Yesterday I wrote about the three wisdoms (or graces, in the Eastern tradition). These are the sources of knowledge: the intellect, the teacher, the texts.There is a fourth grace. The self. Nothing happens without your involvement.Today, the three anti-graces. These…
Category: writing
Fiverr Gigger
Now that I've gotten a copy of Vellum and learnt how to use its basic features, I'm out to see if I can improve the world.Not just my own stories, though the improvement in presentation is clear to see, but…
Fresh and fun
Hot on the heels of my purchase of Vellum, the extraordinary book publishing program, my first project was a fresh new edition of my first published erotica story, Coding by Candlelight.This time the contents page looks and works as it…
Casus Vellum
One of the first questions I had when I got into this game was "How do I turn my words into an e-book?"It all seemed very difficult for a technical dunce like myself. The simple act of creating a title…
Camp Coffee
You may call me Muggins. It's Camp NaNoWriMo time and seduced by the Queen of Sex, Vickie Vaughan, I have signed up for another stint of self-flagellation and stress.I am committed - and I use that word advisedly - to…
Exquisite feeling
There once was a lass from DarjeelingWho danced with exquisite feeling.Not a sigh, not a word,Not a sound could be heardSave the fly buttons hitting the ceiling.Kelanie Black writes the same way. When a book has hardened nipples in the…
One red beach
My Work in Progress (WIP) is another research-intensive story. I guess I like looking stuff up and downloading books and getting immersed in details.Omaha Beach, then and now. Two very different places, and both very well documented. Maps, videos, photographs,…
Poetry between us
https://youtu.be/QC5C7v5XNnQ You know, when I started this thing a few months ago, I opened all the usual social media accounts, to gain some links to others doing the same sort of thing.Twitter was just one channel, and I never expected…
Norman story
A few days ago, I mentioned a story idea based on D-Day, the Second World War landings in Normandy. A place I love, and a fascinating and momentous occasion in our history.I've been thinking of a way to tell a…
How to be the Queen of Sex
Vickie Vaughan and her erotic stories have appeared in this blog before. She not only knows how to write white-hot sex scenes that put the reader into the heat of the action, but she constructs a plot that pulls the…
