You read the things I'm happiest with. The other (main) fics I wrote in 2011 were things written on a deadline. I don't think they're my best--they're very fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants sort of things. This may be part of the reason they ended up not having long bits of narration and introspection. But it's also partly from wishing I could recapture whatever the hell I was on when I wrote when-Angel-gets-a-puppy, because that fic was fun, easy to write, and still one of the things I'm most happy with. It's heavy on dialogue, not on long narrative bits of introspection, so I've been playing with that style. I also fangirl Captive Prince so hard that I wanted to write Just Like Freece and have a bad habit of trying to emulate styles.
Interesting post--the tumblr post she's referring to is awesome too. The thing is, even the hate-sex, messy-sex, didn't-go-quite-right sex, awkward sex starts to sound the same when you read a lot of it. Not that people write enough awkward sex to really get tired of it. But sometimes I feel like a large majority of fandom 1) inserts sex scenes because they think they have to, and 2) sits back and has a knuckle crack and a shot, gearing up to the, "Okay, now it's time to write sex," and it feels like a pause in the fic, or like slightly other characters are doing it. I feel like if you plotted scenes of most fics, most dots would be on this conflict-resolution arc, and even many great sex scenes are just slightly . . . off of that line. The sex isn't an exploration of who the characters are or what concerns them.
Oy, now I'm ranting and it's not even quite what you were talking about. But I think the root of both matters is a desire for writers to think about actual real people--even if they're characters--having sex, and how and why they do it. I dunno.
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Interesting post--the tumblr post she's referring to is awesome too. The thing is, even the hate-sex, messy-sex, didn't-go-quite-right sex, awkward sex starts to sound the same when you read a lot of it. Not that people write enough awkward sex to really get tired of it. But sometimes I feel like a large majority of fandom 1) inserts sex scenes because they think they have to, and 2) sits back and has a knuckle crack and a shot, gearing up to the, "Okay, now it's time to write sex," and it feels like a pause in the fic, or like slightly other characters are doing it. I feel like if you plotted scenes of most fics, most dots would be on this conflict-resolution arc, and even many great sex scenes are just slightly . . . off of that line. The sex isn't an exploration of who the characters are or what concerns them.
Oy, now I'm ranting and it's not even quite what you were talking about. But I think the root of both matters is a desire for writers to think about actual real people--even if they're characters--having sex, and how and why they do it. I dunno.