But where are the genderqueered fics? Where are the LESBIANS?
And because I know you will understand, so I vent:
I am having a whole internal struggle right now with my writing (this translates directly into a .... lack of any writing) where I feel like I'm not accurately capturing a character's blend of creative-exhausted-mentally-ill, I'm just turning her into a goddamn Manic Pixie Codebreaker Dream Girl. I hate that I feel compelled to make her "likeable" all the time even when I am, myself, a total asshole when I am having a spate of creativity combined with a flare of mental illness. I feel like people won't read unless she's likeable/competent all the time, but then I feel untrue to the character and don't want to write her.
HI MY ISSUES LET ME UNPACK THEM IN AN INNOCENT THREAD ABOUT BAD FANFIC GRAMMAR. But the point is, if bad grammar were all I had to worry about, I COULD RULE THE WORLD.
I saw one bad genderswap fic, but that's it. P&P fandom is so heteronormative it hurts. There are a few modern day AUs with token queer sidekicks, but yeah. D:
OH MY GOD. I was just bitching at David about how I was even afraid to let my main female character be a manic pixie dream girl and so she ended up being the blandest bland character in blandsville and THROWS UP HANDS. This time in this next draft I will let her be as quirky as she fucking wants to be since she is also technically a murderer.
We should just write what pleases us and not give a fuck. Though it really chapped my hide when my "former" agent (or is it agent that should be in quotes?) said that my MC was too judgmental and that made her unlikeable. :/
JUST KEEP WRITING OK. FUCK ALL THE DOUBTERS AND HATERS AND BORES.
well, wimmins are being judged all the time, didn't you know? Even in fictional worlds you created for your own narrative purpose, that rule has to hold. *eyeroll*
I fear I did it to Fleming, too, in the novella I sent. Because I toned down her PTSD to be able to write, you know, a Regency romance, because the important thing is to get a queer Regency romance out there where there are none; but I wonder if she'd be a better character if she gave in to the crazy a bit more.
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That being said, if you find anything enjoyable, could you please pass it on?
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And yeah, that version of Lizzie has clearly never been within thirty miles of a SLC grad.
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INORITE?! Although I feel hypocritical since I have both pearls and an SLC degree. :D
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And because I know you will understand, so I vent:
I am having a whole internal struggle right now with my writing (this translates directly into a .... lack of any writing) where I feel like I'm not accurately capturing a character's blend of creative-exhausted-mentally-ill, I'm just turning her into a goddamn Manic Pixie Codebreaker Dream Girl. I hate that I feel compelled to make her "likeable" all the time even when I am, myself, a total asshole when I am having a spate of creativity combined with a flare of mental illness. I feel like people won't read unless she's likeable/competent all the time, but then I feel untrue to the character and don't want to write her.
HI MY ISSUES LET ME UNPACK THEM IN AN INNOCENT THREAD ABOUT BAD FANFIC GRAMMAR. But the point is, if bad grammar were all I had to worry about, I COULD RULE THE WORLD.
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OH MY GOD. I was just bitching at David about how I was even afraid to let my main female character be a manic pixie dream girl and so she ended up being the blandest bland character in blandsville and THROWS UP HANDS. This time in this next draft I will let her be as quirky as she fucking wants to be since she is also technically a murderer.
We should just write what pleases us and not give a fuck. Though it really chapped my hide when my "former" agent (or is it agent that should be in quotes?) said that my MC was too judgmental and that made her unlikeable. :/
JUST KEEP WRITING OK. FUCK ALL THE DOUBTERS AND HATERS AND BORES.
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I fear I did it to Fleming, too, in the novella I sent. Because I toned down her PTSD to be able to write, you know, a Regency romance, because the important thing is to get a queer Regency romance out there where there are none; but I wonder if she'd be a better character if she gave in to the crazy a bit more.
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