Haltandcatchfire11
Virgin
Hi all, first time poster even though I've been posting stories on here for the past few months. Had a funny question rattling around in my head recently, and I'd like to put it to some of you: Have you ever, uh...pleasured yourself to erotica you've written here or anywhere else?
Personally, it's something I'm guilty of fairly often. During the writing process basically all of my motivation to keep going rests on whether or not I find the thing I'm writing sexy, and often the chapters or stories that flow the easiest onto the page are the ones where my engine's pretty consistently running and I'm constantly steering it in directions I personally find arousing. My motivation to continue writing a story thread dies a death the instant I stop finding it sexy, or else find that I've written myself into one corner or another that makes further sexy stuff difficult to get to without compromising (what little) characters I've written into the story, or having to get bogged down in boring plot mechanics for too long. This is basically the number one reason I will sometimes have gaps in my output of weeks to a month, and it always drives me mad whenever it happens.
It makes sense though, because for me, the whole 'writing erotica' thing basically grew out of me reading stuff on Literotica and wanting something tailored to my specific tastes; it turned out the easiest way to do that was just writing it myself, so here I am.
The old gag about 'writing one-handed' is a thing for a reason, so I figure it's probably fairly widespread among those of us who write this kind of stuff, right? I mean, my assumption would be you're getting some level of gratification from it, even if it's more subdued than 'literally masturbating to words as you write them down like some kind of narcisstic weirdo', but maybe some of you have a different perspective on this?
Personally, it's something I'm guilty of fairly often. During the writing process basically all of my motivation to keep going rests on whether or not I find the thing I'm writing sexy, and often the chapters or stories that flow the easiest onto the page are the ones where my engine's pretty consistently running and I'm constantly steering it in directions I personally find arousing. My motivation to continue writing a story thread dies a death the instant I stop finding it sexy, or else find that I've written myself into one corner or another that makes further sexy stuff difficult to get to without compromising (what little) characters I've written into the story, or having to get bogged down in boring plot mechanics for too long. This is basically the number one reason I will sometimes have gaps in my output of weeks to a month, and it always drives me mad whenever it happens.
It makes sense though, because for me, the whole 'writing erotica' thing basically grew out of me reading stuff on Literotica and wanting something tailored to my specific tastes; it turned out the easiest way to do that was just writing it myself, so here I am.
The old gag about 'writing one-handed' is a thing for a reason, so I figure it's probably fairly widespread among those of us who write this kind of stuff, right? I mean, my assumption would be you're getting some level of gratification from it, even if it's more subdued than 'literally masturbating to words as you write them down like some kind of narcisstic weirdo', but maybe some of you have a different perspective on this?
