It feels like a poll day

[mickeym]

The other day I posted that I hate writing sex, which isn't exactly, completely accurate. What IS accurate is that I get frustrated trying to make each scene a little bit different than the last (and y'all, I have written a LOT of stories with a lot of sex in them. If you don't believe me, go check out Infinite Passions. Or hell, this story *g*). As nopseud so astutely pointed out, she and I probably used up our lifetime supply just writing Absinthe Makes. Joke. Mostly.

So, because I am infinitely curious, a poll about Writing Sex. Please to be filling it out, expanding in comments if/as needed, thank you :) (And feel free to point your friends this way, because I really am curious!)



[Poll #1108537]

Comments

[poisontaster]

I can never really tell what's going to give me trouble, other than Sam is a total cockblock, who takes forever to ramp up to the idea of sexing, wants tons and tons of foreplay and is always reluctant to come. Sometimes I'm writing a short PWP and the characters take it sideways, like the dildo porn I wrote for Nan's Superporn Sunday. It was going along like blazes, I had about 30m before I was supposed to POST and suddenly, Dean has this FIT OF JEALOUSY that maybe Sam likes the dildos more than him. WHAT?? Writing oral is always difficult because really, from an action standpoint, oral is really boring. You're essentially in one place making repetitive motions. And then writing orgasms in a way that doesn't sound TOO florid but still gives satisfaction (ha!) is VERY DIFFICULT. I think the orgasm may be the hardest human experience to describe EVER.

I always struggle between my desire to tell a good story versus the times I just want lots of smut. And sometimes I swing real hard one way (The AU Mary story I'm telling now, which is 100,000+ words of gen) and then all I want to do is write lots of smut. Sometimes I'm writing nothing but PWPs for a while and then I'm like, "Oooh. I want to tell a juicy STORY." *shrugs* So it just depends on what I've been writing and what I want to write next.

As for style... I don't really like florid, overy schmoopy stuff that feels unmasculine (though I totally approve of masculine schmoop!) I don't like crying. I don't like a lot of epithets, like "the blond man" or "his long-donged lover". LOL. Unless they're being used ironically, obviously. I have a real difficult time with the use of the word "lover" when it's not ironical. Most men I know (and that's gay and straight) just would not and do not use that word and it almost always strikes me as false. And then I'm just picky about prose in general. There are a LOT of writers out there that I applaud for writing, but I just can't read them. And the writers that I love (coughs significantly in your direction) I'll read almost anything they write, because I know it'll be good.