How To Write Dirty
Thanks to Violet Blue (who provides more context) I can link you to the Ten Commandments Of Smut, which is after being some excellent basic erotica-writing advice by M. Christian. Just one commandment for flavor:
II. Thou Shalt Not Own a Thesaurus
An exaggeration, of course (to get that vicious Roget off my case). The need to change a descriptive word after every sentence or paragraph is the clear sign of an amateur. Example: ‘cock’ in the first paragraph of the sex scene, becomes ‘rod’ in the second, ‘staff’ in the third, ‘pole’ in the forth … and you get my gist. The same goes for the silly need to be ‘polite’ in describing either a sex scene or various body parts. Unless you’re writing a Victorian homage (or pastiche), women don’t have a ‘sex’ between their legs, and a ‘member’ doesn’t live in a man’s trousers. If you can’t write ‘penis’, ‘clit’, ‘cock’, ‘cunt’, or the rest of the words you can’t say on television then find another job – or just write for television.
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However, if your writing is more in a passive style; the wording more passionate and loving; some of the more “impolite words” just don’t seem to fit in. You wouldn’t talk about the slow, long, moments of foreplay and then the next moment say “he then shoved his tongue into her cunt”. It just doesn’t always fit; sometimes, you need to use more “polite terms”.
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