I write terrible porn.

[pyrephox]

I really do. I wanted to write porn, it's turning into a science fiction short story. The aliens who formed homosexual pairs except to have three-way orgies of conception were only supposed to be an excuse for hot, hot man/woman/man action. They weren't supposed to have /culture/. But now they do. And I'm interested in it. And the story is too damned talky to be porn, and too pornish to be good genre fiction.

Blast and damn.

Comments

[cpip.livejournal.com]

Pshaw. There's plenty of precedent for talky porn (see some Brad Armstrong flicks, or Anne Rice writing as A.N. Roquelaire) or pornish genrefic (see Piers Anthony or, for a softer edge, Rose Estes).

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

Except that it's not...sexy. Unless you're turned on by discussions of alien social evolution and culture. Which, admittedly, I find vastly interesting. But, blah. Maybe it'll get better once I get to the sex, and then I can go through and cut out the rambling.

[bimmer1200.livejournal.com]

The line between smut and genre fiction is an incredibly thin one. Hell, aim it at the 'romance' market. From what I understand, there are an increasing number of genre fiction romances. And romances cover everything from mildly veiled allusions which rapidly fade to black, to just this side of Letters to Penthouse Compendium.

That's just if you're planning to try to make it profitable. If it's just for fun, there's always a.s.s.m. Those perverts are always looking for new stroke reading material.