William Blake Bradbury
For the past month or so, I've been churning out pages and gelling for a 7,000-word memoir essay. It's about my experiences as an asexual. I don't know whether to divide the story into two parts: how I became an asexual and the after-effects, or to just stick with the after-effects, which involve me dating a bi-sexual with a voracious sexual appetite. I've encountered several problems with the writing of this essay. The first, and foremost, is: being a non-sexual, I don't how you sexual creatures would relate to this piece, so I don't know how much style to pour on, what you folks would find interesting. Secondly, I can't figure out how to establish an interior monologue, mostly because there are so many reasons why I'm an asexual: cowardice, trauma, compulsion, religion, instinct. How do you tell a story about a person whose life-style is quite literally the opposite of every person on the planet, even eunuchs? I've written hundreds of pages trying to work this out and writing this essay is all I've been thinking about for the past month and a half. I didn't want to come and ask you guys for help, because I wanted to churn out a fully written essay and surprise you. But I'm stymied by so many questions: how graphic should I be? Should I use mostly dialogue? Is this of interest only to me? I'd really appreciate some serious, direct, frank feedback. Can this essay possibly be written?:kiss