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 Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 7:45 am
So I typically do not have much trouble drawing up a partially decent sex scene in my fanfiction. I drift between the overly-detailed and stylized blips, to raunchy, straight-to-the-point porn that has more sweat than description. Both have their place and both are fun to write.
Recently, I encountered this article on pornographic writing (rest assured, while the article gets somewhat catty, there aren’t really any ToS-breaking remarks) in which the columnist compares the advice of two very different writers. While I found some of their tips useful, a majority of their comments left me with an arched eyebrow.
Overall, there is no real science to writing sex - any good author knows that. You can criticize word choice until the cows come home, but no erotica appeals to everyone, and all erotica appeals to someone out there. While I chuckle at the use of the word “manhood,” I thought it quite hot when I was twelve, and many women seek out “dimestore romance novels” for that very term use, as it’s within their comfort zone.
Comfort zones are what the business of sex writing is all about. We all have them. Some of us prefer the glossier sex, in which no one gets sweaty and everyone has an easy orgasm; others - myself - prefer the angrily struggle of just a little harder and the sticky drip of bodily fluids matting in Stacy’s blonde hair. I could write a whole book on the comfort zones of kink and consent, but that’s not what this is about; we’re talking about detail, pacing, and style.
What the world of big authors doesn’t see is a writing niche books don’t cover: drabbles. Sex can be short, sharp, and over in 100 words. I can load the s**t up with poetic description, or slick it up with brief sentences that are all action and no apology. And that’s okay.
So how about you guys? How do you write your porn - hard and raunchy, with plenty of big kid words, or lighter and without all the squick terms? Is it “clenched channel” or “tight a*****e”? What do you draw from, fantasies or real life experience?
And how have drabbles changed “erotica rules”?
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 10:54 am
I learned all my sex from harry/snape fanfictions. :3
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Godfrey Potter-Lockhart Crew
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 6:30 pm
I don't think there's a right or wrong way to write porn.. I don't really decipher porn from erotica either, though.
If it's sex it's porn to me. I don't need a pretty title to make it seem less...dirty? I dunno, I really hate it when people try to hide the fact their writing sex. I don't like phrases like, "manhood", "petals", "puckered entrance", "rosebud" and all that. Like, I understand the reason for pretty wording, but when someone can't write the word p***y or d**k then I don't really care to read their sex scene in the first place.
When I'm writing sex it usually depends on the characters present as to how it's going to be worded; more specifically who the person on top is.
Mulciber is typically more poetic. The scene comes off soft and gray like ash because of how low and purr like his voice is, his attitude and the angst that usually follows him. I use a lot of the same attention to detail with him because he's so thorough with his ministrations. If he's with a woman you'll get a lot of, "licked the soft curve of her ___" and "his nails dragged down the warmth of her thigh". When with a man, especially Severus, it seems to go darker. Lots of "until his nails drew blood", "he hissed as he pressed into" and "his raven hair whipped back as his head fell and he gasped" because the sex is typically angrier, more forceful and desperate.
With characters like Reg things just get messy. Bloody lips, drug-powdered noses and torn piercings. Sweat, sweat, sweat. It's raunchy and real and has all the gooey details that some people aren't willing to write because they probably don't like that people drip during sex, you hiccup and make stupid noises, or you might drool into the couch cushion because it feels good to have your mouth open while you're getting railed into. It's unforgiving and blunt.
However, if Reg is with Hermione it completely changes. Everything is clean, warm and slow. There's anger and frustration but it's all bottled up and let out when either one of them cries or comes. It's like he's willing to be himself, be kinky sometimes and down right filthy mouthed with her, but at the same time he would never snort anything off her, he'd never make her walk around with something dripping down her leg and he'd never, ever share her with anyone.
I think with most of my Het writing the mood flips into either calm, warm relaxed sex or the same thing with a ton of angst. It typically flows that way because I, personally, get so much happiness out of just being able to lay with my partner and relax. Sure, there's moments where things get hot and sticky, but for whatever reason, when I write for one of my male characters 9 out of 10 times they end up becoming a fluff ball or an exhausted mess that just wants to lay their head on their lady's tummy or between her breasts and slowly work into making her feel awesome.
Okay, rambling. Gonna let it at that for the time being because I wanna discuss. Haven't even gotten into raeps or femmeslash. XDD
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:43 pm
I don't really know how I would describe my own writing. I feel like a lot of the time I just write it, let it flow out of my head, post it, and forgot at all what I had written. Until I read it again awhile later and it doesn't even feel like I wrote it at all.
I don't know really, I just write what comes to me, how it comes to me.
I feel like I can definitely agree with Kitty in disliking soft words, I like my sex fics to be like sex, not hiding anything. I feel like I don't write my sex as real as it could be, but I don't mind lots of blood, violence, pain. I don't really write much in terms of fluids or messiness in that sense, but I think that stems from me writing mostly for Voldemort who I feel like wouldn't... cite such things if he were writing himself? Lol I don't know. I guess I will probably get into more 'dirty' sexfics when I wrote more for Reg/Josh.
Ramble, ramble...
We definitely all write to fit the mood, it like, HAS to be written like that. We think of something, it brings up a mood, a feeling, we use words that evoke a similar feeling. That's how it should be.
Sum it up: Don't tie a ribbon on it, but feel free to bandage it up if it's bleeding all over the sheets.
heh.
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Johnny777Nny Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 8:28 am
Johnny777Nny I don't really write much in terms of fluids or messiness in that sense, but I think that stems from me writing mostly for Voldemort who I feel like wouldn't... cite such things if he were writing himself? Lol I don't know.
I agree with you, too, on Voldemort’s probable dislike of referencing bodily fluids. I see him as being more of a facial expression guy, watching his lover’s responses and acting accordingly based on that. As in, the stiffy doesn’t matter as much as the bitten lower lip and fluttered eyelashes.
Blue_Soaring of Dreamwidth writes some awesome porn. I just recently got into Adam Lambert, and her RPS fics are written in that blunt, filthy-mouthed, sweaty/c**-streaked honest prose that I find so erotic. I’d love to write like her.
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 9:50 am
Captain Nazzy I’ve tried a dozen times to write Rowle/Hermione (Cassy’s Rowle) and can’t because Hermione’s ‘voice’ won’t go in the direction I want Thats hilarious because every time I try to write rowle/ hermione, I find myself at a loss of knowledge of diry, sticky things to say or better ways to.describe hem. Rowles the type to note- and lick up- salty beads of sweat that have rolled down certain voluminus crevices, but hes really bruish and harsh and so dirty about t its like hes raping you with his perceptions ofwhat hes doing even ithe girl is consenting. So hard for me to write and get in that really dark, brutish, sexual, controling place. Godfreyhimself loves varid sensations and touc the most. The invisible presence, the feel of hot and cold against his skin. Hes more aware of drafts and thouhts turned sensations and all.that. its about feeling for him. Also voldemort probably doesnt even really sweat. XD stickiness is only involved with blood. Yeah. Freys pretty passionate and rides he feelings rollercoaster.
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Godfrey Potter-Lockhart Crew
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 10:35 am
Real life experience is both helpful and yet not helpful. It will keep the ball rolling if it's already nudged, but it's not your starting point, that's for sure. Case and point: how many lesbian sex fics have I written and posted? Yeah, exactly. sweatdrop
It is definitely a matter of crawling into your character's head and paving the fic with what you find in there. Sometimes it's easy; Kat's Reg is a real sweetheart, and he always shares what he's thinking with me. But Circinus? Ha, ******** me, Circi would rather talk about soap and curly hair. gonk I know he's a sexual person, he's just being a b***h about letting me see the entirety of his character.
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