What's your favorite part to write?

[JeanPanty]

I love writing (and reading for that matter) the scene where the guy slips on panties for the first time. I love describing his mental and physical state as he slips them on.

What's everyone else's favorite part to write?

 

[NuclearFairy]

Banter. It can be pretty hard for me to get it right, but when I do it's just so satisfying to write.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

The denouement. For almost every story, that was the fun part to write.

--Annie

 

[Statius]

I like the banter as well. When you're on a roll and it just flows so naturally from character to character, it's special. Getting the humor in there, snappy short lines, so much fun.

 

[SimonDoom]

I'm not into guys in panties but I get the idea. The "first time" is fun to write. The first time a character crosses a boundary and explores a new kink. That delicious moment of crossing into a new kinky frontier.

 

[NotWise]

The dialog is the fun part. It's also the hard part, but the reward comes when it's done.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Snarky dialog, especially when two or more characters are trying to out snark each other. Then the guy putting on panties, duh!

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I love hypocritical humor, ironic dialogue, and ironic situations. Sarcastic inner thoughts between dialogue as commentary is also pretty fun, as well as characters answering with deadpan sarcasm when they are offended. Social commentary too. I love that.

Foreplay is something that I'm finding a lot of fun with lately, as it's a cool vehicle to establish the top/bottom roles. Reluctant subs are fun and sometimes cute, but bratty subs are just pure chaos, and power bottoms pretending to be subs are fun. Like Simon, I also love the first time, including exploring recently discovered kinks, but I prefer to get the kinks involved at the beginning, on foreplay.

I insist: neckties are pretty cool leashes, forbidden relationships is a concept that's impossible to be bored about, and just satirizing society in general to offend the moralists is just.. chef's kiss. That's why I love writing schoolgirl erotica, even more when people immediately jump into conclusions without realizing that there are schoolgirls written correctly out there. Some of those are even fellow authors!

 

[Rob_Royale]

The moment the characters realize that their attraction/affection is reciprocated.

 

[TheRedChamber]

Honestly, I suspect the first few thousand words are the most fun. You're working out how to grab the reader, showing off your characters interesting traits and generally trying to get your unique selling point across. Fiddly things like progressing the plot or continuity are yet to raise their head.

That may explain why I have so many half-started (not even half-finished) drafts around.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Honestly, I suspect the first few thousand words are the most fun. You're working out how to grab the reader, showing off your characters interesting traits and generally trying to get your unique selling point across. Fiddly things like progressing the plot or continuity are yet to raise their head.

That may explain why I have so many half-started (not even half-finished) drafts around.

James Scott Bell has one interesting suggestion: have a notebook and fill it with opening sentences that you may come up with while waiting on a line for coffee. That way you just drag and drop the sentence onto your project.

i think you'll love that exercise if you have fun writing the beginning of a story.

 

[PennyThompson]

I love writing dialog when the character is working for me.

I love when I can make some silly wordplay or metaphor land, at least for myself if not for other people.

I love writing the moment of ignition for sexual attraction, especially when it isn't instant, when it takes a little while to bloom

 

[DeMont]

I love writing (and reading for that matter) the scene where the guy slips on panties for the first time. I love describing his mental and physical state as he slips them on.

What's everyone else's favorite part to write?

@JeanPanty,
To be quite honest J, ALL of it. The opening, world-building, character development, action, resolution. I actually invest myself in the entire story and try and treat each objective with equal fervour.
Deepest respects,
D.

 

[dirk2024]

I love writing dialog when the character is working for me.

I love when I can make some silly wordplay or metaphor land, at least for myself if not for other people.

I love writing the moment of ignition for sexual attraction, especially when it isn't instant, when it takes a little while to bloom

Yes, I too enjoy entertaining myself when I assemble a line that makes me smile.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I love when I can make some silly wordplay or metaphor land, at least for myself if not for other people.

Puns are my favorite part from Shakespeare. "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man," and then he drops dead.

 

[MrPixel]

Banter. It can be pretty hard for me to get it right, but when I do it's just so satisfying to write.

Yep, banter. It's all about the banter. The FMC and MMC in most of my stories make a real effort to get under each others' skin that way. It's so much fun! (I can picture in my mind the FMC glowering at me right now!)

 

[AchtungNight]

Sex, particularly good sex. People enjoying each other’s company, getting what they want from each other. The hotter, the better.

 

[tammyrose27]

I like building a story line. I find it arousing knowing why my characters feel and do what they do. I think a good story is build on strong character development.

Also developing relationships I agree with others also about banter and friendships.

I'm currently writing and drafting three different series on three different lives. I'm currently integrating all three series.

Yeh a good sex scene is great don't get me wrong but build up to sex is exciting. That's how I love to write.

 

[THBGato]

Oooh. Great thread!
I love writing:

- friends supporting each other scenes
- characters being 'in the zone', doesn't matter what at
- twists
- coming out moments
- public/semi-public declarations of love


Now I wish I had time to write today and not a five hour car drive ahead of me.

 

[StillStunned]

I was going to make a joke about liking the opening most, just look at my WIP folder, haha, but @TheRedChamber beat me to it.

So here's my serious answer. For me, the best bit is about halfway through. I've been pantsing along, and then click! the story suddenly takes shape. I know where it's going, I know how I have to revise what I have, and a new story is born.

 

[dream_yahoozie]

I like writing what I call "The First Taste". Whether it's the first tasting of a kiss, the first taste of genitals on the characters tongues, the first time doing anything sexual.

Just that buildup leading to it, and then describing what happens after. It's like cumming before the cumming happens and I think it's hot.

 

[Statius]

And sometimes, just sometimes you really nail the emotional aspect of a character mixed with imagery in just a few short words. Feels like magic. I have a WIP where a character really went through some stuff, and there's a moment she's walking in the woods and she looks at the sun through the trees and rests her hand on a tree. It's short, sweet, one sentence, and my favorite moment in anything I've written.

 

[Writer61]

For me, it is not a particular piece of writing but the 'a-ha moment' when I find a scene, event, or character that brings the story together.

For example, last night I was working on the outline of a story that I am planning. I realised the plot was too thin and began looking for a way to improve it. The obvious choice was to scrap the story entirely, but it is important in the series arc, so I needed something else. My first idea would have made it a re-run of a previous story, only with a different FMC, so it was no use either.

The answer came to me in the shower 10 minutes ago. Now I am looking forward to writing the story.

 

[redgarters]

When the banter comes together easily, or a character's voice runs naturally from my head to the page, those (too rare) moments always make me happy.

First kisses are a favourite too.

But what gives me the most is writing the heavy emotional moments, the heart wrenching pain, the soul crushing defeats, the inner turmoils, horrible wrong desicions and ugly breakups.

I don't know if 'enjoy' is the right word, because I don't sit there cackling over my characters' misfortunes, it's more likely I'll sit there crying with my MC's. But every bleak moment I write like that carries in it the seed of hope, and that's really what I'm here for. That's where I really get my dopamine rush.

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P.s.: And the guy in panties? Well, duh!

 

[iwatchus]

I think two parts for me, both of which have been said before.

Dialogue in general. If I can't write dialogue with the characters, they aren't real enough yet to write the story. I especially like banter with some teasing in it. ,

And then emotional recognition. I mostly write romance or romance adjacent now. That moment when the character realizes they are in love. My SO complains because I clack on the keys harder typing those scenes because I am so excited. And I cry. But I cry a lot when I write, and not only because the writings so bad.