Sorry, this one came during the worst week, so I am late to the party.
I love smut, reading and writing it, but I wrestle with a lot of guilt about it. Though I am trying to smother those attitudes, I had a lot of anti-sex rearing, and in my creative writing classes the students who wanted to write either porn or romance weren't treated like serious writers. So, I have come around to doing it in my original fiction rather late, and it carries this stigma in my mind, like I am written fan fiction of my own works rather than doing something legitimate. I need a lot of help getting away from that attitude. I think it would take a gargantuan effort for me to write a pure romance, even though thematically it is my favorite to write, because it has been so thoroughly hammered into me that it is "just fluff", and smut even lesser.
Bad week, for writing and in general. I have two creative tasks before me that eclipse my fiction writing for now: I need to write our next D&D campaign, and I am being forced to write a poem against my will (for the memorial service).
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Date: 2015-02-10 07:47 am (UTC)I love smut, reading and writing it, but I wrestle with a lot of guilt about it. Though I am trying to smother those attitudes, I had a lot of anti-sex rearing, and in my creative writing classes the students who wanted to write either porn or romance weren't treated like serious writers. So, I have come around to doing it in my original fiction rather late, and it carries this stigma in my mind, like I am written fan fiction of my own works rather than doing something legitimate. I need a lot of help getting away from that attitude. I think it would take a gargantuan effort for me to write a pure romance, even though thematically it is my favorite to write, because it has been so thoroughly hammered into me that it is "just fluff", and smut even lesser.
Bad week, for writing and in general. I have two creative tasks before me that eclipse my fiction writing for now: I need to write our next D&D campaign, and I am being forced to write a poem against my will (for the memorial service).