seeking editor/reader for 11,00 words

David46893

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I’m looking for someone to read and edit 11,000 words of

Male-female: themes - voyeurism, blackmail and consensual sex

Read: because I’ve no idea if what I’ve written is any good (this is my first attempt at writing erotica (a fact that I’m sure will become clear to whoever reads it!) and the only person that has read it is me

Edit: because even though I’ve read and re-read it many time, and run ‘white smoke’ over it (my weapon of choice for writing). None of this will tell me if I’ve written
“He put one hand on her lobes, the other on her wasso and the other on her darcy”

(Although I’ve checked as far as I can, that my character does not develop three hands that are all double joined)

Also I’m sure that there are great and manifold crimes against grammar concealed here!

The work is first person, so someone will have to deal with sparkling prose like this

I watched the two women face off in our kitchen, the slim beautiful bitch goddess Mrs. King
vs. my wife, slightly shorter, just as slim, but so much more sociable

Just for a second I tried to imagine the three of us naked in bed together, all moving,
writhing, touching, licking and caressing. But I put that image away from me. Something
like that would take a miracle, but I’d forgotten that today miracles are commonplace.

I’ve tried to avoid the ‘medical’ terms (P in V) but also avoid the over the top phrases

“The bursting piston of his love pulsed into the flowerpot of her desire”

but perhaps my idea of 'vanila' is not the same as everyone else's

Thank you for reading this!
 
Since I wrote the above request I’ve started having second thoughts about what I’ve written.

I think I may have created ‘porn’ and not ‘erotica’!. Even though I’m not sure of the exact dividing line (but I did read somewhere that ‘porn’ is mainly visual?)

Looking at my 11,00 words I’ve got a plot, a structure (beginning middle and end) , some reasonably well defined characters that the reader may identity with and even a good reason why they suddenly get naked and ‘do’ it

But I’ve also got some very graphic sex, complete with full details about what is going on

confused
 
Graphic descriptions of sex, don't make it porn. It sounds like you've done just fine. Don't get hung up on that "Line" between porn and erotica, because it doesn't even have a real definition.
 
It's just me, but porn vs. erotica is similar to comparing stripper vs. exotic dancer. It's all in the scemantics. Some women feel less sleazy by referring to themselves as an exotic dancer as opposed to s stripper, but they both do the same thing.

Same way with writers. They might be uncomfortable with the "porn" label and so they prefer to be referred to as erotic writers. But at the end of the story it's the same damn thing. As for me I don't really care what I'm called... except late to dinner.

As for the request for assistance, if you're still looking, I might be able to help. PM me your email address and in return I'll send mine.
 
I just write what I want to write--and let the readers determine which side it falls on.
 
I just write what I want to write--and let the readers determine which side it falls on.

I agree. The "labels" per se are determined by the reader.

Call my stories "porn", or "erotica'", makes no diff to me.
 
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