Writing erotica

[Mogget]

I started writing erotica (okay, porn, I don't think it's literary enough to qualify as erotica :P) a few days ago. I'm not quite done with it (it isn't long but I get, erm, distracted) and really enjoyed it. It's helped me to fantasize in words (I'm not good with getting good visuals in my head) and it's been great to write something perfectly atuned to my tastes.

I'm not gonna post it here, but wanted to know if anyone here writes it and how they've felt about writing it.

[Lexington]

I've tried. Or rather, I tried to continue writing the way I normally write...but about sex. Which isn't at all the same thing as writing erotica. Because I nearly always write "slice of life" stuff - people interacting the way they actually interact. Most feedback I get discusses how "real" my stories are, no matter how bizarre the characters or situations. And sex, when written in a straight-ahead factual manner, isn't the same as erotica. Erotica is meant to sweep the reader up in the act (or the fantasy). Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's supposed to make the reader horny. My stuff didn't do that. If anything, the reader got a bit uncomfortable reading it. "I felt like I should stop reading and give them some privacy," one person wrote.

I can't say as I'm unhappy with that effect, but I wonder if I could change my MO and actually write something erotic.

Lex

[otc877]

Originally Posted by Lexington

I've tried. Or rather, I tried to continue writing the way I normally write...but about sex. Which isn't at all the same thing as writing erotica. Because I nearly always write "slice of life" stuff - people interacting the way they actually interact. Most feedback I get discusses how "real" my stories are, no matter how bizarre the characters or situations. And sex, when written in a straight-ahead factual manner, isn't the same as erotica. Erotica is meant to sweep the reader up in the act (or the fantasy). Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's supposed to make the reader horny. My stuff didn't do that. If anything, the reader got a bit uncomfortable reading it. "I felt like I should stop reading and give them some privacy," one person wrote.

I can't say as I'm unhappy with that effect, but I wonder if I could change my MO and actually write something erotic.

Lex

This is exactly why I could never write it. My writing style is very wry and somehow I don't think the two mix.

[Filip]

Well, I don't write as much as I used to, but a couple of years ago, I did occasionally write short stories. and in some cases, (okay, a lot of cases ), sex did at some point happen. Usually fade-to-black like in any manstream Hollywood movie, but it happened on occasion that I wrote everything.

Not that I would call it erotica. It was rather something I call IKEA-sex (IKEA being a brand of build-it-yourself furniture): a big list of who put what where, when and how. as in a furniture manual: put peg A into hole B and screw tightly

It was slow going (yeah, it's terribly distracting ), but I feel it did help me with coming to terms that gay sex did turn me on. I'd say it helped a lot in feeling more OK with myself and eventually coming out.

I haven't written any of that since I came out, but I definitely don't feel bad that I did it.