Lately I have quietly edited a few stories-in-progress for different writers in the community. I have done this on and off for years, because my day job is in an editorial capacity, and this is arguably more fun to edit than my “real” work. But there’s been a run of them lately, and I’m still quite happy to help, but I wanted to suggest a few things if you are one such writer thinking of having me do a pass on your porn:

- I’d prefer a Microsoft Word document to a plain text document. If you’re using MS Word in any flavor from Word 97 to now, I prefer to offer my suggestions, edits, and comments with the Track Changes function. That lets me comment without being destructive, and you can overrule my edits or suggestions with ease. But if you send me a text file or an RTF file, I’m assuming you don’t have access to Word, so I don’t do Track Changes, which is messier for both of us. It takes me longer to add my stuff that way, and it takes you longer to remove it. (In those cases, you will get it back as an RTF file, which opens in TextEdit on Mac and WordPad on Windows, so I can add things like colored text to denote my changes.)

- If you have any specific questions or areas you would like feedback on, please note them somewhere in the document, preferably at the beginning or end.

- If I spend the time doing a deep edit, I will assume that you do actually want constructive critique and not just a pat on the back. I’m not cruel, but I am direct. I generally comment on everything from characterization to plot holes to awkward dialogue, but I will always do it with a suggested alternate approach. I will also point out things that I felt worked just as they were; editing is not simply a matter of finding the faults.

- Should go without saying, but everything is kept confidential, including the basic fact that I ever edited it at all. I do not require payment or public credit. Also, I only keep your draft until I see you release the final story yourself. Hard drives crash; I don’t want to have to re-edit it any more than you want to re-write it. Once I see the real story out there in the wild, I toss my edit and put your final in my smutty archive.

So if you have a story and you’d like an Edit123, hit me in email.

December seems to be my writing month. Maybe it’s just because my mind has some free time with the closure of the year and the mental break of the holidays, but I wrote The Corset and Happy Holly Days in Decembers past. And this year, I’ve tossed off a new story, The Perfect Storm.

I should warn you about what this story is not. It’s not an Airy Tale; I have an idea for the next one, but the muse wanted this story finished first. It’s not played for laughs; I wouldn’t call it serious, but it’s not my usual “inflation with flirtation” setup. What’s more, it’s not about a female blowing up; it’s my first male inflation story.

Most importantly, it’s not as innocent as the ones I’ve written before. I’ve avoided getting hardcore in the prose in the past, partly just because I would rather write about inflation than sexual acts. But this time I made an exception, even if my word choice is on the clean side. While I love vulgarity in my everyday life, I think the more direct sexual slang words are jarring and break the flow while reading. You see these big COCKs and FUCKs in there and suddenly you feel like you’re reading Hustler, and I don’t want to write Hustler. But in these prurient times, make no mistake: This is an explicit story for an adult audience. The characters “do it” and everything.

Hope you enjoy it. I’d be interested to hear any feedback, especially considering it’s a departure for me. Guess this is just where my mind is at at the moment.

Oh, and I know the wife’s name, but I’m not telling.

Here’s hoping you and yours had a lovely Christmas. I have found a gift that nobody got you, but you should probably get for yourself.

The clip “I Feel Big and Sexy” over at TaylorMadeClips is not something I would normally check out — it’s a sort of hybrid weight gain/inflation clip, and while WG steers me away, inflation pulls me in. So I got pulled in and found many things I liked:

1. The star, Crash, is a decent actress; I liked hearing her ad-lib, even if the dialogue was WG-focused.
2. Crash is a cute redhead. This week, anyway. But just like I don’t care if boobs are real or fake, I don’t quibble about crimson hair; however it got that way, it’s a treat in my book.
3. The clip is more than 17 minutes long, only a fraction of which is the standard credit sequence. There is a buildup but it’s reasonable (especially if you are the target WG market that likes to see girls eat) and involves spandex leggings.
4. The inflatable props are obviously inflatable and you can hear some of the hissing and squeaking in the ambient soundtrack.
5. The resulting shapes are very pleasantly inflatably round.

That still is taken from the BE segment; the belly segment starts shortly thereafter and she gets pretty darn big.

Oh, and the cheeky use of “O Come All Ye Faithful” is there for anybody who doesn’t mind a little ribaldry with their carols.

I have heard Taylor say they don’t make a lot of money on inflation clips so they tend to do more WG; I can’t fault them for that. But as an inflation fan, those are the ones I am more likely to recommend — and this one’s recommended.