Snacky, I'm guessing that's Livia Balaban's thing, with the name I can never remember. Cuneda's Revenge, or something?
Yep, Cunegund's Restoration. So smart and funny.
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Snacky - May 19, 2005 10:47:35 am PDT #39 of 10424
Like I need a hole in my head
erikaj - May 19, 2005 10:54:28 am PDT #40 of 10424
If Scooby Doo taught me anything, it's that the only thing to fear is real-estate developers.Lisa Simpson
How do you decide how smutty to let your fic get? Because right now, I'm pairing some characters that, well, they're both dogs.Forward, aggressive, damn close to being indiscriminate. Which is the attraction in bringing them together, but I'm not sure that shy me can depict this.
Connie Neil - May 19, 2005 10:58:08 am PDT #41 of 10424
brillig
How do you decide how smutty to let your fic get?
In number of encounters or detail levels of encounters? If it's number, I figure if a particular romp doesn't advance the plot or illustrate something major for a character, I leave it to the imagination.
If it's level of detail, I get bored very quickly with thrust-by-thrust choreography. I've noticed my characters snark a lot during sex, so I go for dialogue rather than "A's hand went to B's hip" etc.
erikaj - May 19, 2005 11:02:45 am PDT #42 of 10424
If Scooby Doo taught me anything, it's that the only thing to fear is real-estate developers.Lisa Simpson
Some of both. Those are good things to think about, Connie.
Fay - May 19, 2005 11:11:40 am PDT #43 of 10424
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Hmm.
When I write the pr0n, the whole thing is pretty much all about frustration and desire and emotional stuff. The interesting thing is finding the tension and the lust and cranking up as much as it will go, rather than fitting extremity A into slot B.
Connie Neil - May 19, 2005 11:15:28 am PDT #44 of 10424
brillig
Emotional entanglement as opposed to physical entanglement. Yup.
Fay - May 19, 2005 11:17:36 am PDT #45 of 10424
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
nods
Which isn't to say that there isn't physical entanglement - just that it's written with a view to what each person needs at that time, what's going to push their buttons at that point, rather than what's neccesarily prettiest. Type of thing.
askye - May 19, 2005 11:22:11 am PDT #46 of 10424
Thrive to spite them
I like emotional entanglements with explicit sex scenes.
Jars - May 22, 2005 12:23:47 pm PDT #47 of 10424
So say a person was thinking about maybe posting a fic, but had never done that before, because the whole creativity thing was generally not her forte. How would a person go about making sure that it didn't suck?
Consuela - May 22, 2005 12:33:48 pm PDT #48 of 10424
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The person would find a writer or reader familiar with the source. Preferably someone who sees the characters in a compatible way. And ask them to read the story, and comment on it. (It's best if it's someone the writer already knows in some way: beta-requests from total strangers tend to be ignored or rejected.)
Said writer would specify the kind of comments they want: plot-related, character-related, word-by-word editing, whatever. Said beta reader would give comments, making sure to phrase them inoffensively. Writer would make changes, or not.
Writer would post story to LJ, lists, and archives. Feedback would come in.