I have read many stories ranging from the type that could be a script for a Porn story (aka the busty blonde gets nailed by the beefcake) to a cinderella story with music, intrigue, many first dates and the whole nine.
So my question is how serious do you take it? or want it? Surely nearly everyone on lush, well I should say over the age of 18 should know the world of porn is just that Porn. We all know that most women aren't built like the porn or most model magazine would make us believe. And most men don't have six packs and are totally built to "rock your world".
BUT isn't it a nice get away? I surely think so. Most if not all my stories feature women with bigger than natural chests. I know for a fact it isn't what the "REAL" world has entail. And my soon to be ex wife is not anything like any of my stories (physically anyway). I do take some real world adventures or situations and make them into what some will laugh and say its a porn "parody". Which I find laughable because that could go for many "serious" stories as well.
Most writers have an idea be it something from a video from the latest porn video, which started the juices or from some novella they read or a story that has been stewing for months on their writing format. I like both. I have read some stories that have come straight from the world of big boobed bimbos and thought they were laughable but yet entertaining. Some others that will have you thinking about what comes after reading over eight thousand words.
Just a thought. That came to mind after reading a good story.
Thanks!
My stories are all 100% fabricated, but at times, I show a side of me.
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.
If you've read my stories, you know they're not just mindless porn. I write stories with plots. The sex is incidental to the character's actions within the plot. Some of my stories are about me, and are taken from my life experiences. So I guess that's taking it seriously.
I do prefer to read and write serious stories. When I write a story it is based on a real event or events that actually happened in my life. I have only recently posted the first part of a multi part story here on LS. I tried to post it about a year ago but they wanted me to make changes that would have changed my story. So I chose not to post it here. They are posted on several other sites that had no problem with them.
Since then the rules in place at the time have been relaxed. Then with a LOT of help from Rachel I was able to make other changes that did not affect the story and the first part has been accepted and posted. Some of the punctuation is done differently today than the way I learned it in high school and college. Most of us know the saying, "It's hard to teach an old bitch new tricks."
I personally prefer stories based on real events, but I realize some authors prefer to write about their fantasies and / or pure fiction. I have been very fortunate and have many real events that a lot of people only dream or fantasize about. I was brought into the erotic lifestyle shortly after my seventeenth birthday. I will be 59 in a few months and have almost forty-two years in the erotic lifestyle. Hubbie and I will be married 38 years right after I turn 59. I'm sure that not being able to get pregnant and starting before AIDS / HIV showed up on the scene had a lot to do with our sexual freedom.
I can enjoy both, but knowing the story is real adds to the excitement. As I read a story the visual scene is playing in my head and it is almost like watching a movie.
So if you are to read about real events check out, "My First Gang Bang and Golden Shower" Part 1
Brandie
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?
A few of my stories are very loosely based on experiences of others I have met or know. Most are fantasy though.
I include a lot of conversation when writing as I personally enjoy conversations with my lovers before, during and after sex.
I prefer to be made love to rather than just having sex for the sake of sex and write my stories accordingly.
I am in the course of editing a story I have written about a friend I had as a teenager. We have recently met again after many years and her story is interesting I felt. It is a love story based on fact.
As a writer, I take the grammatical and style elements of my story, the little details, very seriously. Details matter. None of my stories are true, but all are set in places with which I am intimately familiar, and it is very important that my stories come off as "true" stories. So yes, I take my stories very seriously whilst they are being written.
As a reader, nothing turns me off of reading a story faster than running into some trainwreck of a sentence (e.g., "she had perfect 38DD tits") or obvious laziness in grammar and spelling or a complete inability to write on the part of the author.
Want to spend some time wallowing in a Recommended Read? Pick one! Or two! Or seven!
Most of the time my interest when I read is to experience a sex life / relationship life / lifestyle that's different than my own . . . so I want all characters to be full, dynamic, and believable.
Does it have to always be 100% realistic? No . . . I know there are some things I enjoy in stories that just aren't possible in real life, but that's fine. The thrill of reading stories is to bridge that reality gap.
However, as I learn more (because I'm also a writer) about the deep and vast world of BDSM, club sex, and other various practices I've pretty much learned that there's a lot people do in real life that surpasses hot kinky fiction.
I do also enjoy strict entertainment / absurd situations... just for the kink. Meaning, little to no character development.
I guess it depends on what I want when I go reading.
I do take my writing fairly seriously. I love writing and want to do it well. I'm not here to just write fantasies, but to tell stories that encompass those fantasies. Also, I tend to get invested in my characters and want to do right by them, esp. recurring ones like the couple in my current series (see sig).
I've been writing my entire life, but only in the last ten years have I dabbled in porn. In the area I frequent, Gay, Bi and Crossdressing, I find that once I got a little bored with diving straight into the sex, my votes and comments went down.
In the one absolutely true story I published, 'Mouth, Meet Cock', I used about six paragraphs recounting where I had been and how I became bi at 49 years old. One comment said: 'the beginning was a little slow. After you got started...'
I take this writing as a somewhat of a lark, as my true investment is in pilots and features, but the only 'pay' you get here is in recognition.
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?
Depends on the story. Some are purely situational, and the characters mostly props. For others, I put more effort into the characters, and care more about them. I'm sure it's pretty obvious which is which.
I do my best on every story I put out. Yes some are better than others, some have parts of my life in them. But I am very serious about my writing. I want to be able to pull my readers into my stories. I want them(my readers) to feel they are part of the story.
I write for the pleasure and not the ballyhoo of it. I take my writing seriously, but I don't get the vapors over it. I recognize that there is some talent among us and I also see the forest for the trees. Writing is a state of mind and often my mind is blocked by daily chores and the world around me.
Most of my characters are people I know, either in real life, or those I met on line. Or composites of people I know. A lot of my stories are drawn from personal experiences, and the characters already exist for those stories, others I create, and they do take on a life of their own. I find myself thinking about what she would do in this situation, and the actions in the story have to meet what you feel that person would do. See, "that person", it is a fictitious creation but no, in my mind it is a person with a character.
Sex, I try to fit it in smoothly to a storyline, and not just random. I want to write a story, with plot, characters the reader can relate to, empathise with even. And I want it to be fun. Hate sex stories with violence, hate depressing gloomy misery, I want my readers to smile, to be surprised at a plot twist, laugh at something said by a character, and to look forward to hearing more about that person in a future story. "Mummy's Girl" is a perfect example of this.
Mostly I write to give life to some memories, and to some fantasies.
Most of my stuff starts life with a "moment" or a single line / description that just pops in my head. Mostly mundane things that I try to glamorise. The "wouldn't it be cool if..." thing. I then work out from there. Sometimes that moment is the start. Sometimes I stretch out in both directions to set that moment up and deliver payoff. So, yeah, I try to make plot matter and take writing seriously. But hopefully not too seriously so the story disappears up its own arse in symbolism. Sometimes a situation works and is effortless and rewarding, other times it's bloody frustrating to finish it or just doesn't work as a concept so I'll drop it.
I make no bones about the fact that Puddleduck and Browncoffee and Saucymh and Jen and RavenStar and a whole host of amazing authors here write stuff that makes my jaw drop when I read it. It's not just porn for porn's sake ('came home and my step-sister was in the shower, well, I always fancied her so I fucked her and she came fifty-eight times because I've got a ten foot cock, the end'), it's getting behind the minds that create situations. The believability of the situation plays a huge part in that, without the author feeling the need to start the story with "This is a true story that really happened to me, it did, honest."
Like a good horror flick, some of the best erotic stories here, imo, leave a lot of gratuitous detail out and lead you to it in your head. I'm not there yet, but I'm a wannabe.
Please browse my digital bookshelf. In this collection, you can find 101 stories, nine micro-stories, and two poems with the following features:
* 25 Editor's Picks, 69 Recommended Reads.
* 14 competition podium places, 9 other times in the top ten.
* 20 collaborations.
* A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.
Finding the balance between plot and sex is very hard*. For me as a reader it boils down to wanting to believe the story. It can have loads of amazing sex in it, but if I don't think it happened I can't get as involved as I want to be. That doesn't mean stories can't be strange or fantastic or have lots of men with pendulous penises in them. It just means the author has to work harder to convince me. It's a good thing I'm suggestible I suppose.
* That's what she said.
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