#EroticMusings 2025.24.03 — Week 13 (August 24-30) Studio: How important is it that an audience experiences your work? How much interaction do you want?
Wow, tough question! How important? As a shy person, I write to freely communicate what is important to me—and the erotic is slice of life between work and adventures as far as I am concerned. Since my special scenes require a certain amount of innuendo and indirection in language, without the traditional explicit language, I hope they set the mood and fire the imagination, optionally firing other things. Having just written one such scene this morning, having earlier laid down plenty of tinder for one character with (for their culture innocuous) nickname of Hardboy Slim, and placed the firewood appropriately having the characters discuss his interesting major at university (which I'm leaving a mystery for you folk), the action ignited rather nicely with the tiniest of sparks.
Does what I work for others? I hope so. I want my stories read and enjoyed.
How much interaction do I want, though?
Well, I'd like to know if people like my style as well as my stories. Having written a fan fiction short story where two characters, who had long been friends with a definite chemistry (an antagonist and her former minion), finally hook up—with three spicy interludes demonstrating the style above interspersed with them talking out their issues and misunderstandings and gratitude for the other being there—I do have a track record of comments. One such I remember was purely trashy (the story wasn't, well, not trashy in the Danielle Steel sense). Another wanted to commission me to write an erotic short for free….
Both a bit overpowering for me. Because I write the stuff doesn't mean the author is comfortable talking to strangers in that voice!
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