Alice of Alice's Open Treasure Chest on Dirty Words, Dirty Acts, and Why Writing Is Really Just Sex While Sitting In Front of Your Laptop...Or Something
Love to read this as I wake up from a text from someone I spent two glorious hours with in Spain last year. I met him outside a restaurant. He asked if I wanted to eat...and lucky for him I was hungry LOL I always said I have so many stories to tell that either I'm writing a book or doing a comedy special. Thank you for this!
Writing about sex, like writing about any intense experience, is 1,000 percent situational, I think. You're writing about the situation from the various subjectivities you involve - within a greater story or plot, implied or specific. As long as your subjectivities are true to your characters and/or your narrative line, and as along as the situation is integral to the rest of the story, then the writing should ring true. You seem to suggest as much. The same is true when writing about a car crash, or a wedding, or a conversation, and most any experience, however it goes. A lot of writers are afraid or baffled to write about a lot of different types of experiences, far beyond sex, and including sex - various "politics" notably. I think the key is to step back and look at the situation and the subjectivities involved and their relation to the larger story and write situationally with vigilance to the various subjectivities (including the narrator's). Then, what anyone thinks, assuming you're thoughtful, deft, and lively with it, that's on them. Everything wrought in perspective and proportion can be created in compelling ways, including the most taboo or sensitive subjects. Doesn't mean you can ignore your audience, of course, as the act of storytelling itself is also situational.
It's quite a skill to be funny, sexy and self-aware all at the same time. I've never seen anyone pull that off better than Alice.
Love to read this as I wake up from a text from someone I spent two glorious hours with in Spain last year. I met him outside a restaurant. He asked if I wanted to eat...and lucky for him I was hungry LOL I always said I have so many stories to tell that either I'm writing a book or doing a comedy special. Thank you for this!
Very well written. Which is exactly what we’ve come to expect of Alice. And somehow she hardly ever disappoints
This article left me exhausted and reaching for a ciggie!
Hot. Jizzed twice.
Writing about sex, like writing about any intense experience, is 1,000 percent situational, I think. You're writing about the situation from the various subjectivities you involve - within a greater story or plot, implied or specific. As long as your subjectivities are true to your characters and/or your narrative line, and as along as the situation is integral to the rest of the story, then the writing should ring true. You seem to suggest as much. The same is true when writing about a car crash, or a wedding, or a conversation, and most any experience, however it goes. A lot of writers are afraid or baffled to write about a lot of different types of experiences, far beyond sex, and including sex - various "politics" notably. I think the key is to step back and look at the situation and the subjectivities involved and their relation to the larger story and write situationally with vigilance to the various subjectivities (including the narrator's). Then, what anyone thinks, assuming you're thoughtful, deft, and lively with it, that's on them. Everything wrought in perspective and proportion can be created in compelling ways, including the most taboo or sensitive subjects. Doesn't mean you can ignore your audience, of course, as the act of storytelling itself is also situational.