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MIKEY
and MANDY is an Adult Site, do NOT enter
unless you are 18 years old! If you are 18 then welcome.
 By Roberta E. Morgan (alias: Mandy) FIRST, an apology. No one likes the author of an article to boast of her credentials up front, instead of leaving it to that pretentious italic box at the end. But this is different. Why should you listen to me about writing---and make no mistake, dirty writing has to be good writing, it doesn’t get an exception---as opposed to someone else? Because I got the juice and the creds, babes! Because, my interested readers should know that since the age of 15, which was uh… a while ago, I have been published by legit sources and made a good living as a writer: plays, short stories, nonfiction, fiction, journalism, erotica, the Internet. Basically anything someone would pay me for. I have written so much, in fact, that when one cheap publisher wanted to pay me in copies instead of money and said: “Wouldn’t you be thrilled to see your name in print?” I answered. “Been there. I want to see my name in print on a check next to ‘pay to the order of.’” So I have made as much as a half-million and other years much less plying my craft, and I have a unique erotic website now, Mikey and Mandy’s Most Original Porn Emporium which is a dirty version of the National Lampoon crossed with an art and lit magazine and a fetish blog. I’m the co-founder and my partner, Michael C. Gross (look him up in IMDB) a brilliant artist, photographer, movie producer, graphic designer and so many other things visual, takes care of the SEE STUFF. I sometimes participate in that end, but I’m the editorial director and I WRITE STUFF and EDIT STUFF. We both search for interesting cyber-locales and think about ideas for MORE STUFF. We come from the high faulting’ mainstream world, but make no mistake, we also have grown up with a love of all things porny. Not cruel, just hot and arousing. So we combined our artistic and literary talents for this unmistakably erotic site. Our members and reviewers often comment on the weird and wonderful quality of the articles and stories. Enough about me and our website, Mikey and Mandy  Art by Michael C Gross |
Read this only: If you have an active erotic imagination Can turn your friends on with the details of your stories: Know more words than fuck and cock sucking, because building an orgasm, even in literature, is not done with tons of dirty words. They have their place, but there are often better substitutes, particularly in Victorian or other period pieces, and we are not talking about hand-published crap that only your slow cousin Ed can jerk off to. Are willing to take a few writing classes, and see if your regular stories are liked by people other than your lover, friends, family—you know. People who write proffessionaly. Submit a story to one of the many sites that you can find simply by typing in “Erotic Literature,” or “XXX Stories,” or some variant. If you can’t think of other words for it, get a thesaurus but then again, maybe you shouldn’t write if you need one. Your stories turn you on while you’re writing them. Don’t write stories about a fetish you don’t have. There are keys and secrets that turn people on to BDSM, for example, and only they know it. Don’t be ashamed of what you’re writing. Anne Rice, Anais Ninn, and Henry Miller are examples of classic, renowned authors who wrote dirty stories. The Market Although publishing as a whole, and fiction in particular, is going through a slump except if you want to write another diet book or some more crap about Brittany Spears, the two genres that are doing better are---get set---religious publishing and erotic publishing. Figures. Yin and Yang. HarperCollins and Simon &Schuster publish many of these (but they have to be good), and e-books like Mobipocket have an extensive section. Plus, as I said, there are a wealth of sites that handle erotic literature. Even sites written by one person may like your idea and give you some advice. And forget about copyright: you just want to get published in the beginning, not get paid. Simply write Copyright© April Moon or whomever and mail yourself back a copy. When you are getting better, go to the Library of Congress website and orders a whole load of form PA. It costs a little, but in the end, it’s the only truly legal copyright. An idea, by the way, cannot be copyrighted. And no truly legitimate agent or publisher will rip you off. Why would they kill the goose with the golden egg? Flesh out Your Idea Contrary to popular belief, good writing doesn’t fly out of the top of your head. Nice if it were true! Come up with a good idea, and outline the story. This time you can test it out on friends. It doesn’t need to be more than one sheet of paper. It can be set in any century and any country, in any job. What turns you on? We keep coming back to that. What are your fantasies in detail? One She-Male wrote a great story for us just about getting fixed up for going to a party: hair, make-up, picking the fabric, sewing the dress, in detail. Transforming into a woman. We got more e-mail from She-Males than you would believe, because that is the turn-on. How to go out and turn heads as a luscious woman. Writing is Re-Writing Whether you want to write a novel or short-story, and I suggest you start with short stories, you have to know that your first draft is just the raw material that comes out of your head. It may take many reads and suggestions from others, or days put aside without reading it to get a new take, but good writing usually appears by the sixth to eighth draft. You should love writing and crafting or don’t start this at all. As everyone says, writing is one percent inspiration, and 99% perspiration. Some Special Rules for Dirty Writing Yes, unless you’re Anne Rice with her Sleeping Beauty Novels, this type of writing doesn’t have to be as intricate and good as mainstream work. In fact, IT SHOULDN’T BE. The main goal or all writing is suspense (it makes people turn the page) and in this case, wet panties. Too much stylization can ruin the climax. In the past, sex stories were set in an exotic time and an exotic place with elaborate names. You can certainly do that (and if you do, research the time and manners of that time for authenticity), but you can also set in on a subway car going downtown. Research I cannot stress this section enough. How do you know what to write? How do you find an agent? Who’ll buy your book? What’s the form? Use Your Fingertips Use Your Feet Use Your Eyes Use your e-mail to a site where you have already published to ask about going further. Use your head Fingertips: You now have the greatest resource in the world. The Internet. Go to Erotic Lit sites, read what they publish. What is meant by using your eyes is that half of learning how to write is READING others in your field. See where you fit in. Not all will be good or bad, but in your gut you know what’s good. Amazon, Barnes & Noble and scores of specialty publishers give you samples and even critiques from readers. Type in Erotic under the books section and buy whatever you can handle that has good reviews and sells well. Make reading an erotic book a week a priority. Feet: But cyberspace isn’t enough. Go to the Erotic Section of your Bookstore if you have one, and buy a few books, the more the better. This is a secret of all authors: Look at the first few pages. They will tell you who published it, and in the acknowledgments or Thanks from the Author, you’ll find the name of the agent or mentor. Then find their address on the Net and send a sample story. Use your Head: Unless you have unlimited cash and like con men, don’t pay to have your book published. If you do, pay little, make sure the presentation is good, ask for references, and then go to the various conventions, like Fetish Balls and try to sell your work there. It was a charm for The Celestine Prophecy, so I won’t completely put it down. See other books they’ve done, a catalog, something, not just a business card, or they’ll take your money and run, like cheap watch salesmen on the street. Get to know other writers in the field, through hours in chat rooms and sites on the subject. And of course, be careful, never give out your name and address until you’re sitting in a legit New York agent’s office, where most books are published. If you want to use your real name, watch it. Political office and many other jobs are out of the question after that. Anne Rice wrote her erotic work under the name A.N. Roquelaure, until it had a huge following, she was SO famous it didn’t matter, or some reporter found it out. You pick one, I’m not sure.  Read the following books first: Anne Rice, Beauty’s Punishment (or the other two Sleeping Beauty books. Porn is often a series of books, or a collection of short stories) Anais Nin, Little Birds, Delta of Venus Laura Reese, Topping from Below Pauline Réage, The Story of O (this is the Masterpiece) Kate Benedict, Arena of Shame (a little less high-brow, but that can be good, too).
 A Few Final Words No rape books here and no excessive violence. This is romance of a smutty kind. The heroine may want to resist but we know she really doesn’t and she gets “off” every time, betrayed by her own urges and body. If you’re underage, don’t write these books and submit them. They won’t be published and you could get yourself and a lot of other people in trouble. Think about them if you like, wait until you’re eighteen to write them WRITING IS ALL ABOUT SUSPENSE AND DRAMATIC ACTION. Keep the readers turning the page, no political or philosophical musings building them up to each sex scene, make your characters memorable with quirks and interesting backgrounds, and whatever the fetish, write about it a lot, but make them wait for it. In the sex scenes, details---smells, touches, body parts---are essential to describe. Think of what you’d tell your own lover to make them have an hour’s orgasm!  Take a look at our other articles: How to Start Your Own Porn Site and How to Take Better Dirty Pictures 
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