I’ve received some great feedback from you all about my writing. You have no idea how much I appreciate that because writing is actually my true passion. It took me almost forty years to even figure that out.
Yesterday I spoke a bit about working. Before I took over this business a couple of years ago, I had been working as a romance author. I always enjoyed writing but I never knew really how much until then. My grammar and spelling might be shit, but I can spin a good tale. I LOVE IT.
Something that I’m guessing no one ever thought about when reading my novellas (you DID read them, right?) is not just how much work it is to come up with an entire story from scratch, but as a woman with a disability, how difficult it is to write as a woman without one. Talk about #fantasy!
The story line, plot and characters are ‘easy’ for me. I have a very active imagination and with the romance genre, I have a lot of play as far as personalities. I get to insert (pun intended) a lot of my corny sense of humor, cheesy one liners, and sexual innuendos. Add in the sex and it’s basically everything I love wrapped into one.
The hard part is writing explicit detailed sexual encounters. Partly because it’s almost like having sex in public, but mostly because I really have to think about the actual logistics. My body parts may be the same, but the way I use them and the way I move are definitely different than the average woman.
It’s not anything too crazy or out of the box (hehehe) but different none-the-less. So when I have to describe in those books move by move, it requires a lot of thought. Like, would my leg go there? Would my body be positioned like that? How deep does that thing actually go? (j/k on that last one 😜).
In my own life when I have sex, the act is the same but the process is slightly different. (The two times I actually did it. Remember, my dad is reading…shhhh). My husband and I are basically experts at this point - at doing it OUR way. If I had to describe that it would be much easier because it’s MY reality and not fantasy - although it is truly FANTASTIC #knowwhatimsayin
I always have anxiety about how the sex scenes will read because of that one reason - and also because I always just have anxiety about everything - but mostly that.
I hope to make writing my full time job again - romance or otherwise. It makes me truly happy and again, I really appreciate the feedback.
*My mom would probably like me to add that I wrote a book about my life as well. It’s also pictured. It’s not as racy - not even close. It’s not even how I would write it if I did it today, but it’s out there
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