About Writing – Jo Henny Wolf

The safety of fiction

Jo Henny Wolf — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:14:19 +0000

My foray into writing taboo erotica. Last week, I started an experiment: I want to see if I can make enough money through writing erotica to sustain our current situation as it is without making drastic changes (like getting a day job. The horror). I’ve started publishing my stories a year and some months ago,...

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Oh, such delicious shame!

Jo Henny Wolf — Thu, 04 May 2017 14:44:16 +0000

About Erotic Humiliation and Princess Kali’s “Enough to make you blush” I have written about shame in the context of writing and reading romance before. But shame is not only something I had to overcome about my writing, it’s also a huge theme inside my writing. Erotica offers a safe space to explore erotic humiliation....

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Haunted Head No. 2

Jo Henny Wolf — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:18:45 +0000

Three years ago, I wrote this post about taking a detour around my haunted head. I was writing a story I have long since scrapped (or, let’s say, I saved it for later). Instead of concentrating on the main plot, I wrote a 30K piece about the villain and the heroine getting down and dirty...

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My inner critic is a liar

Jo Henny Wolf — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:33:50 +0000

The key to writing a story is routine. The key to routine is discipline. Discipline is a concept I constantly struggle with. Is it such a surprise then that I constantly struggle with my self-esteem, too, when I fail so much at this most basic concept? I have my self-doubt so ingrained in me that...

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Detour around haunted head

Jo Henny Wolf — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:03:59 +0000

There is an updated version of this post available here! I developed a bit of a condition here… I’m still on my daily wordcount goal of 300 words, and after I had a bit of a slump, not writing a word for several days, I began to count anything into my wordcount out of sheer...

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Picturing character

Jo Henny Wolf — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:00:58 +0000

Ok, a while back (and it really is a while, was it last NaNo or the one before that? Anyway), the peeps of my favourite Office of Letters and Light asked about our dreamcast, should our novel be made into a film… While I’m not harbouring any hope (well, at least only a teenytiny one)...

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Always talk to real people

Jo Henny Wolf — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:02:56 +0000

I’m procrastinating. Again, I know what I have to do (oh, and I get to introduce another character, yay), but I’m just a little bit…not motivated. I hoped I could finish my draft in april. But I spoke with a Chemist this week to clear up some of the science-stuff in my book. I learned...

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The real magic

Jo Henny Wolf — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:33:28 +0000

One of the TV shows I’m obsessed with has a saying: “Magic is Power” (You’re wrong, Cersei Lannister would say: Power is Power). I’m not arguing against neither saying. For me, Words are Magic. Words can wield power. Words can seduce. Words can evoke the fluttering wings of hummingbirds, brushing against the inside of your...

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Choice of words

Jo Henny Wolf — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:46:47 +0000

I wrote a lot about the pain of writing so far. That is, perhaps, partly because one of my characters, living in my head, is a dark and sinister bastard who is giving me a hard time right now. Go take a shower. Ok. This morning, while folding my laundry, I mused over the question...

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Feeling the pain

Jo Henny Wolf — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:31:48 +0000

Ok. So, I had a rather hard day yesterday. There was this scene that I had to write, and honestly, I never felt that much anxiety (yeah, it was that “go where it hurts” thing again). I sat there, shaking, sweating, lightheaded. I did everything NOT to write that scene. I emailed every single friend...

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