What is your motivation to write

I write mainly for my own enjoyment. I'll get a scene or an outline in my head and (hopefully) find time to type it up.

Why do I post? Originally, because I hate the idea of being a sponge. Of just taking, taking, taking and never giving. Of being a lurker on a list that had over a thousand members and damn few stories. The list I'm talking about predates much of the net, being from the early days of the net.

After that list died (the anonymous remailer was shutdown by Scientologist because former scientologists were using it for other things) I moved on to yahoo groups and various other pages. Since I gotten my feet wet on that mailing list, I was brave enough to post (anonymously) to that group (using a throwaway email address that has long since been thrown away). Later I joined in a community on a forum, and began posting there.

Do I like getting comments and other forms of feedback? Of course. Getting feedback has helped me grow as a writer. Especially some of the early one where the commenters ask if English way my second language and offered to help rewrite my work to make it more understandable to English speakers. Thanks to feedback, I began to pay more attention to spelling and the guidelines of grammar, correcting errors that I couldn't see for myself.

Note that I'm still not perfect - I generally need to get a story "out of my head" (say wait a week or two after writing it) before I can read it without my mind "filling in the blanks / autocorrecting the errors" so I read what I meant to write.

The old community I was in more or less died. Now I post here - when I have time to write, proof, and post. I still post on the old community - and I usually post first there, then go back and see if viewing the story as a webpage helps me find those #&*$# typos - but almost all of my stories eventually wind up here.

Goodgulf

That's a difficult question that can be approached from different angles, but let me stick to the "do you write for yourself or others" approach. To some extent I definitely write for myself. I like to challenge myself by attempting things I haven't done before, and with a few exceptions, all my stories are different, in some conscious way, from anything I have attempted before. It may be a technical thing, such as writing from a different perspective or in a different tense, or it may have to do with the plot or the setting. The most pleasant part of the process is usually the period before I actually start writing and where I am still playing around with ideas in my head, trying to get the story "right".

Still, I also write for others. Part of the process is to make others see what I see, and it is impossible to do this if I don't keep the readers constantly in mind. The difference between a story and a fantasy is that a story has to communicate.

The first stories I wrote, I posted on a site with no feedback facilities, and it took a year before I got the first notice that anybody had actually read them. I doubt I had continued writing if I hadn't found other sites with feedback possibilities. Getting comments makes you part of a community, it stimulates you, and gives you ideas for new stories. So although I write partly for myself, I don't think I would have continued for very long if I didn't also have a feeling of writing for others.

This is a very interesting question and I found I had to think about it a bit before coming up with an answer. I also wanted to contribute something to the community after enjoying so many stories by others, but my main motivation has been to communicate fantasies of my own that will, hopefully, touch the fantasies of readers. I do try to please myself with my writing, but, ironically, I am never turned on by my own stories as much as I am by the stories of others. Which, I guess, just goes to show that self-pleasuring is not the most satisfying kind of pleasure.

I can't help noticing that only male writers have ventured to respond to this question. As Freud said, "The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'" Darn that feminine soul. Still as silent and mysterious as ever.

I started to write because I had a backlog of ideas I wanted to memorialize in print. Words do not come easily for me--my forte is in another area. Yet with persistence I manage.

The idea of others reading my stories--one hand on the mouse scrolling down my stories and the other hand somewhere else--appeals to me. I hope my stories make my readers cum whether you are male or female. Somehow, I'd like to know how much cum my stories have teased out of you horny guys. The LSF gives awards for various types of thresholds its members have reached. Too bad it can not quantify semen output. Have I teased out a gallon of cum yet? Oh, I know I'm being unrealistic but why shouldn't I fantasize? A quart? A pint?

I sometimes think that if I'm not aroused when I write, my readers certainly won't be aroused. How interesting it is that just substituting a word here or there can make such a big difference. But then, what floats my boat may not float yours. But I try.

I've experimented with humor--or my attempt at humor anyway. More recently I've tackled some more serious stuff and I'm doing this more for myself. I hope of course this resonates with my readers.

I love your stories, dear, but you'll get no cum from me!

(If you did i'd get one helluva spanking from my Rosa.......and spend the next month or two with my privates securely locked up.)

So since I'm not allowed that particular indulgence, you'll just have to settle for the heartfelt comment. (BTW....I just left you one.)

And I do appreciate it.

Honestly? Usually what motivates me to write is all the nice comments you guys leave. It's a lot of fun to check my email during my down-time and see what people have said about my stories. It's a small narcissistic pleasure every time I get a compliment.

That said, there's not really any sexual motivation behind my stories. I'm definitely kinky, and enjoy spanking the occasional beautiful girl, but when I'm writing it's usually more about the relationships between the characters, and the internal struggle of the naughty child. There's also a definite element of my own childhood in some of the stories. I'm sure some people get off to them, and I don't object particularly, but I've never really thought of what I'm doing as writing pornography.

Also, I don't really feel any need to write unless I have some new idea or theme I want to explore. I don't usually write just for the sake of writing.

Atticus sums up my position perfectly. The only thing I would like to add, is that I have noticed a certain development - the sexual (pornographic?) motivation was much stronger in my first stories than in the more recent. I like to think it is because I have grown as a writer, but perhaps it only makes my stories duller

I write primarily for my own satisfaction. In order to complete a story to a standard for publication forces me to develop it more fully than if it remains a jumble of fantasies floating around in my mind. I like to feel my storytelling and style have been to a good standard and the sense of achievement that brings.
Of course I enjoy receiving comments show readers appreciate my efforts.
I also write because I search the library and other forums for stories to read, particularly those that push my own particular buttons and can be disappointed to find that all to few do. While I can appreciate the full range of material found and all credit to the authors, I particularly seek stories of a particular genre and these are what I try to write myself. In part to try and see if others share the same taste.
My stories are typically domestic and family in nature. Those spanked are usually older teenagers, receiving a deserved spanking for misbehaviour. They are rarely set in schools as I feel this scenario is fully used by others. None of the spankings are sexual and although most spankees are girls and spankers, mothers or surrogate mothers, I do try other combinations. My aim always is to stretch the elastic of plausibility as far as possible, but not to breaking point. I want the readers to feel that the story might, just might, be true.Perhaps though at another place in another time.
I would encourage anyone who thinks they might enjoy what I write, to read a couple and let me know through the comments. It's feedback that stimulates penmanship.

I honestly don't know. Stories come to me. Some of them has been brewing in my head for a very long time. Others can be inspired by other stories or pictures. I have 2 or 3 stories originating from a picture. The series "Linda's Wish" just came to me as one story that evolved as the characters took on a life of their own, as if they each brought their own story. I sometimes think that I've carried the stories in my head for a long time, and finding this site and reading your stories brought them to the surface. I must confess that I'm modestly proud of most of them.