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usal and the need to satisfy their otherworldly sexual curiosity.</p><figure id="5354"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*gIaoEZGfBobPnKnp_nc0AA.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://www.123rf.com/profile_vachom">vachom</a> on <a href="https://www.123rf.com/photo_151985916_striptease-glowing-silhouette-of-a-striptease-dancer-in-a-light-bulb-on-a-black-background-3d-3d-ren.html">123RF</a></figcaption></figure><h2 id="3c64">Paranormal Podcasts and Reality Shows</h2><p id="8852">Given that I’ve found inspiration in <a href="https://readmedium.com/why-horror-movies-make-you-horny-9d3e17963e14">horror</a> movies, it’s not completely surprising that I have also gotten ideas for erotic stories from paranormal podcasts and reality shows. Except they get my creative juices flowing in another way: Listening to the stories of ghost hunters gives me more information about how ghosts, for lack of a better word, behave. The more I understand that the more I can create a realistic dance that vacillates between spooky and seductive, which I believe makes the sex scenes that much more erotic.</p><h2 id="35c8">Murder Trials</h2><p id="b5d9">That’s right, murder trials. It seems like an extremely strange, not to mention macabre, place to get inspiration for erotica, but nonetheless, I’ve found myself watching testimony in a case and having a light bulb go off in my head that led to a sex story. For example, during a certain infamous murder case some years ago, there was testimony about how the defendant and the person she murdered had incorporated Pop Rocks into their sex life, and the next thing I knew, I was writing a story about a woman having sex with someone she met at a confectioner’s conference. And of course, Pop Rocks were on the menu.</p><p id="21f0" type="7">One out-of-context sentence overheard on line at the supermarket can easily become the seedling for a steamy encounter between two characters.</p><h2 id="064a">Random Pieces of Conversation</h2><p id="ed3f">I have always been a people watcher. Or, more specifically, a people listener. For whatever reason, I enjoy casually listening to conversations in progress around me, and my mind starts trying to fill in the holes of what these people’s backstories are. It’s like a real-life version of <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InMediasRes"><i>in media res</i></a> and I find myself using the back story I create for people as the basis for an element of an erotic story. One out-of-context sentence overheard on line at the supermarket can easily become the seedling

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for a steamy encounter between two characters.</p><h2 id="8ba4">Nothing</h2><p id="de84">You may wonder how a writer can be inspired by nothing, and at first, I didn’t think I could be either. But it turns out when I’m meditating and not thinking about anything at all, ideas tend to pop into my head — sometimes at a pace I can’t even keep up with. The same thing happens when I’m taking a hot bubble bath and just relaxing as I feel the water against my skin, or when I walk along the beach and watch the waves crashing against each other.</p><p id="3aba">Yes, inspiration can indeed come from anywhere…as long as I open the door and let her in.</p><p id="e4b5"><b><i>More from Kiki Wellington:</i></b></p><div id="73ed" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/13-things-i-think-when-writing-a-sex-scene-writers-block-42f0a32fd1f6"> <div> <div> <h2>13 Things I Think When Writing a Sex Scene</h2> <div><h3>What I do when faced with writus interruptus</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*kIb-Q8g_ZYIrLpDNgZGvkQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="bdb5" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/depression-and-the-erotica-author-how-to-write-sexy-when-depressed-a9058a9ac982"> <div> <div> <h2>How Do I Write About Sex When I Feel Anything But Sexy?</h2> <div><h3>Depression and the erotica author</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*WUaOsaL5ZRKFs8teFlLoqg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="3624" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/5-things-i-learned-writing-porn-descriptions-88b67549035f"> <div> <div> <h2>5 Things I Learned Writing Porn Descriptions</h2> <div><h3>It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*QBJR58kMt96GciW_uOGdrw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

5 Unlikely Places for Erotica Inspiration

The muse is always there…if you look for her

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I always say that inspiration can come from anywhere, and generally, I find that to be true no matter what I’m writing. Sometimes I’m amazed by all of the places I can get ideas for my writing — whether I’m working on fiction or nonfiction. However, when I started writing erotica, a part of me assumed that there would be a more straight line between Point A and Point B, that sex would beget sex and therefore I would only get my inspiration from other material in some way related to sex.

Not so.

Not even close.

In fact, I was actually surprised by the places I would get inspiration for erotic stories. Although I have turned to porn from time to time when I’ve needed inspiration for describing a sexual position, oftentimes the things that inspire me actually have nothing to do with sex at all. The following are five of the unlikely things that have led me to write hot sex stories.

It’s like a real-life version of in media res….

Horror Movies

I write a lot of paranormal erotica, and it seems like I was somehow destined to come up with stories about ghosts bumping you in the night. I trace it back to one particular horror movie: the original Amityville Horror, which I was dragged to see as a child. The movie isn’t much in the way of frights now, but it terrified me at the time and left an indelible mark on me that opened the door to my love of ghost stories that scare the ever-loving crap out of me.

What does this have to do with erotica? The emotional response. Something about the frightful arousal makes for a good breeding ground to write stories about characters being seduced by ghosts. Although they’re terrified by the possibility of getting down and dirty with the undead, they’re also intrigued — which eventually leads to unbridled arousal and the need to satisfy their otherworldly sexual curiosity.

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Paranormal Podcasts and Reality Shows

Given that I’ve found inspiration in horror movies, it’s not completely surprising that I have also gotten ideas for erotic stories from paranormal podcasts and reality shows. Except they get my creative juices flowing in another way: Listening to the stories of ghost hunters gives me more information about how ghosts, for lack of a better word, behave. The more I understand that the more I can create a realistic dance that vacillates between spooky and seductive, which I believe makes the sex scenes that much more erotic.

Murder Trials

That’s right, murder trials. It seems like an extremely strange, not to mention macabre, place to get inspiration for erotica, but nonetheless, I’ve found myself watching testimony in a case and having a light bulb go off in my head that led to a sex story. For example, during a certain infamous murder case some years ago, there was testimony about how the defendant and the person she murdered had incorporated Pop Rocks into their sex life, and the next thing I knew, I was writing a story about a woman having sex with someone she met at a confectioner’s conference. And of course, Pop Rocks were on the menu.

One out-of-context sentence overheard on line at the supermarket can easily become the seedling for a steamy encounter between two characters.

Random Pieces of Conversation

I have always been a people watcher. Or, more specifically, a people listener. For whatever reason, I enjoy casually listening to conversations in progress around me, and my mind starts trying to fill in the holes of what these people’s backstories are. It’s like a real-life version of in media res and I find myself using the back story I create for people as the basis for an element of an erotic story. One out-of-context sentence overheard on line at the supermarket can easily become the seedling for a steamy encounter between two characters.

Nothing

You may wonder how a writer can be inspired by nothing, and at first, I didn’t think I could be either. But it turns out when I’m meditating and not thinking about anything at all, ideas tend to pop into my head — sometimes at a pace I can’t even keep up with. The same thing happens when I’m taking a hot bubble bath and just relaxing as I feel the water against my skin, or when I walk along the beach and watch the waves crashing against each other.

Yes, inspiration can indeed come from anywhere…as long as I open the door and let her in.

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