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[Laupe]

Not pictured: Quizzy under the desk. 

 

I used to be really sweet, I swear.   

 

if that desk could talk lol 

[MightyZan]

You guys really ARE making me feel like a perv, lol 

 

In all reality, I can appreciate any sort of fanfic. I'm reading some right now that are quite tame but they are very good! 

I'm a fan of smut.  ^.^

Did that sound wrong? Heh.

[MightyZan]

if that desk could talk lol 

I kinda feel bad for it.

[Teshayel]

See? This is why I don't generally write fan-fic. I can think of plenty of things I can envision the characters doing, but it generally involves pretty tame things, things that would give more insight into who I feel the characters are given what I've seen of them and how I think they relate to each other. Basically drop them into situations and let them go to work with each other.

 

I'd wind up writing things like the Wicked Grace scene and less like the "Desktop Boogie" in Cullen's Office.

 

Whatever it is that I am writing - whether original stuff or fanfic - I prefer to keep things subtle. I have read smutty fanfic, and found it mostly hilarious. It seems to me, however, that there are a lot of people who are very much into reading smut (fanfic or no). So, I decided to do a little experiment and write a fanfic on those lines, and see whether people would show more interest in that or my tamer story.

 

I failed miserably. Not because I could not write what I set out to - I did. But I could not enjoy it. So, I got to the same conclusion I always arrive at regarding the horizontal Remigold: it's infinitely more fun to do it rather than talk about it

[frylock23]

Yep, for me sex is like action. They both absolutely have their place in a story, are even necessary to it in most cases, but neither one should be the point of the story either. When you are writing the story simply to arrive at the sex, it ceases to be fun, the same goes for the fight scene. They're the means to an end for the characters on their journey, not the optimal end.

[OfficerDonNZ]

There's some good smut out there and then there's stuff so bad you have to laugh and/or cry. What? Don't look so shocked I do read smut from time to time.

 

You either have the knack of writing smut which some people do or you don't.

 

I know full well I don't. My only attempt at something even remotely smutty (and that's a stretch to say the least) turned out well enough although I've never been totally satisfied with the result even after three years of it being posted.

[timebean]

Had to share...was watching Key and Peele cause I needed some funny and in the middle of some scene, where they were doing something melodramatic, they pop in the tragic music from ME3 (you know the song...the sad piano theme).

 

 

 And so my dip into funny-land became me tearing up automatically and my boyfriend putting his hand on my shoulder all concerned.  And when I said "I miss Garrus", he rolled his eyes and said "No more TV for you".  Ha!

[timebean]

There's some good smut out there and then there's stuff so bad you have to laugh and/or cry. What? Don't look so shocked I do read smut from time to time.

 

You either have the knack of writing smut which some people do or you don't.

 

I know full well I don't. My only attempt at something even remotely smutty (and that's a stretch to say the least) turned out well enough although I've never been totally satisfied with the result even after three years of it being posted.

Writing smut for me is friggen torture!  It always sounds so weird.  And then comes the brutal decisions like "Do i say penis?  Should I call it something else?  What works?  Is it officially smut if say the c-word?"  I can't do it.  I have a hard enough time writing kissy-scenes that make sense, much less all the thrashing about that comes with the smut scenes.  Tho admittedly, I do love to read a good smut scene now and again.

 

I have tried to get friends to come over and attempt to recreate fight scenes I have written to see if they make sense.  But eventually, once I feed them enough alcohol and pull out the swords, they refuse.  Sigh...I need some ninjas to be my friend!!!!

[alwayshungry]

http://lvldeath.tumb...-i-love-you-but

[onibontan]

I will read almost anything as long it's well-written, even fics with pairings I don't ship and fics for fandoms I know almost nothing about. Of course it's highly subjective what well-written actually means Whether it's smut or fluff or whatever isn't that important to me. I recall reading a very explicit fic on AO3 in which the characters had sex in every chapter, but it was treated like another language or an alternate way of communication (if that makes any sense), so I really liked it.

[timebean]

Personally, my favorite fics to write and read are very dialouge heavy.  I like conversation between characters with less internal stuff and more in the moment stuff.  I like miscommunications and misunderstandings that arise between characters and how we as readers can see it but they can't (like Jane Austen-type convos).  That is my favorite!!!  And I LOVE angsty dialouge!  Break up scenes, dramatic confessions, etc!  When written well, can be very powerful!

[Teshayel]

Personally, my favorite fics to write and read are very dialouge heavy.  I like conversation between characters with less internal stuff and more in the moment stuff.  I like miscommunications and misunderstandings that arise between characters and how we as readers can see it but they can't (like Jane Austen-type convos).  That is my favorite!!!  And I LOVE angsty dialouge!  Break up scenes, dramatic confessions, etc!  When written well, can be very powerful!

 

My suggestion is to never pick up a James Fenimore Cooper book, in that case. Unless you want a whimsical description of how grass grows

[Laurelinde]

Writing smut for me is friggen torture!  It always sounds so weird.  And then comes the brutal decisions like "Do i say penis?  Should I call it something else?  What works?  Is it officially smut if say the c-word?"  I can't do it.  I have a hard enough time writing kissy-scenes that make sense, much less all the thrashing about that comes with the smut scenes.  Tho admittedly, I do love to read a good smut scene now and again.

 

I have tried to get friends to come over and attempt to recreate fight scenes I have written to see if they make sense.  But eventually, once I feed them enough alcohol and pull out the swords, they refuse.  Sigh...I need some ninjas to be my friend!!!!

 

Yeah I am finding it really difficult as well.  I've done over 20,000 words of a (probably rather terrible, frankly) DA:I fic and even when I have the sexy parts sooooort of at a place where I'm ok with them, it took me almost a whole day to write because, urgh; and I still have it all in a different colored font because I'm so tempted to just delete the section and make it PG instead.  (Been sort of...dipping my toes into fic/fanfic-y stuff for a few years but not ever posted anything bar one, I think.  Most of it is just for me.)  I think I had too much of a...strict, let's say, upbringing to try to write about sex seriously with any ease.  I don't mind reading it, and I definitely joke about it like a big ol' perv, but when it comes to actually trying to put it into words, it feels..absurd.  I can't bring myself to just be blunt and straightforward about it, and then it ends up stilted and weird because you're trying to describe very intimate actions with, well, euphemisms, basically, and it's about as sexy as a trip to the doctor's office.  

 

But then I also am struggling to write fictionally in general because dialogue is hard (just ask George Lucas), and I tend to 'see' my story ideas as little mini movies in my head and then I feel like I need to write down every last detail of what everyone is thinking and doing and wearing and their facial expressions, because otherwise how would any imaginary readers be able to see what I'm 'seeing', and I violate the cardinal rule of 'show, don't tell' about a million times over and it goes to hell in a handbasket.  I really wish I could draw instead but, alas, my two-dimensional block figurey cartoon people do no better in conveying what I can see in my mind.

 

So yeah, kudos to anyone who can write smut even remotely well.

 

Someone invent that brain reading machine from the third cheesy Batman movie already!  I have so many things to show people!  Besides just pictures of pandas and sarcastic and cynical observational life essays, I mean!

[CuriousArtemis]

See? This is why I don't generally write fan-fic. I can think of plenty of things I can envision the characters doing, but it generally involves pretty tame things, things that would give more insight into who I feel the characters are given what I've seen of them and how I think they relate to each other. Basically drop them into situations and let them go to work with each other.

 

I'd wind up writing things like the Wicked Grace scene and less like the "Desktop Boogie" in Cullen's Office.

 

I actually prefer fics without love scenes (or very, very tame and tasteful love scenes). Back in the day I totally ate up the smut, and wrote a lot of it, too. But lately it just doesn't interest me. 

 

There are readers ready and waiting for every type of fic out there, trust me

[CuriousArtemis]

Nothing wrong in being a perv. Infact if some of you laides weren't I'd seriously be wondering why there's a Cullen thread at all

 

Contrary to popular belief, this thread started out (well, I can't speak for the very very beginning, before I was around) as a discussion thread about the character, his past, his possible future, why we loved him, his story arc, etc. Had nothing to do with sex (other than a few hilarious joke images a few folks put together).

[Teshayel]

*snip*  

 

But then I also am struggling to write fictionally in general because dialogue is hard (just ask George Lucas), and I tend to 'see' my story ideas as little mini movies in my head and then I feel like I need to write down every last detail of what everyone is thinking and doing and wearing and their facial expressions, because otherwise how would any imaginary readers be able to see what I'm 'seeing', and I violate the cardinal rule of 'show, don't tell' about a million times over and it goes to hell in a handbasket.  I really wish I could draw instead but, alas, my two-dimensional block figurey cartoon people do no better in conveying what I can see in my mind.

 

*snip*

 

What any lover of literature will tell you is that the most exciting part of reading is the ability to imagine the world created by the author. Do you think it might make things easier for you if you kept in mind that it is fun for a reader to fill in the blanks? 

 

Whenever you write something, ask yourself: Is this relevant to my character? Is it relevant to the story? Does it enrich my world?

 

If the answer to any of those questions is "Not significantly", then you can save yourself the trouble. 

 

Anyway, if you enjoy writing, don't bring yourself down Even if you only do it for yourself - keep at it

[CuriousArtemis]

What helped me learn to write love scenes was RPing. I wrote RP stories with a few friends for the past 10 years or so, and that really chips away at the inherent shyness in writing such a thing, plus it's just really fun. 

 

Confession, when I was 17 I wanted to write a novel wherein the two main male characters fell in love (big surprise). I was so scared to write that out though. Of course keep in mind this was 1997 lol Times have changed (thankfully). But I was so nervous. At one point I opened up Word (well it wasn't MS Word; it was some other program), and wrote a single sentence on a blank page wherein the two kissed. I felt my whole face flame red and immediately erased it and exited out of the program.

 

Have to say I've come pretty far since then

[Laurelinde]

What any lover of literature will tell you is that the most exciting part of reading is the ability to imagine the world created by the author. Do you think it might make things easier for you if you kept in mind that it is fun for a reader to fill in the blanks? 

 

Whenever you write something, ask yourself: Is this relevant to my character? Is it relevant to the story? Does it enrich my world?

 

If the answer to any of those questions is "Not significantly", then you can save yourself the trouble. 

 

Anyway, if you enjoy writing, don't bring yourself down Even if you only do it for yourself - keep at it

 

Yeah I've been trying to sort of shout 'negative space!' at myself a lot internally, to use an art term; what you don't say can be as important as what you do say in so far as shaping the...word-space?...goes.  I've enjoyed writing it mostly, the ideas were pouring out of me for awhile but now I've got a bunch of vignettes and I feel like I've written enough that I want to tie them together and make them a coherent whole, but it's into the bit where it's work to write it down instead of just...translating for the Muse, so to speak.  There are still a few little things, the odd sentence or paragraph that I actually really love, but it doesn't 'fit' anywhere so I expect I will prune it out if I haven't already.  I suppose deleting/destroying some of what you create is part of writing too, like preliminary sketches you never quite get and don't end up using.

 

But hey, I like some of it ok - I can actually reread some bits of it and smile, instead of wanting to die! - and it's all practice I guess.  That novel we're all supposed to have in each of us ain't gonna write itself, and I'm not getting any younger...

[OfficerDonNZ]

The fun part of writing fanfic for me is getting the characters inner 'voice' how they tend to speak and act. I've read some fic where I've gone WTF? No way would (insert NPC name here) act like that!

 

Now my characterizations of the NWN2 cast may not be perfect but I do my best and try and keep them in character Some stuff though I'm still not that happy with even after all this time. You have to draw a line and say oh well and keep going otherwise you'll never get finished!

[Asperath]

Ah that explaines a lot. Jeremy Soule's stuff dose tend to be very epic. If memory serves me correctly he's scored the majority of Bioware's early games like BG II and NWN and I think he did IWD and IWD II as well.

 

There are parts in DAI that I swear are very similar to BG/II & IWD/II... it takes me back to when I played them and I was much younger lol

[Teshayel]

*snip*

 

But hey, I like some of it ok - I can actually reread some bits of it and smile, instead of wanting to die! - and it's all practice I guess.  That novel we're all supposed to have in each of us ain't gonna write itself, and I'm not getting any younger...

 

Having a friend proof-read things also makes a big difference. As does talking about your ideas I don't really have anyone in my acquaintance that would appreciate fanfic, so I don't get any help on that front. However, my original work has vastly benefited from discussing my ideas with friends and family, as well as having them proof-read things. Both fanfic and original works are done for my own enjoyment, but I like to think I have produced something of quality even so Well, as good a quality I can muster, that is  

[Jean]

Writing is an incredibly strange experience for me. 

 

I've had characters change gender, age, race, sexual orientation, ect, but it's never like... A conscious choice I make. I'll have a general idea of what I may be going for, but then as I try to find a voice for said character, I'll get this nagging feeling that something's off. Said nagging won't go away until I find out what the source of the disgruntlement is. It's like the characters are trying to tell me something's not quite right, but they can't explicitly tell me, so I have to play a game until I finally figure it out. That is how my... Main, I suppose, character ended up from being male to female.

 

Even had one of my favorite characters decide to die on me. It was a disheartening day.

 

*throws smokebomb*

[OfficerDonNZ]

There are parts in DAI that I swear are very similar to BG/II & IWD/II... it takes me back to when I played them and I was much younger lol

 

Now that you say it I think you're right. God I'm feeling age again!

[PrimaD]

I will read almost anything as long it's well-written, even fics with pairings I don't ship and fics for fandoms I know almost nothing about. 

 

This.  I've found that there's some writers that I'll follow into new fandoms because I loved what they wrote in another.  All great fandom migrations happen because of it, I think.

 

That being said, I didn't think I'd be very interested in Solas/Lavellan much but I read one by an author that I adore and I was glad that I did.

[Asperath]

Now that you say it I think you're right. God I'm feeling age again!

 

I know right? I'll be sitting here playing DAI & then it will hit me "I've heard this before, but where? Oh yeah, when I was like 20 "