Hey, cool. I don't have a block at the moment - more like I just can't find enough time to get all my ideas out of my head and into the digital realm. Always interested in talking about writing though!
I also have a great deal of difficulty finding the time to write in the detail I believe those I write for deserve. Most of us here on this Forum have read enough stories and posts here to tell if an author was really into the story, or if they were just killing time by writing......
Tony V.
Like Tony and Mkmydaze, I never have enough time. I could spill the ideas out in lists, stumble through them one after another, throw the words like paint at a canvas, and just get them out of my head, but to my mind, writing is writing. I write erotica because it demolishes taboos- the stuff we don't say, the "fade to black" scenes, the threats only implied- those are challenging when I'm writing "vanilla" (Meaning non-erotic. You couldn't pay me to write vanilla porn!) and they're good, interesting challenges. Sometimes I just want to write like a fucking adult. Fuck the fade to black. When I roleplay in multi-player games, I feel the same. I'm not playing with the "erotic" players because I'm
looking for ERP, I'm playing with them because when that shit happens- and if adults are playing, it inevitably does- we don't have to pussyfoot around and pretend we went there when we didn't. Still, when I write erotica, I'm just writing, and I have a
passion for words. Beautiful words that dance together on the page, interesting cadence, clever twists of meaning, shifts of perspective, balance, and rhythm, the taste of them, the shape of them on the tip of my tongue as I write... as I read. So every scene takes a painfully long time to write. Every paragraph is a painting. I want to get it right. I mean... RIGHT. I want to milk the words for all they are worth. Tell a story filled with characters who live and breathe.
Yep. Takes too long. And I find myself tripping over them a lot. And going back, and repolishing, and rephrasing, and throwing out whole chunks, and adding to it, long before I set it out for consumption. When I hit a block, it's usually because I can't find a
fresh way to say something that's been said a million times, and NEEDS to be said again.