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Hack Writing 101: The Lost Meat Spear Manuscript
My Brief Career Writing Porn Novels for Greenleaf Classics
It’s a dirty story
of a dirty man
and his clinging wife
doesn’t understand
— “Paperback Writer,” 1966 (Lennon-McCartney)
I started my writing career in the early 70s, writing primarily fiction—pseudonymous and anonymous two-cents-a-word stuff. Mostly, I wrote porn novels, but also short stories for the women’s romance/confession mags—“My Husband Ran Off with the Babysitter”—that sort of stuff, and occasionally short stories for the cheapo men’s mags. Continue reading Hack Writing 101: The Lost Meat Spear Manuscript