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Fanny Flagg was indeed something of a TV personality, but she was a fine writer too. Her "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" is a wonderful novel, redolent with local color. I can't think of too many books that have four female characters as appealing as the ones in "Fried Green Tomatoes." A popular film (starring Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker) was based on the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kallie Thomas
Boccaccio
I had no idea that Fanny Flagg wrote "Fried Green Tomatoes!"Quote:
Originally Posted by boccaccio2000g
Very cool, good for her!
:)
Kallie
I love this thread. How kewl to hear other writers write about problems I just can't seem to solve. There are certain words I love to use -- I mean I literally get a good feeling using them, writing them, saying them. Cock is one of them, dick just doesn't quite cut it for me, member ... hmmm... nah not for me ... peckar? Heck yeah, if I'm using my Texan veranacular. In that case, I can use "cootchie" and have a ball. You gotta admit, a peckar and his cootchie fit together like a hand and glove. Ha.
But how many times can you use the word cock? Mr. Wilcox, you say you laugh at the use of the word steel, but I when I think about a cock being as hard and slick as steel, it's a turn on to me.
Vagina is my favorite word for vagina, but again how many times can I use it without wearing the reader out (well ... I guess I kinda wanna do that, don't I?). "Sex" is used in much of classical and some contemporary erotica. Pussy is hard for me but I occasionally use it (both literally and figuratively).
I liked "glistening cleft" the first time I used it, but as Gary mentioned, it makes me laugh now. Even though a nice slick cleft does glisten, darn it.
Using the right words when describing our bodies has been the hardest thing for me. One author advised "don't worry about the terminology, just tell the story". She sounded so convincing -- maybe saying cock & vagina over and over again is ok -- I've just been trained to think repetition isn't good. Maybe in this case is kewl -- even good.
What I do have fun with though, when I really let myself go, is describing the sex act itself. I can make myself horny as hell going wild with that.
Erotica can be so much fun.
~tyme~
Absolutely interesting topic, I must say.
Especially to someone as me who is not native to either british or americal colloquial expressions - highly interesting from studying point of view ;)
For me I gotta say words do have a great impact on my perception of a story, even if much much more when I refer to my own writing, since every tiny mistake seems huge in these.
But it's not wordsin general, rather their use. Like previously pointed out every word can be used if uttered by somewhen to whom it fits.
My problem is the third person writing since I don't like slang in these, but every expression for the genitals are slang except for those which sound just... you know overly formal (like Penis or Vagina)
I kinda like the word cock, it makes this nice sounds inside your mouth *loL* don't mind me, not a native. Just like cocksucker it has two of them ;)
Whatever, Cunt is ok too, so is errection and hard-on.
Absolutely hate and turn of words for me are meat (yuck!), tool (my dad's a carpenter and really - tools are different!), pussy (It's something I just can't use, don't mind it too much when others do).
To the rear *lol* what is btw a nice word. I like all the words here actually. Arse, ass and bum, it just depends. It would sound utterly, utterly horrible to say "To fuck her bum" sorry but that is just...
Arse is very nice but really only british ppl can utter it, from all the others it's nothing but horribly phony.
And about ass - I just found out half a year ago that it means donkey also - so I have more the rear-association :)
Now to the worst turn-off I can think off: Gushing.
Really I have no idea but if there is any girl who actually does it - could you send me a mail? *lol* I just don't believe that!
And apart from that I find the idea totally appaling.
Same goes for Mary-Sues and Gary-Stues (utterly, utterly perfect people), ennervating and especially witnesses of a slight lack of commitment to writing. Really take out a bit time to make them realistic and give them character.
Names are something most important to me. Even though mostly in stories I don't care much, but in my own it's a fight *lol*. Normally I spent hours researching names. I like the uncommon ones best, maybe because I have one myself, and I like changing the spelling from the original version.
Names I used lately: Oralie, Florentyna, Gwendolynne, Iris... etc.
lol that's about it.
Laila
I didn't believe it till I saw it. There was a couple at a BDSM club, and the guy was enjoying showing off to anyone who cared to watch how his sub squirted when she came. And no, it wasn't pee, because it was perfectly clear and came in a quick rush, not a little jet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Laila
My guess is that this happens if a woman's vagina opens up a lot at the top end when she gets aroused (I had a gf once whose vagina used to suck in so much air that it farted, which embarrassed her dreadfully), and also lubricates exceptionally. Then the fluid will collect in the top of the passage till she comes, and be squeezed out in a rush when she contracts.
I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. But I can tell you that it does happen, and wasn't invented by porn writers.
*grins* wow... ok so there is one ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by leo9
Nah seriously, thank for the info, even though I still can't quite imagine that.
And in the end I am quite relieved I don't do that!
thanks
I'm sorry you find "gushing" so appalling. It would be nice to think it was just the word "gushing" you find so appalling, but it's obvious that's not what you mean.
You asked for an email from someone who's actually "gushed" -- well, here it is.
I don't and didn't call it "gushing" though. That's all I'll say since it's appalling to you.
But I'll be glad to answer any questions. I'm not ashamed of something I had no control over.
love,
tyme
I am really sorry if it cam across offensive - as that is certainly not how I meant it! Really.
Part of it is the word that I don't like but the greater problem is that I have a general insecurity about men getting down on me - about smell and taste etc. And that would just add to that.
That doesn't mean I find it appaling or disgusting in general - since that is my own special problem.
It's great if you have fun with it!
I'm really sorry if my words have offended anyone as that's really not what I wanted...
Laila
laila, i really was not offended in the least. gushing is not a very attractive word to me either for that sort of thing, and if you have some issues with oral sex, well that will only compound the way you feel about this subject.
you asked for an email of someone it really happened to, so i sent simply sent you one, no offense at all.
i can tell you this ... it hurt my pride that this particular man was able to bring me to that level of orgasm ... i didn't think it was possible either, but it is. i won't go into detail since it bothers some people, but i almost hated him for having so much control over me ... of course, he loved THAT.
Lol,
tyme
and didn't think it was possible, but with my current boyfriend, I have found that it is. I never knew sex to be so messy, even though it is really fun, lol ;)
For those who are curious on the technicalities of why it happens though, http://www.fact-index.com/s/sk/skene_s_gland.html
Ah... My favourite power game :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by tyme
My ex-slave was a pain pig who would still be asking for more when I decided it was dangerous to beat her any harder; but the thing that was guaranteed to make her beg and fight and curse, and promise to go to the police as soons as she was untied, was to force her to keep coming. She hated having me take control of her body like that.
Gush? I'm green with envy. :D
Does it matter by the way what happens when two people exchange fluids? ;) It's the intimacy that counts, isn't it?
Best way to exchange fluids? - Kissing! Got my vote! :cool: :rolleyes:
It suddenly occured to me this morning how much i HATE the word panties...like, it makes me shudder with dislike and...um..embarrassment.
So strongly did i feel upon discovering this, that i thought i'd add it here.
sl
Well, that's a help to anyone who wants to run a humiliation scene on you :)Quote:
Originally Posted by slavelucy
*HUGE evil grin*Quote:
Originally Posted by leo9
Kallie,Quote:
Originally Posted by Kallie Thomas
Whew, was I relieved when I read your response to this topic. I thought I was going to have to rewrite all five of my unsubmitted stories. Thanks for endorsing some of my favorites words in the English language: "pussy", "cunt" & "cock". Those three, plus "bitch", show up in most my stories.
I love "bitch" although when I use it, the word goes through an immediate translation in my mind as "hot bitch" or "sexy bitch". Funny how sensitive we can be of lanuage. Hugh Grant called a woman a "dirty bitch" in a movie (Bridgett Jones's Diary?) and I'm certain he meant sexy, but it was a total turn-off for me and my date.
My favorite quote of all time: Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade (aka Al Pacino) in Scent of a Woman (highly recommended!). "There are only two syllables worth hearing.......pussy."
Now I'll have to admit that my last girlfriend tried to say "pussy" repeatedly, and could not say it without laughing. Oh well. I still love it.
One last thing - "panties" certainly does it for me. Little girls in America wear "underwear", sexy women wear panties.
Strat
Sexiest women wear neither ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by sunburststrat
If I may add to the debate on cunt and pussy, I am comfortable with both.
Please spare me from 'love tunnel'.
I always thought 'snatch' was great for femdom fiction, with its overt references to 'vagina dentata' - "I'm going to sit on you in a moment, worm, and my snatch is going to eat your cock for breakfast!" Mmm, I'm feeling queasy already. :whip2:
Slave48