For years I’ve written erotica as a way to release and reflect over my deepest fantasies. It’s fun for me to be creative and paint a picture I have in my head.
When I first started, I was incredibly driven, I could only get my horniest with a keyboard in front of me, vividly describing scenes only possible in my imagination. Even now, I impress myself with some of the ideas I think up, but I have so much trouble putting them into words.
I even try and start with the sexiest parts, the straight up graphic sex and then add in the flavor and the dialogue and stuff, but half my stuff ends up unfinished. I try and go at it over multiple days and still, have no success after the initial burst of sexual caffeine that is a new story idea.
My path usually starts with a great idea, an hour or two of research and writing, and then finally a release that ends up with an almosy empty canvas of a Word doc that I desperately want to finish painting on.
Any advice? Anyone else run into this as well?
Source: reddit.com/r/Erotica/comments/74qrle/metanot_sure_if_meta_posts_are_allowed_here_but
I decrease my writing when I hit a block, but still plug at it occasionally without the intent of finishing, just to keep the habit while still taking a break.
I also increase my reading, usually NOT erotica. This keeps me steeped in literature without having to produce anything.