I'm a person who has just recently started uploading chapters of his own to Chyoa. Admittedly, I never expected to really get into writing erotica but somehow, I find this site is the easiest to get my ideas out there. But as a beginner, and one with delusions of making their stories enjoyable, I still find injecting my personal preferences and fetishes hard at times in my style of writing specifically, even though I want to. I find that extremely ironic, considering this is Chyoa, one of the major hubs on the internet for erotic literature.
Let me explain: I feel that most stories I see on Chyoa (and indeed, most erotic media in general) to fit on a sliding scale between Story and Romp. Stories tend to focus on being written more like a story, with engaging characters, overarching plots, etc. with erotic elements (The Affection Multiplier is an excellent example), whereas Romps are more focused on the Power Fantasy elements, and having the main character do as they want without concern for morality or consequences (Any of the mind control stories focused on real life celebrities would be examples here).
Out of these, I feel I trend towards more the Story side of the spectrum; it seems that when I try to take a power fantasy laden concept, and expand it out into a chapter/multiple chapters, the expansion ends up shifting it from a Romp to a Story, since I naturally add in more character moments, more introspection, etc. during the expansion process. While this can work in some cases, it can stymie me in other cases, like when I want to add in some of my more...controversial fetishes into my writing.
I imagine many of us have 'those' fetishes that we enjoy reading about, but when examining the implications of, it falls apart really quickly. For me, it's impregnation/pregnancy, especially when it's one man doing it to multiple women. I hope I don't need to explain why, in the real world, this would be a terrible thing to happen, but in Romp type stories, the issues associated with this can be safely ignored in favor of the Power Fantasy.
However, much as I like to indulge in this fetish, I find the idea of incorporating it into my writing hard, since again, I trend towards Story typed chapters. And fun as impregnation is, it falls apart quickly the moment you start thinking about the consequences of it, and the implications it has for the woman in question (questions like: what does this mean for their job? If they're single, how do they deal with a baby? etc.)
The easy answer is to just not add it in, but to me, that feels like a defeatist attitude. Surely, the point of Chyoa is to write about things that appeal to you? And there's always the possibility that I'm making a mountain out of a molehill as well, so how do others reconcile your fetish's implications in your writing?
Let me explain: I feel that most stories I see on Chyoa (and indeed, most erotic media in general) to fit on a sliding scale between Story and Romp. Stories tend to focus on being written more like a story, with engaging characters, overarching plots, etc. with erotic elements (The Affection Multiplier is an excellent example), whereas Romps are more focused on the Power Fantasy elements, and having the main character do as they want without concern for morality or consequences (Any of the mind control stories focused on real life celebrities would be examples here).
Out of these, I feel I trend towards more the Story side of the spectrum; it seems that when I try to take a power fantasy laden concept, and expand it out into a chapter/multiple chapters, the expansion ends up shifting it from a Romp to a Story, since I naturally add in more character moments, more introspection, etc. during the expansion process. While this can work in some cases, it can stymie me in other cases, like when I want to add in some of my more...controversial fetishes into my writing.
I imagine many of us have 'those' fetishes that we enjoy reading about, but when examining the implications of, it falls apart really quickly. For me, it's impregnation/pregnancy, especially when it's one man doing it to multiple women. I hope I don't need to explain why, in the real world, this would be a terrible thing to happen, but in Romp type stories, the issues associated with this can be safely ignored in favor of the Power Fantasy.
However, much as I like to indulge in this fetish, I find the idea of incorporating it into my writing hard, since again, I trend towards Story typed chapters. And fun as impregnation is, it falls apart quickly the moment you start thinking about the consequences of it, and the implications it has for the woman in question (questions like: what does this mean for their job? If they're single, how do they deal with a baby? etc.)
The easy answer is to just not add it in, but to me, that feels like a defeatist attitude. Surely, the point of Chyoa is to write about things that appeal to you? And there's always the possibility that I'm making a mountain out of a molehill as well, so how do others reconcile your fetish's implications in your writing?
! Once again, that suggestion is very similar to what I would want to write in for the branch if I decided to move forward with it; I would want each girl go through an 'arc' or sorts with the MC focusing on them as characters and having them reaching their own unique conclusions as to why their feelings for him go beyond merely helping him to becoming lovers in his harem, and probably getting knocked up. Of course, I'd have to figure out ways to make each of them special, and have previous girls (Emiru especially) remain relevant even after their arc is completed, but that's not as relevant for this discussion.
