There are also certain word choices which bug me, such as:
- "Penis" or "Vagina." This isn't a middle school health class, it's erotica; more colorful language is necessary for the right mood. If I'm reading a novelization about Star Wars, I want to read that the Death Star "exploded into a trillion glowing fragments" - I don't want to read that it "spontaneously combusted."
Just wanted to say that I, well, disagree with this.
IMHO. using clinical words is important for two reasons; Building emotional distance and providing a low bar to build up from. You may want to build emotional distance if, say, the genitals aren't what you want the audience to be concentrating on in a given scene. If everything stands out then nothing stands out after all and that applies to erotica as well. And you
definitely want a good rising tension in a sex scene, which beginning with purely anatomical terms provides; Jumping from "penis" to "pulsing, throbbing cock" provides a noticeable change in the narrative and feel of the mood, wouldn't you agree?
Here are the things that niggle me:
-Little to no build up in sex scenes. Now, you might have written the most immaculate climatic scene in the english language but if it doesn't have the proper rising action to justify that climax all you are doing is giving the audience the equivalent of a premature discharge; It's not satisfying to anyone. Luckily, anyone willing to write 2k posts is most certainly going to have SOME type of foreplay if only through sheer accident. And if they don't, I have no idea what they are doing writing smut. >=(
- 1-to-2 sentence posts or responses. This is most relevant in RPs but
come on put on some bloody effort. Talk about the weather, about how the characters' left ass cheek is itching, about what the room smells like, anything! This is fine when Cybering, but in erotica you are
trying to tell a story; Don't short change your partners!