Silly little things
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010What gets “in the way” of your writing? What are some little things you find yourself doing or avoiding in stories? For me, it’s character names. I have a small [...]
Discussion Topics
…if you know what I mean
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010Do I use euphemism? Maybe. Not exactly. Or perhaps it’s euphemism by omission. I’m the first one to admit that I don’t use a lot of words common in erotic [...]
Settings in Smut
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Are settings in erotica important? Do you really need a sense of place as an integral part of what you’re writing? Will that necessarily add anything to the experience of [...]
Setting and Negative Space
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010I like stories with a strong sense of setting. I truly enjoy feeling the texture of a place well described, the grit under my fingers, the faded, chipped paint of [...]
Dirty Word Spellings: Help!!!
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Writers, I’m in need of your help. I need a dirty dictionary that I can use as a reference text in editing erotic stories. To my knowledge no such book [...]
Setting: Where Angels Fear to Tread
Friday, April 30th, 2010“It was a shabby room, like a cheap, long-stay hotel room or a bed-sit in one of the poorer districts of Tokyo. A woven burnt orange curtain covered the window, [...]
Where in the world…
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Ah, location. Where do we put our characters? For some, I imagine the setting is a character in itself. For me, if you can figure it out, can you let [...]
Point of View: The Beatles Made Me Do It – Dirtyboy
Thursday, April 15th, 2010I’ve always had a definite preference for first person narrative when reading erotica. I often find the style irritating in mainstream fiction, but when reading smut I feel far more [...]
Point of View
Friday, April 2nd, 2010I like this particular topic, from a selfish perspective, since point of view is one of those things I’ve most consciously experimented with in my writing. Long before I cared [...]
Writers vs. Editors
Thursday, March 25th, 2010“Writers, you are not what you write. Editors, you are not what you edit. Neither writer nor editor should take the other’s disagreements as a personal affront.” These wise words [...]
How much realism do you need?
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010So I’m just musing, and I wonder — just how many women are out there with huge, DD chests? Or men with 12″ long cocks as thick as a soda [...]
The Air Up There — Third Person POV
Thursday, March 18th, 2010I instinctively write in the third person; it never occurs to me to do otherwise. Okay, once. I wrote a story, I think for a class in college, in first [...]
He Said / She Said
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010For years I only wrote in first person personal. Everything I penned was a confession of my sins. On occasion I’d try to distance myself from my writing a bit [...]
POV: Meat Puppets – Remittance Girl
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010I’m going to leave the relative merits of the different POVs up to someone else. Everyone has his or her favorite POV to write in, and often it will be [...]
The eBook Revolution
Monday, March 15th, 2010Can you name the bookstore in this picture? It’s the famous City Lights Bookstore in North Beach, San Francisco that was owned and operated by the poet [...]
M. Christian on Staying Fresh when Writing Sex
Monday, March 15th, 2010M. Christian, prolific and celebrated erotica writer, has a very useful blog on writing erotica. Recently, he posted a nice article on keeping the sex in your stories fresh and [...]
A plea on behalf of editors
Monday, March 15th, 2010I enjoy editing for other people. However, I think I may have to stop, as no matter how often I edit someone, they seem not to learn from their mistakes. [...]
A New Version of The Story of O
Monday, March 8th, 2010I found this on Slate.com and thought people might find it interesting. http://www.slate.com/id/2246862/ This is a review of a graphic novel adaptation of The Story of O, which also discusses [...]
My first bite of fruit – Wendy Stone
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Hi all. My name is Wendy Stone. I’ve always been an avid reader. I think that it’s one reason that I became an author. I’ve never really been a reader [...]
First Bite of the Fruit ~ Dreamer
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010What was the first piece of erotic fiction you ever read? Oh my. Does my memory reach back that far? The first piece of erotica I ever read was this [...]