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**9. Never compromise your values.**

Never is a word that I almost never use. Because never is an absolute...and there are almost none of those in this world. But when it comes to something like values I think that never and always are appropriate adverbs to use. I have been tried and tested on this one recently. I am part of an annual contest that challenges erotic authors to write as many stories in as many categories as they can within one year. My goal has always been to write three stories in all thirty-five categories. This is the last year ever for the contest as the site has decided it no longer fits their needs. In other words...my last chance. Have you ever felt like something was your last chance? Were you tempted to cut corners? I have been, but one thing that is important to me is to write the caliber of erotica and romance that I want to read...to hold true to my unique voice. Now the website has a word limit of seven-hundred and fifty words minimum...but I gots a big mouth. My stories tend to run from two-thousand to...oh, one-hundred and thirty-five thousand or so. Now I could have written those smaller stories...especially at the end when I had like nine stories to write in five days. But not even to fulfill a dream would I compromise one of my values. Or a job. Or a man. Values should be sacred as few things other than family are...now there is a great value for you.