Well I'm not really a lurker, I was on the site for all of about 10 minutes before I decided I like what I see and signed up.
So I've never (publicly) written anything other than musings on facebook in the form of long, ranting notes that probably no one ever reads. I was a graphic designer and illustrator for several years though, so I'm familiar with having public review of creative works. My wife has been a fan of erotica for some time, and after her confessing to me how much she loved reading erotica and the effects it had on her, I turned my long-winded self to some erotica fiction specifically for her, between the two of us. I've written her a few short stories, and she eats them up. She keeps going on about how good they are, so I decided I'd get some feedback from completely neutral parties who don't know me, won't worry about offending me if the criticism is negative, and (most importantly) have experience working with literary works and writing on a professional level.
I'm not going to post needlessly on random threads to put my post count at 50 to have the ability to create a new thread, so I'll just go this way: If you would like to read a few shorts (and I do mean short, only a few pages) and give some honest feedback; right, wrong or indifferent; PM me with an email address I can shoot the text files to. Or if you prefer, I can simply copy the text and respond via PM assuming these boards allow PM's to run high on character count).
Just to go ahead and let you folks know who I am, name's James, I'm former graphic designer/illustrator turned law enforcement turned active duty military, currently deployed. My internet connection here in country is pretty bad, and heavily censored, so I haven't been able to check out a lot of the links I see in threads. My exposure to erotica has been extremely limited up to now, only having read a few chapters out of a few of my wife's books. From what I gather reading through the boards, my writing is pretty damn graphic. I've noticed that some of you guys tend to be fairly hard-line about the differences between erotica and porn writing, but fortunately for all of us I didn't write any of this stuff so far for anyone but my wife.
So yeah, that's about it. If you'd like to have a read or two, give some honest feedback, get ahold of me. I look forward to hearing from some of you guys, and getting the opportunity to find out what other people think of my writing.
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I should say that, despite the way it sounded above, I'm not just here for a one-off, lol! I really enjoy writing these shorts, and wouldn't mind making a solid time-sink out of it... That is, unless you guys have nothing but horrible feedback about how terrible I am and that I should never desecrate another page with my drivel!