What words....?

[deliciously_naughty]

Do you overuse in your stories and what words do you never use?

I overuse cock and pussy

I never use cunt...just don't like it

 

[Guest]

trailed, traced....

The euphemisms for genitalia are almost unavoidable...

I find myself overusing trailed and traced... I have to read for them and substitute... I find the difficulty to be not overusing a word that so perfectly conveys the image.... any other word just seems to fall flat. Trailed and traced describe how I like to touch and be touched, so I "reach" for them often.

-b

 

[M.A.Thompson]

As a lover of women’s legs, all of my stories up to this point have had passages that describe in detail the female characters gams. With at least three new stories on the drawing board, I find I am running out of fresh and creative ways to describe the wonder and beauty of a woman’s lower extremities.

 

[Quasimodem]

"THE"

Whenever I bother running my Grammatik utility, it tells me that:

"Of the last 4 sentences
you have started 10 of them with the word: The."



Within dialogue, my only inhibition is trying not to use a word that would be out of character.

In the narrative, I find I gravitate to a type of word: clinical, common, slang ... and if the story calls for numerous repetitions, do tend to overuse, rather than mix clinical, common and slang terminology together in the same narrator's voice.

Don't know why? Just feels wrong.

 

[wildsweetone]

don't use - 'and'

that's a word i've been told to try to write without. has made for very interesting lessons for me that's for sure.

won't use - 'slut'

cant stand the word, don't believe i ever will stand it either.

 

[gaigirl]

I feel OK with euphemisms for men, but I need more for the genitalia of women that don't crack me up laughing out loud as I write them! How much 'flower of femininity' can a girl take!!!

For wildsweet-- try writing without "but" or any equivalent thereof. That was far more challenging for me than avoiding "and".

 

[TheEarl]

Gently, softly and slowly are always killers in my work. Stroked, caressed and slid usually come second. Oddly enough, I've found that most of my stories use the phrase "waves of pleasure" or "tsunami" when describing orgasms. Must try and cut that out, before somebody else notices.

The Earl

 

[Whispersecret]

Don't cut out 'and." It's a good word, used in moderation. Do try to limit your use of adverbs. For instance, 'trailed his hand along her thigh," implies that it's a slow action, so you don't need to say, "trailed his hand slowly."

I overuse different words in different stories. Sometimes it seems like my brain is only accessing one part of my vocabulary center, and I'll see a preponderance of certain words. Sometimes I will have gone a while between writing periods, and I'll see that because I've forgotten what I wrote before, I'll use the same words, not realizing I've been redundant.

It usually just takes a fresh read or someone else to notice.

Gaigirl, I have a list of erotic synonyms posted. Go to my author's lit page below.

 

[gaigirl]

Gaigirl, I have a list of erotic synonyms posted. Go to my author's lit page below.

Like I said, I find your list of girl words either too clinical, or too just plain wierd. "Cunny?" ya gotta be kidding... not in my lifetime

 

[Godiva_Academy]

Originally posted by gaigirl
"Cunny?" ya gotta be kidding... not im my lifetime

Keep trying, gaigirl.

This is a multi-ethnic, cuni-lingual website.

 

[Cuckolded_BlK_Male]

I am ever so guilty of over-using the words pendulous, impaled, big, distended, areolas, dick, slut, pussy, black, white and ass.

 

[UCE]

Well as for me, I tend to overuse samizdat.

(No, just kidding! I have no idea what words I overuse. Probably because I write slow and with long periods of nothing in-between?)

 

[UCE]

"Cunny?" ya gotta be kidding... not im my lifetime

That one works for me if I'm describing someone quite young, especially someone young referring to her own parts. But my older females, poor things, have to make do with "twat."

 

[wildsweetone]

I feel OK with euphemisms for men, but I need more for the genitalia of women that don't crack me up laughing out loud as I write them! How much 'flower of femininity' can a girl take!!!

For wildsweet-- try writing without "but" or any equivalent thereof. That was far more challenging for me than avoiding "and".

thank you dear. i rarely use 'but'... thesedays anyway. i'm not so sure about the existing stories on Lit, haven't dared to look back at them for quite some time now.

Don't cut out 'and." It's a good word, used in moderation.

ahh whispersecret, first i cut them all out. then i realised how few i did really need. so only the bare essential 'and's get used now

 

[Whispersecret]

I can't help but be a little defensive. Here's the list I have for female body parts:

breasts – boobs, bosom, bristols (Br.), chest, dugs, globes, hooters, jugs, knockers, mammaries, melons, mounds, rack, ta-tas, teats, shelf, stack, tits, zambos

clitoris – bud, bump, bundle of nerves, button, clit, clitty, love bud, nub, nubbin, pearl

nipples – areola, buds, bullets, headlights, nubs, peaks, tips

vagina – beaver, blossom, box, bush, cleft, crease, crevice, crotch, cunny, cunt, fanny (Br.), flower, fuckhole, gash, genitals, glove, hole, mound, muff, opening, quim, slit, snapper, snatch, twat

vaginal lips – creases, folds, labia, lotus blossom, nether lips, petals, privates, vulva (the exterior)

Clinical or weird, eh? Just what words DO you use???

Besides, there are plenty of ways to describe the female genitalia without resorting to direct synonyms. You wouldn't even have to refer to them at all, if you didn't want to, and still get the message across by suggestion.

 

[karmadog]

Do try to limit your use of adverbs. For instance, 'trailed his hand along her thigh," implies that it's a slow action, so you don't need to say, "trailed his hand slowly."

This is great advice, WS. Using an adverb often means you're redundant, or that you've used the wrong verb.

 

[ronde]

WS, I'll add one to your list

I think "coochy" is a cute description of the "gates to heaven", but haven't yet found a way to work it into a story.

 

[Cuckolded_BlK_Male]

I used to know (in the biblical sense) a girl who routinely referred to her vagina as her "cooch-pot." I did everything in my power to discourage her.

Here are some more esoteric euphemisms for vagina:

Coochie (a favorite of 12 year old Black girls)
Cooter
Muff
Fur-Burger
Beaver
Hoo-hoo
Good Thang (also G.T.)
Womanhood
Temple
Secret Garden
Jade Gate ( ... of heaven)
Kitty (Quite popular with the Brothas)
Cat ( Ditto)
Tunnel of Love
Hooch (as in "... You've got the only sweetest thing in the world")
Y-Clef (Not to be confused with guitar playing rapper Wyclef Jean)
Ya Ya
Snatch
Hot Pocket
Bearded Clam
Tuna Taco
Box (also Box Lunch)
Cockpit
Cooze
Sugar Walls
Hair Pie (a personal favorite from my youth)
Poontag
Love Canal (reference to a 1970's ecological nightmare)
Wazoo
Stank Stank
Womb
Nookie
Ill Nana
Punani
quim
honey Pot
Gash
fuck-hole

 

[NaughtyMike]

Do you overuse in your stories and what words do you never use?

I overuse cock and pussy

I never use cunt...just don't like it

I use cunt (Can't Understand Normal Thinking) because my ex-girlfriend hated that word. Besides my main character is a bit crude, ex-navy type and tells the story first person in his own words.

Comes from the fertility goddess Cunti- see Ancient Sex and the Bible in Essay/Review section.

 

[gaigirl]

I can't help but be a little defensive.

Clinical or weird, eh? Just what words DO you use???

no need to be defensive-- obviously this is my problem, not yours. You can't help it if I crack up when I hear "cunny". Could be that I don't like the word cunt, and find it an instant turn off. To me, cunt is a personality, not a body part. "Cunny" sounds like some wierd combination of cunt/honey. A sweet dirty rotten bitch, or something like that. Don['t be defensive-- just call me warped.

What words DO I use? Exactly what drew me to this thread.... that very question.

 

[damppanties]

Its only words...

In the latest story I wrote... I had problem with 'gently'. I can't tell you the number of times I cut it out... it just kept typing itself into every sentence! That was probably because i had an image of someone in my mind when writing that and he would do everything quite gently.

In the story before that I had to check myself not to start sentences with pronouns.

-DP.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Looking through my stories, I notice I frequently use the words hands, glide, nipples, groan, moan, pussy, cock, clit, yes and cum. Then again, I can't see myself describing how a guy licks the girl's pearl just before he shoves his his manlihood into her fur-burger...

 

[Svenskaflicka]

It's also weird how I, who don't really like anal sex, tend to include it in so many of my stories..?

 

[Whispersecret]

Here are some more esoteric euphemisms for vagina:

Coochie (a favorite of 12 year old Black girls)
Cooter
Muff
Fur-Burger
Beaver
Hoo-hoo
Good Thang (also G.T.)
Womanhood...

Oh, yeah. I had a list of like hundreds more euphemisms, but my purpose was to provide a "workable" list, a list of words that people might actually use in a story.

No worries, Gaigirl. You're squeamish and I'm defensive!

 

[Cuckolded_BlK_Male]

What's wrong with cooter? Certainly fur-burger is a viable choice.