Are you a real author? or are my panties more important?

[CharleyH]

So, now that I have used your language down .... I want to know what questions concern you as an author, either in your own writing or things that you have read?

 

[CharleyH]

So, now that I have used your language down .... I want to know what questions concern you as an author, either in your own writing or things that you have read?

Well, I see this is not the AH but the GBAH. Cool.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Charley...
Your panties are very important. They are the reason I write erotica.

okay, I got that said.
What concerns me in literature of any stripe, erotic or not, mine or William Burroughs' or Dorothy Sawyers' or Henry Feilding's - is that the work be cohesive within itself, that the characters remain true, that they grow at least a minim.
If the work is erotic, I want it to take a chance, I don't want to read pussyfooting wimpy language- Unless it's Anne Rice writing as A. Rampling, where it was funny. I want the action to be believable- in whatever way is consistent for those characters and that story- and I want mostly every one to be happy with themselves at the end, or to have learned something.
How's that for starters?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Well, I see this is not the AH but the GBAH. Cool.

patience, honey!

 

[lil_elvis]

6:30 eastern time is always bad for getting much at the AH.

How can I write a story about a squirrel and your panties while avoiding the beastiality taboo?

 

[Boota]

I'm a real author, but your panties are pretty important, too.

As far as my concerns about writing, I generally answer them for myself as the questions arise. It's not that I know everything, it's just that I know everything as I need it. LOL. The AH does it's best by me in that others raise questions that may not have occurred to me.

 

[Guest]

I'll vote for panties.

Especially if they're dripping.

 

[rgraham666]

Decisions, decisions.

Don't know if I'm a 'real' authour. I just want to entertain my readers.

And maybe impart important moral lessons as well.

Oh, and if my work makes then so horny they can't avoid playing with themselves, that's a definite plus.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

By the time we got through arguning over he definition of a real author, it would be well into longjohn season.

My concern wihin my works are authenticity of the details, plausibility of the plot and that it be something people will enjoy reading. I'm not overly pretentious, but I do like to use the right word at the right time, so I suppose I expect my readers to have a fairly decent vocabulary.

Hwen I am reading, my main concern is that the work is either informative or entertaining, depending upon what I amreading and why.

 

[chris 44]

Who am I to say what is a real author?

I'm 60 years old, been writing seriously for only five of those years and know I have so much still to learn.

I write a lot, there's so much to catch up on and so little time to do it in. I started out on a novel in 2000 and I'm still working on it. Only now I understand how little I knew about the craft back then, and how much I still have to learn. Now I've got another novel in mind for Na No, totally different from anything I've written before, about the growing threat of the sex trade in the UK.

Short stories have helped to fill the many gaps in my education, and I think writing GOOD erotica is a part of that education. There's a whole ocean of bad erotica out there, but a growing number of really good writers coming along. Writers I'd be only too happy to stand alongside. I have stories on ASSTR and one on Allme and now that I've lost my virgin tag, I reckon it's time I tried one here.

The main question that disturbs me is the rate at which the world is going downhill, and some of my stories reflect this. But I'll always try to tell a story rather than merely describe the fundamentals of the sex act. An act by the way that I believe to be a truly beautiful thing.

60 I may be, but I ain't dead yet. Sometimes I wish I'd started writing years ago, but I don't think that's how it was meant to be. I think for me it was always going to be the way it's working out right now.

Are your panties more important? That's relative, to me they're more important than the football results, but somwhere further down the scale when you start looking at Tsunamis and earthquakes. Lets put it this way though, a special woman will always turn my head, and there are guys I'd be proud to share a bottle with. Drinking that is.

I'm comfortable because at last I'm doing something I'm happy doing.

Hope that asks as many questions as it answers.

Chris

 

[CharleyH]

Charley...
Your panties are very important. They are the reason I write erotica.

okay, I got that said.
What concerns me in literature of any stripe, erotic or not, mine or William Burroughs' or Dorothy Sawyers' or Henry Feilding's - is that the work be cohesive within itself, that the characters remain true, that they grow at least a minim.
If the work is erotic, I want it to take a chance, I don't want to read pussyfooting wimpy language- Unless it's Anne Rice writing as A. Rampling, where it was funny. I want the action to be believable- in whatever way is consistent for those characters and that story- and I want mostly every one to be happy with themselves at the end, or to have learned something.
How's that for starters?

Ahhh Burroughs, a breath of heroine air. Not familiar with the others though. Enlighten me? Can you make the same assessment on your own writing? And what is pussy footing in language, exactly?

 

[LadyJeanne]

I'm an author. I write all the time. I've even been published in an award winning magazine, although that was a fluke. Mostly, I write for me and mine, and I'm fortunate that 'mine' love my travelogues and my attempts to brighten their days with silly poems, odes to their pets, and whatever else may pop into my head to write about.

The erotic stuff is saved for Lit, and those efforts seem to also be appreciated, for the most part. I have no particular desire to write for a living - it's just something I do because it is a part of who I am and always has been. Writing a piece that resonates in some way with a reader is my definition of success. I've found that my kinkier pieces tend to draw the most touching comments from readers who are grateful to find a story that speaks to their kinks.

What concerns me about my writing? That I get my point across, that I find the right words, that the reader feels like they were there even though they were not.

I don't care if there are authorly threads in the AH or not. This is a community of authors, and the support and encouragement I find here is worth far more than writing tips or character development. Sure, I learn stuff here all the time, but that's not at all why I come to the AH. I probably wouldn't come here, actually, if it were all about writing and less about what people have on their minds.

I don't care about your panties per se, but if you wanted to tell us about them (or the potential lack thereof ) in poetry or prose, I'd read.

 

[CharleyH]

I'm a real author, but your panties are pretty important, too.

As far as my concerns about writing, I generally answer them for myself as the questions arise. It's not that I know everything, it's just that I know everything as I need it. LOL. The AH does it's best by me in that others raise questions that may not have occurred to me.

I am a real author too, and your panties are much more important than mine! Just a topic to get on topic. What questions do people raise more often than you'd like, or perhaps less than you would??

 

[CharleyH]

By the time we got through arguning over he definition of a real author, it would be well into longjohn season.

My concern wihin my works are authenticity of the details, plausibility of the plot and that it be something people will enjoy reading. I'm not overly pretentious, but I do like to use the right word at the right time, so I suppose I expect my readers to have a fairly decent vocabulary.

Hwen I am reading, my main concern is that the work is either informative or entertaining, depending upon what I amreading and why.

Again. is this the Authors Hangout, or the GBAH? Do you find questions about writing more important than my panties? Or maybe I don't wear any and that is most important?

 

[CharleyH]

I will answer tommorow.

Edit to add: Thank you for your answers. (Wolf in sheeps clothing)

 

[Guest]

So, now that I have used your language down .... I want to know what questions concern you as an author, either in your own writing or things that you have read?

_______

I fret too much over whether or not when or not to use a comma.








(It often happens when I get distracted writing porn and thinking of bare pussy.)

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Again. is this the Authors Hangout, or the GBAH? Do you find questions about writing more important than my panties? Or maybe I don't wear any and that is most important?

This is the Author's hangout, not the story discussion circle. Like any other hangout I have ever been to that caters to a particular group, it's as much comiraderie as anything else. You can talk shop here. You can get insights into the craft from Authors you respect. You can also let your hair down, kick up your heels and have fun. You can discus things that relate to writing only tangentially, like politics, or current affiars. Or you can discuss what color panties the cute blonde in the corner has on, is she shaved or natural, a freak in bed or a prude?

You can watch people flirt, join in or ignore it as your mood suits.

In short, this isn't a place you come in a suit and tie to discuss writing to the exclusion of all else. It's a place I come to have fun, more often than not between bouts of writing. It's a hang out for those who write at lit.

If I can help someone with their work, I shall. If I need help with my own, I can find it. If i'm in a debateing mood, I can find that too. Or if I'm just tired and want a smile and to destressify, I can find that as well.

Your panties don't hold any particular interest for me tonight. Nor does discussing writing or politics. Nothing really does, I'm just in a contemplative mood. That isn't always the case, just the case for tonight. Tomorrow will, undoubtedly, be different. But I can still come here and have fun and relax.

Does that more fully answer your question?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Ahhh Burroughs, a breath of heroine air. Not familiar with the others though. Enlighten me? Can you make the same assessment on your own writing? And what is pussy footing in language, exactly?

heh, Burroughs, old Uncle Bill... Kept me sane through my teens, he did, shooting smack so I didn't have to.
Dorothy Sayers (sorry about the erroneous "w" was an English writer of detective fiction- and, also, a don at Oxford, holding a chair in Divinities. Her detective Lord Peter Whimsey, was the son of a duke, and started out silly- but became a very serious, wonderful, rounded person. Dorothy gave him a love interest that refused to marry him for seven real years. Then in three novels, the lady made peace with her suitor, said yes, and married him. These three books are pretty unusual for their time, being more like a love story interrupted by a mystery.

Henry Fielding wrote some of the first modern novels concerned with the psychological makeup of the characters, instead of using each one as a walking allegory (oh, god, and Horsey is looking over my shoulder if I get this wrong!)
One of them is "Tom Jones", and it's a humdinger- sexy little movie, too.


Pussyfooting?
um...
"reverently he lifted her flowered maidenly skirt and looked with awe delight upon her glorious womanhood. So sweetly she breathed her zephyr breezes his way..."
I think she farted? ahem. Of course sometimes it works... Like maybe if Littleredjammies is writing it.. but it's not going to drench my panties (which are serviceable sports grey, if anyone cares)

 

[Guest]

 

[dr_mabeuse]

So, now that I have used your language down .... I want to know what questions concern you as an author, either in your own writing or things that you have read?

Are you talking questions of craft or questions of theme and content?

In other words, do you mean questions like, "do I use a comma or a semicolon here?" or "How do I make my characters more real?" Or do you want to know what kinds of questions we're trying to explore in our writing?

 

[cantdog]

Are you intensely bored with us lately? Because it hasn't been marvelous; I know that.

Panties, shmanties-- what's the difference? There's a lot more to Magyar women than their clothing.

But I'm not a 'real' author, either. Not a poseur, exactly, but as it were a dabbler, a hobbyist. I have written for money, seven times, now; each time to order. That is, they asked me to do under six hundred words reviewing X book, or whatever it was. I have yet to publish anything I wrote spontaneously.

Except the driving article. Shit. I forgot about that. Okay, so I might be real after all.

What was the question?

I want to know what questions concern you as an author, either in your own writing or things that you have read?

Right. I have several very concrete goals, which are almost all philosophical. I am deeply interested in spritual growth and the structure of human consciousness. That's when I write and when I read others.

However, when I read others, I want to be hit with something new to me. I want the different perspective the other author has to betray itself, showing me a new facet of existence. Any kind of new facet, with only a few exceptions.

 

[yui]

So, now that I have used your language down .... I want to know what questions concern you as an author, either in your own writing or things that you have read?

Actually, I don't think you even speak my language.

About your question, do you want questions for answers? Is this some sort of Socratic attempt? Are you going to enlighten the plebeian masses? We're as bright as you are, Charley, but as Colly said, we all drift through the AH for our different reasons.

My answer, or, an attempt at what I think you are asking: In my own writing, I am concerned with plot, with the actually storytelling. I can set the stage, and I have ideas, story arcs, but my execution falls short. Am I a real author? Dunno. I really write, so I suppose that depends on your arbitrary definition of "real author."

Luck,

Yui

 

[elsol]

*burp*

From a reader --

>Thank you for making me realize my
> problems are small in comparison to the pain of
> this man.

If you consider everything that had to happen for someone to write that, you'll understand what is important to me as a writer.

And I'm not a real author, I haven't been published yet.

As to your panties... well, I have my dreams.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[neonlyte]

Are you a real author? or are my panties more important? So, now that I have used your language down .... I want to know what questions concern you as an author, either in your own writing or things that you have read?

Wow questions... questions...

Yes I'm a real author. I write things down, if I didn't believe that, there would be little point in writing them down. I've been published, if that is a qualification, more times than I care to remember, not the work I want to be published but travelogues, brochures, pamphlets and catalogues. My next date with publishing infamy is three weeks away, a presentation at a conference in Norway on Sensuous Knowledge, it’s not sex but art, and I don’t mean porn versus erotica. Of course I won’t be delivering the speech, not sure I’ll even be there except in the metaphysical sense.

Your panties? Intrigued enough to consider them, wise enough to know my limitations.

Now the meat. Last four reads: Philip Roth – The Plot Against America, Zadie Smith – Autograph Man, Whats-is-Name – Da Vinci Code, and for a fifth attempt, Donna Tartt – The Little Friend.

This book of Roth’s is the first of his I couldn’t put down, I’ll go back to some of his others with renewed perspective. Zadie Smith, the Queen of young UK fiction, what the fuck is she about? Ok she’s writing for a contemporary audience, in the language and style, and I get it, I truly get it, but what’s with all the hieroglyphs, is she so uncertain in her written word that she feels a need to add mystic symbols to spice up the text?

Da Vinci Code – well, you’ve got to read it. Someone bought it for me as a gift, together with the one that came before or after about the “Illuminati” (?) I read them both over a period of three days whilst trying to come to terms with some depressing news. Impression? Well fuck me writing is a piece of piss once you get the first published, stick with the same plot, change everyone except the main character and don’t carry anything forward about the life changing events to the main characters life in the previous book because frankly my readership is so fucking dumb they won’t make the connection.
Which brings me to Donna Tartt, obsessive with the concept of writing almost to the point of being unintelligible, not the written word, the means of conveyance is unparalleled, it’s the journey I struggle with. All that effort for a story going nowhere… for me, because I stick at the halfway point unable to extricate myself from the treacle of words, and the words become more than the story until I’ve literally ‘lost the plot’ and set it aside not having the energy to start over.

What concerns me is an author? Little, I’ll plow my course and see where it takes me, my journey, for the moment, is more important than my arrival, that will change, but not until I’m ready.

 

[Carl East]

I've said this before and I'll say it again, I don't consider myself an author and never will until I have something in either paperback or hardback. I see myself as an amateur writer at best, and a mediocre one at worst. Hi CharleyH how's things?

Carl