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The Bi-Weekly E-Letter Volume IV, Issue 9 May 10, 2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This issue may be distributed to friends, discussion lists and writing groups as long as the entire issue is included. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Subscribe - Send any email to KatyTerrega-subscribe@yahoogroups.com To Unsubscribe - Send any email to KatyTerrega-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************ Resources Page http://www.KatyTerrega.com/resources.html ************************************ Email me at Katy@KatyTerrega.com! ************************************ Order Page http://www.KatyTerrega.com/writersorderform.html ************************************ --------------------------------------- In This Issue: --------------------------------------- From the Editor Sex-Writer.com Update Article: The Finest Arts: Sex and Writing By LuAnn Howe Market News Market Listings Column: What I Didn't Know by C.B. Potts Performance Anxiety Reader Response: Survey on Flashing Goings On Q & A Looking for Writers IT'S A DIRTY JOB...WRITING PORN FOR FUN AND PROFIT! By Katy Terrega - Includes Paying Markets! This e-book has EVERYTHING the aspiring porn writer needs to know! Click on http://www.katyterrega.com/dirtyjob.html for chapter headings and excerpts. Or order here - http://www.KatyTerrega.com/writersorderform.html ---------------------------------------
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http://www.PIE-Percept.com FREE Downloadable/Printable Adult Fiction Ebook "Steve's Monkey's Paw" & MORE -- erotic short stories and novel excerpts -- by Neale Sourna in various formats http://www.Neale-Sourna.com ------------------------------------------------------- --- The Finest Arts: Sex and Writing --- --- By LuAnn Howe --- ------------------------------------------------------- I've often heard it said that we should write what we know. I'm a woman, a daughter, a musician, a composer, a writer, and as such, I do know these things well. Yet I am also a human being, and in me burns a great desire that is as old as time: the desire to have sex. I know this just as well, if not better. However, there is a huge difference between writing about the knowledge stemming from a profession and that of craving sex. Namely, the latter is controversial, especially within my own family. Nonetheless, I find absolutely nothing wrong with writing such things, as long as they are treated with the respect they deserve. Naturally, my position is not an easy one to maintain. Unfortunately, my family takes the stance of many other American families: sex is unmentionable. According to them we shouldn't talk, read or write about it; in short, we should suppress and be ashamed of the need for its intimacy. The objections raised by my relatives are many, and, although they've never been spoken, I feel them lurking in the shadows. One is the belief that because I was raised as a Christian, I shouldn't be like "the rest of the world" and take pleasure in, not necessarily having, but simply writing in regard to sex. I'm single, they say, and, therefore, shouldn't profess to know about something I haven't experienced. Also, the Bible says sex is pure, and such intimacy can only be achieved in holy matrimony. Again, am I married? No. Thus, my family rests its case, refusing to consider it further. Now, there is much truth in this remonstration. Specifically, it's not always possible to accurately report on anything, unless one has experienced it. Furthermore, my singlehood cannot be denied. Thirdly, married couples do know more about sex than I do. Thank goodness! And finally, I do believe that sex is sacred. However, I beg to differ in reference to a few points. Though I am indeed single as stated previously, I don't understand the problem here. After all, I am neither going against my up-bringing nor pretending to be a sex expert. I'm not exploiting sex or married people. All I wish to do is try to express my hopes, dreams, and fantasies on paper. In addition, writing is not a sin. Committing adultery or having sex out of wedlock or bigamy may be sins in the United States, but writing? It's not on the list! With that I refute this protest. Along the same line, many people think less of writing of a sexual nature. They believe it is dirty and should be banned from the public's reach. Additionally, my family is a wonderful example of this phenomenon. You see, I am a poet and have recently published my first book. Its contents covers many diverse topics from friendship to humor to love to life to nature. Naturally, a few of my romantic poems allude to sex, either subtly or bluntly, but always respectfully. But do I dare publish those? No way! Not a chance! And why not? Is it because I'm worried about what the public will think of me? No, that's not it at all. I will not include these poems, because I know my family would not approve of them. Once again, there are valid reasons for this disapproval. With pornography and other similar writing in bookstores, libraries, on the streets, and on the Internet, there is certainly cause for alarm. I know I wouldn't want my young children or teenagers coming across these publications. Thus, in that respect, I agree with my family. Yet my poems are a far cry from pornography. As I stated previously, they are just my thoughts. Nowhere do I say, "This is how sex is." Simply writing words on a page for "cheap thrills" is also not my way. My writing is respectable, well thought-out, and, though some of it is definitely not meant for children, perfectly acceptable in the mature, God-fearing, adult world. Another objection my family often puts forth is my age. I am 19, which they consider outrageously young in regard to intellectual maturity in sexual matters. It's all about hormones, they claim. There's no point in even attempting to make a "teenager" think objectively about sex. Period. Unfortunately, this is frequently true. Numerous young people don't think constructively about physical intimacy, not to mention sexual intercourse. This is because hormones are often the governing factor in their bodies. Yet this is generally biological and is not easily overcome. Sometimes, though, there is an exception. Without mincing words I'll tell you I'm it. I am not only 19 years old, but also quite mature for my age. I know sex is not a game. It must never be considered an experiment, and one must be candid and intellectual when contemplating having sex. I have hormones, too, but neither have nor will ever let them think for me. My brain does the thinking around here. This amazing organ is in my head, and my head is securely on my shoulders as much as that of any other adult. As if my own experience and emotional state were not enough, I could give various other examples to support my position. Jane Eyre, the main character in Charlotte Bronté's novel of the same name, is one of them. At a young age she falls in love with a much older man. However, Jane objectively analyzes her feelings, and her intelligence repeatedly second-guesses her emotions. As Jane's sentiments grow and she becomes increasingly more attracted to the man, she continues to mistrust their relationship. In short, Jane Eyre uses her head rather than the hormones and desires associated with her age, to evaluate her situation. Therefore, it can be done; it is possible to love and to write about romance and sex without being vulgar and hasty. Writing is an art. Sex is sacred. When properly combined, they complement each other beautifully. All I want is the freedom to write what I feel and what I crave, to give writing and sex the respect, validation, and passion they undoubtedly deserve. Most importantly, I wish my family would agree and, even if they don't understand my reasoning, at least accept my decision to write about sex. My family and my writing are both extremely important to me, and I would like to be able to share my writing with my relatives without fear of their rejection. --- LuAnn Howe is a poet, musician, composer, and all-around creator of ebooks, articles, poems, essays, and much more. She has also written under the pen name Savanah Marie Jones. Visit her websites at: http://www.cluannhowe.net/writing.html http://www.cluannhowe.net/PleasedWoman.html Email LuAnn at: cluannhowe@excite.com
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Potts --- --- Performance Anxiety --- ----------------------------------------------------------------- You’ve sent all the right signals; the flirtatious glance across a crowded room, the subtle body language to indicate that you’re available, the quick assent to a proffered drink. A little small talk over dinner, two laps around the dance floor. Now you’re in bed together. If you’re looking for a one-night stand, a fling without meaning, lust without commitment, then you’re golden. Let your hair hang down, scream your lungs out, confess your overwhelming need to have your toes sucked, to strap your partner down and screw them silly, to frolic in a bed of chocolate pudding. It doesn’t matter. You’re never going to see this person again. But what if you want more than an evening? What if you’re really, really into this person? You’ve studied them, you’re impressed by them, you want to spend a good portion of your life associating with them. You go a little more slowly then. It’s human nature to grow more cautious, to risk less when we want more. You don’t want to scare off your true love with the magnitude of your strangeness. Common sense, coupled with our fear of rejection, leads us to wait until the apple of our eye is so completely smitten that they’d sooner amputate a limb than leave us before we take the pudding out of the kitchen cupboard. This approach may work for relationships. I don’t know – everyone I date turns out to be so strange that any little smidgen of weirdness that I introduce is accepted without a blink. What I do know is that it doesn’t work for writing. For example, look back into the hazy, misty past, back to the days before I was a professional smut-mongerer. I wanted to write for Alyson Publications, not only because they were responsible for the first porn I ever bought for myself but because they publish Pat Califia. (Long-time readers will note that Pat Califia is at the center of my Pantheon of Porn Idols) So I wrote and wrote and wrote. Countless stories, all designed for Alyson. Single-handedly produced enough bad lesbian s & m to wallpaper a hunting camp - won’t next year’s lessee be surprised? - and a few fair-to-middling gay male stories. Didn’t send in a one. Why? I was rabidly sending stories to every other market I could find. It didn’t matter if I’d never heard of them. If my material fit their needs, a manila envelope was on its way out the door. But nothing I wrote was good enough for Alyson. "Why does it matter if they reject you?" my partner asked. "After all, lots of other people tell you no all the time." After we finished the multi-part lecture on sensitivity, enthusiasm, and support, and his wounds healed, I explained to my partner how I couldn’t bear rejection when it mattered so much. I was so cowed by the reputation of the press that I couldn’t send anything. Then came the call for the Just the Sex anthology. I wish I’d kept that call - it was the most freeing document I’d ever read. (Puts the Emancipation Declaration right to shame, let me tell you!) Basically, it said, we don’t want plot. We don’t care about characterization. We don’t want to know that the couple falls madly in love and buys a split-level ranch in the burbs and redo the kitchen. We just want the good stuff - hence the title. Buoyed by this, I sat down and belted out Suckmania. I won’t give you a blow-by-blow description of the story, largely because blow-by-blow says it all. It was all "good parts" and I popped it into the mail before I could think about it. Besides, I told myself, I’d just written a whole column on rejection. Better practice what I preach, and prepare myself to react to the inevitable with grace. Great plan. I even had a place of honor reserved in my rejection folder - when I wallpaper my study with them, Alyson’s Thanks, but no Thanks, would have prominent billing. Except it didn’t get rejected. They accepted it, matter-of-factly, without any exceptional fanfare. I knew it was the achievement of a lifelong goal - they just saw a story that met their needs. The heavens didn’t open, cars continued to cut me off on the street, and I didn't get any taller. What I did get was a reality check. Just as all people are looking for the same basic qualities in a partner (love, companionship, great sex, and an uncanny resemblance to Rowan Atkinson - oh, wait, that last one is just me!) all publishers are looking for the same thing: Good stories that fit word count and need minimal editing. Anything else is the sort of head-trippy stuff that keeps stories in our desk drawers and out of print. --- C.B. Potts is working on finishing not only this story, but a handful of new work for virgin markets - “Where none of my work has gone before”. Published stories are floating around all over the place, with the latest “Where the Buffalo Roam” appearing in the Alyson anthology, Friction Seven. WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW! The Collected Columns By C.B. Potts 12 Essays (Including 3 Brand New Ones) PLUS Commentary! Click on http://www.katyterrega.com/what.html for chapter headings and excerpts or order here! WEBMASTERS: MAKE MONEY! Become A Sex-Writer.com Affiliate And Earn Money From Each Sale! It's Easy (And Free!) To Sign Up And You Can Start Making Money Right Away! Find Out More Here: http://www.sex-writer.com/affiliate-sw.html --------------------------------------- --- Readers' Response --- --------------------------------------- Valerie Crystal writes.... I am working on a non-fiction book about flashing. We are doing a questionairre as part of our research, collecting information from a wide variety of women who have been flashed (and quite a few that haven't.) I am running out of personal contacts to share the survey with, and I was wondering if any of you would be interested? It's a short survey, probably wouldn't take more than five or ten minutes, and I would really appreciate it if you not only filled it out, but passed it on to those on your contact lists. If you could drop me an e-mail at valerie_crystal@yahoo.com I will forward you a copy of the survey. Thanks so much in advance, and anyone who would like more information on the project once it is finished, feel free to let me know as well! Have a great day, and happy writing! ---
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