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Apr. 28th, 2012 03:07 pmIt is, weirdly, so much harder to work on Dead Isle edits at home. IDK, something about being at work makes me want to do it, when it used to be the reverse. Possibly it's that at work I have bigger screens and full-on Word, instead of the stupid training-wheels Word where you can't minimise the advertising sidebar that I have at home. (Yes, I know, OpenOffice, but there are some compatibility issues between OO and Word, and I have to typeset in Word, so it's a no-go.)
One problem I had with Charitable Getting in particular was incorporating edits as I went, so this time I'm trying to get all the previous comments handled before I move on to the new chapter. It's a slow process, but I've managed that for today, so Dead Isle Chapter Nine is posted!
It's been a hell of a week. Good news is, I've finished the Roman Porn, so that's a weight off my mind. It just needs final edits before I can send it off and forget about it. Writing the Roman Porn brought up some weird issues -- more on that this coming week at my website, I'll try to remember to link from here -- but perhaps the oddest one was writing porn for public consumption. Which is stupid because...like I haven't already done that?
Not all explicitly sexual fanfic is porn for porn's sake, but I'm aware that a great deal of fanfic is written in the spirit of sexual exploration, fantasy, or titillation. Sometimes I'll put porn in a story that doesn't strictly need it because I know people enjoy it; I mean, I'll read fanfic for porn, I have no qualms about that, and I know others do too. I've posted porny stories for going on fifteen years now, been praised for it and occasionally mocked for it -- though in the latter case, whatever, that was a whole podcast full of homophobic asshats with poor reading comprehension skills.
But there's something strange and different about writing it for a professional publisher. In my head I keep calling the story "the spank book". (Spank in terms of "spank file", not in terms of actual spanking, there is no spanking in it 'cause that's not my kink.) It's not guilt or shame or whatever, it's just different. Perhaps because it's outside the bounds of fandom, where we're all pervs together, and I don't have a bead on how the people who may read it will react. Or possibly because, in my admittedly minimal experience with written erotica outside of fanfic, the stories seem very different both in structure and in syntax to what you get in fandom.
Anyway, interesting experience. I'll keep you guys posted on how the submission process goes.
One problem I had with Charitable Getting in particular was incorporating edits as I went, so this time I'm trying to get all the previous comments handled before I move on to the new chapter. It's a slow process, but I've managed that for today, so Dead Isle Chapter Nine is posted!
It's been a hell of a week. Good news is, I've finished the Roman Porn, so that's a weight off my mind. It just needs final edits before I can send it off and forget about it. Writing the Roman Porn brought up some weird issues -- more on that this coming week at my website, I'll try to remember to link from here -- but perhaps the oddest one was writing porn for public consumption. Which is stupid because...like I haven't already done that?
Not all explicitly sexual fanfic is porn for porn's sake, but I'm aware that a great deal of fanfic is written in the spirit of sexual exploration, fantasy, or titillation. Sometimes I'll put porn in a story that doesn't strictly need it because I know people enjoy it; I mean, I'll read fanfic for porn, I have no qualms about that, and I know others do too. I've posted porny stories for going on fifteen years now, been praised for it and occasionally mocked for it -- though in the latter case, whatever, that was a whole podcast full of homophobic asshats with poor reading comprehension skills.
But there's something strange and different about writing it for a professional publisher. In my head I keep calling the story "the spank book". (Spank in terms of "spank file", not in terms of actual spanking, there is no spanking in it 'cause that's not my kink.) It's not guilt or shame or whatever, it's just different. Perhaps because it's outside the bounds of fandom, where we're all pervs together, and I don't have a bead on how the people who may read it will react. Or possibly because, in my admittedly minimal experience with written erotica outside of fanfic, the stories seem very different both in structure and in syntax to what you get in fandom.
Anyway, interesting experience. I'll keep you guys posted on how the submission process goes.
