What subjects do you like or hate in a story?

[driphoney]

I'm a diabetic. There's a point at which the sugar in a story spills in my veins and I have to drop it with a "yuck." I can't define where that is. It's just there about the time I think "yuck."

Nice of you to say I can write romance--and I'm busting my butt now to put together an anthology for next March that will be all GM romance (titled Creampuffs), but reviewers constantly say I write rough, not romance. And on the books I've cowritten with my writing partner (Sabb), reviewers say there's a nice justiposition of the romance and the rough, but damned if they don't correctly point out the romance as Sabb's and the rough as mine (we have a book coming out in 17 August, entitled I Met a Man, where we've purposely tried to reverse that).

Rough. You do, and from what I've read -- I save your stories and use them like a chocolate fix, so I haven't blasted through them, but then with a gazillion stories posted . . . talk about a sugar/sex overload! I must pace myself! -- oh yeah, where was I? You do write some rough and one-night-stand type stuff. But when it strikes you, I think you do a great job of conveying tenderness and love. Maybe it comes from just being able to write internal feelings well. I like rough sex, so it works for me, and I don't think that rough necessarily negates romance, if done well. Maybe my sense of what is romantic is warped.

Penis size. Nearly all of my black men have big penises (not only in Lit. stories, but in real life). I'll stoop to write to stereotype to get strokes out of an intentional stroke story. And guess, what. those are the stories that get high readership and are voted high here--at least on my list. My literary stories only attract a small, select readership. (Nicely loyal, though.) I always have a well-hung man around in my stories. They sell.

I forgot, you do write big cocks well. If anyone here wants to see how to describe a large penis and make it hot, take a look at how SR does it. Do you see any reference to numbers? No! I hadn't thought about it before, but maybe it's more important in gm lit for it to have a well-hung male.

 

[Mike7788]

I hate when you get to the actual sex and its written poorly. Nothing ruins a story more. Especially when its so well written before it.

See: "Shipwrecked with my son" or something to that extent as an example. You will understand after.

 

[MiliktheRed]

Mike, I totally get what you mean. I would rather read about one simple act that was described creatively and in detail than an encounter that has the charactors in muliple acts and or positions without proper descriptions. I've read to many stories where the action consisted basically of "He fucked her hard for what seemed like hours before he spilled his cum deep inside her wet pussy."
Frankly, who has time to get off if the action is as short as that. If there is one strength to my own writing, its that the sex is both believable and well described at length.

 

[zex95966]

For me personally, I hate it when people start the story right in the action, without describing anything else. why? well for me, I just need to be able to visualize everything. I can't Visualize it well when nothing is described to me.

as mentioned earlier by someone else, character development helps me a lot too. It allows me to get into the characters minds and think how they think.

also mentioned is realism, it completely breaks the story for me if I don't believe that a person would actually do what they do, with the background they have. for example; a virgin living a sheltered life, knowing exactly how to please a person, and then screwing every guy she meets and talking dirty as well. If she never heard words like cock or slut, she isn't gonna learn them just because she's getting horny!

when these things are done right, sometimes for me I find that things I never thought I would get turned on by, are doing a damn good job of it. For example, I didn't think I could get turned on by anal sex at all. Then I read this story that did a great job describing what the girl was thinking and the moment was intense in the story, and I was harder than I have been in a long time. In fact the story had 2 elements that i never thought would turn me on, the first being anal and the second being non-consent. I never would have found the story if not by accident.

 

[MiliktheRed]

Zex, here's an irony. I just read a feedback on one of my stories in which the reader felt that the back story was too long. The whole story fit in two pages on the lit board and the sex started about halfway through. I understood the readers point, but it goes to show that you can't please everybody.
By the way, do you remember the name of the non-consent story that you referred to? I would like to read it for myself.

 

[ericahope]

also mentioned is realism, it completely breaks the story for me if I don't believe that a person would actually do what they do, with the background they have. for example; a virgin living a sheltered life, knowing exactly how to please a person, and then screwing every guy she meets and talking dirty as well. If she never heard words like cock or slut, she isn't gonna learn them just because she's getting horny!

I agree completely with this one! If someone is going to break out of their mold, then the author has to do a good job of explaining what made them do it.

Even the simple "housewife does the pizza delivery guy" story, I at least want to know why she did him. Was she lonely? Was her husband cheating on her? Did the pizza guy force her to? The average woman wouldn't just do it with a random guy who dropped by her house no matter how good looking he was.

Erica

 

[SevenOfSpade]

What subjects interest you in a story? Romance? Novels? Or are you more interested in steamier fair like erotic encounters? Is it the cutting edge that does it for you like taboos or non- consent.
As a writer it would be helpful to know what the readership is looking for. I'm writing a novel that attempts to explore various avenues of human sexuality and I'm very interested to know what people want in a story.
My apologies up front if this is the wrong forum for this thread but it is first so I'm bound to make mistakes..

Well, I personally like a story which has a nice development through out. Not just "BAM, BAM, BAM" then suddenly there is sex. I mean how weird is that. It's kinda awkward. No offence though. Simply my opinion.

My favourite category is mind control mixed with incest. Incest that is brother/sister only though. XD There is very little of these stories around or I simply don't have the luck to find them. I especially like it when the brother have the mind control powers. It turns me on.

What I dislike is BDSM. Well, sorry to all the BDSM lovers out there, but I just can't seem to like it. Don't get me wrong, i dislike it, not HATE it. I still read them time to time if it's an exceptionally good piece of work. Ah well, just my opinion.

SevenOfSpade

 

[MiliktheRed]

What really turns me on is a story with well rounded charactors that have been given enough background to make everything make sense. I don't want to read paragraph after paragraph of ramblings that don't pertain directly with what is comming, and I don't care to just jump right into the sex without knowing the whats and why's of their relationship. Its a thin razor's edge for a write to accomplish but it sets a story up beautifully when its done right.
When the sex starts, I want emotion as well as good discriptions of the action as it unfolds. Even if the charactors engage in only basic missionary sex, it can be very exciting if the writer expresses it well. On the other hand, even the most extreme acts can be quite boring if it is expressed to quickly or without addressing how the charactors are feeling about it.
Sex whether in real life or in erotica should be wet, lustful, and explosive. Otherwise it's just jacking off...