I miss #writing #BeatPreyLove. Haven't had much spare brainpower for it since Baby arrived, nor much opportunity to write erotica.
I owe two writing commissions already.
Tell my daughter to get her shit together so daddy can make strangers horny on the internet
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#EroticMusings 33 (11JAN2026— 17JAN2026) Craft: Is creating erotica an erotic act in itself?
Yes. For me at least.
If it weren't I don't think I'd have experienced the feeling of writing something too horny to finish in a single setting.
I write a lot of sex, and it is a focal point in #BeatPreyLove, and sometimes I do a good enough job of writing sex to distract myself from writing at all.
It's not every time, but it's frequent enough to be a thing I consider when deciding what to write or edit that session.
#PennedPossibilities 894 — If someone wanted to hurt your MC, what would that person do or say to them?
"Wait? Really? Hell yeah! Meet me in the ring. Or the cage. Or on the mats. Clothing optional. Cameras mandatory. I can't promise you'll like what i do to you, but it'll be great content. We're gonna do hella numbers online. Play your cards right and I might just fuck you while I'm fucking you up."
EDIT:
i appear to have misunderstood this one lol. I definitely read it and wrote as Kathy's response to someone trying to hurt her, but the prompt means "how would Someone hurt your MC?"
Fuck it. I like my version better.
#WordWeavers 14 Dec Are your characters incapacitated by injuries, or do they brush them off as flesh wounds?
My sensibilities are inspired by Fighting games, where Ken and Ryu knock the absolute hell out of each other and then get back up for Round 2.
In the more grounded world of #BeatPreyLove and the Superhero world of #MyHotDarkLoveStory and the Fantasy martial arts world of #WyldeBlueWander i tend to include reasons for faster healing.
In the world of WBW, when the Bright Gate opened 500 years prior, the biggest societal impact was healing magic, which let them train/spar/fight harder without risking lethal injury. It turned combat into a social function, by removing its physical stakes.
Their neighbors took note, and Akreja is known as a land of fists and blades, but not of death or cruelty.
In BPL, people are just heartier. Injuries heal faster, concussions don't accumulate, and you can get your ass kicked and the in the gym training again 10 days later like Nothing happened.
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Holy shit, i think #BeatPreyLove is this novel.
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1867593/beat-prey-love/
I'm writing it.
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#EroticMusings 28: With erotic works, do you begin with the end in sight, or discover the finished work as you go? What tools or processes to you use to help you plan ahead, or to guide you as you create?
Oh heavens no.
So far my best writing has come from having an idea, writing it, and then spending a little time considering why it sucks.
Then an interminable period in between,
Then I write the good version of that idea.
#BeatPreyLove was originally a much worse, less internally consistent, less sexy, less enjoyable story. I wrote myself into a corner and abandoned it. And that was after abandoning it's original version, an even worse story named Feinting Spells.
The shorter the story, the faster all this happens. But I need to attempt it, get stuck, get frustrated, and then return, to end up with something I'm happy with.
For planning ahead? My tool is simple:
write the plot in as few words as possible. No. Fewer. No. Even fewer.
If the action of the scene, the bare bones "these people do this, then this happens, then they do this, then this happens," isn't clear to me, I can only fuck up the story the ensues.
So write it as simply as possible, then start adding major events and then crucial details, and suddenly I have a story, or a fight, or a sex scene, that I like (more)
#WordWeavers Dec 3. What’s the best thing about the world of your story?
In #BeatPreyLove most injuries heal much quicker, people are much more openly sexual, basically everyone is cool about that, and no negative externalities result from that.
Also men and women are just about the same height and strength.
https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1867593/beat-prey-love/
The core trio of #BeatPreyLove are (left to right) Samantha, Kathy, and Flor. Kathy is the mastermind, an enterprising streamer and college student who trains in MMA and dreams of running her own promotion one day.
Her girlfriend on the right is Flor, a wisecracking boxer who loves the art and science of fighting, sexy or not, but is markedly less interested in being a promoter.
Their friend Samantha is a surfer and collegiate wrestler who's down for absolutely anything so long as she can have a good time.
These three make up the core of the early chapters, but as you can imagine, starting a fight promotion, even a tiny one, means things get busy quickly. Beat, Prey, Love is exactly what it sounds like. Fun, violent, and sexy.
I pull from my own martial arts background, but I'm less interested in getting every technical detail right or telling a grounded, realistic story. BPL is fun for the characters and for the reader. Expect dramatic fights and backstage drama in equal measure.
Art courtesy of:
https://www.deviantart.com/thejefersonchan
So I'm #writing serialized #erotica, but what is #BeatPreyLove?
It's the intersection of Sex, Love, and Martial Arts. What could go wrong?
College student Kathy Liu has an idea to capitalize on the wild popularity of martial arts and an increasingly sexual culture. Tired of fighting in organizations owned by someone else, the enterprising young MMA fighter has a plan to launch an exciting new "wet" fight promotion starring fighters from around her prestigious university. College students, professors, career fighters, and anyone else all competing in real, raunchy Mixed Martial Arts, Boxing, or Wrestling competitions streamed online. Why not?
She won't be the first woman to launch an erotic fight club, but Kathy envisions "Beat, Prey, Love" becoming a popular destination for fighters of all levels who aren't afraid to show some skin while chasing their wins. Unfortunately for her, things are about to get much more complicated, and the streamer known as "Calamity Jade" is going to have to work extra hard to keep the fights sexy, the egos in check, and her surly boxer girlfriend satisfied.
This is my synopsis, but I'm open to feedback. Does this leave you confused? Interested? Is it too verbose?
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#EroticMusings 27: When it comes to reflecting on and assessing your own work, how do you practice self-kindness?
There is a scene in the Boondocks TV Show where Thugnificent, a rapper who only exists within the show, is giving an interview. When asked to clarify lyrics from a song he wrote earlier in his career, he declines.
"'Booty butt cheeks,' 'Move them butt cheeks,' who cares? It's a song about ass"
It's funny, but it's true. The art isn't meant for study or close reading; it's meant to incite an emotion, a feeling, and cause action. The lyrics are less important than whether or not it makes you wanna throw ass.
#BeatPreyLove is somewhat similar. Yes, i love these characters and their designs and yes i want to improve as a writer, and yes i want to depict fleshed out characters in a believable urban fantasy world, but I'm writing Combat Sports Porn. Internal consistency and peerless prose are less important than if it the end result is sexy. If people want to fuck my characters, or want to know who my characters are fucking and how, or read my work and want to fuck anyone at all? Then I've done my fucking job (pun intended).
Self-kindness is putting things in their proper perspective. If my #erotica #writing incites interest or curiosity or joy or arousal, I'm fucking winning.
Edit:
The fucking in question: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1867593/beat-prey-love/
NaClKnight 🧂⚔️🥊