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[Miri1984]

Yes, Tasmen, you are AWESOME at writing smut *fans herself*. I enjoy writing it but don't much like posting it. The smut chapter in Caged took me ages to write (I actually started writing it way, way before I got up to that chapter - it was the most reread and tinkered with chapter in the whole story) and I still blush when I think about writing more.



I've had a request for a Zev/Alim love scene and I really want to write it but am extremely hesitant about doing it because.... well - you know the old saying "write what you know"... it's a bit difficult for me to "know" that, given my gender!

[Tellervo]

I'm told I'm good at it. That doesn't make it any easier to write. If it were just "insert tab A into slot B, repeat", it would be easy. You can't just write about sex between two people, though, you've got think about the reader, think about what teases them, about what looks hot. And sometimes it's a chore. Like right now.

I always scowl at the screen in disgust when I'm done writing it and then post it anyway.

Modifié par Tellervo, 07 mai 2010 - 01:34 .

[Gilgamesh1138]

I am told I am good at it too. But like Miri, I tend to re read, tinker, and blush when hitting submit. : D

[Tasmen]

Tellervo wrote...

I'm told I'm good at it. That doesn't make it any easier to write. If it were just "insert tab A into slot B, repeat", it would be easy. You can't just write about sex between two people, though, you've got think about the reader, think about what teases them, about what looks hot. And sometimes it's a chore. Like right now.

I always scowl at the screen in disgust when I'm done writing it and then post it anyway.

Not to mention you need to remember things like each person only has 2 hands and probably are not acrobats with the flexibility of a romanian gymnast.  Ya know?

But yes, I do wish you could simply say:  They like do it, yo!  And be done with it!

[Gilgamesh1138]

What, everyone that has sex isn't on Cirque Du Soile (or however it's spelled)? X D

[Miri1984]

Tasmen wrote...

Tellervo wrote...

I'm told I'm good at it. That doesn't make it any easier to write. If it were just "insert tab A into slot B, repeat", it would be easy. You can't just write about sex between two people, though, you've got think about the reader, think about what teases them, about what looks hot. And sometimes it's a chore. Like right now.

I always scowl at the screen in disgust when I'm done writing it and then post it anyway.

Not to mention you need to remember things like each person only has 2 hands and probably are not acrobats with the flexibility of a romanian gymnast.  Ya know?

But yes, I do wish you could simply say:  They like do it, yo!  And be done with it!

You need a "fade out to sexy music" thing that works in writing .

[leeboi2]

I got 92 reviews over 27 chapters for my first ever FF I was pretty happy when i got reviews.

[Gilgamesh1138]

Nice! Aren't reviews addictive! Gratz btw! What is your fic? Linkies please. : D

[TanithAeyrs]

I think we're all a little addicted to reviews. It helps to know what people like and don't like in a chapter. I try to review more often on other people's stories now that I am writing my own. Often I don't have much more to say than "great story" or something to that effect, but if there is something that stands out as really good in a chapter I try to say so.

[Tellervo]

I typically only review when I feel I have something important to contribute. As much as I enjoy seeing, "RARGLE FLARGLE AWESOMESAUCE", it starts to have the opposite effect after a while, and make one think a piece has no substance beyond "awesomesauce" (whatever that is). Love-hate with reviews, here. But that many on your first fic is awesome! Congratulations!

[odiedragon]

Awesomesauce is great on burgers.

[Tasmen]

odiedragon wrote...

Awesomesauce is great on burgers.

It makes good lube too, I hear.

[Tasmen]

TanithAeyrs wrote...

I think we're all a little addicted to reviews. It helps to know what people like and don't like in a chapter. I try to review more often on other people's stories now that I am writing my own. Often I don't have much more to say than "great story" or something to that effect, but if there is something that stands out as really good in a chapter I try to say so.

I try to do this too.  Do unto others and all that...

[Gilgamesh1138]

I think it only has the opposite affect if you let it. I have also seen FF where people try and give constructive criticism and the author tells them to suck eggs or ignores them or argues back. In the end, I think it had to do with the author.



And I am with Tanith, I try and say something. now because I know how much reviews mean to me. But it doesn't stop me from striving to do a good job with my fic, no matter how many RARGLE FARGLE AWESOMESAUCES I might get. I have a content beta, and several wonderful reviewers who help me, and beta's for grammar. They help keep me from going OH I got a great review, my s*** doesn't stink.

[TanithAeyrs]

I actually prefer reviews with constructive criticism, but they bother a lot of people so its hard to get someone to leave anything besides "awesomesauce". I trust my betas to keep me from writing incoherent drivel and I have several people who regularly review with insightful comments.



When I leave a review I try to be gentle with the author, because there are a lot of writers who are just testing the waters, so to speak, and are not up to critical reveiws. If I see something that is really good but lack of editing is rendering it miserable to read, I will PM the author. If I don't like something, I don't review it. If I subscribe to a story it is because I genuinely want to follow it. I only favorite the stories that really stand out to me.



Tell, I hope I have not been guilty of leaving "awesomesauce" reviews to your FF too often. I think I have mostly left comments on things that stood out as particularly good.

[leeboi2]

Gilgamesh1138 wrote...

Nice! Aren't reviews addictive! Gratz btw! What is your fic? Linkies please. : D

You didn't mean me there did you? =/

[Gilgamesh1138]

Yes, you! *looks pointedly at leeboi2* : D

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

You can find leeboi's fic listed on the synopsis page, if you search by username. Here is the link to it on FF.Net: The Commander's Tale

Unfortunately for me, I don't like reading much of other people's work while I'm in the *process* of writing. The problem is I get ideas from other stories, these ideas filter through to when I'm writing, and then I get the niggling feeling that I might have 'stolen' concepts rather than come up with them myself. I guess I just like to believe that what I'm producing feels marginally original. Does that make me a snob?

(This is not to say I haven't dropped in on a few fanfics to get an idea of what I want to read after I've finished writing, mind you... >.> There are some very decent writers around these parts )

Modifié par Shadow of Light Dragon, 07 mai 2010 - 07:37 .

[Tellervo]

TanithAeyrs wrote...

I actually prefer reviews with constructive criticism, but they bother a lot of people so its hard to get someone to leave anything besides "awesomesauce". I trust my betas to keep me from writing incoherent drivel and I have several people who regularly review with insightful comments.

When I leave a review I try to be gentle with the author, because there are a lot of writers who are just testing the waters, so to speak, and are not up to critical reveiws. If I see something that is really good but lack of editing is rendering it miserable to read, I will PM the author. If I don't like something, I don't review it. If I subscribe to a story it is because I genuinely want to follow it. I only favorite the stories that really stand out to me.

Tell, I hope I have not been guilty of leaving "awesomesauce" reviews to your FF too often. I think I have mostly left comments on things that stood out as particularly good.

It honestly hasn't happened so much in the fanfiction--DA fans are surprisingly supportive.  You in particular usually at least say what you liked or disliked in a piece when you have something to say.  I appreciate that.  My original writing tends to get a lot of, "ILU and your imaginary word peoples!" and then I never hear from the person again.  It makes me curious: did I do something they didn't like?  Did they get hit by a bus?

Writing M/M stuff doesn't help.  When I do get reviews it tends to be, "This is how you should be doing things to fit in with our preconceived forumlas in the slash community."  I've had a particularly supportive regular reviewer who told me all the applicable tropes and then said I should ignore them as I please.  So, still, a love-hate relationship.

@Shadow: same here.  I read stuff that people recommend to me, or if I have a particularly thoughtful reviewer I'll seek out their work.  Otherwise, I don't have time around churning out my own stuff, and I don't want to accidentally steal anything.

Modifié par Tellervo, 07 mai 2010 - 10:28 .

[Creature 1]

Tellervo wrote...
Writing M/M stuff doesn't help.  When I do get reviews it tends to be, "This is how you should be doing things to fit in with our preconceived forumlas in the slash community."  I've had a particularly supportive regular reviewer who told me all the applicable tropes and then said I should ignore them as I please.  So, still, a love-hate relationship.

lol  Ur doin it wrong. 

What formulas are those?  I hope I am also doing it wrong. 

[soignee]

idk if I can do smut or not, but I do it anyway!

[leeboi2]

Thank's for posting the link Shadow (Lemons in it btw if you read )

[Gilgamesh1138]

YAY more reading material.



@Shadow, thanks for the link, would you be so kind ast to link Tellervo's too? I want to go leave AWESOME SAUCE on his reviews.



*ducks* Don't hit me! I promise not to do that to you Tel. I kid. I too wonder though if people get hit by a bus, or drop off the face of the earth, or get abducted by aliens after reviewing once. Or did I really do something they hated? *sigh*

[leeboi2]

EtteStarz wrote...

leeboi2 wrote...

Thank's for posting the link Shadow (Lemons in it btw if you read )

Finallly, someone who can explain lemons and limes to me.  What is it?

Don't know what limes are =/ Lemons are sexual naughty thingies