Hello all,

So I wanted to ask on a couple of things. I try to judge on the up and down votes my stories get, but they are sometimes hard to understand. No I have one story getting close to 500 likes, to just 24 dislikes, so obviously it was a hit. But I don't specifically know my. All my stories are similar in that they usually have sex as a climax if not a multi part story, and there is some level of deviance or taboo. Otherwise, it is honestly just boring writing. One of my latest to do really well is The Good Doctor. The only deviance is that the man is married and has an intimate night with his receptionist who is a good deal younger, but of legal age. So nothing crazy bad, but that story already has 40 down votes. The story itself is one of my better organized ones with a rolling motiff, and what not, but since down votes never seem to leave a comment, I never know what a story lacked compared to another.

So starting with two basic questions, and I would love to hear some answers or opinions:

Physical Description: How much description of a character do you want? Top level: Just hair color, ethnicity, age? Mid level: previous plus body shapes and sizes, genital measurements. Deep level: All the previous plus skin feel and look, eye and lip and makeup description, how hair is done, clothing, musculature, nail polish.

Sexual Description: My best ever performing story was rather vague in the sexuality. The story was a good 5 pages but only described the people, their connections, the drive for the sexual desire and the actions of the characters. The actual intercourse is only a few paragraphs. Other stories have very intense descriptions of the acts being performed and the internal emotions and physical feelings of the acts. Which do you prefer, shorter, faster intimate moments, or slow drawn out descriptions, even if the act didn't cover a lot of time?

 

I tend to only describe physical characteristics which matter to the story. That includes things which matter to the narrator.

A lot of times I find descriptions in stories just distracting, they do nothing for the story except break up the flow. Maybe its because I don't think like that. If you asked me to describe someone, for the most part I couldn't manage as detailed description as is common in a lot of stories. I couldn't even tell you what color eyes my wife has.

My last real story (which won a competition) had almost no physical description in it at all. All you ever find out about the heroine is she has a birthmark on her thigh, and she has a different colour skin to the hero. The birthmark was important as it took a while for the hero to talk her jeans off because of it. The skin was only important because of her dad's attitude. I never actually mentioned who had what colour skin.

I've mentioned skin colour when its important to the narrator, like my character who particularly likes black girls. He also likes larger girls and big boobs. He'll also point out other body types by way of contrasts.

I'll also avoid being specific, rather going by what it means. I read a story recently which started with a very dry description of the character, I almost gave up at that point. They were described as 1.67m tall. That means a bit more to me as 5' 6", but its probably more useful as "average" heigh for a woman, or "short" for a guy.

I'm also fond of leaving it up to the reader. I've described boobs as "perfect" and "magnificent", but not be more specific. Each reader can think of what they consider to be perfect boobs.

On your other question, sex is difficult to describe well. It even more difficult to describe it in original terms. If you can hold my attention for five pages, that's good. If the story is best served by two paragraphs, that's also good. I don't think you can make a rule about it.

 

Stex is like me I don't put to much descriptions in, I rather leave it up to the readers imagination with a splash of description every now and then.

 

Join CAW 26 and you will get told by a lot of people what they do and don't like about your writing.

 

I NEVER give a laundry list description (She was 5 feet 4 inches tall with light blonde hair, big blue eyes, and weighed 104 pounds. She also had an amazing 38DD bust and freshly shaven pussy.) TMI, man. Most of the time descriptions like that belie nature. Hair and eye color, but I try to leave actual details to the imagination of the reader. I want them to visualize someone they know, as the character.

The sexual action? Readers feel the more the better, but you can describe without being overly graphic.

 

As far as physical descriptions, if I'm reading a story I don't need many details, just a few. I'd rather let my imagination do the rest.

 

Note that all these things vary depending on writing style and the needs of the story.

That said, I try to limit physical descriptions as well. Hair color and style is the thing that most define's a person's appearance. I usually throw in eye color as well since it's an easy detail though unnoticed usually. Breast size for the gals. Not much beyond that, for two reasons I think. One, it's porn, you can pretty much assume all characters are hot unless specifically required otherwise. (Sometimes I call a character "average looking", which is to say their appearance normally wouldn't jump out at you but you don't need to put a bag over their head to fuck them either.) Two, I don't think I have a great eye for defining a character down to the last detail so I just avoid it. Clothing I usually ignore, assuming just plain old clothes, unless I have a very specific look in mind, then I can take an entire paragraph on an outfit. Now, things like soft skin, soft lips, those might be good to throw in during the open of a sex scene rather than the initial description.

As for the sex, in any given story I tend to me more descriptive of a given act when it is first performed, and less descriptive of that same act as time goes on. My intention is to great a porn video in the mind's eye, but it also doesn't play well to describe something you've already detailed. Throwing in the emotions of the participants always helps to enhance and extend things, especially in those cases where the sex acts aren't exotic enough to warrant a lot of text.

 

I prefer to limit the character descriptions to things like eye and hair color things like facial hair and hair styles if it is relevant to the story. Other then that I prefer to leave the rest of the description up to the reader if possible. After all I've read many good stories where I loved the story line but some of the details turned me off.

As for describing the sex I feel as an author you should do whatever feels right and to you. I myself tend to get hung up on sex in my stories and skip past or skim through the sex in stories I read.

 

I feel description of actions are much more important than physical description.

 

ok I have only one real per se sex story in it I usually have 1 sex scene rarely two. I try to be descriptive as I can there are times that I haven't put in enough description and got blasted for it. As many have said it is up to you and the style you have.

 

A good rule is that if it bores you to write about it, it will probably bore the reader. That is true. Unless your story doesn't involve humans, you don't have to describe every inch of a person. I don't know what else I can tell you because I haven't read your work. But yeah. Enter a dog in the race and write an entry for the CAW. You'll see the writing stage thread. Now go.

 

The times when I do provide the laundry list of details about the character I don't do it in laundry list fashion. The size of breasts, the shape of her curves, is she an innie or outie, is she shaved/trip/natural/etc all come up organically. I mean seriously, who is gonna know if someone is shaved just looking at them fully clothed. If in the story a glimpse is cause to suggest she's is bare, or there's a landing strip or something that's how it'll be handled. You turn the details you want out there into an exploration of them just the way you would the sex scenes.

 

At least mid level. But the more descriptive the better.