◆ All Fiction Has Artistic Merit

✨ All fiction is art and has artistic merit. ✨ Yes, including the novel you hid in a drawer. ✨ Yes, including Marvel movies. ✨ Yes, including soap operas. ✨ Yes, including slasher flicks and torture porn. ✨ Yes, including fanfiction. ✨Yes, including smut, porn, and smutty porny fanfiction. ✨ All fiction expresses ideas and…

◆ The Literary Value of Smut

Let’s talk about how to think about the artistic merit inherent in smut and pornography. Smut and porn have the same amount of artistic merit and worthiness as every other kind of fiction, and can be interrogated in the same way. What emotions or mood does the creator try to evoke? Does the creator focus…

◆ Interpretations

👉 Sometimes, what one audience interprets as horror, another audience interprets as romance. 👉 Sometimes, what one audience interprets as romance, another audience interprets as horror. 👉 As an writer, you have to accept that every audience brings their own biases and ideals to their interpretation of your work. 👉 And that is totally normal…

◆ There’s no such thing as failure when you’re writing

⭐ There’s no such thing as failure when you’re writing as long as you’re actually getting words on the page. ⭐ Writing that has to be edited or deleted later still gives you practice and makes you a better writer. ⭐ Writing even when you don’t feel inspired or feel like you’re writing the wrong…

◆ Don’t be afraid when writing

❣️ Don’t be afraid of being earnest in your writing. ❣️ Don’t be afraid of putting your desires and fears in your story. ❣️ Don’t be afraid of writing the story that you want to read. ❣️ Don’t be afraid of making your characters ‘too cool’ or ‘too fun’, or ‘too sexy’. ❣️ Don’t be…