Erotica
Why is it that the best writing I have done is for the erotic novel? I didn’t even mean to start an erotic novel – it was just … there… and now when I look at all the writing I have done over this month… well it just makes me laugh (and kind of sad really). This project was meant to be a hobby, something to cheer me up and get my mind off other things. And, for the most part, it has been… I have 3 distinct novels started and 2 more back stories that may get their own novels… and somehow – the most well formed story I have is an erotic novel??? It couldn’t have been the psychological thriller? Or the funny, sweet, yet interesting, murder mystery? nooooo- it had to be the erotic, has nothing to do with anything but sex, kink, sensuality and fun… It wasn’t even meant to have a PLOT! But somehow it does… This is what Anne Rice must have felt like while writing the Beauty Series (now don’t get your panties in a bunch – I KNOW I’m no Anne Rice – but seriously – while she was writing the Beauty Series she had to think, “damn – when did this become a novel and not just a fun distraction?” To be honest I have hundreds of fun little erotic short stories hidden away… none of them really have a plot outside of the scene that I am writing about… sigh… what is it that they say about tigers?
Somehow, this just does not come as a surprise to me. I’ve often wondered exactly what Anne Rice was thinking when the Beauty series happened, and it had to do exactly that. It happened. Sometimes I imagine that she woke up one day and just started writing to see what would happen and, viola. There it was.
In all of the research I have done into erotic fiction, it truly seems that most of the good authors don’t intend to write anything erotic at the outset. Plot, dialogue and characters are organic beings. And, if left to blossom naturally without any strict guidance the inevitable outcome is erotica.
Maybe I’m completely wrong here, or maybe what I am saying makes sense and the outcome is just a sign that you are truly letting what is inside come out in your writing