Cover art DIY

Looking around for great resources on how to publish ebooks and how to design covers (for the non-photoshop users among us), I found this great page by ebookindiecover. Talking about all the different formats that epublishers are looking for, this should be an amazing resource if I ever actually get to publish something!

There are also some more awesome tips on how to design your cover here.

Will hopefully post some first DIY ideas later...

A good start to the day

Good morning!

Found it randomly here on Pinterest. For more ingenious pictures, check this site.

#1 Writing session

After procrastinating some more with a name generator (plus a brilliant resource to stuff as much poshness as possible into an English name) and finally generating three sex words, I am now finally about to get writing properly. Here is tonight's challenge:

1. SEXUALLY FIXATED
2. laugh
3. large

Oliver and Leroy.

Looks like I am actually going to start off my first session with some m/m which is a bit scary but will be educational.

See you later! (eg: 'No more procrastination for you, Clara!')

All done!

After looking around a bit, my list of words is now online. May the games begin! :-)

Lists of sex words

Looking for better sex words lists has truly turned out to be a gold mine! What do you think about these:

Long List Of Disgusting & Nasty Sex Terms (Actually pretty educational, but disgusting indeed!)
A glossary of sexual terms- On a regiolious tolerance website!
Sharla Rae's sensual word menu (great list, wish it was .doc and I could use it!)

In the end, I even came across a list of lists of words!

I'll publish a list on the resources page in a minute so that you can play, too!

Random erotic words generator

Alright, I have just moved on with my idea of random word generation to get my creative juices flowing. Using this list of erotic words (or indeed a steamier one which I have yet to find) and this random word generator, I should get more than my fair share of brainstormers. The first three were

1. bite,
2. jam and
3. steal.

Let's call this one my practice run. On the hunt for a hotter list of words now (just to have an excuse to play more with the word generator!) and then the fun can begin!

Choice of words

Looking at the long list of e-publishers of the Erotic Readers and Writers Association, I am a little bit at a loss where to start- especially after thinking that self-publishing would really be the better option. Yes, I have a few stories lying around (with two on my site) but none of them seem good enough yet. More practice is much needed!

Somehow I feel like my approach is not quite structured enough though. Maybe I should throw a bunch of kinky words into a hat and then draw out two and write 1,000 words about them? :-) That might be an awesome writing exercise for tonight!

Romance Divas

Hurray, I have just signed up to Romance Divas and really look forward to meeting members of their community in their rather excellent forum. There is even a 'Diva Secrets Workshop' which means that I might be able to find some more likely minded people and friends who can help me along. Fingers crossed my account gets validated by the administrator soon!