How serious do you take your story. Or if you're a reader how serious do you want the story to be?

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I take it very seriously. My characters aren't just hot folk. They have minds and issues and loads of other stuffs. Sometimes my stories aren't even hot at all. They're just rambling monologues.

Quote by Milik_the_Red
I take each story very seriously and, (unless the story is based on real events,) will construct personalities for each character. I do think it important to give detail but also allow for reader interpretation. Plot line should be believable as possible.

That said, one truth about erotica is that, without that, 'oh, fuck' moment, that point where something special or unexpected happens in act or dialog, it becomes much harder to arouse the reader. As a writer, I'd prefer to write 4000 words of set up and then write sex as being somewhat normal. However, I know that many readers want the sex to be beyond the norm. With that in mind, I try to create those situations that would be worth remembering. In that sense, your sex scene should be hot and wet and beyond the normal, Tuesday night fuck.

Anyone can write the sex we have during the week, but honestly, if you are creating a fantasy, don't you feel it should be worth fantasizing about?

Quote by Regnadkcin


I never really thought about it quite this way, but I can see its truth.

I create characters and a situation I find interesting. From there I try to figure out who that character is and why & how they got there. I've been told that I overthink this part. In the end, I really care for the characters. I want them to be real people with real lives. Maybe this is why more of my work ends up on the blue site. I do have a couple almost ready for here though. (I know, I keep saying this)

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I wouldn't worry about overthinking them. often. The characters I write develope histories and personalities detailed enough that their actions seem indepentant of the story I set out to write. They take on a life of their own. When that happens, I know I've created something with depth and believability

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Anyone can write the sex we have during the week, but honestly, if you are creating a fantasy, don't you feel it should be worth fantasizing about?

Quote by Just_A_Guy_You_Know
To be honest, I don't take my stories very seriously. Most of them are a 'polished' first draft. I write first for my own amusement, exploring my own fantasies - a kind of mental masturbation, but with my hands on my keyboard, rather than... well, you get the idea. I have no illusions about crafting a literary masterpiece, and with the exception of a few very talented writers on this site, I don't think any of us should. But if I entertain myself and a few other readers with what I post, then I'm happy enough. If people get off on what I've written, more power to them. Winning awards and accolades (and badges!) doesn't really motivate me.

As for the realism of my stories, they've been praised from time to time for that. I do spend time developing characters and situations before letting them go at each other, and I can write some passably believable dialog. However, I still consider them pretty much porn (maybe like relatively well-written old-school porn that had some semblance of a plot). A good story should start with a somewhat ordinary/realistic scenario, and then take it to the extraordinary. As Milik said:

Quote by Milik_the_Red
I take each story very seriously and, (unless the story is based on real events,) will construct personalities for each character. I do think it important to give detail but also allow for reader interpretation. Plot line should be believable as possible.

That said, one truth about erotica is that, without that, 'oh, fuck' moment, that point where something special or unexpected happens in act or dialog, it becomes much harder to arouse the reader. As a writer, I'd prefer to write 4000 words of set up and then write sex as being somewhat normal. However, I know that many readers want the sex to be beyond the norm. With that in mind, I try to create those situations that would be worth remembering. In that sense, your sex scene should be hot and wet and beyond the normal, Tuesday night fuck.

Anyone can write the sex we have during the week, but honestly, if you are creating a fantasy, don't you feel it should be worth fantasizing about?

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All I had to do was quote my honey and there's my answer!! (Love you babe )

Quote by Milik_the_Red
I take each story very seriously and, (unless the story is based on real events,) will construct personalities for each character. I do think it important to give detail but also allow for reader interpretation. Plot line should be believable as possible.

That said, one truth about erotica is that, without that, 'oh, fuck' moment, that point where something special or unexpected happens in act or dialog, it becomes much harder to arouse the reader. As a writer, I'd prefer to write 4000 words of set up and then write sex as being somewhat normal. However, I know that many readers want the sex to be beyond the norm. With that in mind, I try to create those situations that would be worth remembering. In that sense, your sex scene should be hot and wet and beyond the normal, Tuesday night fuck.

Anyone can write the sex we have during the week, but honestly, if you are creating a fantasy, don't you feel it should be worth fantasizing about?

Quote by latecomer91364


I've slowed my submissions to a crawl, because if it's not engaging to me, I tend not to do it, and if nobody likes the stories I write with a little more character and plot to them, then why bother?

Quote by chesh78


I agree with this fully. I take my writing seriously, and tend to write stories first and foremost, erotica second. I always tell people that I write stories that happen to feature sex in them, rather than purely sex stories. My most popular tales here on Lush tend to be the ones that are almost pure sex (gangbangs, threesomes, and the like), whereas the ones I consider my best works tend to have the least sex in them, and more focus on character, plot and setting. That's not to say I just shoehorn the sex in, because I think it stands out a mile and the smart reader can see through it; but to me, the sex has to flow naturally, as a consequence of situations my characters are in and what they are doing and saying, rather than starting out with a sex scene, and then trying to competently place the characters there.