The way I like to do it (writing, that is)

I just read the post about Varian Milagro's writing method, a four-stages process that evidently works considering Varian's excellent stories.

And as it usually happens when I read Varian's writing, I was inspired to do the same, that is, write a post about how I set out to build one of my stories.

I'm not as refined and structured as Varian, and it probably shows given the defects of my fiction.

Here we go, anyway...

First: I need a story idea and/or a character.

Stuff like, wouldn't it be fun to see what happens when a straitlaced single mother suddenly finds out she loves being a hooker?

I use photo references to visualize the characters.

I usually fall in love with my characters, and therefore I try and write more stories about them.

If you know my stories, you know what sort of character I like: good girls going bad but in a fun way, for instance.

I like the dark side as long as it is not too dark, I like corruption as long as it is a liberating corruption. My characters embrace their (and my!) darkest fantasies and come out of the process happier, more in command of their own true nature.

I think.

Second: a rough sequence of events, let's say

. first contact

. refusal

. seduction

. corruption

. transformation

. enjoyment

. acceptation

. more, please!

I don't even really make a list like that, let's say that based on the character I know where the story will go and through which plot points it will have to move.

Third: start writing.

I have adopted a software called Scrivener, a friend of mine that's a good writer suggested it to me and boy it works. I will not do a commercial break here or anything, but boy it works!

So I break up my story in scenes and I start writing, fast, one scene after the other. Maybe not in the proper order, but as they flash through my mind. Once the scenes are written I put them in the right order.

Fourth: flesh out the story.

This means reading it from top to bottom and add detail, improve the descriptions, engage if possible all the senses, and make sure that the blonde I put in scene two has not turned into a redhead in scene five.

Fifth: pass the lot through my word processor using the software to catch mishaps and blunders, and checking grammar and other technicalities.

Sixth: pass the lot to Amazon (or start posting the scenes on my blog) and move on to the next story.

And here it is. It works for me, and it suits my somewhat formulaic approach to smut.

I'll try and break the formula in the future, but for a wild release of naughty imagination, this seems to work just fine.