A Writer's True Goal-Advice From Yours Truly, Ramona Thompson

[Boxlicker101]

You wouldnt have gone far in the Marines.

I dont think anyone should be allowed to write so much as their name until theyve been thru a 60s era bootcamp or cadet hazing.

Well then, I would probably qualify, because I did go through Air Force Basic Training in 1957. I didn't like it much.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Nin is an erotic writer and I know that you define yourself as a porn writer, Box, but I'm not sure that even (or especially) as a self-defined porn writer you could disagree with...
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The role of a writer is not to say what one can say, but what we are unable to say.


Porn, especially, speaks to those untold, dirty secrets. It's all well and dandy to write porn or erotica to get people off, but if the writer only said what could be said about sex, I doubt it would be a turn on.

The role of the writer (any genre, as I understand Nin) is to press at the boundaries and pressure the taboos until they are busting at the freaking seams (anew).

I disagreed because it didn't say enough. It is correct, as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough.

I write some pretty tame stuff, and some that is grossly raunchy. I have one story about a young couple, both virgins, on their wedding night, and one about a man eating a pussy while the woman is in the heaviest day of her menses. He started by licking off her Kotex. I have two stories about a woman fucking her father in the ass with a strapon, and the second one has two of her friends watching.

I have stories about women who are enslaved and whipped and sexually abused and others about men and women who enjoy being spanked or whipped. I do have limits, besides the things that are proscribed by Lit., but not many.

 

[CharleyH]

I disagreed because it didn't say enough. It is correct, as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough.

I, for one, would like your opinion on why Nin's statement does not go far enough, for you?

 

[CharleyH]

I gotta say this is all making me feel much braver about the story I'm writing, which has taken me into some deeper waters than I expected it to.

Cudos - write and share, babe.