Publish and Be Damned

So I saw this on Slate.com. I don’t do this — don’t think I’ve had a dog in a story at all, not being a pet person — but I [...]

What 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 list [...]

Do 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 fiction, [...]

When one reads as many sex stories as I do, one starts to see the same words in every story.  Here are a few that I’ve had to look up in the dictionary [...]

So 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 [...]

 
Dear Writers,
I present to you my editing Bible.  It’s called Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to edit yourself into print by Renni Browne and Dave King.
I can’t urge you enough [...]

The exclamation ‘Publish and Be Damned’ was first attributed to the Duke of Wellington who is said to have exclaimed it when the courtesan Harriette Wilson, his lover, threatened to [...]