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I'm not dead...I'm writing :-)
I'm finally getting past the peak of stress-month at work. So far, no major disasters this round. The actual press release isn't until March, but most of my part is now complete.
I have been amusing myself today watching the forums at Daz3d.com It's almost as much fun as a fandom wank would be without the bitchiness. I guess most folks on my flist don't know about the Poser world, but it's a lot like fandom. Daz products are generally of great quality but boy is their publicity team a bunch of morons. They never have a major product release without screwing something up and they always over-hype stuff so that when the screw up happens...well, ever seen a big fandom melt down? It's like that, but with dragons, trolls and semi-naked women instead of cat macros. Fun fun fun.
My Sweet Charity fic is in the hands of my trusty beta. I suspect it's going to need some major work when I get it back. There are parts of it that just were not working for me and, well, my rule of thumb when writing porn is if it doesn't turn me on, it probaby won't do it for the reader, either. But it's also true that after three or four drafts of the same story, and often twice that many rewrites of parts of it, it might be hotter than hell and it wouldn't work for me. So I suspect I have major work ahead of me, but I trust Sue to tell me. Until I get it back from her, I won't even look at the story; that way I can look with fresh eyes when she's done.
So meanwhile, I started work on Never Say Die, my John Winchester story. 3500 words so far; that's a prologue (which might end up as a flashback in a later chapter, I don't know yet) and about half of chapter 1. The beginning is, emotionally at least, the toughest part for me to write. I did mention this was darkfic, didn't I? The story begins with a death (no, not John, Sam or Dean) which I thought would be relatively straightforward to write. Then my quirky brain said, Morgan, wait a sec. What if you write it this way instead? and it's suddenly gone from John will be hurting after this to more like OMG he's gonna be broken!. I don't find it easy to go with a character into that depth of emotion...but structurally this makes sense. Start with the tragedy, let John think this is the worst it can get...then what's to come will put it into perpective for him, and for the characters.
I'm writing this presuming it'll feature a certain pairing, but so far I still have the option to ditch that notion. I guess I won't know until I get there whether sex will enhance or distract from the story. That's one reason I won't post any of this until I've written a lot more. Right now, there are too many things I don't know. I have a basic structure, I have my cast of characters, and a timeline, but there are a lot of details still to discover.
I have been amusing myself today watching the forums at Daz3d.com It's almost as much fun as a fandom wank would be without the bitchiness. I guess most folks on my flist don't know about the Poser world, but it's a lot like fandom. Daz products are generally of great quality but boy is their publicity team a bunch of morons. They never have a major product release without screwing something up and they always over-hype stuff so that when the screw up happens...well, ever seen a big fandom melt down? It's like that, but with dragons, trolls and semi-naked women instead of cat macros. Fun fun fun.
My Sweet Charity fic is in the hands of my trusty beta. I suspect it's going to need some major work when I get it back. There are parts of it that just were not working for me and, well, my rule of thumb when writing porn is if it doesn't turn me on, it probaby won't do it for the reader, either. But it's also true that after three or four drafts of the same story, and often twice that many rewrites of parts of it, it might be hotter than hell and it wouldn't work for me. So I suspect I have major work ahead of me, but I trust Sue to tell me. Until I get it back from her, I won't even look at the story; that way I can look with fresh eyes when she's done.
So meanwhile, I started work on Never Say Die, my John Winchester story. 3500 words so far; that's a prologue (which might end up as a flashback in a later chapter, I don't know yet) and about half of chapter 1. The beginning is, emotionally at least, the toughest part for me to write. I did mention this was darkfic, didn't I? The story begins with a death (no, not John, Sam or Dean) which I thought would be relatively straightforward to write. Then my quirky brain said, Morgan, wait a sec. What if you write it this way instead? and it's suddenly gone from John will be hurting after this to more like OMG he's gonna be broken!. I don't find it easy to go with a character into that depth of emotion...but structurally this makes sense. Start with the tragedy, let John think this is the worst it can get...then what's to come will put it into perpective for him, and for the characters.
I'm writing this presuming it'll feature a certain pairing, but so far I still have the option to ditch that notion. I guess I won't know until I get there whether sex will enhance or distract from the story. That's one reason I won't post any of this until I've written a lot more. Right now, there are too many things I don't know. I have a basic structure, I have my cast of characters, and a timeline, but there are a lot of details still to discover.