Today marks the 1-year anniversary of this blog going live. More has happened in my writing life this year than I can even begin to relate. It’s been at turns wonderful, difficult, educational, unbelievably hot, frustrating, and utterly rewarding. I give my personal and public thanks to Will for partnership, inspiration, and mutual goading to starting this whole thing. Sincere thanks for many fellow writers for discussion, criticism, musemanship, and much more, a handful of muses who inspired some of my best writing, and most of all, you, dear readers, for looking at our words, hopefully enjoying them, and letting us know what you think.
I look forward to seeing what the next year holds.
–Monocle
Update – I really should have at least some smut in here. Below the fold, a smattering of the senryu and other poetry I’ve collected and put on twitter over the last year:
She hands me a note
as we head out on our date:
“No panties tonight.”
~~~
She hovers over
knees by his shoulders, teasing
but his tongue can reach
~~~
The very fact that
you can work at the bindings
means I need more knots
~~~
My fingers gliding
just a fraction above skin
I know you feel it.
~~~
When all I have is
stammers, stutters, loss for words
you tell me “I know”
it’s simplicity itself
it makes all the difference #choka
~~~
Tied in silks, eyes closed
you don’t know where I’ll touch next
I watch you guessing
~~~
Now, open your legs
let my hand under your skirt
cab driver won’t see
~~~
Vampires don’t exist.
So why does my mouth water
when I see your neck?
~~~
The sway of her hip
and the dark twist of her mind
perfect imbalance
~~~
They say a picture
is worth a thousand words, but
one touch trumps them all.
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Congrats! (and happy new year??)
Smut deserves smut in return I think, as a sign of gratitude, of course…..
Thank _you_ for a wonderful year decorated with the precious jewels, both light and dark, that are the words contained here & in your books, you’ve blossomed as a writer of smut this year and your success is richly deserved :-)
Congratulations to you Mr. Moore _&_ to Mr. Crimson!!!
~ VORTEX PAIR ~ a senryu series poem ~
Your gaze fixed by mine; ~ hips, shoulders calling to you; ~ body’s siren call.
Desire arises. ~ Incremental consumption. ~ Contented drowning.
Nocturnal whispers ~ drip from your lips; beads of lust ~ fall into my ear.
My fingers desire ~ every curve and crease of you. ~ Sublimations’s yours.
Kisses fluttering ~ like sea mist across your flesh ~ are gifted to you.
Desire re-awakes; ~ a new balance found takes hold; ~ resonance achieved.
Thighs parted, lips licked; ~ breathing an incantation; ~ dripping beads of lust.
Long limbs inviting ~ you to pull and part my flesh, ~ sinking into me.
Languid eyes closing; ~ silence falls. I only want ~ to feel you, lover.
Willing it from you, ~ sucking it vampirically; ~ your orgasm, mine.
Quiet wails of want; ~ body, mind and soul pining; ~ to always hunger.
Your hand cups my cunt.~ My mouth seeks yours between breaths. ~ Lover, make me cum.
Liquid at your touch; ~ molten at your breath; undone. ~ Sweet dissolution.
Synchronicity; ~ bodies in perfect rhythm; ~ hearts, minds, souls merging.
Your thrusting forcing ~ the breath in and out of me. ~ Your cock a bellows.
Pented energy; ~ body a battery charged; ~ released at your touch.
Conscious connection. ~ An aethereal coupling. ~ Dreamstate orgasm.
Silent orgasm; ~ broken breaths heard through windows ~ of your pleasuring.
Superfluous words; ~ use your body to utter ~ your pleasures and joys.
Skin phosphorescent, ~ glittering in brief moonlight; ~ begs my lips loving.
Calm has decended; ~ A peaceful satisfaction ~ wraps me in its’ arms.
Bathing in love’s glow; ~ a somnolent cadence falls; ~ ‘Beautiful.’ you purr.
It’s been a good year. Looking forward to another.
If only she knew who the words belonged to, like she knows the desire that belongs to her.
If there were a symmetry that intertwined the fantasy, and the reality of them…this would be the ‘truest’ honesty of such words.
a thought in progress….
Mems
Congratulations and Happy Blogaversary!
The sexy blogosphere just wouldn’t be the same without “Erotic Writer”…kudos to You Both for a great first year, and i wish you many, many more!
Big HUG,
nilla
Happy One Year, Raz!
And congratulations for ALL your much deserved success.
You have definitely brought me on a most delicious ride … thank you.
bloody marvelous, boys! thank you both so much for sharing your talents. here’s to many more years of deliciousness from you two – onwards and upwards! :oD
*cracks the champagne*
XXX
Oh, thanks to you all. You are our bread and butter, you know. Will and I thrive on your comments and feedback, individually and collectively. You are the reason we’re blogging instead of furtively scribbling on our basement walls.
Ok – that and the fact I have no room left on my basement walls.
I debated whether to add to the original post or comment. Monocle said it well, both above and in the last comment, so I’ll add my own comment. Our readers are our penpals. The best erotic stories are fiction in lingerie. What a pity if no one ever joins her in bed. Any lover knows that a woman loves to be praised and adored.
And my thanks to Raziel.
Reading his Nightmares and Visions revealed a whole new way to write erotic stories – they were something I had never read before. They were like prose poems and were the sole inspiration for my Daydreams and Distractions (though I haven’t played by the same rules as Raziel, whose Nightmares and Visions are much shorter).
All in all, this blog has been a lot of fun and has changed my understanding of erotic stories.
I look forward to writing one hundred Daydreams & Distractions, continuing some of my other stories, and especially to more contributions (comments *and* stories) from our visitors. And I look forwards to seeing what else Raziel comes up with.
Happy Anniversary guys, thanks for keeping our senses stimulated, our tongues titillated and our lusts lighted for an entire year.
The bookworm inside as well as myself bows down to your geniuses. m(_ _)m
Many thanks, and here’s to another happy year of pleasurable prose from the pair of you. ^^
Happy days and happy moments, all make a good blog year. Here is a wish for many more.
You are pretty smutty, M; it seeps from your very pores. So it is not sensory deprivation for us if you take time to talk of dates, times and regular things. :)
Congratulations to you both!! I can’t believe it’s been a whole year already. This blog has become part of my daily routine. You guys never fail to disappoint. I admit I don’t leave comments as much as I should so that will be my New Year’s resolution.
We can all see the kind of writing year you’ve had by looking on the sidebar with all those eBooks. I think when you started the Erotic Writer poor little “Nightmares and Visions” was standing there all by itself. Now look how big the family has gotten! We at RP are so proud and honored to have been a part of that.
Monocle, you have written so many stories, flashes and poems this year that it’s easy to forget you have a job and a family somewhere in the offline world. *cringe* I suspect you always have your BlackBerry clutched firmly in hand. I’m also going to guess you have incredibly muscular and calloused thumbs. Sexy. :)
Thank you for all you do for us readers. My day and my sex life wouldn’t be the same without reading your work.
P.S. I have a request: M, do more collaborations. The poetry you wrote with Scarlet was some of your finest work. Also those stories you, Will and RG wrote about the woman and man in the elevator were incredible. Do that again next year.
Finally. Enough with the sycophancy, says Emma. The best editor is the honest one! ;-)
Aw, be nice to our editor, Will. With all the smut we’ve given her, we’re lucky she’s not gone totally blind.
Thank you so much, though, Emma. Your support was, in my mind also instrumental for the success of this blog.
As for collaborations, I think the coming year will find some. I have between 1 and 4 in the planning stage. Time is always the issue. It was a lot easier when I had a 12 year back catalog to post…
LMAO!! Whoops! Where’s the damn edit button?? Or perhaps I really did mean to write “never fail to disappoint.” The other comments were way too positive. I’d hate to see all that praise and blog fame go to your head. If you became divas, I’d never be allowed to make changes to your precious work.
Emma, your Freudian slip is showing, and it’s so cute.
But, seriously, you’re right. I was beginning to feel very Prima donna-ish – very, very precious.