Author Talk! Send us your questions!

[rageprufrock]

We're going to be lucky enough to have thehoyden on the /report the weekend of Nov. 5/6 to answer all of your burning questions about life, the universe, everything, and of course, writing. Send us your questions! Leave them in comments here, or drop us a line at our Twitter account.

ETA: Gah. Yes. Apparently my brain's a lot deader post-work than I thought. Thanks for pointing it out, guys.

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[trinity_clare]

...November?

[grammarwoman]

I've had this open in a tab for a WEEK as I've tried to formulate the question in my head. I think I'm just going to have to stumble my way into it - please forgive the awkwardness.

This goes to the collective group of thehoyden and Pru and M; whoever wants to answer it can. Or you can mock me and I'll slink away, your choice.

So...to porn or not to porn. (Hopefully to porn.) Because frankly, you guys are freaking SPECTACULAR at writing it.

1. What's your history in writing porn? Was there a breakthrough for you at some point where it got better and/or easier? (Most often for me, I get to the point in a story I'm writing that I realize I want to put porn there, but the sheer terror of committing it to words makes me drop in a promissory note and reluctantly come back to flesh it out [heh] later.) Or is this one of the cases of writing in general, where doing it over and over led to improvement?

2. How do you balance the emotional/internal feelings with the physical/external actions, and make it so freaking hot? I've heard badfic porn described as basically "Naked Twister narrated with all the clinical passion of tax forms", which too easily applies to mine.

3. Would you rather have an author fade to black or porn where porn is due, even if it's not good?

Thanks for putting up with my query, as bumbling as it is.

Also, many, many kudos for your podcast. I've enjoyed them all immensely.