I had planned on doing these once a month, but I’ve read too many good stories that I’d like to tell you about to wait another couple of weeks. There’s some hot stuff out there, kids!
Write-y stuff
My “Road Stories” series of stand-alone travel tales continued the first part of April with the two-part “Road Stories: Revenge Porn”. Scott’s date with Mina, his favorite Chicago-based flight attendant, gets complicated when an older buxom blonde shows up at her apartment, looking for her husband. Turns out he’d been lying to Mina about being married. Julie makes up for her dateus interruptus by suggested that they all make a little movie together that will be delivered to her husband along with divorce papers. Revenge is sweet, hot, sticky and nasty!
My friends at Exceptional Erotica on Medium have a “Spring Formal” prompt going for April. “Grove Park: Wedding Bells” is my first entry (I’ve got another being published April 30). The historic Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC is a hell of a venue for a wedding. The parents of the groom get roped into taking care of the stepmother of the bride after her husband sneaks off with a bridesmaid. And man, do they ever take care of her! The newlyweds are the topic of part 2 – cumming soon!
In case you are not on Medium, I’m posting the Road Stories series on Literotica a couple of weeks after they appear on Medium. Check 'em out!
Read-y stuff
If you’re a writer (or an artist or a musician or a chef or you do any creative endeavor at all), criticism is absolutely vital to improving your abilities. Without constructive feedback (“criticism” does NOT always mean something negative), you’re working in a vacuum. And vacuums do not help you improve.
I got some wonderfully positive feedback on my first smutty novel. They liked my characters (I was complemented for creating three-dimensional female characters that were nicely differentiated – which thrilled me to no end). They thought I wrote really good sex scenes (sex choreography, like fight choreography, is important!). But one bit of thoughtful criticism was that there was no conflict.
It took me a lot more reading and writing and thinking to get what they were saying. There was no fear, uncertainty or doubt among the main characters. There might be conflict with an outsider, but my MCs are firmly united in love and lust and nothing will shake that.
I like writing those characters, and I like going back and rereading them. And I don’t plan on stopping writing those sorts of stories. But I get where the criticism comes from. People aren’t usually that... sure of themselves. Sure of their mates. Sure of their friends. We all have our doubts, our moments of jealousy or presumed inadequacy or whatever. And (sometimes) that makes for better storytelling.
I mentioned in my March wrap-up that I’ve queued up a couple of longer hotwife stories to read in April. I’ve said before that I didn’t really “get” the hotwife/cuckold genre until I started reading a couple of people that were new to me when I joined Medium in late ‘23. In particular, I started reading Delores Swallows and his “My Inspiration” novel.
First of all, he’s a fucking phenomenal writer. His character building, his dialog, the little bits of world building are top notch. And he imbues his characters with a range of emotions that I do believe mine may sometimes lack. Love, jealousy, fear, anger, lust, doubt – all without being over the top in any way. Sometimes the hotwife arrangement works well for all concerned and sometimes it... doesn’t.
I’ve had his “A Loaned Wife’s Journey” bookmarked for a few weeks and was determined to read it for April. Sadly, he’s leaving Medium, given some of the payment changes (he’s not alone) but his stuff is obviously available on Amazon.
“A Loaned Wife’s Journey” has conflict (primarily between Nicole and her bull Ciaran, who is also her husband’s boss for a while), it has self-doubt (hers and her husband Julian’s), it obviously has lust (including Julian’s newly-admitted voyeurism), but it mostly has obvious love between two people who are navigating their relationship forward in ways they previously wouldn’t have imagined. And it has growth – Nicole and Julian individually, and their relationship as well.
We all have our authors that we admire and that we want to learn from – Delores Swallows is one of those for me. It’s still on Medium for the time being but I promise you it’s worth buying the book if he pulls it.
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I read the first chapter of Max Sebastian’s “The Man Before Me” when it was first posted and I put it aside. I thought that the main character’s sudden realization that he was excited by the possibility of his wife having sex with her old boyfriend (who was quite an asshole) was unearned. Too sudden.
But I skimmed a few later chapters as they were posted and decided it was worth going back and reading it from the beginning – and I’m glad I did. That certainty that Nick (the MC) starts with gets quickly shattered, and the lack of transparency and communication between Nick and his wife Juliette push them towards a likely breakup. There is a lot of exposition and a lot of inner turmoil, but the story pulls you along at a very good pace.
The introduction of Juliette’s friend Jessie and her high school acquaintance Brian as an ad hoc support system for Nick was quite clever and I love both of those characters. Great set-up for the coming follow-up novels (one of which is already on Medium).
If, like me, you weren’t captivated by the first chapter, do yourself a favor and give it another go.
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I certainly don’t only read hotwife stuff (I rarely did until last year). When I started reading stuff on Literotica many years ago, I sampled lots of categories, including Erotic Horror. Kaylee Pace is publishing on Medium but her story “Conquered By The Demon Prince” reminds me of some of the best of those stories on Lit – great stuff!
I really appreciated the scene setting – magnificent detail as our heroine is marched into the devil’s throne room. And the sex is hot - and totally non-consensual (you know – demon lord), so if that’s a no-no for you, then I suggest looking elsewhere. I will definitely be reading more of Kaylee’s stuff!
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I’ve had more positive comments and more upvotes on my age gap stories than anything else that I’ve written - my “Bear and Kat” stories in particular. They’re fun to write and I enjoy reading others as well. As I told my best friend a couple of years ago, “Don’t be a dad – be a Daddy!”
I haven’t found anyone yet that does age gap better than Ian Snow. We had a couple of nice online chats after I ordered and read his “Dads Project” trilogy (read mostly on planes while traveling for business). It was only afterwards that I realized that I’d been following him and reading his stuff on Literotica for years.
His story “Sweet Summer Bliss” is a great example – sweet, poignant, sexy. There is uncertainty and doubt on both sides that gets resolved in a very hot and fun way. And of course there is the dreaded meeting with the father when the truth comes out. It’s a great read!
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I've clearly been doing more reading than writing, but I'm reading good stuff! Go give some love to these folks!
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