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| What You Will Learn About Sex and Writing from This Book | |
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| Thinking About Erotica | |
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| How I Ascended: Becoming an Erotic Goddess | |
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| What Is Your Story? | |
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| What You Wouldn't Expect About Erotic Writing | |
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| Is Writing Sex Better than Having Sex? | |
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| A (Brief) History of Sex Writing in America | |
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| The Similarities Between Erotica and Pornography | |
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| Femmechismo | |
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| Sexual Authenticity | |
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| Writing Erotica for an Audience of One | |
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| Reading It | |
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| What Do You Like ... and Where Do You Find It? | |
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| "What Do You Like?" Exercises | |
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| The Good Parts | |
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| Reading Aloud | |
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| Erotic Reading Exercise | |
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| The Erotic Reader's Bill of Rights | |
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| Writing It | |
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| How to Get Ideas | |
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| Fantasies Exercise | |
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| The "Favorite Writer" Exercise | |
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| How to Use the Whole (Fucking) English Language | |
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| Dirty Words Exercise | |
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| Sexual Character | |
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| Character Splits Exercise | |
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| Steamy Plots | |
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| Steamy Plot Exercise | |
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| The Cliche-Ridden Plot-Buster Exercise | |
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| Climax | |
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| The "See Yourself" Orgasm Writing Exercise | |
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| The Orgasm Memory Exercise | |
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| Sex and Violence | |
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| Violence Exercise | |
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| Experimental Writing | |
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| How to Mix Sex with Other Genres: Sci-fi, Horror, Crime, Romance | |
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| The Expanding Genres Exercise--A Special Exercise for Couch Potatoes | |
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| What Will People Say? | |
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| Editing It | |
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| Editors: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | |
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| Finding the Perfect Editor | |
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| The Five Cardinal Rules for Editing Yourself | |
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| The Editor Search: A Few Dos and Don'ts | |
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| Copyediting and Proofreading | |
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| Publishing It | |
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| A Devil's Argument Against Publishing | |
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| Money Money Money | |
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| If You Want to Make Some Money at Writing--but Not a Full-time Livelihood | |
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| If You Want to Make a Living at Writing--Year In and Year Out | |
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| How to Write a #1 Bestseller--and Never Write Again If You Don't Want To | |
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| Big-time Book Publishers | |
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| How You Can Spot an Incompetent Copyeditor | |
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| Small Press Publishers | |
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| Self-Publishing and the Internet | |
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| The Literary Agents | |
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| Why Some Writers Can't Seem to Find an Agent | |
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| Selling It | |
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| I'm an Artist, Not a Salesman | |
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| Your Fan Club | |
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| Performing Your Work | |
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| The Book Tour | |
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| The Reviews: Meet the Press | |
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| Doing It | |
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| What's Going to Happen to Your Sex Life | |
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| You Are a Sex Guru | |
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| The Naysayers | |
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| Sex Writer Burnout | |
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| What Are You Waiting For? | |
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| Appendix | |
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| How to Nominate Stories for The Best American Erotica Series | |
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| Internet Resources for Erotic Authors | |
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| Credits | |
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| References | |