In praise of symmetry and the Vagina Mine sequence.
I am sitting here and getting ready to break ground on the next chapter of Superman, in which there will be honest by-God actual smutty smut instead of all that panting unresolved sexual tension. Yay!
It's had quite a build-up, and that causes mild discomfort within my authorly brain (I shy away from the leering grin of the anticlimactic climax). But you know, that's a sort of fear I can live with. I stare that bitch down on a regular basis.
What's got me dithering is the idea of writing it from his perspective. Not in first-person; those of you on my fanfic filter who have been reading along know that this story is written in third person. It feels symmetrical to do it this way. Most of the story is slanted toward the female character, and I don't think that's a bad thing at all, but I guess it's just starting to dawn on me that I should think about who this story really belongs to. Is it all Rhiannon or is it more of a we thing? I'd always assumed that when it came time to write teh sexx0rz it would emerge with the bias toward what she's thinking and what she's feeling but now...hmmmmm. Dunno. Doing it this other way is whispering in my ear. It somewhat maims the idea of using what I've been calling the Vagina Mine Sequence in this scene. The original conception of that particular sequence was to be feeling-based, and I'm not sure it would be as interesting to read a feeling-based sequence from the perspective of someone giving head. I just don't know about an in-depth Carl's-eye view of cunt. I don't think my brain can handle that sort of...sort of...sort...oh.
(brain kicks in with impressive whirring sound)
Hmmmmm. Maybe I can. I dunno. I don't know if I can make this work.
But it would be a challenge, wouldn't it?
It's had quite a build-up, and that causes mild discomfort within my authorly brain (I shy away from the leering grin of the anticlimactic climax). But you know, that's a sort of fear I can live with. I stare that bitch down on a regular basis.
What's got me dithering is the idea of writing it from his perspective. Not in first-person; those of you on my fanfic filter who have been reading along know that this story is written in third person. It feels symmetrical to do it this way. Most of the story is slanted toward the female character, and I don't think that's a bad thing at all, but I guess it's just starting to dawn on me that I should think about who this story really belongs to. Is it all Rhiannon or is it more of a we thing? I'd always assumed that when it came time to write teh sexx0rz it would emerge with the bias toward what she's thinking and what she's feeling but now...hmmmmm. Dunno. Doing it this other way is whispering in my ear. It somewhat maims the idea of using what I've been calling the Vagina Mine Sequence in this scene. The original conception of that particular sequence was to be feeling-based, and I'm not sure it would be as interesting to read a feeling-based sequence from the perspective of someone giving head. I just don't know about an in-depth Carl's-eye view of cunt. I don't think my brain can handle that sort of...sort of...sort...oh.
(brain kicks in with impressive whirring sound)
Hmmmmm. Maybe I can. I dunno. I don't know if I can make this work.
But it would be a challenge, wouldn't it?