[QUOTE]Originally posted by S_Couture

[B]I can see why a lot of authors don't or just pretend to plot. It's hard work.

Yes. For me the hardest, most time-consuming part of writing is plot construction. Sometimes I spend days trying to figure out how to get from point A to point B.

Well- organized writers are no doubt able to map out an entire plot before they begin. But if I were to do that, I would lose the sense of adventure, the sense of spontaneity that I get in writing the next chapter. I have a general idea of where the characters are going, and where I want them all to end up, but I make up most of the minor plot details as I go along, while trying desperately to maintain continuity in the story.


If you are writing a non-porn story, you can concentrate on plot. With a porn story, you have the plot going on, but you also have to put sex in the story.

Somehow, I usually don't find that to be too disagreeable an undertaking. ;-)

Sex that's hot enough for someone to get off one. It also needs to happen somewhere near the end of the chapter. Then afterwards you need to add something to make the reader want to read the next chapter.

It's work.

Yes, it can be. On the days it becomes really laborious, I try to find something else to do. It's not like most of us are getting paid to write stories, that's for sure.

Writing about sex is a little like sex itself, don't you think? One isn't always in exactly the right mood, and it doesn't always come off exactly the way you had hoped.

But when you really get it right - write a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter where you really, um, nail it, where everything goes almost exactly as you had hoped after that first rush of stimulation, don't you get a nice warm glow of satisfaction? I often do.

And, as with sex, a little positive feedback is the icing on the cake!

Boccaccio