Why Do YOU Write on Literotica and What Do YOU get out of it?

[Bassytian]

I've always had an overactive imagination and libido, so I decided to combine the two! I've written an essay about my first year of writing that went live yesterday, on my writing anniversary!

I've always had stories that I could write, but it wasn't until last year that I actually stopped thinking about it and started. Not everything I want to write is erotic, nor is everything I currently do. My main series is a tale of good verses evil, and the characters fuck when they're not involved in life-or-death battles.

That being said, I do have more erotically centric series in mind. But for right now, the Tiafell story is my baby.

 

[TheLobster]

I have been directly responsible for at least 2,000,000 ejaculations

I see people complaining about fluid ounces of cum being unrealistic, but here we have Chloe, who’s shot straight past gallons and is now in the territory of literal barrels

 

[ChloeTzang]

I see people complaining about fluid ounces of cum being unrealistic, but here we have Chloe, who’s shot straight past gallons and is now in the territory of literal barrels

Not all at once. Spread over 10 years! That's 2,000,000 teaspoons at 5mls a time. so 10 million mls is approx 352,000 ounces or approx 2,200 gallons. at 42 gallons to a barrel, that's 52 barrels. Whoa!

 

[MrPixel]

Not all at once. Spread over 10 years! That's 2,000,000 teaspoons at 5mls a time. so 10 million mls is approx 352,000 ounces or approx 2,200 gallons. at 42 gallons to a barrel, that's 52 barrels. Whoa!

Cum again?

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Cum again?

And again, and again...

 

[old_prof]

Not all at once. Spread over 10 years! That's 2,000,000 teaspoons at 5mls a time. so 10 million mls is approx 352,000 ounces or approx 2,200 gallons. at 42 gallons to a barrel, that's 52 barrels. Whoa!

Or about 1/2 cup an hour non stop for the entire ten years. Surely one of our fetish writers can make use of this.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Or about 1/2 cup an hour non stop for the entire ten years. Surely one of our fetish writers can make use of this.

rotflmao. This is an unexpected tangent.

And yes, 1/2 cup (4 ounces) an hour. Every hour. For 10 minutes. Roughly 113 mls, or as an approximation, 25 ejaculations an hour, every hour, for 10 years. Say, one every 2 minutes, for 10 years.

This is a statistic I can be proud of, and a measurable success factor. Admittedly it's based on approximations, and unconfirmed data, but I like it.

 

[MrHereWriting]

Why Do YOU Write on Literotica?​

I was bored.

What Do YOU get out of it?​

I don't know anymore.

 

[redgarters]

I've been reading on Lit for like 20 years, even wrote a lust fueled story back then that has thankfully been lost. Please don't try to find it, or I shall expire from embarrassment.

In an unexpected turn of events my old username popped into my head after writing this and lo and behold, that story is still up Oh the humanity.

On a different note, is there a badge or something you get for quoting yourself on here? A 'congrats for being a pompous arse' medal of some kind? Just checking.

 

[MrHereWriting]

In an unexpected turn of events my old username popped into my head after writing this and lo and behold, that story is still up Oh the humanity.

On a different note, is there a badge or something you get for quoting yourself on here? A 'congrats for being a pompous arse' medal of some kind? Just checking.

If you can't quote yourself then you got nothing worth saying.

 

[redgarters]

If you can't quote yourself then you got nothing worth saying.

That needs to be on a T-shirt. In quotes.

 

[Bamagan]

Many of my reasons for posting stories here have already been discussed above. One which has not is a form of mild rebellion. The state I live in is one that is attempting to prevent access to pornography as part of a wider anti-sex agenda... or at least that's how I characterize their behavior and goals. So I am doing what I can to create more stuff they'd want to suppress, to make their job just the tiniest bit more difficult.

 

[WaxPhilosophic]

Mostly I write stories I want to read. And if other folks want to read them too, I'm more than happy to share. Stars, likes and views are nice, but I'm still going to write what I want to read. Plus, I've got this killer Spillane Challenge story waiting to go in the queue, so there's that.

 

[dirk2024]

I joined a little over a year ago, looking for better erotica than what I was (mostly) finding on Amazon. Some of it was good, some not, and I didn't want to pay for erotica I didn't enjoy.

It didn't take long for me to want to write for myself. A looooong time ago, I studied literature. Then I veered right and went into careers where counting numbers and shuffling databases took over my brainbox.

Now, I need a creative outlet. I spend a lot of time thinking naughty thoughts, so I might as well see if I can share them with the world. I just need to put in the work to ensure what I write is worth people's time and effort to read. I feel a need to entertain. Fortunately, this community is helping me with that.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Well, it's either babble about it incessantly or write it down. And since I have chronic TMJ problems, and there are often distracting little ears about... Write it down it is.

The best way to get my SO to read the stuff though is to ask him to edit, and then he wanted me to post it. This is one of the two places I do most of my reading at and so I post here and the other place.

But honestly, the views aren't good, the feedback is nearly nonexistent, and the favorites are sparse. If he didn't keep encouraging me to post after editing, I wouldn't bother because I get very little out of it.

 

[old_prof]

Well, it's either babble about it incessantly or write it down. And since I have chronic TMJ problems, and there are often distracting little ears about... Write it down it is.

The best way to get my SO to read the stuff though is to ask him to edit, and then he wanted me to post it. This is one of the two places I do most of my reading at and so I post here and the other place.

But honestly, the views aren't good, the feedback is nearly nonexistent, and the favorites are sparse. If he didn't keep encouraging me to post after editing, I wouldn't bother because I get very little out of it.

I know you will write what you want to. The downside is SF&F gets the worst views out of any category I post in. I suspect NH is similar or worse. Hand in there, you do get a lot of favorites, especially per view, which means you are at least connecting with people. I have added your stuff to my reading list, which is getting longer, not shorter. But I will try to give you feedback soon. But you probably write better than I do already, so I am not sure how much I can tell you.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I know you will write what you want to. The downside is SF&F gets the worst views out of any category I post in. I suspect NH is similar or worse. Hand in there, you do get a lot of favorites, especially per view, which means you are at least connecting with people. I have added your stuff to my reading list, which is getting longer, not shorter. But I will try to give you feedback soon. But you probably write better than I do already, so I am not sure how much I can tell you.

If anything NH is the worse of the two. In SF&F they want a good story, and if the sex isn't their kink well as long as the story is good and the sex doesn't upset them too much it doesn't matter. In NH they want their kink, and there are so many different kinks that go in there that it's kinda like posting in fetish.

Thanks I appreciate that. I don't know if my stuff is any better or worse than yours. I haven't had time to read on lit since the goblins got out of school. I've just been too tired to be horny by the time they go to bed.

 

[HordHolm]

I write to get the voices in my head to shut up, if only briefly. They don't. Even this morning they conspired over a couple of plot bunnies as I was lying, half-awake.

 

[marriedchappy]

I write to get the voices in my head to shut up, if only briefly. They don't. Even this morning they conspired over a couple of plot bunnies as I was lying, half-awake.

Brilliant! As long as those voices only tell you to keep writing.

 

[Voboy]

I started writing here because I had been reading here for years. I was very satisfied in that way, until all the stories I was finding started to feel stale. I was running out of published stories I really enjoyed here.

So I wrote the ones I wanted to read. I'm still doing that.

What do I get out of it? The knowledge that there's a reader out there just like I used to be, who is finding my stuff on here and enjoying it as much as I've enjoyed the work of the people who came (cummed?) before me. My stories have taken me places I'd never have thought I'd go, and it's been a fun ride.

 

[Zeronix]

This is a really good thread! Having a lot of fun reading the responses so far.
I'll toss my own hat in the ring:

Why do I write?

• I want to read a specific kind of content which I've had a lot of trouble finding out there.
  • I love cute, charming, feel-good stories featuring gay dudes. I really adore when there's genuine emotional chemistry between the characters. And I think well-written banter is so frickin' hot!
  • I'm a big fan of lush, lucid prose. I want the writing itself to feel luxurious, decadent, indulgent.
• I also want to boost tropes that I'd like to manifest in the world:
  • Emotionally available and mature men. I feel like a lot of men are emotionally repressed; I want my stories to help people feel like they can be more open, happy, secure, affectionate, without worrying about whether this makes them 'less masculine' (IMO, sincere and genuine affection is SO masculine, because it embodies passion and dedication)
  • As a specific example of the above: normalize guys telling each other "I love you", showing each other affection, etc.!
• Lastly, some of my stories are just personal fetishes haha. Most commonly, mind control or dom / sub dynamics. I mostly don't publish these stories though.

What do I get out of it?

• I enjoy reading the stories I write!
• I enjoy the comments that people leave on my stories It's very touching when someone leaves a heartfelt review, and I always try to thank them appropriately
• I enjoy the feeling of getting better at writing. I've noticed clear progress in my newer works vs my older works, and it makes me excited to write more in the future.

 

[old_prof]

I already posted on here, but I woke up thinking about this question and this thread, so I decided to add a part two to my response.

Even though I have only been writing for a few months, my motivations have changed. My SO and I have had a series of health issues over the last several years, some bad luck and some just reaching that age where our bodies don't cooperate as well as they used to. The combination of issues we were facing had limited what we could do as a couple. That certainly influenced me starting to write. And what I wrote. Most of my early stories had a very high sex content (for me at least -- I don't write strokers). And I was pumping them out at an absurdly fast pace (a 10 to 15K story every few days).

Somewhere in that stretch, I got tired of figuring out new ways for people to get off and I wanted to just write about people. I have become addicted to molding characters from clay, giving them agency, letting them live their lives. Like most healthy people, those lives include a good dose of sex or sometimes just desire for sex. It;s whymy early stories were largely E&V or GS, but now it's mostly Romance and LS. (Although also SF&F, but that scratches a different itch. Thos are story, not character drive so far.)

Sorry for this. Probably no one wanted to hear my rambling, but therapy or something I guess. Thanks for listening if you got this far.

 

[Areala-chan]

I was very active in the fanfic community starting in the mid '90s, so I was doing a lot of my practice in that arena while going to school for English and Creative Writing. The thing with pursuing CW in an academic setting is that you're allowed to be creative, but not too creative, if you get my gist. Despite everyone in the class being over 18, stuff with a fantasy or sexual aspect to it wasn't appropriate for a classroom setting. Plus, I'm a colossal introvert, so the idea of even having people know I was writing stuff like that at nineteen? That was going to be a 'no' from me, dawg.

But ultimately I had a couple of stories I wanted to tell, with no outlet to actually tell them, until I found this place. So I posted them, got them out of my system, and took a twelve year vacation. I returned sporadically to post new things, a story per year for a few years, then I got Crash Into Me out into the world and finally felt like I'd succeeded here.

After that, though, I wasn't quite sure where to go or what to write, so I took another five year hiatus. I dropped another piece here in 2022, just to prove I could still do it, then in April of 2024 I got obsessed with the remake of Dead Space which had come out the prior year, and in the space of a month wrote a story about it that clocked in at almost 40,000 words. Never in my life had I sustained a pace like that, and after feeling like I was out of stories to tell for several years, 2024 turned into my most productive here at Lit. Now I'm back to being that addict, chasing that fix, still working on improving myself as an author.

I'll never be professionally published, and I'm fine with that. The days of dreaming that I could quit my real-life job and make it as an author are long gone. I'm a realist: whatever other people have that allows them to do it, I do not have it. I have tried for nearly twenty years to get publisher-sempai to notice me, and have the rejection slips to prove it. So time to quit chasing that cloud and just give it away so other people might find it and think it was pretty good. Maybe if nothing else it'll inspire people to go, "I could do better than she does!" and they'll get to live their dream making money off their writing.

That would be pretty cool.

 

[yowser]

Like all writers, I started as a reader. So those two elements, reading and writing, are the short answers to the post. From very early on I was transported by good stories, and when I got to a stage in my life when erotic aspects beckoned, the horizon just exploded into a fascinating universe of possibilities. The written medium is just so different from any other creative effort, and when a good writer can paint with words, tug your heart, maneuver you around your emotional landscape, and get you all hot and bothered, that is just a marvel.

I like a good, well-crafted story, intelligent and exploratory. There are some wonderful reading experiences here, unfortunately buried under hectares of drek and not so easy of discovery. But when I find something good, I am thrilled, and will read that author's output and marvel at good quality descriptions, settings and characters. That author's favorites and lists often lead to other gems.

I try to forge the best stories I can, and am willing to experiment with topics (and I thought I was fairly broad spectrum until I got here), style and perspective to create optimal works. The wonderful part is that I can do a face-plant (going by my own standards) but then just pick up and try something else next time around. Like the old saying about wood fires at home, you warm yourself twice, both by cutting and splitting the firewood, but then again later when the fire is roaring in the winter hearth. Good erotica works like that for me.

 

[HeyAll]

First time I wrote anything, it was purely for fun, I had an interesting idea I wanted to explore.

Was shocked at the views when it got posted and people enjoying it (yes it was a taboo story).

I like writing because it's enjoyable; the thinking, the writing, the crafting, then people reading it.

I get the most out of writing when I treat it seriously, with struggle to make the right thing. If I wrote passively as a hobby, it wouldn't be as a rewarding or fun.