Wow, so this comm has been silent for... almost two years, but hopefully most of you are still out there, somewhere.

Here's my problem: I'm writing a plotty AU fic told entirely from the perspective of character A because one of the themes of the fic is A gradually uncovering the reality of the world he's living in and how character B fits into it ( Read more... )

I just finished A Six Feet Under fic that I feel very passionately about, but that was very hard to write and that for some reason, even though I'm done, I just...

It's like I need someone to say "Yep it's done" or, "uh, ok, I see the problem.  It's this."

I asked for a beta a couple days ago on ffn--no response.  Then I went to go find another beta ( Read more... )

Would you guys warn for a sex act while one person is asleep? If so, is there some kind of word or phrase you could use besides "sex act while one person is asleep"? I feel like that's a bit spoiler-y. I don't want to use "dub-con" for various reasons, even though I know it could technically apply. But the person would definitely be consenting ( Read more... )

I enjoy writing RPS. I enjoy reading RPS. I don't have much of a problem with the myriad moral issues involved with using real people as characters to do with as we wish.

( Where do you draw a line when writing about real people? )

I need some slash writers/readers opinions on a scene I'm writing...

( cut because this question is about the sex )

I'm assuming here that most of us are somewhat familiar with fanfic of the porny kind, in a reading and/or a writing capacity - right? Yeah I thought so :D ( Read more... )

We all get it from time to time.  (if you're anything like me, you get it RIGHT WHEN IT HURTS THE MOST, GAH ( Read more... )

People who write long!fic, how do you approach chapters/parts?

What I mean is, do you sit down and write a plan along the lines of 'In Chapter One, X, Y and Z happen. In Chapter Two...' or do you just have an overall outline, write to that and then split your fic up at parts that seem like natural chapter breaks?

I ask because I'm halfway through ( ( Read more... )

Over in the comments on the post about kink memes, a few people brought up wanting to discuss kink in more depth. So I thought I'd throw up a catch-all open discussion post re: kink and fandom(s).

( let's talk about you and me. or, uh, discussion questions. )

I've never co-written any fanfiction, and have had only one, disastrous, original fic RL collaboration. But lately I've been feelin' the solitude, I guess, and wondering what it would be like to write Trek fics with someone. So I'm wondering, from those of you who have successfully co-written fics:
( Questions, questions... )