InvidiaRed

@Desiderius Price I know you tag as conservatively as I do. I figured it never hurts to point out the logical fallacy in the “But I’ll scare off readers!” argument for not using the Rape tag.

@InvidiaRed True! I’ve since adopted a policy of ‘write it if it feels right’ which I think is working well. I’ll write it with the momentum of the story and just let it go as long or as short as it needs to be. 
Mal, OF COURSE THAT HELPS! My chapters are a bit shorter, trying to keep them around 5k, and I think I have a similar approach. Along with what I mention just above, I do try to make sure there are two scenes in each chapter so one longer ‘main’ scene and then a shorter one. I think I’m still working really hard on the ‘making sure the smut advances the plot’, but also learning at the same time. And if it doesn’t directly advance the plot, I want it to tell us something new about the characters at the very least. I’ve been doing better since I started the rewrite.
I had this one chapter which didn’t have a speck of sex in it – which I somehow only realized a week after posting it because it was so ingrained in the plot and I literally freaked out lol. Luckily it was kind of short so it didn’t kill the story or anything.

KassX, my current chapters tend to range  around 10k, and I average 1-2 scenes per. Having said that though, I think it also greatly depends on how many characters you’re working with and the circumstances that are going on. A lot of times my main character, Alex will feature in both scenes. But sometimes he’s only in one. There was also a point in the story where he was gone for like 5-6 chapters and none of the sex scenes featured him. To me, the plot should ALWAYS dictate the smut. But, having said that, I AM writing smut so I always try to include at least one scene in every chapter. I also think that its more important for the smut to make sense and further the plot than to just be something gratuitous and tacted on because you needed smut. 
I don’t know if that helped, lol I just wanted to chime in!

Well I’d argue it depends on the sex drive and circumstance much like real life.
Somepeople fuck like bunnies and some people enjoy turning it into an eventful hour-long event with sensual precision

Well I’d argue it depends on the sex drive and circumstance much like real life.
Somepeople fuck like bunnies and some people enjoy turning it into an eventful hour-long event with sensual precision

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

Ooh I learned something new today! I agree on pessimism; I’ve written pretty dark circumstances, but hope and humor have always been central themes in my writing. 
@Mal That’s actually a really compelling setup so good on you! I would posit something maybe controversial: if she and Alex are happy together in the end, maybeeee… It doesn’t matter what everyone else thinks? Maybe in the story, that’s just between them and they don’t need outsiders passing judgement on what transpired.
Obviously, the relationship can never be completely morally clean and conscionable and I’m pretty sure Alex would burst into flames if he walked into a church, BUT I don't think anyone would complain if you went the romance route. I mean, I haven't even read your story and I'm kind of shipping Alex and the crazy chick   I’ll have people on my own (very rapey) fic commenting on the two lines of snuggling I wrote after an entire chapter of rape and wondering which of his victims the MC is going to hook up with in the end and I’m just here like, wow, that wouldn’t be healthy at all. But we’re writing dark fantasies which are completely fictitious anyway; so that’s just part of the territory. And I’m sure you’ve already tagged out the wazoo so it is what it is, eh? 

Dont forget Lima Syndrome. Where the captor falls for their captive. Or dependency or other sycophantic behavior. Which further muddies the swamp water.

Its defintely better to err on the side of caution. Its a heavy topic.

There’s nothing wrong with being optimistic. Stranger shit has happened in reality. And pessimism isn’t all that its cracked up to be.Even in darker settings.

Dont forget Lima Syndrome. Where the captor falls for their captive. Or dependency or other sycophantic behavior. Which further muddies the swamp water.

Dont forget Lima Syndrome. Where the captor falls for their captive. Or dependency or other sycophantic behavior. Which further muddies the swamp water.

Scat and anything involving minors. Everything else is fair game.

<3 Essentially yes. When you got long lived races with millenia+ lifespans in a world with peoples with normal life spans
It might seem insane but a little war here and there is just good neighborly manners.

Spinoff standalones are good fodder for halloween/holiday stories.   Origin stories do let me explore elements in my universe that would otherwise be untouched.  (And it’s really good for comprehensive understanding, even for the author.)

Sometimes there doesn’t need to be one.
In my experience. You can hint, throw comments and other snippets to create a bigger back story.
How do they react? How do things affect the characters. Do certain things remind them? You can create an effective character purely on how does the character react to the world around them.
 
 

Villains have so much fun
It gets more realistic, IMO, when everybody feels they are doing the right thing, especially when some characters think the ends justify the means.

Leaving breadcrumbs is fun but dangerous.  You have to ask. WHo am I leaving these crumbs for? SOmething that will be apparent to people from one cultural or educational background. may not be apparent to another.  The problem is, you don’t want to hint too much since people with certain knowledge of genre conventions run the risk of figuring things out first.
The best clues, are the ones the reader picks up the second time they read. They will ideally remark. “ohhhhh so that’s why showering in spite of the watter being cold. It was to wash off the blood and mud.” Once your story is resolved and you’ve basically completed your final draft. Go back and sprinkle some details here and there. Not additional details but rather details that one could otherwise infer from what was already there.

Antagonists are in many ways the easier to create than protagonists. They laugh,cry and generally do everything the protagonists do. 
The who what when and why generally take care of the rest.
 
 

Don’t overthink it. Stick to your lore.
an ancient Chinese inspired culture is one of the easier ones. Since China had an incredible amount of dynasties and cities.
Gods are harder. I’d start top down with a pantheon, then the hierarchy etc. It also depends on what kinda god feel you are going for. Are they like the greeks flawed but bringing order to the universe. Animal headed or more fantasy D&D based.
Naming places are easier than you give credit.
The misty mountains are indeed misty. Clown cave is indeed filled with clowns. Simplicity at times is better than wit.

Oh good, I’m in good company.
Oceania I can write about forever. There’s alot of history there. As is expected when characters have incredible longevity. Character conflicts can last for millennia.
Since one of the main characters is 102,50 year old.

Kinda by accident, in how I’ve gone about my original universe, I think I’ve got enough to last a lifetime of writing.  If I had stuck to just the main story, it’d expire faster, however, I’ve been doing a lot of backstories instead, exploring some of the elements and mechanisms within the universe before I embark on the main story.  Even still, with how it’s set up, there’s opportunities for future battles, detective series, a “reality” like story (ie, cops), more character developments, etc. 
I like Star Trek, however, most of the series were rather formulaic, cookie cutter, with a set patterns of episodes, warping to the next planet/star-system to start fresh.   When DS9 started introducing some continuity between shows, it became a lot more interesting.  I haven’t seen the latest (Discovery), however, the earlier shows fell into the same series of ruts.
-- DP

Found this gems
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I've done it.
If you've prepared like you should before anal sex, there won't be anything but semen coming out.
That said: Prepare properly.

I knew you were doing it wrong. You gotta learn how to alternate hands.