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And this is all my opinion, take everything with a grain of salt and keep what you feel resonates with you and makes sense!\nOther guide here: https://inkbunny.net/s/3088285\n\nTL:DR \nStay focused on a few themes/fetishes\nLength at least 2000 words, cutoff around 5000 or a bit more\nMake a cover image, and tag your story properly to remain visible when certain fetishes/themes are searched for\n\nA lot of this advice is directly inspired by:\n[iconname]Meowmere[/iconname]\nWho has made an amazing and very in-depth guide to writing smut/erotica.\nWhich is also quite subjective at times, but damn if it doesn't go around a LOT of good topics! If nothing else, then at least reading that thing and its follow-up will have you THINK about writing and have you think about thinking about writing, which is something I think is definitely worthwhile to enhance one's ability to craft a nice story!\nLINKS:\nhttps://inkbunny.net/s/2180111\nhttps://inkbunny.net/s/2406802\nUPDATE: Meowmere has made an updated guide!\nCheck it: https://inkbunny.net/s/3101030", "description_bbcode_parsed": "So, I had a few more things I wanted to add to my first guide, but which are a little more in-depth.
I'll try to keep it short though! And this is all my opinion, take everything with a grain of salt and keep what you feel resonates with you and makes sense!
Other guide here: https://inkbunny.net/s/3088285

TL:DR
Stay focused on a few themes/fetishes
Length at least 2000 words, cutoff around 5000 or a bit more
Make a cover image, and tag your story properly to remain visible when certain fetishes/themes are searched for

A lot of this advice is directly inspired by:
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\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMeowmere\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t		\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMeowmere\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Who has made an amazing and very in-depth guide to writing smut/erotica.
Which is also quite subjective at times, but damn if it doesn't go around a LOT of good topics! If nothing else, then at least reading that thing and its follow-up will have you THINK about writing and have you think about thinking about writing, which is something I think is definitely worthwhile to enhance one's ability to craft a nice story!
LINKS:
https://inkbunny.net/s/2180111
https://inkbunny.net/s/2406802
UPDATE: Meowmere has made an updated guide!
Check it: https://inkbunny.net/s/3101030", "writing": "In this short guide I will try to lay out a few things that will make it easier to gain attention and affection for your writings.\n\nThis piece has [b]opinions[/b]!\nWriting is art, art is subjective and in the eye of the beholder, consider everything in this guide to end with question marks and words like \"perhaps not\" \"maybe not\" \"You may think differently\" \"I could be totally wrong\" etc etc.\nTake from it what you think might help!\n\nSo in my previous guide, I laid out what I personally consider the basics for writing a good smut story:\n- Write proper: be diligent with your grammar, capital letters after full stop and for names and for I and so on, use commas to make longer sentences have breaks, etc. Use your browser to search for spellings and meanings and synonyms for words, change the browser language to English and it will always have spellchecking for you, if you don't have Word then download Libreoffice which is free and has the same functions as the entire Office package (https://www.libreoffice.org/)\n- Use the furryness. Tails will wag, fur is soft, equines whinny and canines bark, animal ears move around, knotted cocks are hot as fuck, etc\n- Use the senses. Describe what the characters feel, taste, smell, hear and see\n- [b]Read Meowmere's guide[/b]\n\n\nWith that out of the way, let us start with the basic question: Are you writing smut or erotica?\n- Smut is hard and fast and arousing\n- Erotica is soft and slow and about the characters more than the sex itself, though still arousing if written well\n\nI write smut, and will speak about that. I also write about cubs, but will try to expand on stuff that pertains to non-cub stuff as well.\n\nThe very first point I have, which is perhaps the most important: STEAL WITH YOUR ARMS AND LEGS\nDon't copy and paste of course and Do Not Use OCs You Haven't Been Allowed To Use!!\nBut steal ideas, character dynamics, themes, specific words and wordings to spice up your writing, steal a setting and call it something else, make these things your own and write in your own voice with those added. All art is derivative of other art, and that includes writing!\nAs long as you put your own spin on it, suddenly it will be new and fresh, and old tropes and ideas in new clothes always have an allure to the reader!\n\n\n[b]Themes[/b]\nYou want to write a story. You have a BUNCH of fetishes and scene ideas you want to write out. But now it gets daunting. So much stuff, it is all overwhelming! o_0\nCHOOSE!\nChoose a couple of fetishes and acts, and write a shorter story about that. You can always return to the characters you make up for a fresh chapter, or make up new characters for other fetishes and scene ideas, or other aspects of your favorite fetishes that you could write about all day long.\n\nMost smut features a giver and a receiver, in cub stories the younger character often receives either cock or attention or some depraved fetish, but plenty stories go the other way. \nMeowmere's guide expands a LOT on these topics, how the theme of corruption VS innocence, or the normal VS the taboo can be main drivers. \nI find that stories that stay focused on a few aspects will fare better, either focusing on giving or on receiving, though writing out multiple points of view work fine too. Up to you, the writer, how you want to play it out.\nAre you an exclusive top in your mind, does your thoughts only revolve around giving? Then write that!\nSame goes for a bottom 'personality', focus on what you understand and what makes it tick, and then make it tick for the reader.\n\nDon't let yourself be hemmed in by what you think the reader wants, because what the reader truly wants is to have a fantasy implanted into their brain that is somewhat well-written by someone who is [i]horny[/i] about the subject.\nThink about your favorite artists and writers, how they have implanted new fetishes into your brain you always thought were \"Hell Nah!\", but suddenly understood to appreciate after watching/reading their stuff!\n\n\n[b]Length[/b]\n\nI mostly write longer stories, and enjoy such as well, but 2000-3000 words is about the bare minimum to craft a nice smut story.\n\nWhy?\n\nBecause you want to introduce your characters. \nYou want to craft the scene and make it alive and breathing. \nYou want to build at least a little tension to make the sex stuff rewarding.\n\nAnything shorter, and you don't have enough time to showcase your characters, their mannerisms. You won't flesh out the scene a little and make it interesting, and you won't have time enough to build the smut.\nBuild? \nYes, you want to build up the arousal. \"They fucked and he came\" is five words, but you want that to last 5000 words if possible (okay, I exaggerate, 500 words will be enough). Characters must meet and be forced to interact and find somewhere to lewd it up. Change positions. Have them go slower and faster, add foreplay, fingering, oral, toys. Virgins get to be awkward and maybe get a little soft, which is resolved by an understanding partner for a wholesome conclusion etc etc\nSame goes for a fetish scene. \"She spanked him\" is three words, but can easily turn into three hundred words or more by describing the act in some detail, and when she fetches the paddle, that's another 300-500 words!\nAgain, how does the spanking sound? How does it feel for the giver or the reciever? How does their body react? how does their furryness features react?\n\nBoth Word and Libreoffice has a word counter in the bottom of the program when you write in it^^\n\nThe cut-off length for most readers is about 5000-10.000 words depending on their mood and how much time they have to read before they bust a nut. Longer stories [i]can[/i] work, but it is often better to cut off after presenting a few nice things and have a new chapter with more nice things at a later time!\n\n\n[b]Attention[/b]\n\nFor the love of God MAKE A COVER IMAGE\nOpen your painting program, fill it out with a soothing colour (I like blue), and put some text there.\nThis will let a potential reader know what your story is about. Also consider that many users on Inkbunny are on tablets or phones and cannot hover the cursor over a submission to have the keywords pop out before clicking the actual thing!\n\nYou need the title of course, and then you want the main 'themes' of the story to be there as well, the sexes of the characters, something to indicate their ages (this is Inkbunny after all!) and what specific fetishes you are catering to.\n\nWhat is important is to showcase themes that may be ambiguous to the viewer. Let us say you have a story with BDSM content that is M/F.\nIf we follow the giver/receiver prejudice I laid out earlier, then the male will probably be giving the female some attention. So, if the situation is reversed, it would be an excellent thing to put \"Femdom\" as one of the words on the cover page. This will push away those who dislike it and pull in those who like it, and if you wrote it, you probably want people who like the specific fetish to read your stuff!\n\nTitles are important! Very important! Don't have your story be called \"New Submission 3\" or something silly like that. A good title features a little wordplay, or at least a suggestion of the themes. Look at what authors and artists do and do something similar!\n\nTAG YOUR SHIT\nOkay, so you made a cute little story about two characters who meet in a park and have a romp behind some bushes and you tag: [b]gay, oral, anal, park[/b]\n\nHell naw dude, you need more tags, at least ten more!\nFetish Tags are important to stay relevant in the search function as time moves. The above mentioned story has a couple of themes that some people find VERY arousing and will actively search for.\n[b]public_sex, risk_of_discovery[/b] are two tags in that catagory.\n[b]gay[/b] is a fine tag, but if you browse around, you will notice that some will use [b]m/m[/b] and [b]male/male[/b]\nYou also want the species to be added! Also a little about the sexual characteristics of the characters: is one of them significantly bigger or has a nice big cock, is the penis humanoid or of the animal variety?\n\nLet's try tagging the story again, let's say the men are of equal size, but one is a horse with such a dick and the other is a fox with a humanoid penis:\n[b]m/m, male/male, gay, anal, oral, horse, fox, equine_penis, horsecock, humanoid_penis, public_sex, park, risk_of_discovery, outdoor_sex[/b]\n\nNow if someone searches for stories and wants something with a horse with a horsecock doing anal with a fox, the story pops up. If someone searches for outdoor sex that is public, the story pops up.\nSe how a few extra tags might help out?\n\nOne last thing: TAG OFFENSIVE/HARDCORE CONTENT PROPERLY\nIf your story features cubs, tag *cub* \nIf your story features cubs, but it gets a little dark and non-consensual, tag it! NC, noncon, non_consensual can be for \"mild\" noncon and then there is always the \"rape\" tag. You can tag softer if you desire, but at least use one of these tags if your story features such content!\nSame goes if you add in watersports, scat, violence or even rougher stuff. Tag. It.\nNothing is more annoying to a reader/viewer than being lured in, but their keyword block is ignored because the poster hasn't tagged properly.\nI mean, sure, if you have a virginity-loss scene with a female character and there's a tiny bit of blood, you won't have to tag it, but you could.\nBut if someone is whipped bloody you better make sure to tag violence, blood, torture, or something to that effect.\nPeople have different limits to what they want to see, [b]please[/b] be respectful of that!\n\n\n\nWith that, I'll stop here. I hope there was something here that is useable for You^^", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "In this short guide I will try to lay out a few things that will make it easier to gain attention and affection for your writings.

This piece has opinions!
Writing is art, art is subjective and in the eye of the beholder, consider everything in this guide to end with question marks and words like "perhaps not" "maybe not" "You may think differently" "I could be totally wrong" etc etc.
Take from it what you think might help!

So in my previous guide, I laid out what I personally consider the basics for writing a good smut story:
- Write proper: be diligent with your grammar, capital letters after full stop and for names and for I and so on, use commas to make longer sentences have breaks, etc. Use your browser to search for spellings and meanings and synonyms for words, change the browser language to English and it will always have spellchecking for you, if you don't have Word then download Libreoffice which is free and has the same functions as the entire Office package (https://www.libreoffice.org/)
- Use the furryness. Tails will wag, fur is soft, equines whinny and canines bark, animal ears move around, knotted cocks are hot as fuck, etc
- Use the senses. Describe what the characters feel, taste, smell, hear and see
- Read Meowmere's guide


With that out of the way, let us start with the basic question: Are you writing smut or erotica?
- Smut is hard and fast and arousing
- Erotica is soft and slow and about the characters more than the sex itself, though still arousing if written well

I write smut, and will speak about that. I also write about cubs, but will try to expand on stuff that pertains to non-cub stuff as well.

The very first point I have, which is perhaps the most important: STEAL WITH YOUR ARMS AND LEGS
Don't copy and paste of course and Do Not Use OCs You Haven't Been Allowed To Use!!
But steal ideas, character dynamics, themes, specific words and wordings to spice up your writing, steal a setting and call it something else, make these things your own and write in your own voice with those added. All art is derivative of other art, and that includes writing!
As long as you put your own spin on it, suddenly it will be new and fresh, and old tropes and ideas in new clothes always have an allure to the reader!


Themes
You want to write a story. You have a BUNCH of fetishes and scene ideas you want to write out. But now it gets daunting. So much stuff, it is all overwhelming! o_0
CHOOSE!
Choose a couple of fetishes and acts, and write a shorter story about that. You can always return to the characters you make up for a fresh chapter, or make up new characters for other fetishes and scene ideas, or other aspects of your favorite fetishes that you could write about all day long.

Most smut features a giver and a receiver, in cub stories the younger character often receives either cock or attention or some depraved fetish, but plenty stories go the other way.
Meowmere's guide expands a LOT on these topics, how the theme of corruption VS innocence, or the normal VS the taboo can be main drivers.
I find that stories that stay focused on a few aspects will fare better, either focusing on giving or on receiving, though writing out multiple points of view work fine too. Up to you, the writer, how you want to play it out.
Are you an exclusive top in your mind, does your thoughts only revolve around giving? Then write that!
Same goes for a bottom 'personality', focus on what you understand and what makes it tick, and then make it tick for the reader.

Don't let yourself be hemmed in by what you think the reader wants, because what the reader truly wants is to have a fantasy implanted into their brain that is somewhat well-written by someone who is horny about the subject.
Think about your favorite artists and writers, how they have implanted new fetishes into your brain you always thought were "Hell Nah!", but suddenly understood to appreciate after watching/reading their stuff!


Length

I mostly write longer stories, and enjoy such as well, but 2000-3000 words is about the bare minimum to craft a nice smut story.

Why?

Because you want to introduce your characters.
You want to craft the scene and make it alive and breathing.
You want to build at least a little tension to make the sex stuff rewarding.

Anything shorter, and you don't have enough time to showcase your characters, their mannerisms. You won't flesh out the scene a little and make it interesting, and you won't have time enough to build the smut.
Build?
Yes, you want to build up the arousal. "They fucked and he came" is five words, but you want that to last 5000 words if possible (okay, I exaggerate, 500 words will be enough). Characters must meet and be forced to interact and find somewhere to lewd it up. Change positions. Have them go slower and faster, add foreplay, fingering, oral, toys. Virgins get to be awkward and maybe get a little soft, which is resolved by an understanding partner for a wholesome conclusion etc etc
Same goes for a fetish scene. "She spanked him" is three words, but can easily turn into three hundred words or more by describing the act in some detail, and when she fetches the paddle, that's another 300-500 words!
Again, how does the spanking sound? How does it feel for the giver or the reciever? How does their body react? how does their furryness features react?

Both Word and Libreoffice has a word counter in the bottom of the program when you write in it^^

The cut-off length for most readers is about 5000-10.000 words depending on their mood and how much time they have to read before they bust a nut. Longer stories can work, but it is often better to cut off after presenting a few nice things and have a new chapter with more nice things at a later time!


Attention

For the love of God MAKE A COVER IMAGE
Open your painting program, fill it out with a soothing colour (I like blue), and put some text there.
This will let a potential reader know what your story is about. Also consider that many users on Inkbunny are on tablets or phones and cannot hover the cursor over a submission to have the keywords pop out before clicking the actual thing!

You need the title of course, and then you want the main 'themes' of the story to be there as well, the sexes of the characters, something to indicate their ages (this is Inkbunny after all!) and what specific fetishes you are catering to.

What is important is to showcase themes that may be ambiguous to the viewer. Let us say you have a story with BDSM content that is M/F.
If we follow the giver/receiver prejudice I laid out earlier, then the male will probably be giving the female some attention. So, if the situation is reversed, it would be an excellent thing to put "Femdom" as one of the words on the cover page. This will push away those who dislike it and pull in those who like it, and if you wrote it, you probably want people who like the specific fetish to read your stuff!

Titles are important! Very important! Don't have your story be called "New Submission 3" or something silly like that. A good title features a little wordplay, or at least a suggestion of the themes. Look at what authors and artists do and do something similar!

TAG YOUR SHIT
Okay, so you made a cute little story about two characters who meet in a park and have a romp behind some bushes and you tag: gay, oral, anal, park

Hell naw dude, you need more tags, at least ten more!
Fetish Tags are important to stay relevant in the search function as time moves. The above mentioned story has a couple of themes that some people find VERY arousing and will actively search for.
public_sex, risk_of_discovery are two tags in that catagory.
gay is a fine tag, but if you browse around, you will notice that some will use m/m and male/male
You also want the species to be added! Also a little about the sexual characteristics of the characters: is one of them significantly bigger or has a nice big cock, is the penis humanoid or of the animal variety?

Let's try tagging the story again, let's say the men are of equal size, but one is a horse with such a dick and the other is a fox with a humanoid penis:
m/m, male/male, gay, anal, oral, horse, fox, equine_penis, horsecock, humanoid_penis, public_sex, park, risk_of_discovery, outdoor_sex

Now if someone searches for stories and wants something with a horse with a horsecock doing anal with a fox, the story pops up. If someone searches for outdoor sex that is public, the story pops up.
Se how a few extra tags might help out?

One last thing: TAG OFFENSIVE/HARDCORE CONTENT PROPERLY
If your story features cubs, tag *cub*
If your story features cubs, but it gets a little dark and non-consensual, tag it! NC, noncon, non_consensual can be for "mild" noncon and then there is always the "rape" tag. You can tag softer if you desire, but at least use one of these tags if your story features such content!
Same goes if you add in watersports, scat, violence or even rougher stuff. Tag. It.
Nothing is more annoying to a reader/viewer than being lured in, but their keyword block is ignored because the poster hasn't tagged properly.
I mean, sure, if you have a virginity-loss scene with a female character and there's a tiny bit of blood, you won't have to tag it, but you could.
But if someone is whipped bloody you better make sure to tag violence, blood, torture, or something to that effect.
People have different limits to what they want to see, please be respectful of that!



With that, I'll stop here. I hope there was something here that is useable for You^^", "pools_count": 0, "title": "Quick guide to writing smut part 2: Advice and Attention", "deleted": "f", "public": "t", "mimetype": "image/jpeg", "pagecount": "1", "rating_id": "0", "rating_name": "General", "ratings": [], "submission_type_id": "12", "type_name": "Writing - Document", "guest_block": "t", "friends_only": "f", "comments_count": "0", "views": "210" }