authenticity

Write What You Know – or don’t

authenticity, event, fiction, inspiration, politics, writers 9th November 2019 Musings

“Write what you know” is one of those pieces of writing advice that everyone’s heard of. People either love it, hate it, or completely misunderstand it – sometimes wilfully. You get those who point out that JK Rowling didn’t really … Continued

Lipbalm and loo roll: what’s in the bag?

authenticity, author, authors, books, erotic fiction, genre fiction 19th October 2019 Musings

Well, lipbalm and probably loo roll would be in mine. Never mind that stuff about insurance and mortgage paperwork – for one thing, I have neither of those in the first place. As the situation gets ever scarier, more people … Continued

Blair Witch and ‘authenticity’ 20 years on

acting, authenticity, Blair Witch Project, fiction, films, realism 16th July 2019 Musings

OK, this site is more about sex than horror, but there are certain links between horror and porn as genres and not just the physiological.ones. Both genres are often disapproved of and misunderstood, particularly by those who either have a … Continued

Butter and bumsex and realism and research

actors, authenticity, bumsex, fiction, films, mistreatment, research, women 15th December 2016 Other Things, Rantings

Blair Witch directors mistreatment actors

The ugly but fairly unsurprising news that the notorious butter fuelled anal scene in Last Tango In Paris was a real sexual assault set me thinking some tiresomely familiar thoughts about realism. I could just get all my feminist rage … Continued

Stop digging: the doxxing of authors is always wrong

authenticity, doxxing, elena ferrante, sex bloggers, writers 4th October 2016 Rantings, Uncategorised

The doxxing of Elena Ferrante is distressing, and infuriating, and worrying, whether you are a fan of her work or had never heard of her prior to this. The fact that she is a ‘respectable’ literary novelist rather than an … Continued

Writing Real Sex

authenticity, club reviews, erotica, sex, swingers, truth 10th August 2016 Musings, Sex stuff

While I’ve never tried sex blogging as such, I did have a nice sideline last century and the beginning of this one which involved writing about trips to various fetish and swinger clubs, with free rein to not any actual … Continued