Quote Originally Posted by jeanne
An erotic plot is linear or digital, made up of 'yes' and 'noes', as opposed to the perennial thriller plot that you can understand only if you've read the entire Warren Report.
To me, fiction without plot equals reality television. I get on here to get AWAY from that. I'm not interested in reading something so intricate I need a decoder ring... just something more than the average porno movie: two locations, twenty different money shots.

As an example, I got through reading Dr. Mabeuse's Ashley's Abduction today, and while that story is hot... very hot... it doesn't really go anywhere I haven't been before. While some like their porn reduced to images of sex or rape or what-have-you, I find the progression of events to be tittilating, feeling someone drawn to a fate.

I can certainly appreciate the craft of a writer who gets me into the story, but I can do that much better when the story takes me on a journey. Plotless stories stand still and paint a picture, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but I never feel like I've been somewhere and experienced something.

I certainly wouldn't suggest rewriting a master stroke (pardon the pun) like Ashley's Abduction, but I think it'd be cool to see what kind of journey Dr. Mabeuse could take a reader on if he took a more conventional approach to storytelling.

But then, I'm not everybody. Lots of people prefer the purely porn angle.
(that last line sings, doesn't it?)