I dithered for several weeks over whether to write the sex scene, but eventually decided not to. For one thing, it would take too much narrative space. For another, it takes me way too long to write sex scenes; the logistics are a pain and they always trigger my "*blush* I can't believe I'm writing this! *delay*" reaction. For a third, while ( Read more... )

I feel as though I have lost the knack for writing stories that go anywhere. I have these plot points I want to hit in several WIPs -- scenes I've been looking forward to for a long time, in some cases -- and they keep receding into the distance. It's like Xeno's Paradox -- I can never reach point B because there's always half the distance left ( Read more... )

Okay. Two points. First, Faith's outburst is too long and I don't really think she'd say all of that to a relative stranger, but I am too tired and braindead to fix it right now. If you have suggestions, I am all ears. Second... um ( Read more... )

I skimmed bits of this chapter, mostly for timing reasons, but also because I have serious reservations about what Duo and Sasuke are doing. For thousands of years, torture was an accepted part of human justice systems, and very few people ever questioned it. Today people tend to condemn torture, but the potential is still there, in all of us, ( Read more... )

I hate it when plots sneak up on me. I'd planned to sort of duck the issue of the Sarguls and the portals (they were supposed to be a McGuffin, damn it!), but apparently my subconscious is not in favor of that idea. I now have a genuine evil plan that needs foiling. What's worse, the plan also needs discovering, and I don't write mysteries! * ( Read more... )

Well, it's Friday, not Thursday, but it's still before the weekend, so I made my ultimate deadline, if not the penultimate one. *sigh* I really must get better about writing to schedule ( Read more... )

Here we are: chapter 5 of "Lemonade," in which I once again fail to stick to my outline and instead let the characters ramble on about whatever they damn well feel like (calamari? my brain baffles me sometimes), and in which Duo and Sasuke throw me another curveball. *shakes fist at the characters*

( Lemonade, Part V )

This entire chapter was either meant to be a throwaway couple of paragraphs, or was forced upon me because Duo went off-script at the end of part III. The kami who oversees my life is clearly having a mad, passionate (and astonishingly long-term) affair with the kami of digressions. *headdesk*

Actual plot will resume in part V... I think.

( Lemonade, Part IV )

Part III of "Lemonade," in which various things come out of nowhere. There's a bunch of talking and introspection that I couldn't figure out how to work around, but there's also a fight scene. And a cliffhanger, partly because I can do that if I want to, and partly because the chapter was just getting too long. :-)

( Lemonade, Part III )

Here, one day late, is chapter 2 of "Lemonade," the crackfic crossover designed for the express purpose of getting Faith, Duo, and Sasuke into bed (or some reasonable facsimile thereof) together. Chapter 1 can be found here. Also, this contains a fair amount of swearing -- Duo and Faith are not the world's most polite people -- and we're moving ( Read more... )