madelinemasoch
Masoch's 2nd Cumming
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I am going into 2024 with a new array of ideas and a new palette of stylistic devices. I have a literary goal to make things more gritty, dark, realistic, serious, and emotional.
In 2023, I was far more prolific than in 2022 when I started. Forgive me for getting older slower than our fellow forum members, but one year feels like it made a big difference in my life. In the coming months, all of my readers will see a new side of me. The gist of it is that I'm trying to write better stories... provided I can keep my head together without blowing it off in the new year. These new and better stories will read more as literature than as porno scripts.
I have decided that my scope had previously been too narrow last year. I would like to branch off into other topics, stylistic choices, content choices, and plotlines. I am going to give Eleanor new roles/personas/images/masks to wear/glittering appearances. I am going to do all of this in my own way, free of restriction from outside the site or within. There will be a new MadelineMasoch this year. It will essentially be like you can separate pre-2024 work from post-2024 work, as two different versions of the same author. It's like a band having a new album cycle. Or probably more like a lineup change, to be honest.
Now, I was previously told in a rejection slip on the site for the original version of Dark Love that the site promotes "healthy fantasy exploration." Thinking back on this now, I'm wondering, what if that's not the reason why I'm writing a particular story? Not everything I write is a fantasy I had personally. Not even every idea I visualize is a sexual fantasy that I, personally "get off" to, even if that idea is in its nature sexual.
Now, before you begin, the issue with that story was the scene where Thomas Sweetworth holds a gun to his chin while Mary (his wife) is cheating on him with Landon (Sabrina, the FMC's, husband). He doesn't shoot himself, because Landon smacks it to the floor before he can. However, this was still deemed too violent/extreme/dark for the site. That's the only piece of content I had to change for them to accept it. I didn't write that scene because it was a sexual fantasy I wanted to explore; I wrote the scene because that's what the character would do, and I found the image not arousing, but interesting; Wife's lover saves husband from killing himself in the midst of the act. Very thick action. I didn't even eroticize the failed suicide "attempt", it just happened on the page, and that was still too far for the site to accept.
The point is, I'm pursuing ideas more in the direction of Dark Love and Eleanor Winter, more for the literary aspects. Simultaneously I have noticed that other authors on the site do not approach their writing in the same way, particularly in terms of tone, thematics, and sentence structure, but more relevantly in terms of the sex. A lot of authors are innocently typing out and publishing their sexual fantasies and wish-fulfillment of their dreams. I am not doing that when I sit down to write, because even in my wish-fulfillment fantasy, problems arise for the characters and I'm putting them through trouble. Let me restate that I am striving for more literature than porn. Perhaps a better way of putting this would actually be more eroticism than pornography is what I'm going for. Characters have to have an arc of development and go through problems/impediments to their desires and even in my case to their happiness, or else it's just not interesting.
My point is, when my motivations for publishing at all are so variably different from simply "exploring sexual fantasies healthily", and are never ever limited to that, am I going to run into problems? This isn't because of category because it doesn't depend on category, it's the site in general with its content guidelines. How do I get away with certain depictions? Time will tell, but I know I can count on certain people's advice and help on here, regardless of how belligerent I may sometimes appear.
In 2023, I was far more prolific than in 2022 when I started. Forgive me for getting older slower than our fellow forum members, but one year feels like it made a big difference in my life. In the coming months, all of my readers will see a new side of me. The gist of it is that I'm trying to write better stories... provided I can keep my head together without blowing it off in the new year. These new and better stories will read more as literature than as porno scripts.
I have decided that my scope had previously been too narrow last year. I would like to branch off into other topics, stylistic choices, content choices, and plotlines. I am going to give Eleanor new roles/personas/images/masks to wear/glittering appearances. I am going to do all of this in my own way, free of restriction from outside the site or within. There will be a new MadelineMasoch this year. It will essentially be like you can separate pre-2024 work from post-2024 work, as two different versions of the same author. It's like a band having a new album cycle. Or probably more like a lineup change, to be honest.
Now, I was previously told in a rejection slip on the site for the original version of Dark Love that the site promotes "healthy fantasy exploration." Thinking back on this now, I'm wondering, what if that's not the reason why I'm writing a particular story? Not everything I write is a fantasy I had personally. Not even every idea I visualize is a sexual fantasy that I, personally "get off" to, even if that idea is in its nature sexual.
Now, before you begin, the issue with that story was the scene where Thomas Sweetworth holds a gun to his chin while Mary (his wife) is cheating on him with Landon (Sabrina, the FMC's, husband). He doesn't shoot himself, because Landon smacks it to the floor before he can. However, this was still deemed too violent/extreme/dark for the site. That's the only piece of content I had to change for them to accept it. I didn't write that scene because it was a sexual fantasy I wanted to explore; I wrote the scene because that's what the character would do, and I found the image not arousing, but interesting; Wife's lover saves husband from killing himself in the midst of the act. Very thick action. I didn't even eroticize the failed suicide "attempt", it just happened on the page, and that was still too far for the site to accept.
The point is, I'm pursuing ideas more in the direction of Dark Love and Eleanor Winter, more for the literary aspects. Simultaneously I have noticed that other authors on the site do not approach their writing in the same way, particularly in terms of tone, thematics, and sentence structure, but more relevantly in terms of the sex. A lot of authors are innocently typing out and publishing their sexual fantasies and wish-fulfillment of their dreams. I am not doing that when I sit down to write, because even in my wish-fulfillment fantasy, problems arise for the characters and I'm putting them through trouble. Let me restate that I am striving for more literature than porn. Perhaps a better way of putting this would actually be more eroticism than pornography is what I'm going for. Characters have to have an arc of development and go through problems/impediments to their desires and even in my case to their happiness, or else it's just not interesting.
My point is, when my motivations for publishing at all are so variably different from simply "exploring sexual fantasies healthily", and are never ever limited to that, am I going to run into problems? This isn't because of category because it doesn't depend on category, it's the site in general with its content guidelines. How do I get away with certain depictions? Time will tell, but I know I can count on certain people's advice and help on here, regardless of how belligerent I may sometimes appear.
