What kind of Lit author are you?

[Norajane]

I'm curious what it means to you to write about sex. Do you think of yourself as a writer first and porn/smut/erotica writer second, or vice versa? Do you get the same thrill or challenge or satisfaction out of it now as you did when you first started? Do you think you'll keep doing it?

When I posted my first story on Lit almost two years ago, it was mostly as a lark - I like to write and I'd read some stories on the site, so thought I'd try my hand at writing smut. It was a real challenge at first, and a litle thrilling (ohmygod, am I really trying to describe body parts and cumming and using all those naughty words?!). As I wrote more stories, I quickly realized that, once you get used to the subject matter and dirty words, erotica writing isn't especially different from other writing.

Lately, I've been developing more story in my stories, rather than focusing merely on the sex part, and I think that's likely to keep happening as I'm getting a little bored with 'simply smut'.

The thrill of writing and submitting a new story for Lit hasn't quite been there for me lately, though. I write porn for my SO, and I have fun with that, but I haven't been interested in starting anything new for Lit lately. I'm not sure if I'm just in a rut, or am bored with my own ideas these days, or if the hobby feels more like work than fun. Time will tell.

What about you? Is Lit just a hobby or is sex writing your passion?

 

[CharleyH]

I'm curious what it means to you to write about sex. Do you think of yourself as a writer first and porn/smut/erotica writer second, or vice versa?

I define myself as an erotic writer first. It's what I am best at and I found my niche. I do other writing and yet I am so proud to be an erotic writer that my Gran even knows, although she never understands why I write SMUT! LOL - her concepts are definately different than mine.

Do you get the same thrill or challenge or satisfaction out of it now as you did when you first started? Do you think you'll keep doing it?

I get the same charge, just wish I could talk to someone about it, and I do, but obviously not on the AH where there is little writing or narrative, semiotics to discuss (aside from certain backpage convos). LOL.

Lately, I've been developing more story in my stories, rather than focusing merely on the sex part, and I think that's likely to keep happening as I'm getting a little bored with 'simply smut'.

What dulls you out with smut?

The thrill of writing and submitting a new story for Lit hasn't quite been there for me lately, though.

Why did you write for Lit in the first place? I think I am beyond the why for myself now. Perhaps it is time for a greater venue for you? A better challenge?

 

[onthedf]

I am a horny writer!!!

 

[arienette]

I'm a poet first, then a writer. I've only written one smut story and it wasn't even an all out sex story, it was a tease, just like the title says. I wrote it from (almost) true events, but I first got to thinking about writing smut from Abs, who started me on this board to begin with. I turned 18, ran into her at a grocery store when I was skipping school one day and she told me I had to post here because it was such an amazing place, etc. etc. So to answer the question, I'm a poet then a writer, and I'm not a smut writer yet...Yet is the key word there.

However, I get satisfaction out of writing anything, no matter what it is.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I think of myself primarily as a story teller.

The subject matter is, I hope, stories with erotic content, rather than erotic stories.

The writing is my passion, so I'll keep on. The subject matter is not carve din stone, I will write what sparks me, be it erotic or not.

 

[CharleyH]

I am a horny writer!!!

I guess that makes you GOD! LOL

 

[CharleyH]

I think of myself primarily as a story teller.

The subject matter is, I hope, stories with erotic content, rather than erotic stories.

The writing is my passion, so I'll keep on. The subject matter is not carve din stone, I will write what sparks me, be it erotic or not.

What is your best non-erotic? I am intrigued. . I bet it has erotic elements

 

[Norajane]

I define myself as an erotic writer first. It's what I am best at and I found my niche. I do other writing and yet I am so proud to be an erotic writer that my Gran even knows, although she never understands why I write SMUT! LOL - her concepts are definately different than mine.


I get the same charge, just wish I could talk to someone about it, and I do, but obviously not on the AH where there is little writing or narrative, semiotics to discuss (aside from certain backpage convos). LOL.

What dulls you out with smut?

Why did you write for Lit in the first place? I think I am beyond the why for myself now. Perhaps it is time for a greater venue for you? A better challenge?

Thanks, Charley!

I think there was an illicit thrill for me at first at doing something that seemed a little naughty and unusual, and it was fun because it seemed out of character for me. I like to push my self-imposed boundaries every once in a while, just to shake myself up a bit.

But after doing it for a while, it's hardly pushing the envelope anymore, and seems a little ho-hum. Hardly unusual at all. Granted, it's out of the norm for most people to write about sex, but not anymore for me. Maybe I need to branch out into other categories - my fetish story was a lot of fun to write.

 

[Norajane]

I am a horny writer!!!

Ha! Aren't we all!

 

[rgraham666]

I'm like Colleen. I'm primarily a story teller.

I write stories with erotic content because that's the way my twisted mind works.

Done some non-erotic stuff. I'm not nearly as good at that.

 

[Norajane]

I'm a poet first, then a writer. I've only written one smut story and it wasn't even an all out sex story, it was a tease, just like the title says. I wrote it from (almost) true events, but I first got to thinking about writing smut from Abs, who started me on this board to begin with. I turned 18, ran into her at a grocery store when I was skipping school one day and she told me I had to post here because it was such an amazing place, etc. etc. So to answer the question, I'm a poet then a writer, and I'm not a smut writer yet...Yet is the key word there.

However, I get satisfaction out of writing anything, no matter what it is.

*nods*

Abs is a good bad-influence.

 

[Norajane]

I think of myself primarily as a story teller.

The subject matter is, I hope, stories with erotic content, rather than erotic stories.

The writing is my passion, so I'll keep on. The subject matter is not carve din stone, I will write what sparks me, be it erotic or not.

I'm like Colleen. I'm primarily a story teller.

I write stories with erotic content because that's the way my twisted mind works.

Done some non-erotic stuff. I'm not nearly as good at that.

That's what my last couple of stories have been - stories with erotic content, but the erotic isn't what was driving the story for the most part.

I've been moving toward writing stories with erotic content and away from stories driven by the erotic content. I have been doing a lot more non-erotic writing lately, though, but then I find myself wanting to add sex!

 

[CharleyH]

But after doing it for a while, it's hardly pushing the envelope anymore, and seems a little ho-hum. Hardly unusual at all. Granted, it's out of the norm for most people to write about sex, but not anymore for me. Maybe I need to branch out into other categories - my fetish story was a lot of fun to write.

Well that is why I push my own boundaries. Example: my Tango story was not especially great, but I took a theme - tango -the dance of which I adore - and tried to put it in an erotic story and talk to it sexually the way I view it - that was a challenge. .

 

[rgraham666]

I'm finding I have to challenge myself these days. Do something that isn't quite like anything else.

That's why my output has been so meagre recently. No real challenges.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I'm like Colleen. I'm primarily a story teller.

I write stories with erotic content because that's the way my twisted mind works.

Done some non-erotic stuff. I'm not nearly as good at that.

Same here. Everything I write ends up having sex in it. If I wrote a story about little frontier children, let's face it, it would end up being Little House on the Fucking Prairie.
the frontier children would be 18 years or older of course.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I'm finding I have to challenge myself these days. Do something that isn't quite like anything else.

That's why my output has been so meagre recently. No real challenges.

Curious, have you ever tried to write a novel-length work?

 

[Norajane]

Same here. Everything I write ends up having sex in it. If I wrote a story about little frontier children, let's face it, it would end up being Little House on the Fucking Prairie.
the frontier children would be 18 years or older of course.

LMAO!

So many possibilities - woodsheds, barns, floggings...

 

[CharleyH]

Same here. Everything I write ends up having sex in it. If I wrote a story about little frontier children, let's face it, it would end up being Little House on the Fucking Prairie.
the frontier children would be 18 years or older of course.

ROFLOL - best line in MONTHS bar none! LOL

 

[3113]

Same here. Everything I write ends up having sex in it. If I wrote a story about little frontier children, let's face it, it would end up being Little House on the Fucking Prairie.
the frontier children would be 18 years or older of course.

I see a chain story in the making! Get to work!

 

[rgraham666]

Curious, have you ever tried to write a novel-length work?

I've yet to come up with an idea big enough for a novel.

I've a rather small mind and it tends to come up with small ideas.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I think Nellie Olson takes it up the ass, don't you?


Hi Norajane I'll be good now.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I've yet to come up with an idea big enough for a novel.

I've a rather small mind and it tends to come up with small ideas.

I've read some of your work (not as much as I should but I'm a terrible slacker) and I disagree. If you're looking for a challenge, you can't get much more challenging than that.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I "see" a situation, or I have an insight into a personality, and I want to expand on it. I like to take something big and condense it into a microcosm- a sexual situation makes an excellent vehicle. Lately, the sex has become very difficult to delineate though... even though I know where it goes and what the point is- writing it seems so tedious.
So, I've been writing around it all. And farting around on forums...

 

[carsonshepherd]

writing it seems so tedious.

it does get that way. I try to focus on how the sex drives the plot, that helps.

 

[Norajane]

I think Nellie Olson takes it up the ass, don't you?

Oh, no, not at all - I think Nellie takes control! She's totally a top!

Hi Norajane I'll be good now.

Hi, sweets.

I like it when you're bad.