How to write moaning noises?

[MelissaBaby]

Beyond impressed that you can quote George Jones songs...

My fav:
Oh, She was hotter than a two dollar pistol
She was the fastest thing around
Long and lean, every young man's dream
She turned every head in town
She was built and fun to handle, son
I'm glad that you dropped in
She reminds me of the one I loved back then

You can take the girl out of the country…

 

[Trionyx]

How to write moaning noises?​

I don't.

 

[Cagivagurl]

Thanks....

 

[Priscilla_June]

Eeeeeahhhh!

Ohhhhhhhh

Eaaaghhhhh!

Hmmmmfuck!

Ahhhhhhh!

 

[AllenWoody]

I still write out some sounds of pleasure, but more and more I describe them. So, instead of writing "Ohhhhhhhh, oooooh," I write "Without even realizing it, Lexi had been holding back her breath. Now, as she climaxed, she let it free in a soft, sweet exhalation that seemed to originate not just from her lungs but from every corner of her bliss-wrapped body."

That said, I was writing "Oh, oh, oooh," just a few minutes ago.

 

[AllenWoody]

I have a couple of stories with a cat-woman who purrs.

Yeah, pet me.
Oh fuck, yeah, like that. Yeah, my chin, between my ears, oh fuck!
Ooooh, OHHH GODDDD just in front of my tail, oh you bastard, that spot is...
[bites]

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I have a couple of stories with a cat-woman who purrs.

I have a story with a cat-woman that rips bad guys throats out and, oh yeah, absolutely destroys a bed, as in collapses the entire frame, when she’s tied down and driven to an epic orgasm by her lesbian lover.

That’s kind of purring, right?

 

[StillStunned]

Yeah, pet me.
Oh fuck, yeah, like that. Yeah, my chin, between my ears, oh fuck!
Ooooh, OHHH GODDDD just in front of my tail, oh you bastard, that spot is...
[bites]

I have a story with a cat-woman that rips bad guys throats out and, oh yeah, absolutely destroys a bed, as in collapses the entire frame, when she’s tied down and driven to an epic orgasm by her lesbian lover.

That’s kind of purring, right?

Something tells me I should have put more "cat" in my cat-woman...

 

[intim8]

Just put a bunch of ellipses into a regular sentence and add extra vowels.

 

[onehitwanda]

Something tells me I should have put more "cat" in my cat-woman...

 

[Erozetta]

Yeah, pet me.
Oh fuck, yeah, like that. Yeah, my chin, between my ears, oh fuck!
Ooooh, OHHH GODDDD just in front of my tail, oh you bastard, that spot is...
[bites]

You missed the ass lifting in response to hitting the spot just at the top of the tail

And the bunny kicks when latching onto the wrist of the scratching hand. Followed promptly by a calm apology for losing herself in the moment while attempting to ignore the flushed cheeks and swishy hips that result.

 

[Britva415]

I struggle to write them out how I'd like them to sound in my head

Don't try to rely on written phonetics to recreate them. Use your words, and describe how they sound.

Someone said "no more than three or four letters repeated." That's too many. Even if it's a made-up word for a nonverbal sound, that onomatopoetic word for the sound they're making naturally has either single letters or one repeated letters already - in other words, a word never has more than two of the same letter in a row. And the same is true for real words. For emphasis, my personal advice is to not let the repeated letters go beyond three. So that's only adding one extra letter if the word already doubles that letter. If the normally-spelled word only has a single one of that letter, then that's adding two extra letters.

I'm not a fan of that anyway, but if you insist on typographically stretching out words with extra letters, that's the limit I recommend. Spamming more is ineffective at conveying what you hear in your head to the reader.

If that doesn't scratch your "but it's supposed to read like a long sound," see above: Don't try to make it read like a long sound, describe it as a long sound. Or a whiny sound or a passionately hot sound or a gasping surrender of a sound or - you know, words.

Especially if what's important to you is conveying how it sounds in your head. People are going to "hear" long strings of repeated letters differently, they're going to hear the vowels differently. Differently from each other, and differently from what you want them to hear. So, just quote the utterance with a minimum of spelling bastardization, and, use your narrator words to describe how it sounds and feels.

WHATEVER YOU DO, do not repeat the wrong letter!

If you do insist on typographically stretching a word out, understand that "I loveeeeeee you" sounds like a two syllable word, "lovey," it doesn't sound like the one long syllable, "loooooove."

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Something tells me I should have put more "cat" in my cat-woman...

Just thought these might help...

...

I flinched to my left and dove right as ‘Death’ fired where he thought I was going to be and missed. Perhaps he should have stayed with the knife. I pushed off the wall and dove at his feet. He dodged but was too slow, and I slashed his legs as I slid past him. ‘Death’ grimaced as he turned to face me, firing where I had been crouched; being too late a third time, I leapt into the air as I had against Hank, digging my claws into his shoulders and landed behind him, turning him to the camera, I buried my teeth into the side of his neck, snapping it in the process, and gutted him with my claws. Two of the men on the screens in front of me threw up.

...
I pulled against the ropes as the pending orgasm intensified. My body began to spasm as her sucking and licking intensified and her fingers massaged the magic spot inside me with more and more vigor. My back arched. I heard the bed frame crack. I exploded, a loud roar emanating from deep inside me as I felt my claws push from my fingers. The ropes slacked as the bed collapsed onto the floor, the canopy of pink and purple flowers covering us. Aftershock after aftershock coursed through my body.

“Oops,” I heard Sarah laugh.

...

On Becoming Eve

 

[NoviceAspen]

WHATEVER YOU DO, do not repeat the wrong letter!

If you do insist on typographically stretching a word out, understand that "I loveeeeeee you" sounds like a two syllable word, "lovey," it doesn't sound like the one long syllable, "loooooove."

This.

Also, I would like to argue that “aaaarrrrrr” is not a moan, it is a growl.

I have probably over-done the extra vowels in some of my works. I also use all-caps sometimes to indicate shouting, because that has become common internet language, although I don’t know that I have seen it much in published books.

 

[Bramblethorn]

So that's what Louis Wain is up to these days.

 

[onehitwanda]

Also, I would like to argue that “aaaarrrrrr” is not a moan, it is a growl.

 

[Bramblethorn]