So sorry to ask, but do you have any tips for writing smut?
I feel like i always get so hyped and horny and ready and then my doc is like:
"You sucked his dick. It was in your mouth. He came, he moaned. It tasted like cum."
Sure Anon! No need to apologize, I am here to help! I wrote a smut tip post forever ago when I first started, and it has been such a long time that I think I can write a better post for that now! So let’s do it!
Welcome To Bex’s New And Improved Tips For Writing Smut.
My number one tip is, write what you want to. Do not write smut about something that you do not like or find hot. In my personal experience, if you find it hot and write it in an honest and unapologetic way, it will telegraph, and other people will see it, feel it and recognize it. You will find your audience.
Number two, I would encourage you to not take it too seriously! Have fun with it obviously, but porn isn’t meant to be super serious to me, it is a fantasy! Some suspension of disbelief is baked in, don’t feel like it has to be super grounded in reality. If it is not that realistic but it IS hot, then it serves it’s purpose!
Number three, think about your characters and how who they are would influence how they fuck! Believe it or not, I think hard as fuck about what kinks or habits that certain characters would have, I won’t write just any kink or scenario for a character, if I don’t think it fits, it won’t hit. So I don’t do it.
Number four, consider how the characters relate to each other, it will influence the smut and how long has this been going on? If they have been together for a bit and you imply that then you can assume a lot of shit was worked out off-screen, there are assumptions that they have some comfortability and familiarity. Meaning? You don’t have to explicitly spell out things. Consider if this is the first, twentieth or one hundredth time, because that will make it different.
Number five, do not be afraid to swear! This is pornography we are talking about here! Be vulgar! Sex is dirty and fun, engage and play with that. Swear a bit, a well-placed fuck goes such a long way! Do not be afraid to be down and dirty with your descriptions, I personally cannot get behind smut where someone can’t even utter the word cock or cunt.
Consider your pre-amble, the lead up to your smut, unless starting right in the action, can make or break a fic. How much build-up are you going to do? A little or a lot? I find context can make the smut hit harder because you have more investment. Where is the scene set? Don’t make it the same order of events every time though, vary it, if it is always make out, hand stuff, oral, penetration, it can get stale to read OR write. People can get their dicks sucked after penetration, remember that.
Now as for an example based off of what you gave, stretch it out.
Describe the act of the giver getting on their knees, of the meeting of eyes and removal of clothing. Mention textures or temperatures, comment on the hot, hard and heavy weight of a shaft in their palm. Linger on the act of taking the dick into their mouth, the reaction from the receiver, the taste, the spike or arousal from the actions taken, any sounds made. Then the motion, the rhythm and patter of the moment, how they stroke or suck and how the other responds to the stimulation. What is said? What are they thinking? Does it feel too good to speak or think? When the climax hits how does the body react to it, does the person take the load in their mouth like a champ and swallows it back like an old pro or do they have some leak out and gag a bit? Compare the cum to something else, mentions of it being salty or tangy but ultimately inoffensive is usually a safe bet.
Read other smut you like, what do you like about it? What do you think works in it or what doesn’t? Consider how to adopt and adapt what you like for your own purposes. Look at porn or movies you like too, what makes a sex scene work or not? Consider this and how to apply it. A good exercise I recc is to look at a video of a scene and practice writing it out as it plays out. How would that scene look in the written word, how do you make it hit the same when it is text without the visual? You will learn some interesting tricks and start to figure out the blocks to building a scene on your own better.
I will leave you with a personal godsend. I recommend you vary your word choices, I use onelook, the reverse dictionary, when I am worried I am using one word too much I put it in and this will spit out a bunch of similar words to give you options.
And this is my current and updated tips for writing smut, I hope this helps!
