Back to basics…

For those of you less familiar, with my original concept, let me take a few moments to explain.  For those of you already familiar, skip to the 3rd paragraph! 

The idea was to discover references to DH "Dear Husband"  the original blog, still stands as my personal journal.  At one point, the DH references took a direction of their own, which I felt were not entirely family oriented.  Thus was born, DH Spicy.  I transposed the spicier posts to this blog and kept the other blog on a more personal note.

 

3rd Paragraph

I went on with the Spicy blog.  It’s been nice to be noted, but most of all it’s been wonderful to give, those who deserve it, some exposure.  By searching and exposing I feel I brought together a basic group of talented people who can write freely about their own experiences and others that are very good at expressing their feelings into fiction.

As I did this, I obviously started excluding my roots: - The DH factor took a back seat.  Mind you I find, that many writers are those more confident in their own relationships.  Very often married.  At the beginning I also found that most writers were women.  I use to point it out when I found a guy’s blog.  Searching blogs through Google or blog engines; it was very rewarding putting my lists together a couple of times a week.  At the same time, I found On line Magazines worth reporting and a few other trinkets. 

What is the point of getting exposure?  Is it "Look what I can do!"  "See what I did?"  Is it responding to a dare?  Or is it just a flavour of blogging?  What cute little surveys that I run once in a while show, (btw, response has been very poor of late) is that most writers in this field, let’s call it adult blog, erotic writing, show n tell…whatever, would prefer their mom and dad and close friends and brothers and sisters and kids not know about it.  But the rest of the world must know about it, other wise what’s the point?

To a non blogger, the above statement would make absolutely no sense, yet it does to bloggers.  Most of us have day jobs that we’d like to keep.  Scandalous it might be, if the word got out.  What would the Jones’ think!  There’s also the element for some, that it’s "my little secret" while others may eventually share with their close ones, and some will do it, ’till they get caught.

Express yourself through a reality check or fiction using the www world as the validation.  It is quite a challenge if you think about it, and it works!  A hell of a lot better than what the Jones might say.  The Jones are probably prudes anyway.  So’s your boss! (or maybe not).

Last September, a new concept came up.  Porn review site,  The Sugarbank, put together a sign up system to bring forward erotic blog writers that wanted exposure.  Excellent idea, the first rounds, if my memory serves me right were entitled Bloggasm.  Sam Sugar, publisher, found obvious success with it,  and it became The Sugasm list.  People sign up, must qualify to basic criterias and they get published.  Part of this qualification is to republish the list on your blog… You can get the real Mcoy of how to go about it by reading the Sugasm FAQ.  (I always wondered why people post this list on their blog).  This list publishes weekly and many transcribe it to their site.   I welcome any corrections to my concept of it here.

The point is, it’s another outlet for writer’s get out there.  More recently, The Secret Brain’s Artful Dodger came out with a similar concept, BlogStormz with perhaps less bells and whistles attached to it.  Very pleasant and easy to take part in.  I haven’t done a full study, but a quick study would show that not everyone cross posts their links to both BlogStormz and Sugasm.  BlogStormz, really doesn’t have the package that will qualify you or not, compared to Sugasm.  You pretty well qualify to BlogStormz, as long as you leave a link.  Yet I found they attract a slightly different crowd.  The Sugasm thing is perhaps too much  baggage for some, while others may feel they need to carry that baggage to belong.  Whatever!  I feel they are both valid conduits to get exposure.

 

But there’s so much more…

…outside of Blog World if you’d like to get exposure.  Here are some other channels I found to get proper exposure and perhaps a proper crack at getting published:

Suite 101 - Very structured, in 4 easy steps guidelines and resources.

Venus Press -" We help our authors promote and grow fast in the publishing world."

Clean Sheets - This one is more about exposure.

Erotica-Readers.com - Writing is like making love. Don’t worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process. —Isabel Allende.   I know the name is about readers, but there’s plenty for writers here too.

Literotica - It has an excellent set of guidelines to submit to their site.

Sensual Venus - Take a good look at this puppy, explore the site too. 

Writing-world.com - Offers plenty of tips and guidelines for writing in general.

I persnoally think the blog factor has done a lot in the last year for self expression containing sexual content.  The terms erotica, adult writing, adult blog are seen much more.  This certain group knows how to control.  Where not to cross the line into porn.  Knows when and where to stop.  At the same time it knows how far to push and keep it a tasty story.  how to create a fantasy and how to turn the fantasy into a possibility.

So who’s reading?  Well I have found that it’s a shared interest group at the blogging level.  I for one, wouldn’t want that aspect of it to disapear.  My stats show a similar story, that people from other blogs are visiting.  The truth is, once a person gets looped into it, he/she checks out the other links.  Even though  it appears on my stats to come from another blogger, it could be a total stanger visiting that has just left another blog.  A lot of Google searches.

So now can you add to this? 

Writers

Can you give me 5 reasons or more why you write?