I get asked for advice by bright-eyed, bushy-tailed young writers all the time, that want to bring their own erotic muscle fantasies to life. Here's a few tips:Put lots of thought into your opening sentence. It’s the single most important part of the story because you want to entice people into reading the story. It’s a “hook” that gets attention. Throw in the sexiest part of your story, or something shocking, just to get attention and make the story stand out. Since people read these stories to be turned on, make your opening sentence something sexy. It doesn’t have to be sex, but it should be an expression of sexual desire, or someone lusting for muscle, or offer the promise of sex or adventure to come.
Every word should be calculated to have an effect of arousal on your reader. Every word in a horror story creates a sense of fear, so horror writers choose every word for the effect on the reader. Likewise, everything in your story should be something sexy. It doesn’t all have to be sex, but it should be sexy. For muscle guys, demonstrating strength is sexy, going to the gym is sexy, or the shower room.
Find out what you like and then write about it. This should be obvious, but there’s a temptation to write what you think other people want to read. In the end, this doesn’t please anybody because there’s nothing unique about your story. Are you sexually attracted to Native American guys? (And why not, with all that hair?) Are you a furry? I guarantee no matter what you’re into, they’ll be someone, somewhere that says, “FINALLY! Someone with my exact same love for guys with giant tongues!” And you’ve earned yourself a devoted new fan. And who knows? If you do it right, you can give other people a whole new sexual interest. Fetishes are a little like Gonorrhea: they can be sexually transmitted.
Basically what I’m saying here is, find your own unique voice. Are you a sensitive person that loves romance and passionate sex on an emotional level? Write that way, because you have something to contribute.
Describe unusual muscles and don’t use numerical measurements. Don’t use measurements unless you absolutely have to: use comparisons and descriptions to get a jist. For that matter, describe muscles that are sexy but aren’t commonly described. Nothing gives a man size and mass like the traps, for instance. Are they like footballs stuffed under the skin, or sloping pyramids to either side of his bull neck?
Don't think in terms of the traditional story. You can if you want to, and it really improves your work. But really, muscle growth stories aren't "stories" in the traditional sense. They're an exhibition, sort of like a trapeeze act, and you have to think in terms of things that wow.
Use all five senses. How does a muscleman smell? Taste, when you lick him? What’s his voice sound like?
Do research and don’t make obvious mistakes. The reason I write this is because I’ve gotten a little tired of male writers making hilarious mistakes about how bra sizes work. By the way, DD and E-cup are the exact same size, for instance.
If you’re writing a multiple part story, some new situation has to happen every chapter. It doesn’t matter how long a chapter is, but there needs to be at least one plot point, change of scenery, introduction of a new character, or something new at least once per chapter. Even if your chapter has sex in it, you should at least have some new element to it: different position, different participants. If you’re like me and have a plastic sexuality, do different types of sex: male-male, then male-female, or female/female.
