So, you're a popular writer on Lit. You get up to 16 even 30 thousand readers for your stories sometimes. You get positive reader feedback. Some readers say you turned them on, some readers say you changed their life. You get pretty good ratings and even the occasional red H, green E or blue W. So how do you turn this knowledge into money? The best way I h...
Ch. 03: The Mailman "Honk-honk," The old truck pulled into the dirt driveway and stopped. The motor rumbled in an uneasy idle as the mailman searched the parcels in the passenger seat for Anna Belle's package. The screen door slammed shut loudly as Anna Belle came running to the truck like a roadrunner across the highway from the front porch to the mailm...
Author's disclaimer: While writing her famous vampire tales and others, gothic novelist Anne Rice has also written a number of erotic novels, publishing them under the pen names A.N. Roquelaure and Anne Rampling. While each of the five novels undoubtedly deserves its own separate consideration, I offer this as an introduction to them, and an invitation to tr...
It was a lovely day. She got out of her apartment and sauntered towards the station. She had a train to catch. She was going out of town. Not very far away but still a good three hours of travelling by train. She wore dark glasses and loved watching the reactions of men as she walked. She wasn't bad looking; she was young, had just completed her 20th birthda...
How to Write a Novel Making it through the plagues that plague writers. Ideas strike like meteors upon an unsuspecting moon. In the fallout of debris, an idea occurs to you: hey, what if... You hurl yourself towards your instrument of writing and in the aftermath of the explosion, words trickle from your brain and into your fingertips. A novel is crafted....
Part 4 - Mickey's Novel Takes Shape Chapter 13 - Life Has to be More Organized The early sun was bright in the guesthouse bedroom when I opened my eyes. Margo was wiggling. There were stealthy noises on the porch. I put my hand protectively over a rosy tipped breast. "Look at that. Pretty darn sweet. Wake up, lovers, it is Sunday morning and there is goi...
As soon as the TV crew cleared up and left the real party was underway just as Patricia and Billie returned from taking Mandy to the airport. "Why was Mandy jumping and yelling after being on the phone after closing the interview," Natalie asked. Her mother said, "Mandy told us in the car that was her producer telling Mandy it was her best interview in th...
Ah, here it is, the single most controversial story at Literotica today, the bastion of the unethical writer, the tool of the ruthless cheater and the downfall of the proud tradition of the Literotica Survivor Contest. Ladies and gentlemen, and wenches and rogues may I present the seven hundred fifty word story. Never has so much attention been wasted on a p...
Obviously, step one in writing a novel, get an idea. Authors get the question all the time: "How do you come up with your ideas?" Assuming you're not one, I can answer that: Formal viewpoint. Or a functional mentality. For example, Forbes Magazine had a front page cover about how al-Qaeda was losing money, and it suggested that Osama needed a new business...
I met her because Columbus Day is a federal holiday. I was sitting in my Starbucks on October 12, 2009, 517 years after Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas. After weeks at sea, Columbus landed in the Bahamas in the early-morning hours of October 12, 1492. He knelt on the ground and kissed the Earth. He gave thanks to God. He was off course by t...