How to Write a Dirty Story

What this book teaches is that no matter who you are, where you come from or even how skilled you are or aren't in bed, you alone have the ability to write a truly, erotic story and one that has the potential to blow your readers socks off.

Although gaining experience in the craft of writing is an advantage, this book is also invaluable in what it teaches by the author's good use of personal experience, writing exercises and guides to the steps that inevitably follow after the final draft of your first work.

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Susannah "Susie" Bright (also known as Susie Sexpert) (born March 25, 1958, Arlington, Virginia) is a writer, speaker, teacher, audio-show host, performer, all on the subject of sexuality.

She is one of the first writers/activists referred to as a "sex-positive feminist."

She has a weekly program entitled In Bed with Susie Bright distributed through audible.com, where she discusses a variety of social, freedom of speech and sex-related topics.

Interviews, book and movie reviews are common, as are letters from listeners.

Read more about Susie Bright on Wikipedia

'SB's take on erotica writing is that it works simultaneously at different levels: while it's simply enjoyable for writer and reader, it also has a serious function as a liberal and liberating force, personally and politically.' - Ray Girvan

'As to any worries about the 'naysayers', Bright's attitude is a healthy call to ignore them, and be you, and just to get on with the writing. ' - Arthur Chappell

'As irreverent as it is practical, How to Write a Dirty Story is the only book an erotica author -- novice or seasoned -- needs.'

Links of Reference:
Comments from Readers and writers of Erotica - Inkwell: Authors and Artists
Ray Girvan
Arthur Chappell

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* Virgins Can Write Great Erotica

The amount of sex you've had is irrelevant to whether you can observe, describe, and create a potent sex scene. Stop thinking in terms of notches, bouts of intercourse, or orgasm statistics.

Start recording the sexual experience of being alive, noticing what turns you on, listening to how your body responds to your own erotic weather report. After all, what's a bigger turn-on than teenagers' secret diaries of all their lusts and crushes? What's more poignant than a single sexual moment that arrives after a drought? Lack of experience often inspires some of the most excruciating erotic vignettes.

* Really Bad Lovers Can Write Great Erotica

You don't have to be a master at any particular kind of sex in order to write well about it. What you do need are empathy and information. You need to care about the issue, not personify it.

Consider how many overweight, chain-smoking, clumsy reporters cover sports with complete devotion. No one asks them if they are great athletes, or if they have even the smallest interest in physical fitness. Likewise, political writers would be the first to admit that they could never be a candidate.

* Really Bad Sex Can Be Great Erotica

The evidence of powerful bad sex can be found all over classics of erotic writing. Often the characters we read about in erotic fiction are inept, cruel, indifferent, manipulative -- and yet they can be arousing in their tortured bedroom adventures. A couple of years ago, someone came out with a whole anthology of short stories called Bad Sex. Tell me you wouldn't be tempted to pick up such a book if you saw it at your bookstore! There's only one crime in erotic writing, and that's being a bore -- the criminal who touches any subject and turns it into lead. A good writer can take even the most seemingly inconsequential act and turn it into a riveting read.

* Erotic Content Can Be Very Small

The pornographic "plain brown wrapper" has served as a misleading role model for a lot of writers interested in sex. In the "porn per page" example, you have to show somebody getting stuffed every 400 words, or else your manuscript is no good. That's an interesting exercise in creative repetition, but it's hardly required, or even desirable.

An erotic scene can be unforgettable, regardless of its length or the number of times such a scene appears in a story. Think of the hottest R-rated movies you've ever seen. Those sex scenes that are embedded in your brain probably took all of three minutes on the screen -- a page or two of script at the most. In how many fat novels have you secretly turned down a page or two to mark the erotic highlights? Writing erotica is about quality over quantity.

How do I go about writing my own Dirty Story?

One of the best ways to start writing your own dirty story is to write down a very basic form of a sexual fantasy that you may have. Most of us have fantasies in some form or another so don't feel ashamed or embarrassed.

When you've written down the bare bones, try fleshing it out with description, dialogue and plot. Don't feel you have to rush. This story doesn't need to be published or seen by anyone else but you and your partner.

Or, how about writing a love or erotic letter to your partner? Tell him/her what you would like to do to them, tell them how you feel and tell them things that you wouldn't dream of saying to their face :)

For more tips and advice, have a look at these links:

Write your own dirty story or erotic fantasy
Lovemaking Couples - Create Your Own Hot Romance Stories!
Writing Erotica
WRITING EROTICA - otherwise known as fulfilling the missing link
Writing For Sex Markets
How to Write a Dirty Letter to My Boyfriend?
How to Write a Dirty Love Letter - Make that Special Someone Crave You

* Erotic Writing Doesn't Have to Be "Erotica"

The most popular erotic writing today is being done by authors who aren't setting out to write a pornographic tour de force -- they just want to include their characters' sexual lives as they would naturally come up in the course of a story. Don't think, "I'm writing an erotica book"; think, "I'm writing a great book, and sexuality will inevitably be part of it."

What's been strange about the history of erotic censorship in America is how often, in a story, the shades are suddenly drawn, an implied act is substituted for an explicit one. But it's as bizarre to eliminate sex from fiction as it would be to exclude any other monumental fact of life. As fascinating and devious as titillation may be, it's been an artificial barrier to more revealing and honest erotic description.

* Assume Everyone Is Sexual

This is excellent advice for living, but it's absolutely mandatory advice for writing. If you dwell on stock characters, whose sexual MOs can be spotted a mile away, then you're killing any element of surprise in your plot. You're boring us if you think that, in order to be sexy, your characters have to embody certain physical or psychic measurements.

Mrs. Robinson of The Graduate was sexy because she was old and corrupt and unabashedly horny. The Beast in Beauty and the Beast was deeply erotic in his desperation and devotion. O in The Story of O was an absolutely ordinary little thing whose boundless sexual masochism was in stark contrast to her bourgeois, dull past. Yes, bring on the homely, the deformed, the aged, the plain, and the absurd -- these characters are the inspiration for the most profound erotic discoveries.

* (Erotic) Writing Requires Ego and Discipline

Once you believe that your writing is worthwhile, that you have something to say, you have cleared the first hurdle. Getting specific ideas is the fun part, because you can use all sorts of inspirations, mental exercises, and outright silly tricks. I've included many of them in this book!

Discipline is hard, by its nature, although such practice is the path to your maturity as an artist. That's how it works -- in any genre, for any author. You have to have the ego for writing, and you have to actually do it, rather than dream about doing it, in order to become remarkable. Flourishing as an author is really just another name for showing up and beginning a new page every day.

Copyright © 2001 by Susie Bright