HOW TO MAKE A READ EROTIC?
NOW there’s an issue deserving of an author’s thoughts during these dull days between Christmas and the beginning of a new year. Is what makes a work erotic primarily in dialog or narration? The former? Both? Neither? Is it a scene, the actual words chosen, the implication…
I guess it depends on what the reader thinks is erotic, erotic meaning “relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement” according to a contemporary online dictionary. Unfortunately what should be a simple question is, at best, highly existential, given the incredible range of triggers that can arouse sexual desire or excitement. Okay, given that perplexity, once again, is what makes a work erotic a product of the narrator’s voice (the typical occult “storyteller”) or the protagonists and/or antagonists as well as the supporting person’s voices? I’m curious to hear what you, the reader think. Remember, the question’s ultimately not about what but how.
I played with this question throughout THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, beginning with a sensuous view of what it might be like while developing in the womb through birth, both from the narrator’s and the as yet unborn’s point of view, all the way through what — set in the future — two of the three protagonists’ “Sweet Sixteen Salsa Sexcapade,” a public bromantic act that was never actually consummated. Add a love triangle and an act of desperation over an unrequited love. But was it the dialog or the narrative that hopefully created a feeling of eroticism in the reader, if, indeed, it did at all? EDGE OF MADNESS readers unite and please comment on this post with your answer. I’m as Curious Yellow as an author can possibly be.
While waiting for feedback, I’m off to work on the sequel to the first book, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese, and the second book in my Prophesy series, THE EDGE OF MADNESS, which I’m tentatively calling “Shadow.” In it, everyone from THE EDGE OF MADNESS learns something important that “up’s the ante” over whether to stay and make the best of what they have (and they have A LOT when together), or to leave either together or separately to seek new fortunes. It’s not an easy choice, but it’s another classic one, not unlike whether to speak out, live or simply experience what’s happening all about into one’s definition and experience of eroticism.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
I guess it depends on what the reader thinks is erotic, erotic meaning “relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement” according to a contemporary online dictionary. Unfortunately what should be a simple question is, at best, highly existential, given the incredible range of triggers that can arouse sexual desire or excitement. Okay, given that perplexity, once again, is what makes a work erotic a product of the narrator’s voice (the typical occult “storyteller”) or the protagonists and/or antagonists as well as the supporting person’s voices? I’m curious to hear what you, the reader think. Remember, the question’s ultimately not about what but how.
I played with this question throughout THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, beginning with a sensuous view of what it might be like while developing in the womb through birth, both from the narrator’s and the as yet unborn’s point of view, all the way through what — set in the future — two of the three protagonists’ “Sweet Sixteen Salsa Sexcapade,” a public bromantic act that was never actually consummated. Add a love triangle and an act of desperation over an unrequited love. But was it the dialog or the narrative that hopefully created a feeling of eroticism in the reader, if, indeed, it did at all? EDGE OF MADNESS readers unite and please comment on this post with your answer. I’m as Curious Yellow as an author can possibly be.
While waiting for feedback, I’m off to work on the sequel to the first book, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese, and the second book in my Prophesy series, THE EDGE OF MADNESS, which I’m tentatively calling “Shadow.” In it, everyone from THE EDGE OF MADNESS learns something important that “up’s the ante” over whether to stay and make the best of what they have (and they have A LOT when together), or to leave either together or separately to seek new fortunes. It’s not an easy choice, but it’s another classic one, not unlike whether to speak out, live or simply experience what’s happening all about into one’s definition and experience of eroticism.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
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