NaNoWriMo 2013

[loulabelle]

I went to a seminar/class in erotica at a con earlier this year. I listened hard and took long... meticulous... notes, the climax of the class being the satisfied parted smiles and warm appreciative applause of the teachers as I read my class piece.

Seriously, I have notes, if someone wants them? It was a good class, I didn't even get to the shagging in my 10minute exercise piece, they liked my descriptions of lust and tension while one lover yearned for the other and the way I described the slickness of two pairs of lip-glossed lips touching and sliding over each other during a kiss. Plus everyone else in the class was super awkward (why were they there?!)

[loulabelle]

You're still all losers. It was just nice effectively getting paid to write the last couple years.

Of course if I could get published I could do that all the time.

I look forward to leaving you in my erotic dust this year GF.

Find yourself a market and get published: http://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/t ... fault.aspx

[maxcell]

...they liked my descriptions of lust and tension while one lover yearned for the other...

Gee, I wonder where loulabelle may have honed this skill?

[Swift]

I offer to repeatedly proof-read your novel this year Lou.

[Grand Fromage]

You're still all losers. It was just nice effectively getting paid to write the last couple years.

Of course if I could get published I could do that all the time.

I look forward to leaving you in my erotic dust this year GF.

You're writing porn, eh. Gross.

[CloudDancing]

http://io9.com/infographic-shows-you-ho ... 1449606099

[loulabelle]

You're still all losers. It was just nice effectively getting paid to write the last couple years.

Of course if I could get published I could do that all the time.

I look forward to leaving you in my erotic dust this year GF.

You're writing porn, eh. Gross.

Unlikely. 50,000 words is going to get super boring super quickly. Honestly I have zero idea what I'm writing about. I've not had time to sit and think about anything. If I thought any previous years were "pants years" they've got nothing on this ;-/

[CloudDancing]

Just write five ten thousand word sex scenes! Or ten five thousand word sex scenes.

[Rumple C]

Or ten thousand five word sex scenes.

"They did it, real nice!".

[JonnyJerny]

Erotica is a legitimate and meaningful form of art. Erotica saved my life. Erotica made me realize that if I could write erotica, I could impress and arouse any middle aged mom.

Thank you, erotica.

[CloudDancing]

Don't forget any middle-aged male who happens to pretend he is a woman.

[Swift]

Don't forget any middle-aged male who happens to pretend he is a woman.

IE all of the Internets.

I have managed to plot out my first 8 chapters for my novel, I am debating whether to plot out the rest to have a a guide despite the fact I tend to deviate by the half way point. Maybe if I come up with a resolution I'll do it.

[Grand Fromage]

[Rumple C]

That's it. I'm in!

Apocalyptical survival fiction, here I come.

I want to put zombies in there as I sincerely hate zombies. We shall see.

[CloudDancing]

Nice interview from Tom Robbins:
http://www.realitysandwich.com/syntax_s ... om_robbins

Knowing how painstakingly you craft words, I suspect you believe as I do that every word is a magic word. Obviously you have chosen to use your magic to enlighten, but do you think it's fair to say that many lesser magic-users are prone to something resembling dark magic?

Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally. The word "grammar," like its sister word "glamour," is actually derived from an old Scottish word that meant "sorcery." When we were made to diagram sentences in high school, we were unwittingly being instructed in syntax sorcery, in wizardry. We were all enrolled at Hogwarts. Who knew?

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work. The pervasive brutality in current fiction -- the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord -- is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world. Less apparent is that bland writing -- timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing -- is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir, nectar, tequila, or champagne, the reader is invited to slurp lumpy milk or choke on the author's dust bunnies.