Only erotica and George Lucas have celebration scenes
I was at an erotica writing workshop recently, and one of the women running the panel on characterization said that one of the scenes she likes to write is the “celebration” scene. That’s what she called it. The whole “We’ve been through a terrible time and survived. Let’s celebrate… by fucking!” I asked her about [...]
When will it be okay to write gay villains again?
I was re-reading Diane Wynne Jones The Tough Guide to Fantasyland shortly after reading a forgettable spy novel from the mid 1960′s in which the villain was quite fey and enjoyed threatening the hero with sodomy before death and all that. Jones asserts that many fantasy parties have a gay wizard (paging Lynn Flewelling), who [...]
New Story: Journal Entry 129 / 1694, “Gabriel”
Ladies and Gentlemen, a new Journal Entry, all for you! This story is M/M, man/dragon, and falls into the not-quite-a-story, more-of-an-anecdote category. Meaning there’s no plot, just some set-up to have some hard-core porn. But it also falls into the vaguely-resembles-a-real-life-incident category. Gabriel. This is a beta release. I checked it for typos and have spell-checked it once, but [...]
On where to put your black swans.
Joseph Fouche has a fascinating article entitled Seizing the Opportunity to Destroy Western Civilization. I don’t know anything about Fouche, although the blogroll he belongs to suggests a right-libertarian bent with touches of joyful submission to authoritarianism (Althouse? Really?), but this article of his has all the makings of a classic for writers of epic [...]
The Lead, And How to Swing It
Insanely prolific blogger and book reviewer James Nicoll has a contest entitled Because My Tears Are Delicious To You. James has a lack of patience for exceptionally bad SF, along with a notoriously long idiosyncratic list of things in SF that especially set him off, and is challenging people to write the ultimate “make James [...]
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