Why do you choose to write erotica?

[SimonDoom]

Sometimes I wonder why I write erotica but I don't write other non-erotic fiction. The only fiction I've ever written as an adult, and I've been an adult for a long time, is what I've written for and published here at Literotica. I don't know why. I have worked on some other projects but never followed through and published anything anywhere else.

Erotica is fun, and in a way it's easy. The idea of an erotic experience or situation in a way writes itself. It does for me, anyway. I think up a sexy fun situation, and then I write it until it reaches its climax. Voila, story. It's like a real-life sexual encounter.

Also, it's perfectly OK for an erotic story to be fun and sexy. I like to try to write as well as I can, but I feel no burden to be "literary." It might be different if I was trying to write something to submit to the New Yorker.

Having said that, I DO feel like I've become a better writer since I started here, and that's very satisfying as well.

 

[Carmina24]

Because if I don’t pour these thoughts onto the page, they’ll burn me alive.

 

[OddLove]

Arthur Schopenhauer said something like, 'you are free to act as you desire, but not free to choose what you desire.'

And Eric Cartman always says, 'I do what I want.'

So I write because I want to do what I want.

Maybe with some deep reflection I could convince myself I don't 'want' to write, but I don't want to do that.

 

[Treeview]

Because if I don’t pour these thoughts onto the page, they’ll burn me alive.

now your stories burn up the pages

 

[StillStunned]

I didn't choose erotica, erotica chose me.

 

[TheLobster]

I didn't choose erotica, erotica chose me.

Ask not what Literotica can do for you, but what you can do for Literotica.