Ever written something... steamy?

Hence why I said "the right kind." Also hence why I only said picturing.

Yeah, I write some Plot With Porn, but the problem is: it always takes so long to get to the porn, because of the plot.

Oddly enough, no. This is for the simple reason I'm fairly sure that even after lots of...uh, research, I'd probably still screw it up.

I should actually try sometime just to see if that proposition is sound.

Oh look, it's this thread. @Title: Funny, now I can properly say that I have.

I did indeed have ^^that problem.

The weird thing is... I didn't really think of who my target audience is supposed to be, so I'm wondering which character's... er, physical sensations I'm supposed to focus on.

Also... is 1st person narrator weird? I started out in 3rd person but 3rd person's kinda boring for me to write.

edited 10th Aug '11 10:29:22 PM by melloncollie

To be honest I think part of it is also that I have an extremely minimalistic style of writing, trained by condensing multiple-character-combat to reasonable length from the days when I was still trying to get published.

I don't think that'll translate to this sort of thing. I've certainly never seen it tried. (If somebody has, please tell me where I can find it.)

I've skimmed some of the romance novels my mother reads, and one of the better ones switched back and forth between the two points of view, changing faster and faster as the feelings built.

Edit: Though I guess that wouldn't work well in 1st person. (1st person's a bit uncommon for this, but not unheard of. 2nd person is sometimes used too.)

Mind if I pimp my work?

edited 11th Aug '11 1:13:45 AM by feotakahari

I... no thanks.

No.

I actually wrote something relatively erotic a while back (and then considered it overly sweet and deleted it; this was back in 2009, maybe?), and when I got to the part where sex happened, I had it go on offscreen, so to speak, and skipped ahead to the part I do have experience with — the afterglow. :D

I'm thinking too far ahead for one of my stories, not Manifestation Files, debating how much to show and how much to just imply.

Considering that it's YA, though...

So I actually took a shot at it. It's...okay, I suppose. (Ahahahaha, no, really, it sucks.) Not actually going to use that bit, though. It doesn't quite fit.

edited 11th Aug '11 10:50:36 PM by Night

I must confess twice on this threads: to endeavoring to write pr0n, and to getting caught up in life and leaving my pr0n unwritten for so long that even George R. R. Martin would be disgusted.

The main fetish of the story I wanted to write is female orgasm denial.

Here's a teaser I wrote. Well, actually more a brainstorming post than a teaser. It's... boring. I'm sorry. Not much happens. However, I do sort of lay out the premise of the story.

http://tantalism.org/node/2218

Just try wanking to that.

^ Small world, that's the premise of one of the 2 things I've done. Well, the setup, at least.

Hmmmmmm. I'd always been trained to think that alternating POV a lot is bad form, but if you say so... it won't hurt to try, I guess.

As for the mechanics of sex...well, a first time is going to be awkward. They probably won't know where to touch each other (and a guy is likely to go straight for her breasts, which are sensitive but not in the same way as the genitals). If intercourse happens, it may take a few tries to get going, and the guy will probably not last long. Using lots of dirty talk or Purple Prose here is probably not a good idea, since it just makes an already rather awkward situation become utterly goofy.

More experienced couples will have a better idea of what to do, and will engage in more foreplay and longer intercourse sessions. Purple Prose is slightly more OK here, as they'll know each other better and the emotions involved will be deeper, but dirty talk is still probably not a good idea.

Than again, sometimes you just want to indicate that they had really good, fulfilling sex, and cutting to the afterglow works pretty well for that. It'll also save you the possibility of running headlong into IKEA Erotica if you're not familiar with the territory. (That and I think cutting to the afterglow is cute, but that's me.)

Intriguing. Care to either give a link or a brief description?

Well, I don't have any... first hand experience in the matter, so I'm steering clear of full-blown (heh) lemon at the moment. I've written a couple of sex scenes before, but I keep them fairly vague.

^^ The one specific part isn't all the way finished yet, I'm still tweaking it. Anyway it's a transhumanist sort of setting that's supposed to be humorous. Some of the less fortunate characters no longer have their, er, original equipment, but still get phantom sensations. They're stuck in a dry spell until they can get hold of certain interfacing softwares.

I'll let you know when I do finish

edited 12th Aug '11 3:23:43 PM by Merlo

I have only written two sex scenes in my life, both of which were pertinent to the plot.

Really, it depends on what you want to portray with the scene or how much you want to affect your reader. One of the scenes I wrote was consensual, and it skipped the actual act, focusing instead on the emotional aspects of the characters' relationship and what this represented for them.

The other scene I wrote was a child being raped, and this I actually did describe in detail because I wanted readers to be strongly affected. I wanted to shock them and make them realize how horrible and despicable this act was.

Many times.

No. If I'm going to have a sex scene, I use the Sexy Discretion Shot. It is probably more fun imagining for the audience, IMO, because then they can make the sex scenes whatever fantasy they want.

Shamefully I am my most prolific and best when writing steamy works.

Both works I ever wrote were Naruto fan fic's both have Sasuke in them, one was slash for slash sake. The 2nd was a dark fic which became to dark for me to continue writing*.

• Which was the whole point, I wanted to see how dark I could make a fic before I started to fell sick to my stomach. Let's just say the Dark Fic image was a big inspiration.

No, and perhaps never will.

For some reason I can't get past describing passionate kissing as "he started eating my mouth". Shut up, inner comedian.

edited 25th Aug '11 10:44:24 PM by Merlo