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I always loved to read. Curious if I could write something of my own, I decided to take a few creative writing courses, and I really enjoyed it. Both teachers suggested I join a writers' group and that I should keep writing.

When I discovered Literotica I thought it might be fun to submit a story, and I'm still here five years later.
 
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Experience: BA in History, MA in Literature, thirty years as salaried copy editor for various publications.

Which translates to zero experience in writing erotica, unless you want to count a basic grasp of the written English language.

I also wrote for and published science fiction and fantasy fanzines back when they were printed via Xerox and mimeograph (I actually owned one as a kid, and sure miss the smell of the pages as they came off the drum!). It wasn't a big leap from there to erotica when I started writing for Lit about thirteen years ago. (My story "Endymion" was actually written as an exercise in a creative writing class I took in college. I guess that counts as my first entry into erotica, although the original as a bit tamer than the one you find here on this site.)
 
Aenigma said:
A few years ago I wrote a few stories about a few chapters of my life that have been comical, I figured out by accident that once I get focused on writing something, I can get into a 'flow' I suppose.
I'd always enjoyed erotic fiction, and just decided to dive in head first here.
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Sounds the best way to do it.
 
I write stories here and for the most part people like them.
I sell e-books in the market and people buy them.

That's all I have so I'll turn the mic back over to the narcissists telling everyone how super smart they are.
 
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lovecraft68 said:
I write stories here and for the most part people like them.
I sell e-books in the market and people buy them.

That's all I have so I'll turn the mic back over to the narcissists telling everyone who super smart they are.
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Very wise words.
 
1. Experience
2. Wide vocabulary
3. Slightly better than rudimentary understanding of grammar
 
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I have a PHD in smut from Oral Roberts University and had several stories selected for their annual erotic literature collection, and have put in thousands of hours of fantasizing independently.
 
none.

I am a semi-retired engineer who wrote a lot of boring technical stuff. The words "nipple", "pussy", "clit", "Cum", "Harder... deeper"... and many more never were part of engineering reports.
 
When I no longer feel the urge to write, I will be closer to death than I want to imagine.

The opportunity to act as god in a universe of erotic interests, to provide field notes on the elemental particle physics attractions amongst humans, to suggest the complications and excitements that arousal brings, to play footsie with the confounding array of words that English provides - I cannot imagine doing without these pleasures and the chance of sharing it all with others.
 
32aa said:
none.

I am a semi-retired engineer who wrote a lot of boring technical stuff. The words "nipple", "pussy", "clit", "Cum", "Harder... deeper"... and many more never were part of engineering reports.
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If you were writing about plumbing connections, I imagine the word "nipple" might have come up a time or two.

And electrical engineers use "female" and "male" fairly liberally when describing electrical connections. I remember reading about the adapter that lets you connect two cables with male ends so they can become one longer cable. It was seriously discussed whether this adapter should be called "Lesbian" because it had two female apertures or "gay" because it "connected two males."
 
Athalia said:
If you were writing about plumbing connections, I imagine the word "nipple" might have come up a time or two.

And electrical engineers use "female" and "male" fairly liberally when describing electrical connections. I remember reading about the adapter that lets you connect two cables with male ends so they can become one longer cable. It was seriously discussed whether this adapter should be called "Lesbian" because it had two female apertures or "gay" because it "connected two males."
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Alright, funny anecdote.

The company I used to work for used a lot of pop-rivets to mount various equipment and so forth. The tool used for popping the rivets was known as a "pop-rivet gun" or sometime a "popper" for short.

And the most popular brand of pop-rivet gun was known as a Cherry™.

You can probably imagine the shock that fell across a poor new guys face when I turned to him and asked him (with the utmost sincerity) to go to my bag and bring me the "Cherry-popper".

He looked at me as if I'd just asked him to go grab the "Virgin-Fucker".

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
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