I haven’t posted anything essayish here in a while, and I’ve been pondering on the fact that recently, sexual acronyms have started to really bother me. I have used them as much as anyone else: BDSM, MILF, D/s… and a new one I just learned today: CFNM (Clothed female, naked male). Recently I’ve started...
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I posted the Google Books Eco book below in order to start a discussion on writing in terms of what I say and what I leave unsaid in my stories and my shorter pieces of work.
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Nobilis pointed me in the direction of Figleaf's "The No-Sex Class: Men, Women, and Gangbangs in Porn" which led me to "Once more into the breech" by Amanda over at Pendragon.net., which led me to "On Porn, Sex And Pincushions" over at Echinde of the Snakes. Although each of them stray in their topics...
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I seldom blog links, but this one is well worth a read. Charles Baxter says that there are five questions all writers need to ask themselves about their writing: …One is, what do these characters want? Second is, what are they afraid of? Third is, what’s at stake in this story? Fourth is, what...
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Coming Together: Neat is an ebook line of single titles (10K-50K words) edited by Will Belegon. As with all Coming Together publications, diversity is the keyword. Thus, all colors and flavors of erotic fiction are welcome. ALL proceeds from the sales of Coming Together: Neat titles will be placed in a microlending account at Kiva,...
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I do get the very occassional nasty comment. They are rare, actually. But considering what I write is pretty tame compared to, say, most literary fiction writers, it amuses me when a really good one comes along. Remember 'The Exorcist?" The voice that Linda Blair spoke with when her...
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For those of you who have been reading me a while, you’ll notice that I’ve been a little fictionally quiet of late here. There are a lot of things that have contributed to this. The whole site/blog fiasco was a big distraction, of course, but...
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I just got asked a number of questions on writing erotica.  The requirement was for nice concise answers and one of the things that defeated me was my attempt to discuss the place of the narrator in erotic writing. In any piece of writing, there is a three-way going on between the reader, the...
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