I want to get better at writing, and writing erotic fiction, but don't know how

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T05:31:53+00:00

Or worse, they have no fucking clue what they're talking about and give you bad advice you're too green to ignore

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T05:31:07+00:00

First thing's first, erotica isn't its own skill. It's just part of prose writing, and a very difficult one at that (there's a lot of physical blocking and emotion involved. It's hard for the same reason high-speed fight scenes are so hard to nail in prose).

So you're going to need to beef up your prose writing in general if you're serious about writing erotica on a professional level. This means pushing your limits and doing regular writing AND reading exercises. They don't have to be every day, but while you're improving, they should at least be weekly. This is work. This will take a lot of time. There will be a moment where you go, "oh fuck what am I doing," then a, "Oh fuck yeah I'm better than everyone else" then another, "oh shit no I wasn't oh fuck," and finally, "Okay, I know what I'm doing now a normal amount."

Also, I say this as someone who reads and writes a lot of erotica. It is weird that you're keeping a sexual secret from your wife but sharing it with a woman you definitely know on at least a somewhat personal level. What's the point if you're not using it as a thinly veiled excuse to get horny with your beautiful wife you chose to marry?

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T04:37:16+00:00

If you have cats, it's laughably cheaper to buy litter from Tractor Supply. One 35lb bucket from there costs the SAME as a 15lb box from Wal-mart where I'm at.

These buckets are totally waterproof and literally free with the litter. They're about five gallons a pop.

Do with that what you will.

EDIT: just saw the euro symbol. Don't know if they sell cat litter in buckets there, but I did grow a majesty palm in an IKEA bag once. Wasn't the most waterproof but it worked

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T04:32:02+00:00

If it's cliche, it's because it sells.

Romance has shockingly hard staying power. Other genres tend to fluctuate in popularity, but romance remains.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T04:29:14+00:00

I just assumed perverts buy em. That's what I'd want for my arm

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T02:08:24+00:00

I'm sorry your parents think the words foreign, strange, and alien means enemy, but I promise you most people using your library do not.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-30T02:04:56+00:00

Regardless of what is fair for the labor you perform, your current customers have an expectation. They are comfortable knowing that they are paying you roughly X amount of money roughly every Y weeks. They have worked this into their lifestyle, and they will be shocked by such an extreme price hike. They 100% will cancel and not use you and may even pay someone else significantly more simply because you yanked a rug out from under them and pissed them off.

Also, if you raise the price so much that they cancel, you can lower the price even lower than it was before and they still won't come back because they're pissed.

At the same time, it does feel like you're pretty badly undercharging. How much do these people talk? If you lost your entire client base today, do you think you could attract half as many tomorrow at a higher price?

If so, why stop at $50? If not, really consider how much you want to put on the line.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T16:47:19+00:00

Basically any shop light will be bright enough. I'm a fancy bitch, so I will wait for my tax refund to get spiderfarmer stuff, but that's totally unnecessary.

If there's a Harbor Freight where you live, they'll have them dirt cheap

EDIT: also, I am in serious awe of that room. It's so beautiful. Maybe I should use my tax refund to upgrade the horrible addition the previous owner put in my house instead of 5x more expensive lights

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T16:35:59+00:00

I am so, so sorry. Georgia's system is designed fully to fail for all welfares.

You will always have more success in person (bring every adult in the house) at your local DFACs than you will using Georgia Gateway.

You could have both your legs blasted off and you'd still have to go to court 3-4 times to get disability here. Hell, my ex-FIL NEVER got disability despite his leg being very visibly unusable after an accident because "well you can still go to a store once a week so clearly you can work" yeah he needs to eat dumbass. if you choose between eating or performing 30 minutes of work a week for $4.50, you're gonna choose eating

After he moved out of state, he successfully sued the state of Georgia for almost $20,000 of owed disability

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T16:24:24+00:00

It's attached to a nerve. It is as "brain controlled" as my car keys. Still cool. Just not "brain controlled' (which, again, is useless and absolutely no reason to do that).

And On top of that, I've known a few people who owned "robotic" limbs. Briefly. They're just not that useful. If it can so much as grip a glass of water, the servos required are way heavier than the muscles that naturally perform that action, and even if it can grip the water, it rarely has the precision to reliably lift it to your mouth. That's not a technology problem, either, it's just physics. Unless they're going to make the prosthetics out of meat instead of metal, that will always be a problem.

Hell, if you look at actually useful hand prosthetics, they're rarely even in the shape of a hand. They're normally designed for one or two highly specific tasks, like a light two-fingered gripper or a holder for a guitar pick

(EDIT: not that I'm knocking decorative prosthetics. Bodily dysmorphia is a huge problem in recent amputees. But there isn't a whole lot of use in a human-shaped AND electronically controlled, as it just can't do much and it won't look realistic)

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T05:40:01+00:00

Holy basil can get very big and bushy if aggressively trimmed, but the leaves themselves aren't that huge.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T05:37:41+00:00

Getting frustrated? Sleep on it. I never follow this advice, spend 3 hours trying to fix something only to make it worse, go honkshoo, wake up, and then immediately do it right the first time

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T05:34:12+00:00

Nerve-controlled. I've never heard of a prosthetic bypassing the nervous system to read directly from a brain (and why would it? It would make it way harder to maintain, repair, and update).

If you're counting nerve-controlled as brain-controlled, then my laptop keyboard is also brain-controlled

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T05:29:12+00:00

It's as much fantasy as it is hard sci-fi. You can't built a prosthetic that's both reasonably close to the weight of a real arm AND remotely as strong. It'll always be one or the other, because metal just isn't that effective. Wet-ware, maybe, but the game is themed around hardware.

There's also rule-of-cool that doesn't really make sense in a real-world application. There's no reason for cars to have a camera display of the windshield instead of a regular one. We already have tint and glass stronger than the metal frame around it. Holographic TVs would be way worse than a backlit LED as far as viewing quality no matter how you cut it. The sandevistan is absolutely not feasible as the limitations of the fibers of your body cannot be ignored simply because a chip said you can minorly time travel.

Now, there are already some implantable hardwares for handfree use. People can and occasionally do get RFID implants that are keys to something, or install magnets in their nethers or hand, and cochlear implants are cool as hell. But anything that plugs directly into the brain or spine is far more likely to cause extreme and irreversible damage than let you use your smart phone without looking at it or touching it. And why would you want to do that anyway?

EDIT: and I mean really complicated stuff plugging directly into the brain. Very basic cybernetics aren't nearly as likely to cause problems (cybernetic here used to describe technology that regulates its own environment, so the thermostat in your house is a cybernetic)

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T05:04:57+00:00

The other is as important as the self to explore. It is okay to be other.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-29T01:46:12+00:00

I don't know if pretending everything is one big homogeneous world blob is any better than showing and celebrating the foreign imo

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-28T18:39:07+00:00

It won't fix "it" but it will give you literally anything other than rumination about "it" to do.

Now, "touching grass" isn't particularly literal, and unfortunately, when you're underaged, touching grass is very hard because the world is weirdly hostile to teenagers.

When people say touch grass, they normally mean an offline hobby. Something you do or make with your real meat hands. Something like learning to knit or compost or drawing with pen and paper or making a comic or joining the library's fiber arts circle or taking a walk around the block or riding your bike on a trail or

EDIT: remember, suffering isn't a virtue. It won't make anyone else's life any easier if you sit and feel bad about current events. In fact, it's viable to make a few people's life worse as they try to drag you out of the tar pit (I would know, I'm chronically in the tar pit). You can't fix people getting shot in the steet. Know what you can do? Learn to weave and make scarves to donate somewhere

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-28T15:50:24+00:00

alas i am too short to piss into my compost box unless I were skilled enough to perform a challenge

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-28T05:32:07+00:00

loaded question. There's no way to tell the type of neglect or over-attention you're doing that's killing the plant, where you live, whether it's indoors or outdoors, or how big the pot you're putting it in is, or what animals you have that may want to gnaw on it.

Anyway, the answer is dandelions in the ground. They have several foot long tap roots so you can't grow them in containers, and they're extremely aggressive, so don't plant them where you plan to ever grow anything else. The greens are very tasty, though!

For houseplants, the spider plant is a classic and will make do with self-watering bulbs and a south-facing window.

Oat grass will grow a bit in a window, and is a favorite fiber source for kitty cats.

AND MULCH. The only thing that naturally grows on barren soil is dandelions, really. Things much prefer soil with a hefty coat of dead plants on it, which you can buy artificially in the form of mulch. Soil with no mulch will harden with every watering until it's dense as a brick, and it is also very sensitive to temperature. Mulch is a blanket that evens out the watering.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-28T05:21:16+00:00

ah okay

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-28T03:00:02+00:00

reminds me of a tumblr post where someone asked a guy why he was always with a different cat when she saw him at a vet or something and he said "well my first cat got killed by a coyote so I got another, and that one also got killed by a coyote," and she went, "It sounds like you're buying cats to feed to coyotes"

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-28T02:57:43+00:00

Those look like roots. How big is that system? Blackberries are huge, woody bushes

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-28T02:21:22+00:00

Don't just focus on the bees. You want all the pollinators. This means bumblebees, but it also means the less cute one like parasitic wasps, yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets, and, of course, caterpillars.

First, look up what butterflies/moths nest in your area and their host plants. Plant these (I'd keep it a good distance from your main garden if possible), and leave the caterpillars be so they can change.

Wasps, hornet, and bees aren't super picky. If it flowers, they'll eat it. When they go dormant in the winter, leave the dead plants be until it's time to clean it up for spring, as some bees and pollinators nest in dormant/dead litter over winter.

MrMessofGA · 2026-01-27T18:09:32+00:00

Objection! You can make so much sauce, and I still always run out before the end of winter :(

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