Invitation & Details for #foodforthoughtdate
After having a nice evening this Saturday which included watching a documentary and then having a wide-ranging discussion on the subjects that came out of it, I tweeted about it and a number of people responded that they wish they could have more of those types of things in their lives. I propose a more […]
Tentacle Dreams: Calls for Submission
Six months ago, I put an anthology together called A Slip of the Lip for ERWA. I received a lot of great entries and I think we managed to put a very nice e-book together from the submissions. I’d like to try to do another one of those, but this time I’d like to invite […]
New Valuations: Erotica and What It’s Worth
There is no other way to put it, writers get paid shit. Erotica writers get paid even less shit. At present, a writer of a short, say 4,000 word, story gets approximately $50 for the story. This works out at about 1 cent a word. Does that seem like the wrong way to work out […]
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
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.
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 […]
Coming Together : Neat – Call for Submissions
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, where they will help entrepreneurs in 3rd world countries launch or expand their businesses.