To "Coming Together Vol 2" Authors

[dr_mabeuse]

Impressive has asked me if I'd like to write the Introduction to Volume 2 of Coming Together, an honor I'm very flattered to accept. I'd like this intro to be more traditional in that it treats the writers and their stories, giving a brief thumbnail of each. I can do descriptions of the stories, but I need a breif bio from each author who's going to be in Volume 2.

I don’t need all the details of your long and illustrious career, just a few facts that you'd like to present to the world to say something about who you are and how you'd like to be known: a mud-wrestling mother of four from Biloxi; a retired paratrooper who raises orchids in Eugene, Oregon; an unmarried software engineer and pervert wandering around the Sonorran desert, things like that. I'm thinking of including a URL for your Literotica memberpage as well, depending on how clumsy that is.

So if you could PM me (or post here if your prefer. That might be fun.) a brief bio, something suitable for inclusion in the intro, I'd appreciate it.

You also might like to say something about your story: how you came to write it, what you were trying to do, what you think about it.

I picture the entires as being something like this:

Joe Blow is an unemployed steel worker from East Dubuque who enjoys NASCAR racing in his considerable spare time. His story "Cum Monster", a farce abnout interplanetary sex, was inspired by a dream he had after seeing the latests Star Wars movie. He describes it as his kinky take on the venerable space opera.

From Bash-On-Trent, UK, Hot_Arse_Lover gives us a story about latex-loving grannies in her "Stretchy Mildred", a story she describes as having come to her after looking through the latest WestWorld catalog. Hot_Arse_Lover is a stay-at-home mother of three who enjoys gardening and pinball when she's not writing, and describes this piece as the "strangest thing I've ever written."

&c. &c.

Thanks,

---dr.M.

 

[Guest]

Dranoel is a middle aged average Joe kind of guy from the mid-west who enjoys writing characters. Sometimes they have sex, but it's all just part of the story. Once described as "Demented in a sophisticated sort of way", his warped sense of humor often manifests in his stories as unexpected twists.

"Do You Still Love Me" was based on real life events and as such was not an easy story to write. Once started, however, there was no turning back. Nominated for an Annual Award in the Most Original Sex Scene catagory, Dranoel considers it his finest work to date.

 

[TheEarl]

Dr_M: Are you sure you're doing the right bit? I thought you were doing the bit that Gwen Masters did for Vol 1 and I was doing the bit talking about all the authors and stories.

I'll happily swap if you want, but I get confused so very easily that I need to know what I'm doing before I start.

Plus you don't want to say too much aboutthe authors because they'll all have their 60 word bios like there was in Volume 1.

The Earl

 

[impressive]

Doc, this is what folks have provided (thus far) for the Biography section at the back of each volume:

4degrees is an 18-year-old oversexed gay boy trapped in the body of a 35-year-old female. Don't believe anything he says. He's also a pathological liar and cyber-slut extraordinaire. He is currently typing absurdities at his computer. His influences include Carlton Mellick III and neonurotic.

ABSTRUSE is a fledgling writer of fiction and a lover of words. She can admit that without being facetious. Anyone who reads or writes may feel the same way because they too share that love of literature and the wonderment of a human mind that can interweave thoughts and dreams into new worlds that welcome us with open arms.

Alex De Kok is an incurable romantic who writes erotica for fun. He started writing erotic fiction because he enjoys reading it and hadn't found much that was good. Whether his is any better is for the readers to say, but he's encouraged by the feedback he's received so far.

Awful Arthur is a businessman heavily involved in community activities who began writing erotica as a hobby in 2003. He has been a layman high school baseball and basketball coach, helped found several youth sports organizations and received international recognition for his service to youth.

Belegon is a poet and author from California who has come to believe that there is no better teacher than experience, that just because it hurts does not mean it is bad, and that nothing is more important than those we love. He intends to never guard his heart.

Boxlicker101 is a prolific writer of jokes told in rhyme and meter and of smutty stories that are utterly lacking in social value. He lives in California and, although a happily married grandfather who loves his wife, is envious of those who cavort and carouse in his literary efforts.

cloudy

Dar~ writes stories that get the juices flowing. Her works are described as "grounded, hard-driving, no-nonsense sex.”. She aspires to a wide array of literary accomplishments such as: becoming published (check) and becoming a better writer. She enjoys hearing her readers reactions and invites you to contact her at dndjsp@yahoo.com

Dranoel is a middle-aged man from the mid-west who enjoys writing characters. Sometimes they have sex, but it's all just part of the story. Once described as "Demented in a sophisticated sort of way," his twisted humor often manifests in his stories as unexpected twists.

LadyJeanne is a management consulting executive who enjoys writing short stories and poetry in her spare time. She began writing erotica a year ago as a lark and hasn't stopped since. She lives on the West Coast with the best kitty in the whole world, and dreams of becoming a travel writer with a house on a hill with a view.

Liar is an almost-30 viking rooted at the shore of the Baltic Sea. A fetish with the English language’s musicality turned him to writing, and plain randiness turned him to writing erotica. Militant pacifist, freeloading poet, and cat person.

impressive selected her nom de plume by its definition: adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience. Both her poetry and her prose are a reflection of that desire. You can find more of impressive’s work at Literotica.com

matriarch is a delightfully wicked “old” woman with a knack for the vivid expression of loving passion and intense longing in every word she writes. She resides in England, but her heart spans the globe.

neonurotic

Quiet_Cool

rhinoguy is, always has been, and hopefully always will be, an illustrator. He loves the human form. He has made volumes of figure studies from life and now creates from imagination and life. He is honored to have collaborated with so many wonderful authors and their imaginations.

rgraham666

sophia jane loves sex. Since she can't always be having it, she writes porn and poetry in her spare time. She is also a mom and a student of library science. Once she finishes her degree, she'll be able make all of her naughty librarian fantasies come true. Fans can contact her at sophiajane@sbcglobal.net

Tatelou is a British writer of erotic fiction, who has written countless short stories and novels. She has a vivid, often dark and twisted imagination, and her love of BDSM and erotic horror reflect this. As an enthusiastic graphics designer, she thoroughly enjoyed producing the cover for this anthology. You can see more of her work at her site: www.psyche-erotica.co.uk

Tristesse

In volume 1, the kind of approach you're considering was handled in the Introduction. I believe I asked you to pen the Foreword. A subtle distinction, I know.

I'll trust you & TheEarl to hash out the differences. In the meantime, I'll post both the Introduction & the Foreword from volume 1 for reference.

Hugs,

 

[impressive]

Foreword

Foreword​

You are holding a book in your hands. It is of a good weight, filled with substantial word count. Those words create stories and those stories weave fantasies, experiences, hopes, dreams and even fears into a celebration of something we all too often take for granted: The Freedom of Speech.

Freedom of Speech. A deceptively simple phrase, three words filled with just as many problems as promise. Though no one can truly trace the earliest beginnings of the right to free speech, clear documentation of the right can be found as early as the 1680s, when William and Mary took the throne during the Glorious Revolution. Soon after, freedom of speech was officially granted in Parliament.

Thus, the fun – and the censorship – began.

For countless years, the right to say whatever we please has been denied, debated and attacked. Freedom of speech-or more accurately, the attempt to curtail it-has sparked wars. Men and women have died in defense of it. Those in positions of power have made a vast history of their own in trying to tame the power of free speech. Why are governments the world over so afraid of letting the citizens speak their minds? In the world of democracy and enlightenment, why do so many subjects remain taboo?

Where there is free speech, there is active freedom of thought; where there is freedom of thought, there is danger to authority. Over the vast history of nations, the written word has been the one constant. It has often been the last bastion of stubborn resistance, and history teaches us that resistance to authority is often considered unacceptable.

When the Internet came along, things got very interesting indeed.

Since before its inception, the Internet has been a source of consternation for those who despise the power of freedom of speech. The Internet reaches farther than the pages of any book and in much less time. Suddenly everyone has a voice, and that voice is free to say whatever it pleases. Someone might even be able to openly discuss something as forbidden as sexuality. My goodness-what comes next?

The desperate attempts to stem the power of the Internet march on in more than a few governments across this globe. Every day there is a new challenge. The battles rage on in the courts, in the churches and in the houses of government. Those battles are being fought in a war that will never be truly won, for as long as there is someone afraid of what free speech can do, there will be another lawsuit, another proposal, or another bill passed in an attempt to bring free speech under tight rein.

In response, there will be those who prescribe to the age-old rule concerning authority: Rules are meant to be broken.

There was a time when this book you are holding would never have been published. There was a time when this book would have been burned while onlookers cheered. There was a time when the people who wrote the stories you are about to read would have been ridiculed. Shunned. Jailed. There are still places in our modern world where those writers might be executed for daring to loudly proclaim their support of sexuality in all its forms. Hard to believe, isn’t it?

You hold in your hands more than a book. You hold a triumph. Every page is a testament to free speech. By reading the words in these pages, you are helping to ensure that book burnings continue to be relegated to the pages of history books. By purchasing this book, you have furthered the cause of those who fight to protect not only the author’s right to say what they have said, but your right to read it.

The authors in this book are spread widely across the globe. They are men and women of varying races, creeds and educations. They are single and married, young and old, dreamers and realists. Whatever they are, wherever they are, there is a part of their lives that might sound just like yours.

They have one thing in common: They are not afraid to wield the written word. They are not afraid to use it to touch parts of the human psyche – and parts of the human body – to make you think, make you feel, make you want and need and desire and dream. They have found the ability to turn black and white words on a page into a kaleidoscope of color in your mind. If there is magic to be had in this world, writers are the magicians.

Now it’s time to turn the page, reader. Time to make your way through the tales. Go ahead – no one is going to stop you. Exercise your right to read whatever you wish!

~ Gwen Masters
gwenmasters.net​

 

[impressive]

Introduction

Introduction​

Hot writing is what we do, though each of us does it very differently. It’s the differences that delight, as is true in all things of this world. No one writer or poet could have crafted so many uniquely stimulating pieces. While these pages do not include a sample of everything, every way possible to write about sex and love, we’ll get there. This is only volume one!

This collection is especially rich in exceptional stories by women. Mythical Encounter by the Stream, by CrimsonMaiden, is a sweet, simple fantasy that turns very hot. yui’s Sex & Candy instantly plunges the reader deep into the helplessly lusting thoughts of a young girl having the most mind-blowing sex. Both stories are moving and intensely emotional, putting the reader directly behind the eyes of the women in them.

In contrast is the suspenseful, hand-crafted buildup of Take Two, as a sexy Asian executive ruthlessly seduces her personal assistant. Colleen Thomas is one of our most respected and influential writers of lesbian erotica. The idea of control is central to her story, whereas chaos characterizes that of vella_ms. There is no limit to what can happen to Violet in She Had Had Enough. The hilarious saga of the hapless kazoo player feels as though it could go anywhere.

Black Tulip’s The Sequoia Secret takes us into another world; a vivid one. Story and sex alike are strong; she makes you smell it. Wetter Has Never Been Better is a crisp, fast-paced story with a great deal of passionate and intense coupling, handled with a sure touch. impressive has won our respect for her poems, as well. One of them, Cusp, is also a part of this collection and is beautifully illustrated by rhinoguy.

The women’s stories are accompanied by gems from some of our men. She Danced focuses on an unusual and driven young woman, delineated artfully in a story full of sexual energy. Use Your Imagination presents a couple who practice bondage and dominance games for the first time in a steamy and satisfying tale. Both Liar and TheEarl can hold their heads up even in this company.

Liar’s evocative and concise Coffee Break Fuck Poem is here, as well. There’s no reason not to start with it; the man is good. Then, peruse sophia jane’s stretch marks for an excellent reminder that passion is not confined to arbitrary standards of physical perfection. It is also not confined to physical contact, as angelicminx makes clear in Mind Fuck.

Amy Sweet, whose name suggests she might be a writer of romance, contributed Faded Rose, perhaps its antithesis. English Lady is at her comfortable best with our whimsical and horny lead-off story, Not What You See, What You Feel. She has an enthusiasm for real, honest sex that shines through every time.

rhinoguy rises to any occasion with expressive and beautifully indecent drawings. I especially like his outstanding illustrations for Coffee Break Fuck Poem and Belegon’s excellent and visceral Beast. An irreplaceable part of our online community, he has gathered other illustrators to us, as well. 4degrees published petition on the web as an illustrated poem, succeeding twice, his declaration of lust alongside its visual representation.

We open with an appropriately titled poem by matriarch: The First Time. It’s a breathless tribute to anticipation and, we believe, a fitting representation of our own as we present the first volume of Coming Together.

Each volume will feature both poetry and prose. Poetry, erotic and otherwise, makes for more passionate advocacy than the stories. Poets have formed factions and carried out feuds!

Sometimes the poem and its illustration inspire one another. rhino teamed with logophile on The Offering, which arose from a discussion of a shared fantasy online, and with LadyJeanne for Man of Steel, the result of a collaboration in our little online art gallery. There is no seam visible at the join between poem and drawing in either case, even though the people who made the works were never in the same room.

These works were first published on the web, existing only as states of charge on server media and as data packets sent along conductors. Now they are condensed onto paper, readable even in the tub; objects in the everyday world.

And they’re hot.

~ cantdog​

 

[TheEarl]

Well, I'm happy to do the Gwen Masters bit, if DoctorM wants to do the cantdog "Introduction to the authors and their tales" bit.

Even got the ghost of an idea of what I'm gonna write.

The Earl

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Well, I'm happy to do the Gwen Masters bit, if DoctorM wants to do the cantdog "Introduction to the authors and their tales" bit.

Even got the ghost of an idea of what I'm gonna write.

The Earl

No, no. My fault. I totally misunderstood what I was supposed to do. You go on with it, Earl.

 

[TheEarl]

No, no. My fault. I totally misunderstood what I was supposed to do. You go on with it, Earl.

Too late. I've done the other one now. It just came to me straight from the top of my head. There's no problem; you can do the one that oyu thought you were supposed to be doing in the first place.

The internet.

Possibly the greatest communications tool ever invented and it’s filled with junk. Millions and millions of web pages that do nothing but promise riches from Nigerian bankers and charge the earth for a trick of the light. It promises the world and delivers pop-ups.

Yet amongst these wasted bits and bytes, nestled amongst the spam and the fluff and the marketing tricks, there is ordinary humanity. People. People can meet, make friends, fall in love, fall out of love. They can talk, they can learn, they can listen to points of view they’d never dreamed of. They can also find themselves thinking things they had never dreamed of. Being a person that they’d never dreamed of.

The internet gives us a chance that was not available to previous generations. We can be anyone on the internet. We can reveal everything or nothing and create an entirely separate persona. In our real lives, we live out our days, working hour after hour, doing something utterly mundane and normal. Yet online, we can be someone different, someone dangerous, someone new. Someone sexy. We can come as we aren’t.

When I slip on the comforting vestments of my nom de plume, I become someone else. I become the person who my family would be surprised to meet. I am free. Free from society’s mores and manners, free to say anything, to do anything, to tell anything.

That freedom is why this book exists. Most of the authors in this book are completely normal people. You would pass them on the street and (apart from a brief ogle) you wouldn’t give them a second glance. Yet inside, they are wild and dangerous. Sexual, sensual beings, who aren’t afraid to vocalise their fantasies and who have the skill and ability to transmute those feelings into delicious words.

We come from every corner of the globe, from every walk of life, from every race, country, creed and colour. We have different politics, different religions, different opinions and different sexualities. Yet we come together on one thing – We are free.

This book is a presentation of that freedom. It is here because we want to share what we have by delivering these stories to you. The feelings that each evokes are our gift to you and I sincerely hope that you enjoy them.

If you do, remember this. They are only there because we feel free to express our inner sexuality. And I believe that we make the world and ourselves just that little bit better by doing it. Maybe you should try?

The Earl
June 2005

The Earl

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Wow. Pretty fucking good!

Okay. I'll do nuts and bolts.

 

[impressive]

Most of the authors in this book are completely normal people. You would pass them on the street and (apart from a brief ogle) you wouldn’t give them a second glance. Yet inside, they are wild and dangerous. Sexual, sensual beings, who aren’t afraid to vocalise their fantasies and who have the skill and ability to transmute those feelings into delicious words.

I love this passage. Makes me feel quite "wild & dangerous" (even though I only have a poem in v2).

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Quiet_Cool is lost in his own imagination. A lover of good fiction and in hopes of one day being able to write such, he experiments in many genres, currently including erotica. "The Spirit of Frankenstein" is, in his opinion, his best work of erotic fiction to date.


Good?

Q_C

 

[English Lady]

Quiet_Cool is lost in his own imagination. A lover of good fiction and in hopes of one day being able to write such, he experiments in many genres, currently including erotica. "The Spirit of Frankenstein" is, in his opinion, his best work of erotic fiction to date.


Good?

Q_C

the bit inbold sounds clunky to me, it doesn't seem to flow. General idea good though!

 

[TheEarl]

the bit inbold sounds clunky to me, it doesn't seem to flow. General idea good though!

Seconded. Maybe: "A lover of good fiction and one who hopes of one day writing some, he experiments in many genres..."?

The Earl

 

[English Lady]

Earl,...yupthat sounds better...still not sure it's quite dripping off the tongue right...

Not that I'm comingupwith any suggestions *L*

 

[Guest]

Seconded. Maybe: "A lover of good fiction and one who hopes of one day writing some, he experiments in many genres..."?

The Earl

That makes it sound like he's not writing good fiction now.

 

[Guest]

That makes it sound like he's not writing good fiction now.

Or any at all, for that matter.

QC, I thought your original one worked just fine.

 

[TheEarl]

Or any at all, for that matter.

QC, I thought your original one worked just fine.

The sentence in question has too many linked clauses in the second part IMHO:

...and in hopes of one day being able to write such, [1 clauses] he experiments in many genres, [2 clauses] currently including erotica [3 clauses]

It dashes back, forth and recurses itself. It reads like a Lisp program IMHO. My replacement sentence breaks it up into two separate halves.

I think Q_C's aim was to say, in a self-deprecating way, that he doesn't think he does write good fiction now. That's why he says 'hopes of one day writing such'.

If I'm reading you wrong QC, do yell, but that was the way I read your original.

The Earl

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Quiet_Cool is lost in his own imagination. A lover of good fiction with hopes of one day being able to write such, he experiments in many genres, currently including erotica. "The Spirit of Frankenstein" is, in his opinion, his best work of erotic fiction to date.


I agree that it's "clunky" as EL put it. Dunno if it's because of the clauses or not; can't say I do much but feel my way through each sentence, to be honest--I don't relaly know much of one clause or phrase to the next. This sounds better to me, though I've changed little. Something about the "...fiction and in hopes of..." sounded a bit off.

And yes, Earl, that was my point.

Any better? How long until a final copy is needed?

Q_C

 

[English Lady]

That does look better now QC, defintely

 

[TheEarl]

Looks good to me Quiet.

The Earl