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Those of you who are good at writing erotica - how did you learn?? I can't write port for toffee.

I don't know if I am actually any good at it but I get (what I personally consider) a nice amount of kudos, positive comments, and bookmarks.

For me it was mostly a case of reading a lot of it and sort of emulating what I liked and avoiding what I dislike.

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this is how i did it too. i also read different kinds of porn, so fic and published novels to get a better idea at how to construct the writing, then i just picked and choose what i liked best to get something that seems decent enough to my eyes, and it seems to have worked.

it's at least somewhat based on what erotica turns you on and is well-written. It helps to have read a lot.

Think at all times of what each person involved is thinking and feeling and why they find what's happening hot

This. It's not just the acts themselves that are hot, it's how the characters involved feel about it, why it turns them on and how, etc. The emotions are just as sexy as the actual sex.

I don't know if I'm good but I'm certainly better than I was. Lol.

I tried out a few things in a draft, left it for a bit and then came back and read it. I decided I hated how mechanical some of it was and really didn't need to narrate people undressing from start to finish, or try to come up with an sexy word to describe the peen. I could just describe character A feeling B's erection when they were kissing and then skip over the awkward bits to get to the fucking.

It helps me stay in one person's head during the act so I describe how the B person looks and reacts or how whatever they're doing makes the A feel. I tend to write pretty emotional sex scenes so there's usually some plot tension building beforehand and the characters are in a heightened state of emotion. Maybe it's not as descriptive or porny as some people write, I don't discuss positions much except to say that A pressed B's hands against the headboard or B looked up at A with whatever expression. I think it flows a bit better that way.

It's all personal preference though. Go back and read scenes you've enjoyed and pick them apart for ideas.

SA
I can't grammar today apparently. I shouldn't try when I take phenergan. fenergen? Phenergen? One of them.

nayrt

this along with the others' comments of "emulate what you like reading" I think I pretty good. Especially the write, come back to it, etc. For me the build up of the scene is important too (at least for what Iw rite --every situation is different). Granted, I haven't posted what I've written, but I do like to revise it, see how I feel about it, how descriptive and of what, and how much emotion do I want to convey, etc.

I just started myself, and find it really difficult. But a tip I got from a couple of friends who are really good at writing smut, is that when you go in to make edits/changes on your smut, copy it into another file so you have an unedited copy as well as an edited copy. Because often our editing brain makes changes that actually take the sizzle out of the smut, and we don't realize it's lost it's oomph until later. In short: sometimes your initial take is your best take, so keep a copy of your earlier draft(s), just in case.

I don't know if I'm "good," just that some people are really into what I write, and all I can say is that I write what I think is hot! There's probably people that doesn't appeal to at all, but I think erotica is very taste-specific— I've been recommended stuff before that I thought was terrible. I know that's a really general tip, more specifically I think that reading erotica and actively paying attention to what you like and dislike about an author's approach can help with figuring out what you want to do.

Characterization and feelings are more important. That said:

Reading a lot of erotica. Writing a lot of erotica. Noticing what turns me on.

Reading scenes of other physical activities (e.g. combat) and noticing what jumps out as vivid.

Writing erotica when I'm aroused and when I'm not. Well no, I don't know if that is a way to get good at writing erotica, but it's amusing to notice the differences.

I almost always have to let an erotica scene sit for a week or more and rewrite it before I think it's good enough.

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