WANTED: A woman's perspective

[rainyguy]

Hello and thank you for taking the time to actually read this. What I am looking for is a woman?s opinion and input. I know there is a lot of men reading these stories on this site but what I am unsure of is what do women really want to read? What type of story can actually seduce a woman into touching herself while reading. I am honestly interested in understanding what women readers truly look for in a good story. My personal goal would of course being to evoke something through my words causing a woman to react in some form. Whether it?s through physical wetness, emotional desire or simply curiosity. I would like my writing to be the cause and of course, your reaction would be the effects.

So can you women help me out?

Do you have a particular point of view that you like in a story?
Do you like a more demure tone in an author?s words?
Do you enjoy reading stories that are just down right nasty in their content?

I know everyone is different but what I am hoping to see is a common thread, something that can bind different tastes into a comprehensive understanding of what women want to read.

I know I?m just a man but can someone out there help me understand what drives a woman?s lust.
Please help me,

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Hello and thank you for taking the time to actually read this. What I am looking for is a woman?s opinion and input. I know there is a lot of men reading these stories on this site but what I am unsure of is what do women really want to read? What type of story can actually seduce a woman into touching herself while reading. I am honestly interested in understanding what women readers truly look for in a good story. My personal goal would of course being to evoke something through my words causing a woman to react in some form. Whether it?s through physical wetness, emotional desire or simply curiosity. I would like my writing to be the cause and of course, your reaction would be the effects.

So can you women help me out?

Do you have a particular point of view that you like in a story?
Do you like a more demure tone in an author?s words?
Do you enjoy reading stories that are just down right nasty in their content?

I know everyone is different but what I am hoping to see is a common thread, something that can bind different tastes into a comprehensive understanding of what women want to read.

I know I?m just a man but can someone out there help me understand what drives a woman?s lust.
Please help me,

Every woman is different, just like every guy. What floats one's boat may be a complete turn off to another. Indeed on any different day the same woman may want diffeent things.

In general a good story line with strong characters is a plus. A well thought out plot is usually a plus too. Granbted that there are some days I just want to get down to the nuts and bolts, but usually I want a story and characters I can like.

On a personal level:

I don't usually really enjoy a first person point of view.
A demure tone is good if it fits the story, a nasty tone is good if it fits the story. The story and characters have to dictate that and if your characters are nasty but you couch your words it rings untrue and unreadable.

Your best course of action is to write a story then show it to some female friends or post it in the story feedback thread and ask the ladies for their comments. You will get a lot more hands on responses to a specific work than to a general question.

Best of luck,

Colly

 

[jessy19]

For me, personally, I enjoy a story with a good plot and lots and I do mean lots of emtion and love. I hate just wham bam kind of stories. I like slow build up too. *s*

 

[JRaven]

Even we don't always know what we want!

Like Colly said, we sometimes want different things on different days. But I'll try to put it in a man's terms for you.

Women are emotional. If the emotional element isn't there to some degree, it doesn't work very well. It takes a plot to interject emotion into a story. "She was happy to see his 9 inch dick." isn't emotion!

Our emotions are influenced, but not neccessarily governed by hormones. Our hormones change. Their influences on our emotions change. You just never know about us women.

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But don't feel too bad. My mood swings can really screw up a good story. If I start PMSing in the middle of a story, the guy can become a real asshole real quick. Even if it isn't part of the story at all. Then I end up going back to re-write it all. No wonder it can take me two months to write a story!

Jenny

 

[angela146]

I'm a woman. I have the same problem.

Most of my "storytelling" over the years has been for my husband. I'm pretty good at turning men on with stories.

My three stories posted here have all received lots of good feedback but all of that has been from men. Well, let's say that none of the feedback has been openly female.

So, with more than a hundred feedback emails and none of them from women... I wonder how I can create stories for women.

Obvious solution: create stories that I like. That's not as easy as it sounds.

First of all, I have real difficulty sharing my private fantasies. I feel too naked. It's like stripping for someone other than hubby. I can get down to the lingerie but I just can't bring myself to take the bra off.

The stuff that really turns me on is too personal to share.

Second, my fantasies are more surreal than my stories to my husband. I jump from plot to plot, idea to idea. I also plateau a lot, taking a fantasy to the edge then thinking about what might have led to it. I replay the same scene several times in a row, each time a different way. Sometimes I only get to the main story when I’m at the end. Sometimes I never get to the end and there’s no resolution. It’s really erotic but how do I translate it into words?

Finally, my turn-ons aren’t visual or verbal. They’re kinetic. His hand brushes me over there and his beard tickles over here. His leg is taut and pinning me over here.

The closest I’ve come to writing my inner thoughts is Exhausted by Hubby.” But even that was a shared experience with my husband.

Back to the point: writing for myself doesn’t work too well, so I too need some help writing for women, even though I’m a woman.

Maybe we both need the perspective of writers, both male and female, who are good at writing stories that women like…

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I only write F/F erotica, so all of my stories are obviously written for women. I do get feedback from guys and some even really enjoy my works and look for them, but my feedback is predominantly from women.

My style is a bit odd, so I won't mention stylistic generalities, but I can give some simple pointers that work well for me in a general way.

1. Build a character. Give her or him some background, tendancies and some life. Nothing will capture a reader's attention more than a character they can believe in or relate to and if that person is interesting so much the better.

2. Have a plot. It dosen't have to be complex or Machiavellian, but a story without a plot is pretty much stroke fiction and while it turns some girls on all of the time and some girls on some of the time, by and large you will appeal to female readers more when the story is going somewhere other than straight to bed.

3. Keep it real. In every story you write you are asking the reader to suspend his or her disbelief. The harder you as a writer work to keep it consistent and to keep it believeable the less work your reader must do to sink into your world. If Suzy Q puts on her finest red lingerie before her big date with Tom Handsome and she is wearing black under her dress when they get back and strip down it will pull a reader from your world. In general guys will over look thses sorts of internal inconcsitencies if the sex is hot. Women seem less forgiving of it.

4. Have some emotional depth. Women in general care a lot more about feelings then men. Work to add feeling to your characters and scenes. No matter what kind of characters you write they have feelings, emotions and desires. bring those out, don't leave the characters as shallow charicatures.

5. If you are specifically writing to a female audience, make the effort to ge tto know your audience. Sit down with some close girlfriends and discuss what they like, what they don't what turns them on and why.

For all the gneralitites presented here you must keep in mind that every reader is different and every reader responds differently. There is no magic bullet you can call upon to make the story appeal to ALL women. Watch your feedback carefully and tailor your stories to appeal to the most often expressed views from your feedback.

-Colly

 

[rainyguy]

I just wanted to say thank you for the reply thus far. It has helped quite a bit and I am looking forward to trying my hand with erotica. I usually stick to simple fiction in a novel format so this is something new for me and I am curious to see if I fall flat or stand up tall. My confidence in my novel writing is strong and sturdy but my confidence in erotica is rather rickety at best.

I really can not say how helpful all of this feedback is, hearing from women about women, well, I really do appreciate it.

 

[angela146]

Colly,

I tend to ramble a lot in the first draft of my stories, giving all sorts of background and starting the story a long time before the sex.

Durring the editing, I usually cut a lot out to make the story "tighter", thinking that the reader doesn't care about all of that.

Maybe I'm fighting my natural (i.e. female) tendencies in my story writing *because* I'm used to a male audience. I may be editing out the stuff that women like.

If a story had a lot of relationship history and ruminating and soul searching, would it be boring or would female readers be likely to latch on to it?

In other words, is my tendency to lay large amounts of groundwork a typically female thing that I should leave in if I'm writing for women?

If I stop editing myself, (and for the rainyguy, if he talked a lot about relationships and all sorts of texture detals for a while before starting the "main" story) would we be more likely to appeal to female readers?

Yes, this is all generalizing but... what do you think...

 

[devilwuznangel2]

a horny womans perspective

being a super horny chick and pretty submissive when it comes to sex i like a story that has a very strong male. i like detail when it comes to preparation of a scene (ie:if it is going to be a bondage scenario , what tools and toys are cumming into play, what my dominator will be wearing.)

i like a story where i can put my self in the place of the woman being pleasured (be it willingly or unwillingly.)


i am also kind of shy and there are things i would like to try but would never do unless "forced" so i like those stories too-again being able to put myself in "her" um well she won't have shoes probably ummm how about handcuffs ..... lol.


hope this helps

 

[rainyguy]

Yes, the ability to identify with the story is certainly important if not key but of course there is more. Forgetting simple mechanics of writing and sentence structure, there is the relationship between the author and the reader. I am sure we all have turn ons and turn offs and most likely if someone is submissive, they might not enjoy reading a story that is told from a woman?s POV who is the dominant in the story. But what I am after is trying to understand in erotica, what is the binding force that allows the reader to give themselves to the authors words.

Putting aside plots, short or long, we should all be able to agree that a plot is needed, and a plot that is flat or fragmented just to allow someone to write a given scene isn?t all that appetizing. So yes, Plots are important but plots are after all just plots. If it is a good one it will work.

But from the woman reader, I am curious if their ability to give themselves to the author while reading their writing, do most women need the emotional commitment? I think most men can read for example a story with a shabby plot but with stark description and that has an effect on them. But women on the other hand, and yes, I do realize that I am stereotyping a bit so please forgive me, but women on the other hand, do you need identification with the characters roll? Do you need to feel like yes, that could happen to me or Yes, I could maybe see myself in that or a similar situation.

Do most women enjoy reading a piece of erotica that is short or long? Or does the actual length of a story even matter? Putting aside all formats of writing mechanics here.
As a woman, what do you want and need from a story to evoke something with in yourself?

is it just identification or empathy? Or could it be simply a curiosity to read about something that you might be interested in.
Of course, my guess would be that it is a combination of all of these.

As a man who has read some erotica, not much but a little. I find quite a bit of it rather distant or flat. Now don?t get me wrong, there are a lot of writers on this site that are very talented but shouldn?t erotica have more than just flesh and body parts meshing into and out of one another?

It was just a thought.
I just as easily could be completely wrong as well.

 

[angela146]

But from the woman reader, I am curious if their ability to give themselves to the author while reading their writing, do most women need the emotional commitment?

Not claiming to speak for all women, but, yes. I need to get enveloped by the emotion of the story. I need it to mess with my mind and make me feel something before the sex.

I think most men can read for example a story with a shabby plot but with stark description and that has an effect on them. But women on the other hand, and yes, I do realize that I am stereotyping a bit so please forgive me, but women on the other hand, do you need identification with the characters roll? Do you need to feel like yes, that could happen to me or Yes, I could maybe see myself in that or a similar situation.

I need to either identify with a character or get seduced by the narrator. You can tell me a story and whisper seductive things in my ear while you do it.

The story does not have to be completely believable from a logical sense but it does from an emotional sense. If the Sultan of Brunai were to walk in my front door and sweep me off my feet, taking me away with him, that would be emotionally believable but not logically believable. (Alas, he probably has never even heard of me). I could imagine myself in his arms (and spending his money) regardless of the fact that I know this will never really happen.

That may be my problem with writing erotica for women. (Yes, this is your thread but by trying to answer the question for myself, I'm trying to show you the same thing from a different angle). I know how to seduce a man. That's almost instinctive. But, even though I have sex with women sometimes, it isn't about seduction or making love to her. I don't know how to seduce a woman. I don't know how to push a woman's buttons and make her knees weak and have her fall into my arms.

Are you any good at seducing women? Whatever you do to a woman to get her aroused in real life and make love to her, do the same things as the narrator.

If you have the same problem in relating to women in person, then that won't help (Ouch! That had to hurt. Come here and let me kiss it and make it better).

Do most women enjoy reading a piece of erotica that is short or long? Or does the actual length of a story even matter? Putting aside all formats of writing mechanics here.

Long with bits of passion and heat throughout the whole story. You need to bake me at 375 degrees for four hours, not at 1500 degrees for one hour. I need time and build up my excitemtent.

Damn! I just used a cooking metaphor with a guy. (Duh!)

I think the same thing works in swordsmithing. You have to heat the metal and pound it out in one forging. If you get it too hot to fast, it cracks or something and if you cool it and then re-heat it something else goes wrong (OK, I'm a girl. That's the best I could do).

As a woman, what do you want and need from a story to evoke something with in yourself?

is it just identification or empathy? Or could it be simply a curiosity to read about something that you might be interested in.
Of course, my guess would be that it is a combination of all of these.

Yes, and I also want a big strong narrator who is good with words and can carry me along with the story.

Don't give me a map and tell me to walk. Pick me up and carry me. But I'm kinda submissive (no, really? ya think?) and that might not work on other women. However, there are a lot of very submissive women out here all waiting for you to take us somewhere... please take us... we're yours!

As a man who has read some erotica, not much but a little. I find quite a bit of it rather distant or flat. Now don?t get me wrong, there are a lot of writers on this site that are very talented but shouldn?t erotica have more than just flesh and body parts meshing into and out of one another?

It was just a thought.
I just as easily could be completely wrong as well.

I agree but that's just me.

Sorry to be so silly at times in this message but I had to get myself in the right mood to answer you.

But seriously, when you design a story, think of me (and a thousand other women) alone in candle lit rooms alone lying on our backs (or tummies) stark naked with one hand between our legs and the other holding your story. Legs open, nipples hard, breathing heavy...

That is the very position I will be in as I read your story.

Warm me up, seduce me, once you have me in that state, you can do anything you want with me. Manipulate me, hurt me, force something on me (as long as it fits the genre) and do things that you could never do in real life (It's a story after all).

Wow! Was it as good for you as it was for me?

I am so sorry to be such a tease... NOT!

One last thing: talk to me directly as the narrator. Use the word "you" sometimes, but don't make *me* a character in the story.

Good Example: His hair was long and wavy, so thick you wanted to run your hands through it and grab hold of it.

Bad Example: His hair was long and wavy, you took your hands and ran them through it and grabbed hold of it.

(Of course, those are things a woman would say to another woman but do you get the idea?)

Stand by my side or behind me and watch the seen with me as you whisper things in my ear. Don't stand in front of me.

[Note to all of the women reading this thread. I'm sorry to have been such a slut. I know you wanted to have him all to yourself but I got here first! Ppppbbbbbbbt]

 

[rainyguy]

angela146

You crack me up.
I mean to the point of actually laughing out loud.

Off the subject here but I have been noticing something kinda odd here. If i for example write a rather lengthy post and do so on a or in a word processor, all the apostrophes turn out to be question marks. hmmmm, Not sure why or if there is anything around it. Oh, and if you are asking yourself right now why would anyone write a post inside of a word processor, it's because of two things. One, and a very large ONE spell checking! Two, and this is barely worthy of a mention, but i just feel more comfortable looking at a word processor screen when typing. I mean that's what I do most of the time when I am novel writing.

Anyway. where was I?
Oh that's right. I was laughing. angela146 I just want to let you know something here. (leaning in close as I gently brush back your hair from an ear. Softly whispering, lips barely moving) I do and can comprehend cooking metaphors.
Although I must admit I did like your "blacksmith" one as well.
(please note, I only kid people i like)

As far as you asking me how I seduce women?
Or was it rather you suggesting that I take my (woman seduction) technique and apply it to writing erotica.
Well I have a small problem in that department, although perhaps problem would not quite be my word of choice.

As a virgin, I can not draw on my vast wealth of seduction history and forge it with my words. So any and all words that I might smith into an erotic story, well they are pretty much coming from my own dismal and sardonic imagination.


Let me see here.
Oh yes, I have written two stories thus far and still am waiting for them to get approved, I just started one a third this morning and have yet to complete it. I will be curious since there is a noticeable difference in all three stories. One is short and to the point, another is rather drawn out as a long backwards hug might be held onto and the last and one i'm working on right now, is an odd mixture of the two, not drawn out and yet not down and dirty in five words or less either.

so we will just have to see.
I might just fall flat on my sorry looking face too.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Colly,

I tend to ramble a lot in the first draft of my stories, giving all sorts of background and starting the story a long time before the sex.

Durring the editing, I usually cut a lot out to make the story "tighter", thinking that the reader doesn't care about all of that.

Maybe I'm fighting my natural (i.e. female) tendencies in my story writing *because* I'm used to a male audience. I may be editing out the stuff that women like.

If a story had a lot of relationship history and ruminating and soul searching, would it be boring or would female readers be likely to latch on to it?

In other words, is my tendency to lay large amounts of groundwork a typically female thing that I should leave in if I'm writing for women?

If I stop editing myself, (and for the rainyguy, if he talked a lot about relationships and all sorts of texture detals for a while before starting the "main" story) would we be more likely to appeal to female readers?

Yes, this is all generalizing but... what do you think...

I am not going to set myself up as an expert or to say my experience is typical, but from my experience here goes

My stories are long, typically a lot longer than the lit average. I do include background, I am very concerned with the character's feelings, emotions, and mind set. If you build a tight story with good characters and good plot going long won't hurt you too badly. You will get low votes and nasty anon feedback from the stroke crowd, but not as much as you would think. If the story is engrossing and the characters are realistic most women will read the story as much for the story as for the sex.

The more background you edit, the less interesting the characters become in most cases. Women will read a straight stroke piece on occasion because thats just the mood they are in, but by and large they want a little more than just a couple of sex scenes strung together with transitional segments.

There is a difference between writing erotica and porn. Much here at lit is porn, thats what the general demand is for. If you are tailoring your story to a predominantly female audience then you won't go too wrong by including more background, more introspection and taking the time to build characters.

Despite what you will feel is way too much, most of my regular readers are very patient. I don't have to have the characters in a hot 69 within two paragrapphs for fear of loosing them

best of luck!

-Colly

 

[angela146]

You crack me up. I mean to the point of actually laughing out loud.

Why thank you!

Off the subject here but I have been noticing something kinda odd here. If i for example write a rather lengthy post and do so on a or in a word processor, all the apostrophes turn out to be question marks. hmmmm, Not sure why or if there is anything around it.

It's probably "smartquotes" in MS Word. Switch to Courier font before cutting and pasting.

Oh, and if you are asking yourself right now why would anyone write a post inside of a word processor, it's because of two things. One, and a very large ONE spell checking! Two, and this is barely worthy of a mention, but i just feel more comfortable looking at a word processor screen when typing. I mean that's what I do most of the time when I am novel writing.

me too for exactly the same reason. I don't have the quotes problem though and I don't have to play with the fonts. I just select all, copy and paste.

Anyway. where was I?

Between my legs, giving me some great oral sex. Yes, you really were. You just don't remember it.

Oh that's right. I was laughing.

Hey! Oral sex is serious business!

angela146 I just want to let you know something here. (leaning in close as I gently brush back your hair from an ear. Softly whispering, lips barely moving) I do and can comprehend cooking metaphors.
Although I must admit I did like your "blacksmith" one as well.
(please note, I only kid people i like)

Oh, thank you... you're such a tease.

As far as you asking me how I seduce women?
Or was it rather you suggesting that I take my (woman seduction) technique and apply it to writing erotica.

Both, actually. I was kind of hoping to get a description of how you seduce women so I could get off on it.

As a virgin, I can not draw on my vast wealth of seduction history and forge it with my words.

Oh, my God! I've been flirting with a virgin! I've had two virgins in my life. Both of them are very dear to me. The first was my husband and I was a virgin too. The second was a good friend. It was wonderful to be his first and to make it good for him.

If you would like some advice on getting rid of that virginity thing, or if you want some pointers (pun intended) on what to do your first time, PM me.

So any and all words that I might smith into an erotic story, well they are pretty much coming from my own dismal and sardonic imagination.

OK. That makes a big difference. There are some things about women that you can only learn by doing and experimenting. I'm not just talking about sex. I mean how we react to the way men do things.

Other men won't usually tell you because they want to save their own secrets and take women away from you. (OK, maybe that's female ego. I assume that men live to seduce women and that their seduction secrets are their most prized posessions).

Women can't always tell you because there are some things we just don't know about ourselves. I've had sex with other women but I'm not a guy and I can't do it the way a man does. I can't even go down on a woman the way a man does it.

Better example: If I touch a woman's cheek and gently carress it, I won't know what a man sees in her face when he does the exact same thing. A major part of the effect he has on her is in his maleness and I can't duplicate that.

The same is true on me. A woman's touch doesn't do it to me, but a man's...

There is absolutely no substitute for getting intimate with a real woman. When you do, you will learn a lot that you can use in your writing.

Let me see here. Oh yes, I have written two stories thus far and still am waiting for them to get approved, ...

PM me when they're up and I'll give them the bedroom treatment.

so we will just have to see.
I might just fall flat on my sorry looking face too.

Two hints:

1. Being self-effacing (as you were in the last sentence) can be a turn off for a woman. Most of us like strong men who know how to be strong. Self-confidence is more important than an erection. If you haven't got it, you can fake it (unlike erections which you kind of need to have for real).

And now, Angela's helpful hint number 23 for men:

2. When you give a woman oral sex, remember to wash your face really well before going out in public. You might not notice it but your face will smell like pussy, especially if you have a beard.

Before you face another woman, like your mom for example, make sure you take a shower. If a man smells a woman on you, he'll probably give you a high five. If a woman notices that scent... oops!

Mom's have had sex (it's pretty much a requirement for the job) they know.

And you thought you were getting writing advice! (I threw that in because my husband didn't know that when he first went down on me. He was ready to leave my dorm room the next morning and I kissed him goodbye, only to get a face full of my own scent).

Back to the original point: You and I have the same problem. Neither of us has ever been a man seducing a woman. There is only so much that you can learn about women from talking to us. The rest you have to learn by doing.

So go get laid.

 

[angela146]

I am not going to set myself up as an expert or to say my experience is typical, but from my experience here goes

No problem not being an expert. You have a different set of eyes on the same elephant.

My stories are long, typically a lot longer than the lit average. I do include background, I am very concerned with the character's feelings, emotions, and mind set. If you build a tight story with good characters and good plot going long won't hurt you too badly.

OK. I'll try one like that.

You will get low votes and nasty anon feedback from the stroke crowd, but not as much as you would think. If the story is engrossing and the characters are realistic most women will read the story as much for the story as for the sex.

So maybe I put a comment in the beginning saying that there is a lot of setup and emotion in this. That will filter my audience to those who actually like it that way.

The more background you edit, the less interesting the characters become in most cases.

Yes.

Women will read a straight stroke piece on occasion because thats just the mood they are in, but by and large they want a little more than just a couple of sex scenes strung together with transitional segments.

Would you be willing to read a female/female seduction story I wrote and let me know if I'm on the right track? I don't know if you do editing but I'm just looking for a general impression.

There is a difference between writing erotica and porn. Much here at lit is porn, thats what the general demand is for. If you are tailoring your story to a predominantly female audience then you won't go too wrong by including more background, more introspection and taking the time to build characters.

OK. Yes, I feel like I'm writing a novel most of the time and that the sex is only a small part of it, until I do the editing.

Despite what you will feel is way too much, most of my regular readers are very patient. I don't have to have the characters in a hot 69 within two paragrapphs for fear of loosing them

Yup. Most of my experience with story telling has been whispered in my husband's ear. I guess I got used to him saying, "can we get on with it".

best of luck! -Colly

Thank you!

Hmmm... Maybe I should have two version of each story. Sort of like the director's cut with an additional hour of extra material.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I am not much of a copy editor, but I will be happy to give you a general impression

-Colly

 

[JRaven]

Hmmm... Maybe I should have two version of each story. Sort of like the director's cut with an additional hour of extra material. [/B]

More like an extra hour for the rest of us!

 

[rainyguy]

Well let's see if this works. I turned off smart quotes, so this should come through all right.

Hmmmm,
Do I lack in self confidence or have self-esteem issues?
not really, maybe some but their pretty darn miniscule.

don't mistake sardonicism for low self-esteem.

But I do appreciate all and i do mean ALL input. You can never have too much of a woman's opinion I personally think.
Opinionated and stubbornness are rather attractive qualities in women.

I have gleaned much from this thread so far and am looking forward to trying my darnedest to apply it in this little erotica attempt of mine.
If nothing else, it has taaken my mind from other larger writing projects. And of course, distraction from mental quagmires, are at least a change.

 

[JordonLynn]

As a female writer of erotica here at Literotica, I naturally get a lot of feedback from men; most positive, some derogitory and not a little that is racist hatred because I write in the interacial genre. But it is the positive feedback I get from other women that I enjoy most. If they liked it, then I know I did a good job of getting my point across.

Men (whether you want to hear this or not) are fairly easy; get them hard, then get them off, and the quicker the better. Women want to hear less about the graphic details of what transpired and more concerrning the intimate and emotional whys and wherefores of the situation; what led up to a character doing something, why she does it and what she gets out of doing it, then how she feels about what she did or who she did it with.

Get feedback on a story from a woman that goes, "Wow! You told my story... exactly." and you know you've written it correctly.

Well, guess I've put in my two cents worth on this. Hope it helps someone... in some little way.

JL

 

[rainyguy]

Just out of curiosity,
when you read a well written story, lets say for argument an erotic story, what type of an affect does it have on you as a woman?

Does it make you want to read more?
Does it get both your creative juices and actual juices flowing?
Dopes it make you curious about the author?
Does it do something else?

I don't know, I just thought i'd ask.

 

[lunablu69]

the well-written story...

Hi Rainy!

Just from personal experience, I can tell you that a well-written story puts me into sexual heat. I agree with, was it angela146? when she said it had to mess with her mind.

I guess us women are just programmed to not be visual. That's not to say that a good looking guy can't exite us, but to seduce us is a whole 'nother ball game. It really does depend on the individual, their mood, and their environment at the time.

Anyway, before I start rambling, good luck and happy writing!!!

 

[rainyguy]

Well let me just take a second here to address a very important issue.
lunablu69 and anyone else,
PLEASE feel free to babble and or ramble.
It's rather an affliction of mine, so anyone should feel free to ramble away.

I think from what I know of women, and yes, it is very little, but in the story department, I think women want a seduction of words and not so much a blast of hardcore imagery.
I do think it is interesting though. I have read through some stories on here and with in the first few paragraphs, I can tell pretty easily what audience the author had in mind when they wrote their piece.