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Aww. I dont' think there is anything cuter than rabbits cuddling. Especially in a soft, furry threesome. When I look at them, they bare their teeth at me and silently promise to chew my throat out if I ever leave their ubercage open after I go to bed.
Again, I say, awww.
You may not have noticed that I'm being unusually boring, what with nano. Okay, maybe you have. That's because Livejournal is Temptation, and I'm avoiding temptation and all its offshoots, including sitting down anywhere near any fannish WIP while being assaulted by a truly disturbing number of completely pointless plotbunnies that I want to write right now.
But update on my life, as of today.
1.) I hate nano. More later.
2.) I have imagined out the John Sheppard presidential campaign, with his uberattack dog campaign manager, the ultra scary Rodney McKay who once got arrested for knocking out Geraldo on national TV. There's actually only two parts I wnat to write, which makes it easier to resist--the first, with his running mate Teyla Emmagen and former president Elizabeth Weir, being handed vicodin and rum as they watch Rodney singlehandedly yelling down a Republican crowd in New Mexico and scaring the other presidential candidate into crying hysterically, and the second, where Rodney and John are having a knock-down drag out about exactly what John is going to *be* as a president, since he was chosen more on his war record, good looks, straight male white Americanness than say, his stand on anything.
The second one is actually attracting me more, though I do want Rodney's disgusted commentary on the politicians of today. *sighs dreamily* Pretty.
3.) I broke down and rebuilt the rabbit fortress, which included removing the atrium and gutting the center out, which gives them more space and is a lot easier to clean. There's a single shelf running along the back for them to sit on and relax, which they seem to like, but I have yet to break them of their habit of shredding their newspaper floor. *sighs* It's so messy in there, and I just can't face it quite yet.
4.) I really hate nano.
Or actually, I don't. I just hate the way I have to write it.
I--okay, you who audience or beta for me know how I do this. I get out a lot at once, and the rest trickles in after I finish recovering from the burnout. Y'all, there's a *reason* I was a sprinter in track and field and not a two mile runner. And outside nano, where I had no time limits, I could do a lot at once and then recover at my leisure. I sprint, then I fall over gasping, then I get over it and sprint again. I'm restricting myself to *slow jogging" and I just--my rhythm is off, I feel unbalanced, and I figured it out; it's not because it's not fanfic--it's because this isn't how I *write*.
However, I have learned something intersting things, not least of which made me AIM a friend (also working on her own project) suddenly and tell her that the real problem is, I'm used to writing in plot-forwarding porn when I get stuck or bored. And it's *true*. And I'm sure she'd like to know the context of my stunningly out of context remark, but whatever.
One of the biggest criticisms of A Handful of Dust and Somewhere I Have Never Travelled was the fact that I was stuffing in sex scenes. Okay, in Dust, the biggest criticism ever was actually that I was oppressing and slamming Clark (seriously, I make him a god, give him a planet, and then put Lex Luthor willingly in his bed; what the hell else could anyone *want*?), but the sex thing came up fairly often. And it's true. I like writing it. I like reading it. And more than that, I like using it. Despite how it looks on reading, while writing, I needed every *one* of those sex scenes--each one had a differnet reason for being there, but they led into the next part, the next moment of emotional awareness, the way I set up the universe. I'm a girl, and a fanfic writer, and a slasher. All of these things make me like writing sex. But when I write it, I want it to do something. And it does.
The nano fic, other than the slow jog I'm doing since a sprint could mean I'd be burned out and couldn't make the finish line, does not allow anyone to have sex. Or to put it a different way, sex has no reason to be there. It'd be worse than gratituous--it would be awkward.
The more annoying--or less, depending on how you look at it--is that I know how it ends. And I even have a faint idea how to get there, though not particularly useful. It's--frustrating. I want a pony.
I want a *pony*.
Again, I say, awww.
You may not have noticed that I'm being unusually boring, what with nano. Okay, maybe you have. That's because Livejournal is Temptation, and I'm avoiding temptation and all its offshoots, including sitting down anywhere near any fannish WIP while being assaulted by a truly disturbing number of completely pointless plotbunnies that I want to write right now.
But update on my life, as of today.
1.) I hate nano. More later.
2.) I have imagined out the John Sheppard presidential campaign, with his uberattack dog campaign manager, the ultra scary Rodney McKay who once got arrested for knocking out Geraldo on national TV. There's actually only two parts I wnat to write, which makes it easier to resist--the first, with his running mate Teyla Emmagen and former president Elizabeth Weir, being handed vicodin and rum as they watch Rodney singlehandedly yelling down a Republican crowd in New Mexico and scaring the other presidential candidate into crying hysterically, and the second, where Rodney and John are having a knock-down drag out about exactly what John is going to *be* as a president, since he was chosen more on his war record, good looks, straight male white Americanness than say, his stand on anything.
The second one is actually attracting me more, though I do want Rodney's disgusted commentary on the politicians of today. *sighs dreamily* Pretty.
3.) I broke down and rebuilt the rabbit fortress, which included removing the atrium and gutting the center out, which gives them more space and is a lot easier to clean. There's a single shelf running along the back for them to sit on and relax, which they seem to like, but I have yet to break them of their habit of shredding their newspaper floor. *sighs* It's so messy in there, and I just can't face it quite yet.
4.) I really hate nano.
Or actually, I don't. I just hate the way I have to write it.
I--okay, you who audience or beta for me know how I do this. I get out a lot at once, and the rest trickles in after I finish recovering from the burnout. Y'all, there's a *reason* I was a sprinter in track and field and not a two mile runner. And outside nano, where I had no time limits, I could do a lot at once and then recover at my leisure. I sprint, then I fall over gasping, then I get over it and sprint again. I'm restricting myself to *slow jogging" and I just--my rhythm is off, I feel unbalanced, and I figured it out; it's not because it's not fanfic--it's because this isn't how I *write*.
However, I have learned something intersting things, not least of which made me AIM a friend (also working on her own project) suddenly and tell her that the real problem is, I'm used to writing in plot-forwarding porn when I get stuck or bored. And it's *true*. And I'm sure she'd like to know the context of my stunningly out of context remark, but whatever.
One of the biggest criticisms of A Handful of Dust and Somewhere I Have Never Travelled was the fact that I was stuffing in sex scenes. Okay, in Dust, the biggest criticism ever was actually that I was oppressing and slamming Clark (seriously, I make him a god, give him a planet, and then put Lex Luthor willingly in his bed; what the hell else could anyone *want*?), but the sex thing came up fairly often. And it's true. I like writing it. I like reading it. And more than that, I like using it. Despite how it looks on reading, while writing, I needed every *one* of those sex scenes--each one had a differnet reason for being there, but they led into the next part, the next moment of emotional awareness, the way I set up the universe. I'm a girl, and a fanfic writer, and a slasher. All of these things make me like writing sex. But when I write it, I want it to do something. And it does.
The nano fic, other than the slow jog I'm doing since a sprint could mean I'd be burned out and couldn't make the finish line, does not allow anyone to have sex. Or to put it a different way, sex has no reason to be there. It'd be worse than gratituous--it would be awkward.
The more annoying--or less, depending on how you look at it--is that I know how it ends. And I even have a faint idea how to get there, though not particularly useful. It's--frustrating. I want a pony.
I want a *pony*.
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From:*sulks with you*
Brownie?
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From:*hands you my muse and a bottle of Jager*
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From:I'm slightly boggled that anyone would complain about porn, but that's just me--there's nothing that can't be improved with pornflakes in my little corner of the world. It kind of hurts when you realize that the little scene of sex you've lovingly nurtured has to be eliminated.
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From:growth experiencessuffering. but boo to writerly frustration, anyhow.also, I have imagined out the John Sheppard presidential campaign, with his uberattack dog campaign manager, the ultra scary Rodney McKay who once got arrested for knocking out Geraldo on national TV.
I love you, seriously, just, so much. John = Matt Santos and Rodney = Josh Lyman and queer = Latino? The only question is, why hasn't it already been written?
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From:As for nano -- what you need is to think of something that can function in your narrative the way the sex does. hm.
*puts on thinky hat*
Yes, in your long-but-smutty stories you get a valuable two-piston effect by having an erotic plot as well as a plot-plot. For nano, you maybe need a second piston . . . I shall put more direct comments in a nano post.
But for me, your nano story *is* my pony. I have been known to delay getting ready for bed until you've posted your next installment. Pony! Plotty pony!
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From:IF I can just get the whole thing out, I know I can go back and re-read, see the patterns, and build them into something better. I just keep having to remind myself that just because I dont' see them yet doesn't mean they aren't there.
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From:I've never thought that about anything you've written.
Possibly because my brain is too melty after reading one of your sex scenes to think anything more sophisticated than 'yummy'. But really, we'll never know.
Rodney singlehandedly yelling down a Republican crowd in New Mexico and scaring the other presidential candidate into crying hysterically
That would be funny. Especially since I don't like politicians, and I'd like to see Rodney make all of them cry. (With the possible exception of Barack Obama.)
he was chosen more on his war record, good looks, straight male white Americanness
Straight?? He can't be straight! How would he and Rodney end up together?
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From:I'm sure Rodney is wondering teh same thing. Myself, I'm hoping for panicked drunken sex afer a bad debate or something.
*grins*
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John for President
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If you write that, I'll make you icons. Banners. Lie at your feet and massage aforementioned extremities. Yes.
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From:Atlantis, Puddlejumpers, Ascended parties of varying genders... wait can you have a gender after being turned into a giant, glowing squid-thing? Oh, Daniel! Question!
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From:Oh, Daniel! Question!
lol! Maybe glowy squid things are omnisexual. Do we have proof that they can't deglow into whatever equipment they like?
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From:True, but doesn't he give off an aura of 'I'm available'? Not that he ever sees it coming.
Wonder if the Ascended can only deglow into what they were or if they can turn into anything they want. Hmmn.
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From:He does indeed! So, he may be bi and not realize it. Yet.
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From:Do rabbits *really* bare their teeth at people and silently threaten to tear one's throat out? Because hearing that feels like someone told me there's no Santa Claus. I mean, rabbits are soft and cuddly and stuff, aren't they?
I'm so naive.
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From:That is absolutely the reason why I don't get bored with the sex scenes in "Somewhere I Have Never Traveled" and in "Gladly Beyond". I think they are incredibly hot and passionate and they remain interesting after numerous reads, because they tell me more about Lex and Clark and the state of their relationship. Since I started reading slash a few years ago, and since a lot of romance in books nowadays contains quite a lot of what would have been considered porn in the past, I have become quite jaded and spoiled and I want sex scenes to transport more than simply a description of sex. Yours do.
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From:In fact, I've been wanting to give you critique on what I've read so far but didn't know if you wanted it--but for whatever it's worth one of the things I was thinking while reading was that the romantic and sexual elements, if there were ever going to be any, could stand to be made slightly more explicit (even just in a laying the groundwork way). Which leads into the other thing I wanted to comment on--
Despite how it looks on reading, while writing, I needed every *one* of those sex scenes--each one had a differnet reason for being there, but they led into the next part, the next moment of emotional awareness, the way I set up the universe. I'm a girl, and a fanfic writer, and a slasher. All of these things make me like writing sex. But when I write it, I want it to do something. And it does.
That's actually a gift, and a very useful one, and while I do think it is incredibly important to learn to structure a plot without it, I think forcing yourself not to write sex if that is one of your strengths as a writer is ultimately a bad idea. I strongly believe that people need to write what they like to write and what they're good at, whether they're writing fanfiction, pro novels, or just for their own satisfaction.
Anyway, I'm very interested in this story so far and let me know if you want to talk about it more, okay?
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From:Regarding romance;
Well, depressingly, no, though UST would be very welcome if I can ever get it to work without being forced. I keep thinking if I finish, I'll probably have to go back and add in a little of those elements in retrospect, since they really aren't coming out quite yet. Or for that matter, at all. And that's part of the problem--for my two primary characters, that's not their relationship, and for everyone else, it would feel forced, especially since I only have one point of view character.
But to repeat--if you feel inspired to critique? Jesus, yes.
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From:However I'm eagerly looking forward to John and Rodney's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail -- oh yes!
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Well, I can't get you a pony, but will a nasty Rodney
From:What kind of pony?
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From:Hope your writing goes better. Myself, I've never felt inclined to attempt something as big as Nano. So as far as I'm concerned, you get brownie points for even trying.
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From:*Takes the brownie points eagerly*
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From:Oh my God! I can /so/ see that. I want to read that now.
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