Finished my "nasty character" piece

[erastes]

And guess what? It's NOT slashy!!! (well, ok, it does have my executioner looking at the doomed king in interest and the doomed king DOES touch the executioner, (on the cheek.. his FACE CHEEK)....but that's it. No frantic shaggage in a dungeon.)

It's gen! *feels pulse to see if I'm all right*

Now I need to make it readable. it's a bit bitty

Am pleased. Where are all the gay erotica submission calls? Even Nightcharm has closed down for fiction submissions, which is not fair.

It's NINETY degrees in this OFFICE by the way. Just sayin'

I'm doing a list of descriptive text that is used in gay porn, I'd promised both rwday and theregoesyamum that I'd do it ages ago, and never got around to it, so watch out for that later this evening.

Let me just say that "engorged fuck-tube" is one of the nicer terms. There are so many "how to write gay porn" articles floating about here and there that I'm tempted one of these days to write "and how not to, please, really. I mean it" to make a balance. I know that a lot of the anthologies are wank books but things like "pulsing jism" really doesn't do it for me. Just looked up "jism" on etymology online - evidently it was coined in 1899. Well that's that. I'm never writing anything based earlier than 1899.

*retreats further into the past*

*presses send and hopes the formatting works coz if not I can't fix it for an hour*

Comments

[erastes.livejournal.com]

gehayi gave one explanation to me on chat, earlier - regarding fanfic at least.

Evidently there are certain archives that will reject your story if they have words in them, like cock and dick etc - so people are encouraged to use "more flowery language" as they probably deem it. The trouble with this, of course is that the teeny-writers think that this is an acceptable way of writing and so it self perpetuates. I had no idea of this, and if I had, when I was back in fandom I would have done everything in my power to try and stamp it out - it's just horrible.

But it doesn't excuse it for use in published gay fiction!

[rwday.livejournal.com]

Okay, I get that. It's like in women's category romance, where it used to always be a member or an iron rod of passion or some such nonsense. But that doesn't explain pulsing jism. Nothing, in my view, could explain pulsing jism.

[maidenform.livejournal.com]

Jism doesn't pulse!

[rwday.livejournal.com]

If it does, I recommend seeing a doctor, pronto.

[maidenform.livejournal.com]

I could never even think of submitting my work to an archive that doesn't accept those words. The sheer uptightness of that would scare me away.