Real Deal Growth and Lava Hot Tropes

Hello dear Patron~

Staying cool I hope? Things have been warming up and I am already feeling it. Humid days are literally my arch nemesis in this life, apparently, but I fight the good fight.

Popping my head in early and waving hello. Have you been reading the Misadventures of Lirael and Sylvania? Or was it the other way around? Part of me wants to keep the names alphabetical, but I think Sylvie is a bit selfish and hard-headed in some ways and would demand to be listed first. It has been an exciting ride so far. I really like these two girls. Look forward to more spicy fun this week with those two. Lots of fun things coming up in that story so far.

I had the silliest thought after reading a reddit thread on an smut author sub reddit. Someone lamented being stuck writing because their story 'didn't make sense'. Someone responded along the lines of 'just because it's smut, doesn't mean it shouldn't make sense or be well thought out'. Obviously (sarcasm) that person was downvoted for it. Gosh I love and hate reddit sometimes. Many of the thoughts that were supported were along the lines of 'Just pump out short stories, and who cares about it making sense. People aren't reading smut for some logical consistency, etc.'

Hm. Made me think a bit. Since one one hand I really relate to that 'getting stuck on things making sense' aspect of writing. I like when my stories line up and are consistent and 'make sense'. But I also know that there are plenty of times where we have to suspend disbelief or handwave inconsistencies. I do it often, and it is fantasy at the end of the day. There aren't pills that make your penis and breasts larger (at least how we want them to grow), right?

But, I do try to put in that time, or at the very least, the thought of making things make sense on some level. It's my personality type and/or general preference for stories with smut as opposed to smut with a semblance of a story. I consider myself very successful, but am nowhere near the giants on amazon and such who have backlogs of hundreds of short stories. Gosh, that will be the day. But I am finding typos and questionable premises and writing in the first free thousand words and the thing is only 5~10k words long. Ah, don't get me started.

The point of whatever this rant is (Be thankful I had to step away at the end of that paragraph, I was winding up to a bit of a tirade, but it is neither here nor there. There are some authors who have really catchy tag lines and such and they stuck with me. So I wanted to toy with the idea of something along those lines and establish what makes my writing different from other people.

The first thing that came to mind was a bit tongue in cheek, but would go like this:

'Elegant Smut for the Refined Enthusiast' or something like that. So over the top and really doesn't tell anyone anything about my writing.

But the thought process has begun.

How would you describe my writing and stories and characters or pacing or fetishes I splash around in?

'Bigger and bigger, but never too far'

I wonder how dangerous and corny it is to try and think these things out loud.

'Marvelous growth, nice and easy. Bigger everything, squishy squeezy.'

Ahhh, I want to add the flavors, but want it to feel slightly clever.


Anyway, maybe the rant about successful authors who do things differently from me would have been a better read? Haha.

Anyway, please look forward to more goodness this week and don't hesitate to throw your tag line ideas at me!

Ta ta~

~Michelle