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When you write smut, do you tend to be more abrupt and/or clinical about what's physically going on, or do you sheath actions in metaphors or allusions? About how much of your posts, on average, is split between physical actions and emotional responses, banter, and/or mood setting?

And out of curiosity, how long have you been writing smut for? Did you notice your style change drastically from when you started until now?

Depends on the mood and the characters in question. I just go by feel...so to speak. (ahem)

I've been writing smut for, um, almost 20 years? And yeah, my style has changed from the beginning, but it hasn't changed in a long time, since I found the way I liked writing and haven't really veered from there. Creature of habit, me.

jesus christ are you almost 40

it's cute that you think people wait until they're 18 to start writing smut.

also that you think people in their late thirties/early forties are remotely rare in this hobby.

if you start writing smut under the age of 15 it's a creepy and bad sign

35 is getting close to 40

hate to burst your bubble, but i'm pretty sure a lot of people started writing smut around their early teens, if not reading it at the very least. i started around 12 myself. it's not creepy by any means when it's harmless exploration.

unless you want to get into the argument of playing smut while underage against an adult, which is a whole 'nother can of worms.

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found the 15 year old

found elizabeth bathory

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They're not wrong, though. I am almost 40.

Um...

Yes? I'm 39.

37 here. yay for over 30ers. get off my lawn.

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i really dislike flowery-prose sex, it takes me out of the scene and makes me feel like im rping with someone who isn't all that comfortable writing out smut in general.

It depends a lot on the character for me too, but in general I like to keep my writing about 60/40 action over meta prose. I feel like too much allusion and analogy clutters up the scene, though it's useful in doses. One rule of thumb I use is that if I can't get across a deeper feeling or psychological insight in one or two sentences, I figure out how I can condense it while still getting the impact across.

Establishing a mood is very important to me though, so I use adjectives with actions and dialogue to keep it from being overly clinical. I think everyone has their sweet spot of writing, and I'm not even always consistent with it. But that's also why I'm not a professional writer.

I've been writing smut for going on fifteen years. I don't have any of my older stuff saved, but I think my writing style's evolved a lot in that time.

i've been writing smut since i was 11 and i'm 27 now. it did not become anything approaching passably good until i was 15 or so.

i'm pretty clear about what's happening. cocks are going into holes, skin is dragging against skin, butts are getting stretched full, etc. i'd say i split it between physical actions/sensations and emotional shit but that's because i'm usually playing some kind of kink, and there's a lot of ways to feel about that.

"i've been writing smut since i was 11"

jesus christ i hope it at least wasn't with other people

I remember being underaged and writing in a pretty open environment online... and the ones that wanted to ship the weirdest shit with the rest of us always invariably came out in a wank-storm as 20/30-somethings that were creepy as hell.

i mean, it was with other 11-year-olds, but i switched to solo fanfic writing fairly quickly and didn't get back into smut rp until 15 or 16 (again, with other people my age)

although yeah, i was definitely one of those asshole kids who was like "my parents won't care!" and lied about my age to be in adult spaces, which i am fully ashamed of

It depends on character. (Some of mine are younger and more flighty, so I tend to write scenes with them a little bit more flowery and starry-eyed because it's about the cute factor. Some are more experienced or reserved and for them I'll use more straight-forward writing, I guess more clinical sometimes.)

As for positions and emotions and stuff, I tend to swap between based on what needs clarifying and what needs moving along. I love banter and fuck-ups during smut so I'll slip those in whenever seems appropriate.

I've been writing for about ten years I think, and I started late to the game. I started off barely referencing the actual activities because I was so body-shy I got embarrassed trying to describe the actual acts. Now I'm comfortable and like using smut as a way to explore a character's relationship or to explore their specific kinks, so I guess it's gotten better. More specific and to the point I think.

back when i was a teenager and early 20s i had this rp partner who i wrote smut with all the time. and i mean all. the. time. that's all she ever wanted to do, so i got in a ton of smut logs. they were all kind of same-y and a little on the flowery side sometimes.

then we parted ways and it was a long time before i played smut again. i tried again with another rp partner years later, but i found myself getting stuck and thread dropping a lot.

i'm still like that now, and i'm almost in my 30s. i can take or leave smut scenes. when i DO want to write them i get stuck in the middle of a scene and usually drop the god damn thread

it frustrates me too sorry guys

This is why I like throwing things into the mix to move things along or throw the characters off track. You might be suffering from burn-out, still--this happened to me where I'd start to feel like a scene was dragging on and would not want to tag back anymore because things started to get very samey samey.

If you find yourself on the verge of dropping a thread that you otherwise were enjoying, I'd recommend throwing your RP partner a line and asking if it's cool to move things along, or if you have an idea for something that might derail the characters, that works sometimes. If you're on good terms with the other player you can sometimes just throw this into the mix, but I find it's better to touch base OOC first just to make sure nobody is going to go 'wtf?'

when you do find yourself wanting to write smut, is there a particular kind of character or situation that you're getting into? Is it too similar to when you were younger? You could also try throwing different characters with different experience levels into the mix, or possibly exploring different situations or kinks... I'm sure you know all of this already, I'm just trying to be one of those nosy helpful anons.

i've tried different characters and experience levels, and i think burnout is possibly a problem. a little bit of burnout, a little bit of being shy because i don't write smut with many people, and a little boredom. a lot of the smut i try to write is nothing special, it's pretty vanilla and my character is usually the one topping. i get bored with that. i'm only really interested in a smut scene when it has some kind of power behind it. something super emotional, first times, hatesex, something like that. notable scenes. i don't really like generic saturday-morning-fucking-just-because

i also think i have problems writing anal sex. that's my least favorite m/m sex act and it's also the most popular on dw

i'm trying to shake things up now and write some anonymous smut, because like i said sometimes i think being shy plays in to it, so we'll see how that goes

I wish you luck!

I've been wanting to get into the writing anonymous smut scene for a change-up but I keep getting dropped threads. I think I need some crit or something because I'm not sure if I'm being boring.

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depends on what the point of the smut is. if it's a kink thread, i'm more precise about what is physically happening and will dedicate more wordspace to sensory detail because the point is to write good shit for the person i'm threading with

if it's shippy, or if it's a kink thread where the kink is less sensory and more about the emotional dynamic (like devotion or trust or w/e), i'm a little more vague with the physical actions. not because they're not important, but because i like my tags to "flow", so if i can slip a few words of choreography into a sentence that's about feelings and get across what's happening that way, it's less obtrusive than breaking rhythm to be clinical.

not sure how to quantify how much is what because i like to roll it all together. if the scene gets more physical, sentences get choppier and more physical to reflect character perception. introspection and imagery happen in the same space because i identify things as the character notices them. physical actions get embellished with emotional responses via adverby qualities. it all just kinda happens

been writing smut since i turned 18 three years ago. i was shit at first but got better pretty quickly i think? my style's stayed pretty consistent but when i started i had no idea how to interpret my (canon) characters as sexual beings so they didn't resemble themselves until i thought it through more.

I've been RPing smut since 2008, so almost 8 years. (I wrote some before that as fanfic, but not enough to judge my style very well, only like four very short fics.) My style has definitely changed over time, mostly because I wrote it with only one partner for years, then added a second, then only a couple years ago started playing it in a smut game with a ton of partners.

I'd say more than anything it's gotten more fluid. In RP I tend to match my partner, the characters, and the tone and purpose of the thread. I've had partners who were all about the hardcore language and focus on the physicality, and others who shy away from that a lot more. I think my own style in a vacuum tends to the middle, but very dependent on circumstance either way.

Sometimes I notice myself getting bored with my style or falling into one I don't like, so I make conscious efforts to adjust. Right now I'm more into testing the waters with smuttier language and more banter/dirty talk, at least when it's appropriate to the characters and scene. But sometimes it's just not. I've definitely gotten more shameless over time, though.

in the somewhere around 12-15 years of smut-writing under my belt, I can easily say I have never couched anything in metaphors or allusions. I may change my terminology a bit depending on the scene, the mood, the characters, and the person I'm writing with, but words for bits can run the gamut and it doesn't take me out of the scene to omit using cock in every other sentence.

I try to balance everything out, and like above anons, it varies depending on the setting, characters, kinks, etc, but I do admit to being more focused on description and sensory information than emotional meta. I feel like I write better smut scenes when I include scents, taste, sounds, sensations, and the like. most of my characters aren't big on talking during sex so dialogue isn't much of a concern at all.

but hoo boy has my style changed. I cut my teeth on MU* cybersex and moved to aim chat style, so my first few smut threads in ljrp were hilariously short and terse. I rediscovered some recently and can't believe I thought I was writing totally great sex. so glad I've changed into a paragraph-spewing monster.

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