Supposedly it is said that men are more interested in visual pornography while women want to read erotica. Good words can be worth a thousand pictures, communicating not just the sights of sex but all the other six senses too — the wet sounds of cock in cunt or event cunt grinding against cunt, the smells of it, the emotions too.
There are many reasons to write word porn or erotica as it is most commonly known. One might just want to put ones fantasies on the page because it can enhance them for one’s own self-pleasures and masturbation. But more likely one wants to share them — written erotica can be perfect for sharing with a lover. Perhaps one has begun to correspond with a potential mate from an adult dating service and now that serious flirting has begun one wants to woo with a shared fantasy. One may even have dreams of sharing the story or fantasy on the Internet in an erotic story website or selling it to an adult magazine.
The first thing one must do is decide on content and tone. Is one going to write a story that is merely suggestive — the kind of thing to make her excited, to get her pussy wet or is cock hard. Maybe one wants to go all the way and be very explicit. It helps to know the audience one is writing for — if one person then know their tastes and fetishes. If one is writing for a website or publication it is good to understand who reads and what they buy. Most will specify whether one can write gay, straight or bi stories. Some fetishes might be okay — for example one magazine might enjoy spanking and light bondage but not be alright with other fetishes like infantalism, foot fetishes, bloodplay, or nonconsent.
Consider the language one might be using too. There are a lot of ways to describe the act of sex which are explicit or merely suggestive. Some words like rod, shaft, treasure box, snatch, titties, and so on just sound silly and probably should be avoided lest one takes a juvenile tone. Other words like vulva or penis can be too clinical sounding and create yawns where one wants to create moans. Other choices have to be up the writer but one should be consistent — don’t be coy one moment then talk about throbbing manmeat the next.