Dragon V-Gifts! Awesome! Thank you for mine ♥ So much dragon love.
1. I write porn (and anything, for that matter) because I like to write things that I can see happening between characters in my mind's eye, but aren't in the show. I also write porn because it's stupid hot. I'm not aiming for erotica! Smut is goooood, I write what I think is delicious (or horribly wrong but oh so good anyway).
2. I suppose it depends what value of "good" we're going for. I think of what I've written as good if it sets out all the imagery I had going without babbling, repeating itself, wandering all over the place, or generally being a bit loose. I need to think that it has fairly good flow and phrasing, too. I don't need praise, because I kept my fic to myself for a long time so my criteria was all that mattered. Other people haven't worked their way into how I class my fic as "good", they make me happy though
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1. LOL at horribly wrong but oh so good anyway. Is porn more engaging to write? I think a couple months ago I was talking about how writing about dragons was more interesting, but the rope!kink fic has changed the game for me to some extent. I found that incredibly challenging and interesting, especially as I was trying to use the language of rock climbing in the fic.
2. Those seem like very good criteria. I also like to think that maybe I'm connecting with people when I write, but that seems impossible to gauge, even with feedback.
3. Right. That is how I'm thinking about kink at the moment. I think of "kink" as something that can have a sexual innuendo, but I would say I have certain kinks in stories which are not at all sexual (ie, I love it when people use mathy language in romance stories -- it's the use of the language that gets me every time. It gives me a mental boner (pardon the phrase), not an actual one
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1. I find porn more difficult to write. I have (delicious) images in my head, but getting them into text is really tricky, especially without repetition. There's a lot of repetition in sex, and there shouldn't be in prose. Damnation! I find character exploration stuff the most engaging. After that, it's character relationship exploration. And I think smut is one of many good vehicles for that. It's just generally not the easiest one, and PWP is certainly not the most engaging thing for me to write, if by that you mean mentally stimulating and interesting. It's fun
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1. It is definitely challenging to write! I feel like you've packed a few things in here, but I'm too tired to suss them out.
What do you find the most engaging to write?
4. When you have time, check it out. I've bookmarked it on AO3, so you can find it there too:)
No, I wasn't talking about fix-it-fic. Just exploration. I agree, that sort of thing is fun. I had a great time writing the story about Gwaine and the origin of his necklace. Had no idea where that story was going to take me.
I find character exploration stuff the most engaging. After that, it's character relationship exploration.
But really I think the best aspect of all of it for me is like I said, writing something where I'm not sure of the answer. I can sit and think on a ficlet for days, even weeks, before my mind wanders down just the right road for the character to show me how it actually went, or to give me some revelation about how it impacted them. I know that the results are totally non-canon, but I like it anyway. It teaches my brain how to understand characters a little better I think.
Although I do have a huge thing for putting characters in interesting situations to see how they'll react. I don't indulge it much, but when I do it's a lot of fun. Sometimes as wild as other countries, universes, cross-overs. I'm not big on reading cross-overs, but damn how would my precious characters react? Fun!
1. I write porn (and anything, for that matter) because I like to write things that I can see happening between characters in my mind's eye, but aren't in the show. I also write porn because it's stupid hot. I'm not aiming for erotica! Smut is goooood, I write what I think is delicious (or horribly wrong but oh so good anyway).
2. I suppose it depends what value of "good" we're going for. I think of what I've written as good if it sets out all the imagery I had going without babbling, repeating itself, wandering all over the place, or generally being a bit loose. I need to think that it has fairly good flow and phrasing, too. I don't need praise, because I kept my fic to myself for a long time so my criteria was all that mattered. Other people haven't worked their way into how I class my fic as "good", they make me happy though ( ... )
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1. LOL at horribly wrong but oh so good anyway. Is porn more engaging to write? I think a couple months ago I was talking about how writing about dragons was more interesting, but the rope!kink fic has changed the game for me to some extent. I found that incredibly challenging and interesting, especially as I was trying to use the language of rock climbing in the fic.
2. Those seem like very good criteria. I also like to think that maybe I'm connecting with people when I write, but that seems impossible to gauge, even with feedback.
3. Right. That is how I'm thinking about kink at the moment. I think of "kink" as something that can have a sexual innuendo, but I would say I have certain kinks in stories which are not at all sexual (ie, I love it when people use mathy language in romance stories -- it's the use of the language that gets me every time. It gives me a mental boner (pardon the phrase), not an actual one ( ... )
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What do you find the most engaging to write?
4. When you have time, check it out. I've bookmarked it on AO3, so you can find it there too:)
No, I wasn't talking about fix-it-fic. Just exploration. I agree, that sort of thing is fun. I had a great time writing the story about Gwaine and the origin of his necklace. Had no idea where that story was going to take me.
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But really I think the best aspect of all of it for me is like I said, writing something where I'm not sure of the answer. I can sit and think on a ficlet for days, even weeks, before my mind wanders down just the right road for the character to show me how it actually went, or to give me some revelation about how it impacted them. I know that the results are totally non-canon, but I like it anyway. It teaches my brain how to understand characters a little better I think.
Although I do have a huge thing for putting characters in interesting situations to see how they'll react. I don't indulge it much, but when I do it's a lot of fun. Sometimes as wild as other countries, universes, cross-overs. I'm not big on reading cross-overs, but damn how would my precious characters react? Fun!
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For people who OTP or at least STRONGLY ship a non-canon, seemingly non-endgame couple on a show, why is it important for the ship to become canon?
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I guess the question is with fanfiction and subtext who needs canon? http://chloris.dreamwidth.org/415815.html?style=mine... )
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