Starsky & Hutch Fanfiction - Poll

[ashkevran]

To any who stop by, welcome to my latest and truly unscientific poll about Starsky & Hutch fanfiction for readers, writers/artists, and anyone in between. Fanfiction seems to be a large part of our fandom (any fandom?) ... almost as much as the canon episodes and the visuals and anything else related to our two favorite Bay City Detectives.

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[nicoltyler]

I will probably be ranted at for this but I am being honest

[kuonji14]

I dislike any extraneous scene. If you can skip reading a scene and not lose any impact from the fic (or even improve the impact of the fic), then that scene should have been edited out by the writer! If it's a super-cute scene about Hutch and a kitten, even, delete it! Post it separately, but if it doesn't belong, then it doesn't belong. :)

Of course, as a writer, I can understand how it happens. Sometimes you get attached to a scene and just yearn to keep it somewhere. And writers write what they personally think is right for the story (e.g. feeling that a good slash story has to have hawt sex somewhere), which will sometimes not agree with the readers'.

(Of course, I am now mentally rifling through my own slash stories to see if any offend... :D)

May I ask, what is your opinion of PWPs?

[nickygabriel]

You know, there are some authors that write slash and I do read for exactly the reason you gave :)

[ashkevran]

Thank you nicol. This poll is about/for folks to express anything they want when it comes to stories and story writing. I have my own bugaboos. One of the biggest ones for me, for example, is if one of them deliberately (or due to some angsty influence) hurts or rapes or something the other. I can never never see that happening, and I avoid it. But that's must me. I hope no one will rant at you for saying what you enjoy or don't enjoy.

Thanks again for participating!

-Angel

[librathree]

Also to be completely honest I am a little tired of Slash or rather the sex scenes altogether. how many times and original ways can such a scene really be described.

I feel like this now as a writer. :-)

[kuonji14]

I think the trick to writing a good sex scene is basically the same as the trick to having good sex. It isn't as if the mechanics of sex have changed in tens of thousands of years, but people still like it. :)

1. Foreplay, foreplay, foreplay => Set up the sex scene, whether with internal dialog or actions (subtle or overt), with a lead-up event, etc. Build up anticipation.

2. Somehow, some way, find that new position => Somehow, some way, find that new circumstance, that new kink or fantasy, that new combination of events, that new character perspective, that new character, that new writing pov/style/technique, that new theme, etc.

3. Talk dirty, or talk honestly => Have the characters talk (out loud or internally) about what they are thinking and feeling. A cock is a cock. Big deal. But what is Starsky thinking when he sees Hutch's? His own? What does he want to do? What does he imagine? What does it remind him of? Does he show what he feels; does he play his feelings down or up? Why?

[librathree]

I think you're absolutely correct in this - there are ways to make a sex scene, if not "new" necessarily, still compelling reading. The trick is to go deeper than the mechanics.