I put out this question on another thread before I found this one, which is more pertinent:
How do you edit a published story? I found several typos that both I and the mod overlooked, and I'd like to clean it up if I can.
I would never change anything of major import in a published story. If I came up with a better, more clever phrase, I'll just use it somewhere else.
Stories are like children: you nurture them and raise them. Publishing is akin to them graduating college or getting married - starting their lives on their own. Whatever you have done to shape them is by and large in the past, and they are their own people now.
It seems this HAS to have been covered somewhere in these forums (but I'm not going to comb through all of them looking for it).
Do you prefer to read or write 1st, 2nd or 3rd person porn?
For me, it's all 1st person, although I just co-wrote a 2nd person story here, because the story screamed for that POV. 1st person puts me there in the moment.
I mostly skip 3rd person porn (although I read my friends' stories no matter what, because it's important to me to support them). For sex, it's rare that the omnipotent POV works for me (completely subjectively, not at all objectively).
2nd person can be interesting, because it also feels intimate.
What are your preferences?
I usually have about three stories going at a time, a habit that I also employ in my non-erotic work. Generally, at some point one of them demands to be finished first, while some fall to the wayside completely if a more interesting idea barges into my head. With several projects, even if no fresh inspiration comes your way, you fall back on the craft and forge ahead. Often, doing this will lead you to fresh inspiration. M. Night Shyamalan said that he didn't realize that the Bruce Willis character in 'The Sixth Sense' needed to be (*SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!*) dead until the TENTH DRAFT.
I try to write something every day, usually in the morning before work or after dinner in the evening, no matter how busy I am with life.
I often come home from work with post-a-notes of clever phrases or story turns that come to me during the day, maybe an idea for a new story.
I like silence or the TV on in the background, not music. I write in solitude. I would never work on a script at a Starbucks (prevalent here in L.A.).
My only ritual would be to make sure I write something, even if I delete it later.
For a script, I use Final Draft and I constantly print it out and write extensively on the paper, rewriting as I go, but for sex stories, it's all keyboard and screen (and post-a-notes).
This is a great thread, because everyone is different, and just reading other people's habits can affect your own. It's like when you have sex with someone who uses techniques that are new to you: you try them out and see if you can make them work for you.
I thank everyone who comments. If the comment is made by a friend, I like to express my gratitude in private correspondence. So many people read (or at least visit the story), a few vote, and even fewer comment, so it is special that someone takes the time to give you that feedback.
Recognition is a very important aspect to the writing itself, but not in and of itself. I write because the process is fun, and finishing a story always feels so good.
Not to try to take over the thread, but is there a way to edit a published story? I found several typos that both I and the mod overlooked, and I'd like to clean it up if I can.
I love sitting back, watching others fuck, but if there was no offer of participation, I would most likely decline. I'm not a passenger on this sailboat: I want to be part of the crew.
Prior to 2004, no, but I had only been involved in group sex three or four times, during my band days, and it was always fucking girls in the band van or somewhere after a gig (my bass player and I were a great team), and there was NO interplay between the men.
After 2004, sexuality between the males is a requirement for meeting.
Yes, but then again, I don't play with other men involved in groups of any number if it's not understood that the guys will at least suck each other's cocks (and at best, fuck me in the ass).
Not really. 'If it ain't hard, it ain't worth a fuck.'
I only like the look when a cock I'm personally involved with started out hard and it got soft after cumming - that enlarged, after-sex limp cock is a nice look.
I act girlie when I'm dressed and having sex with someone (or by myself), but it's not the sex kitten stuff, it's more like a very direct woman with strong and specific appetites.
My problem is (aside from my big man's face) is my 'girl voice' is a joke. I try and do low sexy Lauren Bacall because I really can't do anything else. I can do 'Monty Python' women's voices, but that's like... zero sexy.
What songs get so stuck in your head that you turn them off as soon as you hear the first notes?
Another One Bites The Dust by Queen
Miss You by The Rolling Stones
That 'Cars For Kids' commercial song by some heartless fuckface
It varies: if someone else is stroking it, it's difficult to get the timing right for any great distance, so the performance is spotty. If I'm doing it myself, the first big one can go five feet or further, then the squirts become subject to diminishing returns.
Just looking at your current Avatar would inspire great distances...
I love it. Whether I'm inside her or not, I love to see women masturbate.
It depends on how we met, If somewhere out in real life, then no - I would continue to see if a relationship could form.
If I met her on a hookup site, it would still be no, but with qualifiers. If she became my girlfriend/partner in crime, there could be no cheating (it's not cheating if you know or are watching/participating). If she wants to continue to meet other people on her own without my knowledge, then she would merely be a Fuck Buddy.
I used to, but I've since gotten rid of the wife and gained a wardrobe.
I'm a practicing bisexual, so yes. Absolutely.
I licked it out of my ex-wife early in our relationship, when sex was still fun (and existent), but she was way too sexually boring to actually squat on my face to do it. All my play after my divorce has been safe sex only (my requirement) so sperm only enters my mouth, and I never come directly into any orifice besides the mouth. My stories, unless noted as true, are like many on the site (I presume): idealized situations where anything goes.
I love drinking cum straight from the tap.
As a shameless exhibitionist, abso-fucking-lutely! Any 'standard' genre (not pissing or anything I view as 'weird').
Totally totally. Cock inside my body is the greatest discovery in my adult life after 40. It was like discovering pussy many years ago, but fabulously different. Sometimes when I'm wanking one out, my ass literally starts itching to be filled, and when I'm en route to the real thing, it's not unusual for my ass to throb in anticipation.
Please excuse me if this has been covered somewhere in the previous 151 pages (I didn't read them all).
I think it would be great to have a search option for things other than stories.
For example, among others: rank definitions (no, I don't mean definitions that are foul) - this weekend I suddenly became a forum guru - figured out that it was for posting 100 times. I cannot find what the rankings are and how you attain them, and I'm mystified: do you get to make up your own? Example: Dancing_Doll's rank is 'Alpha Blonde' - I'd love to find the place where I can see what that means, but haven't found it yet. The badges are defined, but not the rankings.
A separate search box for this and many other things would be awesome.
PS: I tried the other search option, but it only seems to lead to forum posts on the subject matter, rather than official site information. Maybe I'm just not using it right.
Songs that choke me up/bring a tear:
Labelled With Love (Squeeze)
Tears in Heaven
In the Arms of the Angels
Danny Boy (old, but still true)
He Went to Paris (Buffet)
Oklahoma USA (The Kinks)
There are more, can't think of them now.
Never mind, after looking through the thread above me, the person asking about a title isn't here anymore (apparently to the dismay of no one).
Maybe they should title it: 'Won't be Back'.
