I recently researched a sport I'm not very familiar with for an upcoming story.
But when my cute 21 y. o. heroine wanted to deep throat her endowed partner, I looked up how to deep throat on the web.
Not too unusual.
Using a dildo to practice those techniques, holding my thumb and forefinger at my lips and finding I progresively moved down the shaft - I think that's dedication.
To what lengths do others go?
Paddling works three ways:
* Me on top
* You on top
* On the water
A good question, though I probably don't have an especially good reply.
The boring respopnse is that I use the web a lot for incidental detail: Wikipedia for general facts (how did people ever get by without it?); Google Images for clothes, hairstyles, body parts etc.
The most difficult thing, of course, is to describe an experience I've never had. What is it like, to give an extreme example, for a woman to be fisted? Women know, or can at least guess; men can't. I use any bits and pieces I've gleaned from things I've seen written by women, but, failing that, I have to make it up.
The Internet can be surprisingly disappointing when it comes to finding specific information. I substitute imagination in those circumstances, but I'm never sure if I'm really getting it right. But, then again, do readers really care that much about authenticity in erotica, when every orgasm is perfect, every cock is almost a foot long, and every woman is slim and permanently aroused, with superb, pneumatic boobs? Maybe not. Maybe verisimilitude is a little over-rated.
But, as I said, it's an excellent question.
- polynices
Purveyor of Poetry & Porn
I had to look up "verisimilitude" first, btw...and I doubt I could actually say it...
Anyway, I read two short WikiHowTo articles on the net before I wrote my story "Flight Lessons" because I've never actually flown a plane...fooled several pilots though who've read the story...
One was about taking off in a small plane, the other about landing a Cessna 172...
Other than that, I don't think I've actually done any research for a story...
I do at least some research for most of my stories but at the end of the day I believe you have to write about what you know and then go to great lengths to embellish it.
Research might involve watching people on the train and noting what they are reading, wearing, talking about or just the general vibe that they have. I've often found myself thinking, "I would have never imagined someone like that."
Where sex acts are concerned, I've talked to people and watched hours worth of porn over the years, 't is an endless fountainhead of ideas........
As Dancing Doll is proposing to do, I would encourage everyone to try writing a story from the perspective of the other gender. My 'Slave Princess' series was my first attempt at this and judging from the feedback I've got from some of the ladies who have read it, I seem to have done a credible job. I'm now I'm planning some future stories from a woman's point of view. The chance to step into the shoes of the other gender is denied to most of us and for me it has been an interesting experience.
Channeling your 'inner guy or girl', as Doll puts it, is great and allows you to connect with a side that is in all of us but that we might have lost touch with.
In answer to Polynices (great ancient Greek name btw) We used books before Wiki, YouTube and Google and I still find great inspiration in a good book.
