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
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Like you, I've become desensitized to 'cock,' in about the same ways. There's only so many times you can type a word before it loses *all* meaning outside of its context. Weirdly, 'dick' still has a bit of frisson.
As I use it more often? That'll stop. *snerk*
At this point... well, the sex words that *have* meaning tend to have negative meanings. We've already discussed my 'moist' issues.
I still do get a charge from 'suckle,' but again, seriously context dependent. It can be so very wrong so *very* easily.
Blah procrastinate blah.
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Dick, hmm, that can go either way for me. Sexy, silly. I think it's the way it turns up so often in non-sexual contexts, which cock doesn't, since I don't read a lot about poultry breeding.
At least once I lost my eep, sex words! thrill, I got to concentrate more on what actually went on in the scene, not try to rely on the vocabulary to carry the sexy vibe for me.
Will seriously consider suckle. :)
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But you know... I guess 'dick' is dependent on context, too. It can't be coincidental that I almost never see or hear the word *outside* of raunchier-than-usual slash these days. Hmm.
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Back when we were co-authoring, prillalar called me "Verb Woman," and it was only then that I realized that I give a lot more thought to the verbs in stories than I do to the nouns. "Cock" is throwaway, but "suck" is still hot business. Ditto scratch, moan, writhe, whine, wail, slither, etc. Coining new verbs is fun, too. In that story Hal and I wrote together, I used "whipcracked" do describe the reflexive action of an orgasming man's spine, and I think that's what inspired her to call me "Verb Woman" in the first place.
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No throbbing rods, no quivering manhoods, no love-meat, no romance novel euphemisms. I am of the "fuck like real people and not like pornstars or romance novel characters" school of thought ..
Regarding the whole polyfandomorous thing that destina posted, I think that there's a real difference betwen "I want to write a story about $THEME, and $FANDOM is popular this season, so I'll write it with those characters," and "$FANDOM_CHARACTERS really show $THEME well, I think I'll try and write it." There's a lot of the former going on in fandom -- primarily in anime fandoms, actually, which is where I used to be, long ago, and which is where I made all my fandom mistakes before ( ... )
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That's kind of obvious after one reads your zombie story ;-)
By the way, I loved it! And I think what I most liked about the story is the plausibility of all -- never once did it occur to me that it couldn't happen.
That scares me. A little.
Not more than parts!JC did, though. *g*
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Thank you again for enlightening me to the sparkly path *g*
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I say food.
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However, misuse can desexify words to the point where an otherwise good story can be disturbed by cliche. This is not always the fault of the writer. Why should you avoid cliched words if they work for your writing? Why should you be even aware of words that are cliched for all of the people who might read the story. Cliches may run in fandoms but I've never tried to find out if that is true.
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