Adventures in Writing

I’m a visual person to a degree: I like things in the proverbial black and white. I like exactness, and tracking progress with precision. I like facts and figures. I like, for example, knowing that at the beginning of March, I will have increased my personal net worth by 10%, thanks to my still-in-progress budgeting and tracking system. Perhaps 10.2% or 10.3%. I do like precision.  Which is to say, I’m still in the negative thanks to a mortgage, but less so.

I’ve surpassed 9k words in the novel, perhaps a paltry number when measured against the total of a true novel, but I look to be on track to meet 10k or even 11k words this weekend, and I’m a bit proud of that. It’s progress. Not bad for someone so lacking discipline as myself, with a full-time job and attempting to contract with a possible client for web content.

With the exception of a single successful NaNoWriMo, (which was horrid in execution), the only time I’ve ever written this much on a single project was for my senior thesis.

Which reminds me, I should pull that out. I enjoyed the end result of it. I had a catchy title, I’m sure (I’ve always been fond of not-too-straight forward titles), and it focused on the power exchange information transference.  What is private versus what is secret. How they’re handled. Motivation for keeping and sharing secret and private information.

I do enjoying examining power exchanges: who benefits, who suffers.

I read once that everything is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power. I disagree: I think everything is about power.

But I digress.

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Happy Valentine’s Day

I’ve ranted about Fifty Shades of Grey.  I’ve argued with, well, everyone I know who likes it, that Fifty Shades should have been called Fifty Shades of Shit.  How it’s horribly written, more about domestic violence than BDSM, blah blah blah.  I really do get tiresome when I get on my soapbox.

In fact, I’ve deleted almost 700 words from the original draft of this post to do just that.

Tiresome indeed.

Besides, it has been done by people far more organized and articulate than I.

I will say that BDSM isn’t inherently abusive.  It certainly does offer the potential for abuse, just like any other relationship, but it is NOT in and of itself bad.

When arguing for the positive points (and I’ll admit, there are a couple) of FSoG, people “in the know,” have referenced Secretary, the 2002 movie starring James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhall.

Comparing Fifty Shades to Secretary is like comparing arsenic to ice cream.

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