This the flip side of the 'other' thread.
I've posted a lot of stories here over the years and read a lot more so here are the things that work for me. Let's face it, the purpose of tick-fic is really to get off. I know when I'm writing I'm hoping I make the reader want to lock the door and 'delight themselves' for a few minutes while they read.
Character dynamics
I love it when a writer sets up the characters first before jumping into the action. Captain Sticky wrote a short story recently where a young, female reporter was writing about the tickling fetish and went to visit an older guy who was a devotee. She was researching but also curious and nervous. He was willing to show her and was aroused and loving his luck. It wasn't epically long but he gave me enough to go on before he got to the tickling. It's the appetiser before the main course (and if we're lucky there's some sweet cherry pie for dessert! )
Show us the reactions and the inner dialogue
I really enjoy getting immersed in the mental side of the story - the ticklee's wide-eyed, nervous, panting and laughter, how she feels as she anticipates, experiences and then contemplates the tickling as well as her tickler's excitement, deviousness or playfulness (or wickedness) as he indulges. I'm using M/F example here as that has always been my preferred dynamic in stories.
Getting there is half the fun
I said in the other thread I don't like stories which start off with a ticklee tied naked and ready. Having the ticklee strip or be stripped is always a hot build up and can also show a tickler exercising total control. A ticklee feeling the lace on their shoe pulled open. the sound of a boot being unzipped etc are all literary Sriracha to me.
The little details matter
This one is harder to quantify. I've been guilty of going overboard on detail before but sometimes a writer catches it just right. The late Irving Krebb (RIP) wrote a Samantha Storm tickle story once and in one moment where she is given a break from tickling she is blowing out of the corner of her mouth to move a stray lock of hair that fell across her face as she was struggling. If you've ever had the fortune to tickle someone for real, you know what these moments are like. The unscripted detail - it's hard to capture and half the time I wonder if the writer even knows they did it because it's gold dust.
Taking the handbrake off
It took me a while to work up the courage for this one but when I started writing here I was self-censoring to a degree as I didn't want to offend anyone so I toned down sexual elements etc. Then I got around to writing a story where I threw everything at it and wrote a very self-indulgent, highly sexual story and half-expected to get hounded off the forum for being such a pervert. It ended up being my most popular story at the time. So I like it when I can see a writer is writing for themselves and if anyone else likes it, that's just a bonus. I also know that for some people, adding sexual elements can kill the story for them as they just want tickling so it's horses for courses. One writer I is great at doing this is TickleMantis who seems to appear once a year and post a short novel for our pleasure.
OK - so there's a few from me. What makes a story pop you and has you reaching to bookmark/save it for future re-reading?
I've posted a lot of stories here over the years and read a lot more so here are the things that work for me. Let's face it, the purpose of tick-fic is really to get off. I know when I'm writing I'm hoping I make the reader want to lock the door and 'delight themselves' for a few minutes while they read.
Character dynamics
I love it when a writer sets up the characters first before jumping into the action. Captain Sticky wrote a short story recently where a young, female reporter was writing about the tickling fetish and went to visit an older guy who was a devotee. She was researching but also curious and nervous. He was willing to show her and was aroused and loving his luck. It wasn't epically long but he gave me enough to go on before he got to the tickling. It's the appetiser before the main course (and if we're lucky there's some sweet cherry pie for dessert! )
Show us the reactions and the inner dialogue
I really enjoy getting immersed in the mental side of the story - the ticklee's wide-eyed, nervous, panting and laughter, how she feels as she anticipates, experiences and then contemplates the tickling as well as her tickler's excitement, deviousness or playfulness (or wickedness) as he indulges. I'm using M/F example here as that has always been my preferred dynamic in stories.
Getting there is half the fun
I said in the other thread I don't like stories which start off with a ticklee tied naked and ready. Having the ticklee strip or be stripped is always a hot build up and can also show a tickler exercising total control. A ticklee feeling the lace on their shoe pulled open. the sound of a boot being unzipped etc are all literary Sriracha to me.
The little details matter
This one is harder to quantify. I've been guilty of going overboard on detail before but sometimes a writer catches it just right. The late Irving Krebb (RIP) wrote a Samantha Storm tickle story once and in one moment where she is given a break from tickling she is blowing out of the corner of her mouth to move a stray lock of hair that fell across her face as she was struggling. If you've ever had the fortune to tickle someone for real, you know what these moments are like. The unscripted detail - it's hard to capture and half the time I wonder if the writer even knows they did it because it's gold dust.
Taking the handbrake off
It took me a while to work up the courage for this one but when I started writing here I was self-censoring to a degree as I didn't want to offend anyone so I toned down sexual elements etc. Then I got around to writing a story where I threw everything at it and wrote a very self-indulgent, highly sexual story and half-expected to get hounded off the forum for being such a pervert. It ended up being my most popular story at the time. So I like it when I can see a writer is writing for themselves and if anyone else likes it, that's just a bonus. I also know that for some people, adding sexual elements can kill the story for them as they just want tickling so it's horses for courses. One writer I is great at doing this is TickleMantis who seems to appear once a year and post a short novel for our pleasure.
OK - so there's a few from me. What makes a story pop you and has you reaching to bookmark/save it for future re-reading?