What do you think?
EDIT: And, I seem to have forgotten how to create polls on Lush. The method I remember is from my other board.DK6tsvnIynjL6y5I
Quote by clum
I find it much harder to write original, realistic, hot sex, than to write an interesting story. Sometimes I write a lengthy bit of story before thinking, "Oh shit, I should probably throw some sex in here if it's going on Lush."
Quote by VirgoGo
I struggle with the spicy bits....I'm actually making a concerted effort to include more "conventional sexual activity" in my pieces. I sometimes write about kink, and the eroticism of kink may not read as erotic if you're not wired for BDSM....As a consequence, my most recent pieces - 'Taking One For The Team' and the whole 'Plane Whore' series actually include vanilla sex acts. -You're probably thinking that's a pretty gutsy decision for a site about sex stories! Yup...that's just the kind of girl I am.
Quote by BethanyFrasier
Creating a storyline is the easiest part for me. I love plotting and story-telling. I find it easy to be creative with the context, but getting sex scenes that aren't trite and predictable is difficult. It's been described so many times that it's easy to get it monotonous. You really have to be creative to come up with a really interesting sex scene which hasn't been done before.
Quote by seeker4
I am working on my first ever multipart story (probably be more of a novella than a novel in length but we shall see) and have been struggling with the second chapter (I won't be publishing any until I feel confident with the first 3 or 4 parts). The sex scene that comes later in the chapter is coming along fine but the rest of the chapter, the build-up and story, is proving difficult. Which led me to think this might be an interesting topic. What do you find harder to write, story or sex? For me, it tends to be the former. Once I get into the naughty bits, it seems to flow fairly well even if I then spend a lot of time tinkering to make sure the right body parts are in the right places at the right times. But story? Trying to fathom what people are doing and why and get that down on the page without resorting to long expository passages? Yeah, that's work.
What do you think?
EDIT: And, I seem to have forgotten how to create polls on Lush. The method I remember is from my other board.qcEfq8R5Zr4O5lTo
Quote by ChuckEPoo
Wow this could be my thread. I'm presently writing a novel also. I just submitted first chapter. Undercovers Detective.
https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-stories/undercovers-detective.aspx
It too has no sex in first chapter as I'm laying the foundation for the entire story.
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But there are writers here, VirgoGo and Burquette come to mind though there are many others, who handle it with seeming effortlessness.
So, personally, I am going to quit writing shards and write a real story next. Work on my weaknesses.
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Quote by Just_A_Guy_You_Know
I'll be the first to admit that my sex-scenes are mostly pretty formulaic. Like Sprite said, there's only so many ways to write a sex scene. If you're fairly vanilla and straight in your sexual preferences (as I am), then it's even more limited. So I don't focus on the sex so much. I start with the assumption that the characters are going to end up fucking (on an erotic stories site? Surprise!), and then work backwards to figure out how they got there. My interest is in developing the story, building up the erotic tension and suspense that leads to the sex. I feel if I can do that well, it will carry readers through 'yet another kiss-and-fondle->blow job->eating pussy->penetrate-and-thust->change-of-position->orgasm (hers and his)' sequence. Sex scenes on their own (unless you're really skilled at doing them) are boring to me without the build-up of a story. Writing a good erotic story is more work, but it's also much more engaging to me as an author, and as a reader.
Quote by Poppet
I always have a harder time with the actual story. In my mind, I tend to think of really awesome story plots, but by the time I sit and try to type them out, they vanish.
Quote by MadMartigan
Sex? Psh. Story? Psh.
The answer is simple.
Dialogue.
Dialogue's a bitch.
In fact, there are probably only a few on here that I think are truly masters of it.
*whispers* that damned disney princess
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
Quote by sprite
my cat writes all my dialogue. i'm crap at it.
Quote by seeker4
with me it's more plots sounding really fucking awesome in my head but really fucking lame when I start writing them.
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