Here are a few ideas to challenge or inspire those who write, or who are ready to write, or who want to challenge themselves to write erotic fiction. Any writer can pick one (or more) of the prompts and write a story which meets its requirement. It can be any length, any heat level.
That can be the end of it. You reply to this thread, announce you wrote something and on which prompt, receive congratulations, and call it done, never showing it to anyone. That makes it pretty safe if you're shy about it.
Or you can post the resulting story on the password-protected board at Share Your Work - Erotica (see this to get the password, if you don't have it) and get qualified feedback on your story. If you do not want critique, please don't post your work.
Nobody has to post their story, and nobody should post an erotic work anywhere at AbsoluteWrite besides Share Your Work - Erotica, which requires you to have the password and 50 posts. (Critiquing the work of others is a great way to get there--and you'll learn a lot, too.)
Reminder: Moderators do not distribute the password. You get that by stating your are 21 or older and asking for the password in a private message to AW Admin or MacAllister.
Again I've added several prompts geared toward shorter works. Come on, you know you want to try it.
1.No use of to be verbs in present or past tenses allowed: no is, are, was, were.
2. Water is important in the plot and/or setting
3. A wedding--but not of the main character
4. Set in an active war zone, in any part of the world, any time period.
5. Starts with a huge argument.
6. A surprise during sex.
7. One character is a "fish out of water," uneasy in and unfamiliar with his or her situation.
8. Within 25 words of 300; anywhere from 275 to 325 words.
9. 400 words, exactly.
10. About 1000 words.
11. Allergies figure in.
12. Incorporates diversity in characters.
That can be the end of it. You reply to this thread, announce you wrote something and on which prompt, receive congratulations, and call it done, never showing it to anyone. That makes it pretty safe if you're shy about it.
Or you can post the resulting story on the password-protected board at Share Your Work - Erotica (see this to get the password, if you don't have it) and get qualified feedback on your story. If you do not want critique, please don't post your work.
Nobody has to post their story, and nobody should post an erotic work anywhere at AbsoluteWrite besides Share Your Work - Erotica, which requires you to have the password and 50 posts. (Critiquing the work of others is a great way to get there--and you'll learn a lot, too.)
Reminder: Moderators do not distribute the password. You get that by stating your are 21 or older and asking for the password in a private message to AW Admin or MacAllister.
Again I've added several prompts geared toward shorter works. Come on, you know you want to try it.
1.No use of to be verbs in present or past tenses allowed: no is, are, was, were.
2. Water is important in the plot and/or setting
3. A wedding--but not of the main character
4. Set in an active war zone, in any part of the world, any time period.
5. Starts with a huge argument.
6. A surprise during sex.
7. One character is a "fish out of water," uneasy in and unfamiliar with his or her situation.
8. Within 25 words of 300; anywhere from 275 to 325 words.
9. 400 words, exactly.
10. About 1000 words.
11. Allergies figure in.
12. Incorporates diversity in characters.