Writing Workshop: Erotic Gay Fiction
Fire up your fap fantasies!
Got an erotic fiction story that you're working on? Maybe you've got an idea for a story that you want to write but not sure how to go about it? Or maybe you've got a fantasy that you'd like to explore and think that erotic fiction could be what you're looking for?
I host an Erotic Gay Fiction Writing Workshop in London.
The next session is scheduled for 23 January.
This is a free event - registration is via the Naked Mates platform.
This is a social naturism event - we will be naked.
In advance of the workshop, we'll all write a short story (800-1200 words) responding to a writing prompt.
The writing prompt for this workshop is: "Broken Promises". We're particularly looking to explore dark aspects of our characters - think dastardly deeds and morally dubious motives.
Stories will be submitted in advance and circulated among attendees so that we can discuss them at the workshop.
We'll also have a general discussion about all things writing and erotic fiction - all accompanied by a glass of wine and a cheese platter.
This is a social naturist event, not a sex party. Obviously, we’re naked, talking about erotic fiction, so there is a sexual energy in the room and we welcome that. But we’re not having sex with each other.
My passion for erotic gay fiction
I first discovered erotic gay fiction when I was a teenager. I wandered into an adult book store in Melbourne - I was looking for gay porn. There was a shelf of books there. As well as a couple of magazines, I grabbed a book - I thought it would be easy enough to hide in my bedroom.
When I got home, I started reading, and discovered a whole new level of sexual arousal.
The story was about pirates. There was a cabin boy who was getting fucked by all the men on the ship. To this day, I get turned on by anything that involves pirates.
Over the years, I continued to enthusiastically explore porn in all its forms, but erotic gay fiction was usually what made my cock hardest - being able to unleash the imagination and explore sexual fantasies without limits is incredibly liberating and satisfying.
These days, I make my living as a writer, and I now also write erotic gay fiction.
I started writing erotic gay fiction almost by accident - typically, without giving it a lot of thought.
I was travelling. To get a bit of extra cash in, I was picking up some basic copy-writing work through a freelance platform — it doesn’t pay much, but it’s the kind of straightforward writing that you can do while you’re also doing other things.
I’d initially focused on the travel writing jobs, but I began to see jobs being offered to write erotic gay fiction - I thought that I’d give it a go. I’m gay. I like to read erotic gay fiction. How hard could it be?
I pitched some ideas, and soon had a few commissions lined up. It was time to put pen to paper.
One of the complexities with the kind of gay erotic fiction that I was commissioned to write is that the audience was not actually gay men, but women. Apparently that’s not a surprise to anyone — the biggest consumers of erotic gay fiction are women who would generally describe themselves as heterosexual.
The kind of erotic gay fiction that heterosexual women enjoy is often referred to as m/m. In this genre of fiction, there’s generally a strong focus on a romance developing between two main characters, dreamy guys who are probably experiencing a same-sex encounter for the first time — they experiment, they fall in love, and they live happily and monogamously ever-after.
It took me a while to get my head around that — some of my early pieces had to be revised because they were too explicit, too physical, too raw. Too gay.
I gave it a shot, but the reality was that I didn’t really enjoy writing m/m erotica — it all felt a bit vanilla and contrived. It wasn’t sex between men as I knew it, or wanted it to be.
It took me a little while, several writing jobs, and a couple of hundred thousand words, to realise that the people who I was ghost-writing these stories for were simply taking them and publishing them via Amazon for the kindle-reader market.
That’s actually not difficult to do, so eventually I decided to cut out the middle-man and just write and publish the stories myself. This enabled me to write stories in a style that felt more authentic to my experience and to my fantasies.
The self-publishing platform of Amazon is empowering - it enables you to easily share your writing with the world. But it has its limits in terms of what fantasies it considers acceptable - it still has a fairly vanilla understanding of sex between men and rejects anything that might be considered taboo.
So, my work also appears on platforms such as Nifty and AO3 as well as here on G-TV.
Unsurprisingly, a lot of my stories features innocent young cabin boys being fucked by lusty pirates.
