Writing about my husband is one thing; where do I draw the line with my kids?
Famed mommy blogger Heather Armstrong—better known as Dooce—recently wrote about the reasons behind the dwindling coverage of her older daughter on her blog. She mentioned that her daughter had been squeamish lately about getting her photo taken, and also wrote that she now asks for her daughter's permission before mentioning her on the blog. It brings to mind questions that have been swirling around the blogosphere for awhile now: Do parenting bloggers compromise their chidren's safety by revealing so much online? Is this type of blogging exploitative? How much is too much, and where should we draw the line?
YourTango writers tell all Saturday, May 16 at Bowery Electric in New York City.
If you're in the New York City area, come hear YourTango writers speak about bringing their relationship experiences to the (web) page, join us this Saturday, May 16, at 7pm as part of Lit Crawl NYC.
Geeky all the way. Brainy is hot.
8%
Athletic and muscular.
16%
A musician or writer. I like guys with an artistic side.
10%
Someone with a sense of humor that will keep me laughing.
55%
I don't have a type. I date them all!
10%
The YourTango staff—inspired by a new book—creates six-word memoirs about love and relationships.
Ah, love stories. The drama! The butterflies! The humor and heartache! Here at YourTango, we can't get enough of love and relationships (uh, clearly), but it's not often that we share our own tales of love. While writing "Love In The Time Of Twitter" about SMITH magazine's new book Six-Word Memoirs On Love & Heartbreak By Writers Famous & Obscure, I asked the YT team to contribute six-word love and relationship memoirs of their own.
Revealing deep dark desires opens an erotica writer's sexuality to judgment.
Should our sexual fantasies be morally and politically correct? Excerpted from Best Sex Writing 2009, erotica writer Kristina Lloyd explores her taste for pleasure with a side of discomfort and the judgment that writing graphic sex scenes draws. An intriguing reflection on fantasies and how they define us.
Love lists are the new love letter. Tell your sweetie you love him/her without all the prose.
The new love letter lets you keep the sentiment but skip the stress. Sex and love bloggers Em and Lo suggest writing a love list—no rhyme scheme or thesaurus needed!
She may not wear Manolo's, but this blogger will do until SATC 2.
After twenty-seven years full of trust, honesty, and passion, Melissa knew it was time to walk away from her longest standing relationship. So early in July, this spawn of the Carrie Bradshaw phenomenon put down her pen and severed ties with her diary-writing habit. And who can blame her? A long-term relationship with a 93-volume collection of notebooks would surely give me writers' cramp. Perhaps Melissa felt tied down. Needed space. Was just not that into it?
What it's really like to spend all day spinning sexy stories.
Writing about sex has always been an honorable tradition. Just like good sex, good sex writing is in the details, the images, the scenario, the melding of reality and fantasy. We read erotica for inspiration, sometimes to lose ourselves, though we often find parts of ourselves within the story. Good sex writing paints a picture; it shows as well as tells, and it connects your mind to your body. Sounds good right, the life of an erotica writer? Can't you see me in my sexy lingerie, sitting at my laptop, popping bonbons from a heart shaped dish into my mouth, porno playing as I sample sex toys for research? Unfortunately the reality is very, very different.
A Q&A with the author of Brown Sugar, a collection of erotic black fiction.
Carol Taylor writes erotic literature. She started as an editor in the publishing industry and eventually put out a book of her own called Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction. From there she's become a luminary in the world of erotic fiction in general and black erotica specifically. So, how has becoming a sexpert changed her own love life? Not much, she draws some part of her fiction and the rest is, well, fiction. Maureen Dempsey gets all the details in this Q&A.
