trends in writing that existed in the mid 1700s and have come back into style
– randomly capitalizing words without regard to Importance – saying ‘tho’ instead of ‘though’ – excessive metaphors, analogies, and personification for/of/whatever inanimate objects and incorporeal concepts
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Sometimes, as a writer, you need to ease up on your brain. Don’t unplug it entirely. Just stop shaking it frantically between your hands like a piggy bank, hoping for some loose change to fall out. Clean your room. Water the plants. Give your brain a break and see what it can do with some downtime. It never fails.
Karuna Riaziis an online diversity advocate, essayist and overwhelmed undergrad student. Her debut novel, The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand, will be released in 2017 under Simon and Schuster’s new Salaam Reads imprint.
tfw you’re writing and your fic is turning into something you didn’t intend it to be
tfw you’re writing and a character says something you didn’t expect them to say and it sort of opens up a new plot point you’re going to have to resolve now by the end of the fic
So the topic of smut writing came up earlier today and I’m just reaching out into Tumblr land to see if I can gather up thoughts on how all of you out there started writing sexy times.
Share with me your stories! The behind the scenes on your journey to smut writing!
How did you feel about writing smut BEFORE you actually started writing it? Were you nervous or did you just jump in? Do you ever get self-conscious about what you’re writing? Do you have a “go-to” formula and/or kink?
So on and so forth.
Speak to me! I’m curious!
Re: Smutfic. I got into fandom very late. Like 34. I read a lot of smutfic before i ever started writing it.
My fanfic journey pretty much went Jack Harkness> Torchwood> Sherlock, as far as reading it is concerned. I was a little nervous at first, but considering the first thing i wrote for Sherlock was a threesome, I pretty much just went in with both feet. Aside from a wee bit of Janto, I’m pretty sure Sherlock was the first fandom I wrote smut for.
I do get self conscious sometimes. I’ve been known to mutter “I am so going to hell for this.” But at this point most of the embarrassment is gone. Though I do struggle with feeling like I’m “just” a smut writer and not important.
What tends to be essential to me, even in a 700 word pwp, is that there’s some emotion involved. Tab A to Slot B gets boring, and even if you kink it up, there still needs to be a reason why these two (or three or four) are going at it. Same reason why I’m a multishipper. Give me a reason why these two would work. Though I don’t generally take much convincing.
There’s no real go-to (though maybe my readers have noticed stuff I haven’t). I’ll pretty much take a crack at writing most kinks.
My personal golden rule for writing is simply “Does this make sense?” Am I keeping track of what limbs are where and who is doing what? Does it make sense for these characters to be doing this now? If it is a little OOC, is there a reason why? Stuff like that.
I really wasn’t. lol. I wrote that in about 20 minutes? maybe 30? If I set a 10 minute timer I can write 250-400 words in that span, depending on what I’m writing and how in the zone. (Or how distracted I am by other stuff)
This is a really cool site you can use to check your work for things like filler words, adverbs, passive voice, and lexical illusions .
It’s not a substitute for actually editing your work, but you can use it to point out features of your writing that you find difficult to spot on your own.
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Here’s what fanfiction understands that the Puppies don’t: inversion and subversion don’t ruin the story – they just give you new ways to tell it, and new tools to tell it with. Take a platonic relationship and make it romantic; there’s a story in that. Take a romantic relationship and make it platonic; there’s a story in that, too. Take a human and make her a werewolf; take a werewolf and make him human. Don’t try and sidle up on hurt/comfort like it’s something you’re ashamed to be indulging in; embrace the tropes until you have their mastery. Take a gang of broken souls surviving the apocalypse and make them happy in high school; take a bunch of funny, loving high school kids and shove them in the apocalypse. Like Archimedes, fanfic writers find the soul, the essence of what makes the characters real, and use it as a fulcrum on which to pivot entire worlds, with inversion/subversion as their lever of infinite length.
The fic i just posted is my 175th fic. What the hell am I doing with myself?
I was going through my me tag and found this. Oh past me, you’re adorable. That was slightly less than 2 years ago, 4/22/2014. Sweetie, you’ve got 325 fics now. and that’s not counting the co-writes. You’re still just as crazy fast a writer as you were, just you’ve continued to improve.
