Vertical Hold: Monocle’s Response to the Elevator Scenario
The Virtue of Patience was the outcome of a discussion between Raziel Moore and I. His story – Vertical Hold – based on exactly the same scenario, is now up at his site. Please go and have a read. It’s hot as hell. Nine a.m. The year may start new for everyone else, but for […]
Nightmares and Visions : Monocle
It’s always very exciting to hear when a fellow erotica writer has been published and, if you have listened to the podcast of Click, then you’ve already met Monacle (Raziel Moore). You might consider getting to know him a little better by taking yourself over to Republica Press and purchasing his collection of stories: “Fantasies […]
Language and Power
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 to […]
Things I leave Unsaid
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.
Umberto Eco’s “The Role of the Reader”, or How to Produce Texts by Reading Them
Reading for Nobilis & Other Newsy Stuff
I’ve been quiet of late. This is mostly because my new semester is looming like a vulture and I’m having to do a lot of prep for it. However, three bits of news. I was very honoured to be asked by Nobilis to read his story Wager for his weekly podcast. I had a great […]
We Just Aren’t That Simple
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 a little, all of them are worth reading, as they all deal with the subject of porn tropes, and how those play out in the reality of society, sex education and the bedroom.
Jean Robert’s Review of ‘Slip of the Lip’
For those of you who participated in the ‘Slip of the Lip’ challenge, and for those of you who have read it, Jean Roberta has written a wonderful review of it up on the ERWA Blog. “A remarkable number of these short pieces look self-contained in the way that an acorn is a self-contained object […]
My Guest Spot on a Good Parts Podcast & further thoughts on POV
Firstly, I want to thank Nobilis, Helen E.H. Madden and Ann Regentin for inviting me to participate in their Good Parts erotica writing podcast on the subject of 1st and 3rd person POV in erotic writing. This is amazing threesome hosts a writing blog at http://thewritethreesome.blogspot.com/ and you can subscribe to their podcast at http://thegoodparts.libsyn.com/
Five Questions
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 are […]