Is it Romance, Erotica, or Pornography?

FB_IMG_1451904019609  Tonight I attended my first Erotica Salon gathering. My reason for attending was two-fold. One for the discussion, which was titled Adult Sex Ed. Two, to ‘hear’ what others call erotica since I don’t read it. I’ve heard numerous times that whatever genre you write, that’s what you should read. I’m horrible at that. I also write poetry and rarely read that as well. There were a few erotic poems read tonight, which satisfied my ‘reading’ erotica and poetry simultaneously (in my own way of thinking).  Continue reading Is it Romance, Erotica, or Pornography?

What Are Your Goals (writing or otherwise) for 2016?

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I was encouraged to use NaNoWriMo to complete a rough draft to a fictional memoir I had outlined years ago and I did. I completed over 74k words in the first three weeks of November, on top of weekly blog posts to each of my websites. Continue reading What Are Your Goals (writing or otherwise) for 2016?