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Crash Your Party Dress
By Adrian Hunter
One of two anthologies of Adrian Hunter's smooth and kinky short stories that explores both the beauty and the beast of bondage through the eyes of its mostly-willing participants.
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Giggling Into The Pillow
By Chris Bridges
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Writing And Marketing The Spanking Story
by
Danielle Smith
The spanking story has a unique position in the porn market. First, it runs closer to the mainstream than many other subgenres. Memoirs, children’s books, and classical literature (think Dickens) often contain descriptions of corporal punishment that would be right at home in many spanking story collections.
Second, unlike most erotica where the focus is on people having sex, the spanking story may have little or no explicit lovemaking. Therefore the writer is more dependent on characters, plot and dialogue than in the straight sex story, and must be as comfortable describing the impact of palms and paddles on derrieres as other writers are describing the myriad forms of couplings...
Writing Dark Erotica
by
Duana Anderson
'Dark erotica' is not easily defined. In fact, everyone has their own idea of what it is. I have seen 'dark erotica' described as: sexual horror, erotic horror, gothic erotica, pagan erotica, dark fantasy, romantic horror, gothic romanticism, fetish, BDSM, alternative, underground, urban erotica, paranormal romance, romantic tragedy, science fiction and fantasy, which primarily fall under the huge heading of genre or speculative fiction. There seems to be no limit to what 'dark erotic' includes from moody and atmospheric, to sensual and romantic, to raw, edgy, provocative, dark, sinister, bizarre, smutty, sexy, sizzling, urban and utterly pornographic. The only limit is your own imagination...
Writing Erotic Flash Fiction
T. Myer
You've seen these little powerhouses of narrative everywhere. Short little stories (1000 words is almost too long) that convey a powerful story while implying an entire novel's worth of story, characterization, and conflict. The flash fiction (or short-short story) market is gaining in popularity, as editors can pack in more variety with each anthology or zine they publish.
But how do you crack this market? Anyone who has tried to write a piece of flash fiction (erotic or not) quickly realizes how difficult it is to build a good story in so little acreage. Here are some tips for getting off on the right foot.
Interview With Annie Sprinkle
By Jenna Glatzer
Annie is a former prostitute-turned-porn-star-turned-sex-performance-artist, feminist, and about a hundred other titles... including author. She entered the porn world after working as a popcorn-seller at a movie theatre that just happened to be showing an X-rated film when she was 17. When the theatre's owner was sued for showing it, Annie was called to the trial, and met the filmmaker and star of the movie. She was intrigued by their work, and followed them back to Manhattan. She had starred in over 100 porn films by the mid-1970s.
As time went on, she became more focused on performance art and sexual education, including her popular "Public Cervix Announcement." She has written articles and several books about her work and life, and holds a a Doctorate of Human Sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. She is working towards her Ph.D...
Erotic Humor
By T. Myer
So what does it take to be a successful writer of erotic humor? The same kind of stuff that makes for a successful erotica writer, even the same stuff that makes for a successful writer, period:
Complete and total mastery of the English language.
Humor writing is very difficult. It's much harder than non-humor (a catch-all category that covers everything from the quotidian to the tragic). Anyone out there can make someone cry at the tale of star-crossed lovers from different sides of a family feud. Anyone can make someone cringe at the brutality of war on the front lines.
But can you take those same subjects and make people laugh? Can you take the drudgery of everyday life and make it funny? Can you make sex funny? If you can, then you have a gift, one that should be cherished. At all times, but especially bad times, we want to laugh. Laughter cleanses and heals, makes us forget..
Filling Up The (Column) Inches
By Emily Dubberley
A few weeks back, I was launching a new sex site for women. We'd set pretty tight deadlines for the team but sure enough, with 24 hours to go before launch, we had 30,000 words of porn to write.
Not a good situation.
Even worse, some of it was is genres that didn't even interest me; we try to cater for as broad a range as fantasies as possible but that doesn't mean I'm an all-round perv!
This is when I learned how to write speed-porn that (hopefully) presses all the right buttons but takes a lot less time to write. Here are a few tips that may help when you're up against it...
E-Book ‘Em, Danno!
By Adrian Hunter
Reports of the demise of the e-book are greatly…accurate.
Two years ago, publishers watched in horror as horror fans download 400,000 copies of a digitized Stephen King short story. They figured they were about to get Napstered (in which customers abandon traditional atom-based entertainment products like compact disks for fast, free online bytes) after barely recovering from being Amazoned (in which customers abandon traditional atom-based retail outlets for online stores). They were both nervous and giddy over the prospect of getting rid of the printing process while maintaining a pricing structure that values new hardcover books just south of tickets to The Producers.
They were wrong...
Erotic Speculative Fiction
By Lady Mary
Some feelings, like lust, are universal, as the recent offerings of erotic speculative fiction show. Regardless of species, race, or planet of origin, attraction, lust, and consummation play themselves out in the pages of well-crafted prose.
Most of the time.
Like mainstream erotica, speculative fiction, which encompasses both fantasy and science fiction, contains plots that to the seasoned reader will seem clichéd. A variety of time-worn attempts at seduction, such as the alien needing human DNA obtained only by sexual encounters, the vampire who only fucks and feeds (don't they have hobbies?), the alien seducing humans as an experiment, exist to stumble the beginning writer.
Grab 'Em By the Throat
By Katy Terrega
Katy Terrega, determined to make the sale, reached through virtual space and grabbed the intended editor by the throat. Far from offended by her bold - if viselike - grip, he was, instead, taken pleasantly off guard. Not able to resist the pressure, he delved quickly into the body of the lead paragraph.
His attention thus secured, Katy allowed her grip to relax, if only slightly, as she proceeded to tell her story...
Does Your Writing Stink?
By Diane Sears
Writers, notorious for being voracious readers, are naturally the best judges of writing. We know good writing when we see it, we know what keeps us reading, sometimes eagerly devouring the piece to the very end, and we know what makes our eyes glaze over.
But when it comes to our own writing, why is it so hard for some of us to realize our own writing stinks...?
New Bedfellows: Sex & Science Fiction
A Conversation between Cecilia Tan and M. Christian
On the subject of science fiction erotica there are only two people you should be listening to: Cecilia Tan, the owner/operator/editor of Circlet Press, who specializes in creating steamy fiction mixing erotica with cutting edge speculative fiction; and M. Christian, the chameleonic author/editor who has made critically acclaimed splashes in gay/lesbian/straight erotica, crossed over to mainstream science fiction, and is the author of the recent sex and science fiction fusion, The Bachelor Machine.
Recently M. Christian and Cecilia Tan sat down and discussed the state of erotica in science fiction, and the science fiction in erotica: what's wrong, what's right, the difference between the two, and -- remarkably -- how similar they are...
Confessions Of A Porno Hack
By Don Vaughan
Anais Nin did it for a dollar a page. Ed Wood Jr. - the mastermind behind Plan 9 From Outer Space - did it between movies. Henry Miller turned it into a cottage industry.
Some of the world's greatest talents (and Ed Wood Jr.) have tried their hand at writing pornography. I have, too, though not nearly as successfully as those named above. In fact, my stint in the literary smut biz turned out to be one of the weirdest, most twisted experiences of my life and a hard lesson in how not to get rich...
The Perils Of Being A Sex Writer
By Chris Bridges
Excerpted from the book "Giggling Into The Pillow" by Chris Bridges
Yeah, it sounds great. Spend your days, your nights, endlessly researching sex and all its positions, permutations and possibilities until you can't walk no more. Instantly know the answer to any question anyone could ever ask you about the whole sticky business. Get more poon than Woody Harrelson. Get bulk discounts at Good Vibrations, get a good seat at Spago's, get head from passing supermodels while their husbands hold their hair out of the way. Is that what you think it's like...
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