Supposed to be fun?

[hmmnmm]

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[Stella_Omega]

I'm at the point where I flounder trying to find new things to say within a sex scene-- they tear off their clothes, fuck, get off-- so what else is new?

I've been reading one professional writer's blog, and she posts little excerpts every once in a while-- they've made me even more self-critical, because she repeats the same catch-phrases over and over in her descriptions, actions, dialogue. The character's names change, and the settings-- maybe someone has blue eyes, maybe brown-- but in essence she's writing the same thing over and over.

I don't want to get like that.

 

[flavortang]

I'm at the point where I flounder trying to find new things to say within a sex scene-- they tear off their clothes, fuck, get off-- so what else is new?

I've been reading one professional writer's blog, and she posts little excerpts every once in a while-- they've made me even more self-critical, because she repeats the same catch-phrases over and over in her descriptions, actions, dialogue. The character's names change, and the settings-- maybe someone has blue eyes, maybe brown-- but in essence she's writing the same thing over and over.

I don't want to get like that.

Porn is like that, but then why is it almost always good?

I think the idea is to make the stories revolving around the sex as diverse and interesting as possible. There's only so many ways you can describe a sex scene and trying to be inventive just for the sake of being inventive is an exercise in futility.

 

[hmmnmm]

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[Stella_Omega]

Porn is like that, but then why is it almost always good?

I think the idea is to make the stories revolving around the sex as diverse and interesting as possible. There's only so many ways you can describe a sex scene and trying to be inventive just for the sake of being inventive is an exercise in futility.

1) Because there's Joy In Repetition™

2) 'Zactly! So we write our sex in different places, for different reasons, even when it's the same in-out-in-out. And it is good.

 

[hmmnmm]

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[BlackShanglan]

I'm at the point where I flounder trying to find new things to say within a sex scene-- they tear off their clothes, fuck, get off-- so what else is new?

I've been reading one professional writer's blog, and she posts little excerpts every once in a while-- they've made me even more self-critical, because she repeats the same catch-phrases over and over in her descriptions, actions, dialogue. The character's names change, and the settings-- maybe someone has blue eyes, maybe brown-- but in essence she's writing the same thing over and over.

I don't want to get like that.

That's the best argument yet for limiting detail in sex scenes. Explicit can be fun now and then, but ultimately, really ... there's a good deal of repetition, and it's not easy to keep it fresh. Once I feel my tail backing into that corner between "repetitive and too similar to past sex scenes" and "ludicrously bizarre just for the sake of saying something different," I bolt for the horizon - saying less. But I suppose that that may mean that erotica is inherently self-limiting. Sooner or later it seems that it has to be less about sex in order to say much.

Drained. Blew down a good third of the screenplay in scene notes (rough short-to-long paragraph per scene timeline), but have stuck exactly where I knew I was going to. Grrrr. It's frustrating how difficult it can be to move a vague, general action into a specific, concrete one. Yes, yes, the villagers are upset and panicky and heading toward dangerous infighting and a witch hunt, but who particularly does what precisely to propel the audience through it with a sense of continual action and tension?

I need to take a break. But at least the woodcutter got clever in his scene.

 

[cloudy]

That's the best argument yet for limiting detail in sex scenes. Explicit can be fun now and then, but ultimately, really ... there's a good deal of repetition, and it's not easy to keep it fresh. Once I feel my tail backing into that corner between "repetitive and too similar to past sex scenes" and "ludicrously bizarre just for the sake of saying something different," I bolt for the horizon - saying less. But I suppose that that may mean that erotica is inherently self-limiting. Sooner or later it seems that it has to be less about sex in order to say much.

Which is why I don't write sex scenes anymore.

 

[flavortang]

1) Because there's Joy In Repetition™

2) 'Zactly! So we write our sex in different places, for different reasons, even when it's the same in-out-in-out. And it is good.

Exactly! I, for one, thoroughly enjoy writing tales about incest(step-siblings, cousins, .etc.) and I had a great idea for ANOTHER similar tale but even though the idea turned me on, it'd just be more of the same for my readers, so my next story will be something completely different.

Gotta turn it around ever so often!

BTW, whenever I eat at In 'n Out Burger, I giggle incessantly while muttering 'In 'n Out'. I can't help myself.

 

[hmmnmm]

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[tickledkitty]

I'd just like to someday believe that at least one idea isn't a complete failure.

Is this THE idea that you feel has failed?

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

It is hard to write fresh sex scenes. And yet this is a porn site, and readers have a right to expect some hot sex in a story. Maybe the moral is to not write too much in this genre. The only reason we do this is for fun, so if it's not fun, why do it? Or at least, so much of it?

Changing point of view may help a bit. I wrote one first-person story, and the experience was somewhat different.

 

[BlackShanglan]

BTW, whenever I eat at In 'n Out Burger, I giggle incessantly while muttering 'In 'n Out'. I can't help myself.

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who just can't read that name without an inner snicker.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who just can't read that name without an inner snicker.

I think you misspelled "whicker"

 

[slyc_willie]

I catch myself using some of the same imagery and metaphors when writing sex. I've noticed that, for the most part, my sex scenes have dwindled in size

I had the idea to write a story that went:

"They met. They fucked."

But damn Lit's minimum word count . . . .

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I catch myself using some of the same imagery and metaphors when writing sex. I've noticed that, for the most part, my sex scenes have dwindled in size

I had the idea to write a story that went:

"They met. They fucked."

But damn Lit's minimum word count . . . .

Add "in-out" 375 times?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Add "in-out" 375 times?

Ouch, the friction!

 

[flavortang]

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who just can't read that name without an inner snicker.

It doesn't hurt that their hamburgers and shakes are so damn good! Like crack for fast-food afficienados!

 

[slyc_willie]

Ouch, the friction!

Okay, I'll add some lube.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Okay, I'll add some lube.

the giant economy sized bottle please-- or else that expensive new silicone-based stuff that lasts and lasts...

 

[slyc_willie]

the giant economy sized bottle please-- or else that expensive new silicone-based stuff that lasts and lasts...

Oh, really? What's it called? I have a feeling I might need something like that in, oh, say, a week and a half.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Oh, really? What's it called? I have a feeling I might need something like that in, oh, say, a week and a half.

Go to http://blowfish.com one of the nicest sex catalog sites I've ever come across-- although of course your mileage may vary...
here's the page for lubes;
http://www.blowfish.com/catalog/supplies/

 

[hmmnmm]

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[WRJames]

I'm at the point where I flounder trying to find new things to say within a sex scene-- they tear off their clothes, fuck, get off-- so what else is new?
(

Yeah -- I've hit that too. Makes you fall back onto plot and character development.

Of course, my editor has been pushing me to put in a little more bondage ...