Xandra | January 29, 2010
Yeah, you knew the pic was coming with a title like that. But Jack Sparrow has a point, yanno? Any pirate worth his salt has to be able to taste which way the wind is blowing. The same goes for writers.
The minute you press “Publish” on your first blog post, or the minute you [...]
Xandra | November 10, 2007
Today, my good friend and critique partner Roxy Harte asked me point-blank, “Who is Xandra and what does she want to write?”
My first thought was, “Well, that’s a big Duh.” Followed by, “I write…” and then some silence. Thick silence. Silence that had been placed on a strict diet of lard, turkey gravy, and cheetos [...]
Xandra | September 24, 2007
So I was sitting outside yesterday in my asbestos two-piece, trying to get a little sun on my tummy, since everyone knows that tan fat is more attractive than fishbelly white fat. Well, I was cooking some hotdogs on the sidewalk, listening to the sizzle, and in the 2.4 seconds it took to cook [...]
Xandra | March 29, 2007
I’ve been asking myself genre-defining questions by the bucketload lately, in an attempt to better understand the stories I want to write and their place in the grander scheme of things, and one question that keeps popping up in my mind is one about Worldbuilding.
I’m not afraid to say that I lovelovelove worldbuilding. I [...]
Xandra | March 19, 2007
In surfing some erotica-writing sites, and re-reading my copy of Susie Bright’s “How To Write a Dirty Story,” I keep coming across the idea that one of the purposes of writing and reading erotica is to stretch your boundaries. Erotica that is described as “edgy” or “pushes the envelope” seems to be the thing [...]
