Rough Draft Confessions: Not A Guide To Writing And Selling Erotica And Romance But Full Of Inside Insight Anyway

A non-fiction collection of inside insights about writing dirty the power of words taboo language the freedoms and limitations of genres fulfilling your creative drive and the business of writing this behind-the-scenes companion piece to the authors erotica and romance novels takes readers inside the process of writing and selling flirty-dirty stories.Part coming out story part creative manifesto all subversive RDC connects readers to creative resources in off-the-wall ways examines the absurdities of publishing convention and will leave you vibrating with the desire to fall in love have out-of-this-world sex on a mountaintop and write a smutty story or two of your own. Now part of the Dirty Writing Secrets Series.FROM THE INTRODUCTION: Managing Expectations: Im writing for you but Im a liarThis collection of essays-confessions began as a gift to my amazing beta readers--you--who wanted to know the story behind the story--and whether it was true that the most contentious negotiating point in my first publishing contract really centred on the word cunt. ... Along the way what was supposed to be an honest-(mostly)-but-amusing story of how a (dirty) novel gets published and sold in this Brave New World morphed into a coming out story of sorts and then a personal-and-professional manifesto about why I want to write filthy dirty books and by extension why you should read them... or better yet write a few of your own.Youre welcome.As youre reading theres one thing you need to keep in mind. Everything a writer gives you to read--even if she claims its non-fiction memoir and nothing-but-the-truth--everything she gives you to read is a crafted narrative.A performance.(Never forget that.)...I want you to treat this story as a dialogue. I wrote it for you after all and Im telling it to you--just to you. If you have a question--if you need a clarification--ask me and Ill do my best to answer.And I promise to lie only when its absolutely necessary.Because I am trying to be truthful--you have no idea how hard that is for a fiction writer--most of the chapters are structured as Confessions. But there are a lot of interruptions. Questions. Interjections.Every single one of them is your fault by the way.But well get to that.Ready?Lets manufacture a beginning to the story shall we?Now part of the Dirty Writing Secrets Series.