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

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Hee, yep, I have the flirting problem myself. Or sometimes not even that - I'll be trying to write up to a seduction, only to realize that I've managed 2 pages of intense dialogue in which the chars didn't so much as exchange a sultry glance! I have trouble balancing the sexual tension with the other sorts of drama going on...

[redradioflyer.livejournal.com]

I'm not complaining. There are more ways to convey attraction than sultry glances or smut, and I'll take intense dialogue over the usual "Baby" and "So hot" and "Harder" that makes up most sex scenes.