What I WON'T write

[romancer]

I realize they're minor, but I won't use present tense to cover past events (doesn't work for me as a reader either), I don't write in the 2nd person (unconvincing) I'll never describe an erection as "rock hard," (how overused can you get?!), and I won't violate any religious (mine or others') blasphemy rules. Do you have similar strictures?

 

[intim8]

I won't use present tense to cover past events (doesn't work for me as a reader either)

I call it "History Channel tense". I despise it.

It's hard to think of specific things I won't write, partly because those are things I don't have to remind myself not to write. They just are, I don't consciously think of them.

Gimme a minnit.... OK, I won't write an irredeemably broken character from their POV, unless it is very clearly the villian of the story, and then sparingly and in unsympathetic terms.

 

[KeithD]

Water sports (although I have a couple of times).

 

[Yarglenurp]

Parental incest... The thought makes me want to vomit.

Fan fiction or other fiction set in an existing IP universe... the thought makes me want to vomit.

Scatology or scat-adjacent... the thought makes me want to vomit. Exception for fresh urine, since that's actually pretty clean.

Sexual vomit stuff... the thought makes me want to vomit.

 

[Britva415]

I won't write a request.

 

[VallesMarineris]

I won’t spell the common slang for semen as ‘cum’. Although I will use ‘cumslut’; ‘comeslut’ just doesn’t look right.

I won’t ever write (or say) “very unique”. It’s like saying “very dead”. Just makes no sense.

I won’t ever write a list without using an Oxford comma. It’s just science.

I’ll never write about farts as erotic. Total turn off. Ditto feces play.

I’ll never write “The proof is in the pudding.” It demonstrates sloppy thinking.

I’ll never write an incest story. I’ve never had the slightest attraction to any of my relatives, so that whole category is a dead zone for me.

 

[TheLobster]

I'm pretty sure I won't ever write actual non-consent, where the victim is definitely not into the aggressor.

The closest I could get would be both parties actually being into each other but the "victim" one resisting for social or other similar reasons (e.g. female teacher trying to rebuff aggressive advances of a male student whom she's secretly into).

 

[pink_silk_glove]

and I won't violate any religious (mine or others') blasphemy rules.

Everything that we write here violates someone's dogma.

For me, celeb. Never. It's just way to disrespectful.

 

[MrPixel]

I'll never write historical or sci-fi. Simply not in my wheelhouse. Nor fan-fic.

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

No penetration of orifices other than the vagina with the qualified exception of blowjobs.

 

[nice90sguy]

Nothing is out of bounds for me as a writer, grammatically, stylistically, or in choice of subject. I have my preferences, but no red lines.

 

[SimonDoom]

Mimes.

 

[lovecraft68]

Mimes.

The dialogue would be easy at least.

 

[lovecraft68]

Flat out non con (I have written some dub-con)

Non Human-because in my mind its just poorly disguised beastie and the denial of that by the categories readers and authors is childish, own your kink.

Interracial in the sense of fetishizing someone's ethnicity. I have written interracial pairings, but only in the sense of two characters hooking up that happen to be of different ethnic groups.

Burn the bitch. I'd quit writing before I'd delve into that pool of the lowest form of man in the entire writing genre.

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

I won't write anything sci Fi.
I will not write Mom and son.,
No scat or vomit..

 

[Erozetta]

There was a time when I said I'd never write in 2nd person, I'd never write to my own kinks, and I'd never write anything to go in audio...

I recently wrote a 2nd person story that is just a play on my own kinks from start to finish that I've been thinking of recording and putting in audio.

At this point, I'm gonna say that I don't think there's anything I won't write if I can see the story and think I'll do it justice. Whether or not I show that writing to anyone is another story.

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

I call it "History Channel tense". I despise it.

What?

Oof, do I even want to know?

(Having not watched it since the Modern Marvels era, and not being overly happy with it even back then.)

 

[Agent0069]

Oh no, what is wrong with use of “rock hard”?

I join the “no scat and vomit” gang.

What I don’t get is the celebrity and fanfic category - the “fan fiction” because why would you write something in already established universe when you could create your own (except when you do it Harry Potter and Methods of Rationality way, I suppose?), and celebrity is just sad.

Then again, maybe I could write a story about our mayor getting fucked and peed on by every single citizen of a city, but it would not pass literotica rules, so I’d just send it straight to mayor instead…

 

[StillStunned]

I won't write first person present tense.
I won't write vampires.
I won't write second person POV.

Oh, wait...

(What I'm implying is that hard and fast rules can be broken if I think of an interesting enough concept.)

 

[lovecraft68]

Oh no, what is wrong with use of “rock hard”?

I join the “no scat and vomit” gang.

What I don’t get is the celebrity and fanfic category - the “fan fiction” because why would you write something in already established universe when you could create your own (except when you do it Harry Potter and Methods of Rationality way, I suppose?), and celebrity is just sad.

Then again, maybe I could write a story about our mayor getting fucked and peed on by every single citizen of a city, but it would not pass literotica rules, so I’d just send it straight to mayor instead…

I don't have an issue with 'rock hard' Granted, its a "porny' term, but...what are we writing here? Sometimes you just have to concede being a snob and go with the classics.

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

No penetration of orifices other than the vagina with the qualified exception of blowjobs.

Cunnilingus is the only "won't make a baby"-style sex act that I'm ever likely to write. I don't oppose any other kinds, they just don't at all interest me.

I suppose the only really hard no's I have are sibling-sibling incest, parent-child incest, and student-teacher relations. The rest are all probably nots, but I suppose anything can happen.

 

[lovecraft68]

I won't write first person present tense.
I won't write vampires.
I won't write second person POV.

Oh, wait...

(What I'm implying is that hard and fast rules can be broken if I think of an interesting enough concept.)

I started writing in first person, going with the concept of it working for erotica because it puts the reader in the action "I" becomes them.
But at the same time I had started my first novel-also erotic, but more serious-and was doing that in third because there were multiple characters and how can one have a secret from the reader if we're always in their head?

I gave up on first years ago and figured I wouldn't go back. But to the point of the last part of your post, I came up with an idea for a "Taboo confessions" web site where people would anonymously tell their stories of an incestuous encounter, and realized first person would be perfect for that because it would be written that way as a confession. So, certainly a specific idea could change how I see some of my will and won't attitudes.

 

[orangecurious]

Everything that we write here violates someone's dogma.

For me, celeb. Never. It's just way to disrespectful.

This

also, naming real people. Base something on them, yes. do that and use their name in fiction. No.

otherwise, write.

 

[AlinaX]

I'm quite fond of my Ryan Reynolds story.

 

[SimonDoom]

A nice married couple having missionary-style intercourse on a pleasant Sunday morning.