Writing Research Resources
I admire writers who get an idea for a story and just go for it, doing their research to get the details right later, but I can’t do it. I find I need to fully immerse myself in the information before I feel ‘ready’ to write. Often when I find good maps, I print them […]
Words like Sand & Turbulent Stories: Readers’ Experience of Shifting Narrative
Electronic text, especially text on the web in HTML form, has fundamentally changed our understanding of the ‘printed word’. On the web, text can change constantly and readers do not have the same surety that, like the words they read yesterday in a book, they will be the same words today. Of course, the meaning […]
On Sadism
This post is primarily in response to Tutivillus’ excellent podcast on being a physical sadist. It’s short and clear, so please have a listen to it before you read my post, or it really won’t make a lot of sense. You can listen here. (Please read Tutivillus’ comment at the bottom of this blog. Apparently […]
Writing Jags & Butterfly Collectors
If you’re a regular visitor to my site, you will have noticed I was on something of a writing jag this weekend. But with Monday, work has intervened and it won’t be until Wednesday that I post another installment of The Lepidopterists. Writing this is an interesting experiment for me. Yvette is the first really […]
Outed for being a Good Teacher and a Published Author
I don’t know how many of you have heard the about Judy Mays, but this high school English teacher of 25 years has just been disgustingly and viciously ‘outed’ as – hold on to your hats – an erotica writer. You can see what laughingly passes for news here. And read more about her travails […]
Whose Kink? Definitions and Perspectives.
In conjunction with my project Portraits of Kink, I’ve been reading and listening a great deal to other people’s opinions of what kink is. I think we can pretty well all agree that kink is whatever is kink to you. However, of course, your kink is not always recognizable to another. And within some BDSM […]
D/s sans Humiliation: A Response to a Comment.
I recently got a comment on an piece of erotic fiction I wrote which I really liked because it asked a question I didn’t have a ready answer for. The story was Pleasure’s Apprentice and the comment was from Amy: Amy on April 3, 2011 at 1:20 pm I’ve read this one several times […] […]
Portraits Update: Subs 7 – Doms 0
Just a little note to let you know this is still (sort of) happening. I got 24 acceptances to participate. Yay. I got about an even number of subs/bottoms/masochists to doms/tops/sadists. Yay So far, 7 of the subs/bottoms/masochists have sent me back their responses to my questions. Yay. So far, NONE of the doms/tops/sadists have […]
Guest Blogging at Lisabet Sarai’s House
In the next month, Lisabet Sarai (editor of my short story anthology and erotica writer extraordinaire) is hosting a series of guest bloggers on her site Beyond Romance. I’m gonna be there March 24! Below is a list of the names and dates of the guests. As you can see, it’s something of a who’s […]
Coming Together: Robert Buckley
There are few people I can point to and honestly say: ‘This person taught me how to write”. There is a good chance that you haven’t heard of Robert Buckley and, if you enjoy good erotic writing, that’s a damn shame because Bob is a masterful erotic writer with a voice like no one else. […]