BLOG -MARCH 2021
I don’t care.
Or, more to the point, I don’t give a damn.
I may have lost some readers with that.
I hope not.
But as I start this latest blog outlining some future projects,
I thought I should put a little personal stuff here. Because, while I may not
have spelled it out in great detail, what this really is, is an author’s blog.
It is more about who and what I am and why I write what I write than a
traditional blog.
As you probably know if you’ve followed my work, I haven’t
made any secret of writing what I want to write. In a very few cases I’ve
followed readers advice or tips. But mostly whether it is editorial direction
or reader input, I listen but unless I have to, I general ignore comments from
anyone. When I was sending out short stories I got one detailed editorial critique
of my plot from an interested editor. I might have sold, but I didn’t like his take as much as my own so it never
sold. UNTIL decades later when I included it in my Zymmerian anthology.
When I was writing for an adult sex site a lot of people
loved my stories. More than a few people hated them. Not only did I get fairly
honest criticisms, but I got a lot of personal shit like ‘you’re gay, you’re a cuck, you’re not a real
man.’ That rolled off my back until years later when a few assholes that seemed
to really, really hate me made me a little uncomfortable when it appeared that
they had made semi-serious efforts to track me down, find out where I lived.
Not to come off as too macho – and no matter how tough you
are – when a guy shows up at your door with a .38 or .45 you are probably
history. BUT…while I didn’t have the sense to be afraid for me… when you have a
family who didn’t ask for any of this shit, they are literally hostages to fortune.
At one time that would have seemed impossibly melodramatic, but over time it’s
been proven that fans with a grudge or a crush are the greatest danger any
creative person or person in the public eye can have.
It doesn’t have to be THAT dramatic a reaction to have an impact.
I know I’ve written about this before, but it stuck in my mind. When I had just
started writing for the adult sex site,
I read a novel by a female author. It was about a woman who was seduced by a
low life, cheated on her good husband, and then left him. Her lover got her
into using and smuggling drugs and her life went into the toilet. BUT, she was
eventually able to pull herself out and made a new life for herself. She met up
with her husband again, they turned the low life over to the cops and the woman
and her husband had a second chance. I thought it was a good story.
But a lot of fans of this site are men who have been hurt by
women or just plain don’t like women. A cheating wife or woman has to be
punished, a lot of times death is the penalty. When the above story came out
they deluged the writer, constantly attacking her and her real-life husband. So
she vanished. As far as I could tell she never wrote anything for the site
again. You don’t have to kill or physically attack someone to drive them into
the shadows.
Which is why I don’t give a damn.
People are welcome to love or hate anything I write.
I’d rather they love my writing. When I first started writing adult stories, I
received responses that literally brought tears to my eyes. From these messages
I know that stories can literally lift people’s spirits. I hope that at least a
few of my stories and novels have helped or inspired human beings I will never
have the chance to meet in this life.
A FEW PERSONAL SECRETS;
In a little bit I’ll give you an advance look at what I have
coming. But first:
I was a virgin until I was 22 years old. Introverted, shy,
never dated, never had any relationships of any kind. And then I graduated and
went to work for a newspaper.
AND LEARNED THE GREAT TRUTH OF LIFE.
Women, particularly when they get beyond their teen years
– WANT TO HAVE SEX!!
And particularly, if you can learn to talk, the world
opens up to you.
There are a few other great truths of life that I will
probably relate at some future time but that’s enough for you to process right
now.
AS TO THE FUTURE:
