woe is me

[xparrot]

I am just not cut out to be a slash writer. I can't write smut! I want to write smut. But the chars, they want to talk. For 8 pages! The hell, Lex? You want Clark. He wants you. What is the problem here? Just get down on your knees, boy. Geeze. It's not that difficult.

For some reason I can only write smut very late at night. Four in the morning when I'm supposed to be asleep, then I'll have all manner of sexy bodies in my head, writhing together under the sheets/against the wall/over the desk/in the mud/what-have-you. The rest of the time, might as well be a lost cause. Talking, though. I can write endless discussion anytime. I ought to stick to gen. But I like slash, too, darn it! If only it weren't haaaard...(and not in the good way.)

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I am quite possibly the worst slash fan ever, in that half the time I don't even read the smut; I skim the sex to get to the juicy bits, which for me is the...talking. And angst. And cuteness. And basically all the relationshipping that happens in between. This is probably why I can be both a slash and a gen fan without much mental dissonance. Though it doesn't explain why I have pairings like Clark/Lex which I simply cannot see as gen (even when I don't always read and can't hardly write the slashy bits.)

Comments

Re: Hey...

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Yup, I agree that most women/fen are turned on more by the emotions than the physical act. Though I think for some people, the act itself, the details of it, is incredibly emotional experience. While as I tend to be more interested in the emotions that aren't so hormonally driven. A lot of it is personal taste...though it's very reassuring to know other slash fen share my tastes!

Re: Hey...

[greenlady2.livejournal.com]

"Though I think for some people, the act itself, the details of it, is incredibly emotional experience."

Oh, it is, and for me too. Sex is an incredibly emotional, intimate experience. And I'm totally not knocking descriptions of sex in Slash stories, not at all. I think, for me, I need to feel that the writer is somehow in the heads or her characters, that the sex scenes spring from the relationship of the characters themselves. Otherwise, they come across as mechanical. That's why I'd rather, if the writer is only writing the sex scene because she feels it's required, that she just 'fade to black'.

I mean, if it seems as if the writer plotted out the story, and every few chapters wrote: Insert Sex Scene Here, and then went back after writing the rest of the story, and inserted the sex scenes.... You see what I mean? Whereas if you're writing along in your story, and your characters start to demand sex, because the UST has built up to bursting point, that's a whole different kettle of fish, so to speak. :-)))