Thursday, December 13, 2007

Buffing up the Blog: Writing in the Buff

I write erotica naked.
I bought a book on how to do it a couple years ago, and follow its formatting meticulously. Lots of descruption, tons of detail, adjectivs like perky, dripping, flushed, sweaty, etc. It's really quite easy once you have the structure down. Writing from the male gaze is the trickiest; I have trouble seeing the appeal of the sweaty canal of cleavage on a busty high school nurse.
At first my erotica came out stilted, cheesy, childish even - hardly the Anais Nin style I was aspiring to. Then one day, as nearly everything I owned was in the washing machine - I made the astonishing discovery that my erotica writing improved tenfold if I wrote naked.
I sit at my desk with my feet on each knee, yoga style, and turn up the heat. I drink tea from a stained mug and sporatically push my glasses further up my nose. My hair is piled in a greasy bun on top of my head, and my bare ass has red, raised welts on it from the slats of my chair. In short - I am probably the unsexiest sight to behold this side of Chez Pierre. But something about it just clicks. Sensual phrases pour out of me, steamy like my tea, and vivid scenarios that I have never and probably will never experience rise effortlessly from my pen.This stuff is good. I guess it could be my imagination, could be that I've read a lot of erotica, could ven be the formula I follow, but really, I think it's that I'm naked.

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