Stories I’m Not Writing
Shockingly, they’re not all about Medium
I usually write fiction, because I’m primarily a smut writer and my actual sex life isn’t interesting enough to write non-fiction erotica: getting creative with my degenerate filth is much more exciting.
But I have written other non-fiction recently. It’s mostly been about me in some way, because Medium likes subject matter experts and I am where my limited expertise lies.
There are a lot of non-fiction stories I would like to write that aren’t about me. But I haven’t written them, in part because I use Medium as my outlet and I want to keep using it.
Here are eight story seeds, still not written. Only four are directly Medium-related, but I felt this piece needed to be padded out and there is no publication called Half About M, so you’re getting the other four here.
Medium Meta
Four stories about why Medium sucks, which I’d still put on Medium because that sucks less than not being read.
Fuck Your Friends
And your cliquey, classist culture
Not an on-brand exhortation to engage in an impromptu orgy at your next dinner party/book club meeting, but a searing indictment of the ‘Friends of Medium’ scheme to shift money away from plebs like me and towards the authors Coach Toenail approves of. And yes, I know some of my friends are Friends: I hate the game, not the players.
Arse Grating Art
AI-generated images over human words chaps my ass
Examining the thorny issue of whether writers who reject AI stories on Medium ought to embrace AI art to illustrate their stories (and pissing off some of my friends in the process).
Growth Hacking on Medium
It’s their way or the highway
Why growth-hacking is right if the right writers do it, but writers nurturing writers is wrong. Yes, I’m still bitter over Coach Toenail insulting my friend, and over Medium’s easily exploitable boosting model.
Sex Stories are Real Stories
Why degenerate filth can still be quality writing
Weaponizing Medium’s quality guidelines by showing how well-written smut can enrich a reader’s life, encourage them to reconsider their own perspectives, help them feel less alone in the world, get them thinking, and move them (in ways other stories simply can’t).
Hot Takes to Drive Engagement
Four more story seeds, each likely to result in the sort of engagement Medium rewards if I was ever mad enough to grow them. But they’d also likely provoke widespread blocking, and possibly a complete ban (assuming I’m still here after the Medium Metas).
Your Take on Israel/Palestine is Wrong
And I don’t even need to know what it is
Pissing off both sides means I’m right, right? Why everyone is wrong on this issue because it’s no longer possible to be right. No, not even with your obvious, non-controversial take.
I Insisted Sex Work was Real Work
Now my boss insists I give him a raise
Not smut (although I might yet write the fiction version) but an examination of why the popular argument against ‘sex work is real work’ is undeniably true, but also completely wrong.
Women Supporting Women
Not you, bitch: you have cooties
Another searing indictment. Yes, I am allowed two. This time it’s feminism, which in all its incarnations has been a movement to advance some women while excluding others.
He Might Be Empowered, But You Aren’t
Why hook-up culture lets you down
The reactionary regret of a former slut, in a (third!) searing indictment of the eagerness of younger women to re-invent socially corrosive polygamous patriarchy under the guise of girl power.
If you think I should develop any of these ideas then please tell me in the comments, because Medium rewards comments. I will respond politely, then ignore you and go back to my degenerate filth because I don’t need the aggravation of having opinions.
