Always show and share your work to people. Don’t hide it, criticism is your friend. You may not like what you hear, but you need to hear it. It allows you to see a different perspective and revise your work for the benefit of your story.

Beta Readers and editors always help improve the story, they want to! My friends often read my work to encourage me, but I need unbiased feedback from people not afraid to criticize my work.

Having strangers read your ‘erotica’ is somewhat humorous, because they never edit the ‘sex scenes’.