Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
May. 25th, 2018 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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superhero_muses--What is your writing Kryptonite?
I think this question can be taken a couple of different ways, either "what keeps you from writing?" or "what are you unable to resist writing as often as possible?"
For the former, the thing that destroys my ability to write is pressure, whether in the form of deadlines or expectations from other people. I had a pairing that I ended up increasingly unable to write because I had a friend who got vocally unhappy if I wrote the "wrong" one of the two topping, and I ended up second-guessing every sex scene ("Am I writing X topping out of spite now? Am I writing him bottoming just to keep this person happy?") so much that it became almost impossible to write sex with them at all.
What am I always weak for? I'm a trope-junkie, I love taking established tropes and seeing how to make them fit new characters in fun ways. My life in a fandom isn't complete until I've managed some form of amnesia, sex pollen, handcuffed together, truth serum, and fake dating. Maybe I'll try to put them all into one fic someday. :)
I actually have two pieces completed and waiting for a beta, so I'm really happy about that! Writing has been slow but when I do it, I'm enjoying it a lot... I hope the same is true for you! (the enjoying, not the slow).
I think this question can be taken a couple of different ways, either "what keeps you from writing?" or "what are you unable to resist writing as often as possible?"
For the former, the thing that destroys my ability to write is pressure, whether in the form of deadlines or expectations from other people. I had a pairing that I ended up increasingly unable to write because I had a friend who got vocally unhappy if I wrote the "wrong" one of the two topping, and I ended up second-guessing every sex scene ("Am I writing X topping out of spite now? Am I writing him bottoming just to keep this person happy?") so much that it became almost impossible to write sex with them at all.
What am I always weak for? I'm a trope-junkie, I love taking established tropes and seeing how to make them fit new characters in fun ways. My life in a fandom isn't complete until I've managed some form of amnesia, sex pollen, handcuffed together, truth serum, and fake dating. Maybe I'll try to put them all into one fic someday. :)
I actually have two pieces completed and waiting for a beta, so I'm really happy about that! Writing has been slow but when I do it, I'm enjoying it a lot... I hope the same is true for you! (the enjoying, not the slow).
