The Anti Smut Writer

[Liar]

I think I have become one.

I haven't written an erotic/porn story for Lit for years, but that's mainly because I've been treying to write more non smut, and more in my native language.

But even those stories, stageplays mostly, and two novel projects that are cultivating in their own sauce at the moment, have had their fair amounts of sex and sexual elements to them. Attraction, curiosity, obsession and downright horniness, with the inevitable grinding of anatomies now and then when the plots call for it.

But lately, those parts of the stories have stumped me. Whenever things get too...sexy, I get bored, the flow of words ebb out and my muse flips me the bird and goes off to play Xbox.

I'm not bothered that I don't find it amusing to write sex stories anymore, but if I can't even write sex in stories? I'm on a commission and a deadline for one of the scripts even. But if I fuck up the fucking and the sucking sucks, the story will suck with it.

Maybe I need to get laid, I dunno. Either way, I need a cure, stat.

 

[cloudy]

I don't write much sex anymore, either. Not sure why, exactly. I get plenty of it at home...maybe that's why.

The rest of the story is what fascinates me now.

 

[Recidiva]

I think I only had a few sex scenes in me.

Maybe that qualifies me as a fetishist.

Except I get bored when it comes up over and over. Not in real life, but on paper.

 

[JammyJimmy]

I'm more driven by characters and plot anyway, and I only get enjoyment out of writing a sex scene if it develops the character further, or shows the reader a side to them they haven't seen before.
Sex for the sake of sex isn't exactly stimulating to me either.... maybe you just need to look at it from a different angle?

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'm more driven by characters and plot anyway, and I only get enjoyment out of writing a sex scene if it develops the character further, or shows the reader a side to them they haven't seen before.
Sex for the sake of sex isn't exactly stimulating to me either.... maybe you just need to look at it from a different angle?

I know there's a great quip in "different angle" but I can't think of it real fast

But yeah, this is where I am, too. Even so, I still love to read sex for its own sake-- unless it comes into the middle of a plotty story, and then I get all critical about it.


Welcome to AH, by the way! Introduce yourself, please!

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I've sort of been going in the same direction. I think part of my problem is I've become desensitized to all the porn and erotica which used to inspire me. It's a case of been there, seen it, done it, BORED. I'm trying to get back to basics, but it's very difficult for me, mostly because I'm content in my life and my relationship. A lot of the fuel for my writing used to be sexual and emotional frustration. Not in any hurry to go back to that frame of mind, I'd rather be boring.

 

[_Lynn_]

If I try to write a sex scene, it falls flat. Hinting at it, building up to it, works, but then it's a struggle. I'd fallen into the rut of writing in the romance category for a while. I'm not sure if or how it all fits with my personal life though.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Porn is like a sandbox. There's only so much you can do with the same stuff.

 

[damppanties]

Maybe I need to get laid, I dunno. Either way, I need a cure, stat.

I might have a number you can call.

 

[TE999]

I find myself concentrating more on plot, scene setting and character development in my stories...I think I've moved beyond gratuitous sex scenes which I believe is not uncommon among erotica writers. I'm intrigued to see that others here are encountering the same phenomena.

 

[JammyJimmy]

Welcome to AH, by the way! Introduce yourself, please!

Done, and thanks for the welcome
http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=462287&page=13

 

[IsabellaKing]

Porn is like a sandbox. There's only so much you can do with the same stuff.

I played in my sandbox, with the boy next door, until I was about 12.

No, really - we built roads and tunnels and played with cars.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I played in my sandbox, with the boy next door, until I was about 12.

No, really - we built roads and tunnels and played with cars.

And roads and tunnels and castles are about all you can do with a sandbox.

 

[Lady_Guenivere]

And roads and tunnels and castles are about all you can do with a sandbox.

Unless you are a cat...

 

[IsabellaKing]

And roads and tunnels and castles are about all you can do with a sandbox.

My point was that I'd played in it for a long time even though there was a limited amount of things to do in it.

 

[DeeZire]

...Whenever things get too...sexy, I get bored, the flow of words ebb out and my muse flips me the bird and goes off to play Xbox...

I think it's the erotica versus porn thing. Porn can be boring because everything is there right in front of the reader. There's nothing left to the imagination. I would rather watch Tina Fey's cleavage in 30 Rock than limitless internet porn because the turn on is mental.

My favorite writers aren't in porn, they're on the edge of mainstream fiction. I would think heading in that direction would be a good thing, especially if one wanted to expand their audience and get compensated for their work.

 

[sr71plt]

Writing the smut has mainly cut into writing volume in the mainstream for me. The mainstream writing came first and then I drifted into the smut writing. My mainstream writing hasn't stopped, the smut has just turned me more to writing short stories in the mainstream than novels--and I've won/placed in more mainstream contests in the past two years than before--so the smut isn't causing anything to deteriorate.

 

[JammyJimmy]

I gotta agree with the majority of the posts in this thread.

I wanted to push myself to write an incest story to hit a bigger audience, so I did, but for me it had to be believable.
So I made it about a guy finding out he had a half-sister he didn't know about. That then created the why, gave me the story of his missing father, his alcoholic mother, his character, and his personal journey.
And so on..

Basically, I posted a 40,000 word Book 1 straight up, and the feedback I've had has been incredible.
There were only four sex scenes in the entire story, not totalling more than a couple of thousand words.
When I read work by others, then those are the kind I enjoy the most. A story and characters that you can believe in, that make logical and rational choices... that seem real.
It's difficult to do that quickly, and as a result, the story becomes more of a focus than the porn of it, I guess.

 

[xssve]

Go look at some porn, beat off. My stories all start as fantasies, and I have the opposite problem - I can't get past the sex.

Seriously, if it doesn't turn you on chances are good it's not gonna do it for anybody else either - write up a few different possible sex scenes and see if you can give yourself a woody.

 

[xssve]

Not relevant perhaps, but I liked this quote from an article critiquing porn movies, so I'm going to post it anyway:

Because there is only one secret about sex, and that is that it's a feeling, and you can't see feeling. Some of the greatest artists who ever lived did their best to register the look on a woman's face when she is in ecstasy.

What Porn Is Really For By Clive James, BBC.

It ain't the meat, it's the emotion, maybe you better get laid instead, wish I had the option.