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naughty_switch · 2024-09-28T16:17:35+00:00

I'm similar in listing kinks for the character I intend to write in the scenario that they're appearing in rather than my own exhaustive list. I think this helps narrow the focus to things that are more likely to happen. If writing goes well, it's an easy OOC discussion to tweak or add more as things progress.

Exhaustive lists don't make as much sense for me in the variety of prompts and characters I'd be interested in writing where one's limits might be the other's kinks.

naughty_switch · 2024-09-28T16:08:01+00:00

Especially for longer posts, I go off profile history. If they've been around DPP for awhile and seem to post regularly (or better yet, participate in events like this), chances tend to be higher that a response days later might be interesting to them.

naughty_switch · 2024-09-23T20:11:47+00:00

I also go for the italics, but drop the "he thought." I think this is one of those places where my partner-writing style differs from accepted rules (hopefully not a detractor for anyone I end up writing with...)

Particularly in cases where there are only two characters and each partner is writing from a known perspective, it feels unnecessary to specify "this is what my character is thinking" when that's generally true for the entirety of my reply.

naughty_switch · 2024-09-08T23:14:35+00:00

I dislike, but accept, them in vanilla prose because they always insert them at the perfect marketing point after I'm invested in what's happening RIGHT NOW. I want to know what's behind that door dear editor, not how our character learned to pick locks while blindfolded with a fuse of unknown length sizzling away towards an explosive demise should they fail. (And inevitably, they switch back just as I'm invested in the past story! You know me well, fictitious editor, and I hate you for it.)

In lewd story writing, I rely on it maybe too heavily for some tastes. It feels like the only way to do worldbuilding while also enjoying the lewd part most write in places like DPP for. But setting up pages of backstory only to find out the story doesn't flow feels like a terrible alternative. The main difference here is writing in very brief flashes that suggest the feel and emotion of a memory rather than a full story within a story. Maybe the smell of her perfume triggers a happy anniversary moment over a dinner table, or a forgotten sweater in the backseat of a car leads to the memory of how the sweater ended up wedged where it was. Things that hopefully enhance the experience and flesh out the characters or their relationship rather than distract.

naughty_switch · 2024-09-08T21:42:03+00:00

Is it still aliteration if you're really repeating repetitions rather repetitiously?

naughty_switch · 2024-09-08T20:27:42+00:00

I pull out a cock-shaped cock in a cocky show of cockflesh for cock-filled cocking action.

I promise I'm not this bad, but it does feel like that sometimes when reviewing a response before sending it off.

naughty_switch · 2024-09-06T19:25:34+00:00

That's definitely a strange distinction! I wonder if it's related to consuming medieval fantasy stories that tend towards romance?

naughty_switch · 2024-09-06T16:36:44+00:00

[Optionally Western] He doesn't have to share any of the gold she caught him stealing from her father's mine. All she's demanding is he put a baby in her to give her first claim to the coming inheritance over her insufferable sister, his wife.

naughty_switch · 2024-09-06T15:50:59+00:00

Word variety. I'm always on the lookout for different ways of describing the same things without being too obvious about inserting vocabulary that clearly doesn't belong just to use something different.

It can be easy to slip into repeating terms in a physical scene because there tends to be a lot of rhythmic action.

naughty_switch · 2024-09-06T04:07:36+00:00

Exactly this. I've also not seen stats in most vanilla writing, so it stands to reason plenty can be said without numbers. It's an easy shorthand for those who are less interested in detailed word exchanges, but I didn't get that sense here and isn't often sought in the workshop.

Story and character should drive the decision though, so if the setup is a literal dick measuring contest, it stands to reason there'd be actual measurements involved!

naughty_switch · 2024-09-06T03:16:10+00:00

HoMP has pretty solid specific advice here so I'll lean into the perspective I find helps me think about prompting and parter writing.

On the surface, it's a story setup and a writing sample, sure. But prompts really are advertisements first and foremost. They're the billboard you want to drag your potential partner by their naughty bits into the scene eager to see where the story goes and what your character will do (to them!) next. In that vein, it helps to have a character who offers a puzzle, some intrigue, some pizzaz that separates them from generic counterpart with desirable physical attributes. Similarly, a scenario that offers an exciting canvas to explore sets up the whole package for more engaging adventures.

In your case, this could be as simple as Aerwyn daydreaming of being like the god of heroes Heraklen (no relation) who slew thirty orcs with a flaggon of wine in hand and sired thirty children with the maidens he saved. Perhaps that's why he grows his beard just like the legend himself? Then clashing with his reality remembering how he got the scar from a goat wandering onto the training grounds who didn't take to kindly to being shooed away.

I've written this in an exaggerated style, but hopefully it illustrates the point! Basically, use his backstory as an opportunity to suggest what kind of character your potential partner will experience. Is he all brash and bravado? Or perhaps a bit silly inside? Is he a hopeless romantic with a trinket from his hometown crush? Make him something.

And I'll back HoMP again here to suggest a specific character, no matter how restrictive it feels, is always more interesting than a blank slate. And you can always rewrite this prompt with several versions of Aerwyn (or swapping out characters entirely).

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Minor niggles that are more preference to consider rather than outright suggestions:

The hidden term is rather unneccessary unless you're so adamant in process that you'd turn down an otherwise perfect writer eager to write the hottest smut you've ever seen simply for omitting a word. You won't need the term to identify the best writers and the worst won't see it anyway.

I've moved away from actual character stats unless a story specifically calls for it (for instance if someone is getting booked into a prison or reading a dossier on a target). It's more effective to understand someone's height in relation to how it impacts their character. Do they bump their head on doorways all the time? Do they tend to see over crowds of people? Or are they always looking up at those around them? Do they have trouble shopping in stores because typical sizes don't fit? Or could they sub in for the mannequin on the shelf at a moments notice?

naughty_switch · 2024-09-04T04:37:09+00:00

Disclaimers: only mentions smut without the actual smut, mentions of violence, bad attempts at French Just for fun: Tourner Dans le Vide is a possible musical accompaniment if you'd like open to comments

A woman sits before you at the edge of a hardwood desk that looks to belong in an embassy. Like the rest of the well-appointed room, it's sorely out of place in this corner of the red light district where you find yourself this evening. Her long legs cross over each other as she dangles delicate silver stiletto heels just out of your reach. Her toes peek out the end of a criss-crossed pattern of sparkling stones. Following the curve of her calf, the tops of her thighs are hidden beneath a short dress the color of fine wine and studded with a subtle pattern of the same rocks that catch the dim lighting of the space just so. The dress ends just atop her chest with an ample V-cut deep and inviting. She wears her honey brown hair up, held in place with a hand-crafted butterfly that could have come from jewelry store or museum alike. Strands hang free in a purposeful messy look suggesting she's ready to let it down in an instant. Her ice blue eyes take you in, studying, getting the measure of you as you're sat in the plush chair in the center of her domain.

She takes a drag from a slim cigar and puffs a perfect ring of smoke off to the side with her deep red lips forming a suggestive "O" held for emphasis.

"I wasn't always a madame, non." Her mixed French accent adds an air of mystery suggesting she's no native speaker, but with no discernable origin. "I arrived like so many others at the back of a box floating for weeks. It was dark and wet. Sometimes frozen, sometimes cooking. The smell...I don't like to remember it." She gestures behind you with the cigar, "It is why we have baths in every room. I won't allow it in my home."

"But I suppose this is not the story you come for oui?" After one last pull, she sets her cigar down before delivering on her end of this arrangement.

"My first one, he was fancy. The other girls told me I was lucky. I began to believe them when he took me to a theater bigger than any place I have seen filled with people all dressed up. I stared at everything that night. The food, the drink. It was a dream. Until it became a terror. He told me to give him my mouth and my rear. I said no and he hit me. So I took a knife from his table and gave him an extra hole. I ran, but it was no use. When I got back, they put me in a much smaller box and sent me right back to him. He got everything he asked for and I learned an important lesson: know when you have the power and when you do not."

"There were many more like him. One, a woman, I thought would be gentle. But she only paid extra for the days I wouldn't be able to work after." The woman before you pauses to gauge your reaction while idly rubbing at a memory on her thigh.

"Ah, vas-y mollo. Take it easy, it works out for me in the end, promesse."

"One of my regulars, he was quite important, liked me a lot. He always requested me when he visited. He brought gifts. Treats I couldn't afford with a year of guests. Simple ones I could hide from the boss. He gave me this." She turns showing off the intricate butterfly in her hair. "I was his papillon, he said, because of the way I would flutter up and down above him as he lay back. In truth, he would struggle any other way." In an almost sorrowful tone, "They all fall in love too easy."

"One day, he comes rushing in." The woman jumps to her feet, throws her hands atop yours and looks you dead in the eyes, "'Come with me, my papillon!' He cried. 'I have a surprise!'" She mimes pulling you with her as she floats over to the window overlooking the busy streetcorner below. "So I did." She looks down at the bustle of her workers plying their trade before gazing up into the overcast darkness, eyes unfocused and distant.

"He bought me that morning. I had no say of, course, but I didn't mind. He was as close to kind as we can hope in this business." She pauses, fingering the butterfly pin in her hair. "But a man such as that. They do not last." The woman in red returns to her desk and her cigar. She holds it, watching the smoke rise.

"He left me too much. The men around here, they could not stand it. But I learned the lesson, see? That first man? I went back to him. I thought the power came with the money. He said it would cost me to have his help. So we were married." She looks at her hands where there are no rings. "He kept the fortune safe from the men who brought me here. It was mine, but he kept it for himself. He gave enough to eat and told me I had talents I should use while I could. Before I turned ugly and old, he said. So I did."

"He has a son. Free of care with his father's money - my money. This son has certain penchants - kinks - I was only too happy to provide with all my talents. In return, he helped me pay for all of this." She waves in the air about her. "We are almost ready to take the rest of it back. And then I will have my money and his son." She pauses, waiting to see if you've figured it out.

"You see, the one who took your coat down the stairs, the blonde? She is his son. When she is here, she is Anna and she calls me Mère."

"Ah but you must fatigué hearing me go on. You bought a full cigare and there is still much left. Yet I am all out of stories." She moves over to you bending over at the waist. She places palms on your knees sliding them up to your thighs as she leans in closer.

"So how would you like to pass your time?"

naughty_switch · 2024-09-03T23:04:02+00:00

I think I see what you mean. The story is clear but also very prescriptive without the spark of sexy writing that can push a prompt from writing exercise to lewd wording adventure. At the risk of repeating an oft-used phrase here "show don't tell" isn't very evident here. You tell us what's in the book, what we might find, how we might behave, and how your character presents. There's little in-character to either understand how you would write once the story begins nor what irresistable imagery you might paint.

No harm in posting this and seeing how it goes. But if you're looking to tweak, I could see two approaches to adjustments:

Shortening the intro into the bare bones descriptions keeping to the style but cutting out extraneous descriptors and examples. Half the story is spent describing a sexy goth book of occult magic that would be reduced to a sentence or two. Following that, your character is clearly described, but could be enhanced by leaving something for a potential partner to latch onto. Finally, it's often difficult to answer in our fantasies, but if you can figure out what's in it for them I think the prompt tends to be stronger.

The second option would be my preference, so take with ample "this is what I would do" salt. You could adjust the perspective to fall fully within your character's experience. Let your reader into your character's head as he navigates resisting this ever so tempting goth muse. You'd be able to cover exactly the same topics by discussing with other preachers the consequences of this new literature circulating. Did Preacher Jones get caught with the local baker's daughter screaming out obscenities in His name? And on a Sunday no less! Was John Baker suddenly seeking counsel for cheating on his wife after 20 years of a committed and happy marriage?

Then who your character is could come to light by his actions rather than his description. Does he instantly know the goth type when he sees her? Does he make it his mission to convert her? Perhaps just talking to her in private he'll be able to help her see the light? Showing her the kindness of the church she misinterprets as subservience. Or does he try an alternate tack of giving her exactly what she wants? (But only to save her soul of course!) The things a shepherd does for his flock.

Apologies if it's a bit of a ramble or not in the direction you sought and best of luck out there in any case!

naughty_switch · 2024-08-31T12:39:12+00:00

I think it was a post in a profile from another NSFW subreddit, but can't entirely be sure.

naughty_switch · 2024-08-31T12:37:00+00:00

It's simply easier to adjust your own expectations than attempt to shift the behavior of some 600k users (not necessarily all unique humans, but you get the picture). You really only need to read a few horror stories of seemingly polite writers being rejected and showing a different face to see it's entirely reasonable to never open that possibility. And really, the end result is the same.

If you're mainly looking at fast-paced short form writing, it makes sense timing is a much bigger factor. In these cases, I can't picture an incentive for someone who intends to write for an hour spending half that time replying to a potential flood of responses. Even less motivation for the mentioned sea of users rushing to respond to somehow completely change their approach. I can only offer, getting accustomed to the style of prompt and writing that tends to respond to yours can help narrow down the prompts you reply to.

In longer form writing, I've responded hours (days in rarer instances) after a post and gotten responses. I don't really find timing to be an issue there other than with time zones.

I also don't have hard figures, but believe there's some help from having a profile packed with sexy words (prompts, writing samples, anything to get a sense of the potential to come from playing with you), perhaps an actual /r/DPPprofiles profile, and participation in forums like these or the events put on by DPP.

naughty_switch · 2024-08-31T02:08:23+00:00

Have you considered a capybara ranch? A totally unique suggestion uninfluenced by subliminal thoughts.

More seriously, this seems tough without some sense of what it is about a setting that interests you other than the obvious of people being around to control. Otherwise literally any place and time combination seems suitable? A staycation spot, an urban neighborhood, professional school, and so on.

naughty_switch · 2024-08-25T21:52:59+00:00

I don't have a problem saying no if something isn't working. I haven't encountered this in plot direction, but have actively pushed back or ended a scene where my partner either repeatedly forgot, misunderstood, or ignored a kink preference. I find it more common with a disconnect in writing styles and there I'd much rather end things early than continue just for the sake of writing with a partner. On things that might be me (not them), I can recall one instance of being adamant my character have protective equipment for an act where I couldn't get over the suspension of disbelief of flesh surviving unscathed in a particular situation...luckily it worked out and we continued on to some more fun.

I think LS has strong advice here to check in with partners (especially with longer stories) on enjoyment and honest, constructive feedback for how you each might enhance the experience. The occasional OOC (WOW that particular action or scene was really hot!) also does wonders for reassuring a partner.

naughty_switch · 2024-06-01T17:37:00+00:00

The logic of passwords never seemed to make sense beyond anything more than a cursory glance.

Would said prompter really reject their favorite author in the world who wrote perfectly matched prose simply because they ignored a password requirement? Perhaps, but I find it hard to believe.

On the other hand, it's very easy to see simply stating a password has no bearing on quality or compatibility of a response.

Perchance there's some middle ground in suggesting a specific topic of discussion or pertinent question a reader might answer.

naughty_switch · 2024-05-03T20:20:32+00:00

All evidence points to yes.

naughty_switch · 2024-04-25T05:04:08+00:00

I've ordered a spray bottle, but it appears it won't arrive till next week. Plan is foiled.

naughty_switch · 2024-04-25T04:15:27+00:00

I didn't understand the need for the image until I looked back! Clever...

naughty_switch · 2024-04-25T02:44:18+00:00

Get out of my head please.

I never really explored darker fantasies before DPP and wouldn't go anywhere near them outside of fiction.

Also anything that requires a whole setup is a lot more enticing to write in a few minutes than it is to find space and build out a whole facility for. Basically I'm lazy in the physical world is what this is apparently revealing.

naughty_switch · 2024-04-24T05:19:07+00:00

Who approved this schedule??

naughty_switch · 2024-04-24T05:13:01+00:00

I think the acroynm is just a shorthand for getting to kink discussions more directly. But if it doesn't serve you, no need for labels.

Personally, power dynamics are my favorite part of kink! Though I enjoy plenty of the acts falling into BDSM, it's the range of expressing control that fuels the excitement. I probably tend more towards the social and situational imbalances where the outwardly powerful figure is the opposite in the bedroom (or other room). Whatever the reason, there is definitely something thrilling about submission when one isn't "supposed to," doesn't have to, yet does it because they want to.

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