What is your motivation to write?

[hottchic]

Previously if I had been asked this question I would probably have said, I just write stories because I like writing them, particularly in the case of erotic stories, fleshing out fantasies and getting them written down is like a form of making them more real.

However now when I think about it, I think there is something more. I have a desire to if only for a small while pull the reader into the stories I write about. And I find that the stories that pull me in, are stories where the emotions of the characters come across so that I can really identify emotionally.

So in a nutshell that is what I try to do with my stories. As I said in a comment to somebody, for an erotic story to be arousing to me the emotional lives of the participants. A pure description of the physical act does not do it for me.

 

[Boxlicker101]

When I started writing smut, which was a few months before I became a member of Literotica, I hoped the stories might somehow lead to affairs with some of the women I sent them to. They didn't, but I enjoyed writing them for their own sake.

One of the women I was sending them to suggested Literotica, and I came here and looked over the site and decided it looked like fun. That was over eight years ago, and I was right; it was and is fun.

Now, I write dirty stories for that reason, and because I have hopes of making money out of them. I make some money now, but I have hopes of making more in the future. Besides, I believe I do it well, within my own limits. I write smut, and seldom make any effort to do any more than that.

I don't ever expect to be nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Literature or to win an O Henry award, but I don't care about that. I just like to write smut, and my greatest reward for that is to get an email from a woman telling me how wet she got, or how she got her vibe going before she was half through, or other remarks of that sort. I also like getting comments in the same vein from men, but I prefer getting them from women, because I try to write for women more than for men.

 

[lovecraft68]

Previously if I had been asked this question I would probably have said, I just write stories because I like writing them, particularly in the case of erotic stories, fleshing out fantasies and getting them written down is like a form of making them more real.

However now when I think about it, I think there is something more. I have a desire to if only for a small while pull the reader into the stories I write about. And I find that the stories that pull me in, are stories where the emotions of the characters come across so that I can really identify emotionally.

So in a nutshell that is what I try to do with my stories. As I said in a comment to somebody, for an erotic story to be arousing to me the emotional lives of the participants. A pure description of the physical act does not do it for me.

I wanted to write since high school and had some aptitude for it. I then quit school and took a bunch of wrong turns and had some issues coping with life in general. I wanted to start a couple of years ago and had no idea where to begin. I had always been a horror fan but that genre did not seem to interest me writing wise.

My wife and I like to role play and one day I had a good idea for one but she was away on business. I didn't want to "lose it" so for the hell of it sat down and wrote it out as if I were scripting it. I had fun with it and it came out better than I thought. I tweaked it and it became my first story here "Almost Perfect"

I wrote more and in the beginning all for fun. I then started my SWB series which although very much "glorified or exaggerated" to fit a porn site is based on some real life experiences I shared with a woman who was very close to me. (not a real sister so don't get crazy on me here) as I started mixing in more real emotion and events with all the fictional things I realize that I was bringing up some painful memories but also felt as if I were "exorcising" myself as I write it and it has become a sort of therapy for me.

 

[hottchic]

@Boxlicker,

Funny that you should mention using your stories to try to get women interested in you. I wrote my first published erotic story 'Fiona and Ariel' on a networking site in part to really turn on a woman who I had been chatting on-line with. One of the two main characters was based on her.

In the case of this woman, when I wrote this story our on-line relationship had already progressed a long way but needless to say she loved it along with other people.

@Lovecraft,

Sooo I am interested, did you ever play out that roleplay with your wife when she returned?

 

[MarlowBunny]

My future wife used to print the alt.sex.stories usenet news group at work and bring the stories home for us to read together. We were young adults and easily titillated. However, for the most part, the writing was atrocious.

I thought I could do better or at least focus narrowly on topics that aroused me. I started writing for myself because I got a boner while I did it. If I was lucky, my wife might enjoy a story too.

Remember, the Internet was dial-up and the web didn't exist yet. This was 1991. Porn still came in magazines back then. In fact, my father wrote fetish porn for pulp magazines.

I never attempted to expose my stories until last year. My father and I went on a two week cruise to Alaska. I missed my wife tremendously and wrote a couple of stories to manage my frustration. I let my dad read them and crossed a personal psychological boundary. It was OK if other people read them. (Dad, if you are reading this - thanks.)

 

[lovecraft68]

@Boxlicker,

Funny that you should mention using your stories to try to get women interested in you. I wrote my first published erotic story 'Fiona and Ariel' on a networking site in part to really turn on a woman who I had been chatting on-line with. One of the two main characters was based on her.

In the case of this woman, when I wrote this story our on-line relationship had already progressed a long way but needless to say she loved it along with other people.

@Lovecraft,

Sooo I am interested, did you ever play out that roleplay with your wife when she returned?

Yes and I think she enjoyed it waaay to much.

 

[Guest]

a lot of reasons

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[jolenekendry]

Hi! First post, new here.

I write because I need to. I've been writing for about twenty years now, and I've taken breaks to turn my attentions to other art forms when it looked like I was never going to succeed. I always come back. No matter how wonderful it felt to paint, no matter how fun it was to solder stained-glass into crazy sculptures, when I sit down to write everything else feels like foolish time-wasting that gets washed away. It just feels like my true calling, whether I'm writing horror, fantasy, YA or erotica, it's the act of writing that matters.

 

[MarlowBunny]

Hi! First post, new here.

I write because I need to. I've been writing for about twenty years now, and I've taken breaks to turn my attentions to other art forms when it looked like I was never going to succeed. I always come back. No matter how wonderful it felt to paint, no matter how fun it was to solder stained-glass into crazy sculptures, when I sit down to write everything else feels like foolish time-wasting that gets washed away. It just feels like my true calling, whether I'm writing horror, fantasy, YA or erotica, it's the act of writing that matters.

Creative outlets are necessary for sanity. When I have opportunities for creativity in my work, I write and paint less. I program by day, and I find that creative. Writing business white papers and contract elements can be creative too. Endless meetings, stupid marketing trips, and rewriting the same presentation the 100th time for a new boss tarnishes my soul.

Regarding your interests: It's a small world. I also create with stained glass and build architectural models.

 

[estragon]

I write because I have to write. I started in high school. I wasn't good enough and knew I'd never be good enough, so I quit writing. Mistake. Now I write because, as Bob Dylan said "It's all right, Ma, I have nothing more to live up to."

 

[jolenekendry]

Really! What kind of work do you do? I upcycle the glass scraps of other artists into asymmetrical sculptures, and rarely is my solder smooth. Love digging through the scraps (carefully of course) to find pieces that *almost* fit. I haven't touched it in quite a while now but I do cherish the pieces I've finished.

Also the smell of the iron always makes me wish I had a giant workshop, a junkyard of metal scraps, and a blowtorch. My creative drive is convinced that bigger is better.

 

[MarlowBunny]

Really! What kind of work do you do? I upcycle the glass scraps of other artists into asymmetrical sculptures, and rarely is my solder smooth. Love digging through the scraps (carefully of course) to find pieces that *almost* fit. I haven't touched it in quite a while now but I do cherish the pieces I've finished.

Also the smell of the iron always makes me wish I had a giant workshop, a junkyard of metal scraps, and a blowtorch. My creative drive is convinced that bigger is better.

The stained glass is a hobby. I make large window inserts for friends and for rehab projects. Actually, my wife makes them, but I help with design, glass selection, and soldering. She cuts all the glass and grinds the edges. She also cuts and bends the frames. It's a collaboration.

My work: I just quit a senior management position at a very large company to start my own software business. It's my second business. I ran my first for nine years and sold it to a large company in 2002. I am one of the world's foremost experts in my little niche (which has grown a lot lately). I also earn money from my books and conferences. I hope to start teaching a college course soon.

Regarding your profile: How to you manage to travel and where do you go? I have to admire a gal who owns more bikini's that teeshirts, and I will buy sea food for almost any gal who wears bikinis PM me if you are interested in chatting. I don't want to bore the other readers here

I also have a soft spot for surfer girls. When I was a teen on family vacation, a young lady from Boston took pity on me and spent the day teaching me to surf in the swells of Maine.

 

[Kurokami]

Why do I write? Oh man...

The short answer is because I love writing. No matter the genre, the type, the length... When I'm writing nothing else seems to matter at all. It's been this way since I was a kid, where I would escape into writing to avoid having to deal with my father. It's since become way harder to do- I'm now blind in one eye and working around a hand that is completely, permanently numb- but no matter what else I learn, I always come back to writing.

On a happier note, I've found another reason to write- specifically for Lit- in my girlfriend. I can generally tell if a story I've posted is any good by just how hard she tugs me through to the bedroom after she's read it. Good woman, that one

 

[IckDarknest]

Heya. First time poster here. My stories aren't on literotica, because I cannot for the life of me figure out where in the category system they would go. Anyway.

I write because I hope that what I write will emotionally, in any way, affect the people who read it. Whether that emotion is lust or something else doesn't really matter. I also write because I discovered that people like it, and, naturally, I like when people say something I did was good.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The law and psychology got me interested in writing. Both endeavors require the actor to shape and influence people's opinions and deeds, and the better your skills the better the results. That is, good writing skills remove the math homework from understanding.

 

[Sidney_1]

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[Boxlicker101]

Heya. First time poster here. My stories aren't on literotica, because I cannot for the life of me figure out where in the category system they would go. Anyway.

I write because I hope that what I write will emotionally, in any way, affect the people who read it. Whether that emotion is lust or something else doesn't really matter. I also write because I discovered that people like it, and, naturally, I like when people say something I did was good.

Welcome to Literotica and the AH. If you have problems deciding on category, you can write a short description and post it on this forum, and the other authors here will povide suggestions.

Besides, the authors' suggestions for category are just suggestions. Management will post the story in the category they consider best for it, whether it is where the author wants it or not.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Writing is a major part of my occupation. I have been doing it professionally for almost 25 years.

Writing erotica--or porn, to be more accurate--started as an outlet for my exhibitionistic tendencies. The earliest stories I submitted to Lit., as well as another dozen or so that I did not submit, were true or mostly true stories based upon my real life adventures.

Reading a few very well written stories by other authors on this site inspired me to become more ambitious with my own stories. Now, instead of merely regaling the audience with my own exploits, I am attempting to become a better writer of erotic fiction. For me, each new story is part of the process of becoming a better writer.

 

[jomar]

Why do I write? You might as well ask why do I eat? Why do I breathe? Because writing is in my soul, it's who I am and...

No?

Wait a sec...

Okay, so I like a good wanker. Sue me.

 

[Mrtouf]

Writing is a way of expressing ideas instead of having them bounce around inside my head.

To a certain extent I can bring some order to those ideas before committing them to the page, but seeing the words helps the process along.

 

[Athalia]

I started writing erotica as a way of re-inventing myself, and giving myself the character traits and childhood that I wish I'd had. When I write a character, I give her (or, more seldom, him) the opportunity to do what I couldn't do or can't do, and vicariously live through those experiences through her perspective. Yeah, it's fantasy. My characters are as self-assured and powerful as I was self-doubting and powerless in real life. But over the years, I think a little of them has rubbed off on me, and that was the point.

 

[TxRad]

To get the story out of my head with the hope that someone else will like it also.

Actually, the last part of that was a come on to get you to read my stuff.

But i do have to get it out of my head. Over crowding ya know.

 

[MarlowBunny]

I started writing erotica as a way of re-inventing myself, and giving myself the character traits and childhood that I wish I'd had. When I write a character, I give her (or, more seldom, him) the opportunity to do what I couldn't do or can't do, and vicariously live through those experiences through her perspective. Yeah, it's fantasy. My characters are as self-assured and powerful as I was self-doubting and powerless in real life. But over the years, I think a little of them has rubbed off on me, and that was the point.

Wow. I have the opposite experience. I used to be cocky and self assured. I started writing much more as my self confidence declined. I reached for erotica to provide a glimmer of my past (self evaluated) sexual prowess. My theory was that writing is only possible as testosterone declines, but maybe I have it wrong

I think most writers are miserable or are familiar with misery. Do we have to suffer for our art Is it just a coincidence? I guess my sample size is too small to make a good guess.

 

[TxRad]

Wow. I have the opposite experience. I used to be cocky and self assured. I started writing much more as my self confidence declined. I reached for erotica to provide a glimmer of my past (self evaluated) sexual prowess. My theory was that writing is only possible as testosterone declines, but maybe I have it wrong

I think most writers are miserable or are familiar with misery. Do we have to suffer for our art Is it just a coincidence? I guess my sample size is too small to make a good guess.

Only when you get older do you start to get anything to really say. Experience is as experience does. The dreams and fantasies of a twenty year old are far different from the dreams and fantasies of a forty year old. Erotica matures.

Now there is a concept for ya. Maybe that is the difference between porn and erotica. Maybe not.

 

[jehoram]

Well, I was a writer (mostly technical writing) before I started writing porn. After discovering this and other sites, I realized that there seemed to be a dearth of the sort of porn that I like to read (not to put other writers down). So, on a lark, I tried writing a few of the stories that I'd like to see, and posted them. The response was encouraging, so I wrote a few more, and that's how I became the universally respected porn writer I am today.

Seriously, I find it helps me re-focus on my other writing if I can do a little writing just for fun once in a while.