Another story completed

I've just sent in my submission for the Smut By The Sea compilation which has been a fun little story to write. It's quite a simple story, but those can be the hardest to write as it's about trying to find a balance between the utter minimalism of 'X met Y, and then they had sex' and something that gets so obsessed with detail that you can't see the sex for the body parts. I think I've struck the balance, and managed to give the characters in it some depth and some reasons for their getting together, but we'll have to wait and see what the editors think.

And as I came to the end of that one, I had another idea for another compilation that's coming up soon. It'll be interesting to write, as it feels like it should be in first person, and the lead character's got a very distinctive voice, but if I get it right, that's what'll make the story go well.

Almost Chance: Reviews

Some comments from reviews of Almost Chance at Literotica:

You have truly captivated the submissive soul in this piece. So revealing, even in the unstated. Very well done.

This is the most beautiful and extremely erotic story I have ever read and I just wanted to say thank you for sharing it!

BDSM scares me. So why was I so highly turned on by this? 5 stars for the whole series.

This story was perfect. my Mistress suggested it to me and i am so glad that She did. i read it from beginning to end in two hours. From the very first sentence to the last word, i felt like i was Jen. i experienced everything right along with her. Her journey into submission actually *felt* real. Thank you for writing this story...and thank you even more for sharing it.

 You can find it there and read more or buy a copy at Amazon US, Amazon UK or Smashwords.

Interested in reviewing?

Would you be interested in reviewing Almost Chance? If you've got a blog, website or something else with readers who might be interested in a piece of lesbian erotica, then get in touch and I can send you a copy for you to review. I got quite a few good reviews for it when it was published on the web, but it would be nice to get some for the work as whole.

I'm happy to return the favour and review other people's work, though I will always strive to be honest and won't promise a good review if I don't like something.

Writing Almost Chance

I've been reading erotica online for years, and often with an undercurrent of 'I could do a lot better than that.' I found that the pieces I enjoyed the most were the ones that took some time to establish who the characters were, in order to give some meaning to what happened between them.

Sure, sometimes you just want a literary quickie and don't want pages of pages of character beforehand, but the stories that lingered with me were the ones that created memorable characters. I'd actually begun work on a much longer novel with several characters, with their lives all happily intersecting with a big plot bubbling in the background, but then one day the opening scene of Almost Chance came into my head.

It started with a simple question - what would it be like to be on a train and meet someone who you felt an incredible sexual draw towards? How far would you go to explore that?

(I was travelling to and from work on trains at the time, so that may have had something to do with it coming up)

What I found was that when I stopped and thought about that situation, I saw the whole story and how it played out. Not down to the level of knowing the exact scenes, but I could see who Jen and Mistress were, why Jen would take such a risk and follow her, how their relationship would develop in the time they had together and just what had brought them together.

Because of that, it was a pleasure to write. When I had the time, I just had to drop myself back into their world, and there they were, waiting for me to reveal what happened next. There were some surprises for me on the way - I found myself writing about Mistress's tattoo without understanding why, but then realised it was all part of another story - but once I'd gone into their world, it felt real and solid.

I originally posted it in parts to a few of the websites I used to get my erotic story fix from, and was very gladdened by the response I received. After I'd finished it, I left it for what was meant to be a while, but then life got in the way and limited the amount of time I had for writing, even though the stories would still float around in my head, waiting for a chance to be released.

Now I have some time to write again, and decided to relaunch myself onto the world by converting Almost Chance into an ebook - and correcting some of the errors in it that time had revealed - and put some more of my imagination into reality.

What will those stories be? That's a tale for another post...

Hello and welcome

Having decided it was time to get pro-active about promoting my writing, a blog was an inevitable step. Please bear with me while I think of content to put here, but there are many inklings running through my head at the moment, some of which will hopefully develop into proper thoughts.

In the meantime, some gratuitous plugging for my work. Almost Chance, my novella of lesbian bondage, submission and love is available as an ebook from several locations, including:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Smashwords

And that gives me an idea - for my next post, I'll talk some more about the book, where it came from and how it was to write.