As we come to the end of 2023, I thought I should take the time to thank several people who have helped, and continue to help me, on my journey from scattered creator of second-rate nonsense towards creator of first-rate nonsense. My muses. Wikipedia’s introduction provides the historical context: In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge […]
How to portray bi women is an area of romance and erotica writing where you can often tell whether the writer has actually spent any time with or talking to women who are not entirely heterosexual. The classic cliché of bi women (as seen in porn and bad erotica) is extremely good-looking women who seem equally interested in both sexes, and who are magically always around when there is an orgy or a threesome or
I was on Twitter (as you tend to be from time to time) and found a thread where a writer was asking if anybody had a cat as a character in their books. Well now, dear fellow writer, it just so happens that…there is indeed a cat in the Books of Loukas. A tuxedo named Hermann, who, like many cats, was rescued from the streets of Old Loukas, where he was scrapping for a living,
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Somebody on Twitter asked this question today: I have wrestled with this question at intervals. I usually think about it for a short while, but then I remember that I have a finite amount of time left on the planet and I need to create something that is definably mine before I go. I have worked in I.T. for 42 years, and I do not believe that I was able to “move the needle” on
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During a conversation with a fellow author yesterday, the subject of tinkering came up. Both of us, it became clear, will read and re-read our draft chapters and stories and, as is normal, we will spot something. It can be prose, sentence construction, plot discrepancies…almost anything. In my own case, knowing that people were reading story samples resulted in me going back and re-reading the samples, only to find…yep, you guessed it, stuff that I