In writing erotic fiction, does it help to write while turned on? Or is it better to wait until you've "cooled off", so to speak? Which leads to stronger prose?
I'm always horny, and it helps to write while aroused. That gives me great juice for thinking about it.
I need to write when really horny as a few friends know.
I just need to complete the process as so many of my friends have done so successfully.
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Walt Disney We'll. I usually start writing when not horney but as I start recalling an experience I always get turned on.
I have learned not a great idea to write when both horney and high.... Those stories always seem to get returned for rewrites. Lol
I will often write when I am horny, but what I've found is that I tend to be repetitive and my sentence structure et al goes to shit, however the typing will tend to flow when I'm turned on..
So, what I will do is write at that time, just get it typed out onto the page, then I'll leave it and come back at a later stage and edit it with a clearer head.. Try and mold it into something half decent - with varying degrees of success...
I did find it amusing, when I used to verify stories, that you could totally tell if the writer was turned on when they wrote their story - it would tend to get jumbled, repetitive, lots of mistakes at the saucy bits... It always made me smile, it was so obvious that the blood had left the big head and headed to the little head ;)
I just start writing when I am in a sensual mood, and eventually I find myself almost living what I am writing - well imagining it strongly, and of course that make sme very horny so I then stop and com ebackto it, and the whole cycle goes on and on...damn..better stop writing now!
I worry that if I'm too turned on I will want to rush the scenario and just blaze ahead to the hot and heavy parts. I wonder if a slow burn might serve particular stories better.
I'm typically not horny when I write. Maybe I should be. I don't know, you tell me.
I do notice though that I often hold my breath while writing the naughty bits. Sometimes I'll even act them out in a weird, heavy breathing one man show. But despite the theatrics, I'm always too stressed about the writing to get turned on.
My latest story is a racy little piece about what happens when someone cute from work invites you over to watch Netflix and Chill. I find it easier to come up with the fantasies when I'm horny, but putting the plot around them and writing them is easier when I've blown off some steam, so to speak. These days, finding it hard to get the opportunity either to write or to "blow off steam" hence my lack of recent output on Lush.
I get distracted enough without being horny so I would say no it doesn't help.
That's just me though.
I think it's all to do with the level of horniness and it doesn't have to stay constant over the time of writing.
I tend to start off pretty straight headed, think up my basic plot and characters. I like to write stories that I enjoy and when I have written something that gets me going, then there should be a good chance that it would effect another reader the same way.
I tend to find my horniness increases as the story heats up, but after having to read over it again and again to check for mistakes and just the flow of the story it's ability to make me horny wears off. It's only after posting it and leaving it a few months and then going back and reading again that I get that same feeling of excitement as when I originally wrote it.
Writing makes me horny, so I need to stop every now and then. I then go back through the text cold, so to speak. Dreaming up the action makes me very horny, so I do it in my head, and commit words to paper later.
Sometimes yes, others no. I guess I need to be horny, but not too horny. If I get too horny, then I gotta masturbate. After that, I get back to writing.
For the actual erotic parts, I think arousal can help.
But for the framework around those scenes, the real fiction, I want to be sharp and alert.
That's just how I approach it.
Hmm, what's it like to 'not be horny'....? Not sure I am familiar with such a state ;)
When I start writing I'm always really into the story line. The sex is just part of the story line, not always my focus. But, for some parts I need to be in that mood. I lose myself in the head of my characters. I'll get horny while I'm working on it, imagining it in my head as I transcribe the scene. Sometimes I'm "working" on it physically or mentally for days. My partner tends to enjoy that.UHjTmYtNzlcdTumm He is always eager to help out anyway that he can. I do strongly recommend going back over whatever you have written in a fairly sedate state.
I don't know that it helps my writing, but I have noticed that I have more drive to write when I haven't "let off steam" recently.
I think it certainly helps when writing the sexual parts, especially when your story's based on past experiences it can help you get & feel in the zone & make it easier to describe what you're writing.. Needless to say if you're not horny when you start writing, you are by the time you're finished!!
Kinda explains why I can't get anything written anymore.MUjyoPnKEk3PFQZK 
As lemanruss said above me though; editing and proofreading should be saved for when you're cold and not bothered.
Do my stories leave you on the edge? 
way you write is like the ultimate carrot on the stick for me - nothing but gratitude and joy for your words. 
