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Subject Matter(s) When it Comes to Sex

By Donna Galanti

You write a book. Then people read it. Did you know that? Your uncles. Your aunts. Your co-workers. Your oldest friends. Your acquaintances in Scouts, writing classes, and the PTA. They’ll wonder if the people in the book are you. They’ll wonder if you’ve done the things your characters do.

“Oh, my gosh, did that just happen?” cries unsuspecting Eddie

I didn’t think about this while writing my book. I wrote with none of those people there. I wrote the story that came to me. It has it all. Murder. Horror. Abuse. And S-E-X. That’s right.

Sex? Holy Schnikes, I can’t have my dad read my book! He asked me to ship him a copy. I procrastinated, hoping he wouldn’t keep asking me. I’m glad he can’t navigate Amazon. What will I do when I see my dad? Pretend I’m all out of stock. Thank goodness he lives four states away.

Do people look at me differently now? I know they do. One woman from the Scouts told my husband, the CubMaster, “I can’t read sex scenes knowing pharmacy-no-rx.net Donna xanax no prescription wrote them!” A genteel lady I know said “Well, they are certainly writing books different these days.”

Would I have written the book differently? In a clean way? Free of dark events, sick minds, and hot nights? I don’t think so. The sequel I’m writing is even grittier and darker. I can’t help myself. It’s what I love to write. And I write it alone. Later, the spotlight will shine and I’ll leave people wondering if I really am as dark as my books are.

Do you write what you love even though you’re embarrassed for people you know to read it? I guess I’ll keep them wondering about who the real me is after they read my book.

But not my dad. I’ll stop him from reading it at all costs. But then he kept asking me for my book. I finally shipped it to him.

I hope it sits on a shelf by the front door for all his friends to see.

I hope it collects dust and the pages get stuck together.

I hope it never gets opened. Ever.

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Filed Under: Journal Writing Tagged With: A Human Element, sex, Writing

Comments

  1. Catherine Stine says

    August 8, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    Hahha, just keep telling them it’s FICTION!
    I wrote a draft of a novel where one character had shades of my mom in it. I made the mistake of letting her read the first couple of pages, and she never stopped bugging me to read the rest…
    It’s FICTION, folks!

  2. dgalanti says

    August 8, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    Thanks for the laugh! It is indeed FICTION…but still…”Shades of my mom”…now there is a new hit 🙂 Sorry, the hype over that book has it’s title in my head!

  3. James Pailly says

    August 11, 2012 at 10:25 pm

    I work in broadcast journalism and I write a science fiction series about journalists who travel through time. Most of my co-workers laugh when they recognize themselves or other reporters in my characters. However… not sure my boss would find it so funny. Maybe he would, maybe he wouldn’t… I’d rather not find out. I guess we all have few people we’ve got to keep our writing away from.

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