someone stop me
I've been thinking about writing a rebuttal to 50 Shades of Crap for a while. I loathe the books; I've never read them completely but I have seen excerpts and seriously, what the shit is this? It's awful. It's a depiction of an abusive relationship that masquerades as BDSM. The writing itself is terrible and just...ugh.
So I'm thinking about writing a different take on things, something with a female protagonist who knows what she wants, what she's interested in, and is willing to discuss these things with her partner or partners in pursuit of a mutually supportive healthy adult relationship. I'm probably not the only one who wants to do this or is doing it, but I figure there can't be enough counters to this awful thing.
I can't decide if this is what the uni project wants to be or whether it's something completely different. I'm maybe inclined to make it different because the uni project has an actualfax plot, but I really do not need another project and the uni one is at least started.
I'd be reusing a lot of the people from FF and WC, but since they're all my creations I can get away with that. I have to turn Khan into someone else, though. I've started working on that in the uni bits, and he's slowly coalescing into a person.
The other issue is that the story keeps telling me it wants to be a triad, not just a couple. So that knocks my audience down. I'm not writing this necessarily to become rich and famous, but if I do write this and get it out there I'd like to, you know, sell some books.
But I think it's doable. I think I could make this work. I'd have to do research, of course, and it'd be a lot of work, but on the other hand WC may hit 500,000 words before I'm done. I could totally write either a stand-alone novel or a trilogy. The hard part would be trimming it down.
BUT I need to finish WC, and decide about the id-fic, and figure out whether I'll use the uni project or start something new for this. I don't have time for this to eat up my writing brain. That probably won't stop it, but I can try to resist, right? sigh.
What do you all think?
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So I'm thinking about writing a different take on things, something with a female protagonist who knows what she wants, what she's interested in, and is willing to discuss these things with her partner or partners in pursuit of a mutually supportive healthy adult relationship. I'm probably not the only one who wants to do this or is doing it, but I figure there can't be enough counters to this awful thing.
I can't decide if this is what the uni project wants to be or whether it's something completely different. I'm maybe inclined to make it different because the uni project has an actualfax plot, but I really do not need another project and the uni one is at least started.
I'd be reusing a lot of the people from FF and WC, but since they're all my creations I can get away with that. I have to turn Khan into someone else, though. I've started working on that in the uni bits, and he's slowly coalescing into a person.
The other issue is that the story keeps telling me it wants to be a triad, not just a couple. So that knocks my audience down. I'm not writing this necessarily to become rich and famous, but if I do write this and get it out there I'd like to, you know, sell some books.
But I think it's doable. I think I could make this work. I'd have to do research, of course, and it'd be a lot of work, but on the other hand WC may hit 500,000 words before I'm done. I could totally write either a stand-alone novel or a trilogy. The hard part would be trimming it down.
BUT I need to finish WC, and decide about the id-fic, and figure out whether I'll use the uni project or start something new for this. I don't have time for this to eat up my writing brain. That probably won't stop it, but I can try to resist, right? sigh.
What do you all think?
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