This sounds like something you might want the doctor to check out as well. Although I couldn't tell you what the diseases were off the top of my head, I do know I've read before about women going in to get checked after sex became uncomfortable and finding out they had something.
Especially if the pain is a new thing, and those positions didn't hurt you in the past.
Otherwise, yeah - hitting too hard against the cervix can be painful.
Relax, breathe through it, and don't let a few rejections get you down. Success doesn't mean never failing, it means getting back up after you've failed. And when you're less concerned about being rejected, having more confidence should follow right behind.
clum's got alot of good points, and I'm gonna emphasize the learn by example one. One of the best things a person can do as a writer is read alot. It exposes you to many kinds of voices, many kinds of techniques, and you may find yourself picking up alot of it through osmosis.
Another thing you can do is get an avatar. Say wut?! Avatar. People with no pictures feel like fly-by-night-ers, anonymous strangers who aren't here to stay. I know that doesn't mean their work will suck, but I've known alot of people (and myself) who have a tendency to avoid people with no avatars. There's a difference between being a blur in the crowd to being a person with a presence, and the difference can make itself known in views and more of an inclination for people to read your work. Writers these days have to market themselves to get readers.
If you think your writing needs work, one of THE BEST things you can do for yourself is get some writing friends or friends who are also enthusiastic about the subject you write about. I've got two friends with me on who I bounce ideas off of, and when I finish writing a piece, we have a story night where one of them will read it for us. It's insanely helpful to hear someone read your work out loud, especially if they're reading it cold (i.e without having looked at it first). It's better than reading it out loud yourself.
It would depend on the preferences of the people you invited.
If it was my kind of crowd, we'd have fun sex games to play, maybe some contests, just to warm up, then retire to a comfortable, well set-up place to play out the rest of the night. When things reach a natural lull, refreshments or new toys could be brought out to pique interest or change the pace, like drinks and fruit, or kinky toys and gear.
Some stories describe everything in numbers - his cock was 7.5 inches long, she was a 34C, he was 6'7" tall, she was 42 years old.
Some stories describe everything poetically - his cock was long and slim as a snake, her breasts were round little apples, he was taller than I was and forced me to look up to meet his eyes, she could have been as old as my mother.
My question is, which one do you prefer? Which one is more erotic? Which helps your mental movie more? I prefer the latter; when people list numbers as details my mind just skips over them. I'm not very good with numbers to begin with.
If you like the latter too, can you remember what your favourite description was?
It IS a possibility of a (very strange) terrorist attack when something like this happens - hell, maybe even a disgruntled hillbilly dropping anthrax infected banjos, who knows - so perhaps the mobilization wasn't bad, but after you find out that it was some old lady who after years and years of good behavior happened to forget to turn her radio on, common'. Just slap her on the wrist and get her to bake some apology cookies.
Oh my goodness... They couldn't just let her off with a warning?
That is funny and sad.
'Morning' - Adam Hurst in one tab, and a rain soundtrack in another tab. Separately, both very beautiful. Together, mind-blowingly beautiful.
That sounds like tons of fun! I'd go for it if you trust the guy. Maybe hide a tazer in your sock just in case. ;)