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⌈ Secret Post #5652 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

This was absolutely my experience, OP! When I first started trying to write sex scenes they were SO difficult, not because of logistics or where limbs go or how to keep track of which characters are doing what even if they have the same pronoun set, but just because it WAS really embarrassing. I write lots of sex scenes now without any trouble, but it took me a few years to get to "not too embarrassed to look at the screen" and a few more after that to get to actually competent. Which doesn't mean you need to just keep going! If it's too awkward and you're not enjoying yourself, don't force yourself to write sex! But if it does feel fun, just also embarrassing, go for it, it absolutely gets easier to write :)

[(Anonymous)]

My advice is to just do it. You don't have to show it to anyone ever, you can even delete it immediately when you're done. You're embarrassed because it's tricky to get yourself past those ingrained inhibitions the first few times. But the more you do it, the easier it gets. And when it gets a little easier, you can start to have fun with it, and when you're having fun with it your readers probably will too.

There's no rational reason why sex should be more inherently difficult to write than anything else the characters do. Some writers struggle with dialogue. Others have trouble with battle and action scenes. The answer to all of that is practice, practice, practice! And study writers who do it well, with an eye to figuring out how they do it so well. Pacing, word choice, what they emphasize, what they de-emphasize or leave out, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here. It took fifteen years before I could write porn. People liked it, too! :D

[(Anonymous)]

i've been trying to draw a sexy nude of an oc of mine and since the sketch i just can't bring myself to continue because i also get too flustered about it. i don't consider myself a prude at all but... yea, self-conscious puts it well. lovingly rendering the dick of my own character is just so self-indulgent that i feel weird about it

[(Anonymous)]

That's me, I am the person who can't write porn to save her life and I acknowledge that. I can watch and read all of the porn, I can memorize the kama-sutra, but there is no way for me to ever be able to put those things into Words That Feel Hot. I don't even get it.

[kallanda_lee]

I actually like writing sex scenes, but it will never not be weird. And it's strangely intimate, even if the people are nothing like you, having different sex than you are having...because part of it, obviously, IS you and there's this weirdness/awkwardness between you and the reader in that space.

Cute scenes can feel too generic, while hardcore scenes can feel over the top. I feel erotica IS a genre to master, in nd of itself.

[(Anonymous)]

This! And trying to write it so it's believable for the characters too and not obviously just your fantasy. Nothing more awkward than reading a story and realising the sex is completely the author's own fantasy. Erotica really is an art form.

[(Anonymous)]

This! If I can do a find/replace on the names in your sex scene, it doesn't work for me as fic. Sex is highly varied and individual and no two pairings will do it exactly the same way. (And no pairing will do it exactly the same way every time.)

[(Anonymous)]

I went years not writing smut in fic out of the worry that either people wouldn't like it or it'd be horribly embarrassing and I'd self-combust out of shame or something. But for me I found that reading various kinds of smut to get a feel for what people seemed to like, and by practicing with 'lighter' smut(ie: M rated where it's more a suggestion that outright detailed) in some fics really helped me to get over my worry and now I find it pretty easy.

It's all practice though and finding a way to word things that is personally pleasing to you, I have so many never-going-to-see-light mini smut-fics on my PC when I was figuring out how I liked to write it and I still do that now years later. It's good to keep the skill fresh with any kind of writing and smut is no different.

[(Anonymous)]

OP I have *been* with reading through sex-sites trying to work out if something is a Thing that would be Fun.

You can do it!

[(Anonymous)]

Nonny, I have read smut fic since early teens, am experienced in RL, and have had kids which is not a process where privacy is generally available to you.

I still get embarrassed writing smut.

[(Anonymous)]

DA LOL your comment has made my day!

[(Anonymous)]

Work up to it! And read sex scenes with similar character dynamics and work out what you like about them.

[(Anonymous)]

I have written just the absolute cringiest porn on purpose and it's helped my overcome some of that awkwardness (not all - it will never be all) so maybe you could try that and see if it helps?

[(Anonymous)]

With a first time sex scene, it's like with a first time sex: prepare for not being perfect the first time, and try to have some fun along the way!