yurifutalover
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thank you @Moonpearl and @Cipiteca396 truly helpful
Any more and you'll probably struggle to give all the characters enough depth and romantic development. It might be a struggle with 6 as it is.Hey, new author here. I am just started writing a yuri fanfic where the protagonist is isekai and was told to make a harem by a goddess. I am unsure of how many girls I should put in the harem. I want the harem to have at least 6 members not including MC of course. However, I am not sure if I should lower the number or increase it.
You shouldn't expect your readers to remember more than seven characters at once. So if your main character(1) has six love interests, there won't be room for any meaningful side characters. Your readers will be too busy trying to remember which girlfriend was supposed to be doing what to remember that unimportant edgy dude who keeps burning down villages and enslaving people or something.Hey, new author here. I am just started writing a yuri fanfic where the protagonist is isekai and was told to make a harem by a goddess. I am unsure of how many girls I should put in the harem. I want the harem to have at least 6 members not including MC of course. However, I am not sure if I should lower the number or increase it.
I plan on having some of the harem members date each other while also dating the MC too. I find it weird that in most harem stories I read the harem is only interested in the MC only and have zero interest in each other. I mean if they're going to share the same person and have a full-blown relationship with them then I don't see why they don't have sex with each other or go on dates while the MC is busy doing stuff like saving a village or fighting some guy hell-bent on conquering the world.You shouldn't expect your readers to remember more than seven characters at once. So if your main character(1) has six love interests, there won't be room for any meaningful side characters. Your readers will be too busy trying to remember which girlfriend was supposed to be doing what to remember that unimportant edgy dude who keeps burning down villages and enslaving people or something.
To me, three is a pretty comfortable number. However, you can increase this by making two of them sisters/twins/deeply connected. The audience will remember them as a pair instead of a single person. You can't do that multiple times though, or it'll break immersion.
Unless you have a plot reason for why there are so many cute twins around who are also willing to date the same lesbian. But that feels really... Forced. No free will? Also hard to justify. (Or maybe you can pair the girls off romantically? These two are dating each other on the side, and you can be sure the audience will remember that.)
Depending on what you're writing, it might actually be possible to raise the number. But it's really gonna need some effort on your part.
It's definitely weird to date the same person as your sister. Just having both sisters be gay is a little weird. Things like that are excusable individually, but the more oddities that stack up, the harder that gets.I mean wouldn't it feel forced if made two that are slightly different from each other fall in love with the same woman and are willing to share her?
*fist pump* Another win for poly.go on dates while the MC is busy
For my two cents? It depends. Mine is only like one or two days and then after that it’s light enough to go without (but with a panty liner changed regularly to keep from stinking, sorry if TMI). So basically it all comes out at once for me but I feel lousy the first day, like you feel when you have a little cold. Period pains feel kind of like gas but not exactly. Mine messes with my digestion so I don’t actually know if I’m having cramps or gas but some women have it WAY worse. All I can say is my own personal experience.That is actually very helpful @Ai-chan
How long do they last each time? just a rough timespan is fine.
If you want to try for a hot scene but without, say, going all the way, try one of the girls is very hesitant and makes a rule. "Underwear stays on, no touching inside underwear." This give a guideline while also allowing for tension in the scene as both women clearly want to go further, but they restrain themselves. Can even go into how they don't even take off shirts or pants for most of the scene, groping into blouses and drifting into pants. I would even go so far as to make it so neither of them cum, the sexual tension should have an element of clam jamming as one is about to reach inside panties and the other stops her. "Not...yet" she says, swallowing her own need as she stumbled back into the bed. "Please." This opens up the avenue for the following chapters to be about how both girls are passionately thinking about that time, in a constant state of horny while they are in class at uni or grinding against the counter at the fast food place they work. Then, after a few chapters of sexual frustration and finding they can't wait any longer, they find themselves in a public place, throw themselves into a closet, and now they are tearing clothing off in wild passion, both of them wildly trying to keep their moans and screams quiet in the public place.I’ve never written GL before and want to try my hand at it! (I’ve written a lot of BL and straight sex.) In the one-shot I want to write, two lifelong best friends attend a Christmas party and decide to try something…not so platonic. But I don’t know how to get started. Both women are outgoing, party girls, and in their early twenties. I didn’t want this to go too far (not past Ao3’s M rating) so I don’t want them to go as far as oral sex, but I definitely wanted it to get steamy, with some clothes coming off. Fingering wouldn’t be out of the question. Neither is shy so a lot is on the table. Obviously since this is impromptu they wouldn’t have any sex toys. But they’re in the guest room of her brothers house and he’s gay so they could possibly get their hands on some lube.
Normally, I’d totally agree! And this is good advice. But this was meant to be a one-shot, so there are no future chapters It’s meant to be a little steamy Christmas-themed sort of thing. So I wouldn’t be able to leave anyone hanging at the end of the scene.If you want to try for a hot scene but without, say, going all the way, try one of the girls is very hesitant and makes a rule. "Underwear stays on, no touching inside underwear." This give a guideline while also allowing for tension in the scene as both women clearly want to go further, but they restrain themselves. Can even go into how they don't even take off shirts or pants for most of the scene, groping into blouses and drifting into pants. I would even go so far as to make it so neither of them cum, the sexual tension should have an element of clam jamming as one is about to reach inside panties and the other stops her. "Not...yet" she says, swallowing her own need as she stumbled back into the bed. "Please." This opens up the avenue for the following chapters to be about how both girls are passionately thinking about that time, in a constant state of horny while they are in class at uni or grinding against the counter at the fast food place they work. Then, after a few chapters of sexual frustration and finding they can't wait any longer, they find themselves in a public place, throw themselves into a closet, and now they are tearing clothing off in wild passion, both of them wildly trying to keep their moans and screams quiet in the public place.