Hey! I own a writing blog and I had a smut request, I am very pleased huh.... But I don't know how to write a smut :/ do you have any tips in smut writing?
Lord, get ya notebooks out folks because y’all are gonna have to doodle while I pretend I know what I’m talking about. First and foremost, I believe the legal age in the US of A to write smut is 18, so if you’re not from here, check your laws because I don’t want you or anyone else getting into trouble. The thing with smut is, it can be really raunchy and tasteless or really graphic and still a classic. It’s all in the way it’s worded. Take Fifty Shades for example. It’s constantly made fun of because of the words this woman used to describe homegirl’s pleasure and god knows what else. She straight calls her vagina her "sex” or “down there”...ummm....what? If you’re gonna talk about it, be about it, but also be an adult about it. I don’t know a single adult that does that and it’s so not a turn on for me. Learn the lingo if you’re not familiar with it. When I write smut, I just kind of put myself in a situation and think of what I would like to go down in said situation. You can be totally vanilla about it and have it be beautiful and just sweet lovemaking or you can be as dirty as you want and go the fuck off. Both styles can have the same impact. It’s also okay to not know what you’re doing like at all. The best sex is often the ones filled with giggling and laughter because someone does something silly in the middle of it. You can fill gaps you think are awkward in your smut with instances like that because it’s totally realistic and it happens all the time. Also, this mindset of you have to have had sex to write good smut is beyond me and I have no idea where it came from. I started writing smut way before I started having sex and not to toot my own horn, but I’ve always been pretty good at it. It’s all in ones imagination. Does watching porn help? My honest opinion? No. Porn is often like this big fantasy wrapped into a tight ball and thrown around to get people (mostly straight cis men) off. It’s far from realistic. There is some realistic porn out there that you can use as reference but only if you’re comfortable.
In short, write what you’re comfortable with, use as much detail as possible, and just have fun with it! (P.S.: music helps a lot!)
