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March 27, 2012
Continuing 'Water and Dust': contemporary short m/m fiction
Forget what (little) happened before? Read here. If you're just coming into this, it's a short m/m piece, each part approximately six sentences long. Aiming to be more romantic and a little sensual rather than overly smutty. * Marc started. The usual excuses came to his mind: it's late; we should sleep early; the lights [...]
Writing Anxieties: Focus, Refocus
(Really must not try update wordpress between 10-11pm – seems to slow right down and eat half my posts! So this is finished off from last night.) There are benefits of a tight deadline you are determined to meet. For one thing, it focuses your energy and thoughts onto finishing it, everything else, the peripheral [...]
March 23, 2012
Men of Intrigue: The Clever, Sarcastic, Witty Bastard
You know the type. He's dry, sharp, knowing, smug, ironic, pompous, witty, brutally honest, either blithely ignorant or gleeful in shucking aside the norms of social interaction, intelligent, flamboyant with language and creative with insults… And therefore, hot as hell. You pick up patterns of the type of people you're attracted to (well, if you're [...]
March 22, 2012
Aspects of England: Daffodils
One part of living in this country I really love? Seeing daffodils growing. It's one of the first flowers I noticed when I arrived in March 2009, when the sky was still gray but greenery was beginning to return and flowers were starting to bloom. Daffodils of course being bright yellow are relentlessly cheerful flowers, [...]
March 21, 2012
Wow, that was fast!
They tell you in the publishing world that when you send something off you really need to be prepared to wait. Like, really, really wait, months at a time. So imagine my shock when, the piece I submitted on Saturday, got accepted this morning! Like, that just doesn't happen, right? Well apparently it does. Am [...]
March 20, 2012
New Spanking Anthology! And other random updates
I've posted this on Facebook and on Twitter, but worth whacking up a blog post too. My First Spanking, edited by Cassandra Park, features my short story 'It's Gonna Hurt'. It's a sweet (but sharp ) tale of Kira who breathless tells Orlando what she really wants to do is spank him, and the outcome [...]
March 6, 2012
Eroticon 2012 – Part 2 – Identity, Anonymity, Sex, Writing
So I head up the stairs, into the reception. Gotta say, Armada House was a perfect location. Edwardian building but purposely designed as a conference venue, and it shows. Having done events back home and here where you have to adapt a venue to your needs, be it an anime festival, a speaker session with [...]
March 5, 2012
Eroticon 2012 – Part 1 – Bristol, Hotels, and Apprehension
I found out about Eroticon 2012 via twitter. Of course, really, where else does one get information from these days? Rudy Kiddell posted that she was going to run a sex bloggers and erotica writers conference in March 2012 in Bristol, and almost on a whim, I bought a ticket. Almost, because it was going [...]
January 26, 2012
Plotting thoughts
It's nice to be reassured that sometimes writing isn't just putting down the words. It's also the time taken to think and consider and wonder why the hell this story you're working on right now just lacks a certain something. Turns out the past few hours or so I've had shifting words about, being a more »
January 23, 2012
Water and Dust: Yes, yes, there are nine this time again…
Continued from here Marc started. The usual excuses came to his mind: it's late; we should sleep early; the lights and the radio are on. He didn't need to voice them, though, for in his mind he heard Brendan flick each one of them off with a solid, reasonable rejection. This land was theirs. They more »
