Why do you write?

[EvelynEden]

I supposes I should be a little more specific,

I want to know why you decided to write erotica- of some description (or non-erotica for those's that focus on that- I'm still interested to find out why and why here)

What was the reason you first started, and why did you continue or, maybe, why did you stop?

I'm always curious about what makes people tick- and this question has niggled at me for a while (my curiosity is a little unrestrained).

Merry Christmas to all who celebrated today (if you celebrate at all), and Merry Christmas to those who still have a lot of celebrating to come, Happy Holidays to the rest!

Thanks again,

Evelyn

 

[macymadison]

I supposes I should be a little more specific,

I want to know why you decided to write erotica- of some description (or non-erotica for those's that focus on that- I'm still interested to find out why and why here)

What was the reason you first started, and why did you continue or, maybe, why did you stop?

I'm always curious about what makes people tick- and this question has niggled at me for a while (my curiosity is a little unrestrained).

Merry Christmas to all who celebrated today (if you celebrate at all), and Merry Christmas to those who still have a lot of celebrating to come, Happy Holidays to the rest!

Thanks again,

Evelyn

I’m a long time lurker on Lit and have just finally decided to start publishing some of my writing here. I first started writing “erotica”, which was always more what I would call smut, because it was the only thing I could start writing and actually finish. Unlike the miscellaneous chapters of other projects that are on my laptop where I write myself into a corner, I can finish a story and feel like I’ve taken that as far as it could go. After I started publishing on Amazon and other smaller sites, then I kept doing it for the money. Then I quit when the money dried up and I realized that I hate writing “romance”. My romance needs dicks in it.

And I’m really enjoying the connection with readers so far with my one story. It’s been a super interesting social experiment.

Hope everyone is having an amazing Christmas.

 

[Maeven_quinn]

I was doing a free writing exercise and two characters started having sex right in front of me.

Learned more about writing and continued to write. Characters keep on having sex.

There are also certain kink fantasy I can't do because I don't have magic. Thankfully, that is not a limitation for characters.

 

[kinkbugs]

Well, someone posted a writing job on a website. I was paid to write adverts for phone sex. There were things like 'next-door neighbours' etc where I had to come up with a scenario to get attention.

The client ghosted me, I got paid for my first week and not the second. But since I was sitting on a few scenarios, I decided like what the heck, why not just flesh it out and go for it?

I usually write gay fanfiction.

 

[awired50]

I started writing to create a pole play scenerio for me and my partner. It evolvedd into documenting sexual rexpereiences and adventures.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I think Dylan Thomas summed it up far better than I possibly could.

In my craft or sullen art

In my craft or sullen art
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But for the common wages
Of their most secret heart.

Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art.

 

[Novengliae2]

I write to feel the connection between characters. Sex is a powerful way to find that connection. It's comforting in a way to experience that through characters. That's a big part of why I am such an unprolific author - I can't just sit down and write something. I have to feel it inside. The post-script at the end of Two Minutes for Every Hour more or less explains.

https://www.literotica.com/s/two-minutes-for-every-hour

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

How on earth - seriously - can adult writing designed for a thinking adult audience today, NOT include absolutely massive amounts of sex in every possible contortion of it??

Every damn bastard in the world in RL already thinks they are the best at sex - TV personalities act as though they are and feign humility that they are not, politicians are caught in sex traps every fucking second, the priesthood is, police are, Hollywood points us to every Wokemon Award-winning template of PC sex there is, and schools have to have courses about STD's.

'Why do you write erotica?'

I don't write erotica - I write the world as I see it.

If I were to write erotica you all would be stunned, and piss yourselves out of fear about people such as I am, and never walk out your door into the public ever again.

I am doing stock standard fiction here because it lets me. Other places have too many constraints to even let me do that.

 

[HeyAll]

I started reading online erotica early in my college days and I really loved how cinematic they could be and really push certain buttons if done/written right.

Some years later I discovered Lit and created the account 'heyall' to view the naked pictures in the forum.

Some years after that, I felt I had some ideas that would make for great erotica. I checked and my 'heyall' account still worked.

I submitted my first story and was surprised by the views and how people enjoyed it.

Since then it became a passion. I love thinking up ideas, the actual writing, the feeling of completion, then seeing it get posted.

I treat it like a job and i work on stories just about every day.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

I read like some people drink - constantly and eclectically. I have run or played in role playing games (Dungeons and Dragons much more than Fifi the Maid) for over a third of a century and counting. I have dug into the myths, legends, and religions of quite a bit (but nowhere nears all of) the world.


In other words, I've given a lot of inputs to my creativity for it to play around with.


From that, I also have this damnably persistent muse sitting somewhere I can't reach who can still poke at me, feed me ideas, spark off others' creativity, and otherwise try to get me to create.


So, in order to shut that bloody noisy-faced muse up, I end up putting stuff down on paper or pixels. It works somewhat, better'n kinetic cranial adjustments or bicep curls for biochemical alteration at least. I keep hoping for a more effective treatment, but .... it is what it is.


It's also neat to share ideas with others and watch them battle their own muses. Schadenfreude, don'tcha know...

 

[JaxRhapsody]

I write.because I like to. Started in high school and english was one of my favorite classes, I saw a movie once and loved it, but one premise and said it would be better if it was like this... and started writing it on my blog. I ran across this site somehow and started writing here. I also want to get where I can publish and make some pocket change. It's part of my plan to be more than a random name you run across here and there online.

 

[SamScribble]

I was a late starter when it came to writing. I must have been almost seven before I wrote a complete sentence. But, once I got going there was no stopping me. I sold my first short story when I was 13, and my first radio play a couple of years later.

At that stage, I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to become an illustrator or a professional musician. I went to talk to the creative head of an advertising agency to find out what it would take to become an illustrator and, over a cup of coffee, he offered me a job as a copywriter. Oh well.

For the next few years, I wrote advertising copy, radio plays, and short stories. And then my agent got me a book deal. To everyone’s surprise, the book was a bit of a success, and suddenly I had a mini-career as a public speaker – both talking about the book and talking about communication in general.

One of the ‘events’ at which I was the guest speaker was a gathering of publishers. One of the women I met there later gave me a stack of erotic paperbacks and said: ‘I think you’d be quite good at writing this stuff.’ And so I gave it a try.

I have had one or two attempts to write porn (which I suspect is what most Lit readers are looking for) and I have failed dismally. But erotica? Yeah, I can do that. Raunchy romance? Yeah, I can do that too.

 

[Cognantreverie]

I write everything. I grew up a shy child and my notebooks and diaries were my real friends. When I discovered sex (late bloomer) my writing reflected what was going on in my life. From there I found myself sharing that bit of writing with a friend of mine and she thought it was good. So I kept writing erotica and the rest is history.

 

[JPGmvny]

I supposes I should be a little more specific,

I want to know why you decided to write erotica- of some description (or non-erotica for those's that focus on that- I'm still interested to find out why and why here)

What was the reason you first started, and why did you continue or, maybe, why did you stop?

I'm always curious about what makes people tick- and this question has niggled at me for a while (my curiosity is a little unrestrained).

Merry Christmas to all who celebrated today (if you celebrate at all), and Merry Christmas to those who still have a lot of celebrating to come, Happy Holidays to the rest!

Thanks again,

Evelyn

I've written songs for years, and many are ballads that tell stories. More recently, I began reading romances on Lit, mostly Lesbian. After communicating with an author I admire, I decided to try my hand. I converted one of my songs into a story and fleshed it out and enjoyed it. I converted a few more stories.

Now it's writing to see what happens with characters.

Erotica? It seemed inherent in my characters' development, a natural part of their relationships. So I write it. I tend to be very slow-build, but I enjoy choreographing the sex scenes. Including erotica allows me to post stories on Lit and get readers. But it's not something to come to my stories for. There are many, many better authors, including HeyAll, for that.

 

[Liethra]

I guess I started to get an outlet for desires that didn't have one. Self-expression, without any intention to show it to anyone.

Then at some point it became a way to connect sexually with people that were otherwise unavailable, in on way or another. Co-writing stories that essentially was doing things by proxy.

Once I started to want to get somewhere with my writing in general, the erotica became a medium for practice, a way to try different things and experiment without the risk of de-railing a running narrative. One-shots or short threads that existed on their own, that focused on things that were fun to write,rather than for a bigger goal.

And now, the erotica is once more a way to give voice to desires that are unrealistic (involving magic or other odd stuff) or unavailable. But it's also become a way to experiment with desire, finding new things about myself and how I relate to things. I have no hopes of 'making it big', so I just try to make the stories I create as hot as possible to write, and with any luck, to read as well.

Also, I can't help myself when it comes to building worlds.

 

[Sonatatre]

One day I went to a website that had erotic stories in my native tongue, and I found that most stories there were really bad. That day I wrote something down to see if I could do better, and even if it was really bad I got positive feedback.
A few years later I started to read on this website, and I found that the competition was much rougher here. Stronger stories and characters, and I decided to change to write in English, and it felt like I had to relearn how to write.

I still think a lot of stories has a low quality, and I want to do better than that, but the reason for writing turned into something else. There are stories in there that have always wanted to come out, and now I have a medium for it. Sometimes those stories become so strong that there is no other choice but to write them.

 

[A_Little_Show]

I have many creative outlets, and this is one of them. I used to read alt.sex.stories as a naive college student way back when. I liked many of the stories I read and thought I might add to the universe's collection of sexy stories.

I'm a closet exhibitionist. It's an awkward place to be. I'm hiding that I want to be seen Writing here exposes my sexy thoughts to you. I fantasize that my stories help you achieve sexual gratification. I get off by getting other people off. This place is a non-stop orgy in that sense for me

If my stories do the trick for you, let me know It might do the trick for me.

 

[eroticstoryspinner]

I write SF and came up with an alt history that involved a road not taken with the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution. I combined that with a writing challenge of trying to write good erotica. Eight stories published and 5 more in various stages. I enjoy it and the AH group is a great way to learn more.

 

[PennameWombat]

I was certain I'd responded to this thread but then I saw this is a new thread. There was an old one but it might've been less specific than your real question. It's somewhere in the forum. Or not. Trusting my memory isn't the way a smart and sentient creature would bet.

My first pieces of erotica were as a junior in high school, a long time ago. A classmate wanted a 'story' for his crush and I'd been known to whip out two, three or four sentence bits of perverted doggerel. The challenge laid, his spec was the one-pager should be what he'd like to do with this young lady. No, he had no idea WHAT that was, that was up to me.

The first piece seemed to go quite well, it was erotic but avoided getting too detailed into specific acts. He urged me to be more explicit in the second. He (and the couple of other people, both, um, straight adolescent males like myself at the time) thought it was great. The object of his desire wasn't so taken.

Oh well.

In the decades since I put little specific effort into erotica or other fiction writing, although I did 'design' some worlds in my head, some of those worlds are being spun out in the stories I've posted here. But my first real 'on paper' erotica after high school was a couple of decades ago when I was in a then-long-distance relationship. I used to write short pieces to, oh, keep the fires lit.

Again, that went into remission as we managed to relocate our lives to be together. After that, I read stories from a few different online sites. I considered contributing but as a rule the sites I saw I, um, had issues with. Many of them made no distinction in 'under 18s' or hell, even any other age limits. Yeah, I know it's fiction, but... some of it made my skin crawl and having my stuff mixed in... Nah.

I only discovered Literotica about 18 months ago. As I wandered through stories I found the forum and then the Authors' Hangout. After lurking anonymously a bit I saw the community was supportive and welcoming. About that time I finally took a six week creative writing course to learn more of the basics. Grammar, vocabulary, I had those. I needed the broader structures. Those tracks combined.

I write erotica because I feel like I can. I'm still learning how to write fiction overall and I find the 'rules' for erotica a bit friendler than other forms of fiction. While the goal is sexual and sensual, if you feel like getting truly down and dirty it's all fair. Category wise you can go anywhere, so while my tendency is toward speculative fiction sorts of areas, that gives me SF&F, NonHuman, Erotic Horror, and such that gives me plenty of latitude. And if I stray, so be it, the site here doesn't care, if it fits in Fetish, it fits there.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

I supposes I should be a little more specific,

I want to know why you decided to write erotica

A) An overactive imagination: either I’m experiencing some form of sexual frustration one way or another that needs to be worked out which cannot, or should not be explored at that time in real life, or
B) as a kind of therapy. I’m more practical than emotional, and writing some more erotic based versions of what’s on my mind will sometimes allow for subconscious details to work their way forward that I wouldn’t allow myself to consider otherwise. Basically, the sexy bits are a distraction to trick my brain into *shudders* feeling.

Whatever the reason as for why, I tend to lose interest in the stories after awhile, and when others stop responding/reacting to them, I’ll pull the stories down when I bore of them completely.

 

[Hypoxia]

I write when I must and when I can. Voices in my head control all that. The rest is gravy.

 

[jehoram]

Two questions here, really.

Why do I write?

Because I like to do it, and feel that I'm pretty good at it.

Why do I write erotica?

Because I want to give people orgasms, and help make their orgasms better. The more orgasms we have and the more orgasms we give other people, the better the world will be.

 

[TeroWright]

I would've been dead in November ('19) if it weren't for writing. It was, and still is, a distraction from anything else I could've done negatively.
Making lasting friendships is more important to me than anything, even sex, and when I couldn't make friends in real life, I made them in writing.

My stories tend to stray away from stereotypes, especially in the Trample fetish community (which I've come to understand is scarce at this forum at best). They aren't everyone's cup of entertainment and it shows. The first parts of my multi-part stories have all the views while the corresponding ones drop off the charts by half, so that tells me no one really cares to finish the first part. Oh well.

What I write saves my life from one day to the next - that's all that matters to me. If more people liked what I like, I probably wouldn't be in the situation I'm in now, but that's not the case. Most likely never will be.

 

[litfan10]

I write when I must and when I can. Voices in my head control all that. The rest is gravy.

Absolutely! I have to write.

If I didn't, the voices in my head would drive me crazy. This has been true my whole life.

Why porn? It's pure fun.

 

[ElectricBlue]

The first parts of my multi-part stories have all the views while the corresponding ones drop off the charts by half, so that tells me no one really cares to finish the first part.

That's typical. It's nothing to do with your fetish, specifically. The same thing happens to most multi-chapter stories - your "readers who will go to the end" can usually be seen around chapters three or four.