Now Posting As. . .

**Edited Dec 27, 2014: I've decided to just be myself and not hide behind a fictional character. I'm taking my name back. She'll come back under another name, I'm sure, because her story is rather interesting.**


Over the last few days, Mr and Mrs Myrrh have become much more real to me. Mr Myrrh was hardly more than a few phrases in my Scapple app less than a week ago. Now he has an ego. He's rather shy and cares about projecting a manly image. He speaks in short, direct sentences, and doesn't say much more than he has to. On the other hand, he wants to encourage Ms Myrrh as she overindulges her exhibitionism on Facebook (all of their posts are set to "public"), which, according to the story, he has ordered her to do, anyway, as part of her service to him.

The funniest thing about writing interactions between two characters on Facebook is the messages they send each other. I am constantly surprised to see that Mr Myrrh has a message waiting when I log him in, only to laugh at myself when I remember that I sent the message as Ms Myrrh. Who sees those messages? Just the two characters and myself, of course, so what's the point?

Because there still is the need for them, as realistic characters, to communicate with each other privately. Exploring that private conversation helps me flesh out Mr and Ms Myrrh by answering the questions, "What do they say/do when people are (assumedly) watching? What do they say/do when they have privacy?"

The answer, so far, is that they tease each other publicly and sympathize with each other privately. It's hard to say if that's what a couple in a BDSM relationship ought to do online. Some might think that the submissive should always publicly serve the dominant and never embarrass him/her. Some might like to see that the relationship is "real" enough that the submissive can be bratty or flirt with his/her dominant publicly.

Either way -- or even some way in-between -- Mr and Ms Myrrh have begun to organically develop a pattern of relating online and, in turn, that's served to make their characters more solid to me. I'm looking forward to sharing their adventures with you, as written in Ms Myrrh's point of view, sometime soon. I'm currently in the editing stage of the first story. My goal is to publish it either as an e-book or through an online paid erotica site, some time near the end of January. I'll be happily surprised if it happens earlier.

Warmly,
The Author

Yes, I'm Fictional. No, I'm Not Sorry.

**Edited Dec 27, 2014: I've decided to just be myself and not hide behind a fictional character. I'm taking my name back. She'll come back under another name, I'm sure, because her story is rather interesting.**

I'm Ms Myrrh. But I'm not. But I am.

Ms Myrrh, or some variation thereof, is a pseudonym my author has used for nearly 20 years, whether flirting on the original IRC BDSM chatroom, posting tales at MC Stories, being an involved member of the MC Forum, and making friends here and there who also wished to remain anonymous.

Admitting you enjoy BDSM, as a lifestyle, a fantasy, a starting point for telling a story, can be troublesome in real life. A pseudonym makes life easier. It makes it possible to be honest about some things by hiding other things.

But now Ms Myrrh is a fictional character on Facebook. The author might speak through my voice, or that of my husband (also a fictional character), but I'm not really her, and she's not really me, and what I post on Facebook is what ends up in the stories, not what she does in reality. Her reality is far, far different than mine; far, far more pedestrian. The only similarity might be a certain luxury of time.

Because I am a character, any Facebook user should know that I will act in character at all times. I'm not interested in selling anything other than the stories I'm in, I'm not interested in collecting your personal information or stories to put in mine (unless you specifically ask me to), and I'm not trying to manipulate anyone into doing anything through false pretenses.

I sincerely hope you like me even though I don't exist anywhere outside of the imagination. It would be out of character for me to not want to be liked. ;-)

Warmly,
Miriam Myrrh

PS: This blog will be maintained by both myself and the author as a door to "step outside" plot lines and examine the experience of a fictional character trying to sell her stories via Facebook and other mediums to adults over 18 who like to read stories with adult themes.