therapeuticmonologues reblogged
writing questions to help with queer erotophobia:
- what feelings and images come up when you begin to write queer erotica? how do these feelings and images inhibit or encourage your writing?
- how do you relate to the assumptions that could be made about you from your erotic writing?
- how do you feel about the image of yourself as capable of summoning, describing, and directing erotic power?
- does the straight/cis gaze have any power over your work? how do you relate to the idea of straight people reacting to it, projecting onto it, or misinterpreting it? how anxious do you feel about preventing any reactions/takeaways from your work that you don’t want straight people to have? how much control do you think you have over that?
- where is the line of “Too Much” when it comes to erotic writing and how anxious are you about crossing it?
- where is the line between Correct and Incorrect sexuality and how anxious are you about crossing it?
- what backlash do you envision as a result of your work? what consequences and from where?
- what happens just before you begin to experience severe writing paralysis? what thoughts, feelings, and reactions led to you feeling so inhibited?
- what voices, if any, of friends, family members, acquaintances, or imaginary audience members pop up in your mind when you write?
- what are your favorite pieces of queer erotica? who wrote them and from which experiences did they build them?
- what pressures did the author(s) face that tried to discourage them from writing? what were the motivating factors behind these pressures? how were they resisted?
- how protective do you feel about other queer writers attempting to create erotic work in a world bent on their erasure and destruction?
- how would it feel to extend that protection to you and your writing?
