Writing Erotica in Public Spaces

My favourite place to write is local coffee shops. Usually it provides for a change of scenery and comfy chairs and most importantly caffeinated beverages.

Anyways being an erotica writer I find myself writing sex scenes in odd spaces. Sometimes in public, you know the time where you dim your screen, make sure no one is behind you and type furiously away.


So, where's the most public place you've "done it"?

I write at work a lot. Just open up a couple of windows on the computer - the little tiny one with what I'm writing, and a bigger one with what I'm pretending to be working on. Whenever anyone comes by, quickly change windows, cover up the naughty one, and then scroll to a new place in tbe pretend work window so it doesn't look like you're always in the same place. Oh, and occasionally do some real work so they don't suspect you sit around and do nothing all day.

Hotel lobbies are my specialties. It is usually a hot scene filled with all things taboo when an old grandfather approaches me, points to my Neo, and asks what it is *facepalm*

I've done it at school before. I was supposed to be working on a paper but I had an idea in my head. So I pulled up another document and started typing away, whenever my teacher would walk by I would pull up my paper and type some of it or search for information on the internet.

My friend was next to me and looked at me annoyed whenever I would cover it up. Later I learned they really liked what I was writing and wanted a copy of it.

At work. At restaurants. Coffee shops. Once even in a hotel lobby with my mom sitting next to me. She never knew.

Bus station, sandwiched between two old people. Well, I had an half hour wait and an idea that was begging to be written down, then half an hour on the bus to polish it off.
On a train while someone was sat next to me.
while on a plane to spain, Sat next to my younger brother who didn't take any notice of me.

Hmm, seems like I love to write on moving things

By hand in my spiral notebook in the car pick up line at my daughters' catholic school. Then I come home and type it up.

Only once so far in Starbucks (other coffee outlets are available). it did feel a bit odd. Otherwise it's in my living room or in my bed (not as sexy as it sounds - dog on feet, empty space beside me and hot chocolate in the nightstand. Although I do regularly start smutty fan fiction on a secret group on Facebook and write while others post comments about it.

Campus libraries, certainly. At work, scribbling ideas on scratch paper and tucking them into a pocket (or sock. You'd never believe how hard it is to get character notes out of a "secure" government building), at my in-laws house. The absolute worst would have been the division computer in the shared office onboard my first ship. Two guys playing Halo, one reading a book, two more watching a movie on the Chief's laptop, and me, typing furiously away.

I do my best, dirtiest thinking while I'm at work.

I write at school quite often, both by hand and on computers in the classes that have them. It's not really awkward for me, aside from the fact that my peers tend to take extreme interest in me when I'm furiously writing/typing away in lieu of doing my school work. I write in coffee shops, in the car, anywhere in public, really.

Oh, I can usually type out 8 pages with one hand.

I'm so glad others have admitted to writing at work.

I tend to have lots of down-time at work, and I usually have to be on the computer for work-related reasons anyways, so after I finish that stuff I take some time to write. I've done my whole day's words at work before.

But to me, that's not *too* uncomfortable/etc, because I do have a cubicle to myself and it's sort of out of the way.

The worse was during Camp NaNo. I had an all-day trip for art class that included 6 hours roundtrip in a van with 7 other people. If I didn't write in that van, I had NO time to write that day. So I took my laptop with me, and I wrote the entire day's words while sitting in between two other art students. Thankfully no one questioned or looked too closely at the content, but it was awkward anyways (and awkward just trying to type on a laptop in a bumpy van...).

Can't write at work. Would probably end up in jail if I did. Doesn't stop my mind from wandering occasionally.

At my kids' school, while I was waiting on a Parent/Teacher conference. I was writing one of my most explicit M/M sex scene, thinking "if only they knew!"

I write quite often at Starbucks. At the closest one to my house, I write in a corner, quite often being seen by the baristas. In the last year, three have become curious as to what I'm writing. I've shared my "Safe" writing with them, though recently the hot redhead that my wife crushes on has read some of my "naughty bits." She's one of my newest fans.

I do a lot of writing by hand, usually in a coffee shop or on the train.

I bought a Penthouse Variations magazine for some inspiration, thinking it could be mistaken for Reader's Digest--but no! It's full of hardcore pics on every page--certainly not for public reading! Was my face red.

I am with the coffee shop crowd. But mostly I write at home and then when I am in line picking up my daughter from school. I am not much for mingling with parents, my humor is a bit crass for them so I keep to my books.

I usually write by hand in my school's library, or in class while 'taking notes.' It was really funny when I first started writing those things in public, because I kept blushing whenever anybody would ask me what I was doing. I've gotten over that since then, but it's still funny when people ask.

...except, one time I left the room to use the restroom and this nosy girl pulled my papers out of my backpack. She read all of it, and tried to start a conversation with me when I returned. Oh boy, was I mad THAT afternoon...

Usually at work as well but it's tough because I'm the first person you see when you walk in so there's a lot of hasty browser minimizing as people approach my desk. Also I find camping trips to be extremely good for my creative bones. But people get nosy and want to know what you're writing while they're taking it easy around the camp fire but you're furiously writing in a notebook!

"Candyfreak" wrote:I've done it at school before. I was supposed to be working on a paper but I had an idea in my head. So I pulled up another document and started typing away, whenever my teacher would walk by I would pull up my paper and type some of it or search for information on the internet.

My friend was next to me and looked at me annoyed whenever I would cover it up. Later I learned they really liked what I was writing and wanted a copy of it.

I used to write mostly at school too, with the same problem of having to cover it up with a paper whenever a teacher walked by.
The reason it mostly did not look suspicious was because the document itself often had titles such as "Assignment2.doc" or something like that. XD

My math teacher did NOT fall for this tactic though, he was completely aware. However, he still let me use the computer whenever I wanted.
He was awesome.

Also, one of my classmates was a big fan. :D