Writerly question! lol. :)

[EmeraldKitten]

Okay. So, we're deviants and we write smut.
How turned on do you get when you're writing?
Does the material matter?
(Obviously you probably aren't going to write something that doesn't excite you.)

I ask because I was writing and I am about to go get my boyfriend and throw him
down and have my wicked way with him.

Now, the downside of this~ once I go through and edit and re-read and edit some
more, I am so damn sick of reading it that I hope to never see it again, lol.
Does that happen to you guys too?

But for now~ I can't stop listening to this song, http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luGjP5HjRPM&feature=related
and I think I need a break from writing.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

No.....

 

[MatthewVett]

I usually get excited while writing. If I'm writing for a while, I usually take a break to orgasm, otherwise I'm too distracted to write well. On the flip side, I wait as long as I can, because I like having the additional passion and imagination.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Sometimes. Usually, while writing the scene(s) kind of, but I'm usually so involved in the plot...if there is any...that I don't get all that excited.

Now on the re-read (editing) that's when what I have written has its full impact.

It doesn't matter how many times I read the story...it always turns me on, if it didn't then I wouldn't have written the damn thing.

 

[lovecraft68]

I get very caught up as I am writing a sex scene especially it is a bit on the hardcore BDSM variety. I end up typing it out so fast that there isa typo in every other word because I am rushing through to get to the characters climax so i can go get to my own.

Then when I go back to it and start fixing all the mistakes it sort of becomes work and it loses all appeal. I'm turned on by writing it but afterwards nothing.

There is one exception to that. The scene I wrote for the first time the two characters have sex get me going all the time even though at this point I've read it 20 times and know what's going to happen. Either I was really on that day or it's just the general scenario.

To me the true indicator of how effective the scene is comes when I let the better half read it. If I have a hard time getting up the next morning it was a really good one.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

Thanks for the input.

I think the first read once it's written turns me on too.. well, maybe the first couple.
But after that, it's like... I'm looking at it too technically or something.
And I was being slightly dramatic... I do want to read it again.. just not for a while.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

Thanks for the input.

I think the first read once it's written turns me on too.. well, maybe the first couple.
But after that, it's like... I'm looking at it too technically or something.
And I was being slightly dramatic... I do want to read it again.. just not for a while.

I'm the opposite, I think. The first few reads are terrible; when I write, I can't stop to think about word choice or pace, and pace is a huge thing for me when it comes to being turned on. In those first few reads, I obsess over every word and play with punctuation to get the right flow. It's a frustrating process.

It only gets good after three or four rounds of editing. After that, I have to edit the non-sex and sex parts of the story separately. If I start from the beginning and read it all the way through, I get too distracted with the sex to look at it with a critical eye. By the time it's ready, I love it, and yes, it turns me on.

However, once it's up, I can't look at it. Running across a single word that I don't think is right or finding a tiny typo ruins the mood, and when we're talking thousands of words, there will always be one imperfect word or a typo. I'm a perfectionist, and knowing that I produced something with a mistake makes me feel like crap.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I naturally dissociate from intense situations. Its something I learned to do in Vietnam where intensity was common. You simply cannot function with 5 Alarm feelings rocking your world. So your mind turns the feelings off so you can observe and think and act.

 

[lovecraft68]

I naturally dissociate from intense situations. Its something I learned to do in Vietnam where intensity was common. You simply cannot function with 5 Alarm feelings rocking your world. So your mind turns the feelings off so you can observe and think and act.

It's not just disassociation in your case. I would imagine it also falls under perspective. Having gone through Vietnam I would think getting flustered over a chapter just wouldn't happen.

I on the other hand go through life completely apathetic feeling little emotion and letting even less show. My writing is where I let myself feel intense where the emotions fly, and in my case anyway, lend to the feel of the story. Below is a feedback I received after I think maybe chapter three of my series.

"Sibs with Benefits; too dark, too close to reality in its starkness and suffering. I.E. maybe well written but certainly no longer erotic and indeed not something I wish to read in full."

Kind of a negative remark but I love it and it is posted on my vision board. It was what i was aiming for and to me, to garner that response emotion needs to be let into the writing. Old pain used to positive effect can deliver very powerful results.

Just my take and I suppose it depends what one is writing. No room for emotion in most non fiction works.

 

[Fyrewing]

Okay. So, we're deviants and we write smut.
How turned on do you get when you're writing?
Does the material matter?

Usually, "very" is the correct answer. I'm overhauling a fantasy piece that I think may have gone astray, so I am "gettin' technical widdit" and shutting down my more...visceral responses in order to deal with the writing structure.

I don't write what excites me - I write what *has excited* me. As an inspector, I spend a *lot* of my workdays with idle brain-time as I walk around the sites or drive to and from work (1.5hr each way currently) and I frequently put that time to work fantasizing about sex. When I run into a "really good'un," I try and write it down later. I spend time replaying it over and over in my head during the idle-times until the pieces all fit together and by the time I have a chance to sit and write, the bloody thing is already well into the third major revision! And still exciting! w00t!!

I guess the material matters, since if it turns me on, I write it (assuming I feel it is worth it). I don't sit around watching construction workers on scaffolding, dreaming up erotic stories about them just to dream up an erotic story on a subject that doesn't intrigue me...

 

[PennLady]

I think, like LfTatyana, a sex scene might excite me after it's done. I find it so difficult to put something a little different into each one that it takes away from any real excitement. On the other hand, sometimes if I know what I want it to say, or am invested in the characters more, then when it's all done I'll be ready for some foolin' around with the hub that night.

 

[WithAuthority]

I'm not a one-handed finger pecker because I prefer to type that way. (Sorry, but I just can't bring myself to use "keyboard" as a verb, for those kids who are puzzled by my word choice.)

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It's not just disassociation in your case. I would imagine it also falls under perspective. Having gone through Vietnam I would think getting flustered over a chapter just wouldn't happen.

I on the other hand go through life completely apathetic feeling little emotion and letting even less show. My writing is where I let myself feel intense where the emotions fly, and in my case anyway, lend to the feel of the story. Below is a feedback I received after I think maybe chapter three of my series.

"Sibs with Benefits; too dark, too close to reality in its starkness and suffering. I.E. maybe well written but certainly no longer erotic and indeed not something I wish to read in full."

Kind of a negative remark but I love it and it is posted on my vision board. It was what i was aiming for and to me, to garner that response emotion needs to be let into the writing. Old pain used to positive effect can deliver very powerful results.

Just my take and I suppose it depends what one is writing. No room for emotion in most non fiction works.

Vietnam taught me to ignore the small shit and the big shit
that lands elsewhere. You truly learn to discard the luxuries and non-essentials, and intense feelings is a monkey you dont wanna carry around in your pack. Even your fucking is affected, and after a while its pared down to an erection, thrusting, and discharge.

 

[Fyrewing]

after a while its pared down to an erection, thrusting, and discharge.

Apparently, for some women (ok, one specific woman with whom I am intimately acquainted), menopause = Viet Nam.

 

[yuna1981]

My writing is hottest when I am already turned on, and can tune into and in the process amplify it... sometimes I like to write more plot driven things when I'm not aroused, so I can concentrate and it isn't sex sex sex 100% of the time. Just 98% of the time.

 

[SamScribble]

'Obviously you probably aren't going to write something that doesn't excite you.'

Well, in my case, I’m probably not going to write something that doesn’t excite my character. Whether it excites me or not is somewhat beside the point.

If I can write a character that a couple of people, ten people, 50 people, relate to and empathise with, then we’re well on the way to ‘job done’.

And, of course, there is satisfaction to be had from making that happen. (That can be very exciting. Trust me.)

Personally, I find that thinking about what my characters are going to get up to is a lot more ‘stimulating’ than reading what I have written. Hey, by then, I knew it was going to happen. Exciting? I hope so. Surprising? Not really. But maybe that’s my problem.

Too many summers? Quite possibly.

 

[jehoram]

Okay. So, we're deviants and we write smut.
How turned on do you get when you're writing?

That's a good question.

I usually get aroused when I'm planning the story, experimenting with scenarios, figuring out the dynamics. That often leads to masturbation and orgasm.

But once I've got the basics down, I don't get aroused by actually writing the story. My intention there is simply to capture the same feeling I got when I planned the story, and try to convey that feeling to my readers. Once the story's finished, I re-read it to see if it pushes the right buttons, but the actual writing doesn't arouse me.

On the other hand, another writer I know finds it difficult to write erotica unless she's stimulated somehow. Maybe it's a gender difference. I don't know.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

My rule of thumb is if it doesn't turn ME on, I can't really know it'll work for anyone else. So, I've gone back over scenes--redid them, changed whole segments of plot to make it make sense, all because I found I could *ahem* to what I was reading.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

So.. I posted this thread then disappeared. Oops. sorry.

Thanks for the replies, everyone. It's interesting to see how different people approach the situation.
Sometimes I sit down to write and I get stuck on the sex of it... I'm just not in the mood. And if I'm not in the mood, my characters sure aren't getting any, lol.
On the other hand, sometimes I'm a hornball and I have trouble writing the 'story' and rush through to get to the next sex scene, lol.

And when I said that if it didn't turn me on I wasn't going to write it.. I guess that boils down to the subject matter. For instance~ I'm not a fan of the incest section, but I've read some stories here and there out of curiousity. Nope. I don't get it. The taboo of it doesn't turn me on, but sometimes the actual sex will if it's well written. Does that make sense?

Thanks again for replies. This is a fun game!

 

[sr71plt]

I don't write an erotica story unless I'm turned on by something that's going be part of the story. So, yes, I'm always wound up while writing the story--or I'm not writing the story.

 

[_Lynn_]

Okay. So, we're deviants and we write smut.
How turned on do you get when you're writing?
Does the material matter?
(Obviously you probably aren't going to write something that doesn't excite you.)

It's rare I write smut, but I don't get turned on the times I do.

 

[TE999]

I don't find the writing of a sex scene overly stimulating...I'm concentrating more on the construction, not the action per se. In an edit/ re-read however, it's not unusual to have a stirring in the britches.

 

[Kurokami]

Hmm... Well, it depends. Sometimes, if I'm going into a piece without having thought about it for a while beforehand (which I occasionally do to mix things up) then yes, it can get me hot and bothered. But that's mainly just thinking about what's going to happen next before I write it down. Generally, during the act of writing I'm more concerned with words than heat. Afterwards, during re-reads, that's the time to allow the writing to arouse me.

Of course, lately I've taken to writing with my girl next to me, so I can show her what's up. She's my editor to, so it sort of makes sense, but she has a number of ways of showing her... appreciation if she likes something in particular. Generally it's just, like, a tongue in the ear or a nice, hot kiss, but once or twice I've gotten head while writing. That's the maximum level of turned on while writing, although usually the writing itself does stop, at that point...

 

[LunaEroticaMystica]

Ohh, does that mean you will be posting a new story EmKit? Can't wait!

LiquidMatthew, I'm sure some visuals help with that too, right?

I get myself turned on and tingly while writing, then I get myself tingly all over again reading. It's the whole reason I am stuck on this scene for my Nude Day story. I keep re-reading it and thinking Mmm. I agree, for me it's in the editing that it loses its edge. But once edited to my satisfaction, then I can really enjoy!

I'm with Yuna and EmKit: if I'm already turned-on, my scene is going to be that much hotter (at least to myself). But if I'm not feeling it, I will put it away until I am. Or occasionally I will look for outside inspiration, with some interactive correspondences with people that are willing to help inspire my muse...knowing full well that it's for story inspiration. Note: That's in moments of singledom. When in a relationship - I look no further than my S.O.