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wip meme: sleep!

Beau shrugged, looking unsettled, but Borts added, “I mean,if you can’t get anyone to sleep with you any other way...”

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4 and 9, for the writing meme.

This got long, so, behind the cut: how much I trust the reader, and unintentional trends in my writing.

4. How much do you trust the reader? 

You know, I think this is kind of a loaded question, because I think it comes packaged with the idea that more trust is better. And that is true in many kinds of relationships! Honestly I think “trust” is the wrong word altogether; I think what we’re actually asking here is “On the accessibility continuum, from dropping anvils to complete opacity, where are you?”

I would say I personally fall somewhere in the middle - that is, in the average work I try to show more than tell, especially when it comes to emotions, and that requires a certain degree of attention from the reader. However, I don’t trust the reader to read my mind. I don’t trust the reader to see through unclear writing. If your story is difficult to understand, that doesn’t imply that what you’ve written is deep, and clarity is not a lack of trust.

Clarity is also not an entirely uncomplicated virtue; sometimes the struggle to understand the meaning is part of the intended story experience. Sometimes it’s necessary. The closer you are to that kind of storytelling, the closer you are to poetry, I think, which is pretty far from where I am, most days.

So I exist somewhere middlish on that balance between telling my story as clearly as I can and conveying it such that my reader feels it as possible.

IDK. I have issues with that question and the value judgments it implies. Behold, my issues.

9. Are there any unintentional trends in yourwriting?

Honestly, at this point I’ve been writing long enough that I’ve noticed a lot of those trends, and I try to work with or against them as a story calls for, so I’m not sure they count as unintentional anymore. An example is my tendency to end my stories on weak lines of dialogue that don’t stand alone - I noticed that trend and am now working on it.

On the other hand I tend to write a lot of people being quiet in and around big emotional canonical junk - I write a LOT of people having heartfelt conversations while sitting on beds. And while I try these days to change up the venue, I also recognize that those kinds of conversations are one of the places where it’s easy to write words I’m satisfied with.

I would actually be curious to know if other people notice trends of mine. I would be delighted to have someone point out a trend I wasn’t aware of before.

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One.

Here are the first two sentences for the super self-indulgent Sid/Geno project I have been working on for the past 2.5 months, and which is currently sitting at 10k (w00t!) with probably 10k more to go (sigh):

Evgeni was drunk. He was drunk and sad andreally there was no telling whether the headache building behind his eyeballswas a hangover in the making or just the result of blubbering so fucking hard.

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gryfndorgodess replied to your post

“WIP meme”

Princess Jared, please!

This was started for a prompt meme once upon a time and continued in hopes of turning it into a Genteensybang entry (y’all got fairy tale AU with enemas instead), but I still hope to finish it someday. Think of it as a twisted take of Disney princesses (hence the name).

For some reason I am still a little shy of explaining what it is actually about, so here, have a snippet:

“Mice,” Gen squeaked, sounding like a damned mouse herself. “You have rodents in your house.”

Jared seemed to see them for the first time, but he didn’t squeak. He put his hands on his hips and said, “You know what I told you about Gen. Now scram.” And scram they did. As one, they flowed down the shelves and out the far doorway, a squirming, furry tide.

It took Gen a moment to find her voice again. When she did, what came out was, “That’s unsanitary.”

“Speciesist,” Jared said fondly.

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thetrollingchaos replied to your post:WIP meme

I am going to mince through this field of terrifying hockey mpreg mines and ask about the Adrianne-Gen creaturefic. … also, I am stealing this meme.

I’m not sure why I was being coy with that title, because Adrianne is very definitely a werewolf from the get-go, who has fled her life in the city (in some indistinct mid-Industrial Revolution time period) to lead a wolfly life out in the woods, away from everyone. Except she has no survival skills, in either form. Fortunately there is Gen, accomplished woodswoman who mysteriously lives in the woods for reasons of her own (as yet still unknown to this author), and she takes pity on Adrianne and shows her how to do things. Basically the entire fic was an excuse for me to relive all those survival stories I read as a kid.

And then plot. IDK. I started it for spn_j2_xmas a couple of years ago and got stuck, and ended up writing a post-apocalyptic Jo/Ruby coffee shop AU instead, as one does.

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Sid Ovie salamander sequel TELL ME ALL

I don’t have much! Basically it’d be when Ovi is out for the season being pregnant and bemoaning the terrible state of the Caps (he’d say it was all his fault and they’d be way better if he were in, but he’d be wrong) and the fact that he had to miss THE OLYMPICS (which he’d also say were his fault, and about which he’d also be wrong).

At some point there’d be something where Sid would have to explain to the team exactly what was going on with Ovi and why he was staying with him, and then sometimes there’d be Pens hangouts at Sid’s house where Ovi would be the life of the party - he can’t get out much, right, now that he’s showing - and the guys would eventually forget that was anything weird about it.

And in between and around, Sid and Ovi would have quiet, teeth-rotting togetherly moments. And maybe we’d get a sense of who Sid is and where’s he’s coming from, because we didn’t really get that in Amphibious.

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WIP meme

I am: posting the names of all the files in my WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Will you, please: pick out the title that most intrigues you, appeals to you, or whatever, and I’ll post a snippet or tell you something about it!

These are the titles of my WIP documents. I tried to limit it to stuff that might one day actually be finished and/or has been worked on recently.

Base Notes mpreg sequel

Sid Flower

Sid Geno 1

Sid Geno Christmas AU

Sid Geno decides he wants a baby

Sid Geno fuck buddies

Sid Liam

Sid Olli abo

Sid Ovie mpreg

Sid Ovie salamander sequel

Adrianne/Gen creaturefic

Anna-Castiel knifeplay

Jess-Sam mpreg

Princess Jared

Ti Asha Ra – post-book

Illyria babyfic

FG winterpocalypse

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16 and 20 for the 40 Questions meme, if it's not too late.

16. If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?

D: I think I’m going to steal ladyofthelog's answer for this one and say GEN, GEN FOREVER. I have maybe three pairings that I've written more than three fics for, ever. (Spike/Buffy, Jared/Gen, and Sam/Jo, if anyone's counting.)

20. Describe your perfect writing conditions.

On the couch in the morning, when I’ve had at least 8.5 hours of sleep and sufficient breakfast, it’s cool enough I don’t need the fan on, the neighbor upstairs is not playing his TV, and the cats are content to sleep on my feet rather than wanting to crawl onto the keyboard. It’s ideal if Comcast is on the fritz, so I can’t access the internet (unless I’m writing hockey fic, in which case internet is crucial for the million and one details I’m always having to fact check).

(Definitely not too late for meme. Questions are all here.)