Ralph Greco
Ralph Greco, Jr. is a professional writer of blogs, columns, reviews, interviews, fiction, poetry, songs, SEO copy and one-acts plays for both mainstream and adult clients. Ralph is also an ASCAP licensed songwriter and recording artist and with fellow writer, M. Christian, teaches classes across the US at kink conventions. Ralph & Chris also host a podcast about writing smut and the naughty world around us., called "Licking Non- Vanilla." You can visit him at https://www.rgreco-and-mchristian-presents.com/
Join Ralph every two weeks here on Sexpert.com for his new column "How to Become a Sex Writer".
Goodbye Mr. Vachss
On the heels of Anne Rice and Joan Didion dying at the tail end of the year, I learned that another of my favorite writers, Andrew Vachss died, on December 27th. A man who wrote “hardboiled” crime novels, comics, short stories, song lyrics, and plays,...
Step Back, Shut Up, Fuck Off
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I began this one initially as a plea to playwrights. Having had the pleasure of seeing a bunch of my one-acts produced across the U.S. (even some of a more ‘adult’ nature) I thought maybe I could pass along...
De-balling, Retracting and Playing It Safe: How Cultural Inclusionary Language Is Killing Sex Writing
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As I have written previously, I do indeed use the Grammarly program in my editing, but I am very cautious of it. I notice quite often the algorithm spits back suggestions over word choices it feels may not be...
Get My Blood Boiling With Some Foreplay
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My part two of this three-part article of the essential parts of erotica, this time foreplay, again sees us traipsing down very personal considerations. As much as I can't tell you how to set up a seduction—where it should take place, how...
How Valuable Is A Writer’s Time?
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I hear that phrase all the time, "Well, your time is valuable." Actually, mine isn't. Or, more precisely, it isn't to anybody else but me. So, if I am putting a price on a writing job and charging by...
I Seduce You; You Seduce Me
The Seduction of a Story
This is the first of a three-part article specifically aimed at you, my fellow naughty scribes. Indeed, we are like most fiction writers in that we endeavor to simply tell a good story, build rich, interesting characters, set time and...
Climaxing All Over Your Pages
Assuming none of your characters reached orgasm during your foreplay scene (which is as legitimate a way to write it as any other) or didn't get through the seduction and realize they didn't really like one another when all was said and done, you...
Write, Revise, Morph, and Repeat
Far be it from me, or even you, to determine what it is you are writing until you write it. And even then, you may write a thing, get it all revised, polished and maybe even sell it for a pretty penny, and still...
