girlsmut achievement
Jul. 1st, 2002 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321A quick peek into LJ and then, alas, back to lurkdom.
I was very, very naughty today because instead of editing my rl book non-stop all day, I veered towards my unfinished-fics folder and opened my ancient girlslash fic (or should that be womanporn?), which has been gathering mould since the end of March. And then I finished it in under an hour! Am amazed at self.
Oh, the sense of achievemen!! And the sense of horrible guilt as it sinks in: now I need to do all of the rl editing tomorrow, and that means back to LJ-exile, sigh.
How I figured out how to write girlsmut:
1.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
demelzagirl went there first, and that was inspiration.
2.mcee started the lotr-girlslash group, and that was motivation.
3. I realised what has been causing my girl-writer's block. I had done all this research and was worrying about background, plot and emotions. That's what I like with the boysmut: emotions, angst, awkward cuteness, dialogue, detail, dolphins, wasabi paste. And it just wasn't happening with the gals. And then I realised: with the gals, I had to take the emotions back out and just go for some unproblematic, smutty PWP. So I just went off and had a nice little wank, and that was the sum total of research I needed for this particular fic, *g*.
So: another hurdle cleared, another fic with the beta, another obstacle surmounted in the slashy adventure of my 2002!
(Maybe I'll even manage women-plus-plot one of these days!)
The upside of girlsmut: No lurkdom on gay websites or in gay sections of bookshops necessary. Anatomy explains itself.
The downside: A certain embarrassment factor. Still, that can probably be got over with practice. But also: No boys mucking about with other boys. No manly men mauling the pretty. And no Karl Urban.
I was very, very naughty today because instead of editing my rl book non-stop all day, I veered towards my unfinished-fics folder and opened my ancient girlslash fic (or should that be womanporn?), which has been gathering mould since the end of March. And then I finished it in under an hour! Am amazed at self.
Oh, the sense of achievemen!! And the sense of horrible guilt as it sinks in: now I need to do all of the rl editing tomorrow, and that means back to LJ-exile, sigh.
How I figured out how to write girlsmut:
1.
demelzagirl went there first, and that was inspiration.2.
mcee started the lotr-girlslash group, and that was motivation.3. I realised what has been causing my girl-writer's block. I had done all this research and was worrying about background, plot and emotions. That's what I like with the boysmut: emotions, angst, awkward cuteness, dialogue, detail, dolphins, wasabi paste. And it just wasn't happening with the gals. And then I realised: with the gals, I had to take the emotions back out and just go for some unproblematic, smutty PWP. So I just went off and had a nice little wank, and that was the sum total of research I needed for this particular fic, *g*.
So: another hurdle cleared, another fic with the beta, another obstacle surmounted in the slashy adventure of my 2002!
(Maybe I'll even manage women-plus-plot one of these days!)
The upside of girlsmut: No lurkdom on gay websites or in gay sections of bookshops necessary. Anatomy explains itself.
The downside: A certain embarrassment factor. Still, that can probably be got over with practice. But also: No boys mucking about with other boys. No manly men mauling the pretty. And no Karl Urban.
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Date: 2002-07-01 10:54 am (UTC)And the problem with writing from experience is that slight, niggling worry that one is Not Normal.
You could always write girlslash between a magic-realism female version of Karl and a magic-realism female Orlando. Look at 'Negative Polarisation' ... Karl would look pretty in a frock. (Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha)
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Date: 2002-07-01 10:55 am (UTC)Guys love to do that.
*winks*
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Date: 2002-07-01 12:42 pm (UTC)Still, though, you should have seen the hand movements I was making in front of my PC, trying to figure out what was possible, and which hand went where, and which finger went where...no wonder I was a nervous wreck by the end.
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Date: 2002-07-01 01:23 pm (UTC)The problem with me writing girlslash is that I just know far too much about it, taking away the sort of sick, twisted fullfillment that I get from boyslash: I can't experience it, so damnit, I'm going to write/read about it! I don't think I've ever seriously read a girlslash story... but I guess I might as well start... I have boh Demelza's and mcee's stories hiding in my e-folder! And if you're posting yours soon, I am definately going to have to at least try to get into it.
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Date: 2002-07-01 03:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-07-02 02:27 am (UTC)I thought the geriatric slash was bad enough... But Femporn too?
See what watching World Cup football does to you...
*twitch*