Do you ever think about what we do?

[panaflora]

Oh, ditto. God, she was glorious.

So passionate, and so quickly stricken. Excuse me, I have to go have a cry now.

 

[Codoc24]

Yeah, I've got to admit the attention is nice (when it comes and if it comes).

In terms of me in GROUP I rarely get comments on my stuff but with one exception they have been largely positive, which is nice. As for the characters directing the story, there's nothing really wrong with that. I let them guide me all the time and often they will lead the story where it needs to go without you telling them to. If they have an interesting dark aside to take you down then that's where the story should be.

I do that frequently, I'll have one idea of what direction the story should go but then somewhere along the way it develops a mind of its own and goes off in some other direction.

 

[DeLaFaye]

That song from Annie Get Your Guns come to mind

"Anything you can do, I can do better."

That song popped this into my mind - a quad relationship (I'm assuming two males, two females and everyones bi and poly, hence the quad) and they're all super competitive, trying to out screw/suck/stimulate/etc. the others, two on two seems like more fun visually in the moment, but I think round robin would be more accurate if you were to actually create a scoring system.

I just really want to see Bob and Linda arguing over who sucks Chris' cock better while Amy is bitching in the background because no one else will wash a single fucking dish. Moments later Chris comes home, gets jumped, Amy is still scrubbing the same damn lasagna pan while the three of them are going at in the living room. Bob and Linda demand to know who's better. Chris, with his throbbing member, confess no one knows what they're doing quite like Amy, because while she's not afraid to get her hands dirty, she also hates to if she doesn't have to, and gets the job done blissfully hands free. Amy agrees to teach/train Bob and Linda IF they'll take on dish duty for the month.

Oof...that one kinda got away from me...

 

[Zootonius]

That song popped this into my mind - a quad relationship (I'm assuming two males, two females and everyones bi and poly, hence the quad) and they're all super competitive, trying to out screw/suck/stimulate/etc. the others, two on two seems like more fun visually in the moment, but I think round robin would be more accurate if you were to actually create a scoring system.

I just really want to see Bob and Linda arguing over who sucks Chris' cock better while Amy is bitching in the background because no one else will wash a single fucking dish. Moments later Chris comes home, gets jumped, Amy is still scrubbing the same damn lasagna pan while the three of them are going at in the living room. Bob and Linda demand to know who's better. Chris, with his throbbing member, confess no one knows what they're doing quite like Amy, because while she's not afraid to get her hands dirty, she also hates to if she doesn't have to, and gets the job done blissfully hands free. Amy agrees to teach/train Bob and Linda IF they'll take on dish duty for the month.

Oof...that one kinda got away from me...

It that a story you wrote, or one you are thinking of? I might be willing to read that.

 

[DeLaFaye]

It that a story you wrote, or one you are thinking of? I might be willing to read that.

It's just a blurb/scene that popped into my head. Overactive imagination and all that.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

It's just a blurb/scene that popped into my head. Overactive imagination and all that.

if you want to go for it as there’s a ton of ideas flying around that’s fine. I’ve just been trying to create new handles for people that aren’t already in use.

Theallseeingaye
Dragon_in_law
Garth_Wader
Mister_E_gest
Darittenwurd
SueMagoo
G0l1ath

 

[DeLaFaye]

if you want to go for it as there’s a ton of ideas flying around that’s fine. I’ve just been trying to create new handles for people that aren’t already in use.

Theallseeingaye
Dragon_in_law
Garth_Wader
Mister_E_gest
Darittenwurd
SueMagoo
G0l1ath

I just want to hug your brain!

 

[Euphony]

We spend hours of our time hunched over a pad and paper, old computer or laptop, crafting narratives laced with experience, fantasies or just plain made-up scenarios to titillate and turn-on people we will never meet or encounter, OR, even if we do encounter them, wouldn't know them from Adam.

Mostly unapologetic. In the grand scheme of our society, working on story craft is far less absurd than pouring hours into video games, Netflix, online avatars, twitter arguments over hypotheticals sure to go nowhere, or hitting dimpled balls down grass lawns hoarding obscene amounts of labor and water resources. To a degree, much of what we societally engage in is absurd.

Story is how we communicate. It predates written history and was critical to our brain evolution. Even with all the advancements, story finds a place (as it's likely innate to the human condition) and soldiers on.

If it enriches you mentally, spiritually, emotionally, however it does, it is no less absurd than a million other options we regularly recreate in. There's a societal push to turn everything into another capitalism darling, turning things expressly done for the sake of self-enrichment into side hustle number 5.

Something gets lost, especially restorative creativity,. when diversions are turned into yet another occupation. Zero issue with those who choose to but there is a pressure to put everything we do through a "but how does it make money?" lens.

Sometimes we need to do things to NOT be in that ever present state and head space.

Writing, specifically, has been shown to be therapeutic but it doesn't have to measure up to other pastimes.

Do what enriches you however you need enrichment. Prune little happy trees. Strive towards wellness b/c it's the most important thing you have.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

I just want to hug your brain!

I was really pleased with Garth_Wader as it’s obviously someone who enjoys fishing and Star Wars

 

[yowser]

Mostly unapologetic. In the grand scheme of our society, working on story craft is far less absurd than pouring hours into video games, Netflix, online avatars, twitter arguments over hypotheticals sure to go nowhere, or hitting dimpled balls down grass lawns hoarding obscene amounts of labor and water resources. To a degree, much of what we societally engage in is absurd.

Do what enriches you however you need enrichment. Prune little happy trees. Strive towards wellness b/c it's the most important thing you have.

Thanks for this, a reminder of first values.

At university I learned early on that I didn't know much about something unless I could write about it.

Then while writing I became aware of how much I didn't know, my ignorance was spread before me like a vast plain to the horizon, and I was motivated to fill in whatever gaps I could.

Making fiction allows creation: of people, places and experiences. There are whole universes to explore.

 

[gunhilltrain]

if you want to go for it as there’s a ton of ideas flying around that’s fine. I’ve just been trying to create new handles for people that aren’t already in use.

Theallseeingaye
Dragon_in_law
Garth_Wader
Mister_E_gest
Darittenwurd
SueMagoo
G0l1ath

What is the letter-limit on usernames? (I could just look it up.) You're not going to change your own, are you?

 

[Emilymcplugger]

What is the letter-limit on usernames? (I could just look it up.) You're not going to change your own, are you?

I didn’t know there was, but no, I don’t intend to change mine.

The reason I was thinking about this is because if the FUCK-BOOK CLUB story were to be real we’d need to make sure that any name we pick as an avatar for the characters does not exist already on Literotica. Thankfully these ones don’t.

 

[DeLaFaye]

I was really pleased with Garth_Wader as it’s obviously someone who enjoys fishing and Star Wars

It does feel like the stand out.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I didn’t know there was, but no, I don’t intend to change mine.

The reason I was thinking about this is because if the FUCK-BOOK CLUB story were to be real we’d need to make sure that any name we pick as an avatar for the characters does not exist already on Literotica. Thankfully these ones don’t.

That's a tough issue, because supposedly two million people joined here in the last two decades. I don't know if Lit ever culls the list. In any case, surely many of them have left since then, and others have passed. One can delete one's own account, although I suspect many are simply abandoned over time.

I don't know how you would cross-reference your list to what's on Lit. You'll probably just have to wing it. Hey, it's disclaimer time - "no real members are depicted here," etc.

 

[gunhilltrain]

That song from Annie Get Your Guns come to mind

"Anything you can do, I can do better."

I also like another song from that.

The gals with umbrellas are always out with fellers
In the rain or the blazin' sun.
But a man never trifles with gals who carry rifles
Oh, you can't get a man with a gun.

 

[Euphony]

Thanks for this, a reminder of first values.

At university I learned early on that I didn't know much about something unless I could write about it.

Then while writing I became aware of how much I didn't know, my ignorance was spread before me like a vast plain to the horizon, and I was motivated to fill in whatever gaps I could.

Making fiction allows creation: of people, places and experiences. There are whole universes to explore.

Thanks but merely passing on the ideas graciously taught to me.

The greatest rumination on the wonders of creativity I've ever experienced was given to me by Elizabeth Gilbert. (yes, of Eat, Pray, Love fame) To say I was gobsmacked by someone so antithetical to logical me reshaping my creative experiences and the nature in which I relate to them (a.k.a. my muse) is an understatement.

It's hard to know if it can can connect with others as it did me (probabilities say unlikely) but man oh man did her book "Big Magic" strike a chord with me. I read far too little but couldn't put it down and the audiobook was an even grander experience. (probably important to focus on it rather than use it more as background noise as can happen with audiobooks.)

If anyone is at all into creativity, I'd suggest exploring it just to see if it may take hold. She's a library going public darling so there's a good chance Big Magic is free through your local, likely even as an audiobook.

You truly could have nothing to lose but much to gain if you give her thoughts a chance to confirm, deny, or inspire your own. (like I almost didn't.)

​

 

[cuppatea]

.

It's hard to know if it can can connect with others as it did me (probabilities say unlikely) but man oh man did her book "Big Magic" strike a chord with me. I read far too little but couldn't put it down and the audiobook was an even grander experience. (probably important to focus on it rather than use it more as background noise as can happen with audiobooks.)

​

Thanks for the recommendation, @Euphony.

 

[tenyari]

I rarely have my reader in mine when writing the story. I will have my own desires in mind - both erotic and non erotic. But my readers are something I think about after it's out there and I'm desperately hoping someone has the same interests as me and will let me know about it.

When writing I'm mostly in the moment. I do have an idea that I want things to end on a certain note either set things up well for future stories or give a conclusion that to me feels like "the story of these people is done."

I write fiction first, speculative exploration second (exploring notions of spirituality, socio-political science, and 'hard' astrophysics), and then erotica third. I may put that into one of the sillier kinks out here - the "OMG we're naked and horny" genre... but the stuff I write is more exploratory than it is kink despite all the references I toss in to naked people being silly. It's kind of a thing for me to use erotica to lure people into stories where they have to feel stuff and wonder about things all while keeping one hand busy below the desk...

So that is where I am thinking about things. Half my edits after a draft is done are to correct science facts, and the other half are to make sure jokes resonate right or properly 'throw a distraction' (when I was younger I would laugh during sex - so I try to see if I can get the same result in my sex scenes). Oh and the third half is to fix typos and put in details I thought I had put in but didn't - writing stream of thought means sometimes your thoughts have moved too fast and you part parts 1 and 3 but forget 2.

So yeah... reader isn't much in mind when writing it, other things are - but I'm desperate for the attention once it's out there...

 

[djrip]

I rarely have my reader in mine when writing the story. I will have my own desires in mind - both erotic and non erotic. But my readers are something I think about after it's out there and I'm desperately hoping someone has the same interests as me and will let me know about it.

When writing I'm mostly in the moment. I do have an idea that I want things to end on a certain note either set things up well for future stories or give a conclusion that to me feels like "the story of these people is done."

I write fiction first, speculative exploration second (exploring notions of spirituality, socio-political science, and 'hard' astrophysics), and then erotica third. I may put that into one of the sillier kinks out here - the "OMG we're naked and horny" genre... but the stuff I write is more exploratory than it is kink despite all the references I toss in to naked people being silly. It's kind of a thing for me to use erotica to lure people into stories where they have to feel stuff and wonder about things all while keeping one hand busy below the desk...

So that is where I am thinking about things. Half my edits after a draft is done are to correct science facts, and the other half are to make sure jokes resonate right or properly 'throw a distraction' (when I was younger I would laugh during sex - so I try to see if I can get the same result in my sex scenes). Oh and the third half is to fix typos and put in details I thought I had put in but didn't - writing stream of thought means sometimes your thoughts have moved too fast and you part parts 1 and 3 but forget 2.

So yeah... reader isn't much in mind when writing it, other things are - but I'm desperate for the attention once it's out there...

I've been looking forward to reading some... They're in my now 500 strong to read list. That's it, moving them up the queue!

 

[SirBurnInside]

I rarely get that turned on by my own stories. I started writing them because I just liked writing and after some positive feedback I found I liked knowing I'd made people happy so carried on doing so, or at least trying to.

Of course I've had PLENTY of negative responses too, but I don't care about that and instead focus on those who do favourite my stories and or praise them.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

That's a tough issue, because supposedly two million people joined here in the last two decades. I don't know if Lit ever culls the list. In any case, surely many of them have left since then, and others have passed. One can delete one's own account, although I suspect many are simply abandoned over time.

I don't know how you would cross-reference your list to what's on Lit. You'll probably just have to wing it. Hey, it's disclaimer time - "no real members are depicted here," etc.

She probably just went to setup another accoint and typed in the names to see if they pass or fail. Not much crossreferencing needed. I don't think one can just simply change their name without Laurel or Manu, so that would be the only option, other than bothering them and asking them to crossreference the memberlist. I don't intend to change my name, so that's just a guess on that one part. If there's a member search, that might be an option, too, on the main site.

 

[gunhilltrain]

She probably just went to setup another accoint and typed in the names to see if they pass or fail. Not much crossreferencing needed. I don't think one can just simply change their name without Laurel or Manu, so that would be the only option, other than bothering them and asking them to crossreference the memberlist. I don't intend to change my name, so that's just a guess on that one part. If there's a member search, that might be an option, too, on the main site.

I did tell that person I know to remove her address from Facebook, and she did it. It was a picture of an Amazon label; the topic was the coffee maker she had bought.

I'd have to check more about that woman in Seattle. As for Lit, you could probably place me within a mile based on my stories, bio, and user name. (Many of the stories are within ten miles of me; some are less than that.) It's very densely populated, so that post of the guy finding me is pretty tongue-in-cheek. No computer work needed; just weeks of roaming around the neighborhood and he wouldn't know what to look for anyway.

Is anybody that crazy? Maybe. For some reason I've been watching footage of the Parkland school shooter trial. (Cruz in 2018.) He didn't kill himself (he left his guns behind) and he didn't try suicide by cop, as that person in Nashville did last week. Now he was crazy, but you'd by hard-pressed to know it because of the calm demeanor he usually presented.

 

[Duleigh]

Recently I spend a lot of time wondering how we got so many Emilys

 

[Emilymcplugger]

Recently I spend a lot of time wondering how we got so many Emilys

There’s a lot of me about

 

[oneagainst]

There’s a lot of me about

Requiring a collective noun...? Starlings already have the murmuration