Ask the Author: Richard Bacula
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Richard Bacula
"The extreme always seems to make an impression."
-Jason Dean, "Heathers"
That's the short answer.
Here's the long answer...
I like to stand out from the crowd a bit, because it's hard for an independent author to garner any attention unless he/she has an advertising budget, unless they can get people talking about stuff.
People like to talk about weird stuff, so it can pay to write it.
Also, I like the particular challenge of taking a strange sub-genre like Dinosaur Erotica, and giving myself the task of writing a truly good story within that genre. I like trying to make the absurd arousing, because it pushes me to develop my craft.
If I can make people get aroused reading about a woman and a scarecrow, for example, then the next time I write a more mundane sex scene it'll be all the easier.
Also, it broadens my talents. One of the nice things about writing erotica is that it can cross over with any number of other genres. By writing erotica, I can also write fantasy, science fiction, romance, horror, or any number of other things. If I ever decide to write non-erotic fiction, then I'll have already accumulated experience writing about a wide variety of characters, settings, and situations that easily translate into non-erotic stories.
Not all of my stuff is strange, though. "An Innocent Haircut" is a perfectly normal story about a young man who gets seduced by his female barber. "A Magician's New Box" is a bondage story, but there's nothing supernatural or inhuman about it, so that's pretty normal as well.
In my new anthology, "A Taste of Bacula," I've included two other relatively normal stories (along with my other works):
"Ferrari Snow Day," which is just about two college students taking advantage of a day off from school
"The Sneaky Snowplow," which is about a woman getting secretly seduced by her two best friends. I guess that's a bit weird, but it's not "dinosaur" weird.
Thank you for your question, and if you want to know anything else, just ask!
-Jason Dean, "Heathers"
That's the short answer.
Here's the long answer...
I like to stand out from the crowd a bit, because it's hard for an independent author to garner any attention unless he/she has an advertising budget, unless they can get people talking about stuff.
People like to talk about weird stuff, so it can pay to write it.
Also, I like the particular challenge of taking a strange sub-genre like Dinosaur Erotica, and giving myself the task of writing a truly good story within that genre. I like trying to make the absurd arousing, because it pushes me to develop my craft.
If I can make people get aroused reading about a woman and a scarecrow, for example, then the next time I write a more mundane sex scene it'll be all the easier.
Also, it broadens my talents. One of the nice things about writing erotica is that it can cross over with any number of other genres. By writing erotica, I can also write fantasy, science fiction, romance, horror, or any number of other things. If I ever decide to write non-erotic fiction, then I'll have already accumulated experience writing about a wide variety of characters, settings, and situations that easily translate into non-erotic stories.
Not all of my stuff is strange, though. "An Innocent Haircut" is a perfectly normal story about a young man who gets seduced by his female barber. "A Magician's New Box" is a bondage story, but there's nothing supernatural or inhuman about it, so that's pretty normal as well.
In my new anthology, "A Taste of Bacula," I've included two other relatively normal stories (along with my other works):
"Ferrari Snow Day," which is just about two college students taking advantage of a day off from school
"The Sneaky Snowplow," which is about a woman getting secretly seduced by her two best friends. I guess that's a bit weird, but it's not "dinosaur" weird.
Thank you for your question, and if you want to know anything else, just ask!
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Apr 13, 2015 02:11PM · flag