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On a side note, I am now worried that there isn’t enough in my story, lol. I just love how I came here with one problem and walked away with another.

Too much sex? Such a thing cannot be.

Your characters are wearing pants? That sounds way overdressed to me

Well, technically, rape isn’t sex, and neither is scat. Rape is a crime of violence, and scat is a fetish which, along with WS, makes me avoid the story altogether. Minor1 isn’t my thing either, but there you have it. I like my characters to be old enough to give meaningful consent. (At least until I kill them off.)

Honestly, I’m a plot fan. I do love some plot with my sex, and I try to write plot with my sex. Sometimes I even succeed, if I don’t get sidetracked with a bit of gratuitous gore, that is. Apparently, I write romance with a body count.

Dude, that’s incredible. A two to three chapter scene? I can barely stick with a plot point for that long, lmao. I mean, I enjoy good story in erotica because (to me at least) it makes the actual scenes way more impactful. I want to care about the characters, not just what’s in their pants! I do write original, but I feel like the general principle is the same.

I don’t know… I suppose it depends on the characters, really. My chapters are around 5k, and some of my scenes span over two or three chapters at a time. But then, there are three of them, so that might make a difference. If there’s such a kind of idiot, then I am definitely it, and I make no apology! I think of the characters first, then wonder how I’m going to get them to go ‘at it’ then the story comes along. In that order. But that ’s fanfic. It’s probably different if you write original.

Ok, I think I need to hibernate for a bit. Maybe a couple of weeks. I don't know. People are worried about me. I just want to sleep. Let me be and be nothing. I am nothing at all it seems. Not even a dream. What have I done? Well, I stopped someone from toying with me before they got it into their head that they could… so that’s something. I said I was worth more than that. I think, if I give myself a bit of time, I’ll believe it again. But as of right now… I feel pretty worthless. Let me sleep it off. Then, perhaps, I’ll finally start updating my work again. Brienne wouldn’t have stood for that shit either. *nods* I’m right. But I need sleep just now. Lots of it.

And is there even such a thing? Lol. And I don’t mean irl, because that’s your own damn business, but I woke up this morning with this burning question! For my story, my general rule of thumb is about one or two scenes per chapter (but my chapters are kind of long, in the 7k – 10k range), but part of the writing process is being able to admit that you could be wrong! So what do you find readers react to? I try to focus on action, humor, fantasy and sex obviously in no particular order. Am I that idiot who tries to put a story in porn or what?

If you can keep the sex scenes fresh and interesting, you can never have too much, even in a plotty story (in my opinion). But if it’s just the same mindless banging followed by a quick squirt and rinse, repeat, then it will get pretty old pretty quick. With some writers, their sex scenes become formulaic, and when that happens, I tend to just skim over them or skip them completely. If its predictable and repetitive, it’s not much of a turn on and it can easily feel like ‘too much’ or ‘gratuitous’. But some people like predictable and repetitive. Sooo… Whatever floats your goat.

Is it bad that I thought PWP stood for ‘Pretty White People’ at first (although that is not an incorrect descriptor for a lot of erotica...) and had to look it up? Lol. My greenness is showing. I actually write the opposite, or at least try to. My work is all original and very fantasy/sci-fi based, so I try to put work into crafting the world, concepts and plot points. I mean, most of my time is spent writing YA fantasy, so that’s probably something that carried over into my erotica. I do porn WITH a plot because I enjoy reading porn with a plot, lol.

My main characters tend to get a sense of dread whenever they do have to get dressed That said, I did get a sense of over-the-top with a recent episode of Jefferey. I thought about toning it down, but decided an up-front explanation was better suited for the purposes of the episode. It’s a balancing thing. How much is too much/little kinda depends on what you’re aiming for in the story. Is it PWP or plot? I’ve drifted toward wanting a good plot/thread for the story and simply not shy away from sexual stuff, esp as my stories tend to have teenagers where that sort of stuff tends to get explored.

Good work, people.. *nods happily* (couldn’t resist… I did try...) Really, I don’t think I’ve ever read a story and thought: “There’s too much/too little sex in this.” If I have criticisms, they’re always, without fail, about a million and one things besides that. Oh, I tell a lie, I have thought there’s too little sex in published works. But that’s an entirely different thing. Most published author’s shouldn’t go anywhere near erotic writing because they really can’t do it at all, lol.

I snorted. You sound like my kind of erotica writer.

Keep your fingers crossed for me, looks like I actually get a day off Thursday!