12/11/2016 Don't Tell Me What I or My Writing Is or Isn't...This Erotic Writer Has Had EnoughRead NowI wrote another blog today about feminism and the submissive and BDSM and the current state of my country with the biggest misogynist alive about to rule the free world. I wrote about how you can be both submissive in the bedroom but not out in the real world, in our careers, for instance. I’m sick and tired of people saying that BDSM is abuse or that it’s misogynistic. It’s not. Not done right. Not done well. Not with consenting adults. Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be controlled in the bedroom and find great satisfaction and freedom with it. That is the most anti-feminist statement I have ever heard. Feminism is all about letting women be who THEY want to be. Not how YOU want them to be. So just cut that shit right out. I am both a feminist AND a submissive in my sexual fantasies and reality. You are the one who is anti-feminist who tells me I can’t be. Further, let fiction be fucking fiction already. Instead, I woke and discovered there was something else on my mind too. Something less serious. Something that made me laugh. While reading a small excerpt, I came across a passage filled with purple prose. What is purple prose? Well, it’s something I see over and over again in my genre of writing, and it makes me laugh my ass off so hard that it defeats the whole purpose of erotic writing. It’s anti-eroticism. Talk about a mood breaker. In basic terms, purple prose is defined this way in the urban dictionary. I rather liked its example: "a term used to describe literature where the writing is unnecessarily flowery. It means that the writer described the situation (or wrote the entire book, passage, etc.) using words that are too extravagant for the type of text, or any text at all. Basically, over-describing something. With stupid words. normal writing: she lay on her bed dreaming. purple prose: she lay upon her silken sheets in her ornately embellished robes of satin, her chest ascending and descending easily with every passing second, deep inside the caverns of her subconscious mind." An article that does a better job, can be found here: http://thewritepractice.com/purple-prose/ We all have different works we are drawn to. Authors’ styles. You may find my writing “boorish” or simplistic. But one thing you can’t say about it is that it’s dotted with absurd purple prose. To me, that is the biggest sin created in modern-day erotic writing. And because I am a feminist too, I don’t need to listen to misogynistic men who don’t know the difference.
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12/11/2016 11:22:32
Hey, you leave purple prose alone! It's a regal color. Plus, some of us write it in a deliberately mocking d-grade generic brand medication b-movie schlock kinda way, aiight? Have you ever heard of the crown and scepter toting King of SMUTPUNK named Moctezuma Johnson? Or the queen of Kegel Miss Callie O'Press? What about Kitten K. Crimson (aka Princess #KatIsAlwaysRight)? I'm decked out in purple polka dot panties right now, in fact, as I lovingly pen this blissful blog comments to backlink your post. I'm wearing purple and LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT.
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R.B.
12/11/2016 11:30:30
Mr. Schmooster,
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Master
12/11/2016 11:51:04
Learn something new each time I visit Ms. O'Brien.
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Ashlee
12/11/2016 11:55:52
Oh, snap! I must be doing something wrong. Terribly wrong. I've not been accused of any of those things: purple prose (but I swear I write them!), misogynism, or abuse. I have, however, heard there is an author or two who say they could write my stories better. Dang! Too bad they didn't come up with my original idea first. 😉
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Lucas Black
12/11/2016 12:59:22
Brilliantly done, as always. I'd expect no less of you, though. You keep on keepin' on, honeybelle.
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12/11/2016 15:00:28
Great post! Purple is a fun color to wear, especially to a formal event. :)
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Tori Dean
12/11/2016 15:15:35
Well, color me purple..I guess I better change things. Never thought of it. Good job on your blogpost. Keep doing what YOU do.
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Great vent R.B. It's disheartening to hear stories on an almost daily basis about authors tearing one another down or of readers who somehow feel entitled to spout off on subjects they have not researched in the least but have instead used their own moral highground to shout their uninformed opinions.
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Amber Easton
12/13/2016 00:44:34
Yes, purple prose gives us all a bad name in the big scheme of things. As for being a feminist and into BDSM, I agree with you 100%.
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Dee
12/14/2016 15:17:54
Hmmmmmm .... well, I would have loved to see what set you off R.B., it is always illuminating to see other peoples writings and how it is interpreted. I couldn't imagine anyone calling you or your writings as misogynistic in nature. I have challenged you regarding some of the female responses you have forwarded in your writings, but that is simply because I don't understand what would be a female's response in such a situation. I would never deign (PURPLE?) to say you were denigrating women in doing so.
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Tim Dutton
12/19/2016 00:44:14
Love your blog. Always gets me going, whether it gets me thinking, makes me smile or makes my blood boil.
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Debra
2/17/2017 08:15:14
Omg I love your passion and the way you inspire ..
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