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ChrissieLecker
Over 90 days ago
Lesbian Female, 51
Germany
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For me it wasn't Lady Chatterley but the Diaries of Fanny Hill, which were somehow misplaced into the bookshelf in our living room instead of my parents' secret stash. I was fourteen and tended to read everything I could get my fingers on. I encountered Henry Miller a little later, but the real epiphany came when we discovered a stack of pure porn novellas in a friend's attic. Those had apparently come as freebies with sex toys her parents had mail-ordered. The stories were explicit, sometimes a bit clumsy, but some of them were brilliantly imaginative. From that moment I was, as Shyboy said, hooked, line and sinker and all. It still took years until the internet became commonplace and access to it affordable, but I still remember that the first thing I did after buying my modem (and struggling to get it to connect with the help of a friend and a very patient hotline worker) was to search (not google, back then) for sex stories. I soon discovered places like asstr.org and didn't feel the tiniest urge to go out for the next few weekends ;) That was also the time I started to write my own (increasingly) erotic stories, though I'm rather glad that I used another pen name back then.
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Hehe, nice. An absolutely adorable alliterative attempt to draw attention to the contest 
RumpleForeskin's story is definitely worth reading, I like it a lot. But don't forget that there are other perfectly perverted pieces of prose participating in the contest! Read them all and let yourself get skillfully seduced.
RumpleForeskin's story is definitely worth reading, I like it a lot. But don't forget that there are other perfectly perverted pieces of prose participating in the contest! Read them all and let yourself get skillfully seduced.
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Quote by sirrobertstories
Literary quality or style, among others, are necessary to build a good story to a certain extent, but I don't think they are among the most important criteria for the majority of the voters.
Just to clarify, by "here" I meant this forum thread, not lush in general. In the latter case you are, without doubt, right.
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I take the votes with quite some grains of salt, and I'm aware that looking at a single story's score tells almost naught. I do use them as a comparison tool to see how different techniques, perspectives and choices of words may tickle the readers' fancy, but that requires stories in the same category and with similar topics to work.
That said, I'm very much with the majority here and try to score based on the literary quality and not on the topic and setting. And I never vote on topics that are totally out of my comfort zone (not that there are too many of those).
That said, I'm very much with the majority here and try to score based on the literary quality and not on the topic and setting. And I never vote on topics that are totally out of my comfort zone (not that there are too many of those).
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I've got a whole bunch of fragments from just scribbling away without true aim when I can't seem to find the words to continue on the "big" pieces or when an isolated idea just begs to be brought to paper. I started doing that as a preparation for NaNoWriMo, to see if I had a chance at all to meet a certain word count in a given time even if my muse left me hanging. A number of those fragments have taken on a life of their own already. Most of my stories here on lush are built on them, small detours from those two 70k novels which are resting on my harddrive and pleading to be revised and edited.
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I'd like to disagree with Nabokov, stonedcrab. Even if it hasn't been done, or not in a way that found appreciation, there is no reason why a pornograhic story could not also be high literature. In my opinion, the wall that divides pornography from literature is quite a thin one, and always moving. Examples like the Diaries of Fanny Hill or Henry Miller's works illustrate that once popular morale has shifted enough, a formerly condemned novel becomes an accepted and in some cases even even highly acclaimed piece of literature.
To come back to the original question - to write sex differently, write a different story. Just a little bit of plot is enough to make characters react in a different way, have different feeling and thoughts. Don't get stuck with the main event, like in a good meal, its the spices and colors that count. We readers know what a cock looks like, but we're not aware of the birth mark on its owner's hip and that his pubic hair has a touch of red in it, and when we try to wrap our lips around the tip of the cock to start our first ever blowjob, we might just be startled by the chime of the old wall clock and lean forward a bit too fast, which makes us take it deeper than planned and gives us that startled deer-in-the-headlight look. Add the unexpected, like chillie flakes on a roasted banana or balsamic vinegar in the strawberry dessert. Make it a question of not what happens, but how it does. Play with circumstances, drop a few conflicting emotions into the mix and stir. Play with intensity. A climax can be hard, forceful, or soft and sweet. It can be loud, filled with grunting and shouted obsceneties, or quiet, with suppressed moans. It can have your skin tingle, your nipples burn, your eyes water, or just be a vulcano erupting from your loins. And don't stop here. Sex is, mostly, not over that quick. There are aftershocks traveling through the body, there's sensitivity that makes each touch sweet torture. There's this bunch of butterflies dancing under your skin and making you weightless. There are thousand emotions that combine with the deep satisfaction to form the unique experience of blissful afterglow.
To come back to the original question - to write sex differently, write a different story. Just a little bit of plot is enough to make characters react in a different way, have different feeling and thoughts. Don't get stuck with the main event, like in a good meal, its the spices and colors that count. We readers know what a cock looks like, but we're not aware of the birth mark on its owner's hip and that his pubic hair has a touch of red in it, and when we try to wrap our lips around the tip of the cock to start our first ever blowjob, we might just be startled by the chime of the old wall clock and lean forward a bit too fast, which makes us take it deeper than planned and gives us that startled deer-in-the-headlight look. Add the unexpected, like chillie flakes on a roasted banana or balsamic vinegar in the strawberry dessert. Make it a question of not what happens, but how it does. Play with circumstances, drop a few conflicting emotions into the mix and stir. Play with intensity. A climax can be hard, forceful, or soft and sweet. It can be loud, filled with grunting and shouted obsceneties, or quiet, with suppressed moans. It can have your skin tingle, your nipples burn, your eyes water, or just be a vulcano erupting from your loins. And don't stop here. Sex is, mostly, not over that quick. There are aftershocks traveling through the body, there's sensitivity that makes each touch sweet torture. There's this bunch of butterflies dancing under your skin and making you weightless. There are thousand emotions that combine with the deep satisfaction to form the unique experience of blissful afterglow.
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My solution to the formerly all too frequent bouts of writers block is keeping a word count and changing my writing aim to avoiding stagnation. I've got a huge folder of unrelated snippets and openings to which I add when I'm stuck with my stories. If I haven't managed to continue one of the "real" stories for ten minutes, I open a blank document and simply start typing whatever comes to my mind, either a situation between people that pops up in my mind or just a completely mundane moment that happened over the day, and on really bad day, just strings of random words pushed into a correct grammatical order. It really doesn't matter, and once I've managed more than 100 words, I allow myself to stop. More often than not, this is enough of an igniting spark to give me an idea for one of my ongoing stories, but if not, I doesn't matter either. Once I'm done, I add the new writing to the word count and am happy that it has increased. At first it may seem a bit unimpressing, but, as time goes by, a week of writer's block isn't a week without writing anymore, but rather a week of slower rising word count, and three weeks of blockage still make 3000 words.
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First, hello to everyone, this is my first post here. Before I start making a fool of myself, I want to say thank you to everyone for posting all those yummy stories here
My philosphy is that characters and backstory are the bread and butter of a story, in that order. Keeping it to so many paragraphs or lines is, unless in a drabble fic, counter productive to my creativity. The important thing is not to avoid backstory, but to go back and edit it until it isn't plain backstory anymore. There are just so many ways to turn description into action. Weave it into direct speech, disassemble it into small parts that are interspersed with talk, action and - most important - small suspense building events. Like a dirty phone talk in public, an awkward slip of the tongue, things like that. It's never too late to sprinkle small erotic bits into a page of scene layout, and if you also manage to add a small bit of humor or a healthy dose of fear and relief, you've got all the spices on the bread-and-butter base to keep the reader entertained. And sometimes those reassembled backstory parts take on a life of their own and the best scenes and most beautiful openings come from them.
So yes, I'd always support going with option C :)
My philosphy is that characters and backstory are the bread and butter of a story, in that order. Keeping it to so many paragraphs or lines is, unless in a drabble fic, counter productive to my creativity. The important thing is not to avoid backstory, but to go back and edit it until it isn't plain backstory anymore. There are just so many ways to turn description into action. Weave it into direct speech, disassemble it into small parts that are interspersed with talk, action and - most important - small suspense building events. Like a dirty phone talk in public, an awkward slip of the tongue, things like that. It's never too late to sprinkle small erotic bits into a page of scene layout, and if you also manage to add a small bit of humor or a healthy dose of fear and relief, you've got all the spices on the bread-and-butter base to keep the reader entertained. And sometimes those reassembled backstory parts take on a life of their own and the best scenes and most beautiful openings come from them.
So yes, I'd always support going with option C :)