Authors, how many times have you wondered why people thought the way they did about your story? How many times have you looked at the information about your story and wonder why it got voted a 1 or a 5? How many times have you gotten feedback that provided no real information about why they thought your story was good, bad or indifferent? Readers, how many...
The fourth book in The Marketplace Series by author Laura Antoniou is titled The Academy: Tales of the Marketplace. It is a marked departure from the rest of the series as this is a compilation of short stories by a variety of authors, including Ms. Antoniou and her wife, Karen Taylor. As well, the stories are joined together with narratives supplied by Ms....
I have been a writer all of my life. My employment as an adult has, to a large extent, depended on my ability to get published, which I suppose makes me a professional writer. In addition to writing, I've also served as a consulting editor for a number of publications. I am no stranger to the written word. The motives for writing erotic fiction no doubt va...
Good Day! I Began Writing This Essay— Tuesday, January 30th, 2018, 6:31 p.m. "Well, it means being able to find and arrange just the most effective words to communicate your feelings and explain things." —Dr. Deborah Morelli ("Lying Young" part 1) Top of the morning to you! Or, bottom of the evening to you! Or, whenever you happen to be reading. Of the...
INTRODUCTION In our day and age of easy labels and quick stereotyping, we tend to imagine the Victorian era in England as something of a conservative and reserved time. It is an old observation that every generation thinks it invented sex, but no people in history are seen as having been quite so sexless as the Victorians, and especially the refined society...
Thoughts On Writing Erotica: POVs, Plots, Pacing, And Pudendas To begin this discussion, I would like to start with MY definition of Erotica vs. Pornography, and Erotica vs. mainstream fiction. Many people are confused over the lines between mainstream fiction that has erotic elements in it, and true erotica. Likewise, there is great confusion, and differen...
The following is a self-review of my lowest scored stories. I am once again participating in the Literotica 2012 Survivor Contest, where authors attempt to write as many stories in one year, in as many different categories. I reviewed my top stories back in 2006, so I figured why not review the worst in 2012! Here's the layout of the review. Place in the t...
I am amongst other things a nudist. But I can't go to the resort as often as I would like to or need to especially in the spring to get my "all over" tan. Since I am also a farmer's wife, I live in the country and do not have any near by neighbors; at least none that can see our place from theirs and we live off the road and back in the woods. The lane isn't...
A/N: I want to try to do something interesting with this story. So I'm only going to voluntarily write one main route. But I'd like readers to request what they want the main character to do. So I won't leave off on boring questions, like "What's next?". All end questions will end with a situation where the main character has to make a choice. Some...
I confess it freely and deny it not--I am a quibbler, and I love to quibble. That's copy editing. I say I won't mess around with plot, character or continuity. Those are the provinces of the author. I do the mechanicals--spelling, grammar, syntax, sentence structure. They are the off-putting little details that distract the reader, when the reader should b...