This article was specifically written for smut scenes, but truthfully, it can be be for any type of scene: horror scenes, angst scenes, kissing scenes, fight scenes... Just replace the word Smut with the scene of your choice.

How I trained myself to have a Photographic Memory.

When writing a Horror story, one must begin with a Monster. The most terrifying of course, are the ones you don’t notice, or refuse to notice. The ones right next to you.

A Kuroshitsuji ~ Black Butler Fan-Fic. The Other ending.

Kiba was determined to save Sakura - whether she liked it or not. (Kiba/Saku)

Every genre has core elements that make that genre that genre. In order to Cross Genres properly, you need to know each of your genre’s distinctive elements and make them Equally Important in the story.

The Other ending to the first series. Or is it a Beginning?

To write a true Erotic Horror, both Death and Sex must carry equal weight in the plot line. Death and Sex must both make the story happen, preferably with one the result of the other: Sex = Death or Death = Sex.

What the Character Arc does is map out the Emotional path your characters need to take to grow and change into the heroes and heroines your story needs to achieve your story's ending.

Look at Plotting as being a Map of the route you plan to take. Once you know where you are going, getting there is just a matter of staying pointed in the right direction. This doesn't mean you can't take off-roads or stop to look at the scenery, it just means that you won't get lost while taking those scenic bypasses.

Watch the average conversation between two people. 90% of that conversation isn't in what's Spoken, it's in what they are DOING while they are speaking. It's in their Body Language. Body-language cues in your story alert the reader by SHOWING them what is going on in a character’s head without Telling them, and without resorting to using the most often repeated word in fiction: said.

I discovered that I, Akihiko Usami, was a sadist in the truest sense of the word, the exact same moment I fell in love for the first time.

Summery: Shortly after the incident in which Iruka saved Naruto from a murderous teacher, Morino, Ibiki, head of the Konoha Black Ops investigations stops by the academy to talk to Iruka about how he feels. (I x I) Warning: PG-15, soft yaoi content, adult language ‘Naruto’ characters, terms, and locations property of Masashi Kishimoto. I'm just playing with them. For Kiterie / SumiHatake

Good 'Deus Ex Machina' only happen when they've been set up to happen all along and were simply overlooked--which means they're not really 'Deus Ex Machina'... --They're actually a 'Chekhov's Gun'.

This method is extremely effective when plotting out Adventure stories of any kind. In fact, Van Helsing, National Treasure, Inkheart, Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones, Tomb Raider, the James Bond movies, most RP video games, and almost all Horror stories and films follow this pattern. It's also surprisingly effective when plotting out an Angsty Romance!

There is a ton of information on the Heroic Cycle, or Hero's Journey, but what about the Heroine's? Being a female that prefers to write stories with a female lead, I decided to do a bit of my own research into the myths and fairy tales that feature Heroines rather than heroes. What I found was a little...startling.

Professionally published Series books and Serial episodes, whether it's a TV program, a set of novels, or a comic book series are EACH written as whole stories because a whole story is more likely to catch and hold the attention of new readers or viewers than a random hunk of story from the middle of a longer work.

(Tokyo Savage) Suffering from another of Konome’s feedings, Shinohara finds Tomoe just to his taste. (S / T ~ YAOI) COMPLETE

(Okane Ga Nai) How does Ayase really feel about Kanou, the Yakuza boss that bought him at an auction? (K/A ~ Yaoi)

(Naruto) I was in my early twenties when I was inducted into the secrets of D/S by a very special jounin. However, he had one great flaw. He had no boundaries -- none at all. My flaw was that I was a monster. Warning: Mature (NC-17) - M/M & BDSM content, adult language (COMPLETE)