(All of this comment is about me. When I say "lazy writing" I am talking about my own experience, not accusing anyone else of being lazy)
I'm finding this fascinating because a couple of my fics that are other people's favourites are ones where I went "OK, I really don't do this (kink), but...". Because I had to get into the character's head and find out exactly what *they* found hot about it, whereas if they're doing something I know all about then yeah, it's probably a little lazier writing because it's more on the surface.
For example - I wrote a hand-feeding snippet. I really don't do that, I have issues with food, I'm still a little surprised I kept my brain at arm's length long enough to write it. But for those 20 minutes or whatever, it didn't matter that I didn't like it - I had to get in the boy's head and work out why he liked it, why it was so wonderful from his POV. And that came out on paper, and it's all him. More recently I did a bit involving gloryholes, I Do Not Get It... and yet it got a tonne of appreciative comments, because it worked for the character.
So writing stuff that's not about my ID seems to produce more interesting porn. Again, comes back to "Look how different people's experiences are", which is what's fascinating.
Re: the nature of fannish porn
I'm finding this fascinating because a couple of my fics that are other people's favourites are ones where I went "OK, I really don't do this (kink), but...". Because I had to get into the character's head and find out exactly what *they* found hot about it, whereas if they're doing something I know all about then yeah, it's probably a little lazier writing because it's more on the surface.
For example - I wrote a hand-feeding snippet. I really don't do that, I have issues with food, I'm still a little surprised I kept my brain at arm's length long enough to write it. But for those 20 minutes or whatever, it didn't matter that I didn't like it - I had to get in the boy's head and work out why he liked it, why it was so wonderful from his POV. And that came out on paper, and it's all him. More recently I did a bit involving gloryholes, I Do Not Get It... and yet it got a tonne of appreciative comments, because it worked for the character.
So writing stuff that's not about my ID seems to produce more interesting porn. Again, comes back to "Look how different people's experiences are", which is what's fascinating.