...This is a subject that I should actually be able to give advice on!!
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Theoretically.
Uh, practice is definitely a big thing, obviously - it became a lot easier to write porn after I had some of it under my belt (so to speak), not least because it stopped being such a major deal in my head. But that doesn't mean I don't still often reach that place in the story where I go "okay now sex goes here" and throw down horrendously awkward sounding (to me) sentences like pulling teeth until I get them to orgasm. I am pretty sure everyone who writes porn does this sometimes. I have a lot of stories like that (especially for challenges) and some of them are not actually horrible in retrospect.
But the ones that I am much happier with are the ones where I started writing the story knowing vaguely what I wanted out of the sex scene going in? Meaning either a mental image or an emotional feeling or a line of porny dialogue is what inspired me to start the story in the first place, or there's a particular kink I want to focus on (especially if it's one that's meaningful for the characters), or etc. This sort of comes from writing a lot of stories that are centered around the sex though.
I think it's very different from RPing! (I am discovering.) RP is more like having sex, and writing sex scenes is more like choreographing porn. That's a terribly inaccurate analogy. But what I mean is that RP is more of an interaction between the characters, whereas writing something yourself is deliberately setting up for an audience. You can choose what to focus on, and it is almost always the focus that makes it hot.
:|a I am not sure if that is remotely helpful. And I hope I don't come off too preachy, it is not like I am actually an authority on this subject. /o\
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Date: 2010-12-07 09:21 am (UTC)...
Theoretically.
Uh, practice is definitely a big thing, obviously - it became a lot easier to write porn after I had some of it under my belt (so to speak), not least because it stopped being such a major deal in my head. But that doesn't mean I don't still often reach that place in the story where I go "okay now sex goes here" and throw down horrendously awkward sounding (to me) sentences like pulling teeth until I get them to orgasm. I am pretty sure everyone who writes porn does this sometimes. I have a lot of stories like that (especially for challenges) and some of them are not actually horrible in retrospect.
But the ones that I am much happier with are the ones where I started writing the story knowing vaguely what I wanted out of the sex scene going in? Meaning either a mental image or an emotional feeling or a line of porny dialogue is what inspired me to start the story in the first place, or there's a particular kink I want to focus on (especially if it's one that's meaningful for the characters), or etc. This sort of comes from writing a lot of stories that are centered around the sex though.
I think it's very different from RPing! (I am discovering.) RP is more like having sex, and writing sex scenes is more like choreographing porn. That's a terribly inaccurate analogy. But what I mean is that RP is more of an interaction between the characters, whereas writing something yourself is deliberately setting up for an audience. You can choose what to focus on, and it is almost always the focus that makes it hot.
:|a I am not sure if that is remotely helpful. And I hope I don't come off too preachy, it is not like I am actually an authority on this subject. /o\