Category Archives: Writing/Writing Exercises

Erotic Fiction Without Sexual Arousal: Attempting the Impossible

by Harper Eliot Posted on 02/10/2012

Sex sells. There are no two ways about it. It’s why Bond girls adorn the opening credits in, at most, skintight catsuits. It’s why Sophie Dahl caused such a stir posing for YSL (above). It’s (at least in part) why … Continue reading →

Posted in Writing/Writing Exercises | Tagged Bond, Fifty Shades of Grey, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, Politics, Religions, Sex, Sophie Dahl, The Sun, Twilight, YSL, Zoe Margolis | 13 Comments

Education is an issue for sex writers too.

by Harper Eliot Posted on 01/09/2012

Erotic artists and sex bloggers are often joined by the same issues. Whether it be feminism, sexual freedom, censorship, Fifty Shades of Grey or Republican politicians who seem to think they have a right to say what American women should … Continue reading →

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, & Society, Writing/Writing Exercises | Tagged education, illiteracy, innumeracy, learning, literacy, numeracy, sex blogging, sex education, The Guardian, UK | 3 Comments

EM-CA Mixed Media Meet in review

by Harper Eliot Posted on 31/08/2012

Scuttling down Wardour Street, through the rain, under my torn, leopard print umbrella, on a grey Saturday afternoon, I found my way to the beautiful – and delicious – Le Pain Quotidien for the EM-CA Mixed Media Meet. A regular … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Erotic Meet, Reviews, Writing/Writing Exercises | Tagged blogging, collaboration, discussion, EM-CA, Erotic Meet Creative Artists, lunch, meet, mixed media, sex writing | Leave a comment

Vanilla/Kinked

by Harper Eliot Posted on 05/05/2012

Having read Fifty Shades of Grey, Remittance Girl concluded that the D/s aspect of writing, perhaps comes through not so much in the acts portrayed, as in the language used to describe them. I came to a similar conclusion when … Continue reading →

Posted in Writing/Writing Exercises | Tagged BDSM, erotic fiction, Fifty Shades of Grey, kink, language, phrases, Sex, terms, vanilla, writing exercise | 8 Comments

Safe Words and Responsible Authorship

by Harper Eliot Posted on 11/04/2012

The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is rarely quoted in full. We often hear: All human beings are born free and equal (in dignity and rights). This opening line is, of course, extremely important. The question … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Kink, Fetish, BDSM & Other Transgressive Sexualities, Philosophy, Politics, & Society, Relationships & Dating, Writing/Writing Exercises | Tagged BDSM, blogging, control, debate, Discerning Dom, discussion, Dominance, Ds, kink, power, safe words, Sex, Submission | 2 Comments

Voice and the Author

by Harper Eliot Posted on 13/03/2012

After last week’s article on identity and pseudonyms I have been giving a lot of thought to the reasons sex writers so often hide behind fake identities. When it comes to sex bloggers – who I defined as those who … Continue reading →

Posted in Literary Forms, Philosophy, Politics, & Society, Writing/Writing Exercises | Tagged author, authorial voice, erotic fiction, interpretation, misinterpretation, narrative voice, narrator, pseudonyms | 4 Comments

The Pseudonym Problem

by Harper Eliot Posted on 08/03/2012

Saturday 3rd March was a day of realisations and new consciousness; over the course of the twelve hours I spent at Eroticon I suddenly became aware of so many truths and complexities inherent in writing about sex, and most of … Continue reading →

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, & Society, Writing/Writing Exercises | Tagged author, erotic fiction, hiding, identities, pseudonyms, writers, writing | 8 Comments

Eroticon 2012 In Review

by Harper Eliot Posted on 07/03/2012

Oh where do I begin! Like many of the people who could be found at Armada House, Bristol on Saturday 3rd March, I had been looking forward to Eroticon 2012 for close to a year. That is quite some build … Continue reading →