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akeyoftimeMy parents have gone to Hollywood. I expect they'll be back within the hour. Why no, I don't care to explain myself at this time.
I am taking the night off from life and spending it in bed. My creative genius (:P) is nagging at me and I think I will write some fiction, or work on some pieces I've started. I'd really love to wrap up the story I started for the Kissing Challenge (which has long since closed), but as with every attempt at writing romance, I feel awkward, clumsy and inept. With only a handful of exceptions, I write genfic and friendshipfic and that's okay, because fandom needs more of that. It's just frustrating to feel awful when attempting a new genre. I wrote a Yuki/Shuichi piece two years ago, but that was so "Slice of Life" and so something we could have seen in the series that it didn't feel like romance. It was light and silly and perhaps less raunchy than the challenge called for, but I got away with it.
Anyway.
When trying to write pairings I find myself drawing directly on my own experiences, which is maybe why I'm so critical of them (I've rarely been able to do a memory justice on paper) and it's hard to think of sharing that piece, knowing how much of my own life is in there. This kissing fic (Harry/Ginny, for the curious) recounts a particularily emotionally charged kiss of my own and while its good story material and something I don't entirely mind sharing, since a)life is more universal than I can possibly imagine and b)most people will never know is based off my life anyway. I just don't know how to write kisses without doing that. Is this just something I'm going to have to work out on my own over time? I don't know, but right now, it's really just pushing me back toward genfic.
I am taking the night off from life and spending it in bed. My creative genius (:P) is nagging at me and I think I will write some fiction, or work on some pieces I've started. I'd really love to wrap up the story I started for the Kissing Challenge (which has long since closed), but as with every attempt at writing romance, I feel awkward, clumsy and inept. With only a handful of exceptions, I write genfic and friendshipfic and that's okay, because fandom needs more of that. It's just frustrating to feel awful when attempting a new genre. I wrote a Yuki/Shuichi piece two years ago, but that was so "Slice of Life" and so something we could have seen in the series that it didn't feel like romance. It was light and silly and perhaps less raunchy than the challenge called for, but I got away with it.
Anyway.
When trying to write pairings I find myself drawing directly on my own experiences, which is maybe why I'm so critical of them (I've rarely been able to do a memory justice on paper) and it's hard to think of sharing that piece, knowing how much of my own life is in there. This kissing fic (Harry/Ginny, for the curious) recounts a particularily emotionally charged kiss of my own and while its good story material and something I don't entirely mind sharing, since a)life is more universal than I can possibly imagine and b)most people will never know is based off my life anyway. I just don't know how to write kisses without doing that. Is this just something I'm going to have to work out on my own over time? I don't know, but right now, it's really just pushing me back toward genfic.
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Date: 2006-05-17 03:01 am (UTC)*hugs kitty*
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Date: 2006-05-17 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-17 03:51 am (UTC)i did a bit myself, tonight.
i hope i'll get to see what you're writing, eventually.
*lives vicariously through others*
*is tempted to write a cheesy slashfic*
heee.
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Date: 2006-05-17 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-17 04:18 am (UTC)though i'll warn you, i've been called a comma nazi before.
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Date: 2006-05-17 05:02 am (UTC)And as for you piece, I say just write. I'm not much of a writer, so I know my opinions don't have much weight, but I think if you can channel the emotions of your own experience into it, you'll be able to produce a good product. Your ability to use language properly is certainly not a barrier (like it is for me :P).
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Date: 2006-05-17 03:25 pm (UTC)Of course your opinions carry weight. You're a reader, aren't you?
Comma nazis have their place ^^ Like editing papers and fanfiction.
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Date: 2006-05-17 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-17 02:51 pm (UTC).. is total bunk. All stories must draw on the writer's experiences. Otherwise the story comes out as flat and uninteresting.