Erotica with a story behind it or jump into the sex.

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I think it depends on the writer. Verbal, for instance, is able to create truly interesting snippets with a bare minimum of words. It can be really tough, though without a creative author who had a real vision.

I didn't even see this wonderful complement until four years later (this is Verbal, under anther name)! Thank you so much.

I tend to start with hot sex, then pull back into the plot these days. But I don't write erotica much anymore, and I sometimes think I'm losing my touch! (Heh.)

About 20 years ago I was unemployed and living off savings and I decided, what the hell, and wrote sex stories for FOX, your prototypical trucker-porn mag. I'll never forget their submission guidelines. "Your story must get to the sex, FAST." Pretty much everything I write now has a sex word in the first sentence, and a sex act in the first paragraph. "Your story must get to the sex, FAST." That's what we are all here for after all.

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That's what we are all here for after all

I don't think that is true, but it may appear so to you.

My personal writing and reading style is story driven and slow burns. I find it hard to get aroused anymore without context. I feel the same way about roleplay sessions with a partner. Slow and story driven. Hot and passionate payoff.

Story with slow build up

Slow with a build up. It all adds to anticipation and excitement. Context and putting yourself into that situation .I sometimes leak a little at this stage

I lean toward story with sex as an accompaniment. But, in the right author's hands, you can pick up some story and character traits within a single sex scene with dialogue and internal thoughts, reactions, emotions sprinkled during the sex. WannabeWordsmith is an example of an author who could do this. Also StarbelliedBoy, imo.

The few things I have written demand that I get to the point because of their length restrictions. The stories read from the authors come in all different genres and are paced in every way imaginable.

A story should be like love making - enticement - foreplay - the big event - the afterglow. I always include conversation in my stories as knowing your partner is enjoying things as much as you are is so important. There is more to sex than just cumming.

Back before VCR, DVD, Internet, we read paperback sex books bought in truckstops or at peep show. Those books moved to sex fast and often.

I like a build-up in a story

Doesn't matter. If it works, you did it right. Every story is its own beast.

I write stories and I want to read a story. Any amateur can write mindless sex.

When I write I usually try to build it up properly. For me, the excitement comes from delayed gratification. It is much more rewarding when you get to wait. For some people, the build-up is more important than the sex itself. I want to release all the build-up pressure in the final sex scene.

I was hoping there would be a topic like this. Thank you.

I find it difficult to write wham-bam-thank you, ma'am stories. I've done a few single-chapter ones, but the ones I really like to write have multiple chapters and slow build-ups.

The one I'm currently writing involves two perspectives. The first chapter has a lot of flirting without any sex and is currently just over nine thousand words. I like to keep them to about five thousand per chapter. I'm debating making them two stories, but you'd get the same story in each.

Maybe I should start a new topic?

Having attempted and deleted eight stories for various reasons I am not sure I am the one to say what makes a well written story.I have read quite stories here and have found about a dozen extremely talented authors with no doubt more to come as time passes. The common thread is that each story is very well written. It can be a complete porn fest or multi chapter epistle but the read is constructed immaculately and always a pleasure. Many, unfortunately, run their fingers through ink then stick them up their ass ending up with shit.

I think my last few stories have been quicker to get to the sex, but the one I'm working on now is going to be a long, slow, teasing, taunting seduction. And then there will be some really torrid sex.

I love a slow burn. If the characters are interesting I can wait a whole novel for the sex. I have to say no sex at all is disappointing if there is sexual tension between characters. I just read an interesting Mexican Gothic and I was hoping the handsome priest would renounce his vows and do the widow. Oh well.

In real life, do we need to have a reason to have sex?
Think so. However deep or superficial that reason may be - whether logical vs emotional, built up vs spontaneous - there is always provenance to desire and the eventual encounter. That just needs acknowledging, whether implicitly or explicitly. Just as it's hard to navigate this stuff in real life without context + chemistry, I'd more likely enjoy stories that allude to these.

I believe what makes sex special and joyful is more emotional than physical. So, a good sex story should contain at least some background and explain why are the characters having sex, not simply describe their sexual acts.

Definitely it needs some story/explanation/reason for sex. Is why I found that some categories contain better stories then others. For example the hardcore. Usually the stories in this category are very elaborated as such a story needs to explain the character needs/reasons. Now think of such a story without any description of the situation...one would think is a story or worst.

it would be more interesting to classify ten stories according to the above and track voting, and see who does best. Because i have observed that people sometimes say they want one thing but prefer another.

I fall into the wanting to read a slow boiler more often than a quick, all-sex story. If it's a Flash story, or especially a Micro-fiction, then for sure you need to get to the juicy bits quickly, and those can be fun sometimes. But for longer stories I can far better get into the characters and feel their arousal if I know about them first.

Not physical descriptions so much, but who they are, what they care about or like, what motivates them to do what they do, what they are thinking and feeling. It makes it much more relatable if the author has made the characters "real" before the sex - or even after, if it's done well.

All my stories have a fast or medium build-up. They are all backed up with a storyline.

Since my stories are all set in a different time period, I want to make readers feel that this is not happening in 2023. This opens the door to lots of details that can quickly add up and become too much, this "too much" will of course vary depending on who the reader is. It is a challenge that comes with writing historical stories.

Some attitudes from the characters may also put off some readers. My latest chapter (pending approval) features a 1953 girl next door whose great ambition is to become a good housewife. She's really like your grand-mother back when she was a teen. I think this girl is absolutely adorable and the story moves quite quickly into something delightfully sexual, but this one feature about her personality could be a deal breaker for many readers today.

My teenage characters in this story were born in the late 1930s and they are nothing like today's teens. I chose to depict this and to feature a character that reflected the majority of girls back then; this carries a risk.

I'm moving away from physical descriptions and more into what the characters are thinking and feeling, but at the same time, I want the reader to be aware that teen girls back then did not wear jeans torn off and the knees; they usually wore a skirt and saddle shoes with bobby socks. The hairstyles were also different; every little detail was. What I usually do is mix these descriptions with sexual elements.

Today's readers also usually prefer the female gaze. My current story is written with an "I" character who is a straight male. And sorry gals, but he loves watching girls!

That particular story is long-winded and the characters evolve, but there's sexual tension and kissing right from the start, and a very intense sex scene at the end of chapter one; to me, this is fast development before sex.

I do like a good story with the sex. If there's a good story, there can be a conflict. Everything is hotter with a conflict.

Sometimes one, sometimes another. Flash erotica does not have long build-ups but it is still popular 😀

Also my characters are sex workers. The slow build up does not work when time is money 💰

I’ve written two books so not really a rookie 😀