β—† You don’t have to perform disgust

You don’t have to apologize, or perform authorial disgust, for dark, violent, sexual, cruel or problematic topics in the fiction you create. Fiction does not exist to teach an audience a moral lesson. You as an author are not required to be your audience’s moral teacher. You can have bad things happen– you can have…

β—† It’s a fantasy, not a reality.

When people– and especially young women– are attracted to “abusive” and “controlling” and “violent” male characters in fiction– The fantasy is not about being abused, or controlled. The fantasy is about a partner who is devoted to you, who takes care of you, who will defend you, to a larger than life degree. And because…

β—† 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…

β—† 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…

β—† Interpretations

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

β—† Sit down, put the words on the page.

✏️ Sit down, put the words on the page. ✏️ Sit down, put the words on the page. ✏️ They don’t have to be good words. ✏️ They don’t have to be many words. ✏️ They don’t have to be inspired words. ✏️ They don’t have to be motivated words. ✏️ Sit down, put the…