Tips for Creating Stories Women Appreciate

[R_Clairmont]

I’m a woman who’s just getting started writing Lit stories. I have just finished the first draft of my second story and I’ve been sending it to my Lit friends, who are mostly male. It’s clear that they mostly skipped over the backstory and exposition to the sex, which they felt was not detailed enough.

If you are looking for a woman to read your story, regardless of genre, it’s important to be clear on the backstory and to have some real character development. It doesn’t need to be long, but motivations help me put myself in the female protagonist’s shoes (or thong). The stories I return to over and over again have interesting characters who feel like real people.

Meanwhile, I am adding details to my sex scenes!

 

[Erozetta]

Leaving aside all the comments about emotions, feelings, action, paper-thin characters, undue focus on appearance, lack of believable motivations etc, it's also important to know that certain themes have more appeal (in general) to women than to men, and vice versa.

Femdom, my goto theme, is almost exclusively male in readership, no matter how "feminine" the style of writing actually is, or the depth of character and emotion portrayed.
Exposure (and tropes like elevator-fucking) seems to attract more women than men.
Women seem to like tentacle stuff more, no idea why they fear/love/hate icky monsters and snakes slipping into their pussies.

I'd like to suggest it's because they know they're fucking a monster ahead of time.

But it's probably because it's very clearly fantasy so they can let themselves get a little lost in it.

 

[Audiflex]

Leaving aside all the comments about emotions, feelings, action, paper-thin characters, undue focus on appearance, lack of believable motivations etc, it's also important to know that certain themes have more appeal (in general) to women than to men, and vice versa.

Femdom, my goto theme, is almost exclusively male in readership, no matter how "feminine" the style of writing actually is, or the depth of character and emotion portrayed.
Exposure (and tropes like elevator-fucking) seems to attract more women than men.
Women seem to like tentacle stuff more, no idea why they fear/love/hate icky monsters and snakes slipping into their pussies.

It’s so interesting how different themes resonate with different audiences! Femdom being male-dominated and exposure/tentacle stuff leaning more female? Who’d have thought? It just goes to show how varied tastes can be, even within the same genre. And yeah, the whole “icky monsters” thing is a mystery, but hey, whatever floats your boat, right?