I'm pretty aural and a beautiful voice can drive me wild.
My favourites:
Irish
Northern Irish
Scouse (Liverpool)
Southern US (think Ainsley from the West Wing)
Icelandic
French
An ex partner and and I filmed ourselves, but not for a wider audience
I adore it, with the right person. I can't just pick up with a stranger. I need to get to know what makes a person tick, to get understand them a little bit.
Once at that point, there's nothing sexier than connecting, deeply, with someone through words alone. To explore the deepest recesses of another person's imagination, to push and pull one another through a shared fantasy, to create something unique and vital, for just a moment. It's the best.
I spent my late teens and most of my twenties utterly uncomfortable in my own skin. So far, 28 and onwards into my early thirties has been great. More secure, more comfortable and (a little bit) more confident.
A lot. Certainly more than I ought.
Absolutely. I enjoy reading, first and foremost, and the half dozen or so best erotic stories I've read are far more powerful and enduring than the best porn I've seen. I also find that reading helps my writing, especially when writing about an unfamiliar experience or from a female perspective, but also by keeping me fresh and helping to avoid repeating myself (which is an unfortunate tendancy I have).
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs. Arguably the best in a back catalogue of perhaps five or more 5* albums.
No. And yes.
I hate it because I'm insanely jealous, but in that envy is a sublime sort of arousal. It's kind of like a sexual version of running a tongue ulcer along your teeth.
Not very green
Central African Republic
I am a pretty decent Scrabble player
I really like the seaside
I love the smell of rain on hot, dry tarmac
I tend to spilt between first and third, mostly first.
Yellow football strips.
Ireland.
I look for ways to make my characters more real - a pot belly here, a scar there, hang ups and neuroses lurking all over the place; I don't always dwell on them (my stories are short by Lush standards), and my writing more often focuses on the attractive parts of my characters and the pleasurable aspects of their sex, but the cracks are there. Without them, I'm just making cartoons.
Speaking more broadly about the question, I spend far too long, sometimes months, crafting a 2500 word story. I have no delusions of making great art, but I do take it seriously and I won't submit something I am not happy with. I have submitted six stories on this site and, although I have my own preferences, in different ways I'll stand by each of them, imperfections and all. I'd hate to put out something that I later found embarrassing (not disliked, that's slightly different), so I kind of have to take it seriously.
It's tough but, on balance and right now, I'd say Joy Division.
Bands? Radiohead from the Bends onwards.