and they really lost the crowd.

It took Joe Walsh's Walk away" to get me to wake up again.

Speaking of Bowie do you know the New York dolls are touring with Poison and Motley Crue? Got me scratching my head.

 

[driphoney]

Hello all. I've been posting stories on Lit for over three years, but I have no interest in entering current Lit competitions. Not because I don't think I'm good enough, but because basically I'm not at all competitive about my writing.

But here's a competition that I WOULD enter.

It goes something like this:

Write the most original description you can of the act of sex.

Lit clichees disallowed. Has to be ORIGINAL. New forms of language, new uses of words, extensive recourse to your thesaurus essential.

Would anybody else like to see such a competition? For my money, it would certainly sort the sheep from the lambs. One competition that every serious Lit author would find challenging.

Thoughts please? Who knows, if enough support is expressed here, maybe Laurel and Manu would take the idea seriously...

Given the way the thread progressed, I guess that would be a no.

Not everyone can bend the phrase like you, dear Scot. Nice to see you posting.

 

[PennLady]

You up for the challenge, PennLady?

I'm not sure. I'm not even sure I quite get the original proposition. Are you talking about making up new words? And aren't a lot of us always looking for something a little different with the sex anyway? What exactly would be a cliche that you'd like people to avoid? The question was just so broad I wasn't sure what you were going for.

 

[PennLady]

Oh sorry. For once i was staying on topic

Speaking of Bowie do you know the New York dolls are touring with Poison and Motley Crue? Got me scratching my head.

LOL My bad, then. Let me see if I can bring it back on topic. I stopped reading Dean Koontz years ago because his stories seemed to be one of two plots -- monster, or psychotic killer and monster. Perhaps he changed, but I'm not curious enough to find out anymore. So I do like it when authors try new things. Neil Gaiman never seems to write the same thing. I've read a lot of Nora Roberts and at least for me, she keeps things varied enough that I've never been bored reading one of her books, although I've rolled my eyes at a few things. I think her JD Robb novels are better, really, than much of her romance.

I try myself not to write the same story over and over, although I'm sure there's some repetition in there somewhere. But each time I've written something, I've tried to envision a different plot (different from my previous ones, I mean), and different characters. Even in the hockey stories I've varied it.

Back to music: I could easily miss the NY Dolls, et al, although I confess I saw Poison in concert when I was in college, but it was a really good show. My husband is a big Duran Duran fan, and like them or not, they have always tried new things with their music.

 

[Scotsman69]

I'm afraid you've all got it wrong. The idea behind this thread is NOT to get red Hs. It's not about the readers at all: I'm well aware of what most Lit readers are after, and on a good day I can get women off with my writing.

The idea is to encourage writers to find new ways of describing sex. To create new paradigms that might be followed by Lit writers - and readers - in the future. I vividly remember the first time I read Lady Chatterley as a teenager.

To be truly CREATIVE, rather than sticking with tried-and-tested tramlines.

Seems I'm ploughing a lonely furrow here. Not the first time!

 

[3113]

As a Scotsman shouldn't you stick to Caber Toss? That's pretty original and phallic

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'm afraid you've all got it wrong. The idea behind this thread is NOT to get red Hs. It's not about the readers at all: I'm well aware of what most Lit readers are after, and on a good day I can get women off with my writing.

The idea is to encourage writers to find new ways of describing sex. To create new paradigms that might be followed by Lit writers - and readers - in the future. I vividly remember the first time I read Lady Chatterley as a teenager.

To be truly CREATIVE, rather than sticking with tried-and-tested tramlines.

Seems I'm ploughing a lonely furrow here. Not the first time!

Well, I'm waiting to see what you make of it, honestly...

Lady Chatterley I seem to recall, was chock full of mystical allusions (that spotlit Joyce's discomfort with the subject matter, no matter what he claimed) and very little substance. By the time I read it I had been screwing for several years and had figured out my own orgasm responses pretty well, as well as a few other women's-- Connie's ploughed earth passivity was hard to stomach.

As a Scotsman shouldn't you stick to Caber Toss? That's pretty original and phallic

You're supposed to put the pole in a hole!

 

[Scotsman69]

Wow!

You really can't get more original than that, can you?

As a Scotsman shouldn't you stick to Caber Toss? That's pretty original and phallic