Be proud that you write porn.

[shereads]

In the Sorry/Political/Asses thread, some posters were discussing books about Islam and I thought of this one. I know some of the authors here don't see much value in their work, and I won't pretend that everything posted at Lit is destined to become a classic like "Lolita;" but I thought of you when I was posting amazon's description of this book. Lit is important, and what you do is important, even if you only write "strokers" and don't aspire to more.

The book "Reading Lolita in Tehran," a just-published work of non-fiction by a former college professor in Iran, who held secret reading groups for female students in her home. This is the excerpt that I wanted to share with my favorite pornsters:

"There, in that living room, we rediscovered that we were also living, breathing human beings; and no matter how repressive the state became, no matter how intimidated and frightened we were, like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom."

Keep writing. I'll keep reading.

It's our duty.

 

[SlickTony]

That's a nice thing to say to us, Shereads. Thank you. We can all use encouragement.

 

[sweetnpetite]

I don't have anything to add- but it made me smile

 

[pop_54]

Inspires me to get on with a nice dirty story I've been sitting on for ages, and maybe a couple of strokers.

 

[shereads]

By all means, write the dirty stories and the strokers.

Since there's apparently a difference.



The more, the better.

 

[shereads]

Every time you post a dirty story, you're doing it for the oppressed women of Iran.

Or for me, and since I have this book about the oppressed women of Iran, it's almost the same, right?

 

[SlickTony]

Nice to know I'm contributing to a good cause; one, moreover, which does not cost me any money...

 

[Colleen Thomas]

When we write, we create. Whether it's art or not is debateable, but no one can argue that we are createing. Characters, places, events, all created by our minds & hands.

As T.R said:

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Our worthy cause, is to make readers feel good. Some to feel good via the simple mechanism of helping them get off, some by the mechanism of writing a story that for a few minutes at least takes their mind from the cares of the day and transports them to another place.

Will any of us know high achievement? Perhaps, perhaps not. Will any of us who have posted our work and faced the inevitable slings and arrows be counted among those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat? Assuredly not.

Be proud you write porn? Damned skippy , be proud. For at the very least, you have entered the arena.

-Colly

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I was discussing writing with my husband last night, a very left brained person, who couldn't understand how I could a few stories going at one time.
I told him, "Sometimes the characters pop into your head and you have to breathe life into them.

writing+sketching+painting+singing+dancing+sculpting=ART

~A~


There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973