Quote by PeepingThomas
The ones that feel ‘so experienced, so many times, this is one of those times’, sounds like they’re having morning breakfast.
Right. There's no tension in those stories, because there's nothing at stake, nothing to be gained or lost. It's just people doing what they normally do without any sense of conflict. If a story is going to be interesting, the characters need some significant (in the eyes of the character) challenge to overcome. Without it, the reader is left asking "so what?" Why does this matter? Why are you telling me this?
"I got laid last night by my wife. We did it in missionary, and reverse cowgirl, and doggy style, and then I came on her tits." Is a pretty fucking boring story.
"I met this strange woman last night who did everything in her power to try to seduce me to cheat on my wife. I was so tempted because she was so hot, but I somehow managed with all my white-knuckled strength of will to resist her. Then I found out that my wife had put one of her friends up to it to test my loyalty, and luckily I passed. So, I got laid last night by my wife. We did it in missionary, and reverse cowgirl, and doggy style, and then I came on her tits." The sex is verbatim the same, but now there's some sense of risk or challenge, and sex serves as the well-deserved happy ending. It's more exciting because we know what the narrator had to overcome to get it. The story is in the lead-up, not in the sex.
Without tension or conflict, it's just a fact (and not a particularly interesting or unique one). Just because a story is "true" doesn't excuse it from being an actual story.