Today's been productive. 2,800 words of novel written. I'm nearly at the 10,000 words required for the initial pitch. Of course, I need to go through it to make sure they're the best possible words they could be. Luckily, I've got a mate who used to be an editor of erotic novels and he's agreed to go through it with me before I submit it.
There's something a bit weird about showing a mate erotic stuff I've written. It's one thing telling mates I run a sex site for women and quite another showing them my own explicit stories. Showing people your writing is hard enough. When it's sexual in content, it's so much more personal. Guess that's why people use pen names.
Sure that coming up with a pen name is going to be the hardest part of things, if the discussions I've heard mates have over 'What are we going to call our band' are anything to go by.
On the plus side, at least I don't have to come up with a name that five other people also agree with, so at least that makes it simpler.
Posted by emilyd at August 19, 2002 12:31 AM