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Sassy Lusty Character Takes Over Erotic Dreams!

March 6, 2013 by scarletdarkwood

I’m sure I’m not alone in this experience, and that would be one where a writer has dreams about one of their characters. Let’s face it, our dreams are usually symbolic and people, real or created, can represent things in your life when you dream. In Dance of Desire, one of the main characters is Daren, my red-headed sexy attendant who works at The House. One night, after I’d been writing about him, creating him in my mind, I fell asleep and began dreaming about him–about us. When I woke up, I had to laugh, and then I wondered, do any other writers do this? Apparently it’s not that all uncommon for writers to have night-time experiences with their characters, especially if you write romance or erotica. After all, these characters are real to us. We conjur them up in our minds, and as we write out their scripts in our novels, they begin to take on what feels like a real walking, talking person.

Sometimes when I hear certain songs, I wonder how Daren, in his day and age–the 20’s-30’s–would react to the song. Would he like it? Would it make him want to sing or dance? How would he look in modern day clothing? After all, in my novels, he’s wearing nothing but a loincloth–or nothing! I can hear his voice in my mind when I write dialogue sentences for him. I can see his smile, his teeth, feel his touch. I wonder what he likes to eat. In my novels, he likes fruit, probably because it’s erotic and can be used/eaten in may ways! I think Daren would describe himself as a vegan or a health nut. He cares for his body very much.

Now for the big question as it relates to dreaming about your characters. Since Daren engages in lots of sex, have Daren and I had sex in a dream? Well . . . all I can say is It was good for me, and I’m hoping it was for him too. Oh, wait, he’s only a fictitious character, and I was just dreaming. Anyway, it’s an interesting concept as we writers breath life into each one of our characters, creating the way they walk, talk, dress, swagger . . . and fulfil our naughty desires.

What about everyone else–readers or writers? Do you ever dream about characters in novel? If you have, and you’re not too shy, tell me about it.  I’d love to hear your experience.  

Filed Under: General Writing Tagged With: character, Dance of Desire, Daren, dream, erotic, lusty, sassy, The House, vegan, writer

Hot Rant From Authors: We Are Not Our Characters!

January 14, 2013 by scarletdarkwood

Hello All! I couldn’t help but be inspired to address an issue stemming from a post on Anne Rice’s Facebook page. And this is it: A reader giving an author a one-star review because the reader determined from the author’s past written content, that the author is somehow unworthy of writing on a new, entirely different subject matter. (I’ve included the snippet and link at the very bottom of this posting).

Let’s face it ladies and gentlemen, AUTHORS ARE NOT THEIR CHARACTERS!

Now many of you will say or think that surely an author’s works or genre reflects them. There could be an element of truth to that, perhaps. But there are so many pieces of the puzzle making up one’s personality, belief system, and interests, that it should hardly come as a surprise when an author decides to make a change and write something totally different than what they’ve been known for writing previously.

Writing a different piece of work in a new genre helps keep things spicy for a writer. Some do well with the change, others not so much. But I have to personally admire an author for branching out. It lets me know there’s more to them than just what I read in their novels–that they’re unique human beings with all kinds of perspectives on all kinds of subjects.

This is my personal stance: Readers need to be thoughtful in their reviews, even if they’re negative, and discuss the work and other nuances of the book: not the author or their worthiness in tackling a new area of interest.

I’d be interested in learning how some of you feel about this. Do you think erotica writers are sexaholics or do you think practicing detectives can write nothing but murder mysteries? Could they write a good steampunk novel, maybe? 

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Good Morning, People of the Page. Here’s a recent “review” of Christ the Lord Out of Egypt. Comments welcome. (If anyone thinks an author has no “right” to feature a “review” like this on a FB page, let me observe that reviews like this are read by thousands on Amazon.com, and they remain part of the public review record indefinitely. They’re posted to be read, and to influence, year after year after year, and their effects can be considerable.)

“The Turn-about” a review of: Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt: A…

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Barbara Musinski says: I had heard Anne Rice had converted to the Catholic religion and was so incredibly devoted to it that she just had to write books about the life of Christ. No more horror for her!Well I guess she did not make enough money to make it worth while, so she announced she…

 

Filed Under: General Writing Tagged With: Anne Rice, authors, authors are not their characters, character, Facebook, hot, rant, review, star

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