Back to erotica - what's happening with my work

Well, to be honest I've been too upset for the past two weeks to write anything.

But, I was working on my next chapter, and I will get back to it in time.

First, a note on "Naked Girl". This story is in a semi permanent limbo. I've been getting a lot of feedback on it lately, so for those people who read this I thought I would say something.

A number of things have 'tossed me out' of working on the story:

• Chapter four really didn't work right for me. I posted it way back when just to 'get it off my desk', but I have never felt it came out right. It will definately be rewritten when I finally come back to this story.
  
• Chapter 1 begins with her going to school and gives a specific real world date. By the time I posted a few chapters after that that date had passed and a protest at the school in the real world had prevented school from starting for a while. That kind of put the story 'out of sync' for me, so I'll want to rewrite it to make that detail more vague next time.
  
• I want to finish Alandra before I work on anything else, but Alandra has taken a few years longer than I expected.
  

So I hope to get back to it in time, but I have to deal with those factors first.


On my current writing, the weekend chapter of Alandra takes all of the various stresses, puts them on the 'stage', and has everything come into conflict in order to give us our conclusion.

With the understanding that this is a pre-edit and will likely change by posting time, here's a sample from the writing:

         Breakfast wasn't. Melinda's parents had somehow managed to not yet wake up despite the questions I'd heard in the hall. She had an angry look in her eyes when she turned away from glancing down the hall as we left the bathroom. Daddy apparently wanted his little girl back in the closet.

         Not my business though, I had my own shit to deal with. Well, she was a good part of that shit. I'd let this girl come into my life and nearly sweep me away, all cause she knew how to kiss me. But she was really just what the guys called a bitch that didn't know it yet.
         "So we gonna head..." Melinda began, but I cut in.
         "Hey, I'll call you later OK?" I tried to lie, knowing I was probably really speaking the truth. Then I had to go and qualify it with, "check up on May, we all usually hit the mall or something in the afternoon."

         Fuck, I could'a been out clean too. She had a look on her face as I walked away from her house that reminded me way too much of Jennifer. How the fuck did I get a magnet for lezzies in love stapled to my ass anyway?
         "What is all this shit?" Pa said as I walked in the door. He was standing there in his robe, bleary eyed, with a joint in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other.
         The living room looked like hell. Popcorn, cigs, and a bit of weed were tossed about. I could swear there was a cum stain on the TV, I was pretty sure there was one on Kitten's belly, and she was just lying there out cold on the couch with one leg half draped onto the coffee table. She looked like a used whore. Believe me, I knew the look. "Fuck if I know," I said. "Take your pills yet Pa?"
         He just saluted with his coffee cup, glanced my nude form over for a bit, and went off into his room.

         Kitten stirred so I made my way to her, "Hey..." I started. "Check out time girl."
         "Huh? Where am... Oh!" She bolted up, and bounded off for the restroom. What the fuck had those twins done to her?
         A boy I didn't know came out of my room scratching his nuts and saying "Yo..." He knocked on the door to the twins room.
         "You got till I finish blinking to get the fuck out of my house or you lose those nuts for good," I said, clenching a fist.
         Recognition or something must've kicked in, cause he was out the door, still nude, before I had a chance to step out of the way and give him a clean escape. Still I let him pass after bumping me. Hassling him would've only meant I would'a had to deal with him more.
         I found his pants or something like it on my bed, and just tossed it out the window to the alley out back. Ok, I took the cash from his wallet first.
         Kitten came out of the restroom about the same time as Rosa popped out of her room. "Hey, where's Joe?" Rosa asked.
         "Joe? What the fuck was he doing in my room?" I asked.
         "Hey, you weren't using it," she said.
         "Joe passed out after doing Rosa," Kitten offered. So I'd just ripped off the guy who took my little sister's virginity. Maybe I -would- go kick in his nuts later...
         "Don't get involved," I said, with a wave of my hand at Kitten. "Your parents know you're here?"
         She got a look of sudden terror on her face and ran for the door, then ran back looking around the living room saying, "Oh shit!"
         "I think your purse is in the kitchen," Rosa said.
         Kitten ran off, then came back with a small shoulder bag. "Bye! Tell Manuel I said... um, well, tell him..."

As you can see, Alandra still has issues. Some of them self created, some of them not.

As for the ending:

         {...} It was the last time I would ever see her nude.
         And that was when we heard the police sirens.
[End...]

[...Epilogue]

{...skipping a lot...}

         I was finally home, if you could call it that. Eight years since that fateful night. I'd gotten my life back together and moved away from that town.
         San Francisco. Pa once told me I was born here, but they moved away after what happened with her. I guess it was fitting, me coming here. After all, me and her together; ...

         Now I was sitting here in a cafe on West Portal, waiting for the principal to show up. The college kids behind the counter had nothing on bill, and there was none of that friendly couch atmosphere we used to love. It was a busy get your latte and go place, and I had one of maybe five seats in the joint, watching the back of a naked redhead sitting in the burrito joint across to way; wishing she'd turn around, wishing it would be her.
         The new principal of the local high school, a place that used to be called Macateer, wanted to meet me before I came in. Sent me an email saying he had a special case to discuss with {...}

Well... If I put up enough for those pieces to make sense, I'd be handing you the actual weight of the ending now wouldn't I?

Its in work, and when I start to feel better I'll get to finishing it. If it ends up matching my outline well, a lot happens, it'll be erotic as ever, and hopefully something the fans will like.

Back to the topic of censorship

The call came about a week ago. It was a call I'd been waiting for / anticipating for almost three years. One of my relatives who was on the run got arrested by the police - facing life for a third strike.

The crime is where it gets troubling. The victim was a -very- young member of my extended family and the crime was sexual assault.

Other members of my family, who knew fully of the truth of the crime, hid the offender. That included the parents of the victim's mother - who when she found out where the offender was hiding was the one to get the police to the scene.


People who prey on others sexually are 'sick fucks' and I'm not going to censor that opinion no matter what the fuck the rest of you feel. When the victim is a young child, it is only worse.


Right now I've got a group of people claiming I censor certain views on my site. When I proved to them that I did not, when I even reworked that site to get in as neutral a perspective as I could, they only continued their charge with more demands.

These people want those of us who find literature about stories like the above true story to not be allowed to prescreen for it. They want it there where we are forced to be exposed, forced to possibly even have to relive the traumas of our real existence.

Fuck people who get squicked, fuck the hot codes. That's what they call for.


Now, I am very much opposed to censorship, so I have worked hard to make a site that is inclusive even of the opinions I find repulsive. That isn't easy. Allowing people to prescreen for their squicks without censoring the reading against others is a tough balancing job. But I do it.


And that is where censorship rises up again.

Some of these people would now demand that while I do not censor them, I myself must not be allowed to voice my opinions or my outrage. I should not be allowed to respond when attacked, insulted, and demeaned by them. I should not be allowed to state my stance on pedo, snuff, and rape. Or that I must speak to those who abuse me with polite respect. They call me a censor for objecting to this kind of material even as I link to it on my website from my stance against censorship, and then when I say that I have that objection in my personal opinions they demand I be censored and not voice that view...

Who is trying to censor who in this?

I for one, have been willing to go vastly out of my way to hand the floor to people I do not have a liking for. That is the definition of anti-censorship, letting even those you oppose speak.


This is my blog, this is my personal space, and that is my view. I won't censor myself nor let you censor me. Deal with it. If you fucks don't like what I have to say, start your own fucking blog.

I may have some rough ways of stating myself, I may have views you do not like, I may be crass, rude, and violent. I might not even like you, and frankly, who the fuck ever gave you the right to be liked? Nobody has to like anybody to treat them fairly. That's life. Some of us like each other and some of us don't - dosn't stop anyone from working together or even from being fair.

I won't censor my speach, but I will keep it fair in the public sphere. I will run my site fiarly, and leave my bias to my opinions.

There is no valid mandate that I should have my views censored-even by myself-while only those who oppose my views be allowed to speak.

The 'World of Naked in School' Story Festival

The 'World of Naked in School' Story Festival

Hello;

June 5th is World Naturism Day, and what better way to celebrate than getting it all wrong. :) The 'World of Naked in School' Story Festival is a 'tongue somewhere other than on or in the cheek' response to the Naturists.

If you've been around here a few years you probably remember 'Karen Naked in School' back in 2001, along with a whole host of stories that followed after it in the same theme:

You come to school monday morning only to discover you have to attend in the nude for the next week.

After a few bursts the format largely moved off the 'front pages' of the assd community, but we're still out there, and this festival seeks to bring new life to the genre as well as inspire other genres that hit the same fetishes.


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Participation:

Participation is simple, write your story, post it to any of assm, asstr, EWP, ASN, or storiesonline and then let me know where it is so it can be linked in to the festival. ASN Members will need to give permission to repost the story on the NiS website or any other permanent archive, as ASN doesn't archive in an easy to find manner. If we get enough participation, the stories will be set aside on the NiS Website as festival stories, if not they will be integrated in with the other listings with a call out such as [Festival].

This is not an official festival of any sort, and there isn't a solid deadline per se. Stories will be announced as they come out. Once we've got a decent number of them, we'll have the members of the NiS mailing list pick the top three for a special call out.

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The basic genre:

While there has been a lot of way too serious and way too political commentary on NiS, the genre itself really is somewhat silly, optimistic, sexy, and often romantic. Think of that classic dream of suddenly finding yourself naked or in your undies at school, work, church, or somewhere equally inappropriate. That's where NiS begins, but built around the naughty pleasure of being both embarrassed and turned on by this. While the stories often start out humiliating, NiS is not a humiliation genre. Part of the silliness is that it does all turn out for the best. You're appealing to readers who, on some level, secretly wish it was them being tossed out there naked. It's their fantasy, and in that fantasy they have reason to like what happens to them.

While it is optimistic, it can also be a dystopia of heavy handed and extreme social engineering. While that can be horrifying, in the genre here for some reason that might even make no sense it works itself out enough to be fun and erotic. It 'excuses itself' of certain notions of gritty-realism in order to be 'in on the joke'.

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Story Guidelines:

Stories can come in one of three basic themes. For extra fun, work 'World Naturism Day' into the story in some preferably humorous way.

Here are the themes:
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NiS:
First, post a 'standard' Naked in School story for either high school, college, or work. Read the guidelines here:
NiS Writer's Guide
Paying special attention to the page on the pamphlet:
NiS Program Pamphlet

To learn what this entails in detail. A writer should at the least read the 'core' stories linked on the NiS website, and reading through at least the 'class of 2003' authors will help to give a better picture (though some very good authors did not join us until 2004... Heck, read it all if you like it. I did. :) ).

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World of NiS:
Write a story set somewhere in the 'Naked in School' world that has a major theme something involving the changing nature of a world moving over to an acceptance of public nudity of an intentionally sexualized nature. This could be anything from a simple encounter with 'the naked freaks' to a 'living naked' story, with a range of options between.

In the core of NiS that world means a clothed male, naked female situation which often for even silly reasons works to the advantage of the nude individual. Public sexual expression may or may not be accepted, but it tends to happen at some point either way. Males and females both under twenty one can usually go nude. Some variants have allowed men to go nude as well, but more NiS stories have at some point commented on the illogic but existence of bans on adult male nudity - which itself could provide a theme in the world outside the schools.

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Naked World Fiction:
This is the 'screw this' side of the festival, for authors who reject the NiS idea, but still want to write something guaranteed to turn its fans on. Here you write a story about being in a world full of naked people, and all the absurd sexual encounters that result from taking anything but a Naturist point of view on it. An example might be something like the 'Joan Carter of Mars' story, where a plain Jane bookworm from Earth suddenly finds herself on an alternate Mars of steamy climates and naked oversexed people. Countless other varieties exist, putting your character in the future, alternate worlds, fantasy lands, dreams, comical afterlifes, center of the earth pulp jungles, or whatever.

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Coding:

Please don't make me guess your codes. All stories must be coded according to Uther's guidelines on storycodes:
Uther's Storycoding guide

And if a story delves heavily into the 'hotcodes' it won't be considered for the festival, but might end up linked on the NiS_hotcoded page.
Guide to hotcodes
- may have to scroll or reload to get it to go the right part of the page...

Characters who engage in sexual activity should be at least high school in age and maturity. Stories should not be based on racial, ethnic, national, or class stereotyping - which is not to say that characters in the story need or even should be free of having negative viewpoints or beliefs in stereotypes. Remember, we don't want to insult people, we want to turn them on.

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Questions:
Address any questions on this to me, Tenyari, ideally through the use of the feedback form on this page:
NiS Feedback
But if not, make sure '[NiS Festival]' is in the subject line of your email.