Writing and the WIP
May. 14th, 2023 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiggymalvern
I now have a completed first draft, yay! I suspect it's rough as a dog's balls, especially the sex parts, but I'll have to figure that out when I come back to it with a fresh eye. I'm having to balance so many elements here - it has to be awkward and a bit weird, because it's a first time threesome, and it has to be funny, because Fiona and Sam are in the same bed, and it has to be hot, because why else would I bother to write thousands of words of porn?
Then in the middle of this poly sandwich I have repressed and emotionally constipated Michael, and it's a good thing he's attracted to flirty extroverts or he'd never get laid at all. (Although, there's also an argument to be made that who Michael's intrinsically attracted to might be largely irrelevant, when demented, flirty extroverts latch onto him and refuse to let go XD)
So I'm coming up against the question of when less is more and when it's okay to wax lyrical as people get all wrapped up in each other, and... I honestly haven't had to think about that in years. When you're writing Hannibal fanfiction, the answer to the question of when the prose is too purple is, 'Absolutely never!' because Hannibal and Will are just Like That. And now I'm back to writing in a fandom where the characters talk something like normal human beings instead of an over-educated thesaurus, I have to find that line again.
When I finished the draft of Redline, I was happy it was pretty clean, but this time I'm really wishing I had a beta for this fandom. I don't suppose any of my trusted fellow travellers are able and willing to volunteer?
Then in the middle of this poly sandwich I have repressed and emotionally constipated Michael, and it's a good thing he's attracted to flirty extroverts or he'd never get laid at all. (Although, there's also an argument to be made that who Michael's intrinsically attracted to might be largely irrelevant, when demented, flirty extroverts latch onto him and refuse to let go XD)
So I'm coming up against the question of when less is more and when it's okay to wax lyrical as people get all wrapped up in each other, and... I honestly haven't had to think about that in years. When you're writing Hannibal fanfiction, the answer to the question of when the prose is too purple is, 'Absolutely never!' because Hannibal and Will are just Like That. And now I'm back to writing in a fandom where the characters talk something like normal human beings instead of an over-educated thesaurus, I have to find that line again.
When I finished the draft of Redline, I was happy it was pretty clean, but this time I'm really wishing I had a beta for this fandom. I don't suppose any of my trusted fellow travellers are able and willing to volunteer?
