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Censoriousness and business in the adult world

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The entire area of what is known as “sex work” is an area where societies get into all sorts of conflicts and debates. This is not new. Sex is still seen as a taboo subject by many people in many societies. The reality that taboos tend to contribute little more than ignorance and bad decisions is often overlooked. But since sex is an essential activity, simply for the continuation of the species, it cannot really […]

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The curses of being politically engaged

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I have been unable to focus on book or story writing for the last 2 months because of the election season. Being very politically engaged has a downside. I also have 2 non-fiction book projects for which the election season is providing source material, and I still have a day job. So the re-write of the first book of Books of Loukas is stalled, and Belem’s next story, Bad Girl Christmas 2, is advancing only

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Origins of imagination and how it works for my writing

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For as long as I have been a sentient being, I was aware that I tended to live in my head. By that I mean that I can quite happily daydream (occasionally also night-dream) myself into all manner of places and situations, and also place other people and characters in those situations. Like many people diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, I can, if I am motivated to do so, acquire enormous amounts of quite detailed information

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Writing and politics

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We are deep into what I believe is the most important electoral cycle of my lifetime. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people are engaged, fired up and motivated in all sorts of ways. I am seeing this on my Twitter account, where people who self-identify as writers are posting tangentially or directly political tweets. This, of course, leads to a spectrum of reactions from “nah, not my scene” to “HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT MY

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The disappearance of interest – autobiographies

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From time to time, I find myself reading books that, for whatever reason, lack interest and stop engaging me. One particular type of book where this happens is autobiographies. There are a number of interlocking reasons why this can be true: The person in question is writing a hagiography, and therefore it is all “I am great and I did this” content, with nothing remotely complete, rounded, or informative about their life The person does

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