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𝐢𝐢. Why I don't write smut

"WE WERE ROBBED,"

It is a comment that would make my face contort in grimace or disgust, maybe both. What exactly did I rob you of? I didn't rob you of anything just because I chose not to write an explicit scene, even though my characters indicated doing something intimate. You definitely would not have survived books in the 2010s when "Everything faded" to "I woke up the next morning feeling giddy,"

To know a good fic/book is to understand that the characters in the story don't have to have sex to show their chemistry because a well-written story can give you undeniable chemistry and hardcore angst and pine without them having sex at every chapter, and it will make you satisfied. Because from my experience as a reader, all the best books that I read SOME don't even contain romance at all, thinking about The Secret History by Donna Tartt and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen right now, and the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Best books for me, for real!

I have always expressed my boundaries when writing mature/explicit scenes. It makes me extremely uncomfortable writing about sex. I don't even want to go out of my comfort zone to try and write it because I had tried once, and I absolutely hated it and deleted it.

Writing about sex is so intimate and lowkey a bit personal. I'm a college student who locks herself in her bedroom to study a case digest assigned by my professor. I have no experience in romance because guess what? She never had a boyfriend before because, in real life, it made me uncomfortable! So who even am I to even write about sex?!?!? That's just FOR ME, okay.

Plus, I have learned over the years that many of my readers are Aro and Ace. I want everyone to feel included in my fics, and I don't want them to feel uncomfortable. To smut readers, you will survive! If you don't want to read my fics because it doesn't have a spicy scene, that's alright. You can remove my fic in your library and find a fic with one; that's fine for me. Everyone has a preference, and that is okay! I'd even suggest you go to Tumblr because they hold events there for smut like Kinktober and Smutty one-shots, and if you really like to read mature scenes, then go to Ao3, which doesn't have any restrictions about it because, guess what, minor characters on Wattpad are I think only allowed to kiss?? IDK, but thank god, because I don't want to read a fic with minors having sex.

Readers could get a bit aggressive when they were "Robbed" out of smut scenes as they demand it from the writer and thank god I didn't have any of those, but so many of my mutuals, unfortunately, experienced it. But every reader of mine also knows that if a reader gets aggressive with me, I get more aggressive and fight back. Because how dare you to even demand it when you're not even the one writing it? If you want a spicy scene, go write it yourself, and you'll have unlimited options on how they'll have sex. That's why I always put this post at the end of my introduction chapter:

"Is it spicy?"

A comment often asked on that side of Booktok where smut is life. BUT it is often asked in two ways. "Is it spicy?" Asked by a reader who likes hardcore smut. "Is it spicy?" Asked by a reader who wants to avoid spicy scenes when they get an answer that it doesn't, they'll do everything to avoid that book.

Look, every staple book from my childhood didn't have spicy scenes, and I enjoyed it:

Geronimo and Thea Stilton books ft. Creepella von Cacklefur.

Dork Diaries (I have the complete books)

Harry Potter

Twilight (yes, it doesn't have a spicy scene in Breaking Dawn)

Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children

Percy Jackson

Like every book in the early 2012. Because spicy books aren't hugely advertised. But some books are spicy, like every historical romance book. Your mom would have had it with this cover:

Now, that is what a spicy book looks like, and your mom, grandmother, or aunts would have it on their shelves. Because it's huge in their generation.

I do read Smut, but I am not an innocent being. I've been on WP for a long time. I was here when smut was originally called lemon. And when werewolf books are such a big thing on WP. I was reading the Omegaverse before I knew it was the name of the genre I was reading. It's just really my choice not to write it, and I hope everybody will respect that because I won't ever be writing it in any of my stories.

But I guess when I want to become a published author, I need to write it to be viral on the internet; meh, it's not happening for a long time. Anyway, thank you for reading my explanation!