Mary Shelleys' 'Frankenstein'.

[ShelbyDawn57]

Still waiting. *Twitch*

*Twitch*

*Twitch*

I have an idea formulating in the back of my head. A Dom erotica writer with a submissive OCD editor. She tortures him by inserting subtle errors in the stories she asks him to edit and then denies the changes, making him deal with them over and over again.

Would that go in fetish or erotic horror?

 

[THBGato]

The Secretary in reverse?

 

[StillStunned]

I have an idea formulating in the back of my head. A Dom erotica writer with a submissive OCD editor. She tortures him by inserting subtle errors in the stories she asks him to edit and then denies the changes, making him deal with them over and over again.

Would that go in fetish or erotic horror?

I love you, Shelby, but you know I'm married, right?

(But actually it's what I have to deal with on a daily basis, and I have for nearly 30 years.)

 

[UsuallyPresent]

I have an idea formulating in the back of my head. A Dom erotica writer with a submissive OCD editor. She tortures him by inserting subtle errors in the stories she asks him to edit and then denies the changes, making him deal with them over and over again.

Would that go in fetish or erotic horror?

"I before E except after C. WIEGH!"
*arglbargl* "No, WEIGH!"
"It's my book - WIEGH!"
"But, but, but it's wrong! See? The dictionary has it WEIGH!"
"Good heavens, how far has this heresy spread?"

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Rework the homicidal panda ("Eats, Shoots, and Leaves")

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Delve into the nightmare of when to hypenize anal-retentive

.... Sooooooo many options! *golf clap*

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I love you, Shelby, but you know I'm married, right?

(But actually it's what I have to deal with on a daily basis, and I have for nearly 30 years.)

I do, but a girl can have her fantasies, right?
And to be fair, my red hair lives on a wig form in the closet. Against a real redhead, I wouldn't have a chance.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I have an idea formulating in the back of my head. A Dom erotica writer with a submissive OCD editor. She tortures him by inserting subtle errors in the stories she asks him to edit and then denies the changes, making him deal with them over and over again.

Would that go in fetish or erotic horror?

My SO edits for me, and we have a bit of a Dom sub relationship.

Sometimes when he's coming back to edit at night, I'll slip on my slinkiest night gown, and go back through what he's about to edit, to add uppercase letters into the middle of sentences... If I'm feeling particularly bratty I'll pepper in a bunch of then and as as well.

 

[Statius]

There still remains the problem of "Shelly", though, right..?

I mean: if we're not going to show ourselves up as genuine morons...

Goddamn it. At least I never said genius

 

[Statius]

There still remains the problem of "Shelly", though, right..?

I mean: if we're not going to show ourselves up as genuine morons...

Goddamn it. At least I never said genius

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

My SO edits for me, and we have a bit of a Dom sub relationship.

Sometimes when he's coming back to edit at night, I'll slip on my slinkiest night gown, and go back through what he's about to edit, to add uppercase letters into the middle of sentences... If I'm feeling particularly bratty I'll pepper in a bunch of then and as as well.

All great fiction grows from the seed of truth.

 

[MelissaBaby]

There has to be a way to make an erotic horror version where someone wakes up in a body of sewn-together bits of other people’s bodies.

 

[StillStunned]

There has to be a way to make an erotic horror version where someone wakes up in a body of sewn-together bits of other people’s bodies.

I often feel like I'm stuck inside the sewn-together bits of other people's problems.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Goddamn it. At least I never said genius

And you could add:

‘Or The Modern Prometheus’

to be wholly accurate.

 

[StillStunned]

And you could add:

‘Or The Modern Prometheus’

to be wholly accurate.

Considering some of the perspectives that have been offered in this thread, perhaps it should be "The Post-Modern Prometheus".

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Put


The


Candle



BACK!

 

[Areala-chan]

Considering some of the perspectives that have been offered in this thread, perhaps it should be "The Post-Modern Prometheus".

The X-Files beat you to that one already. Sorry.

 

[Statius]

*sighs* I gotta give up on everything until I can focus.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

In modern terms, and from my personal opinion, Shelly could probably have used a better editor with a handy stock of red pens/ink. That story could have been told in a much, much more concise form. But - I don't know enough of 1800s literature to have an opinion on how it was received at that point - clearly it was more of a hit than many of its contemporary works.

Then again, we tend to have the attention span of gnats. One of the downsides of info overloads. 1800 had somewhere under a hundred novels published in the UK according to Goog, whereas 2020 had somewhere over 180,000. We could be said to be drowning in content.

Rumour has it that one reason she withdrew and spent the whole weekend locked in her room writing was to avoid the persistent advances of Lord Byron. So if he hadn't been such a lech, the book might have been a fair bit shorter.

(the same Byron who was told he wasn't allowed a pet dog at Cambridge, so acquired a bear instead, and who a few years earlier was described by his lover Caroline Lamb as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'. It's plausible that Frankenstein is based partly on him, hammering on the door while Shelley wrote.)

 

[onehitwanda]

"It puts the lotion on its skin."

 

[StillStunned]

"It puts the lotion on its skin."

From the bestselling "Self-Care for Drums".

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Rumour has it that one reason she withdrew and spent the whole weekend locked in her room writing was to avoid the persistent advances of Lord Byron. So if he hadn't been such a lech, the book might have been a fair bit shorter.

(the same Byron who was told he wasn't allowed a pet dog at Cambridge, so acquired a bear instead, and who a few years earlier was described by his lover Caroline Lamb as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'. It's plausible that Frankenstein is based partly on him, hammering on the door while Shelley wrote.)

No means no.

At least, before safewords and limits are agreed to and until either (any?) side backs out of that agreement

 

[UsuallyPresent]

From the bestselling "Self-Care for Drums".

To misquote Porgy, “Drummer time, and the lotion is sleeeeazy"

 

[alohadave]

In modern terms, and from my personal opinion, Shelly could probably have used a better editor with a handy stock of red pens/ink. That story could have been told in a much, much more concise form.

It's public domain, you could do that.

 

[Bamagan]

I have an idea formulating in the back of my head. A Dom erotica writer with a submissive OCD editor. She tortures him by inserting subtle errors in the stories she asks him to edit and then denies the changes, making him deal with them over and over again.

Would that go in fetish or erotic horror?

True crime

 

[UsuallyPresent]

It's public domain, you could do that.

Arrr, hoist on me own petard, I be! An excitin’ ‘splosive conclusion ta me literary career!

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

It's public domain, you could do that.

I have a reference to Gullivers Travels in a story I’m working on. I looked up its word count and got answers from 30K to 182K depending oh how abridged it was. Just for reference…