I just want to say I LOVE this thread... As a writer, and a Lush moderator, I find it fascinating to read how some of our best writers put their stuff together...
I find I very often write in vacuum, having no real idea of how my ideas/writings/creations might be received... I pray readers might get it, but seriously, I don't really know...
We all do the same thing... (we write sexy stories...) yet it seems we all approach that from different perspectives...
I find it really interesting to read how other talented writers work...
Kudos to the Lady Ash for such an interesting thread...
xx Steph
Title: The Stalking Dead
Genre/Category: Pink Elephant
Link: Can't post the link, perhaps I don't have enough forum posts. It's the first story on my profile page.
1. What first inspired you to write this particular story?
I had the idea of writing a post-apocalyptic zombie story for a few weeks, mainly from watching the good TV show The Walking Dead. Writing an action scene sounded like it would be fun, and it was, especially this:
I glanced over and saw Tabitha swing her axe handle like Babe Ruth, and that motherfucking zombie's head flew off and zipped past me like a line-drive base hit to right field.
And:
Zombie chick began yelling sloppy gibberish from her gaping maw. She sounded like a deaf seal.
2. How did you come up with these characters?
This story is in the Pink Elephant ( ) category, but originally I wanted it to be my first straight sex story. Couldn't do it. I found that even with the tension from being stalked and chased by zombies, it still wasn't enough for me. I can't seem to write an erotica story without the tension that Pink Elephant brings. That tension drives the words out of me.
3. How does it differ from some of your other stories?
It has zombies in it, some action.
4. What was the most challenging thing about writing this piece?
Like all of my stories, the challenge is of making the Big as natural and as palatable as possible. Where the reader says: "okay that's but I can see that happening", or, "I'm not usually into this genre but that was pretty good." To make my characters sound like normal human beings caught up in the circumstance of feeling attraction where they're not supposed to. The motivation is organic and not contrived. Normally people don't act on it an move on, but since this an erotica site, my characters do.
The other challenge is putting words together to form sentences. Sentences that are not only functioning and readable, but entertaining to read. I'm not a "writer". I only wrote Amazon product reviews before this, never fiction. Editing myself and getting to the point is another challenge. I like the build-up a bit too much, and one reason for that is writing sex scenes in ways that I haven't written before is sometimes excruciating (lol), so I find myself stalling.
5. Anything else you want to tell us about it?
I like it, it was fun to write. I got positive comments from sprite and Dancing Doll, which is like getting them from Al Pacino and Meryl Streep if you're an actor. Honesty, it's also too long, and there are not enough zombies in it. The second sex scene is superfluous and hurts the pacing.
I think it only took me about 4 or 5 days to write it.
I have Episode Two half-written. It's a pretty simple straight sex story, my first. I'm up to the sex scene and I dropped the story like a sack of dead zombies (true dead). So if I could get sprite or Dancing Doll to write the sex scene for me, and credit them, I would.
(I'm now thinking about writing a story about an invasion of actual real live Pink Elephants.)
Introduce the title of your story: My Maria
Genre/Category: Voyeur
Provide the link:
1. What first inspired you to write this particular story?
I was sitting in my window looking across at my neighbor exercising nude. I was chatting with thailanddave about what Maria was doing. He was interested so I decided to write about it and Maria brought some friends over.
2. How did you come up with these characters?
Maria is my neighbor. Not her real name but close enough. She is a fierce wild Latina woman.
3. How does it differ from some of your other stories?
I never wrote about watching sex always participating. Now I was watching and enjoying it.
4. What was the most challenging thing about writing this piece?
Making sure I was accurate and staying focused on the topic at hand. Watching can be very distracting. Knowing that I was watching made some ladies over act and we had to forget them.
5. Anything else you want to tell us about it?
It was the start of a series that has grown to 7 scenes and still growing. Until Maria calls it quits or I do this series will continue. Maria has joined Lush as a reader and helps write but she lets me be the author. She has trouble with English. We have become lovers now and she is at my house every day. She has met some nice people here and wants to stay on lush.
Produce's the title of your story: My Princess Goes Away
My Princess Goes Away Concludes
Genre/Category: Love Story
Provide the link: [url=]My Princess Goes Away - Part One[/url]
[url=]My Princess Goes Away - Part Two[/url]
1. What first inspired you to write this particular story?
A relationship I was in gave my the idea, The story it's self is fictional, But I still show all my emotions through the story.
2. How did you come up with these characters?
My stories don't tend to have characters as such, It is always me talking about it from a 1st person point of view in past tenths.
3. How does it differ from some of your other stories?
This story is the only story I have done so far that isn't a poem, But I do have another one in the pipe line which is a normal story ,which will be out soon!
4. What was the most challenging thing about writing this piece?
This story was my very first story, I had problems with the Lush notepad also for a while, But I found it pretty easy.
5. Anything else you want to tell us about it?
Not really no, That's all there is to know.
Bunker Love
Bi sexual
I was intrigued by the compitition and decided to try my hand at it.
I based them on people I would love to have with me if they end came about.
It has things in t that I want too experiance and t was for a compitition.
Setting a good pace and not over loading it with useless information.
I totally enjoyed writing it. Jus hope the readers enjoy it as much as I did.
Bunker Love
My Dream my latest stopry
Introduce the title of your story: The Piano Bar
Genre/Category: Technically - Ch1 is Love stories and Ch 2 is Straight sex, due to the fact that I couldn't find any better pick for them (explained later)
Provide the link:
1. What first inspired you to write this particular story?
Experimentation and desire for change. This is my first erotica story to be posted on a site like this, as all my previous ones had been private commissions, so I decided I wanted to try out a few new styles of writing on them and see how the community reacts to them.
2. How did you come up with these characters?
I barely came up with them, and you'll find out why right below.
3. How does it differ from some of your other stories?
It differs in the style of writing view-point wise. What I wanted to do with these stories is that I wanted to use what I call a double first person view. It means that I write the story in first person and give the reader a first person perspective as they read it. Therefore I need not give any details in the story about the two main roles, allowing the imagination to roam to whatever preferences may have, even though that could sometimes be not fully possible gender-wise.
4. What was the most challenging thing about writing this piece?
It was really quite a blast, but the only part that stumped me was, ironically, the actual sex scene. What I wanted, with the start of this story, was to make one that didn't go down the generic purely descriptive sex road. Now, I'm not saying that that's a bad thing, in fact I find such stories quite enjoyable, I just wanted mine to be more on an emotional basis, focusing on what the human mind is experiencing during those moments.
5. Anything else you want to tell us about it?
Yes, I would like to mention the exclusion of any detail to the seduction inside the story with the exception of the approach. I firmly believe that each such process, just like love itself, is purely individual and different in its own right, therefore, that combined with my double first person writing style, I did not want to force actions onto my reader that they may find unenjoyable, as unlikely as it is.
Lastly I'd like to thank for the creator of this wonderful thread as it is a really grand idea that could give the opportunity for new members of the community to share their writing style and thoughts with ease outside of the stories themselves.
Introduce the title of your story: Pharaoh's Willing Slave
Genre/Category: Historical, Interracial, Heterosexual
Provide the link: [url=]Link to story[/url]
1. What first inspired you to write this particular story?
It's a fantasy that has bubbled in my head for a few years now, although some of the specifics have changed over time. The basic gist is a female Egyptian Pharaoh having sex with one of her slaves or foreign servants. It was always going to be an interracial pairing, since black woman/non-black man is what I like, but the guy's race has fluctuated between white, Middle Eastern, and Greco-Roman. In the end I settled on the Middle Eastern option for him, specifically Biblical Hebrew or Israelite. If I made him white like myself, he would have come across as too much of a self-insert, and there probably weren't many Europeans around in New Kingdom Egypt anyway.
2. How did you come up with these characters?
Originally the Pharaoh character was going to be entirely fictional, but I changed my mind and identified her as the famous female Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the Egyptian New Kingdom. I must thought my story would pack more punch if it invoked a real historical figure instead of someone wholly from my imagination. At any rate, I've always loved the concept of a beautiful, sexy, and strong African queen. Who says black women in porn always must be sassy ghetto hoodrats?
3. How does it differ from some of your other stories?
I've wanted to write romance for a long time, but earlier these romances were sub-plots within larger, more action-packed fantasy or historical stories. This is the very first pure erotica I've ever written.
4. What was the most challenging thing about writing this piece?
My total inexperience with the erotic genre before writing this. Honestly, I wasn't even sure how erotica is supposed to go, so I simply wrote down one of my sexual fantasies and added a pinch of tension near the end.
Introduce the title of your story: Checkmate In Three
Genre/Category:
Provide the link: [url=]Link[/url]
1. What first inspired you to write this particular story? When I first wrote this, I was on another site that simply devours stories about incestual relationships. Considering that the idea of it is one of my kinks, it wasn't hard to envision the idea. As I had already written a story about a brother and sister, I decided to use some recent events from my own life to shape this one out.
2. How did you come up with these characters? Chris, I based off of myself. There are virtually no dissimilarities from him and myself. What this says about me as a person, I shudder to think, but I am analytical and typical have to generate deeper emotions.
Rebecca was based on my step-sister, who, although a looker, is very much under-age. Quite a few things about her were changed, but I stuck to what I knew.
3. How does it differ from some of your other stories? I rarely use myself as a character outline BECAUSE I am so hard to relate to. How many guys aproach even sex with a purely analytical mind? But I felt that the underlying tone I wanted to portray was best suited from an near emotionless perspective, so, again, I stuck with what I knew.
4. What was the most challenging thing about writing this piece? Explaining the process. In the past, I have had a short build up and a long sex scene. This time, I forced myself to turn that around and ease into it. I wanted the reader to have enough time to start to understand the thought process Chris employed before bringing the story to a close.
5. Anything else you want to tell us about it? When I first wrote this, for another site, I received quite a bit of negativity about the emotionlessness of the main character. People could not believe someone could be so cold, so calculating, even in sex. I was even refered to, by way of talking about my character, as a predatory manipulator.
I am glad to say that the audience, small as it may be, that has read 'Checkmate In Three' thus far, do not share this mindset and in fact have shown nothing but positive feelings about it.
Also, when I wrote this, it was as a test for myself. I needed to see if I COULD ease into the sex scenes rather than leaping in before comitting to a series. I have been satisfied with the result, especially with the revised format that has been published on Lush, and have decided to follow through with a series that I will start putting up for verification very soon.
I look forward to the response that New In Town will receive and hope that it generates even more positivity!
-JasonMarak