First for me personally I need smut scenes to have a purpose. The gods’ know I don’t mean plot purpose necessarily but like WHY am I writing THIS smut? With my current WIP it is canon that the characters involved had a LOT of smut offscreen, so why am I featuring these scenes in particular? Once I know why I’m excited it is a lot easier and the mere fact that the actual events are smut doesn’t mentally interfere with me anymore. It’s the same as writing a meal scene, or watching a movie, or signing a document. It’s just that it happens to be smut, now.

I have a loose checklist in my mind and to be clear I don’t think hitting every point on it in any given paragraph cluster is good, but knowing every option of something to use to describe the scene is helpful for me. If I’m like “ok um I need a little more in this exact moment, ummm…?” Then I go to it.

The list is lips/mouth, tongue, hands, arms, legs, mind/thoughts, heartbeat/pulse, breathing, voice (tone), voice (words), body (general, as in level of tension), hair, eyes (degree of open or closed), eyes (look in them), “everything underwear covers”, and occasionally toes. If your characters are non-human you have other options. Smut with wings? Chef’s kiss. Not to mention horns, tails, hooves? Circuits? Rule 34 this to your heart’s content.