Just for fun, we're doing something a bit different with July's #EroticMusingsQ's - a collaboration with @floofpaldi ... from the past!
Each prompt will be a hornier version of one of the first hundred #PennedPossibilities prompts.
(That's all happening next month - for now, we're still going with #EroticMusings 57)
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#EroticMusings 57. What do you try to achieve with the opening scene of an erotic work? ...
For WIP, MC narrator shares the initial context of her situation and her self-image.
First 1/3 of story is fun stuff consistent with that. Including a very steamy scene very early, but not currently the opening scene.
Then self-image is challenged 1/3 in, and remaining 2/3 of story is a little more drama, and a lot of very different fun stuff.
#EroticMusings 2026.06.28 — Week 57 (June 28 - July 4) Craft: What do you try to achieve with the opening scene of an erotic work?
Well, I was going to add this #excerpt as part two of my week 55 reply, but this question also works to say a similar thing. Briefly, what was important for me to achieve in the opening of the current story, in this case the first chapter not necessarily the opening scene, was to foreshadow an attraction that could overcome prejudice and social obstacles. Whilst this novel isn't specifically erotic, there is plenty of racy athleticism! Bolt, the narrator, is a day angel, a human woman with wings; she can fly. The man in this passage is more like you or I.
A hand gently touched my arm when I relaxed, stalling me as I brought the camera to eye level. Men knew better than to touch any woman without being asked, without consent, even here in a progressive cosmopolitan capital city. I lowered the camera, facing him. His contrite desperate look, hands together still holding his broken camera. I stepped back, bringing him instantly into focal range.
Click!
Reflex portraiture. Of him. Upward, distorting his jaw and maybe only with his eyes and hair in focus, eyebrows lifted. Contrite, desperate. Radiating empathy and sympathy the way the sky radiated heat and bright yellow light.
Raise him to a seven [on my darling dozen scale!]
He might have been somewhat adorable, enough to ride, were he a day angel not a saint. When I imagined later taping his image to my wall, I knew I would stare and stare at that amazing expression. Still, being raised in a day angel forest town, I couldn't help but see [him] as a wing-amputee…
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(Narrative Musers) What do you try to achieve with the opening scene of an erotic work?
Because of the way that Amazon does it's 'Look Inside' and how they'll boot you for including stuff that's too adult in the first 10% of a work, I'm doing my best to establish the world, the characters, and the basic obstacles (or intrigue) that the characters are dealing with in that 10%. I want to get folks interested but, since nothing in that section can be too steamy, I want to front load as much of the functional parts of the story as I can.
#EroticMusings 57s1. (Narrative Musers) What do you try to achieve with the opening scene of an erotic work?
I want to show the reader that there will be smut and a story and give them an idea what it's about. Establishing the who and where and when are fine, too, but only the bits of those things that are relevant to the what of my story - I try extra hard to not to get bogged down explaining anything in the opening scene. We can all work that stuff out together later.
#eroticMusings Week 57 (June 28 - July 4) Craft: What do you try to achieve with the opening scene of an erotic work?
I don't treat erotica different from any other work, so it depends on what I generally want to do with a particular piece and what topics I want to tackle.
"The queen's pleasure girl" has a classical fairy tale beginning and a dreamy start to drive home the point that this is a sexual fantasy, a dream, not something to be desired in real life.
(As written in the preface). 1/2
Oopsie, it's another long #EroticMusingsQ with two short forms!
#EroticMusings 57. (Narrative Musers) What do you try to achieve with the opening scene of an erotic work? OR (Non-narrative Musers) What's the first thing you try to draw a viewer's attention to?
Short forms:
#EroticMusings 57s1. (Narrative Musers) What do you try to achieve with the opening scene of an erotic work?
#EroticMusings 57s2. (Non-narrative Musers) What's the first thing you try to draw a viewer's attention to?
So most of time, my arts are built to lead viewer’s attention to the ones of the characters, so they can guess what they’re feeling, including being aroused 😈
(There’s certainly some cultural differences, like mangas detail eyes a lot but do very simplified lips, while in US/Comics, lips tends to be more detailed)
Week 57 (June 28 - July 4) Craft
(Narrative Musers) What do you try to achieve with the opening scene of an erotic work?
OR (Non-narrative Musers) What's the first thing you try to draw a viewer's attention to?
For human, most emotions are read from other people’s faces and eyes in particular (eyes are the soul’s mirror blah blah blah).
#eroticMusings Week 57 (June 28 - July 4) Craft (Narrative Musers) What do you try to achieve with the opening scene of an erotic work?
An idea of who the MC is. This is as much for me as for the reader.
For Veronica I committed the unforgivable sin of having her examine herself in a mirror, just the way new writers are always advised not to do, but I knew exactly what I was doing.
What I didn't do was describe her features, hair colour or whatever. I was emphasising that she considers herself ugly because of her physical deformity, and that's how she defines herself.
As a side note, this is one of my earliest renders (Feb 2020).
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