Interesting thoughts. I love our B/A discussions (even though I'm too scatterbrained, lately, to really really discuss) and I *do* feel that what you write regarding these characters is accessible to me as a non-B/A shipper. And I think that's an excellent way to go about drumming up inspiration for yourself; What can I write that would convince someone of the possibility of this scenario? Why not address those concerns?
As for my own writing, in general I feel I've gotten way off analyzing myself. To a negative degree. I don't think about what I'm doing; I don't revise, I don't beta, I don't really pay attention. I get an idea and I run with it. And then I feel guilty, but still lazy.
In the case of Kissing the Frog, I wrote it as a response to other things I'd read that were completely unrealistic as to character and canon. I threw The Phantom of Manhattan across the room and began typing. About half an hour later, I had my vignette. Then I thought, hey, lots of stupid phangirls will start bleeding from their eyes if I post this somewhere, so I made an ff.n account and did. That was four years ago, and I was very surprised to "get back online" this past December and find that people on LJ had read and remembered that story and recognized me.
So then it felt like I hadn't lived up to some kind of promise. I'd written than novella I sent you, but no one else has seen that because I don't think it's right. It's not done, and it's no longer accurate to my idea of how it should be. So, lazily, I post stories that come to me as kernels of ideas that need expression; mostly for the sake of getting that idea to the phantom fiction reading "public," not for the beauty of my writing. Not because I don't want to be good, but because I'm too lazy to spend lots of time on it. So I'll pop off something about the horse, or the shade, or the Persian, or a true-to-life Mary Sue, just because I feel it hasn't been said yet. In that sense, I'm writing for people I think haven't seen what I have to show, conceptually. There is a good bit of antagonism wrapped up in this, because I'm also attempting to directly challenge what phic is. Not structurally or stylistically, but in terms of emphasis.
So the basic answer is, I write for the people I'm going to piss off. And for the small group of people (you included--I *always* fervently hope you're reading my stuff) who realize what I'm doing.
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As for my own writing, in general I feel I've gotten way off analyzing myself. To a negative degree. I don't think about what I'm doing; I don't revise, I don't beta, I don't really pay attention. I get an idea and I run with it. And then I feel guilty, but still lazy.
In the case of Kissing the Frog, I wrote it as a response to other things I'd read that were completely unrealistic as to character and canon. I threw The Phantom of Manhattan across the room and began typing. About half an hour later, I had my vignette. Then I thought, hey, lots of stupid phangirls will start bleeding from their eyes if I post this somewhere, so I made an ff.n account and did. That was four years ago, and I was very surprised to "get back online" this past December and find that people on LJ had read and remembered that story and recognized me.
So then it felt like I hadn't lived up to some kind of promise. I'd written than novella I sent you, but no one else has seen that because I don't think it's right. It's not done, and it's no longer accurate to my idea of how it should be. So, lazily, I post stories that come to me as kernels of ideas that need expression; mostly for the sake of getting that idea to the phantom fiction reading "public," not for the beauty of my writing. Not because I don't want to be good, but because I'm too lazy to spend lots of time on it. So I'll pop off something about the horse, or the shade, or the Persian, or a true-to-life Mary Sue, just because I feel it hasn't been said yet. In that sense, I'm writing for people I think haven't seen what I have to show, conceptually. There is a good bit of antagonism wrapped up in this, because I'm also attempting to directly challenge what phic is. Not structurally or stylistically, but in terms of emphasis.
So the basic answer is, I write for the people I'm going to piss off. And for the small group of people (you included--I *always* fervently hope you're reading my stuff) who realize what I'm doing.