Publishing

So after several dozen suggestions on the comments of 'Threads: The Island' and lord knows how many emails and messages, I'm converting it to hopefully publish it as an ebook. 

Nervous? Fucking right I am. My first foray into the actual publishing world, putting something I've created up for sale, and hoping people will buy it, but more importantly, like it and want more.

It's a decision that's tinged with sadness though, because it means that once it's actually available as an ebook, it has to come off Literotica, the place where people got to see it in it's original form, complete with typos and littered with celebrities.

So I've been thinking about how to maintain my links with the people who read 'The Island' and generously provided feedback and encouragement, and I've decided that I'm going to post the short stories on Lit for free, and put the novel-length stories onto Smashwords and hopefully Amazon too.

That way it's the best of both worlds, I think. The work that takes the most time and effort gets the chance of financial reward, and the people who liked my writing enough to encourage me to take the step get to read short stories involving the same characters.

As for editing the manuscript for publishing, it's requiring a lot of changes. Anything that could leave me liable has to come out, anything referring to an actual person, or company or product has to come out too, and there's the plot points I wanted to strengthen. Plus an additional twist or six I want to add... However the initial work is going well so far. 

Hopefully you'll buy it when it comes out so you can see The Island at it's best.

JJ

Pervtastic Image Post #28 Affection

So there's only five images in this set - that's rather depressing.

I probably spent a total of 90 minutes looking for intimate, affectionate images between a male Dom and a female sub, seeking to show the love, understanding and affection that exists in many D/s relationships. 

There's a serious shortage of this type of imagery out there. I think that's going to be my first photographic project of the year. BDSM Affection and Intimacy.

JJ

Poll Results

So for the last couple of weeks there's been a few polls on the blog. My thanks to all of you who participated :-)

The first one was about what you'd like to see more of here on the blog. Images seems to be the main focus - more Pervtastic, more Anon Nudes, but with a hefty percentage too of more thoughts. So here's what I'm gonna do....

a) Daily Pervtastic posts, sometimes themed, sometimes not, sometimes more than once a day

b) Trickle the Anon Nudes for now until I step it back up again

c) Keep posting 'Thoughts' posts every couple of days.

d) There 'may' be a guest blogger starting soon, a good friend of mine who's a kink, a fetishist, a wicked laugh and someone who can bring a whole new perspective to the writings here. I'll keep you posted on her as we figure it out.

As for the other poll, Has Anal Gone Mainstream, the results are pretty much a resounding Yes. I have to say first off, the perspectives and comments the blogpost got were really interesting, and also a little frightening. As for the votes, there's a part of me thinks that many of the ticks may have come from some of our gentlemen visitors who hope that Anal has gone mainstrream, rather than voting on the basis of the arguments presented in the post.
Either way, I do love the buttsex. 

As for the two people who voted, 'What's Anal?'... I was one of them. The other made herself known to me last night, and was none other than the guest blogger I mentioned above. I do like a sense of humour!

New polls coming soon, folks.

JJ

Pervtastic Image Post #27 MOAR Spanking

So last night I was having this really vivid dream where I had this woman across my lap, her head to the left, her feet to the right, and her bare ass was perfectly positioned for a spanking. It's stuck with me all day long, so now I'm sharing the beauty with you of a well-spanked bottom.
Enjoy.....

JJ

Question from Anon: Daddy Dom's

Got this question in from Anon this morning:

There is a variety of Dom "types". Do strict Doms consider Daddy Doms to be weak or overly involved? 

Now this is a really good question that's got me thinking while I'm still drinking my first coffee of the day. I'll try and make my answer coherent....

I love that in the BDSM world there's so much variety and diversity. I love exploring those differences when I'm talking to other people about it, so I tend not to think of 'Dom' in the nature of a job description, with a list of specific generic requirements. I think there's as many different types of 'Dom' around as there are people.

Do strict Dom's consider Daddy Dom's to be weak or overly involved though? I have no idea. I'm guessing some do, some don't, some won't give a shit, and some have never given it any thought at all.

Speaking for me personally, I have difficulty with mentally divorcing the Father/Daughter roles from the Daddy/sub dynamic, and so because of that it automatically reminds me of sexual abuse of children and makes me feel very uneasy. I know that's not what it is, so don't be getting all uppitty and pissed off. I'm trying to explain this. 

I know that's not what it's about, but it makes me feel uneasy, and so do pictures of pornstars dressed in school uniforms, or as cheerleaders. While I can know that the person in that particular image is Debbie McDildo from Dundee aged 24, the way the image is shot seems to me to be targetting guys getting off on girls dressed like schoolkids. So that creeps me out.

Because it creeps me out, I haven't gone snooping and investigating and reading up on 'Daddy Dom's' and to what level they get involved, what the common activities are that they engage in with their sub. I'll happily admit I'm speaking from a position of ignorance, and the same goes for whatever your definition of strict Dom's is. 

I don't consider myself a strict Dom. I won't order a sub around unless it's playtime. I want her to be a real person and not someone who only exists to obey my commands with no power of free will for herself. But again, I'm assuming that's what you mean by strict Dom. 

The joyous diversity of BDSM.

So the short version of the answer. I've no idea if they think Daddy Dom's are weak. I know they creep me out a bit and I've explained why, and I've also admitted that I'm ignorant of the facts. 

Fucking good question, Anon!

JJ

Pervtastic Image Post #26 Curves

Writers Block

Fucking fuckety fucksticks.... oh, how I loathe having writers block. 

I've tried all the usual suggestions, and even a few of the more unusual ones too, and while I know it's a temporary thing, because it always has been in the past, it makes it so frustrating. I just can't seem to access that creative part of my head that normally never shuts up. 

Yet when I open the blank page the silence is deafening. 

I can plan out a story structure, work out all the events and reactions, sort them into the order I want them, create profiles for my characters, research all the little things that provide a depth of detail that can make a difference in believability. All these things I can do, but words on the page... nothing.

I've been working on the follow-up to 'The Island', writing a short story that will cover the couple of days that Kyle, Patricia, Lakshmi, Casey and Ed are in San Antonio, and it's told from Ed's perspective. Now Ed, if you haven't read The Island, has been compared to Jonah Hill's character in Superbad and to Steve Stiffler in the American Pie movies. He's a bit like them, now that I think of it. I like to think of him as chaos incarnate, a walking profanosaurus with a gift for poor impulse control. As you can imagine, he's a lot of fun to write dialogue for. 

I've got about 10,000 words of it written, and maybe another 20,000 will have the short story finished, but right now it's just not happening. Not yet. But it will. In the meantime I'll suffer the frustration, because I have little choice and I'll keep working away at it. 

In order to vent that frustration, I figured I'd vent on here, because it's my blog and I can. Thanks for reading my moan.

JJ

Pervtastic Image Post #25 Smut

Monday morning... It's rarely I find my perspective on things matching that of a cat, but Garfield has kinda nailed the whole 'I Hate Monday's' sentiment quite nicely. So have some smut, to start your week off!

JJ

Oh, yeah - and it's probably pretty obvious from the pictures but I'm seriously craving a blowjob today!

Withdrawal of Attention

I've been pondering this idea for a few days now. Is withdrawing attention from someone the harshest of punishments, especially in a D/s relationship? 

We've all seen pictures, or videos of various punishments being meted out in the BDSM world, some simple and some outrageous, some innovative and some exotic, and in real life I've engaged in quite a few of them. However, I haven't gone as far as to completely withdraw any attention from my sub. 

In effect, if I were to do so as a punishment, then it would leave my sub without that relationship in place for as long as I chose to do it. Now, to be clear here, I'm not talking about putting her in a room, tying her up and leaving her there on the other side of a closed door. I'm talking complete absence. 

No conversation, no phone calls, emails, text messages, no communication. No personal interaction, no friendly banter, no touching, no comfort knowing the other person is around.... I'm talking no presence whatsoever. Completely and utterly ignoring your existence.

Add into that a carefully manipulated doubt that they may not come back again, and give that seed time to grow. Is that as cruel as you can get between a Dom and a sub? 

Utter coldness, lack of caring, complete isolation from the relationship that was there. Wouldn't that induce grief for the partnership, yet an appreciation for what was there all along? What may be lost?

I know there's a few submissive readers of this blog, and I'd be interested in your thoughts on this subject. Would the loss of your Dom for an undisclosed amount of time, with the doubt that they were ever coming back, be the worst punishment they could inflict on you for a transgression?

Anonymous can comment too, so don't be shy, folks.

JJ

Pervtastic Image Post #24 Vintage

Going back to the time of furry muffs, faded prints and fashion that is best not spoken about... did I mention the furry muffs?