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About Erotica Under Glass and \u201cOf Water\u201d<\/h3>\n
By Cori Vidae<\/p>\n
I love the idea of making the act of writing, which is usually a very solitary and lonely thing, social and interactive. A collaboration between the reader and the writer\u2013wait\u2013more of a collaboration. Stories are already collaborations between the reader and the writer, but I wanted to find a way to include the reader earlier on in the process. Something like what Harlan Ellison\u2019s \u2018Stories Under Glass\u2019 where he\u2019d go to a bookstore and write a story in its window, or like Elizabeth Barrett\u2019s poetry fishbowls where she accepts prompts and has a whole great system to cyberfund her poetry.<\/p>\n
Alas, I can\u2019t write live like Harlan because I\u2019m a pseudonym. I mean, I considered doing some sort of live streaming thing where people could see what I was writing but not my face\u2026 but would anyone actually want to watch that? I have my doubts.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019d love to do something like Elizabeth does, but the model she uses would be difficult to adapt to work with short stories and novellas rather than poems.<\/p>\n
So I came up with \u2018Erotica Under Glass\u2019. It\u2019s an ever-evolving system that mixes some bits of Harlan\u2019s system with some bits of Elizabeth\u2019s and comes up with something that\u2019s slightly different than both.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a little complicated (I need to work on that) but as part of the Erotica Under Glass process I accept prompts from my readers and then use those prompts to write stories. In 2015 my Erotica Under Glass theme was \u2018She\u2019s on the bottom\u2019 and one of the prompts I received was from Anna Kyle who sent me this picture:<\/p>\n
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It was beautiful. I was actually kind of intimidated by it\u2013I wanted to make sure that the story I wrote not only did the image justice but also would be one Anna would like.<\/p>\n
The result was \u201cOf Water\u201d. It\u2019s the story of a woman who is drowning in depression but finds a way to keep going, at least one more day, in part through a mysterious erotic encounter. I\u2019m very proud of the quality of the prose of this one and excited that readers and reviewers also seem to enjoy it. But it never would have come to be without Erotica Under Glass and Anna\u2019s picture prompt.<\/p>\n
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Cori Vidae has over fifteen years experience in various roles in the publishing industry. In addition to\u00a0Pen and Kink Publishing, she currently runs a micro press specializing in another genre\u2013one within which she is an award-nominated poet and hybrid author.<\/p>\n
In the past, she has used various pen names to provide top notch erotic story content to some of the biggest names in the adult entertainment industry, written well-reviewed erotic novels, worked as an editor for a romance small press and even, once upon a time, was a cover model.<\/p>\n
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