How to Write a Bad Story: the Turkey City Lexicon

Story by Josephine

http://www.sfwa.org/2009/06/turkey-city-lexicon-a-primer-for-sf-workshops/

It was written primarily for sci-fi writers, (and from its tone, humorously self-deprecating,) but also applies to other fictional genres, and almost all pornographic futanari fiction. No one is free of the faults listed here, not even I; my own writings tend to suffer from the "Burly Detective" Syndrome, "Said" Bookism, Fuzz, and The Cozy Catastrophe.

Let's also take a look at how these writing fallacies apply to our little brand of erotica as well. In order for many of our little storylines to succeed in making the reader care about the characters they're visualizing screwing each other with girlcocks, a few of these items become integral to the plots themselves. For instance, we are Reinventing The Wheel with nearly every story we write. A girl either grows a cock, or is born with it and lives with the shame, and each time, we go through another lengthy explanation of the why and how of it. I suffer from this as well, though I try to lace it into the writing itself in small, digestible bits. Another one of the listed faults our fiction has is And Plot; for many of us, plot is just an excuse for establishing characters so they can fuck each other. This is what A Young Witch was starting to become before I decided it had to end. These are not necessarily bad things, either. They are just common tropes of hermaphrodite erotica.

So, fellow writers, which of the faults listed in the Turkey City Lexicon's list do you suffer from?