What's unique or different about your style?

[Altissimus]

What is it about your style that sets you apart from others? The bit that makes your followers come back for more, and recognise you in each new story?

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Apparently, realistic stories about nice people trying out kinky sex in the context of a loving, monogamous relationship. I feel like I wrote the most vanilla of femdom shoe fetish stories, and got a bunch of people going, "Whoa, dude, they like each other? And it's just sex? Never seen that before!" xD

 

[EroticCupcake]

I'm always in danger of over thinking things. What I want out of my writing:

Sex that drives plot / character / tension.

Consequences from sex. Internal and among relationships.

What I am finding so far:
Moments of extreme tenderness mixed with bitter darkness.

People who love / trust / care about each other but aren't guaranteed a happy ever after.

Finding this in my own writing has been my favorite part so far.

 

[Euphony]

Don't think I'm all that unique but I fall into a demographic that is either underrepresented or just stays low key, doing what they do b/c that's just what you do.

I like reverse engineering relationships that shouldn't work. I suppose I'm a couples' therapist for a bunch of fictitious people with way more omniscience and puppet strings to pull.

You've generally got to keep to a hopeful mindset when writing that so the work makes for a good excuse to at least try to stay positive when the world isn't a particularly positive place.

 

[mpeters]

I think part of it for my stories is that I’ve done a lot of writing in the past (non erotica) and writing in first person creates sort of a casual intimacy with the reader. But probably mostly it’s that I’m writing stories based on my own fantasies and they resonate with my readers. I’m assuming the vast majority of them are male, but I’ve received some direct feedback from women who enjoyed them too.

 

[jehoram]

Based on readers' comments:

1. No glaring errors in spelling and grammar
2. Some attention given to emotional attachments outside of pure sex
3. Women calling the shots, mostly

 

[Bamagan]

What is it about your style that sets you apart from others?

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[EroticCupcake]

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Maybe you have a golden ratio of sex and story?

 

[samhasstories]

I'm not really trying to emulate anybody or follow any particular formula, so I hope that brings some uniqueness to my work. But my approach is fairly simple: I try to make my characters come through as real people, and I try to build up some tension before the release. And then when I hit that release I just go for it. That seems to work for some people at least. I certainly enjoy it.

 

[AG31]

What is it about your style that sets you apart from others? The bit that makes your followers come back for more, and recognise you in each new story?

So glad you asked! I think a lot about this because I've discovered that only a very few people like my style well enough to tell me so. I do have fourteen (mostly silent) followers. But in discussions over the last three years I've learned that my niche is quite small, both in content and in style.

The most apt description of my style is, to quote @electricblue66 "with an air of much older erotica (Story of O, obviously)." The first serious critique I got about my first story was to slam it as being "old fashioned." Well, there you go.

To break this style down, it is impersonal. It is not based on relationships. The content is always S&M, otherwise it might be hard to stick with impersonality. I avoid the term BDSM, for its connotations of relationship (trust, aftercare, consent, etc.)

It is what I like to call "pure erotica." That is, every paragraph is in service of arousal, either directly, or clearly leading up to it. I used to say "pure erotica" doesn't attend to plot or character beyond what is necessary for that end. But then I read a story where every paragraph pointed to arousal, but which also created three really vivid personalities. I recommend The meginning of the Madelyn chapters and the following chapters 6 through 10.

 

[AG31]

But probably mostly it’s that I’m writing stories based on my own fantasies and they resonate with my readers.

Me too. I often wonder how common this approach is.

 

[Bamagan]

Maybe you have a golden ratio of sex and story?

Fool's golden ratio, maybe.

 

[samhasstories]

Me too. I often wonder how common this approach is.

well chalk one more up here

 

[ronde]

What is it about your style that sets you apart from others? The bit that makes your followers come back for more, and recognise you in each new story?

I'm showing my age, but I've always loved the short stories in the men's magazines of the post-war years such as "Argosy" and "True". My dad bought and read them and I "borrowed" and also read them. It's that writing that I attempt to emulate. I seem to have found an audience, though I suspect I don't have many young readers among that group. I have attracted more than a few female readers for my romance stories. I think that's because unlike what one might expect, the women in those short stories were beautiful and sensuous, but were also intelligent and brave in most situations.

Those short stories were characterized by strong men and beautiful women in trouble and were usually stories of the war, adventure, or common people forced into uncommon situations. They did have some sex, but at that time, much more than a hint of sex would have run afoul of the laws of the time. As a result, those stories were characterized by well developed characters, solid plots, and usually fairly happy endings. While I'd never put myself in the same group of authors, many well-known authors wrote for those magazines. Examples are Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury and Earl Stanley Gardner.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Shrugs

 

[Bamagan]

Maybe you have a golden ratio of sex and story?

People reading my stuff:

 

[AchtungNight]

Respect for my characters and constructive feedback.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Since I write cuckolding stories, I'm certain there is nothing unique about my work.

 

[StillStunned]

I like to think that I have a completely unique style that mesmerises readers, leaves them with profound insights and makes them better people.

So far no-one has confirmed this, though. So I'll just keep writing a variety of different stories and styles as the fancy takes me.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I don't have many constants in my writing. Not always first person or third. No specific kink, no set category, no particular genre. I mix things up. I used to have a twist in every story until I wrote one with a twist, and the comment was, "This time, your twist was there was no twist." I like mixing things up a lot. I'm a little upset that two of my "Just a Friendly Series" stories about transgdered people were trans-dominatrixes in a row.

 

[ElectricBlue]

What is it about your style that sets you apart from others? The bit that makes your followers come back for more, and recognise you in each new story?

Long, slow, languorous descriptions of two, sometimes three characters, usually starting in a café, in the street. Strangers who slowly become intimate as they get to know each other, leading up to graphic, sometimes pornographic, sex.

My stories have been described as long, meandering rivers that eventually get to the ocean; being told next to a crackling log fireplace with a whiskey in your hand; small, intimate movies.

My stories arouse both men and women to orgasm, and several have thanked me for that. That's possibly the main reason readers come back. I'm reliable .

 

[Stimtheone]

I haven't received exact feedback on what might be liked by readers, but if I had to think on what really sets me apart...

Casual sex world - I am in love with this concept and try to write things where such a subject is approached in a wholesome way.
Mildly Lemony Narrator - The descriptions are most of the time quite objective until the description makes a joke and takes you by surprise
Constructed World - Okay, most people have this, but in making a Sci-fi world I went as far as to think how their economy works
Relatively wholesome - There be no cheating or malicious cucking in my stories. Yes, there are instances of non-sexual violence upon some designated evil people, but some might argue that is also wholesome
Everyone's a bisexual - Often times I am almost put off by how men in sexual situations treat it like they're at a urinal together. Here, we don't have just women going at each other, but men too. Though straight sex is still the vast majority. I like to think of this small flexibility grants something else.

 

[Pabiporffor]

My characters often exist in a world where sex is slightly more open than the real one. Not quite "free use" more "half price". People aren't having orgies in their front gardens, but neither are they shy about telling their grannies they're off to one. It's a world where the plumber isn't going to bang the bored house wife like in porn but he might consider it if she throws in tea and biscuits.

 

[StillStunned]

My characters often exist in a world where sex is slightly more open than the real one. Not quite "free use" more "half price". People aren't having orgies in their front gardens, but neither are they shy about telling their grannies they're off to one. It's a world where the plumber isn't going to bang the bored house wife like in porn but he might consider it if she throws in tea and biscuits.

Well, for tea and biscuits, who wouldn't?

 

[lovecraft68]

Honestly?

Nothing.

I'm a very basic story teller. I suppose if I needed to describe it, maybe conversational? An easy read? Other than hoping to tell a good story I don't try for anything. I don't try to emulate anything, or try my hand at such and such tense or style. I don't complicate my writing in anyway. I'm so simple when it comes to writing(Just writing LC? Hahahah) that I get feedback saying "great use of this that and the other thing" and I have no idea what they mean and if whatever it was is there, it was unintentional.

A few years back there was an author-and one who posted to the forums for a spell-named Second circle. One of the literary erotica type writers and in his posts you could tell a person who was a deep thinker and really picked stories apart for both the bad and good. He told me once in a PM reading my stories reminded him of sitting in an old favorite recliner, just relaxing and listening to an old friend tell him a story.

I took it as a compliment because I've never felt reading a story-especially erotica should be some kind of scholastic challenge. The Kiss principle to the max