How did you guys find your genre or niche or any topic????

[ShelbyDawn57]

I wrote my first story, not the first one I published, after a girl I worked with shared her transition story with me, helping me come to grips with my own being transgendered. I’ve strayed a few times, but the early feedback on my stories showed me that a positive voice in that space was sorely needed. I’ve since found that my writing is also very therapeutic for me. A few of my stories contain a great deal of my personal story.

 

[Memoirserotic]

Hope you’re all doing well! I have a bit of a funny story (or, well, maybe it's not that funny and more just me being oblivious). Anyway, someone recently asked me how I got into writing- hotwife genre.

And you know what? I completely blanked. I mean, I've been writing it for a while now, and I really enjoy it. I just have lot of stuff I can write in this space.

It made me wonder, though. How do writers find their niches? Is it something that just organically happens? Or is there a specific moment, a story, a character, an experience that just clicks and sparks a whole new world of writing for you?

But now I’m super curious about how everyone else got here (or…got anywhere, in terms of their writing genres!).

Was there a specific event or a spark of inspiration? Or did it develop gradually?

I'm genuinely curious to hear how others found their way into writing the kinds of stories they write. Share your stories! Please!

I was looking for a place to share my cheating wife stories and Literotica was the first site to pop up. This was a couple of years ago. I posted a couple of stories. The comments were amazing. Loved the positive feedback and email I received. But negative comments were downright rude and hurtful. So I stopped writing. Went to Tumblr and posted there instead. However, Tumblr is rather lame anymore and deleted my account. I had well over 50 stories! Ah well, here I am back on Literotica. I don't let the negativity bother me anymore.

 

[RetroFan]

I joined up with the goal of writing stories set in the past (hence my user name) which I usually do. I also wanted to write amusing stories, which I always try to do and have received some positive feedback for this, although comedy is probably the hardest genre to write and is highly subjective.

However I seem to have done better when writing about sad and serious themes in my stories, at least given the feedback. For example I was really nervous some years back when I posted Lesbian Sex story 'April Leads Julie Astray' about two young women deeply troubled by traumatic childhood experiences who have a secret lesbian affair in the early 1960s. I thought the readers would hate the story and say they only wanted sweetness and light stories to arouse them, but to my astonishment they loved it. I've received other positive feedback in other sad stories I've written since then - even the Loving Wives readers in general weren't too harsh on my story about the sinking of the Titanic I posted earlier this year - and in Romance I even won the April Fools Contest in Romance in 2022 with 'The Lost Hours With Annabelle', a story with a sad and haunting ending.

 

[Bassytian]

I have wondered about niches myself. My series is about a femboy elf in a fantasy world and while he does get laid a lot, not every chapter has sexual content. The elf is not transgendered, he is a hyper androgynous male and while he does wear women's clothing, his crossdressing is not a major theme of the story. So I usually post the chapters in Sci-fi/Fantasy but that doesn't seem to be a huge niche here. While Transgender & Crossdressing stories do seem to get much more views, it's not a major theme in my story as I mentioned.

With chapters that do contain sex scenes, I place them in the appropriate categories. I have I/T as well as Group Sex chapters that tend to get more views faster and I plan to include others in the future.

 

[burgwad]

I just keep writing whatever I can, and slowly but surely building up a portfolio. And at this point, I feel like I can say my portfolio has a vibe? But I’m not sure it has a niche or a genre.

 

[WhiteTailDarkTip]

I started writing by reimagining a significant event in my life, and my first story was largely autobiographical. I worried that it would easily identify me if it was read by someone who was there at the time. I rewrote it, making it less personal, and submitted it under Erotic Couplings because I couldn’t think of a better category.
I’ve since submitted under Lesbian Sex, SF & Fantasy, and Romance. I don’t plan, I just write whatever comes into my head and worry about the category later.

 

[Codoc24]

Almost all of my stories have some form of lite BDSM. Usually, the woman is restrained one way or another and is spanked. I think a lot of things I write may be inspired by real life but it is not something I have engaged in. Voyeurism is something I like to write about. Probably because it's hot as hell to watch a woman masturbate. But it has always been a girlfriend or wife. I have never watched one who didn't know I was watching. I wish I could but it feels wrong plus I don't know how that could be done in the first place. I'm not about to try and peep in someone's window. I guess the closest I have ever come is when in college, my girlfriend and I shared a hotel room with my roommate and his GF. We came to the room early and went to bed. They came back later and thought we were asleep. My GF was, but I was awake, and I could hear my roommate's GF giving him a BJ. They were trying to be quiet, but I could still tell what was happening.

 

[other2other1]

I don't think I have fully found my niche yet...

Yes, I have written a dozen LW/Romance stories, but I don't know what defines me as a writer just yet. If anything I think i'm evolving into the space of writing emotional drama, that could fit in a lot of different categories.

 

[nice90sguy]

I posted my first story here in May 2002 because I had a femdom story based on a real experience I wanted to share. It was like a guilty secret, and I was really pleased to discover Literotica, where there were good wrtiters (if you looked for them), and most readers were non-judgemental about kinks.
My first stories were humourless and awkward.

Later in 2002 I posted a humor and satire story, in a completely different vein, which blew up, and got great feedback from everyone. Laurel absoulutely loved it, I guess it was pretty refreshing for her at the time to read a story with that kind of crazy humor. I didn't know that I had a talent for humor until then. After writing a few stories that tapped that vein, I went back to what actually turns me on, which is power-play stories featuring dominant women and submissive guys.

My current story is based on a series of recent long conversations I've had with my brother, whom I've been staying with after he lost his wife to cancer. We've talked a lot about our shared childhood, youth and our later years, when we lived on different continents . Between the two of us, we've been married six times, and have each learned a lot about life!

I learned a lot about him, and about myself from those deep conversations, which have spawned a lot of stories in my head.

 

[THBGato]

For example I was really nervous some years back when I posted Lesbian Sex story 'April Leads Julie Astray' about two young women deeply troubled by traumatic childhood experiences who have a secret lesbian affair in the early 1960s.

Thanks for mentioning this. I read it recently and loved it. I hope you decide to return to the genre.

 

[RetroFan]

Thanks for mentioning this. I read it recently and loved it. I hope you decide to return to the genre.

Thanks for your kind comments, I'm really pleased you liked my story 'April Leads Julie Astray' so much.

 

[Naughtylit81]

My niche is also my biggest kink (surprise!) and when I browsed through interracial love I found that the black woman-white man sub genre was lacking and raceplay was nigh nonexistent.

So I took a roleplaying prompt I have used for years but never been able to find a long term partner for and decided to give that a whirl.

The response was positive so I have just kept at it as best my schedule and mental resiliency will allow.

 

[MostHated]

Hope you’re all doing well! I have a bit of a funny story (or, well, maybe it's not that funny and more just me being oblivious). Anyway, someone recently asked me how I got into writing- hotwife genre.

And you know what? I completely blanked. I mean, I've been writing it for a while now, and I really enjoy it. I just have lot of stuff I can write in this space.

It made me wonder, though. How do writers find their niches? Is it something that just organically happens? Or is there a specific moment, a story, a character, an experience that just clicks and sparks a whole new world of writing for you?

But now I’m super curious about how everyone else got here (or…got anywhere, in terms of their writing genres!).

Was there a specific event or a spark of inspiration? Or did it develop gradually?

I'm genuinely curious to hear how others found their way into writing the kinds of stories they write. Share your stories! Please!

For me it's anything to do with change or transformation and that can be either voluntary, or CNC. The fun starts when I apply that 'kink' to different categories.

 

[Writer61]

My stories are mostly sexual fantasies that I have made up when I cannot get to sleep. Thus they cover subjects that turn me on. Some, such as massage, I have experience of while others, like modelling, I do not.

So far I have placed stories in Erotic Couplings and Exhibitionism & Voyeur, and I have some ideas that might fit into Group Sex or Mature.

I cannot imagine writing anything in a genre or on a subject that does not excite me.

 

[Djmac1031]

I suppose if I had to lay claim to any "niche" in writing, it would be Exhibitionist / Voyeur, because all lot of my stories have wound up in that category.

Didn't intentionally set out for that. My first story was about a prostate massage, something not even really my kink lol.

It was my series The Jenna Arrangement that cemented my E/V niche I suppose, as the whole series revolved around various ways of exploring that fetish / kink

But I've written a lot of other stuff too, including , like @StillStunned, a full fledged Angels And Demons Saga.

I'm sure there's a mix of writers who specifically choose a niche and set out to explore it and those of us who just write and see where we wind up.

Nothing wrong with either approach.

 

[LonRivers]

I guess, for me, it's the erotica that I used to read when I was growing up. A lot of the books that I found were incest stories, and I always thought it was very erotic when a woman would fall in love with her son, and vice-versa. I like to explore that unbreakable bond between a mother and her child more than anything. But I also like Horror and the Supernatural as well, so I am currently trying to blend that into a possible series.

 

[TheRedChamber]

I guess, for me, it's the erotica that I used to read when I was growing up. A lot of the books that I found were incest stories, and I always thought it was very erotic when a woman would fall in love with her son, and vice-versa. I like to explore that unbreakable bond between a mother and her child more than anything. But I also like Horror and the Supernatural as well, so I am currently trying to blend that into a possible series.

I've got to ask - which library/bookstore were you frequenting that stocked incest stories over anything else? Just curious.

 

[LonRivers]

I've got to ask - which library/bookstore were you frequenting that stocked incest stories over anything else? Just curious.

Ha, none. My brothers had plenty of books that they had stashed in their room. I read the books more than I flipped through their Hustler magazines. Those had a tendency to be "well used".

 

[OddLove]

I have always been in to BDSM, even before I started jerking off. Eventually I got bored with porn so I started reading erotica. Naturally I navigated towards BDSM topics.

I started writing my own stories about BDSM because I spend hours everyday fantasizing about the relationships and scenarios that lead to BDSM play. Such as trust building, hesitation, stepping out of comfort zone, respecting boundaries, communicating consent and desires, etc. And since I was having a difficult time finding stories that including those kinds of relationship building elements I tried writing my own. It's been difficult learning proper grammar and stuff, but it's been fun.

Both stories I shared are about closeted gay men coming out of the closet, but all the sex is more focused on the BDSM and relationships more than the actual sex. So it's been hard to know if my stories belong in BDSM topics or Gay Romance topics. I imagine a lot of people here have that issue cause you can't select multiple topics.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I need a genre? I was kinda trying to scattergun every category...

Seriously though, a recurring theme might be called 'dirty romance' - people who have sex quite quickly but only slowly develop feelings for each other.

Lots of friends with benefits, too.

People finding out they might be interested in sexual stuff they hadn't considered, is another theme. People who thought they were gay ending up with someone of the other sex, or a man finding out he might cope with penetration or submission or a woman having a cock. But not 'I thought I was straight until...', because that's kinda boring. Been done to death!

 

[AprilTwenties]

That's tough to answer, boo. I've always been taught to write 'bout what you know, y'know? That's from school upwards. Then I started writing my shit 'cos it was my life story. Finding the right genre? Well, not sure what genre it is. I guess, for some of us, it could fit into lots of different types. I popped mine in BDSM 'cos I am very submissive but could be in so many others...

Here's a link to one of my story series..

https://www.literotica.com/series/se/april-from-teen-to-street-hooker

A x

 

[redgarters]

Such an interesting thread! Thank you all for sharing.
I started like many here by reading a lot, for a long time mostly just for the lovely smut.
But gradually I found that I was enjoying most the slow burn love stories.
When I started writing, not very long ago, I didn't think I had the talent (still don't think so really) to do the slow romance justice, so my stories were either rather direct smut or based on a more personal journey.
As time went by, writers like Onehitwanda, JCMcNeilly, Brokenspokes and others writing slow burn lesbian stories, inspired me to want to do better, and so, When the Dark Dresses Lightly was born. The reception of that took me by surprise, blew my mind really, and inspired me to try my hand at that genre some more. I'm so very proud of it, but I still have no expectations of being able to reproduce that level of writing. The idea and the characters somehow just appeared on the page, effortlessly born out of the Arctic darkness. The story I'm writing now seems much more difficult and forced at times. But, hey, it's a process, right

 

[Nightscream89]

Well I just started writing erotica, but I can explain how I got to this subject.

I really like wife sharing and swinging where the man is calling the shots, so he tells his wife/girl to go fuck another man and she obeys.

I love playing sexual video games, mostly visual novels with choices.
There is 1 game (don't know if I'm allowed to say the title here) where you play a man who is really in charge of his household. In the world of this game it is also normal for people to let their daughters to be adopted into another family as their daughter and the man of that house will have sex with her as well.

Well in this game there is a sharing option, when enabled the MC will sometimes order his wife or 'daughters' to entertain his friends or guests. And I basically noticed that I really enjoyed that part. So since I have looked for and planned more of that sort of games and now I started writing a story in that genre.

 

[grenefire]

I found my niche by writing what I wanted to read about. I’ve always been fascinated by latex and incest stories but I could never find stories that combined those two elements. I found I really love writing mother/daughter stories where one of them introduces latex to their other.

It is a really specific niche that I’m not sure other people are interested in but writing it definitely gets me going

 

[RetroFan]

My stories set during real life disasters seem to be my niche, which seems a bit unusual for an erotic fiction website but I'm certainly not complaining about it.

A Christmas story I wrote about the destruction of the Australian city of Darwin by Cyclone Tracy in 1974 did well, as did a story I wrote about the Titanic earlier this year even though the Titanic one was in Loving Wives. While not a fast-paced disaster like Cyclone Tracy or the Titanic, my story set in England during the 'Big Freeze' during the winter of 1962-1963 where the entire country ground to almost a complete halt due to unusually frigid weather from December to March also scored well with readers. Again while not a disaster story per se, another story I wrote set in World War II England that starts with an air raid during the Blitz was also a ratings winner.

Interestingly, in another story I wrote set in 1977 the two main characters go to the cinema and see a disaster movie. It wasn't a real movie or a real disaster, but the readers seemed to like the fictional disaster movie I created for the characters to watch.

So perhaps writing fiction about real-life disasters in the past is my true calling in writing.