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Apr. 14th, 2019 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Current (non-fic) writing project:
Socchan's School of Writing: How to Smut
I've shared the very most tip-of-the-iceberg basics with some folks before, but apparently it's high time I went into more depth on the subject.
The post in questionprobably definitely won't get finished today, as I am Le Tired (it's been A Long Day almost all week), but I am working on it.
It is slated to have a number of potentially embarrassing confessions in it, which I am sharing in entirely good humor and with the intent of embracing my foibles and sharing my smut writing journey. I have written some good smut, if I do say so myself, but there was absolutely a time when I didn't know what the hell I was doing. While I managed to not actually write any sex scenes until I had at least a little bit of an idea what was what (to which I can only credit Fear Of Failure), I am absolutely prepared to share how little I once knew in addition to what I know now. Hopefully, the knowledge that I am looking back on these incidents with more amusement than horror will help anyone else with embarrassment squick problems, but uh. I'll figure something out if it doesn't ._.a
Socchan's School of Writing: How to Smut
I've shared the very most tip-of-the-iceberg basics with some folks before, but apparently it's high time I went into more depth on the subject.
The post in question
It is slated to have a number of potentially embarrassing confessions in it, which I am sharing in entirely good humor and with the intent of embracing my foibles and sharing my smut writing journey. I have written some good smut, if I do say so myself, but there was absolutely a time when I didn't know what the hell I was doing. While I managed to not actually write any sex scenes until I had at least a little bit of an idea what was what (to which I can only credit Fear Of Failure), I am absolutely prepared to share how little I once knew in addition to what I know now. Hopefully, the knowledge that I am looking back on these incidents with more amusement than horror will help anyone else with embarrassment squick problems, but uh. I'll figure something out if it doesn't ._.a
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Date: 2019-04-15 11:44 pm (UTC)I am sort of wondering whether I should leave my work and write a whole new 2.0 version to show my learning process. I haven't got to the 'reflect with humour' stage yet, it is all just embarrassing.
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Date: 2019-04-16 02:15 am (UTC)I'm reasonably sure that half the reason I'm able to approach with humor is the Mom Friend Override. People can use/learn from this, which makes it Important and Good! It's useful that I messed up! The fact that it's been over a decade probably also helps.
I would be utterly torn between a full 2.0 and digging through the first version for any useful prose. Perhaps there's a perfect balance to be found between the two options; do a more traditional re-write of the non-smut parts, then a whole new version of the smexy schtuff.
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