oh what a night
When I woke up this morning I found tinsel in my shoes. Holiday parties - they follow you home! I'm scared to open the closet in case a choir leaps out and bellows Silent Night at me. But I have my favorite seasonal decoration on the fridge: my RotK ticket. I wonder if it'll still be valid if I sketch little sparkly reindeer on it...
I liked the talk, as seen in many places, about one's recurring story or theme, though it really clicked for me when destina posted about how multi-fandom writers don't always write equally well in all their fandoms and they also sometimes drag the same story along from fandom to fandom like a tattered blankie. Which doesn't always work that well in terms of actually telling a story about the characters. (I kind of suspect, though, that writers who are really invested in a certain recurring theme are often attracted to fandoms where they can see that particular dynamic between the characters. Other people's mileage tends to vary quite a lot, on that issue.) Anyway, I was fascinated and impressed by how many people could put their recurring narrative theme into words and discuss how it played out in their stories. Most of those answers were on a whole other level than the amazing repeating plot, though. And then cesperanza posted about her issues with this meme, including the comment that she thought the writer was the least qualified person to answer this question, and then at least I felt better about not being able to come up with my own recurring narrative theme or OTP (one true plot). It seems to me that it must be easier to figure out that you repeatedly write about partner betrayal or wicked stepmothers than all those more subtle things that people were talking about. I'm not sure if I feel bad or good about the fact that when I think about recurring elements in my fiction, what leaps to mind is dental hygiene.
Which words are sexy and which words aren't? I'm not putting off writing a sex scene or anything (no, honestly). Just thinking about it. I have trouble with virgin orifices of any kind. Virgin holes. eep. Cock is invisible to me in sex scenes, to the point where it's bizarrely neutral, like sheet or table. It used to be more loaded - I used to feel that it was a word that brought its own pornish ambience, as it were. Desensitized by sex scenes. Throbbing rods are right out, though. How about you (yes, you)? Do you think there are words that are sexy in and of themselves, or naughty, dirty-in-a-good-way, whatever you want to call it, words that contribute to the mood of a sex scene by their mere presence? Or is it all in how the writer puts them together? (The words, not the guys. Though the guys, too, I suppose.)
I liked the talk, as seen in many places, about one's recurring story or theme, though it really clicked for me when destina posted about how multi-fandom writers don't always write equally well in all their fandoms and they also sometimes drag the same story along from fandom to fandom like a tattered blankie. Which doesn't always work that well in terms of actually telling a story about the characters. (I kind of suspect, though, that writers who are really invested in a certain recurring theme are often attracted to fandoms where they can see that particular dynamic between the characters. Other people's mileage tends to vary quite a lot, on that issue.) Anyway, I was fascinated and impressed by how many people could put their recurring narrative theme into words and discuss how it played out in their stories. Most of those answers were on a whole other level than the amazing repeating plot, though. And then cesperanza posted about her issues with this meme, including the comment that she thought the writer was the least qualified person to answer this question, and then at least I felt better about not being able to come up with my own recurring narrative theme or OTP (one true plot). It seems to me that it must be easier to figure out that you repeatedly write about partner betrayal or wicked stepmothers than all those more subtle things that people were talking about. I'm not sure if I feel bad or good about the fact that when I think about recurring elements in my fiction, what leaps to mind is dental hygiene.
Which words are sexy and which words aren't? I'm not putting off writing a sex scene or anything (no, honestly). Just thinking about it. I have trouble with virgin orifices of any kind. Virgin holes. eep. Cock is invisible to me in sex scenes, to the point where it's bizarrely neutral, like sheet or table. It used to be more loaded - I used to feel that it was a word that brought its own pornish ambience, as it were. Desensitized by sex scenes. Throbbing rods are right out, though. How about you (yes, you)? Do you think there are words that are sexy in and of themselves, or naughty, dirty-in-a-good-way, whatever you want to call it, words that contribute to the mood of a sex scene by their mere presence? Or is it all in how the writer puts them together? (The words, not the guys. Though the guys, too, I suppose.)