Claudia D. Christian

Estimated reading time: 2 – 3 minutes

Hello! I hope everyone had an awesome December. Mine was a study of extremes but I survived! Yay!

Anyway, I’m dropping in to talk a bit about erotica and the lack in Claudia D. Christian. I strive to write unconventional love stories that are sad and erotic, but seem to really take a shining towards the psychological impact bad relationships seem to have.

I always intend to have a healthy dose of erotica in my work but it rarely turns out that way. The stories like to play coy and let you peek inside the self-destructive nest where bed play happens but not much more than that.

Well damnit! I want to do more than peek!

After much consideration I believe I pinpointed why I couldn’t fit more erotic elements in my work. It was Claudia’s fault.

(This is where you go, “Huh?”)

My work as Claudia is dark, psychological, niche, and paranormal. It is what it is.

Every time I’d start something with the intention of erotic, it would morph into something else. That something else being paranormal, mind-fuck, rinse, repeat.

So I took the plunge and adopted another pen name for an erotic novella I’m working on: Charlotte DeCorte. I’m still rocking the CDC so yay!

Using this pen name I’ve found the erotic aspects are much easier to write. However, I’ve come across an issue that shouldn’t surprise me—Claudia’s still very much influential. What does this mean?

My current Charlotte novella is erotic but also an unconventional love story/mind-fuck! Damn! I can’t win for losing. The funny thing is I keep reminding myself that I need to make sure THIS story has a happy ending.

Not a happy ending several years down the road or a happy ending if you cross your eyes and squint at the screen.

A clear-cut, happy ending is a must for Charlotte.

Now the question for me is how am I going to get there when the main character is chained to her lover’s bed against her will?

Hmm….