Hi Everyone,

I've been out of the writing game for a LONG time and I want to start again finally. I'm even looking to write professionally. Is their any advice you can offer to someone in my position?

Most of my writing will be involving hypnosis.

Write a lot! If you're looking to write professionally, you need to set yourself a wordcount goal and hit that every single day. Pratchett thought that journalism was a great place to start for a writer because you had deadlines you had to hit, and, if you didn't hit them, you were hungry. Nowadays, I'm not so sure journalism is as viable an entry point, in the online sea of spun articles and non-content. Self-publishing kinky stuff Amazon, though, NOW we're talking. First things first, I'm not sure about your money situation, but if it's like most people here, you're not exactly writing this post from your yacht. I get the impression that you don't care much for the sex, which is unfortunate as that's what gets money. My suggestion would be to get some stuff out there, don't really care about sales at first, just build a little library of stories to prove you're worth following, then go hit up some of the bigger hypnofetish authors who has already done the steamy, sexy work to get an audience. See, the hardest part about writing really niche kinks is that you gotta get people interested in them, right? Certainly, there are more people capable of liking hypnosis than people who already know they like hypnosis - the authors who are up for writing sex and have been able to make some cash off hypnosis stories generally got a lot of people into hypnosis by way of the sex. If you don't want to do the sex, you've gotta sneak in in the middle of that process and siphon some love. Get to know the other authors if you can, but most importantly get them to namedrop you. Be active in the community, even the smutty parts.

As for writing good hypnosis in particular? If you needed advice for that, you wouldn't be asking for it. You already know what to do; I'm sure. The hard part is in doing it. Oh, and if you can, pay for an editor and pay for your cover art. Brandon Sanderson, whose writing I don't personally like but I respect because there's so much of it on the shelves, does a nice lecture series at BYU which is mostly geared towards epic fantasy writers but contains some nice tips regarding the quirks of modern publishing and what you should expect to pay for your cover, editing, advertising, etc. You can find it all on YouTube on the channel Write About Dragons, if you're interested.

I think this is the wrong place to ask. It would be better to first look for a community involved with writing and then apply your theme of choice to it instead of asking about writing in a community that is involved with your theme.

Once your general writing has improved, you can explore your prefered themes a bit closer - That's just my opinion though. I doubt you will find a lot of professionel writers here.

akaece has good advice just write a ton, write what you like too. I've found that running text based games is a strangely good way to do it. It lets you work with other pepole and develop a story where you have to respond to unexpected twist to the chracthers.

I say that because stories I wrote entirely on my own chracthers will occsinailly do things that shocked even me the person who created them.

Instead of just writing, I would advise you to read as well. If you like a style, try to imitate it. Then, when you are better, find your own way or incorporate elements of different styles into yours.

I get most of my ideas by reading a lot of MC stories for example.

Same for me, I got tons of ideas for my style by reading a lot of different authors and trying to write the same way. After a while I ended up creating my own way of doing it.

Can you recommend some stories?

I'm found of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony, it had a big influence on my style. Just be warned there are MASSIVE amounts of puns. Puns are a core part of the world in fact and on several occasions have served as key plot points.

Read from a variety of genres, both in fiction and non-fiction. Particular styles, narrative mechanics, and themes work differently or not at all depending on what you're writing. Understanding particular tropes and themes will help you to spot when you're relying on them too much, as well as helping you to alter them or change things up if you so desire.

Also, if you can help it, either take classes on literature and writing, or study it when you have free time. Having a grasp of proper grammar, as well as having a sizable vocabularly, allows you greater freedom of expression and a greater ability to affect the kind of tone you want in your story. Not to mention that it helps relay what you want to detail and convey to the reader better.

Finally, I've got two important things to tell you that every writer should commit to memory and fully embrace. First is that "writing is re-writing." The editing process of writing is such an important part of the process. It helps to make sentences and paragraphs more concise while maintaining detail, and it fixes mistakes or breaks in the stream of consciousness that could happen with a reader if they come across a part that is written incorrectly or is hard to digest. This fits into what others have said about just continually writing. Be it term papers, roleplays, poetry, prose, or just blogging, the more you write, the better you get at it. If you are unwilling to edit and rewrite your work, making various drafts as you refine and improve, then you shouldn't bother being a writer at all.

Second is that, if you want to write, you must have something you want to express or convey to the reader. A good writer almost always writes about something that is of interest to them or that they care about, or at the very least they write when they want to say something. That is the purpose of writing, and communication in general. That desire must translate through the pages, otherwise the reader will eventually sense your disinterest/lack of interest, and they'll stop reading. Or even worse, they will think you a terrible writer or a phony, and then stop reading. If you care about something, or want to inform or convey something to the reader, you will take extra care to make it compelling, yet easy to understand for the comprehension level you're writing to.

I embrace these rules and have done the above myself, and I feel that I've become a stronger writer as a result. Taking constructive criticism about your formatting, sentence structure/grammar, and how wordy or how few of words you use is also helpful. Outside of that, everything else is using what you've learned and improving upon yourself.

So, to be honest, my manips are like little eroge scenarios. So what I do is either I check out some eroge which have some scenes in the direction I want to go, or if it is something related to Age regression, there is a complete archive which deals with AR stories for example.

There is probably a website for the kind of sub-fetish to hypnosis you want to make a story about or just look up hypnosis related stories. I think there are a couple of topics with links already in this forum.

Sometimes it is just one sentence or how you write a certain paragraph that really makes the story stand out and gets the reader in the right mood.

Oh and just to point it out, anime are useless in that regard. All of them. They are watered down versions of the eroge game scenario they come from (in almost all cases) so checking out the game is a better idea.

Another good tip that has helped me a lot, find a good editor someone who thinks along the same lines as you. They can help you flesh out ideas and refine things

I'm going to write a story. Can I ask people here to read it when I've finished a chapter or two?

Aside from the good advice so far

1) Write what you like, if you're not getting off on it, how do you know other people will be able to do so?
2) Paint a picture. Use hentai manga and video as inspiration for your setpieces if you're lost for what to do with people.

What gets me off is considerably more tame than what most people here are into. I don't mean to be a pessimist I'm just stating things based on history.