the public face of orig

Here's a difference between origfic and fanfic that hadn't really occurred to me in such sharp profile before doing this nanowrimo lark. I can actually tell people about origfic, and even feel quite sort of special about it. I can say 'I'm writing my month-long novel' to t'family. I could not say, certainly not to the boys, that 'I'm writing some porn based on movie actors'. I can even sit in public and full view of t'family and t'reference library and type away into my document, with only the occasional naughty scene. When I wrote 'fuck' the other day in t'ref libe, I followed Chris Baty's advice (I tend to do this) and whited it out with the helpful font color function. I can't do that with fanfic: one look at my computer screen will reveal the words 'Draco' or 'Cristiano Ronaldo' and 'came up his arse', and that is something I want to confine to a select audience, thank you.

So. That's been an interesting side effect of all this orig writing.

By telling people, I don't, btw, mean telling people what the novel is about. I haven't breathed a word about that.

fic rec

sheldrake's Curtains are Monogamous.

Genius. Astounding, hilarious and strangely poignant. Not too long either so go and revel.

It's inanimate object fic at its absolute classic best.