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[soc_puppet]

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 question probably 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

Comments

[casualbird]

oh, but i would love to read this! i absolutely need the help. i get so embarrassed that i barely ever finish.

[soc_puppet]

True fact: I absolutely blushed the entire time while writing my first full smut scene, and almost certainly during subsequent ones as well.

[soc_puppet]

And we're live! I... don't actually know if it'll show up normally on reading pages, hence the link. I hope you find it helpful!

[alexseanchai]

♥

[soc_puppet]

:)b

[soc_puppet]

Here we go! Linking, as I'm not sure whether it'll show up on reading pages normally. Fingers crossed you'll find it useful!

[mesotablar]

I shall await this. I am thinking of rewriting an old smutty fanfiction that even thinking about makes me cringe. cringe in a bad way.

[soc_puppet]

Oof, I feel for you. As a preview revealing tidbit from my, uh, writing guide(?), there is definitely a fic in my back catalogue that, while it only includes off-screen cis-m/cis-m sex, also has evidence that I once believed "stretching" referred to physically stretching out muscle groups to avoid cramps and strains/sprains. (Still useful for particularly athletic sex! Just not actually what the (very few, and exclusively off-screen) cis-M/cis-M-sex fics I'd read prior to writing my own were referring to <_<a ) I am choosing to find humor in it rather than embarrassment, because someone somewhere might be able to learn from my example.

[mesotablar]

Golly gosh, that would be an interesting conflict of assumptions depending on who is reading it.

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.

[soc_puppet]

IKR?

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.

[soc_puppet]

Post is up! And there's a link, since I'm not sure whether it'll show up on reading pages or not. I hope you find it helpful!