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Morning Thought: The Experience of ‘Pantsing’
Letting your characters lead your story can be a strange experience. You often find yourself heading in directions you never expected, or writing things that you never believed your brain was capable of coming up with.
Morning Thought: My Writing Style
If you’ve ever felt like you ‘have’ to do certain things to be a writer, or if you ever tried ‘plotting out’ your story and felt like you can no longer write, then try ‘pantsing’. You don’t need to plot everything out in order to write a good story. Here’s how I do it.
Morning Thought: The Power of Lists
To work efficiently, you have to know what you’re doing. This is especially true if you’re doing something as time consuming as writing – even if that writing’s erotic – not all sex scenes are over in two minutes, after all. So here’s a piece of advice I was given a long time ago that’s transformed my life.
Morning Thought: Embrace Your Insecurities
We all have insecurities, but in order to grow as an individual and creator, you have to challenge them. Embrace what you fear and push your boundaries – after all, no one’s going to push them for you – and see how much you grow.
Morning Thought: Giving your Characters, Character
Melodrama’s fine, and it does have a place, but when it comes to erotica, the more real your characters seem, the more relatable they’ll be. You want that relatability in your story and this is how I avoid ‘going purple’ in my work.
Morning Thought: Health, Wealth and Happiness
Finding balance is the key, but where it lies is unique to each person. I can’t tell you how to balance it for yourself, but what I can tell you is that if you keep moving forward, you will reach your goal.
Morning Thought: How Much Research is Too Much Research?
Morning Thought: How Much Research is Too Much Research?
Morning Thought: Originality in Erotica
How about I ask you to come up with an entirely new sexual position? Could you do it? No? So why are you worrying about your writing? We all know there are no new positions, only new ways to experience them, so apply the same logic to your writing. What makes your story unique, is you, and you’re enough.
Morning Thought: Remember, it’s NOT Personal
When working for clients, every now and then, when they ask for alterations or a re-do, we have to remind ourselves that it isn’t personal.
Julia Rivers Erotic Audio and Writing 