If you’re following along from home you may have noticed that May was a slow month around here. I managed Sinful Sunday posts, even a short Masturbation Monday post and a couple Toy Reviews but by and large, it’s been a ghost town. This morning I happened across a post by Hy at A Dissolute Life…
Recommended Reading #6
My top three favourite reads this week: One that plucked my heart strings raw, one that made me think and self analyze and one that took me away with its sheer smutty goodness.
Sexy Verbs – #writebigsexywords
As they say, “it’s all about the motion of the ocean”, when it comes to sex, right? All the more reason to consider our verbs when writing those hot and sticky scenes. I often find it’s easy to be mindful of adjectives because so much of smut and erotica is about description, about taking the…
Character terms – #writebigsexywords
Welcome back to #writebigsexywords ! This is our third installment – we have looked at words for colours and words that express a feeling or state of being and this week we turn to words that help us describe a character’s look or personality. I often struggle with building character descriptions and over simplify them…
Elust 104
Welcome to Elust 104– The only place where the smartest and hottest sex bloggers are featured under one roof every month. Whether you’re looking for sex journalism, erotic writing, relationship advice or kinky discussions it’ll be here at Elust. Want to be included in Elust #105 Start with the rules, come back April 1st to…
Once more, with feeling – #writebigsexywords
Welcome to the second weekly edition of #WriteBigSexyWords – a new feature here on F&H where we look at synonyms for words and concepts that you may encounter when writing, particularly if you’re writing erotica. Last week we looked at alternate words for common colours to make descriptions of people and things more interesting and…
Colour Me Sexy – #writebigsexywords
For our first #wbsw post I thought I’d ease us in with some adjectives that are synonyms for, or related to, colour. When setting a scene or describing a character, colour is a very useful and relateable way to help your reader understand what you’re showing to them through words. In erotica, colour is used…
Smut Marathon 2018: Writing Round 2
Smut Marathon 2018 is well underway! Round One was not without its pains but all in all an amazing learning experience and a great introduction to the community, competition and support that this epic writing journey has to offer.
Smut Marathon 2018: surviving round 1
For those of you following along at home, Smut Marathon 2018 is an epic writing competition hosted by Marie Rebel of Rebel’s Notes. She has built an intricate and exciting series of challenges for erotica writers from around the globe to participate in and let me tell you, it is off to a rip roaring…
Elust 103
Welcome to Elust 103– The only place where the smartest and hottest sex bloggers are featured under one roof every month. Whether you’re looking for sex journalism, erotic writing, relationship advice or kinky discussions it’ll be here at Elust. Want to be included in Elust #104 Start with the rules, come back March 1st to…
Recommended Reading #5
This week’s roundup has a loose theme of Strength & Beauty It’s a tough world out there and these few highlights of the almost endless supply of great smut/erotic/body-sex-kink positive writing available to us, are all beacons of strength and beauty. I won’t speak for you but I know I could certainly do with more of…
Recommended Reading #4
How was your week, my darlings? Was it a blur like mine? Here’s what I’ve been reading, salivating over and fantasizing to! Great work out there, keep it up!
Elust 102
Welcome to Elust 102– The only place where the smartest and hottest sex bloggers are featured under one roof every month. Whether you’re looking for sex journalism, erotic writing, relationship advice or kinky discussions it’ll be here at Elust. Want to be included in Elust #103 Start with the rules, come back February 1st to…
Recommended Reading #3
Happy #SOSS everyone! I rarely get around to reading all the kink and smut I want to, and this week was no exception. I did, however, love what little I did read so I will share them here as there is some great writing in these links!
Elust 100
Welcome to Elust 100– The only place where the smartest and hottest sex bloggers are featured under one roof every month. Whether you’re looking for sex journalism, erotic writing, relationship advice or kinky discussions it’ll be here at Elust. Want to be included in Elust #101 Start with the rules, come back December 1st to…
Recommended Reading #2
The momentum that Share Our Shit Saturdays (#SOSS) is getting is pretty phenomenal and there’s so much to see and learn and read all while supporting a community of sex positive and kink positive writers, photogs and makers. Here’s what I loved this week and recommend: