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Really.
I firmly believe every time a woman shaves her privates, an angel gets her wings.
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Sensei
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Well, it's not that I didn't want replies, I just was trying to make a suggestion to keep the forum tidy.
I had considered doing an Internet search, but thought I might do better in asking for transliterated Chinese names more specifically than with Google. But that is ordinarily a good way to go.
I had considered doing an Internet search, but thought I might do better in asking for transliterated Chinese names more specifically than with Google. But that is ordinarily a good way to go.
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I wonder if someone can help me with picking a name for a character.
It's a girl, and it needs to start with Q.
Because of that, I decided that the easy way out was to make her of Asian lineage, perhaps Chinese with a transliterated name. But I have no idea what such a name would be, and would prefer something with a bit of authenticity.
That said, I'm not committed to her being Asian. Other suggestions are equally welcome.
Now, this thread could (and likely will), turn into a laundry list of replies, so instead, might I suggest replies be via PM. That way we don't clutter the forum. I'll report back. Promise.
Thanks very much in advance.
It's a girl, and it needs to start with Q.
Because of that, I decided that the easy way out was to make her of Asian lineage, perhaps Chinese with a transliterated name. But I have no idea what such a name would be, and would prefer something with a bit of authenticity.
That said, I'm not committed to her being Asian. Other suggestions are equally welcome.
Now, this thread could (and likely will), turn into a laundry list of replies, so instead, might I suggest replies be via PM. That way we don't clutter the forum. I'll report back. Promise.
Thanks very much in advance.
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Quote by JesseS
Some have tried living it full time, but I don't know anyone who has suceeded for more than a few weeks.
There are lots of full-time TPE relationships that last years. It's a symbiotic thing, that much is certain. I just finished a story about the start of such a relationship. Yes, that story is fiction, but it is based in truth. The relationship that Lucy and Sean have in the epilogue is not at all unlike TPE relationships that exist in the real world.
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Quote by Gurlyboy
I wrote my first story in second person, which was a bit weird but I thought it worked for that particular story.
Just to clarify, are you saying that what you wrote was similar to the style of the Sherlock Holmes stories? Where Dr. Watson is speaking in the first person describing the words and actions of the protagonist?
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I don't think the OP was asking so much about genre/group as much as style.
I like descriptive styles. It seems like it's sort of a better match for erotic stories. For one thing, I always think it looks a little bit silly to actually see *in writing* the sorts of things people say while in the throes of passion. In particular, in BDSM stories, like I write, trying to be all onomatopoeic when describing people crying out in pain after being spanked or whipped or the like... It's really a challenge to make it not just look *silly*.
As for genres... I just don't get why **Content removed by moderator. Violates Lush TOS.** is seemingly the most popular one. Maybe it's because my sister is 12 years older than me, and I never got along with her very well. *shrug*
I like descriptive styles. It seems like it's sort of a better match for erotic stories. For one thing, I always think it looks a little bit silly to actually see *in writing* the sorts of things people say while in the throes of passion. In particular, in BDSM stories, like I write, trying to be all onomatopoeic when describing people crying out in pain after being spanked or whipped or the like... It's really a challenge to make it not just look *silly*.
As for genres... I just don't get why **Content removed by moderator. Violates Lush TOS.** is seemingly the most popular one. Maybe it's because my sister is 12 years older than me, and I never got along with her very well. *shrug*
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Quote by Gurlyboy
You could put a link to it in your forum signature. It's simple and from what I've heard, effective. And don;t be afraid to adveertise yourself, you wanna be popular, you gotta work for it.
I guess I need to make a few more forum posts before the link in the signature shows up. But thanks for that suggestion.
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I don't want this to seem like its an advertising thread, so I'm not going to link to it here.
But I've just finished writing more than 22,000 words. The last part will hit the front page tonight for its turn in the sun. One of the older parts of it has gotten a couple thousand views, and it looks to me like it's being well received (let me just interject my thanks here to everyone who's voted and commented. You've no idea how much it means to me).
But once it falls off the front page... Then what? I'm torn between a narcissistic desire for people to read my work and not wanting to shove people's noses in it like a jerk.
Or in posting this, am I already that jerk?
But I've just finished writing more than 22,000 words. The last part will hit the front page tonight for its turn in the sun. One of the older parts of it has gotten a couple thousand views, and it looks to me like it's being well received (let me just interject my thanks here to everyone who's voted and commented. You've no idea how much it means to me).
But once it falls off the front page... Then what? I'm torn between a narcissistic desire for people to read my work and not wanting to shove people's noses in it like a jerk.
Or in posting this, am I already that jerk?
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Quote by Guest
I read a lot of articles with writing advice and an author (I have no idea who anymore) gave the advice that beginning writers should always write from a character's point of view as far way from themselves as possible to keep themselves out of the character. Her advice was basically men should write as women and women should write as men, until they can keep their emotions/actions/feelings out of the character's actions/emotions/feelings. It is to avoid the 'me' character.
That's probably good advice when writing pure fiction, but a lot of the stories posted here - ostensibly - are portrayals of real events. It's only natural that those be told in the first person.
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The story I just finished was written not only from the perspective of the opposite gender, but the perspective of a submissive (in reality, I am a dom). I took that on as a sort of double challenge.
If you can't get a co- or ghost writer of the correct... polarity... then just read as much as you can and try your best. Whatever you say, be confident saying it. If you have any doubts, then they'll come through, and it won't be as good.
If you can't get a co- or ghost writer of the correct... polarity... then just read as much as you can and try your best. Whatever you say, be confident saying it. If you have any doubts, then they'll come through, and it won't be as good.
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I got turned on by my story as I was first designing it and dumping it out, but as it turned into a project, it became more work, and with re-reading it over and over, it's - alas - lost quite a bit of heat for me, personally.
But that's ok. In the end, I didn't really write it for *me*.
But that's ok. In the end, I didn't really write it for *me*.
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I think, whichever you decide, it's important to try and be consistent within a single story. It's certainly awkward if you jump between first person and any of the others, but it's important if you pick a third person perspective that you stay consistent with viewing everything from that character's point of view.
An example comes to mind from my own story that I just finished ("The Training of Lucy"). In it, Lucy sees a rack of computer equipment in Sean's study. The story is being told from her perspective, so the narrative description of it wasn't a rack of computer equipment, but rather a shelf full of technical looking gizmos all wired together. She couldn't know what it was, merely what it looked like.
I wrote "Lucy" from her point of view as a bit of a personal challenge. I'm neither a woman, nor a submissive, hence the challenge. But by writing in the third person, rather than the first, I could still step back just a little bit and offer a more neutral perspective on some of her conflicted thoughts. It also allowed me to better describe events that she would likely only be distantly conscious of - like what her lover was doing while she was lost in the throws of orgasm.
Still, if you're going to do that, you have to be content not to describe action that takes place outside of eye- or ear-shot of your chosen character, and not share the internal thoughts of the other characters. That too can be challenging, but in my case, I think it helped lend an air of mystery to the antagonist, since there was no direct window into his mind.
An example comes to mind from my own story that I just finished ("The Training of Lucy"). In it, Lucy sees a rack of computer equipment in Sean's study. The story is being told from her perspective, so the narrative description of it wasn't a rack of computer equipment, but rather a shelf full of technical looking gizmos all wired together. She couldn't know what it was, merely what it looked like.
I wrote "Lucy" from her point of view as a bit of a personal challenge. I'm neither a woman, nor a submissive, hence the challenge. But by writing in the third person, rather than the first, I could still step back just a little bit and offer a more neutral perspective on some of her conflicted thoughts. It also allowed me to better describe events that she would likely only be distantly conscious of - like what her lover was doing while she was lost in the throws of orgasm.
Still, if you're going to do that, you have to be content not to describe action that takes place outside of eye- or ear-shot of your chosen character, and not share the internal thoughts of the other characters. That too can be challenging, but in my case, I think it helped lend an air of mystery to the antagonist, since there was no direct window into his mind.
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The only general thing I'd say are that the kind of handcuffs the cops use are absolutely the wrong kind for erotic play. They're hard to unlock in a hurry, the ratchet mechanism can spontaneously tighten, they're narrow, so they don't spread the force they apply over a large area, they're metal, so they aren't flexible.... Need I go on?
BDSM cuffs are wide, leather and lock with a padlock, which can be moved around for easier unlocking, etc.
BDSM cuffs are wide, leather and lock with a padlock, which can be moved around for easier unlocking, etc.
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I've been spending a lot of my commute time on Lush (on a train, people, safety first). I haven't upgraded to Gold yet (not for want of trying, but that's a separate topic), and have noticed markedly decreased battery life. I think the site has a lot of JavaScript that's related to rotating. And animating the adds.
I know there is a "mobile" version of the site, but it's not really fully featured, so I use the full site. But it's killing my battery.
I know the adds are a necessary evil, but maybe there can be a compromise when the full site is being viewed on a mobile device - to use more static content and lay off on some of the JS?
I know there is a "mobile" version of the site, but it's not really fully featured, so I use the full site. But it's killing my battery.
I know the adds are a necessary evil, but maybe there can be a compromise when the full site is being viewed on a mobile device - to use more static content and lay off on some of the JS?
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You mention Carl Jung. Of late, I have been delving into Myers-Briggs analysis in trying to understand the other people in my life (I am an INTJ, fwiw). I found it helpful in my writing so far (I am a rank beginner, working on my first erotic story at the moment) to try and pick a definitive personality style for each of the major characters, so that if there's every any doubt about what they might feel, think or choose, I can fall back on trying to think of how an ISFJ, for example, would react.