End Goaling in Writing Erotica

Do you just walk up to a stranger—or have a stranger walk up to you—and say “Let’s fuck,” and that’s how it starts? Never, or hardly ever, of course. And a story starting this way will fall flat into the “B” ranks as well. You need to spend a little time and effort—but not too much—in making the “contract” believable to the reader.

This is basically your fantasy at work. If it’s not making you hot and aroused as you write it, it probably won’t do that for anyone else and isn’t worth pursuing further. And if it does make you hot and aroused, there’s 90 percent justification for having written it in the first place. Go clean yourself up and start imagining the next turn-on story.

Read the story aloud. If the flow is awkward or if phrases stick out or words are repeated noticeably, this isn’t good storytelling. Go back to Go.