Why Do We Write Anyway?
Hi all,
Thanks for all the great comments I've been getting and for checking in, weighing in, and offering your thoughts. I thought I'd start writing a little more on this blog as I work through my Natalie's Edge Series and a few other projects.
The road has been rocky and not at all what I thought it would be when I decided to publish Natalie's Edge. I had been writing for Literotica for a while and thought, "This is crazy. I should try to make a little money off of my 'hobby'." I'm sure you've all felt that way. But what I'm learning is that writing cannot be a hobby if you actually want to make some kind of living out of it.
Writing is more like an obsession than a hobby for me and always has been. It won't just "go away." I have characters speaking to me constantly, ideas popping up at the absolute wrong times, and fantasies as well as realities dying to have their tales written. Sometimes, my characters write their stories, and I have no real control. I can go back and edit their stories, to 'appease' the people who might be offended, but then I lose the organic process that is writing for me. Of course I have an outline, a general sketch of where I think the story will go, the climax perhaps, but ultimately, once I get 'in the zone' and start to write, anything can happen, and I let it.
Maybe we all have darkness in us, deeply pushed down because of societal boundaries just dying to be expressed. Maybe it's pure fantasy when we write. Maybe it's the things we know we need to say but can't really say them in our normal crowds. Whatever it is, I can't stop writing my stories.
My tales will never be pure erotica. Never just smutty sex scenes full of ménage and unsafe sex and romps for titillation only. That's not my cup of tea and you won't find it from me. The mind. The psychological. That's what keeps my blood pumping.
So while my stories will never be sweet romances with perfect characters. They will always be romantic. Perhaps darkly so, but I can't help it. I'm a romantic at heart.
Where do you hope your characters will take you?
Thanks for all the great comments I've been getting and for checking in, weighing in, and offering your thoughts. I thought I'd start writing a little more on this blog as I work through my Natalie's Edge Series and a few other projects.
The road has been rocky and not at all what I thought it would be when I decided to publish Natalie's Edge. I had been writing for Literotica for a while and thought, "This is crazy. I should try to make a little money off of my 'hobby'." I'm sure you've all felt that way. But what I'm learning is that writing cannot be a hobby if you actually want to make some kind of living out of it.
Writing is more like an obsession than a hobby for me and always has been. It won't just "go away." I have characters speaking to me constantly, ideas popping up at the absolute wrong times, and fantasies as well as realities dying to have their tales written. Sometimes, my characters write their stories, and I have no real control. I can go back and edit their stories, to 'appease' the people who might be offended, but then I lose the organic process that is writing for me. Of course I have an outline, a general sketch of where I think the story will go, the climax perhaps, but ultimately, once I get 'in the zone' and start to write, anything can happen, and I let it.
Maybe we all have darkness in us, deeply pushed down because of societal boundaries just dying to be expressed. Maybe it's pure fantasy when we write. Maybe it's the things we know we need to say but can't really say them in our normal crowds. Whatever it is, I can't stop writing my stories.
My tales will never be pure erotica. Never just smutty sex scenes full of ménage and unsafe sex and romps for titillation only. That's not my cup of tea and you won't find it from me. The mind. The psychological. That's what keeps my blood pumping.
So while my stories will never be sweet romances with perfect characters. They will always be romantic. Perhaps darkly so, but I can't help it. I'm a romantic at heart.
Where do you hope your characters will take you?
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