So, I’ve been contemplating what and how to write as I work on my journey to prove I can write something better than a lot of that crap I read see for sale on the eBook websites.

Don’t get me wrong, there is good stuff out there too, but really! The state of erotica today seems to be PORN. There is nothing erotic about it. It doesn’t make me feel tingly and excited anymore than the posters hanging in my doctor’s office do.

In fact, the overuse of vulgar terminology really is a turn off for me. I get that some people like the words. It makes them feel ‘dirty’ in a good way. They feel like they are doing something they shouldn’t and it’s exciting.

Not for me. I feel like I’m reading about foul mouthed badly behaved children acting like monkeys whacking off in a zoo. There is nothing there for me.

What I do need, is the sense of wonder and freedom I had when I was a teenager. You know, that two weeks before I found out I was pregnant and had to get married?

I want to feel the romance. I want to get excited when people finally kiss, not when a random stranger says “I’ll do ya.”

I want to feel like that girl on the bridge in the picture at the top of this page feels.  If I can make that happen in a book, I will be a better writer than 99% most of the stuff I have read the last few years.