Aftercare written as a wind-down reads like an apology.
Written as part of the scene, it becomes the thing the scene was for, and everything before it means something different the second time you read it.
#aftercare#BDSM
Silence is a command most writers do not know how to give.
He does not tell her to be quiet. He stops talking, and she understands. The scene where she has to work out what he wants without being told is worth three where he spells it out. #dominantsubmissive#kinkfiction
Praise is harder to write than cruelty. Cruelty sounds confident by default. Praise requires him to have been paying enough attention to be specific, and the writer has to have done that work too.
Disagree?
#kinkwriting#eroticfiction
@ulartaipan@basebuku Butcher and Blackbird is the obvious one: the chase is the courtship, and both of them know it. For primal written from inside the one being hunted rather than the hunter, Lights Out by Navessa Allen gets closer than most. The good ones write the decision to run, not the running.
Most of them are written from the outside: the equipment, the positions, the count. What actually reads as kinky is the moment she stops deciding where her own attention goes, and that is a sentence about her, not about the rope. The books that get it are the ones where you could take the gear out and the dynamic would still be on the page.
The sub who runs a company by day is written as a contradiction. She is not one.
The interesting scene is not the boardroom. It is the fifteen seconds in the car afterwards where she stops deciding things, and how fast that happens. #powerexchange#bdsm
@angelpannaa The best kink writing is often done from outside the position, because the writer has to build the want from scratch instead of assuming it. A lesbian writing m/m hard kink has to know exactly what he wants and why, or the scene does not land. That is the craft, not the pairing.
Name the thing kink fiction gets wrong so consistently that you have stopped complaining about it.
Not the worst thing. The one you have given up on.
#kinkwriting#bdsmfiction
@losfunboys Fully clothed is where the genre does its real work. Once the clothes are off a scene has one direction left; while they are on, every button is a decision, and the reader gets to watch who is making it. Two thousand words there is not a detour. It is the part people reread.
Skip anything with a penthouse on the cover and start with the books where the dominant woman is written as attentive rather than cold. The tell is whether she notices things about him before she does anything to him. If the first scene is all outfit and no attention, the author learned it from a costume shop.
The safeword is the most wasted device in the genre. It appears once, in the negotiation, and is never heard from again.
Has anyone written one being used mid scene and kept the scene alive?
#bdsmfiction#kinkwriting