New look + new focus

First, I want to say thank you to everyone who chimed in about the new look. And to those of you who chose this post on which to comment for the first time, welcome!

As I mentioned previously, I recently decided to shift the focus of this site away from so much random navel gazing and back toward more erotic fiction, poetry, and other not so personal writings on sex and spirituality.

Somewhere in the midst of thinking about making that shift, it became clear to me that I was ready to get more disciplined, not only about my life in general, but also about my writing. So, in addition to the new look here, I now have a more clear idea of this site’s purpose.

You may have noticed the new tag line: sex, consecrated. This is actually the very first tag line I began with almost three years ago. And though I’ve played around with others since then, sex, consecrated really does best describe what this site - and my desire to keep it going - has always been about. To consecrate means:

to make or declare sacred;
to devote or dedicate to a purpose;
to set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity [in this case, the Beloved].

So, my purpose is in some ways the same as it’s always been, only with a deeper and more conscious intent on my part: to create an online “place” where the topic of sex is dedicated to engaging with the Beloved.

Along with this more conscious awareness of purpose comes expanded content. Examples of some of the new-ish things coming up:

More stories

I’ve already mentioned Thomas the Rhymer for October. This will be a serialized story, published over several weeks from October through December. And yes, it will be a very spicy version. Next week, I’ll be posting part two of Cinéma Vérité (nope, I didn’t forget about it!), with part three to follow around the beginning of October. And for the remainder of the year, I’m working on several other serialized stories, short stories, and of course, poetry.

More conversational posts

Specifically, I want to write more posts that encourage discussion rather than just presenting accounts of my personal “process.” Not that introspection and the personal story aren’t valuable… or discussion encouraging. Never fear, there will still be plenty of “Elizavetta” here. It’s just that, as I’ve said before, conversation is important to me on many levels, and so I’d like to concentrate more intentionally on writing posts that are about dialog rather than monologue.

Reviews

I always love to share things I find, and I’ve already written a few mini-reviews on this site. So, I decided to expand that a bit and write reviews more regularly. It’s kind of related to my thing about conversation, I guess.

And when I say reviews, I’m talking about my own personal ruminations on other blogs, web sites, books, videos, music, etc. — reviews of media I like enough to want to write about — not paid sex toy reviews. Not that I haven’t been known to wax poetic about a good sturdy vibrator (or ten), but you know what I mean.

Guest posts

Yep, that’s right, guest posts. And you’ll love them. Beyond that, I’ll say no more for now. You’ll just have to wait and see.

An editorial schedule of sorts

In redesigning this site, I also wanted to find a way to structure the content of it to more clearly reflect the devotional offering I originally intended it to be. So, I’m in the process of taking the idea of an editorial posting schedule and combining it with the idea of liturgical hours to get… some sort of fucked up monastically-inspired weekly writing schedule. It’s a monastic mash-up, kind of.

I know, I’m weird that way. But that’s why you read here, and you know it.

Anyway, I haven’t worked it all out yet, but I do know, for instance, that every Friday in my “Vespertine week” will be Flasher Friday. However, I’m not intending this to be some sort of overly-limiting or stifling thing where I just crank out something on a certain day simply because it’s on a “list.”

I’m doing this more as an act of devotion in the same way the liturgical hours are used to organize and schedule the work of devotion. It’s also simply a personal guideline that will give me more everyday structure and discipline in both my life and my writing.

And yes…

… it’s really me. And yes, recently.

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Now, as for navigation…

I’m sure you can figure it out - you’re all big girls and boys. But I’m still in the process of getting this whole shebang up to speed, so I did want to point out a few things that are still a bit wonky:

• Categories are all jumbled right now, but will magically return to some sort of order soon. Until then, it’s a bit hunt and peck… cunt and pecker… punk and heckler… something like that.
• Links - some are gone, some are new, some are still waiting in link limbo to find a place. Again, this will resolve soon.
• The footer is fucked and I haven’t fixed it yet (archive listings, link policy and other such administrivia will live there eventually).
• Search bar? As in, where is it? Another thing that’s a little fucked at the moment. It will appear shortly.
• Several older posts have some glitchy formatting and broken links - I’m fixing these post by post.

Other than these five things, if you find anything else that’s generally messed up, that means I don’t yet know about it. So, do please let me know, yes?

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Ok kids, orientation’s over. Now, go read some woo-woo smut!