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Today only, the first volume of my book, Erotic Romances, is available for free on Amazon.

www.amazon.com/Erotic-Romances…

"Erotic Romances volume one is the first installment of short stories of the notorious internet writer Lord Malinov (aka David Cain). Written with literary aspirations, these stories of adult sexual relationships are light and engaging and arousingly adult, with a wide range of characters, situations and styles. The 126 naughty stories range from thoughtful, funny, sentimental and strange. Easy to read, poetic and charming, the Erotic Romances will entertain any adult reader, serious or light."

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www.amazon.com/dp/B0085BQ7P8

Erotic Romances - my book of erotic stories - now available on Amazon!

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bad poetics

"A cold, dark winter's night"

This phrase has become, for me, an excellent example of bad poetics because of the redundancy in the language. Winter implies cold. Night implies dark. Poetry is an art of economy. Saying the same thing twice is bad poetry.

"A warm, bright winter's night," on the other hand, would be good poetry. Meaning arises from the tension in the language.

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The key, if there is a key, to me is repetition.

Some people, so I am told, read by going methodically through every word of a writing. Presumably one at a time, in the order they appear on the page. To me, this is pure foolishness. The essence of reading is non-linear. Words are gathered like wild-flowers in bunches, some from over here, some from over there, assembled in a bouquet as the context is left behind.

If done once, this method is madness. What chance is there of getting the point of a story if I'm just haphazardly grabbing words from yon and hither. None is the chance. But, to me, reading through things once is the flaw in any reading system. Reading is accomplished only by rereading. Repetitively. Each pass collects more information. Each gathering of words brings me closer to understanding. Eventually, if complete understanding is the goal, the work is absorbed in me, the reader, the way it existed in the author.

An assembly of words surrounding a theme.

Writing, to me, is done the same way. Not in a single pass, but in a repetitive reapproach. A story is not told until it is told and retold until there is no further manner of telling the story. Words assembled and reassembled. Told and retold. Every perspective given a chance to be heard.

Repetition is the key to understanding, both from the readers and authors perspective.

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on reading while writing

Reading has been my primary coping task, throughout my life. I read to relax. I read to learn. I read to work. I read to understand. There is no part of my life that is unaffected by reading. To read is to live. To live is to read.

Reading has been a constant, since I taught myself how at a very young age. Even so, it can change in  nature. When I write, when I write constantly, the way I read begins to change radically. Suddenly, my awareness of the words and language and meaning and message are heightened. I no longer passively absorb information. I find myself, instead, rewriting every word I read. I change the words. I change the stories. I am never content to simply hear the words as written. They become a form of clay and my hands are immediately plunged in deep, distorting and reforming, taking in and changing everything.

It doesn't seem to be something I can turn off. I might stop reading when I get like this, for the information is less useful, as information. However the manipulation of the writing is itself highly creative, and it can be a delight to find out what I can make of the next piece I read. If you can call it that.

This is one of the reasons I consider copyright a fundamentally broken concept. Every instance of a creative piece is itself a creative act. The art we bring to an event exceeds the art that is provided. We, each and every one of us is always the artist. Every claim to own a creative piece is based on falsehood.

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