Bill Drake

I’m still not convinced that Beau Bayh is a real person, as opposed to an AI generation from a prompt based on one of my stories.

Dave Kopay, the 1st US professional football player to come out, in 1975, 3 years after he had retired from football.
Photo is 1982, George Dureau.

In unrelated news, congratulations Mr. Jones, for a great game last night.

From the Archives: UVA March Madness, by Playoff Writer (2014) www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/ce... I no longer publish sports fan fic, but I enjoy reading it when it’s well done. And Playoff Writer (retired I think) was a master of the genre.

Repost to Gaydemon: MVP Prize. www.gaydemon.com/stories/MVP_.... I know water sports isn’t every one’s cup of tea but this story has a few fans.

Thanks!

Thanks, man

From the Archive: Brian’s Dad, by Greg Bowden (1998). www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/be.... Very nice to revisit this one.

Safe Word is a repost of a story that’s been on Gaydemon www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/in... I think it matches my initial impulse of Horny Dad Tales which was for shorter pieces, more sex-forward.

I’ve jokingly referred to my From the Archives postings as a “Trash or Treasure” series. Some are favorites of mine, some are one I’ve forgotten about, and some are just me browsing the back archive. I think they’re all interesting but others may or may not click with them.

From the Archives: Blow the Man Down, by Jason Bonds. www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/ad.... First published as a book in 1982, archived 1997. Heads up that’s there’s a lot of non-consensual stuff in it. But it’s well written porn with horny sex scenes.

Cool. Some are old faves some are just me rediscovering what’s there.

It seems the styles are way different but it’s hard for me to describe how. Maybe because I came of age (so to speak) with the older stuff.

I have a new shorter story out. This one started as an experiment to see if I could break my Rule #6 (no info dump) and still come up with something in my style. www.gaydemon.com/stories/Stat...

From the Archives: To Dad. With Lust, by Dave A (1998) www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/at.... This story was powerful to me when I first encountered it and was partly responsible for me diving into stronger incest writing.

Bill Drake's Rules for Fuck Fiction. Rule #17. Don’t kill off characters. Death is unsexy.

From the archives: Two Marines from the Barracks (1995) by Lance Kester. www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/mi.... I love the story build up of this one.

Digging into the archives… I didn’t realize that gainer/feeder stories were already a thing in the 90s. www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/ad...

Oh yeah that’s right.

FYI I don’t always see replies here until I go in and check individual posts. I’m not meaning to ignore anyone.

A lot are at Gaydemon: www.gaydemon.com/stories/auth...

Any story told in 3rd person. Peterbilt could write some great ones : www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/at...

I still have a lot of stories on hard drive, so often I’ll search for some detail I remember

Definitely. Ratings systems have their drawbacks but they can help sort out wheat from chaff. (And let’s be honest there’s a lot of chaff out there.)

Thanks, man!

It would be a fun thing to try (or read) now.

For instance I remember this chain-letter premise of a story where one author continues where another left off: www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/at...

The great thing about Nifty archive is that they have over 30 years of queer porn stories and yet it feels like older ones get forgotten. I have been curious about revisiting older stories, to reread or see what captures my attention.

That’s enough rules for now.

Rule #16. Dialogue is hard to get right but can do a lot to carry a story.