Question: Why so much Herm on Male?

*shrugs* I love it? I mean, theoretically...

Basically because this is my outlet for a fantasy. I write the kinds of stories I almost never see.

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Good luck on your exams!

Also, I must tell you this: Even though I'm not a fan of Herm on Male stories and they usually make me not read them if I see that the have that, I always LOVE to read your stories!

Thanks. Some stories have a lot more variety to them (Amateur Heroics, Seeds Of Life, maybe 1/4th of Amber stories...)

Question: WHY ARE YOU LEAVING US D:

Hehe, nah. :) Just hope it goes well and good luck on your exam!!!!!!

READ THE JOURNAL IT'S ALL THERE

And thanks!

How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsiepop?

Three.

You must present your scientific findings in a written report. Due on monday. At least 3 pages. Single spaced. 10 point font.

How do you get yourself to keep writing? I always have trouble with that; I can start something but then I quickly end up unable to continue it for various reasons.

I want to see the ending as much as anyone, I suppose... I feel the need to get the story OUT of my brain. Onto paper. Out into the world. And perhaps lastly (and this is the big part), I want people to enjoy it.

For a long time, when I was writing 'regular' stories, it was HAAAAAAAAARD to keep writing, because I had no-one to share them with. Every writing website and writing group was 10,000 people submitting stories and 100 people reading ANYTHING. There was no feedback, and no chance of feedback. Strangely, this fetish-fuel website has been the biggest boon and influence to my writing 'regular' stories. You've all been the best audience and feedback I could have asked for.

The Ominous Omnibus pointed out that several storylines are all in a single chronologically connected universe. Are any other storylines connected to said main universe?

Second, you do an amazing job making the characters extremely interesting - while I am not at all a fan of gay sex, I've reread Around The Fur several times just for the growing relationship between Myles and DL, and the Amber segments that contain no sex or at most implied sex - Midnight Snack, Talk Hard, Spring Fling - are to me the absolute best of the series. Do you, when creating a character, focus on personality, physicality, or sexuality first, or are they like fuzzy little Athenas who spring full-formed from your skull?

When I start out with a character, it's with a very basic premise... usually their general physicality and their general personality. Actually WRITING them is what helps me develop them as real characters. For instance, I NEVER intended for Amber and Cindy to argue that much, but that's just what happens when I start writing their scenes. It's nearly constant and it's really helped me learn a lot about them. :) And, to be perfectly honest, I do prefer writing the less explicit / more implicit stuff, just because there's very little that's new, sexually (or even hyper-sexually) under the sun, and it's starting to get a little repetitive, even for me. I just don't feel up to the challenge of writing more, bigger, louder, crazier fwoomping. I'm far more interested in seeing how the characters develop sexually (as in, related to their sexuality, NOT just the fucking), romantically, emotionally, and so forth.

However, the numbers don't lie. My X-rated stories get about 3x the Favs and comments as my non-X-rated stories.

And until now, that would have been enough to keep me writing the X-rated stuff. :)

And thanks!

... oh, wait, right, the chronology. I dunno... I kinda figure that all of my worlds are connected in SOME way, and I've got some fun theories about that, which I intend to eventually release as a big crazy journal posting. As it is, though, I think all of them (except maybe Amateur Heroics) are in the same world... and heck, more than a few of them happen right in Circe (though that will also be changing in the near future.)

Thanks again!

As a followup, given your commentary on seeing how the characters develop their sexuality: Given Amber identifies almost exclusively as female - clothing, self-reference, partner preference, etc. - and yet has an almost exclusively male sexuality - significantly more aggressive, dominant, much more "self" focused than partner-focused; in all but two penetrative sexual encounters, she has been, to put it a bit crudely, the butch to someone else's bitch - and given Nico/le's fluid gender identity up till Amber helped turn on the hormone flood, the more aggressive stances in general of the Seeds Of Life herms, etc., do you see that particular psychology as being common to all your dual-gendered characters, or just to those we've seen so far?

Wow, I feel like I'm defending a perverted PhD...

I think it's somewhat common, at least in how I sometimes see hypers and herms. That's not to say that they're especially male... I know a large number of females whom I would consider the more aggressive, dominant ones in their relationships. As for being self-focused, I suppose that stems from my position as the viewer, who is enjoying the scene playing out, and as someone who would identify with the person being 'dominated' who is actually deriving their pleasure from the experience of being, well... fwoomped. Not everyone gets the same sort of reactions as I do from these sorts of situations, but that's why I write these stories, because there are so very very few stories quite like this. There's lots of herm-on-male and hyper-herm-dominance stuff, but they're not terribly enjoyable TO ME because they're all very aggro, they're very hostile, and there's so little actual enjoyment being depicted. There's no romance. There's just dominance.

I think Amber is mellowing somewhat (and before I forget, Amber's pronoun of choice was she/her simply because AT THAT TIME I thought the whole "shi" thing was a little silly. I have learned a lot since then). Kimmi is definitely not so much the dominant hyperherm (though shi has her moments). Odella USED to be pure dominance, and has grown a lot as an individual, and a caregiver. Loreli isn't dominant at all, but is actually trying to exert that side of hir personality. Nico/le isn't very dominant, but was ruled by their fear of just how people of their gender and/or sexuality are perceived and treated by society (something that I think is an important issue, these days). Junk isn't especially sexual so far, but shi is a very physically dominant character specifically because shi's a crimefighter. Mally is a lust demon incarnate, so HIR dominance really is for hir pleasure, but it will eventually be shown to hide a sweeter side.

... i think that's all of them? Heh.

Hey man.
I wanted to know if you had stories published anywhere, such as Amazon or Smashwords? Either "kinky" or "tame".

Not yet.

Actually, i am hoping to get this year's NaNo story published on Amazon. It may be furry and polyamorous, but it's not hyper or erotica so it should have a slightly broader appeal.

... also, I have no idea what Shashwords is, so I'm going to go look that up.