Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[mithen]

--How do you feel about smut?

I'm very pro-smut! But I've discovered I have a hard time writing it in longer, plottier stories, especially those that aren't romances. I suspect that's because plot developments don't often take place during smut scenes (unlike in a romance, where of course sex scenes can provide really key relational development) and so it feels kind of...extraneous? I find it a lot easier to write in one-shots, somehow...

In writing, I have a one-shot story and a chapter done and betaed and ready to post, whoo! However, I'm not posting them because I'm getting on an intercontinental flight in twelve hours and I don't like to leave comments entirely untouched for so long... But it feels really good to have some writing done and ready to post, that's for sure! How about you?

Comments

[me_ya_ri]

Smut is wonderful, just not necessarily in every story, though. Some stories benefit from it and some don't. I feel like PWP stories that are pure smut are okay but I like longer, plottier stories with smut that does exactly what you say, advance the characters and the plot. But most stories don't actually need the sexy bits for the character/plot development so I don't include it.

I've done really well this week, meeting my goal every single day. Until today where life's been super-busy. I plan on getting words in but I'm not sure I'll make my 4000 word goal today.

Either way, I've started a new novel and I'm having a blast with it. It's a return to Muirin, my matriarchal world, so it's all girls, all the time, having all the adventures together. That will never, ever, EVER get old for me. XD

[mithen]

But most stories don't actually need the sexy bits for the character/plot development so I don't include it.

Long romances make me really happy to write because there's a very organic reason for the smut! It furthers the relationship, which is the key part of a romance, in a way that it doesn't further something action/adventure...

I've done really well this week, meeting my goal every single day. Until today where life's been super-busy. I plan on getting words in but I'm not sure I'll make my 4000 word goal today.

Yay! I'm with my parents now and I keep trying to get up earlier than them to get a little writing done--but no luck so far, alas! And the new novel sounds GRAND, I'm glad to hear you're having fun with it! You sound like you're really galloping along...